~ Odyssey Season 16 ~
* Odyssey Pre-Concert takes place 15 minutes before the concert: Oct 18, Dec 6, Feb 14, Mar 20, May 8 and 31. See programs: www.OdysseyMissouri.org
~ PAST CONCERTS ~
August 23, 2019 (Fri) 7pm, First Baptist Church
Jacques Thibaud Trio with Tao Lin, piano
Prize winners in the prestigious 1999 Bonn Chamber Music Competition, the Jacques Thibaud Trio has performed throughout Europe, Japan and North America. In this concert they are joined by pianist Tao Lin in stunning quartets by Mozart and Brahms. Sponsored by Brewer Science.
September 27, 2019 (Fri) 7pm, First Baptist Church
Freedom Bound: The Evolution of the African American Spiritual
The journey of the African American spiritual continues with soloists Marques Jerrell Ruff, and international Opera, Jazz, and Gospel artist Dr. Jolie Rocke. Curated by Dr. Maya C. Gibson with piano accompaniment by Dr. Brandon A. Boyd, the concert program delves into the rousing and storied tradition of the spiritual and the early Black Gospel tradition. A reception will follow.
October 18, 2019 (Fri) 6:45* | 7pm, First Baptist Church
Fall in France
Autumn is beautiful, especially in France: Fall in love with French music as oboist Alison Robuck performs Saint-Saëns Sonata, and Nollie Moore serenades you with Faure’s “La Bonne Chanson” with a string quartet.
December 6, 2019 (Fri) 6:45* | 7pm, First Baptist Church
Tchaikovsky Holiday
Hear Julie Rosenfeld, Eli Lara and Ayako Tsuruta perform the epic Tchaikovsky Piano Trio, one of the most monumental romantic works ever written. December is never complete without some holiday music; we will also hear some festive tunes.
January 11, 2020 (Sat) 2pm Zoo | 3pm, First Baptist Church
Kids@Heart: Global Express!
In collaboration with the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association (MMAMTA), Kids@Heart is a children’s concert which this year features music from all over the world, including African dancing by Wontanara! Join us at 2pm for fun Instrumental Petting Zoo where you can try out all sorts of instruments! Free Admission; Donations are gratefully accepted. Snow date: January 18, 2020.
February 14, 2020 (Fri) 6:45* | 7pm, First Baptist Church
Baroque Valentine
The 2020 Pre-Collegiate Aria/Concerto Winner performs with Odyssey Chamber Ensemble led by conductor Kirk Trevor. Bach Cantata this year is magnificent “God is My King” BWV 71, with Bach Collegium Choir and led by R. Paul Crabb, in the beautiful acoustics of the First Baptist Church. Snow date February 16, 2020 at 3pm.
February 22, 2020 (Sat) 7pm, First Baptist Church
Quatuor Diotima & Esterhazy Quartet
In collaboration with the Mizzou New Music Intiative, Quatuor Diotima offers a dynamic program including Bartók Quartet and (the rarely heard) Shostakovich Octet with MU’s Esterhazy Quartet. Look forward to this exciting collaborative performance.
- POSTPONED -
March 20, 2020 (Fri) 6:45* | 7pm, First Baptist Church
Plowman MOdyssey
The Grand Prize winner of the 9th Plowman Chamber Music Competition, Soma Quartet returns to Columbia with a creative program that includes a transcription of a Mendelssohn Quartet! This program is a collaboration with the Odyssey Performance Fellows, from whom you can always expect unexpected musical treats!
- CANCELLED - Enjoy our special video compilation featured May 8-10; check our 'Programs' web page.
May 8, 2020 (Fri) 6:45* | 7pm, First Baptist Church
Women Composers
The year 2020 marks the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women's constitutional right to vote. Odyssey is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a program that features only women composers.
- POSTPONED - Enjoy our special video compilation featured May 29-31; check our 'Programs' web page.
May 31, 2020 (Sun) 4:15* | 4:30pm, First Baptist Church
Vox Nova
Award winning a capella group Vox Nova covers an impressive, versatile repertoire from Baroque to Modern Day eras. This is Vox Nova’s third and final season as Odyssey’s ensemble-in-residence! More information on their website, www.voxnovacomo.org.
*Odyssey Pre-Concert takes place 15 minutes before the concert: Oct 18, Dec 6, Feb 14, Mar 20, May 8 and 31. See programs: www.OdysseyMissouri.org
* Odyssey Pre-Concert takes place 15 minutes before the concert: Oct 18, Dec 6, Feb 14, Mar 20, May 8 and 31. See programs: www.OdysseyMissouri.org
~ PAST CONCERTS ~
August 23, 2019 (Fri) 7pm, First Baptist Church
Jacques Thibaud Trio with Tao Lin, piano
Prize winners in the prestigious 1999 Bonn Chamber Music Competition, the Jacques Thibaud Trio has performed throughout Europe, Japan and North America. In this concert they are joined by pianist Tao Lin in stunning quartets by Mozart and Brahms. Sponsored by Brewer Science.
September 27, 2019 (Fri) 7pm, First Baptist Church
Freedom Bound: The Evolution of the African American Spiritual
The journey of the African American spiritual continues with soloists Marques Jerrell Ruff, and international Opera, Jazz, and Gospel artist Dr. Jolie Rocke. Curated by Dr. Maya C. Gibson with piano accompaniment by Dr. Brandon A. Boyd, the concert program delves into the rousing and storied tradition of the spiritual and the early Black Gospel tradition. A reception will follow.
October 18, 2019 (Fri) 6:45* | 7pm, First Baptist Church
Fall in France
Autumn is beautiful, especially in France: Fall in love with French music as oboist Alison Robuck performs Saint-Saëns Sonata, and Nollie Moore serenades you with Faure’s “La Bonne Chanson” with a string quartet.
December 6, 2019 (Fri) 6:45* | 7pm, First Baptist Church
Tchaikovsky Holiday
Hear Julie Rosenfeld, Eli Lara and Ayako Tsuruta perform the epic Tchaikovsky Piano Trio, one of the most monumental romantic works ever written. December is never complete without some holiday music; we will also hear some festive tunes.
January 11, 2020 (Sat) 2pm Zoo | 3pm, First Baptist Church
Kids@Heart: Global Express!
In collaboration with the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association (MMAMTA), Kids@Heart is a children’s concert which this year features music from all over the world, including African dancing by Wontanara! Join us at 2pm for fun Instrumental Petting Zoo where you can try out all sorts of instruments! Free Admission; Donations are gratefully accepted. Snow date: January 18, 2020.
February 14, 2020 (Fri) 6:45* | 7pm, First Baptist Church
Baroque Valentine
The 2020 Pre-Collegiate Aria/Concerto Winner performs with Odyssey Chamber Ensemble led by conductor Kirk Trevor. Bach Cantata this year is magnificent “God is My King” BWV 71, with Bach Collegium Choir and led by R. Paul Crabb, in the beautiful acoustics of the First Baptist Church. Snow date February 16, 2020 at 3pm.
February 22, 2020 (Sat) 7pm, First Baptist Church
Quatuor Diotima & Esterhazy Quartet
In collaboration with the Mizzou New Music Intiative, Quatuor Diotima offers a dynamic program including Bartók Quartet and (the rarely heard) Shostakovich Octet with MU’s Esterhazy Quartet. Look forward to this exciting collaborative performance.
- POSTPONED -
March 20, 2020 (Fri) 6:45* | 7pm, First Baptist Church
Plowman MOdyssey
The Grand Prize winner of the 9th Plowman Chamber Music Competition, Soma Quartet returns to Columbia with a creative program that includes a transcription of a Mendelssohn Quartet! This program is a collaboration with the Odyssey Performance Fellows, from whom you can always expect unexpected musical treats!
- CANCELLED - Enjoy our special video compilation featured May 8-10; check our 'Programs' web page.
May 8, 2020 (Fri) 6:45* | 7pm, First Baptist Church
Women Composers
The year 2020 marks the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women's constitutional right to vote. Odyssey is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a program that features only women composers.
- POSTPONED - Enjoy our special video compilation featured May 29-31; check our 'Programs' web page.
May 31, 2020 (Sun) 4:15* | 4:30pm, First Baptist Church
Vox Nova
Award winning a capella group Vox Nova covers an impressive, versatile repertoire from Baroque to Modern Day eras. This is Vox Nova’s third and final season as Odyssey’s ensemble-in-residence! More information on their website, www.voxnovacomo.org.
*Odyssey Pre-Concert takes place 15 minutes before the concert: Oct 18, Dec 6, Feb 14, Mar 20, May 8 and 31. See programs: www.OdysseyMissouri.org
Videos of "That Promised Land...: The Evolution of the African American Spiritual"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyQyFQ9Snrk
https://youtu.be/KcV9o6EVkQE
Video of "Freedom Bound: The Evolution of the African American Spiritual"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRc3id3zU8Y&t=1479s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNSP43-foXE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyQyFQ9Snrk
https://youtu.be/KcV9o6EVkQE
Video of "Freedom Bound: The Evolution of the African American Spiritual"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRc3id3zU8Y&t=1479s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNSP43-foXE
Odyssey Artists, Season 16 (Aug 2019 - February 2020)
August 23, Friday at 7pm
Jacques Thibaud Trio with Tao Lin, piano
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
Prize winners in the prestigious 1999 Bonn Chamber Music Competition, the Jacques Thibaud Trio has performed throughout Europe, Japan and North America. In this concert they are joined by pianist Tao Lin in stunning quartets by Mozart and Brahms. Sponsored by Brewer Science.
~ PROGRAM~
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791):
Piano Quartet in G Minor, KV 478 (1785)
I. Allegro
II. Andant
III. Rondo: Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827):
String Trio G Major, Op 9 No. 1 (1797-8)
I. Adagio - Allegro con brio
II. Adagio ma non tanto and cantabile
III. Scherzo – Allegro
IV. Presto
Intermission
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897):
Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25 (1856-1861)
I. Allegro
II. Intermezzo: Allegro ma non troppo — Trio: Animato
III. Andante con moto
IV. Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto
Jacques Thibaud Trio
Tao Lin, piano
This special concert is underwritten by Dr. Terry and Paula Brewer of the Brewer Science in Rolla, Missouri. The cover art of the program is used with special permission by the artist, Paula Brewer.
*Mr. Tao Lin is a Steinway artist. Steinway Concert Grand is made possible at the courtesy of the Schmitt Music in Overland Park, Kansas.
Jacques Thibaud Trio with Tao Lin, piano
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
Prize winners in the prestigious 1999 Bonn Chamber Music Competition, the Jacques Thibaud Trio has performed throughout Europe, Japan and North America. In this concert they are joined by pianist Tao Lin in stunning quartets by Mozart and Brahms. Sponsored by Brewer Science.
~ PROGRAM~
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791):
Piano Quartet in G Minor, KV 478 (1785)
I. Allegro
II. Andant
III. Rondo: Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827):
String Trio G Major, Op 9 No. 1 (1797-8)
I. Adagio - Allegro con brio
II. Adagio ma non tanto and cantabile
III. Scherzo – Allegro
IV. Presto
Intermission
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897):
Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25 (1856-1861)
I. Allegro
II. Intermezzo: Allegro ma non troppo — Trio: Animato
III. Andante con moto
IV. Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto
Jacques Thibaud Trio
Tao Lin, piano
This special concert is underwritten by Dr. Terry and Paula Brewer of the Brewer Science in Rolla, Missouri. The cover art of the program is used with special permission by the artist, Paula Brewer.
*Mr. Tao Lin is a Steinway artist. Steinway Concert Grand is made possible at the courtesy of the Schmitt Music in Overland Park, Kansas.
September 27, Friday at 7pm
Freedom Bound: The Evolution of the African American Spiritual
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
The journey of the African American spiritual continues with soloists Marques Jerrell Ruff, and international Opera, Jazz, and Gospel artist Dr. Jolie Rocke. Curated by Dr. Maya C. Gibson with piano accompaniment by Dr. Brandon A. Boyd, the concert program delves into the rousing and storied tradition of the spiritual and the early Black Gospel tradition. A reception will follow.
~ PROGRAM~
Oh, Freedom! …………………………………………………...............……. African American Hymn Tune
I’ve Been in the Storm So Long ……………………………..…………….…….….. arr. Jeffrey Ames
Roun’ About de Mountain …………………………….........…………..…..………… arr. Roland Hayes
Here’s One ……………………………………………………………….………….………… arr. William Grant Still
NARRATION: In the Beginning
The Negro Speaks of Rivers ……. Words by Langston Hughes, Music by Margaret Bonds
The Goblin and the Mosquito ………………………………………………………… by Florence Price
Arun Garg, piano
Love let the Wind Cry...How I Adore Thee ………….………………………….. Words by Sappho,
Music by Undine Smith-Moore
Ave Maria ……………………………………………..…………………………………………… arr. R. Nathaniel Dett
NARRATION: The Art Songs of Black Composers
Rondo (Peter go Ring dem Bells) from Cantata ……………….…………… arr. John Carter
Walk Together Children …………………………………….………………………………. arr. Moses Hogan
Scandalize My Name ………………..……………………………………………..………………. arr. H. Johnson
INTERMISSION (ca. 12 min)
Concession and Dr. Jolie Rocke’s CDs are available for purchase by the Broadway entrance.
Kindly fill out our Survey during the intermission or after the concert.
Go Down, Moses ……………………………………………………………….….……. arr. Adolphus Hailstork
Oh, What a Beautiful City ……………………………………….………………. arr. Jacqueline Hairston
NARRATION: Today and Beyond
Thankful Medley ……………………………………………………………………………….. arr. Brandon A. Boyd
Until I Reach My Home ……………..………………………………….………………….. arr. Brandon Boyd
I Wanna Be Ready ………………………………………………………...……..…………… arr. Brandon Boyd
If I Can Help Somebody …………………………………………………..……..……………. arr. Nathan Carter
Featuring the Prairie View Concert Chorale
Dr. A. Jan Taylor, conductor
NARRATION: Then there was Gospel
Good News ……………………………………………………………………………..……… by V. Michael McKay
Praise His Holy Name ……………………………………………………….………….… by Keith Hampton
Let the Church Say Amen ………………………………………………………………… by Andre Crouch
Please join us for a reception by the Broadway entrance, after the performance tonight.
Co-curated by
Marques Jerrell Ruff, baritone
Dr. Maya C. Gibson, narrator
Dr. Jolie Rocke, soprano
Dr. Brandon A. Boyd, piano
A reception will follow.
Freedom Bound: The Evolution of the African American Spiritual
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
The journey of the African American spiritual continues with soloists Marques Jerrell Ruff, and international Opera, Jazz, and Gospel artist Dr. Jolie Rocke. Curated by Dr. Maya C. Gibson with piano accompaniment by Dr. Brandon A. Boyd, the concert program delves into the rousing and storied tradition of the spiritual and the early Black Gospel tradition. A reception will follow.
~ PROGRAM~
Oh, Freedom! …………………………………………………...............……. African American Hymn Tune
I’ve Been in the Storm So Long ……………………………..…………….…….….. arr. Jeffrey Ames
Roun’ About de Mountain …………………………….........…………..…..………… arr. Roland Hayes
Here’s One ……………………………………………………………….………….………… arr. William Grant Still
NARRATION: In the Beginning
The Negro Speaks of Rivers ……. Words by Langston Hughes, Music by Margaret Bonds
The Goblin and the Mosquito ………………………………………………………… by Florence Price
Arun Garg, piano
Love let the Wind Cry...How I Adore Thee ………….………………………….. Words by Sappho,
Music by Undine Smith-Moore
Ave Maria ……………………………………………..…………………………………………… arr. R. Nathaniel Dett
NARRATION: The Art Songs of Black Composers
Rondo (Peter go Ring dem Bells) from Cantata ……………….…………… arr. John Carter
Walk Together Children …………………………………….………………………………. arr. Moses Hogan
Scandalize My Name ………………..……………………………………………..………………. arr. H. Johnson
INTERMISSION (ca. 12 min)
Concession and Dr. Jolie Rocke’s CDs are available for purchase by the Broadway entrance.
Kindly fill out our Survey during the intermission or after the concert.
Go Down, Moses ……………………………………………………………….….……. arr. Adolphus Hailstork
Oh, What a Beautiful City ……………………………………….………………. arr. Jacqueline Hairston
NARRATION: Today and Beyond
Thankful Medley ……………………………………………………………………………….. arr. Brandon A. Boyd
Until I Reach My Home ……………..………………………………….………………….. arr. Brandon Boyd
I Wanna Be Ready ………………………………………………………...……..…………… arr. Brandon Boyd
If I Can Help Somebody …………………………………………………..……..……………. arr. Nathan Carter
Featuring the Prairie View Concert Chorale
Dr. A. Jan Taylor, conductor
NARRATION: Then there was Gospel
Good News ……………………………………………………………………………..……… by V. Michael McKay
Praise His Holy Name ……………………………………………………….………….… by Keith Hampton
Let the Church Say Amen ………………………………………………………………… by Andre Crouch
Please join us for a reception by the Broadway entrance, after the performance tonight.
Co-curated by
Marques Jerrell Ruff, baritone
Dr. Maya C. Gibson, narrator
Dr. Jolie Rocke, soprano
Dr. Brandon A. Boyd, piano
A reception will follow.
October 18, Friday at 6:45pm
Pre-Concert
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
Mendelssohn: Andante and Rondo capriccioso, Op. 14
Taehee Oh, piano
Chopin: Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp Minor, Op. 66
Joan Kwon, piano
October 18, Friday at 7pm
Fall in France
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
Autumn is beautiful, especially in France: Fall in love with French music as oboist Alison Robuck performs Saint-Saëns Sonata, and Nollie Moore serenades you with Faure’s “La Bonne Chanson” with a string quartet, double bass and piano. *Due to an unforeseen circumstances, Faure Op. 61 will be replaced by a set of songs by the same composer, for voice and piano.
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921):
Sonata for Oboe and Piano in D Major, Op. 166 (1921) [ca. 12'00]
Andantino
Ad libitum - Allegretto - Ad libitum
Molto Allegro
Alison Robuck, oboe
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953):
Five Melodies, Op. 35bis (1920) [ca. 13'00], arr. Valentin Bodya / ed. I. Akhmadullin
Andante
Lento, ma non troppo
Animato, ma non allegro
Allegretto leggero e scherzando
Andante non troppo
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963):
Sonata for Violin and Piano (1942-3) [ca. 18'00]
Allegro con fuoco
Intermezo
Presto tragico
David Colwell, violin
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Jules Massenet (1842-1912):
"Méditation" from Thaïs (1893) [ca. 6'00]
David Colwell, violin
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Intermission (12 min)
Jean-Michel Damase (1928-2013):
Trio for two flutes and piano (1997) [ca. 17'00]
I. Allegretto
II. Andante
III. Allegro (attacca)
IV. Allegro risoluto
Alice Dade and Kristine Poulsen, flutes
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924):
Ici-bas Op. 8 No. 3 [1'45]
Après un rêve, Op. 7 No. 1 (1870) [3'00]
Toujour, Op. 21 No. 2 (1878) [1'23]
La lune Blanche Luit dans les Bois, Op. 61 No. 3 [2'40]
Fleur Jetee, Op. 39 No. 2 [1'24]
Lydia, Op.4 No. 2 [3'00]
Nollie G. Moore, tenor
Arun Garg, piano
Pre-Concert
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
Mendelssohn: Andante and Rondo capriccioso, Op. 14
Taehee Oh, piano
Chopin: Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp Minor, Op. 66
Joan Kwon, piano
October 18, Friday at 7pm
Fall in France
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
Autumn is beautiful, especially in France: Fall in love with French music as oboist Alison Robuck performs Saint-Saëns Sonata, and Nollie Moore serenades you with Faure’s “La Bonne Chanson” with a string quartet, double bass and piano. *Due to an unforeseen circumstances, Faure Op. 61 will be replaced by a set of songs by the same composer, for voice and piano.
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921):
Sonata for Oboe and Piano in D Major, Op. 166 (1921) [ca. 12'00]
Andantino
Ad libitum - Allegretto - Ad libitum
Molto Allegro
Alison Robuck, oboe
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953):
Five Melodies, Op. 35bis (1920) [ca. 13'00], arr. Valentin Bodya / ed. I. Akhmadullin
Andante
Lento, ma non troppo
Animato, ma non allegro
Allegretto leggero e scherzando
Andante non troppo
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963):
Sonata for Violin and Piano (1942-3) [ca. 18'00]
Allegro con fuoco
Intermezo
Presto tragico
David Colwell, violin
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Jules Massenet (1842-1912):
"Méditation" from Thaïs (1893) [ca. 6'00]
David Colwell, violin
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Intermission (12 min)
Jean-Michel Damase (1928-2013):
Trio for two flutes and piano (1997) [ca. 17'00]
I. Allegretto
II. Andante
III. Allegro (attacca)
IV. Allegro risoluto
Alice Dade and Kristine Poulsen, flutes
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924):
Ici-bas Op. 8 No. 3 [1'45]
Après un rêve, Op. 7 No. 1 (1870) [3'00]
Toujour, Op. 21 No. 2 (1878) [1'23]
La lune Blanche Luit dans les Bois, Op. 61 No. 3 [2'40]
Fleur Jetee, Op. 39 No. 2 [1'24]
Lydia, Op.4 No. 2 [3'00]
Nollie G. Moore, tenor
Arun Garg, piano
Odyssey Artists, Season 15
|
Iskander Akhmadullin
Megan Arns (DRAX) Bach Collegium Choir John Bell Brandon A. Boyd Allison Brenner Jolie Rocke Brown David Colwell Patrick Clark Dale Clevenger (Plowman) Natalia Bolshakova R. Paul Crabb Patrick Dell DRAX Dustin Frieda Cole Galbraith puckmaren glass Maya C. Gibson Marka Gustavsson Erik Hassell Hans Heruth |
Maura Higgins
Steven Houser Henry Huang, soloist SeJoon Jun Ida Kavafian (Plowman) Eli Lara (Esterhazy Quartet) Fred Lowrance Andrew Mahonen Mary Manulik Peter Miyamoto The MU Percussion Studio The MU Saxophone Studio Leigh Muñoz Meaghan Neel Meyer Neel Morgan Owen John D. Perkins Leslie Perna (Esterhazy Quartet) Christy Pond (JC) Kristine Poulsen |
D. Lydia Redding
Preston Roberts Alison Robuck Julie Rosenfeld (Esterhazy Quartet) Marques Jerrell Ruff Leo Saguiguit (DRAX) Paul Seitz Katie Smyth, soloist (JC) Eva Szekely (Esterhazy Quartet) Lindsey Tevebaugh Steven Tharp Thornbrook Piano Trio Preconcert Brianna Trainor Maria Duhova Trevor Ayako Tsuruta Cameron Tubbs Vox Nova Dan Willett Wei-Yi Yang (Plowman) Scott Yoo |
December 6, Friday at 6:45pm
Pre-Concert
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
F. J. Haydn: Piano Trio in C Major, Hob. XV:27
I. Allegro [ca. 8'45]
The BNB Trio
Brandon Kim, violin
Nicole Parker, cello
Ben Xu, piano
Jean-Baptiste Barrière (1707-1747)
Sonata No. 10 in G Major for Two Cellos (ca. 1737-40) [ca. 8'00]
Andante
Adagio
Allegro prestissimo
The C&K Duo
Ryan Choe, violoncello
Hope Keithahn, violoncello
December 6, Friday at 7pm
Tchaikovsky Holiday
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
~ Program ~
Greetings
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50 (1881-2) [ca. 45 min]
I. Pezzo elegiaco (Moderato assai – Allegro giusto)
II. Tema con variazioni: Andante con moto – Variazione finale e coda
Var I
Var II: Più mosso
Var III: Allegro moderato
Var IV: L'istesso tempo (Allegro moderato)
Var V: L'istesso tempo
Var VI: Tempo di Valse
Var VII: Allegro moderato
Var VIII: Fuga (Allegro moderato)
Var IX: Andante flebile, ma non tanto
Var X: Tempo di mazurka
Var XI: Moderato
Variazioni finale e coda: Allegro risoluto e con fuoco
Coda: Andante con moto – Lugubre (L'istesso tempo)
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Eli Lara, cello
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Intermission
Four Songs by P. I. Tchaikovsky:
From 2 Romances, TH 100
“I'd like to merge into a single word” (1’36)
Хотел бы в единое слово
It was in Early Spring, ор.38 №2 (2’42)
"То было раннею весной"
Amid the Din of the Ball op. 38, No.3 (2’30)
«Средь шумного бала…»
Does the Day Reign, op.47 No.6
"День ли царит" (ca. 3'40)
Iskander Akhmadulling, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
A selection of songs:
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903): Nun wandre, Maria (1889-90) [4’00]
John Jacob Niles (1892-1980): What songs were sung [4’00]
Max Reger (1873-1916): Mariä Wiegenlied (1912) [3’00]
Pietro A. Yon (1886-1943): Gesù Bambino (1917) [4’30]
with Dan Willett, oboe
Mel Tormé (1925-1999): The Christmas Song (1945) [3’30]
Jay Livingston (1915-2001) / Ray Evans (1915-2007): Silver Bells (1951) [3’00]
Irving Berlin (1888-1989): White Christmas (1942) [4’00]
Steven Jepson, baritone
Janice Wenger, piano
Pre-Concert
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
F. J. Haydn: Piano Trio in C Major, Hob. XV:27
I. Allegro [ca. 8'45]
The BNB Trio
Brandon Kim, violin
Nicole Parker, cello
Ben Xu, piano
Jean-Baptiste Barrière (1707-1747)
Sonata No. 10 in G Major for Two Cellos (ca. 1737-40) [ca. 8'00]
Andante
Adagio
Allegro prestissimo
The C&K Duo
Ryan Choe, violoncello
Hope Keithahn, violoncello
December 6, Friday at 7pm
Tchaikovsky Holiday
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
~ Program ~
Greetings
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50 (1881-2) [ca. 45 min]
I. Pezzo elegiaco (Moderato assai – Allegro giusto)
II. Tema con variazioni: Andante con moto – Variazione finale e coda
Var I
Var II: Più mosso
Var III: Allegro moderato
Var IV: L'istesso tempo (Allegro moderato)
Var V: L'istesso tempo
Var VI: Tempo di Valse
Var VII: Allegro moderato
Var VIII: Fuga (Allegro moderato)
Var IX: Andante flebile, ma non tanto
Var X: Tempo di mazurka
Var XI: Moderato
Variazioni finale e coda: Allegro risoluto e con fuoco
Coda: Andante con moto – Lugubre (L'istesso tempo)
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Eli Lara, cello
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Intermission
Four Songs by P. I. Tchaikovsky:
From 2 Romances, TH 100
“I'd like to merge into a single word” (1’36)
Хотел бы в единое слово
It was in Early Spring, ор.38 №2 (2’42)
"То было раннею весной"
Amid the Din of the Ball op. 38, No.3 (2’30)
«Средь шумного бала…»
Does the Day Reign, op.47 No.6
"День ли царит" (ca. 3'40)
Iskander Akhmadulling, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
A selection of songs:
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903): Nun wandre, Maria (1889-90) [4’00]
John Jacob Niles (1892-1980): What songs were sung [4’00]
Max Reger (1873-1916): Mariä Wiegenlied (1912) [3’00]
Pietro A. Yon (1886-1943): Gesù Bambino (1917) [4’30]
with Dan Willett, oboe
Mel Tormé (1925-1999): The Christmas Song (1945) [3’30]
Jay Livingston (1915-2001) / Ray Evans (1915-2007): Silver Bells (1951) [3’00]
Irving Berlin (1888-1989): White Christmas (1942) [4’00]
Steven Jepson, baritone
Janice Wenger, piano
* Snow Date: January 18, 2pm & 3pm.
January 11, Saturday at 2pm
Kids@Heart: Petting Zoo
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
FREE ADMISSION!
January 11, Saturday at 3pm
Kids@Heart: Global Express!
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
FREE ADMISSION!
In collaboration with the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association (MMAMTA), Kids@Heart is a children’s concert which this year features music from all over the world, including African dancing by Wontanara! Free Admission; Donations are gratefully accepted. Snow date: January 18, 2020.
Program includes the students of the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers, featuring music from all over the world. Wontanara will engage you in their African dancing and music in the last half of this shorter concert.
Program:
Timothy Brown: Fire Dance
Emery Chiang and Lauren Miyamoto (Columbia Music School)
Margaret Goldstone: The Wagging Tail
Chesa Sihotang and Tina Nguyen (Columbia Music School)
Melody Bober: Snap, Clap, Boogie
Lauren Miyamoto, Megan Nguyen, and Bella Nguyen (Columbia Music School)
Melody Bober: El Matador
Dante Catlin Dupuy, Emery Chiang, and Bram Sihotang (Columbia Music School)
Edvard Grieg: Norwegian Dance, Op. 35, No. 2
Jubilee Manring and Anne Manahan, piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Rondo Alla Turca
Anne Manahan and Jubilee Manring, piano
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 102, II. Andante
Lydia Manring and Anne Manahan
Fritz Kreisler: La Gitana
Hazel Keithahn, violin
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Intermission
Presenting WONTANARA:
Traditional Dagara-Birifor: Traditional Bewaa and Daarkpen gyil songs
Bagr Bine
Ganda Yina
Traditional Temne & Mandenyi (Sierra Leone): Yolé
Arrangement & choreography by Salia Camara
Traditional Malinke (Guinea): Sofa (Dun Dance)
Arrangement & choreography by Seny Daffe
Dancers
Julie Staveley-O'Carroll (artistic director), Candace Kauffman, Kristin Nies, Katy Klymus, Andrea Gerke
Percussionists
Brianna Trainor (technical director), Mira Stoddart, Otter Bowman
January 11, Saturday at 2pm
Kids@Heart: Petting Zoo
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
FREE ADMISSION!
January 11, Saturday at 3pm
Kids@Heart: Global Express!
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
FREE ADMISSION!
In collaboration with the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association (MMAMTA), Kids@Heart is a children’s concert which this year features music from all over the world, including African dancing by Wontanara! Free Admission; Donations are gratefully accepted. Snow date: January 18, 2020.
Program includes the students of the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers, featuring music from all over the world. Wontanara will engage you in their African dancing and music in the last half of this shorter concert.
Program:
Timothy Brown: Fire Dance
Emery Chiang and Lauren Miyamoto (Columbia Music School)
Margaret Goldstone: The Wagging Tail
Chesa Sihotang and Tina Nguyen (Columbia Music School)
Melody Bober: Snap, Clap, Boogie
Lauren Miyamoto, Megan Nguyen, and Bella Nguyen (Columbia Music School)
Melody Bober: El Matador
Dante Catlin Dupuy, Emery Chiang, and Bram Sihotang (Columbia Music School)
Edvard Grieg: Norwegian Dance, Op. 35, No. 2
Jubilee Manring and Anne Manahan, piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Rondo Alla Turca
Anne Manahan and Jubilee Manring, piano
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 102, II. Andante
Lydia Manring and Anne Manahan
Fritz Kreisler: La Gitana
Hazel Keithahn, violin
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Intermission
Presenting WONTANARA:
Traditional Dagara-Birifor: Traditional Bewaa and Daarkpen gyil songs
Bagr Bine
Ganda Yina
Traditional Temne & Mandenyi (Sierra Leone): Yolé
Arrangement & choreography by Salia Camara
Traditional Malinke (Guinea): Sofa (Dun Dance)
Arrangement & choreography by Seny Daffe
Dancers
Julie Staveley-O'Carroll (artistic director), Candace Kauffman, Kristin Nies, Katy Klymus, Andrea Gerke
Percussionists
Brianna Trainor (technical director), Mira Stoddart, Otter Bowman
January 18, 2020 - Saturday 5pm
* Snow date - January 19, Sunday 3pm
Pre-Collegiate Aria / Concerto Competition
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
The Auditions are free and open to the public; no tickets required. The winner will be announced at the end of the event.
PROGRAM:
MMAMTA and Odyssey Chamber Music Series
Present
The Pre-Collegiate Concerto Competition
Saturday, January 18, 2020 at 5:00pm
First Baptist Church in Columbia
Program
Contestant No. 1 Emma Iwasaki, piano
5:05pm [4’00] Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto in F Minor, BWV1056
I.
Judith Shaw, orchestral accompaniment
Contestant No. 2 Josephine Turner, piano
5:11pm [10’00] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488
I. Allegro
Jan Houser, orchestral accompaniment
Contestant No. 3 Anthony Wu, piano
5:22pm [16’00] Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15
I. Allegro con brio
Natalia Bolshakova, orchestral accompaniment
Contestant No. 4 Nicole Parker, violoncello
5:40pm [8’00] Franz Joseph Haydn: Concerto in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1
I. Moderato
Natalia Bolshakova, orchestral accompaniment
Break (3 min)
Contestant No. 5 Joan Kwon, piano
5:55pm [11’00] W. A. Mozart: Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488
I. Allegro
Ayako Tsuruta, orchestral accompaniment
Contestant No. 6 Jaehee Yoo, piano
6:08pm [10’00] W. A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat Major, K. 271
I. Allegro
Natalia Bolshakova, orchestral accompaniment
Contestant No. 7 Robert Cline, piano
6:18pm [11’00] W. A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K.453
I. Allegro
Karen Larvick, orchestral accompaniment
Contestant No. 8 Taehee Oh, piano
6:30pm [12’00] L. van Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19
I. Allegro con brio
Ayako Tsuruta, orchestral accompaniment
T
Judges deliberate.
ca. 6:55pm Group Photo
Result announcement.
Acknowledgement of Participants
Honorable Mention(s)
Alternate
Winner of the 2020 Pre-Collegiate Concerto Competition
The 2020 Pre-Collegiate Aria/Concerto Competition is generously sponsored by the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association (MMAMTA) and the Paul D. Higday Mozart Trust.
Special thanks to the First Baptist Church of Columbia for the use of their sanctuary, and the Odyssey Board for their support for the event. We gratefully acknowledge the performers and their dedicated teachers for their extra time invested in preparing for this event.
* Snow date - January 19, Sunday 3pm
Pre-Collegiate Aria / Concerto Competition
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
The Auditions are free and open to the public; no tickets required. The winner will be announced at the end of the event.
PROGRAM:
MMAMTA and Odyssey Chamber Music Series
Present
The Pre-Collegiate Concerto Competition
Saturday, January 18, 2020 at 5:00pm
First Baptist Church in Columbia
Program
Contestant No. 1 Emma Iwasaki, piano
5:05pm [4’00] Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto in F Minor, BWV1056
I.
Judith Shaw, orchestral accompaniment
Contestant No. 2 Josephine Turner, piano
5:11pm [10’00] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488
I. Allegro
Jan Houser, orchestral accompaniment
Contestant No. 3 Anthony Wu, piano
5:22pm [16’00] Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15
I. Allegro con brio
Natalia Bolshakova, orchestral accompaniment
Contestant No. 4 Nicole Parker, violoncello
5:40pm [8’00] Franz Joseph Haydn: Concerto in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1
I. Moderato
Natalia Bolshakova, orchestral accompaniment
Break (3 min)
Contestant No. 5 Joan Kwon, piano
5:55pm [11’00] W. A. Mozart: Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488
I. Allegro
Ayako Tsuruta, orchestral accompaniment
Contestant No. 6 Jaehee Yoo, piano
6:08pm [10’00] W. A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat Major, K. 271
I. Allegro
Natalia Bolshakova, orchestral accompaniment
Contestant No. 7 Robert Cline, piano
6:18pm [11’00] W. A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K.453
I. Allegro
Karen Larvick, orchestral accompaniment
Contestant No. 8 Taehee Oh, piano
6:30pm [12’00] L. van Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19
I. Allegro con brio
Ayako Tsuruta, orchestral accompaniment
T
Judges deliberate.
ca. 6:55pm Group Photo
Result announcement.
Acknowledgement of Participants
Honorable Mention(s)
Alternate
Winner of the 2020 Pre-Collegiate Concerto Competition
The 2020 Pre-Collegiate Aria/Concerto Competition is generously sponsored by the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association (MMAMTA) and the Paul D. Higday Mozart Trust.
Special thanks to the First Baptist Church of Columbia for the use of their sanctuary, and the Odyssey Board for their support for the event. We gratefully acknowledge the performers and their dedicated teachers for their extra time invested in preparing for this event.
February 14, Friday at 6:45pm
Pre-Concert
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade No. 4, Op. 52 in F Minor
Lien Hsin 'Emily' Lee, piano
February 14, Friday at 7pm
Baroque Valentine
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
* Snow Date: February 16, Sunday 2:45pm & 3pm.
The winner of the 2020 Pre-Collegiate Aria/Concerto, pianist Anthony Wu performs with Odyssey Chamber Ensemble led by conductor Kirk Trevor, followed by Haydn's jovial symphony, "Le Matin." Bach Cantata this year is magnificent “God is My King” BWV 71, with Bach Collegium Choir and led by R. Paul Crabb, in the beautiful acoustics of the First Baptist Church. This concert is generously sponsored by the Paul D. Higday Mozart Trust.
Program:
Pietro Baldassare (c.1690-c.1768)
Sonata No. 1 in F Major [ca. 7'00]
No.1 (originally for Cornetto and Strings)
I. Allegro
II. Grave
III. Allegro
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, orchestral accompaniment
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No. 6 in D Major, "Le Matin" (1761) [ca. 22:00]
I. Adagio-Allegro
II. Adagio-Andante-Adagio
III. Menuet e Trio
IV. Finale: Allegro
Kirk Trevor, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 (1798)
I. Allegro con brio [16'00]
Anthony Wu, piano
The 2020 MMAMTA/Odyssey Aria/Concerto Competition Winner
Kirk Trevor, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Intermission (12 min)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata BWV 71, Gott ist mein König (God is my King, 1708) [19:00]
I. Gott ist mein König (God is My King)
II. Ich bin nun achtzig Jahr (I am now eighty years old) / Soll ich auf dieser Welt (Should I upon this earth)
III. Dein Alter sei wie deine Jugend (May your old age be like your youth)
IV. Tag und Nacht ist dein (Day and night are Yours)
V. Durch mächtige Kraft (Through powerful strength)
VI. Du wollest dem Feinde nicht geben (You would not give the soul)
VII. Das neue Regiment auf jeglichen Wegen (The new regime)
R. Paul Crabb, conductor
Bach Collegium Choir
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
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Bach Collegium Choir
(* = Soloists)
Soprano: Mariah Dale, Kendra Franks. Amelia Lufkin, Michelle Peters, Isabel Quintela*, Emeline Yorty
Alto: Samantha Barry, Gabby Davis, Bailee Dougherty, Greta Sonnenberg, Anna Yannessa*
Tenor: Joey Belmore, Truman Butler, Connor Lovelace, David Pelino*, Michael Sauer
Bass: Henry Braeske, Connor Cochrane, Arun Garg, Marques Jerrell Ruff*, Jordan Ulrich, Jeremy Wagner
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Flute I: Jane Wang (Haydn, Bach)
Flute II: Allison Brenner (Beethoven, Bach)
Oboe I: Dan Willett
Oboe II: Alison Robuck
Clarinet I: John Bell
Clarinet II: Andrew Wiele
Bassoon I: Steven Houser (Beethoven)
Bassoon II: Kassandra Ormsby (Bach, Beethoven)
Trumpet I: Iskander Akhmadullin
Trumpet II: Philip Elsbecker
Trumpet III: Zach Beran
Horn I: Marcia Spence
Horn II: Annelise Miner
Violin I: Siri Geenen, Erik Hassell, Hans Bridger Heruth
Violin II: Graham Woodland, Amy Appold, D. Lydia Redding
Viola: Dustin Frieda, Paul Seitz
Cello: Cameron Tubbs, Mary Manulik, Patrick Ordway
Double Bass: John Lane-Watson
Timpani: Jordan Nielsen
Organ: Craig Datz
Pre-Concert
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade No. 4, Op. 52 in F Minor
Lien Hsin 'Emily' Lee, piano
February 14, Friday at 7pm
Baroque Valentine
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
* Snow Date: February 16, Sunday 2:45pm & 3pm.
The winner of the 2020 Pre-Collegiate Aria/Concerto, pianist Anthony Wu performs with Odyssey Chamber Ensemble led by conductor Kirk Trevor, followed by Haydn's jovial symphony, "Le Matin." Bach Cantata this year is magnificent “God is My King” BWV 71, with Bach Collegium Choir and led by R. Paul Crabb, in the beautiful acoustics of the First Baptist Church. This concert is generously sponsored by the Paul D. Higday Mozart Trust.
Program:
Pietro Baldassare (c.1690-c.1768)
Sonata No. 1 in F Major [ca. 7'00]
No.1 (originally for Cornetto and Strings)
I. Allegro
II. Grave
III. Allegro
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, orchestral accompaniment
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No. 6 in D Major, "Le Matin" (1761) [ca. 22:00]
I. Adagio-Allegro
II. Adagio-Andante-Adagio
III. Menuet e Trio
IV. Finale: Allegro
Kirk Trevor, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 (1798)
I. Allegro con brio [16'00]
Anthony Wu, piano
The 2020 MMAMTA/Odyssey Aria/Concerto Competition Winner
Kirk Trevor, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Intermission (12 min)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata BWV 71, Gott ist mein König (God is my King, 1708) [19:00]
I. Gott ist mein König (God is My King)
II. Ich bin nun achtzig Jahr (I am now eighty years old) / Soll ich auf dieser Welt (Should I upon this earth)
III. Dein Alter sei wie deine Jugend (May your old age be like your youth)
IV. Tag und Nacht ist dein (Day and night are Yours)
V. Durch mächtige Kraft (Through powerful strength)
VI. Du wollest dem Feinde nicht geben (You would not give the soul)
VII. Das neue Regiment auf jeglichen Wegen (The new regime)
R. Paul Crabb, conductor
Bach Collegium Choir
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
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Bach Collegium Choir
(* = Soloists)
Soprano: Mariah Dale, Kendra Franks. Amelia Lufkin, Michelle Peters, Isabel Quintela*, Emeline Yorty
Alto: Samantha Barry, Gabby Davis, Bailee Dougherty, Greta Sonnenberg, Anna Yannessa*
Tenor: Joey Belmore, Truman Butler, Connor Lovelace, David Pelino*, Michael Sauer
Bass: Henry Braeske, Connor Cochrane, Arun Garg, Marques Jerrell Ruff*, Jordan Ulrich, Jeremy Wagner
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Flute I: Jane Wang (Haydn, Bach)
Flute II: Allison Brenner (Beethoven, Bach)
Oboe I: Dan Willett
Oboe II: Alison Robuck
Clarinet I: John Bell
Clarinet II: Andrew Wiele
Bassoon I: Steven Houser (Beethoven)
Bassoon II: Kassandra Ormsby (Bach, Beethoven)
Trumpet I: Iskander Akhmadullin
Trumpet II: Philip Elsbecker
Trumpet III: Zach Beran
Horn I: Marcia Spence
Horn II: Annelise Miner
Violin I: Siri Geenen, Erik Hassell, Hans Bridger Heruth
Violin II: Graham Woodland, Amy Appold, D. Lydia Redding
Viola: Dustin Frieda, Paul Seitz
Cello: Cameron Tubbs, Mary Manulik, Patrick Ordway
Double Bass: John Lane-Watson
Timpani: Jordan Nielsen
Organ: Craig Datz
February 22, Saturday at 7pm
Quatuor Diotima and Esterhazy String Quartet
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
Recipient of the 2018 European Cultural Heritage Award by the French Ministry of Culture, Quatuor Diotima is a three-year resident invited artists since 2018 at the Radio France in Paris. In collaboration with the Mizzou New Music Intiative, Quatuor Diotima offers a dynamic program including Bartók Quartet and (the rarely heard) Shostakovich Octet with MU’s Esterhazy Quartet. Look forward to this exciting collaborative performance. *Please note the change in the order of this shorter, one-hour program.
Program:
Alban Berg (1885-1935) [ca. 22'00]
String Quartet, Op. 3 (1910) [ca. 22'00]
I. Langsam
II. Mäßige Viertel
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Two piece for String Octet, Op. 11 (1925) [11'00]
I. Prelude. Adagio
II. Scherzo. Allegro molto
Esterhazy String Quartet and Quatuor Diotima
Short Intermission (7 min)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
String Quartet No. 4 (1928) [ca. 23'00]
I. Allegro
II. Prestissimo, con sordino
III. Non troppo lento
IV. Allegretto pizzicato
V. Allegro molto
Quatuor Diotima and Esterhazy String Quartet
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
Recipient of the 2018 European Cultural Heritage Award by the French Ministry of Culture, Quatuor Diotima is a three-year resident invited artists since 2018 at the Radio France in Paris. In collaboration with the Mizzou New Music Intiative, Quatuor Diotima offers a dynamic program including Bartók Quartet and (the rarely heard) Shostakovich Octet with MU’s Esterhazy Quartet. Look forward to this exciting collaborative performance. *Please note the change in the order of this shorter, one-hour program.
Program:
Alban Berg (1885-1935) [ca. 22'00]
String Quartet, Op. 3 (1910) [ca. 22'00]
I. Langsam
II. Mäßige Viertel
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Two piece for String Octet, Op. 11 (1925) [11'00]
I. Prelude. Adagio
II. Scherzo. Allegro molto
Esterhazy String Quartet and Quatuor Diotima
Short Intermission (7 min)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
String Quartet No. 4 (1928) [ca. 23'00]
I. Allegro
II. Prestissimo, con sordino
III. Non troppo lento
IV. Allegretto pizzicato
V. Allegro molto
We sincerely regret that due to extraordinary circumstances we are experiencing nationwide, this concert has been postponed. We are working to reschedule this program to sometime later in the year. Stay tuned!
March 20, Friday at 6:45pm
Pre-Concert
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
MIZZOONS
March 20, Friday at 7pm
Plowman MOdyssey
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
The Grand Prize winner of the 9th Plowman Chamber Music Competition, Soma Quartet returns to Columbia with a creative program that includes a transcription of a Mendelssohn Quartet! This program is a collaboration with the Odyssey Performance Fellows, from whom you can always expect unexpected musical treats!
Program:
Soma Quartet - The 2019 Plowman Grand Prize Winner
ca. 50 min. Program:
Howler Back - Zack Browning [1'00]
String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80 - Felix Mendelssohn (Arr. Arthur Liang) [25'00]
I. Allegro vivace assai
II. Allegro assai
III. Adagio
IV. Finale: Allegro molto
In memoriam - Joel Love [12'00]
I. Threnody
II. Adieu
A Schumann Bouquet - Robert Schumann (Arr. William Bolcom) [12'00]
I. Lieber Mai (Beloved Maytime)
II. Knecht Ruprecht (The Bogeyman)
III. Sheherazade
IV. Ländler
V. Sehr langsam
VI. Lied italienischer Marinari
Soma Quartet
intermission
Henri Kling (1842-1918) [6'00]
The Elephant & The Fly
Leigh Munoz, contrabassoon
Julia Gundacker, piccolo
Neil Minturn, piano
John Steinmetz (b. 1951) [5'00]
Fish Phase for two Contrabassoons and Goldfish
Leigh Muñoz & Kassandra Ormsby Contrabassoon
P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742?) [16'00]
The Musical Sacrifice
Schlepped out of obscurity by Professor Peter Schickele
I. Fuga Meshuga
II. Sort of Little Trio Sonata
III. Three Canons
IV. Chorale Prelude: "Da kommt ja der Schurke"
V. Four More Canons
VI. The Grossest Fugue
Julia Gundacker, flute/piccolo
Dan Willet, oboe
Kassandra Ormsby, bassoon
Joanna Griffith, trombone
Lydia Redding, violin
Zachary Clark, string bass
March 20, Friday at 6:45pm
Pre-Concert
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
MIZZOONS
March 20, Friday at 7pm
Plowman MOdyssey
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
The Grand Prize winner of the 9th Plowman Chamber Music Competition, Soma Quartet returns to Columbia with a creative program that includes a transcription of a Mendelssohn Quartet! This program is a collaboration with the Odyssey Performance Fellows, from whom you can always expect unexpected musical treats!
Program:
Soma Quartet - The 2019 Plowman Grand Prize Winner
ca. 50 min. Program:
Howler Back - Zack Browning [1'00]
String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80 - Felix Mendelssohn (Arr. Arthur Liang) [25'00]
I. Allegro vivace assai
II. Allegro assai
III. Adagio
IV. Finale: Allegro molto
In memoriam - Joel Love [12'00]
I. Threnody
II. Adieu
A Schumann Bouquet - Robert Schumann (Arr. William Bolcom) [12'00]
I. Lieber Mai (Beloved Maytime)
II. Knecht Ruprecht (The Bogeyman)
III. Sheherazade
IV. Ländler
V. Sehr langsam
VI. Lied italienischer Marinari
Soma Quartet
intermission
Henri Kling (1842-1918) [6'00]
The Elephant & The Fly
Leigh Munoz, contrabassoon
Julia Gundacker, piccolo
Neil Minturn, piano
John Steinmetz (b. 1951) [5'00]
Fish Phase for two Contrabassoons and Goldfish
Leigh Muñoz & Kassandra Ormsby Contrabassoon
P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742?) [16'00]
The Musical Sacrifice
Schlepped out of obscurity by Professor Peter Schickele
I. Fuga Meshuga
II. Sort of Little Trio Sonata
III. Three Canons
IV. Chorale Prelude: "Da kommt ja der Schurke"
V. Four More Canons
VI. The Grossest Fugue
Julia Gundacker, flute/piccolo
Dan Willet, oboe
Kassandra Ormsby, bassoon
Joanna Griffith, trombone
Lydia Redding, violin
Zachary Clark, string bass
Due to extraordinary pandemic we are experiencing nationwide, it also saddens us that this concert has been cancelled. All ticket holders were personally contacted before May 1. Kindly let us know if by chance we missed you! Thank you for your patience.
May 8, Friday at 6:45pm
Pre-Concert
Program includes the BNB Trio.
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
May 8, Friday at 7pm
Women Composers
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
The year 2020 marks the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women's constitutional right to vote. Odyssey is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a program that features only women composers.
Program includes:
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Romance (1893) [ca. 7'30]
Erik Hassell, violin
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Grazyna Bacewitz (1909-1960)
Sonatina (1955) [ca. 9'30]
I. Allegretto
II. Kanon
III. Allegro non troppo
Alison Robuck, oboe
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Lili Boulanger: TBA.
Libby Larsen (b. 1950):
Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers, for mezzo, cello and piano (1994) [ca. 20'00]
I. Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers
II. Liebeslied
III. Do you know
IV. White World
V. Music, when soft voices die
VI. Go from me
Christine Seitz, mezzo soprano
Eli Lara, cello
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Intermision
Clara Schumann (1819-1896):
Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17 (1846) [ca. 32'00]
I. Allegro moderato
II. Scherzo and Trio
III. Andante
IV. Allegretto
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Eli Lara, cello
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Reception will follow.
May 8, Friday at 6:45pm
Pre-Concert
Program includes the BNB Trio.
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
May 8, Friday at 7pm
Women Composers
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
The year 2020 marks the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women's constitutional right to vote. Odyssey is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a program that features only women composers.
Program includes:
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Romance (1893) [ca. 7'30]
Erik Hassell, violin
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Grazyna Bacewitz (1909-1960)
Sonatina (1955) [ca. 9'30]
I. Allegretto
II. Kanon
III. Allegro non troppo
Alison Robuck, oboe
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Lili Boulanger: TBA.
Libby Larsen (b. 1950):
Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers, for mezzo, cello and piano (1994) [ca. 20'00]
I. Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers
II. Liebeslied
III. Do you know
IV. White World
V. Music, when soft voices die
VI. Go from me
Christine Seitz, mezzo soprano
Eli Lara, cello
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Intermision
Clara Schumann (1819-1896):
Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17 (1846) [ca. 32'00]
I. Allegro moderato
II. Scherzo and Trio
III. Andante
IV. Allegretto
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Eli Lara, cello
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Reception will follow.
We sincerely regret that due to COVID-19, this concert has been postponed. However, we are working to reschedule this program next season. Stay tuned!
May 31, Friday at 4:15pm
Pre-Concert
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
May 31, Friday at 4:30pm
Vox Nova
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
Award winning a capella group Vox Nova covers an impressive, versatile repertoire from Baroque to Modern Day eras. This is Vox Nova’s third and final season as Odyssey’s ensemble-in-residence! More information on their website, www.voxnovacomo.org.
May 31, Friday at 4:15pm
Pre-Concert
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
May 31, Friday at 4:30pm
Vox Nova
First Baptist Church, 1112 E Broadway in Columbia
Award winning a capella group Vox Nova covers an impressive, versatile repertoire from Baroque to Modern Day eras. This is Vox Nova’s third and final season as Odyssey’s ensemble-in-residence! More information on their website, www.voxnovacomo.org.
~ Odyssey Season 15 ~
October 5, 2018 (Fri) 7:30pm, Second Missionary Baptist Church
Special Event | FREE ADMISSION!
That Promised Land: The Evolution of the African American Spiritual
A special presentation and production of the musical segment beginning with field/work songs all the way to the arranged spirituals of H. T. Burleigh, Margaret Bonds, and Moses Hogan to name a few. Curated by Dr. Maya C. Gibson, this concert features former Chanticleer member Marques Jerrell Ruff and special guest soloist, international Opera, Jazz and Gospel artist Jolie Rocke Brown, with MU's Assistant Director of Choral Activities, Dr. Brandon A. Boyd on the piano. This concert is sponsored by the Second Missionary Baptist Church. Donations are gratefully accepted.
October 12, 2018 (Fri) 7pm, First Baptist Church
Oktoberfest
with a Pre-concert Performance at 6:45pm – Alison Robuck & Ayako Tsuruta
We are taking the spirit of Oktoberfest in this jovial German program. In addition to trumpet-piano duo by Iskander Akhmadullin and Natalia Bolshakova, violist Marka Gustavsson from Bard College, New York is featured prominently in a program of duo and Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor – which concludes with a real barn burner, “Rondo alla Zingarese.”
December 7, 2018 (Fri) 7 pm, First Baptist Church
Winter Fantasy
with a Pre-concert Performance at 6:45pm - Thornbrook Piano Trio
Rachmaninoff’s music is full of bells, which can be heard prominently in his two piano work, Suite No. 1, Op. 5, known as Fantasie-Tableuax. This program will also feature DRAX, and various percussion and saxophone ensembles in holiday tunes and more!
February 15, 2019 (Fri) 7 pm, First Baptist Church in Columbia - Cancelled due to snow.
(February 16, 2019 (Sat) 7 pm, Central United Church of Christ in Jefferson City)
Baroque Concerto
with a Pre-concert Performance at 6:45pm (in Columbia)
“Baroque Concerto” will feature a pre-collegiate concerto competition winner with the Odyssey Chamber Ensemble, led by Jefferson City Symphony Orchestra conductor Patrick Clark. Because of his affiliation with his newly found Southside Philharmonic Orchestra based in Jefferson City, Odyssey has a partnership to produce one performance here in Columbia, and another in Jefferson City with the same classical concerto competition winner – for the second year. The highlight of the concert is the annual Bach Cantata with Bach Collegium Choir directed by R. Paul Crabb, performed with the Odyssey Chamber Ensemble.
THE 9th PLOWMAN CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION & FESTIVAL
March 21-25, 2019
In collaboration with First Baptist Church, Missouri Symphony, Office of the President of the University of Missouri System, and the MU School of Music, Odyssey presents the 9th Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival. Recognized as one of the top five chamber competitions in the nation, Plowman has produced many award-winning, world class chamber ensembles since 2006, attracting many prominent guest artists as the judges. In March 2019, we welcome three such musicians: Dale Clevenger, horn; Ida Kavafian*, violin; and Wei-Yi Yang, piano. Full schedule is posted on the Plowman web site, www.PlowmanCompetition.org, as well as on Odyssey Program web page.
*Note* The 2019 Plowman Finals & Award Ceremony is a University Concert Series presentation. Tickets are only available for purchase at the Missouri Theatre, or visit University Concert Series web site when the event comes closer.
All events are held at First Baptist Church of Columbia, except for the Plowman Finals (Sunday):
March 21 (Thu) 7pm - Piano Solo Recital by Wei-Yi Yang
March 22 (Fri) 7pm - Violin Recital by Ida Kavafian*, with Peter Miyamoto, piano
*Due to unforeseen circumstances, Ms. Kavafian is unable to attend. Instead, Lara St. John is performing a similar program with Dr. Miyamoto.
March 23 (Sat) 9:30am-5pm - Plowman Competition Semi-Finals
March 24 (Sun) 1:30pm - Plowman Competition Finals & Award Ceremony (Missouri Theatre)
March 25 (Mon) 12pm - Horn Recital by Dale Clevenger, with Natalia Bolshakova, piano
May 3, 2019 (Fri) 7pm, First Baptist Church
Spring Night
with a Pre-concert Performance at 6:45pm
The title is taken from Robert Schumann’s breathtakingly beautiful “Frühlingsnacht” from Liederkreis, Op. 39. This ultimate German romantic work is programmed with equally gorgeous Gian Carlo Menotti’s “Cantilene & Scherzo” for harp, violin and string quartet and Debussy’s dynamic String Quartet, featuring the Esterhazy String Quartet and harpist Maria Duhova Trevor.
May 25, 2019 (Sat) 3 pm, First Baptist Church
Special Event | FREE ADMISSION!
“Kids@Heart: A Children’s Concert” – Carnival of the Animals & Friends
In collaboration with the MMAMTA (Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association), Odyssey’s Kids@Heart will revisit Saint-Saëns’ much beloved Carnival of the Animals. Come an hour early at 2pm to experience Instrumental Petting Zoo, where you can try out some instruments being used in the concert. This is a FREE concert - bring along your friends, as many as you like! (This is a rescheduled event from January 2019.) Donations are gratefully accepted.
June 2, 2019 (Sun) 3pm, First Baptist Church
Season Finale: Vox Nova
with a Pre-concert Performance at 2:45pm
Vox Nova continues as Odyssey’s Ensemble-in-Residence for the second season. In the past four years, Vox Nova has established itself as the premiere an ensemble with no conductor, and you will really appreciate their phenomenal versatility to cover contrasting repertoire from Baroque to Modern Day eras. Their music knows no boundaries, a creative process which both instrumentalists and vocalists will appreciate. More information: www.voxnovacomo.org
October 5, 2018 (Fri) 7:30pm, Second Missionary Baptist Church
Special Event | FREE ADMISSION!
That Promised Land: The Evolution of the African American Spiritual
A special presentation and production of the musical segment beginning with field/work songs all the way to the arranged spirituals of H. T. Burleigh, Margaret Bonds, and Moses Hogan to name a few. Curated by Dr. Maya C. Gibson, this concert features former Chanticleer member Marques Jerrell Ruff and special guest soloist, international Opera, Jazz and Gospel artist Jolie Rocke Brown, with MU's Assistant Director of Choral Activities, Dr. Brandon A. Boyd on the piano. This concert is sponsored by the Second Missionary Baptist Church. Donations are gratefully accepted.
October 12, 2018 (Fri) 7pm, First Baptist Church
Oktoberfest
with a Pre-concert Performance at 6:45pm – Alison Robuck & Ayako Tsuruta
We are taking the spirit of Oktoberfest in this jovial German program. In addition to trumpet-piano duo by Iskander Akhmadullin and Natalia Bolshakova, violist Marka Gustavsson from Bard College, New York is featured prominently in a program of duo and Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor – which concludes with a real barn burner, “Rondo alla Zingarese.”
December 7, 2018 (Fri) 7 pm, First Baptist Church
Winter Fantasy
with a Pre-concert Performance at 6:45pm - Thornbrook Piano Trio
Rachmaninoff’s music is full of bells, which can be heard prominently in his two piano work, Suite No. 1, Op. 5, known as Fantasie-Tableuax. This program will also feature DRAX, and various percussion and saxophone ensembles in holiday tunes and more!
February 15, 2019 (Fri) 7 pm, First Baptist Church in Columbia - Cancelled due to snow.
(February 16, 2019 (Sat) 7 pm, Central United Church of Christ in Jefferson City)
Baroque Concerto
with a Pre-concert Performance at 6:45pm (in Columbia)
“Baroque Concerto” will feature a pre-collegiate concerto competition winner with the Odyssey Chamber Ensemble, led by Jefferson City Symphony Orchestra conductor Patrick Clark. Because of his affiliation with his newly found Southside Philharmonic Orchestra based in Jefferson City, Odyssey has a partnership to produce one performance here in Columbia, and another in Jefferson City with the same classical concerto competition winner – for the second year. The highlight of the concert is the annual Bach Cantata with Bach Collegium Choir directed by R. Paul Crabb, performed with the Odyssey Chamber Ensemble.
THE 9th PLOWMAN CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION & FESTIVAL
March 21-25, 2019
In collaboration with First Baptist Church, Missouri Symphony, Office of the President of the University of Missouri System, and the MU School of Music, Odyssey presents the 9th Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival. Recognized as one of the top five chamber competitions in the nation, Plowman has produced many award-winning, world class chamber ensembles since 2006, attracting many prominent guest artists as the judges. In March 2019, we welcome three such musicians: Dale Clevenger, horn; Ida Kavafian*, violin; and Wei-Yi Yang, piano. Full schedule is posted on the Plowman web site, www.PlowmanCompetition.org, as well as on Odyssey Program web page.
*Note* The 2019 Plowman Finals & Award Ceremony is a University Concert Series presentation. Tickets are only available for purchase at the Missouri Theatre, or visit University Concert Series web site when the event comes closer.
All events are held at First Baptist Church of Columbia, except for the Plowman Finals (Sunday):
March 21 (Thu) 7pm - Piano Solo Recital by Wei-Yi Yang
March 22 (Fri) 7pm - Violin Recital by Ida Kavafian*, with Peter Miyamoto, piano
*Due to unforeseen circumstances, Ms. Kavafian is unable to attend. Instead, Lara St. John is performing a similar program with Dr. Miyamoto.
March 23 (Sat) 9:30am-5pm - Plowman Competition Semi-Finals
March 24 (Sun) 1:30pm - Plowman Competition Finals & Award Ceremony (Missouri Theatre)
March 25 (Mon) 12pm - Horn Recital by Dale Clevenger, with Natalia Bolshakova, piano
May 3, 2019 (Fri) 7pm, First Baptist Church
Spring Night
with a Pre-concert Performance at 6:45pm
The title is taken from Robert Schumann’s breathtakingly beautiful “Frühlingsnacht” from Liederkreis, Op. 39. This ultimate German romantic work is programmed with equally gorgeous Gian Carlo Menotti’s “Cantilene & Scherzo” for harp, violin and string quartet and Debussy’s dynamic String Quartet, featuring the Esterhazy String Quartet and harpist Maria Duhova Trevor.
May 25, 2019 (Sat) 3 pm, First Baptist Church
Special Event | FREE ADMISSION!
“Kids@Heart: A Children’s Concert” – Carnival of the Animals & Friends
In collaboration with the MMAMTA (Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association), Odyssey’s Kids@Heart will revisit Saint-Saëns’ much beloved Carnival of the Animals. Come an hour early at 2pm to experience Instrumental Petting Zoo, where you can try out some instruments being used in the concert. This is a FREE concert - bring along your friends, as many as you like! (This is a rescheduled event from January 2019.) Donations are gratefully accepted.
June 2, 2019 (Sun) 3pm, First Baptist Church
Season Finale: Vox Nova
with a Pre-concert Performance at 2:45pm
Vox Nova continues as Odyssey’s Ensemble-in-Residence for the second season. In the past four years, Vox Nova has established itself as the premiere an ensemble with no conductor, and you will really appreciate their phenomenal versatility to cover contrasting repertoire from Baroque to Modern Day eras. Their music knows no boundaries, a creative process which both instrumentalists and vocalists will appreciate. More information: www.voxnovacomo.org
June 2, 2019 - Sunday at 3:00pm
First Baptist Church
Season Finale: Vox Nova
Vox Nova continues as Odyssey’s Ensemble-in-Residence for the second season. In the past four years, Vox Nova has established itself as the premiere an ensemble with no conductor, and you will really appreciate their phenomenal versatility to cover contrasting repertoire from Baroque to Modern Day eras. Their music knows no boundaries, a creative process which both instrumentalists and vocalists will appreciate. More information: www.voxnovacomo.org
2:45pm Pre-concert Performance
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953):
Visions Fugitives, Op. 22, No. 15 (1915-7)
Brandon Kim, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Sonata in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 (1801-2)
III. Allegretto
and
S. Prokofiev: From Romeo and Juliette: Ten Pieces for Piano, Op. 75 (1936-7)
VI. Montagues and Capulets
Justin Hahm, piano
3:00pm
The Road Home Stephen Paulus (b. 1949)
Hymn for America
Pilgrims’ Hymn
Idumea arr. Richard Bjella (b. 1951)
Not One Sparrow is Forgotten arr. William Hawley (b. 1950)
Beautiful Morning John Wykoff (b. 1982)
I am the Rose of Sharon Ivo Antognini (b. 1963)
Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal arr. Alice Parker (b. 1925)
Intermission
Stand in that River arr. Moira Smiley
Faith is the bird that feels the light Elizabeth Alexander (b. 1962)
Ave Verum Corpus Ryan Hampton
O vos angeli Paul Seitz
Pie Jesu Hans Bridger Heruth
By and By arr. Carol Barnett
Hold On arr. John Tebay
Fire! John Orfe
T
Vox Nova Personnel
Soprano Alto Tenor Bass
Emily Bennett Betsy Bledsoe Daniel Hansen Jake Clifford
Lacey Gladden Rachel Gerlt Nollie Moore Darrell J. Jordan
Anna Mandina Mickey Miller Jared Smith Colin Knoth
Catherine Sandstedt Christine Nichols Jordan Walker Jeremy Wagner
Season Finale Reception to follow in the foyer.
First Baptist Church
Season Finale: Vox Nova
Vox Nova continues as Odyssey’s Ensemble-in-Residence for the second season. In the past four years, Vox Nova has established itself as the premiere an ensemble with no conductor, and you will really appreciate their phenomenal versatility to cover contrasting repertoire from Baroque to Modern Day eras. Their music knows no boundaries, a creative process which both instrumentalists and vocalists will appreciate. More information: www.voxnovacomo.org
2:45pm Pre-concert Performance
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953):
Visions Fugitives, Op. 22, No. 15 (1915-7)
Brandon Kim, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Sonata in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 (1801-2)
III. Allegretto
and
S. Prokofiev: From Romeo and Juliette: Ten Pieces for Piano, Op. 75 (1936-7)
VI. Montagues and Capulets
Justin Hahm, piano
3:00pm
The Road Home Stephen Paulus (b. 1949)
Hymn for America
Pilgrims’ Hymn
Idumea arr. Richard Bjella (b. 1951)
Not One Sparrow is Forgotten arr. William Hawley (b. 1950)
Beautiful Morning John Wykoff (b. 1982)
I am the Rose of Sharon Ivo Antognini (b. 1963)
Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal arr. Alice Parker (b. 1925)
Intermission
Stand in that River arr. Moira Smiley
Faith is the bird that feels the light Elizabeth Alexander (b. 1962)
Ave Verum Corpus Ryan Hampton
O vos angeli Paul Seitz
Pie Jesu Hans Bridger Heruth
By and By arr. Carol Barnett
Hold On arr. John Tebay
Fire! John Orfe
T
Vox Nova Personnel
Soprano Alto Tenor Bass
Emily Bennett Betsy Bledsoe Daniel Hansen Jake Clifford
Lacey Gladden Rachel Gerlt Nollie Moore Darrell J. Jordan
Anna Mandina Mickey Miller Jared Smith Colin Knoth
Catherine Sandstedt Christine Nichols Jordan Walker Jeremy Wagner
Season Finale Reception to follow in the foyer.
***Rescheduled from January 2019***
May 25, 2019 - Saturday
2:00pm Instrumental Petting Zoo
3:00pm Concert
First Baptist Church
Special Event | FREE ADMISSION
“Kids@Heart: A Children’s Concert” – Carnival of the Animals & Friends
In collaboration with the MMAMTA (Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association), Odyssey’s Kids@Heart will revisit Saint-Saëns’ much beloved Carnival of the Animals. There will be additional surprise guests, to be revealed at the concert!
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921): Carnival of the Animals (1886)
Meaghan Neel, Narrator
"Introduction et marche royale du lion" (Introduction and Royal March of the Lion)
Jacob Newton and Jedda Newton
"Poules et coqs" (Hens and Roosters)
Ayako Tsuruta and Peter Miyamoto
“Turkey in the Straw” (A Barn Dance), American Folk Dance, arr. J. Weybright
Judah Manring and Bethany Manring
"Hémiones (animaux véloces)" (Wild Donkeys Swift Animals)
Ross Dryer and Peter Miyamoto
“Csárdás” (ca. 1904) by Vittorio Monti (1868-1922)
Anya Akhmadullina, violin
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Hungarian Dance No. 5 (1869) by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Hayley Conklin and Carrie Conklin
Cool Guest
Meyer Neel, double bass
"Tortues" (Tortoises)
Bethany Manring
"L'Éléphant" (The Elephant)
Joan Kwon
"Kangourous" (Kangaroos)
Ayako Tsuruta and Ross Dryer
"Aquarium"
Ayako Tsuruta and Peter Miyamoto
"Personnages à longues oreilles" (Characters with Long Ears)
Julie Rosenfeld and D. Lydia Redding
From Clarinet Sonata, III. Allegro con fuoco (Très animé) by Francis Poulenc (1962) [3'10]
Andrew Mahonen, clarinet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
"Le Coucou au fond des bois" (The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods)
Ross Dryer and Peter Miyamoto
Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 (1889) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Ayako Tsuruta and Peter Miyamoto
“Animal Ditties” by Anthony Plog
I. The Turtle
II. The Python
III. Hyena
IV. Hog
Meaghan Neel, narrator
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
5-minute Intermission
~ Raffle Announcement~
Sing-along (See Insert)
"Volière" (Aviary)
Ema Iwasaki and Judith Shaw
“Chopsticks”
Lauren Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta
"Pianistes" (Pianists)
Sutu Forté and Ayako Tsuruta
"Fossiles" (Fossils)
Jaehee Yoo and Natalia Bolshakova
"Le cygne" (The Swan)
Carrie Conklin and Brooke Wagner
Final (Finale)
Ayako Tsuruta and Peter Miyamoto
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Allison Brenner, flute
Andrew Mahonen, clarinet
Julie Rosenfeld, violin I
D. Lydia Redding, violin II
Dustin Frieda, viola
Eli Lara, violoncello
Meyer Neel, double bass
puckmaren glass, marimba and xylophone
Special Guests
Meaghan Neel, narrator
Anya Akhmadullina, violin
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Donations are gratefully accepted.
May 25, 2019 - Saturday
2:00pm Instrumental Petting Zoo
3:00pm Concert
First Baptist Church
Special Event | FREE ADMISSION
“Kids@Heart: A Children’s Concert” – Carnival of the Animals & Friends
In collaboration with the MMAMTA (Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association), Odyssey’s Kids@Heart will revisit Saint-Saëns’ much beloved Carnival of the Animals. There will be additional surprise guests, to be revealed at the concert!
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921): Carnival of the Animals (1886)
Meaghan Neel, Narrator
"Introduction et marche royale du lion" (Introduction and Royal March of the Lion)
Jacob Newton and Jedda Newton
"Poules et coqs" (Hens and Roosters)
Ayako Tsuruta and Peter Miyamoto
“Turkey in the Straw” (A Barn Dance), American Folk Dance, arr. J. Weybright
Judah Manring and Bethany Manring
"Hémiones (animaux véloces)" (Wild Donkeys Swift Animals)
Ross Dryer and Peter Miyamoto
“Csárdás” (ca. 1904) by Vittorio Monti (1868-1922)
Anya Akhmadullina, violin
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Hungarian Dance No. 5 (1869) by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Hayley Conklin and Carrie Conklin
Cool Guest
Meyer Neel, double bass
"Tortues" (Tortoises)
Bethany Manring
"L'Éléphant" (The Elephant)
Joan Kwon
"Kangourous" (Kangaroos)
Ayako Tsuruta and Ross Dryer
"Aquarium"
Ayako Tsuruta and Peter Miyamoto
"Personnages à longues oreilles" (Characters with Long Ears)
Julie Rosenfeld and D. Lydia Redding
From Clarinet Sonata, III. Allegro con fuoco (Très animé) by Francis Poulenc (1962) [3'10]
Andrew Mahonen, clarinet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
"Le Coucou au fond des bois" (The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods)
Ross Dryer and Peter Miyamoto
Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 (1889) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Ayako Tsuruta and Peter Miyamoto
“Animal Ditties” by Anthony Plog
I. The Turtle
II. The Python
III. Hyena
IV. Hog
Meaghan Neel, narrator
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
5-minute Intermission
~ Raffle Announcement~
Sing-along (See Insert)
"Volière" (Aviary)
Ema Iwasaki and Judith Shaw
“Chopsticks”
Lauren Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta
"Pianistes" (Pianists)
Sutu Forté and Ayako Tsuruta
"Fossiles" (Fossils)
Jaehee Yoo and Natalia Bolshakova
"Le cygne" (The Swan)
Carrie Conklin and Brooke Wagner
Final (Finale)
Ayako Tsuruta and Peter Miyamoto
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Allison Brenner, flute
Andrew Mahonen, clarinet
Julie Rosenfeld, violin I
D. Lydia Redding, violin II
Dustin Frieda, viola
Eli Lara, violoncello
Meyer Neel, double bass
puckmaren glass, marimba and xylophone
Special Guests
Meaghan Neel, narrator
Anya Akhmadullina, violin
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Donations are gratefully accepted.
Anya Akhmadullina (11) has been playing piano since age 5 and violin since 4. She has been a 6 time Winner, 2 time Runner-Up, and 5 time Honorable Mention in violin and piano divisions of the Missouri Music Teachers Association state competition, winning both string and piano divisions in November, 2018. Anya has also participated at the National Piano Guild auditions for seven years, receiving superior ratings. She has appeared on six Piano Showcase Concerts and received a special award at the last concert. Anya has performed twice at the Boone County Historical Museum Concert Series and the Odyssey’s Kids@Heart recitals, the Salvation Army Fundraising Concert, and The Village of Bedford Walk Odyssey Outreach recital. Anya attends EEE and was a member of the CPS 5th Grade Honors Choir. She was a recipient of the 2018 President’s Award for Educational Excellence. Presently, Anya is a co-principal violin of the Missouri Symphony Conservatory Junior Sinfonia. She enjoys the arts, particularly drawing and photography, and she is an avid reader, both in English and in Russian. Anya loves swimming, traveling, and playing with her friends.
Iskander Akhmadullin: See www.odysseymissouri.org/artists.html
Now 14 years old and in eighth grade at Christian Fellowship School, Lunaya Barnhart has been playing piano for 8 years. She consistently receives Superior ratings in the Missouri Music Federation and regularly performs for the elderly. She loves to sing in the school choir but even more, she loves to belt out Disney tunes at the top of her lungs. Lunaya loves animals, drawing, and cooking good food for others.
Natalia Bolshakova: See www.odysseymissouri.org/artists.html
Hayley Conklin, an 8th grader at Christian Fellowship School, has competed since she was 5 years old in MMTA, NFMC, Missouri Theatre Showcase Auditions and MTNA. She has also performed several times on Missouri Theatre stage, as well as Odyssey Kids@Heart concerts. She has been invited to perform on the Historic Blind Boone piano. In addition to studying piano, Hayley loves singing in her school choir, playing ukulele, and volleyball.
Carrie Conklin, a Columbia native, received her B.M. and M.M. in Piano Performance from MU School of Music, studying with Raymond Herbert and Elinor Freer. She continued post-graduate instruction with Paul Barnes at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Conklin has won many competitions at state and national level, and has appeared as soloist with Missouri Society Youth Orchestra, Jefferson City Orchestra, University Philharmonic, and 9th Street Philharmonic. Conklin has an extensive range of experience teaching, accompanying, adjudicating, and chamber music. She resides in Columbia, with husband, Jared, and children, Hayley and Brett.
Ross Dryer is a senior at the University of Missouri-Columbia majoring in piano performance with Dr. Peter Miyamoto. While attending Blue Springs South High School in Blue Springs, Missouri, he competed in District and State Music Festivals and was the resident accompanist for their symphonic orchestra. He was recently chosen to perform in the MU Fall Sampler Concert in the Missouri Theatre. Ross has accompanied for many musicals in Columbia, including Godspell and Beauty and the Beast at Maplewood Barn and Heathers, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Next to Normal, Bye Bye Birdie, Cabaret, and Little Shop of Horrors at Columbia Entertainment Company, where he is staff rehearsal accompanist. He serves as the pianist for MU’s Hitt Street Harmony and acts as collaborative pianist for numerous instrumentalists and vocalists at the University of Missouri.
Sutu Forté was raised in the San Francisco Bay area and started playing the piano at age three relying on innate ear and composition talent only. It was at age seven and a half that she started her formal piano studies. She was awarded a scholarship to Stephens College where she a earned her B.F.A. in 1974. Winning First Prize in the Midwest Concerto Competition allowed her to perform the ‘Emperor Concerto' With the St. Louis Symphony conducted by Leonard Slatkin. After graduating from Stephens, she attended Juilliard and received her Master's degree. She debuted at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1980, and continued to perform in New York for five more years. She returned to her native San Francisco in 1985 and continued to perform there until returning to Columbia in 1994. Now she teaches privately and is a founding member of the Columbia Jazreplab (Jazz Repertory Laboratory), encouraging musicians of all ages and levels of experience to play jazz standards in a relaxed ensemble environment.
Dustin Frienda: See www.odysseymissouri.org/artists.html
puckmaren glass: See www.odysseymissouri.org/artists.html
Emma Hoeft: See www.odysseymissouri.org/artists.html
Seventh grader Ema Iwasaki started playing the piano when she was four years old in Japan. Ema currently studies with Judith Shaw. Ema is winner of the 2018 and 2017 MMTA state competitions in her grade. The past 5 years, Ema has also enjoyed participating in Missouri Federated Music Clubs Junior Festivals. In addition to piano, Ema keeps active in taekwondo and in ballet. Ema really loves playing the piano, and looks forward to continue playing in the future."
Joan Kwon is in eighth grade at Gentry Middle School. Joan has played piano for 8 years, and has participated in auditions including Federation, Piano Guild and MMTA. She has also performed for Piano Showcase and the Blind Boone Concert Series. Joan has participated in 2017 Odyssey Chamber Music Festival, which was her first summer music camp experience. In addition to playing the piano, Joan also participates in Missouri Symphony Conservatory’s Young Artist Philharmonic and Chamber Players as a violinist, and Gentry Middle School Band as a flutist. Joan is active in Science Olympiad and Mathcounts, and enjoys reading books and watching movies as her hobbies."
Andrew Mahonen: See www.odysseymissouri.org/artists.html
Bethany Manring is 16 years old. She enjoys playing the piano, composing, painting and drawing. She started piano at age 4. She love, loves, loves piano and even enjoys practicing. She is a voracious bookworm who eats away at the pages of every book she finds. Her favorite book is Les Miserables. She takes art lessons at Art Underground, where she also works part-time. Bethany is excited about starting at MIZZOU in the fall. She plans to major in special education and minor in art and music.
An aspiring baseball player at age 14, Judah Manring enjoys playing shortstop, throwing fastballs, and the Cardinals. He has played the piano since age 6 and has participated in Guild and Federation. Judah’s hobbies are listening to music, sleeping, and eating pop tarts. He consumes six pop tarts a day for his acute nutritional needs. He loves spending time with his big brother, Simon.
Lauren Miyamoto is a 4th grader at Russell Boulevard Elementary. She has been studying piano for 5 years with Natalia Bolshakova. Lauren “decided to play the piano because my parents are pianists and I wanted to be part of the piano family and join in on the fun.” Lauren also enjoys classes at the Missouri Contemporary Ballet School, choir at her school, creative arts, playing with her friends and reading.
Peter Miyamoto: See www.odysseymissouri.org/artists.html
Meaghan Neel: See www.odysseymissouri.org/artists.html
Meyer Neel: See See www.odysseymissouri.org/artists.html
Jacob Newton (13) is new to Columbia and studies piano with Ayako Tsuruta. While in Arizona, he studied under Fei Xu and received the silver medal in the 2017 East Valley Music Teachers Association piano competition. He was also a violinist in the Metropolitan Youth Symphony from 2015-2017, and choral member in the Millennial Choirs. When he’s not making music, he enjoys studying insects and animal life, and playing video games. He hopes to become an Eagle scout in 2019.
Jedda Newton is a nationally certified piano instructor with a degree in piano performance and pedagogy from Brigham Young University. She has operated a piano studio in five states (Missouri, Arizona, Michigan, Indiana, and Utah) over the past 18 years. Prior to focusing on piano instruction, she owned a dance studio—that focused on percussive dance—for 16 years that had over 300 students at its peak. Her students have performed across the United States including in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Jedda has performed—as a pianist and dancer—in the United States, Europe, and Asia. She is happily married to Daniel Newton and the mother of four active children.
D. Lydia Redding: See www.odysseymissouri.org/artists.html
Julie Rosenfeld: See www.odysseymissouri.org/artists.html
Ayako Tsuruta first performed the complete Carnival of the Animals with an orchestra when she was 14 years old. She has since played this fun composition numerous times, and hopes to share the love of collaboration with her daughter as well as with her students for many more years to come! She is very grateful for her piano teacher of 9 years, Mrs. Leena K. Crothers, who taught her the importance of learning diverse repertoire.
Judith Shaw serves as piano instructor and collaborative artist at Columbia College. For 19 years, she has played for multiple campus functions as well as accompanying vocal majors. Ms. Shaw maintains a private piano studio where her students have been winners at the MMTA state competitions. She adjudicates for MFMC, MMTA and Piano Guild and serves as chairman for the NFMC Collegiate Scholarship auditions. She continues to perform for community functions and accompanies public school students for competitions, visiting artists, and musical theatre. Ms. Shaw has been a church musician since the age of eleven, and has served as music director and pianist/organist at several churches. She holds Bachelors and Masters of Music Education degrees from the University of Missouri. Before Columbia College, Ms. Shaw was a piano instructor at the University of Missouri and Central Methodist University. Fun fact: Ms. Shaw was a member of the Entre Amis Consort for several years as a recorder player.
Esther Stoy is currently working toward receiving her Associate of Fine Arts Degree at Anoka Ramsey Community College in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. She will graduate in the Spring of 2019 with her AFA in hopes of going on to further her artistic education. Esther developed a passion for art and creativity at a young age and has found her calling within it. The support and encouragement she received from her family and peers helped her gain the confidence she needed to pursue the art field. Her subject matter often focuses on the positive things in life, with additional experimentation with color and medium. She hopes that her enthusiasm for the arts will help her create a career in which she can help and encourage others through her passion. You can view her work on Facebook or Instagram @esther.stoy.art.
Brooke Wagner is a freshman at Southern Boone High School. She has played piano for seven years and has performed in Odyssey’s Kids@ Heart as well as in Missouri Music Federation and on the Blind Boone Piano. Brooke also plays clarinet, ukulele and will be performing in her high school musical theater. This year in marching band Brooke got to play her clarinet in Chicago at the Thanksgiving Day Parade. She enjoys tubing and paddleboarding at the lake with her friends.
Jaehee Yoo is a sophomore at Rock Bridge High School. She began her piano studies at the age of 8 and currently studies with Natalia Bolshakova. Jaehee started to participate in piano competitions after she entered high school, and she has received honorable mention in 2018 MMTA piano solo and honorable mention in piano solo area of 2018 Creating Original Music Project (COMP) at the University of Missouri. Jaehee is excited to be working with a chamber ensemble for the first time.
Program Sample from the Baroque Concerto Concert:
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May 3, 2019 - Friday at 7:00pm
First Baptist Church
Spring Night
6:45pm Pre-concert Performance
Marin Marais (1656-1728): Les Folies D’Espagne (The Follies of Spain, 1672) [ca. 12'00]
Tâmila Freitas de Souza, flute
7:00pm
Joseph Schwantner (1943): Black Anemones (1982) [ca. 5'00]
Alison Robuck, oboe
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Liederkreis, Op. 39 (1840) [ca. 30'00]
I. In der Fremde
II. Intermezzo
III. Waldesgespräch
IV. Die Stille
V. Mondnacht
VI. Schöne Fremde
VII. Auf einer Burg
VIII. In der Fremde
IX. Wehmut
X. Zwielicht
XI. Im Walde
XII. Frühlingsnacht
Steven Tharp, tenor
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007): Catilene & Scherzo for harp, violin and string quartet (1977) [ca. 11'00]
Maria Duhova Trevor, harp
Esterhazy String Quartet
Intermission
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) : String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10 (1892-3) [ca. 30'00]
I. Animé et très décidé
II. Assez vif et bien rythmé
III. Andantino, doucement expressif
IV. Très modéré
Esterhazy String Quartet
Eva Szekely, violin I
Julie Rosenfeld, violin II
Leslie Perna, viola
Eli Lara, violoncello
First Baptist Church
Spring Night
6:45pm Pre-concert Performance
Marin Marais (1656-1728): Les Folies D’Espagne (The Follies of Spain, 1672) [ca. 12'00]
Tâmila Freitas de Souza, flute
7:00pm
Joseph Schwantner (1943): Black Anemones (1982) [ca. 5'00]
Alison Robuck, oboe
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Liederkreis, Op. 39 (1840) [ca. 30'00]
I. In der Fremde
II. Intermezzo
III. Waldesgespräch
IV. Die Stille
V. Mondnacht
VI. Schöne Fremde
VII. Auf einer Burg
VIII. In der Fremde
IX. Wehmut
X. Zwielicht
XI. Im Walde
XII. Frühlingsnacht
Steven Tharp, tenor
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007): Catilene & Scherzo for harp, violin and string quartet (1977) [ca. 11'00]
Maria Duhova Trevor, harp
Esterhazy String Quartet
Intermission
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) : String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10 (1892-3) [ca. 30'00]
I. Animé et très décidé
II. Assez vif et bien rythmé
III. Andantino, doucement expressif
IV. Très modéré
Esterhazy String Quartet
Eva Szekely, violin I
Julie Rosenfeld, violin II
Leslie Perna, viola
Eli Lara, violoncello
Master Classes
March 22 (Fri)
12-2pm Whitmore Hall, the MU School of Music
Piano Master Class by Dr. Wei-Yi Yang from the Yale University
*Free Admission* Sponsored by ORG
Program TBA
2-4pm Whitmore Hall, the MU School of Music
Violin Master Class by Ida Kavafian from Curtis Institute / the Juilliard School / Bard College / the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society / Music from Angel Fire
*Free Admission*
Program TBA
March 22 (Fri)
12-2pm Whitmore Hall, the MU School of Music
Piano Master Class by Dr. Wei-Yi Yang from the Yale University
*Free Admission* Sponsored by ORG
Program TBA
2-4pm Whitmore Hall, the MU School of Music
Violin Master Class by Ida Kavafian from Curtis Institute / the Juilliard School / Bard College / the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society / Music from Angel Fire
*Free Admission*
Program TBA
The 9th Plowman Chamber Music Festival
All events are held at First Baptist Church of Columbia, except for the Plowman Finals (Sunday):
March 21 (Thu) 7pm First Baptist Church
Solo Recital by pianist Wei-Yi Yang
Fantasie Program:
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17 (1836)
I. Durchaus fantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen; Im Legenden-Ton
Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op, 16 (1838)
II. Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch (Very inwardly and not too quickly)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Fantasien, Op. 116 (1892)
No. 1 Capriccio
No. 2 Intermezzo
No. 3 Capriccio
Intermission
Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16
IV. Sehr langsam (Very slowly), B♭ major/G minor
V. Sehr lebhaft (Very lively), G minor
VI. Sehr langsam (Very slowly), B♭ major
Brahms: Fantasien, Op, 116
No. 4 Intermezzo
No. 5 Intermezzo
No. 6 Intermezzo
No. 7 Capriccio
*FREE ADMISSION*
March 22 (Fri) 7pm First Baptist Church
Violin Recital by Lara St. John*, violin, and Peter Miyamoto, piano
*Due to unforeseen circumstances, Ms. Kavafian is unable to attend.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Sonata in A Major, Op. 47 "Kreutzer"
Adagio sostenuto - Presto
Andante con variazioni
Presto
Intermission
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Sonata No. 2 (1923-1927)
Allegretto
Blues. Moderato
Perpetuum mobile. Allegro
Béla Bartók (1881-1945): Rhapsody No. 2 (1928)
Martin Kennedy: Czardashian Rhapsody [6'20]
* Tickets $20/$10 Student, available for purchase at the door
March 23 (Sat) 9:30am-5:30pm: First Baptist Church
The 9th Plowman Chamber Music Competition Semi-Finals
* Tickets $10 General Admission, available for purchase at the door
March 24 (Sun) 1:30pm Missouri Theatre
The 9th Plowman Chamber Music Competition Finals & Award Ceremony
presented by the University Concert Series
FIVE Finalists will compete for the $5000 Grand Prize and $2000 Odyssey Award!
* Purchase tickets at the Missouri Theatre, or via University Concert Series
March 25 (Mon) 12pm First Baptist Church
Horn Lecture/Recital by Dale Clevenger
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911): Songs of a Wayfarer, trans. Douglas Sparkes
I. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht (When My Sweetheart is Married)
II. Ging heut' Morgen über's Feld (I Went This Morning over the Field)
III. Ich hab' ein glühend Messer (I Have a Gleaming Knife)
IV. Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz (The Two Blue Eyes of my Beloved)
Franz Strauss (1822-1905): Nocturno, Op. 7 (1864)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Horn Concerto No. 1 in D Major, K. 412 & 514/386b (1791)
I. Allegro, (K. 412)
IV. Rondo (Allegro), (K. 514)
with Natalia Bolshakova, piano
* Tickets $20/$10 Student, available for purchase at the door, beginning 11:30am
All events are held at First Baptist Church of Columbia, except for the Plowman Finals (Sunday):
March 21 (Thu) 7pm First Baptist Church
Solo Recital by pianist Wei-Yi Yang
Fantasie Program:
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17 (1836)
I. Durchaus fantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen; Im Legenden-Ton
Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op, 16 (1838)
II. Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch (Very inwardly and not too quickly)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Fantasien, Op. 116 (1892)
No. 1 Capriccio
No. 2 Intermezzo
No. 3 Capriccio
Intermission
Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16
IV. Sehr langsam (Very slowly), B♭ major/G minor
V. Sehr lebhaft (Very lively), G minor
VI. Sehr langsam (Very slowly), B♭ major
Brahms: Fantasien, Op, 116
No. 4 Intermezzo
No. 5 Intermezzo
No. 6 Intermezzo
No. 7 Capriccio
*FREE ADMISSION*
March 22 (Fri) 7pm First Baptist Church
Violin Recital by Lara St. John*, violin, and Peter Miyamoto, piano
*Due to unforeseen circumstances, Ms. Kavafian is unable to attend.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Sonata in A Major, Op. 47 "Kreutzer"
Adagio sostenuto - Presto
Andante con variazioni
Presto
Intermission
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Sonata No. 2 (1923-1927)
Allegretto
Blues. Moderato
Perpetuum mobile. Allegro
Béla Bartók (1881-1945): Rhapsody No. 2 (1928)
Martin Kennedy: Czardashian Rhapsody [6'20]
* Tickets $20/$10 Student, available for purchase at the door
March 23 (Sat) 9:30am-5:30pm: First Baptist Church
The 9th Plowman Chamber Music Competition Semi-Finals
* Tickets $10 General Admission, available for purchase at the door
March 24 (Sun) 1:30pm Missouri Theatre
The 9th Plowman Chamber Music Competition Finals & Award Ceremony
presented by the University Concert Series
FIVE Finalists will compete for the $5000 Grand Prize and $2000 Odyssey Award!
* Purchase tickets at the Missouri Theatre, or via University Concert Series
March 25 (Mon) 12pm First Baptist Church
Horn Lecture/Recital by Dale Clevenger
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911): Songs of a Wayfarer, trans. Douglas Sparkes
I. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht (When My Sweetheart is Married)
II. Ging heut' Morgen über's Feld (I Went This Morning over the Field)
III. Ich hab' ein glühend Messer (I Have a Gleaming Knife)
IV. Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz (The Two Blue Eyes of my Beloved)
Franz Strauss (1822-1905): Nocturno, Op. 7 (1864)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Horn Concerto No. 1 in D Major, K. 412 & 514/386b (1791)
I. Allegro, (K. 412)
IV. Rondo (Allegro), (K. 514)
with Natalia Bolshakova, piano
* Tickets $20/$10 Student, available for purchase at the door, beginning 11:30am
The Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival
presents
Season Nine, Event Eight & Nine
The Plowman Competition Finals
Sunday, March 24th, 2019 at 1:30 pm
Missouri Theatre
Columbia, Missouri
1:30pm Greetings by Dr. Peter Miyamoto, Plowman Executive Director
1:35pm Finalist #1: Semi-Finalist No. 6
Circusmuziek (1990) Ton ter Doest
I. (b. 1964)
IV.
VII.
Le Tombeau de Couperin (1914) Maurice Ravel
Red Leaf Collection (2017) Karalyn Schubring
(b. 1999)
Refraction (2015) David Biedenbender
2:05pm Finalist #2: Semi-Finalist No. 14
Piano Trio in C Major, Hob. XV: 27 (1797) Franz Joseph Haydn
Piano Trio No. 4, Op. 90, “Dumky” (1891) Antonín Dvorák
2:35pm Finalist #3: Semi-Finalist No. 15
Holberg Suite. Op. 40 (1884) Edvard Grieg
Ciudades (2011) Guillermo Lago
Intermission (10 min)
3:20pm Finalist #4: Semi-Finalist No. 13
String Quartet No. 62 in C Major, OP. 76 No.3 "Emperor" (1797-8) Franz Joseph Haydn
Quartet No.2, Sz. 67 (1915-17) Belá Bartók
3:50pm Finalist #5: Semi-Finalist No. 12
Howler Back (2004) Zack Browning
(b. 1953)
In memoriam (2015) Joel Love
I. Threnody (b. 1982)
II. Adieu
Quatuor in B-flat Major, Op. 109 (1932) Alexandre Glazunov
II. Canzona variée, Thema: Andante (1865-1936)
Variation 1: L’istesso tempo
Variation 2: Con anima
Variation 3: A la Schumann
Variation 4: A la Chopin
III. Finale: Allegro moderato
4:20pm Judges deliberate
Ca. 5pm Award Ceremony (see program p. 43)
A sincere THANK YOU to all those who– by donating, listening or volunteering – helped, making the Plowman Chamber Music Competition possible for the 9th year!
presents
Season Nine, Event Eight & Nine
The Plowman Competition Finals
Sunday, March 24th, 2019 at 1:30 pm
Missouri Theatre
Columbia, Missouri
1:30pm Greetings by Dr. Peter Miyamoto, Plowman Executive Director
1:35pm Finalist #1: Semi-Finalist No. 6
Circusmuziek (1990) Ton ter Doest
I. (b. 1964)
IV.
VII.
Le Tombeau de Couperin (1914) Maurice Ravel
- Prélude (1875-1937)
Red Leaf Collection (2017) Karalyn Schubring
(b. 1999)
Refraction (2015) David Biedenbender
- Death Metal Chicken (b. 1984)
- Kyrie for Machaut and Pärt
- Goat Rodeo
2:05pm Finalist #2: Semi-Finalist No. 14
Piano Trio in C Major, Hob. XV: 27 (1797) Franz Joseph Haydn
- Allegro (1732-1809)
- Presto
Piano Trio No. 4, Op. 90, “Dumky” (1891) Antonín Dvorák
- Lento maestoso—Allegro quasi doppio movimento (1841-1904)
- Andante—Vivace non troppo—Allegretto
- Lento maestoso
2:35pm Finalist #3: Semi-Finalist No. 15
Holberg Suite. Op. 40 (1884) Edvard Grieg
- Praelude (1843-1907)
- Gavotte arr. Maarten Jense
- Air
- Rigaudon
Ciudades (2011) Guillermo Lago
- Tokyo (Japan) (b. 1960)
- Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
Intermission (10 min)
3:20pm Finalist #4: Semi-Finalist No. 13
String Quartet No. 62 in C Major, OP. 76 No.3 "Emperor" (1797-8) Franz Joseph Haydn
- Allegro (1721-1809)
- Poco Adagio, cantabile
Quartet No.2, Sz. 67 (1915-17) Belá Bartók
- Moderato (1881-1945)
- Allegro molto capriccioso
3:50pm Finalist #5: Semi-Finalist No. 12
Howler Back (2004) Zack Browning
(b. 1953)
In memoriam (2015) Joel Love
I. Threnody (b. 1982)
II. Adieu
Quatuor in B-flat Major, Op. 109 (1932) Alexandre Glazunov
II. Canzona variée, Thema: Andante (1865-1936)
Variation 1: L’istesso tempo
Variation 2: Con anima
Variation 3: A la Schumann
Variation 4: A la Chopin
III. Finale: Allegro moderato
4:20pm Judges deliberate
- Vote for your favorite ensemble for the Audience Prize! Use the other stub of your ticket to cast vote into the appropriate jar placed in the foyer.
- Please enjoy seeing the original artwork, “Behind the Curtain” by Naomi Sugino Lear. Commissioned by Dr. Peter and Mrs. Ayako Miyamoto, funds raised helped support Odyssey Chamber Music Series’ 15th Season programming, including the Plowman Competition.
Ca. 5pm Award Ceremony (see program p. 43)
A sincere THANK YOU to all those who– by donating, listening or volunteering – helped, making the Plowman Chamber Music Competition possible for the 9th year!
THE 9th PLOWMAN CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION & FESTIVAL
March 21-25, 2019
In collaboration with First Baptist Church, Missouri Symphony, Office of the President of the University of Missouri System, and the MU School of Music, Odyssey presents the 9th Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival. Recognized as one of the top five chamber competitions in the nation, Plowman has produced many award-winning, world class chamber ensembles since 2006, attracting many prominent guest artists as the judges. In March 2019, we welcome three such musicians: Dale Clevenger, horn; Ida Kavafian, violin; and Wei-Yi Yang, piano.
Full schedule will be posted on the Plowman web site, www.PlowmanCompetition.org, as well as on Odyssey Program web page.
*Note* The 2019 Plowman Finals & Award Ceremony is a University Concert Series presentation. Tickets are only available for purchase at the Missouri Theatre, or visit University Concert Series web site when the event comes closer.
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Flute I: Kristine Poulsen
Flute II: Allison Brenner
Oboe I: Dan Willett
Oboe II: Alison Robuck
Clarinet I: Fred Lowrance
Clarinet II: John Bell
Bassoon I: Leigh Munoz
Bassoon II: Steven Houser
Trumpet I: Iskander Akhmadullin
Trumpet II: John D. Perkins
Horn I: Lindsey Tevebaugh
Horn II: Cole Galbraith (Columbia) / Christy Pond (JC)
Violin I: D. Lydia Redding (Cantata), Erik Hassell (Cantata)
Violin II: Hans Heruth, Sejoon Jun (Cantata)
Viola I: Dustin Frieda, Paul Seitz
Viola II: Morgan Owen, Preston Roberts
Violoncello: Cameron Tubbs, Mary Manulik
Double Bass: Maura Higgins
Organ: Colleen Ostercamp
Timpani: Brianna Trainor
Flute I: Kristine Poulsen
Flute II: Allison Brenner
Oboe I: Dan Willett
Oboe II: Alison Robuck
Clarinet I: Fred Lowrance
Clarinet II: John Bell
Bassoon I: Leigh Munoz
Bassoon II: Steven Houser
Trumpet I: Iskander Akhmadullin
Trumpet II: John D. Perkins
Horn I: Lindsey Tevebaugh
Horn II: Cole Galbraith (Columbia) / Christy Pond (JC)
Violin I: D. Lydia Redding (Cantata), Erik Hassell (Cantata)
Violin II: Hans Heruth, Sejoon Jun (Cantata)
Viola I: Dustin Frieda, Paul Seitz
Viola II: Morgan Owen, Preston Roberts
Violoncello: Cameron Tubbs, Mary Manulik
Double Bass: Maura Higgins
Organ: Colleen Ostercamp
Timpani: Brianna Trainor
Bach Collegium Choir
* = Soloists
Soprano:
Nicohl Corretjer, Maddie Page, Michelle Peters, Aubrey Smith, Samantha Walker, Hannah Stanfield Zizza
Alto:
Samantha Barry, Gabby Ewert, Keisha Rush, Tâmila Freitas de Souza*, Maddi Lombardo, Kate Mosier
Tenor:
Joshua Chism, Matheus Cruz, David Fazekas*, Savon Hayes, Connor Lovelace, Preston Wilson
Bass:
Lafe Arens, Anthony Blatter, Connor Cochran, Hans Bridger Heruth, Truman Butler, Jordan Ulrich*
* = Soloists
Soprano:
Nicohl Corretjer, Maddie Page, Michelle Peters, Aubrey Smith, Samantha Walker, Hannah Stanfield Zizza
Alto:
Samantha Barry, Gabby Ewert, Keisha Rush, Tâmila Freitas de Souza*, Maddi Lombardo, Kate Mosier
Tenor:
Joshua Chism, Matheus Cruz, David Fazekas*, Savon Hayes, Connor Lovelace, Preston Wilson
Bass:
Lafe Arens, Anthony Blatter, Connor Cochran, Hans Bridger Heruth, Truman Butler, Jordan Ulrich*
February 16, 2019 - Saturday at 7:00pm
Christian United Church of Christ
118 W Ashley St in Jefferson City
Baroque Concerto Encore
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): From Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37
III. Rondo. Allegro [10'00]
Henry Huang, piano
The 2019 Pre-Collegiate Aria/Concerto Competition Winner
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Patrick Clark, conductor
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Piccolo Concerto in C Major, RV 443 (1728-9) [13:00]
I. [Allegro]
II. Largo
III. Allegro molto
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Katie Smyth, piccolo
Patrick Clark, conductor
Intermission
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Cantata BWV 182 Himmelskönig, sei wilkommen (1714) [32:00]
I. Sonata
II. Chorus: Himmelskönig, sei willkommen
III. Recitative (bass): Siehe, ich komme, im Buch ist von mir geschrieben
IV. Aria (bass): Starkes Lieben
V. Aria (alto): Leget euch dem Heiland unter
VI. Aria (tenor): Jesu, laß durch Wohl und Weh
VII. Chorale: Jesu, deine Passion ist mir lauter Freude
VIII. Chorus: So lasset uns gehen in Salem der Freuden
Bach Collegium Choir
Odyssey Chamber Emsemble
R. Paul Crabb, conductor
Christian United Church of Christ
118 W Ashley St in Jefferson City
Baroque Concerto Encore
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): From Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37
III. Rondo. Allegro [10'00]
Henry Huang, piano
The 2019 Pre-Collegiate Aria/Concerto Competition Winner
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Patrick Clark, conductor
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Piccolo Concerto in C Major, RV 443 (1728-9) [13:00]
I. [Allegro]
II. Largo
III. Allegro molto
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Katie Smyth, piccolo
Patrick Clark, conductor
Intermission
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Cantata BWV 182 Himmelskönig, sei wilkommen (1714) [32:00]
I. Sonata
II. Chorus: Himmelskönig, sei willkommen
III. Recitative (bass): Siehe, ich komme, im Buch ist von mir geschrieben
IV. Aria (bass): Starkes Lieben
V. Aria (alto): Leget euch dem Heiland unter
VI. Aria (tenor): Jesu, laß durch Wohl und Weh
VII. Chorale: Jesu, deine Passion ist mir lauter Freude
VIII. Chorus: So lasset uns gehen in Salem der Freuden
Bach Collegium Choir
Odyssey Chamber Emsemble
R. Paul Crabb, conductor
February 15, 2019 - Friday at 6:45pm/7:00 pm - Cancelled due to snow.
First Baptist Church in Columbia
Baroque Concerto
6:45pm Pre-concert Performance
Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709): Trumpet Concerto in D Major, 'Estienne Roger 188’ [ca. 7'00]
I. Allegro
II. Adagio - Presto - Adagio
III. Allegro
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
7:00pm
Greetings
Edward S. Rollins, Executive Director
Ayako Tsuruta, Artistic Director
George Frideric Handel (1785-1759): Trio Sonata No. 4 in F Major, HWV 383 [11'00]
I. Adagio
II. Allegro
III. Largo
IV. Allegro
Alison Robuck and Dan Willett, oboes
Leigh Muñoz, bassoon
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): From Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37
III. Rondo. Allegro [10'00]
Henry Huang, piano
The 2019 Pre-Collegiate Aria/Concerto Competition Winner
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Patrick Clark, conductor
Intermission
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Cantata BWV 182 Himmelskönig, sei wilkommen (1714) [32'00]
I. Sonata
II. Chorus: Himmelskönig, sei willkommen
III. Recitative (bass): Siehe, ich komme, im Buch ist von mir geschrieben
IV. Aria (bass): Starkes Lieben
V. Aria (alto): Leget euch dem Heiland unter
VI. Aria (tenor): Jesu, laß durch Wohl und Weh
VII. Chorale: Jesu, deine Passion ist mir lauter Freude
VIII. Chorus: So lasset uns gehen in Salem der Freuden
Bach Collegium Choir
Odyssey Chamber Emsemble
R. Paul Crabb, conductor
First Baptist Church in Columbia
Baroque Concerto
6:45pm Pre-concert Performance
Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709): Trumpet Concerto in D Major, 'Estienne Roger 188’ [ca. 7'00]
I. Allegro
II. Adagio - Presto - Adagio
III. Allegro
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
7:00pm
Greetings
Edward S. Rollins, Executive Director
Ayako Tsuruta, Artistic Director
George Frideric Handel (1785-1759): Trio Sonata No. 4 in F Major, HWV 383 [11'00]
I. Adagio
II. Allegro
III. Largo
IV. Allegro
Alison Robuck and Dan Willett, oboes
Leigh Muñoz, bassoon
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): From Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37
III. Rondo. Allegro [10'00]
Henry Huang, piano
The 2019 Pre-Collegiate Aria/Concerto Competition Winner
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Patrick Clark, conductor
Intermission
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Cantata BWV 182 Himmelskönig, sei wilkommen (1714) [32'00]
I. Sonata
II. Chorus: Himmelskönig, sei willkommen
III. Recitative (bass): Siehe, ich komme, im Buch ist von mir geschrieben
IV. Aria (bass): Starkes Lieben
V. Aria (alto): Leget euch dem Heiland unter
VI. Aria (tenor): Jesu, laß durch Wohl und Weh
VII. Chorale: Jesu, deine Passion ist mir lauter Freude
VIII. Chorus: So lasset uns gehen in Salem der Freuden
Bach Collegium Choir
Odyssey Chamber Emsemble
R. Paul Crabb, conductor
December 7, 2018 - Friday, 6;45pm / 7:00pm
First Baptist Church
Winter Fantasy
6:45pm Pre-concert Performance
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):
Capriccio on the Departure of a Beloved Brother, BWV 918 [10'00]
Arioso: His friends try to persuade him not to take the journey
Fughetta: They tell him the various misfortunes that may befall him in a foreign land
Adagiosissimo: The general lament of his friends
Recitativo: His friends come, since they see that it cannot be otherwise, to bid farewell
Postillion’s Aria: Allegro poco
Fugue in imitation of the posthorn
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Trio in D Major, "Ghost"
I. Allegro vivace e con brio [ca. 6'00]
Thornbrook Piano Trio
Sejoon Jun, violin
Ryan Choe, violoncello
Henry Huang, piano
7:00pm
Greetings
Edward S. Rollins, Executive Director
Ayako Tsuruta, Artistic Director
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Dance of the Tumblers from The Snow Maiden (1880-81), arr. Victor Babin for two pianos [ca. 4'00]
Peter Miyamoto, piano I
Ayako Tsuruta, piano II
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943): Suite No. 1, "Fantasie-Tableuax" for two pianos, Op. 5 [ca. 30'00]
I. Barcarolle. Allegretto
II. La nuit... L'amour... Adagio sostenuto (The night...the love...)
III. Les Larmes. Largo di molto (The Tears)
IV. Pâques. Allegro maestoso (Easter)
Peter Miyamoto, piano I
Ayako Tsuruta, piano II
Intermission (15 min)
Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557-1612): Canzona XIII a 12 in the seventh and eighth tones from Sacrae Symphonie (1597), arr. A. L. Wyver
Johann Sebastien Bach (1685-1750): Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (1723) from Cantata BWV 147, arr. Nigel Wood
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): Invierno Porteño (Buenos Aires Winter) from Estaciones Porteñas (1965-1970), arr. DRAX
Traditional: Carol of the Cowbells (2006), arr. John Willmarth (b. 1980)
Leroy Anderson (1908-1975): Sleigh Ride (1948), arr. Leo Saguiguit
DRAX
Megan Arns, percussion
Leo Saguiguit, saxophone
Mizzou Saxophone Ensemble
Leo Saguiguit, Director
Andy Roberts, sopranino/soprano
Kim Abrams, Noah Stoker, soprano
Alex Beattie, Miles Goodwin, Clayton Henning, Dylan Lade, Charlie Mosley, Brett Newberry, Katie O’Russa, alto
Alex Jones, Alex McKinney, Joseph Meyer, Alex Trout, tenor
Chris Gaddy, Craig VanVickle, Daniel Vega, baritone
Rachel Slabaugh, bass
Mizzou Percussion Ensemble
Megan Arns, Director
Nathan Andrzejewski
Juan José R. Calvo
Zachary Davis
Christopher Fusco
Matthew Hudson
Hannah Hutchins
Audrey Kerns
Taylor Petska
Jarel Powell
Brianna Trainor
Nickolas Williams
First Baptist Church
Winter Fantasy
6:45pm Pre-concert Performance
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):
Capriccio on the Departure of a Beloved Brother, BWV 918 [10'00]
Arioso: His friends try to persuade him not to take the journey
Fughetta: They tell him the various misfortunes that may befall him in a foreign land
Adagiosissimo: The general lament of his friends
Recitativo: His friends come, since they see that it cannot be otherwise, to bid farewell
Postillion’s Aria: Allegro poco
Fugue in imitation of the posthorn
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Trio in D Major, "Ghost"
I. Allegro vivace e con brio [ca. 6'00]
Thornbrook Piano Trio
Sejoon Jun, violin
Ryan Choe, violoncello
Henry Huang, piano
7:00pm
Greetings
Edward S. Rollins, Executive Director
Ayako Tsuruta, Artistic Director
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Dance of the Tumblers from The Snow Maiden (1880-81), arr. Victor Babin for two pianos [ca. 4'00]
Peter Miyamoto, piano I
Ayako Tsuruta, piano II
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943): Suite No. 1, "Fantasie-Tableuax" for two pianos, Op. 5 [ca. 30'00]
I. Barcarolle. Allegretto
II. La nuit... L'amour... Adagio sostenuto (The night...the love...)
III. Les Larmes. Largo di molto (The Tears)
IV. Pâques. Allegro maestoso (Easter)
Peter Miyamoto, piano I
Ayako Tsuruta, piano II
Intermission (15 min)
Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557-1612): Canzona XIII a 12 in the seventh and eighth tones from Sacrae Symphonie (1597), arr. A. L. Wyver
Johann Sebastien Bach (1685-1750): Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (1723) from Cantata BWV 147, arr. Nigel Wood
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): Invierno Porteño (Buenos Aires Winter) from Estaciones Porteñas (1965-1970), arr. DRAX
Traditional: Carol of the Cowbells (2006), arr. John Willmarth (b. 1980)
Leroy Anderson (1908-1975): Sleigh Ride (1948), arr. Leo Saguiguit
DRAX
Megan Arns, percussion
Leo Saguiguit, saxophone
Mizzou Saxophone Ensemble
Leo Saguiguit, Director
Andy Roberts, sopranino/soprano
Kim Abrams, Noah Stoker, soprano
Alex Beattie, Miles Goodwin, Clayton Henning, Dylan Lade, Charlie Mosley, Brett Newberry, Katie O’Russa, alto
Alex Jones, Alex McKinney, Joseph Meyer, Alex Trout, tenor
Chris Gaddy, Craig VanVickle, Daniel Vega, baritone
Rachel Slabaugh, bass
Mizzou Percussion Ensemble
Megan Arns, Director
Nathan Andrzejewski
Juan José R. Calvo
Zachary Davis
Christopher Fusco
Matthew Hudson
Hannah Hutchins
Audrey Kerns
Taylor Petska
Jarel Powell
Brianna Trainor
Nickolas Williams
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October 12, 2018 - 6:45pm/7pm
First Baptist Church
Oktoberfest
6:45pm Pre-concert Performance
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Three Romances for oboe and piano, Op. 94 [ca. 4'00]
I. Nicht schnell (not fast)
Alison Robuck, oboe
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849): Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58 [ca. 5'30]
IV. Finale: Presto non tanto
Lies Hsin (Emily) Lee, piano
7:00pm
Greetings
Edward S. Rollins, Executive Director
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Sonata No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30 No. 3 [ca. 18'00] (1801-2)
I. Allegro assai
II. Tempo di minuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso
III. Allegro vivace
David Colwell, violin
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Sergei Gavrilov (b. 1959): Diptych for Trumpet and Piano [ca. 10'00]
Responses
Toccata
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Ernst Toch (1887-1964): Divertimento for violin and viola, Op. 37 no. 2 (1925) [ca. 8'30]
I. Vivace molto
II. Adagio
III. Flott und lustig
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Marka Gustavsson, viola
Intermission
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 (1856-1861) [ca. 40'00]
I. Allegro
II. Intermezzo: Allegro ma non troppo — Trio: Animato
III. Andante con moto
IV. Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Marka Gustavsson, viola
Eli Lara, violoncello
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Reception to follow after the concert in the foyer.
First Baptist Church
Oktoberfest
6:45pm Pre-concert Performance
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Three Romances for oboe and piano, Op. 94 [ca. 4'00]
I. Nicht schnell (not fast)
Alison Robuck, oboe
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849): Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58 [ca. 5'30]
IV. Finale: Presto non tanto
Lies Hsin (Emily) Lee, piano
7:00pm
Greetings
Edward S. Rollins, Executive Director
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Sonata No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30 No. 3 [ca. 18'00] (1801-2)
I. Allegro assai
II. Tempo di minuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso
III. Allegro vivace
David Colwell, violin
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Sergei Gavrilov (b. 1959): Diptych for Trumpet and Piano [ca. 10'00]
Responses
Toccata
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Ernst Toch (1887-1964): Divertimento for violin and viola, Op. 37 no. 2 (1925) [ca. 8'30]
I. Vivace molto
II. Adagio
III. Flott und lustig
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Marka Gustavsson, viola
Intermission
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 (1856-1861) [ca. 40'00]
I. Allegro
II. Intermezzo: Allegro ma non troppo — Trio: Animato
III. Andante con moto
IV. Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Marka Gustavsson, viola
Eli Lara, violoncello
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Reception to follow after the concert in the foyer.
October 5, 2018 – Friday, 7:30pm
Second Missionary Baptist Church
Special Event | FREE ADMISSION
That Promised Land: The Evolution of the African American Spiritual
Program:
Origins
Jubilee - Ring Shout
Narration
Steal Away - Trad. Spiritual
Listen to the Lambs - R. Nathaniel Dett
Promised Land Chorus, conducted by Dr. R. Paul Crabb
Narration
The Great Migration
Deep River – H. T. Burleigh
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel – E. Boatner
Narration
Scandalize My Name – Trad. Spiritual Adaptation arr. by H. Johnson
Intermission
The Great Awakening
Ride on King Jesus – H. Johnson
He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands – M. Bonds
Walk With Me – arr. B. Boyd
Sankofa
Lord, How Come Me Here - Trad. Spiritual
Narration
Great Day – Trad. Spiritual
Promised Land Chorus, conducted by Dr. R. Paul Crabb
Order subject to change.
This concert is sponsored by the Second Missionary Baptist Church.
Donations are gratefully accepted.
Second Missionary Baptist Church
Special Event | FREE ADMISSION
That Promised Land: The Evolution of the African American Spiritual
Program:
Origins
Jubilee - Ring Shout
Narration
Steal Away - Trad. Spiritual
Listen to the Lambs - R. Nathaniel Dett
Promised Land Chorus, conducted by Dr. R. Paul Crabb
Narration
The Great Migration
Deep River – H. T. Burleigh
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel – E. Boatner
Narration
Scandalize My Name – Trad. Spiritual Adaptation arr. by H. Johnson
Intermission
The Great Awakening
Ride on King Jesus – H. Johnson
He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands – M. Bonds
Walk With Me – arr. B. Boyd
Sankofa
Lord, How Come Me Here - Trad. Spiritual
Narration
Great Day – Trad. Spiritual
Promised Land Chorus, conducted by Dr. R. Paul Crabb
Order subject to change.
This concert is sponsored by the Second Missionary Baptist Church.
Donations are gratefully accepted.
PROGRAM NOTES
by Marques Jerrell Ruff and Dr. Maya C. Gibson
Welcome to That Promised Land: The Evolution of the African American Spiritual. The concept for this concert was born of a desire to educate and showcase the spiritual music of the African American, showing its evolution from the cotton fields of the Agrarian South, all the way to the stage of Carnegie Hall. In the beginning, Shouts, Field Hollers, and Work Songs not only provided a rhythm and pacing for our ancestors who worked tirelessly under the blazing sun, but they also offered a creative and emotional outlet for enslaved people who were trapped in a social condition that no human being should experience—because of their skilled labor, strength, and the color of their skin. From there, the spiritual came to the forefront not just as a means of communication on the Underground Railroad but also as an act of worship and praise to a God who, as He had with the children of Israel, promised to “Let His People Go.”
Until the Civil War, the spirituals were a true folk music transmitted orally and existing only in live-bodied performance. Indeed, not until white northern abolitionists visited the south and were exposed to slave culture were some of the songs written down in Western musical notation, which was an inaccurate means of acquiring them. One of the first publications, Slave Songs of the United States (1867), written by William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison, and Charles P. Ware says as much when they apologize for not being about to capture “the odd turns made in the throat, and the curious rhythmic effect produced by single voices chiming in at different, irregular intervals.”
The spirituals became internationally known in the 1870s when the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University in Nashville, TN toured the U.S. and Europe. The Fisk Jubilees are the earliest established troupe among the number of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that sprang up after the Civil War. The Fisk Jubilees initially went on tour to help the university with fundraising efforts. They failed to turn a profit, however, until they added spirituals to the program. These arrangements of African American folk songs gave rise to the arranged concert spiritual. The group’s financial success encouraged other HBCUs to follow suit with their own Jubilee singing troupes.
The turn of the 20th century brought even more developments in the evolution of the spiritual, including instrumental arrangements, and art songs for solo voice and piano accompaniment. In particular, Henry T. Burleigh’s and Margaret Bonds’s art song spirituals became standard fare for concert artists, notably Roland Hayes, Paul Robeson, and Marian Anderson. Compositional developments of the spiritual continued into the Harlem Renaissance, as African American composers trained in the Western tradition composed orchestral arrangements inspired by spirituals. The love for spirituals continued throughout the 20th century and continues even today, exemplified by composers’ fascination with the raw materials of African American folk music—returning again and again to this wellspring as inspiration. This can be seen most especially in choral music such as The Oxford Book of Spirituals (2002), which was edited by Moses Hogan but also certainly in other genres of Black music. Another way of saying this is to say most simply that the spirituals endure.
American music is unique in that it essentially represents a melting pot, if you will, of cultures converging to create new sounds. The expressive freedom that we hear in this music, from which an American sound emerges, is as much European as it is African American. Often when we think of American music, styles such as Blues, Jazz, Gospel, and Hip Hop come immediately to mind, however, upon closer examination we find that these styles all share a common denominator with their foundations in Black musical expression. In other words, it is Black folks’s improvisatory-based styles of singing that laid the foundation for many of these genres to emerge.
The story of the spiritual music is not one solely of Black music, but it is very much a story about American music. Historically, it was a music shared by white abolitionists who worked shoulder to shoulder to ensure that the evil clutches of slavery would never again separate loved ones from each other by tearing Black families apart. The electrifying high notes, deep indiscernible moans, and jubilant nature of this music not only speaks to a time of tragedy and triumph, but also to the will and resolve of Black people who, no matter what and at any cost, sought to be recognized as equal and free American citizens. So, we present this concert tonight in the hopes that you will be moved and uplifted emotionally, spiritually, and mentally, prompting your physical movement to go out into the community and continue the work of equality and justice for all.
As one religious Black music scholar, Dr. Mellonee Burnim put it, “To sing the spiritual was to wage systematic warfare on the institution that imposed the chains of bondage. To sing the spiritual was to be free.” We can think of no better way than this to encapsulate the fervor and passion we have for the spirituals.
by Marques Jerrell Ruff and Dr. Maya C. Gibson
Welcome to That Promised Land: The Evolution of the African American Spiritual. The concept for this concert was born of a desire to educate and showcase the spiritual music of the African American, showing its evolution from the cotton fields of the Agrarian South, all the way to the stage of Carnegie Hall. In the beginning, Shouts, Field Hollers, and Work Songs not only provided a rhythm and pacing for our ancestors who worked tirelessly under the blazing sun, but they also offered a creative and emotional outlet for enslaved people who were trapped in a social condition that no human being should experience—because of their skilled labor, strength, and the color of their skin. From there, the spiritual came to the forefront not just as a means of communication on the Underground Railroad but also as an act of worship and praise to a God who, as He had with the children of Israel, promised to “Let His People Go.”
Until the Civil War, the spirituals were a true folk music transmitted orally and existing only in live-bodied performance. Indeed, not until white northern abolitionists visited the south and were exposed to slave culture were some of the songs written down in Western musical notation, which was an inaccurate means of acquiring them. One of the first publications, Slave Songs of the United States (1867), written by William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison, and Charles P. Ware says as much when they apologize for not being about to capture “the odd turns made in the throat, and the curious rhythmic effect produced by single voices chiming in at different, irregular intervals.”
The spirituals became internationally known in the 1870s when the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University in Nashville, TN toured the U.S. and Europe. The Fisk Jubilees are the earliest established troupe among the number of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that sprang up after the Civil War. The Fisk Jubilees initially went on tour to help the university with fundraising efforts. They failed to turn a profit, however, until they added spirituals to the program. These arrangements of African American folk songs gave rise to the arranged concert spiritual. The group’s financial success encouraged other HBCUs to follow suit with their own Jubilee singing troupes.
The turn of the 20th century brought even more developments in the evolution of the spiritual, including instrumental arrangements, and art songs for solo voice and piano accompaniment. In particular, Henry T. Burleigh’s and Margaret Bonds’s art song spirituals became standard fare for concert artists, notably Roland Hayes, Paul Robeson, and Marian Anderson. Compositional developments of the spiritual continued into the Harlem Renaissance, as African American composers trained in the Western tradition composed orchestral arrangements inspired by spirituals. The love for spirituals continued throughout the 20th century and continues even today, exemplified by composers’ fascination with the raw materials of African American folk music—returning again and again to this wellspring as inspiration. This can be seen most especially in choral music such as The Oxford Book of Spirituals (2002), which was edited by Moses Hogan but also certainly in other genres of Black music. Another way of saying this is to say most simply that the spirituals endure.
American music is unique in that it essentially represents a melting pot, if you will, of cultures converging to create new sounds. The expressive freedom that we hear in this music, from which an American sound emerges, is as much European as it is African American. Often when we think of American music, styles such as Blues, Jazz, Gospel, and Hip Hop come immediately to mind, however, upon closer examination we find that these styles all share a common denominator with their foundations in Black musical expression. In other words, it is Black folks’s improvisatory-based styles of singing that laid the foundation for many of these genres to emerge.
The story of the spiritual music is not one solely of Black music, but it is very much a story about American music. Historically, it was a music shared by white abolitionists who worked shoulder to shoulder to ensure that the evil clutches of slavery would never again separate loved ones from each other by tearing Black families apart. The electrifying high notes, deep indiscernible moans, and jubilant nature of this music not only speaks to a time of tragedy and triumph, but also to the will and resolve of Black people who, no matter what and at any cost, sought to be recognized as equal and free American citizens. So, we present this concert tonight in the hopes that you will be moved and uplifted emotionally, spiritually, and mentally, prompting your physical movement to go out into the community and continue the work of equality and justice for all.
As one religious Black music scholar, Dr. Mellonee Burnim put it, “To sing the spiritual was to wage systematic warfare on the institution that imposed the chains of bondage. To sing the spiritual was to be free.” We can think of no better way than this to encapsulate the fervor and passion we have for the spirituals.
~ Odyssey Season 14 ~
August 18, 2017 (Fri) 7pm, FBC
with Pre-concert Performance at 6:45pm: Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns' Danse macabre, arr. 5 pianos
Special Event: Solar Eclipse – A Celestial Celebration
FREE ADMISSION!
Joining the rare, Solar Eclipse celebration, Odyssey will spearhead the weekend festivities with a live concert program inspired by our inevitable, natural phenomenon. Featured are works as diverse and massive as our galaxy: Gustav Holst’s “Planets” arranged for five pianos by Greg Anderson, George Crumb’s “Makrokosmos III: Music for a Summer Evening” for two pianos and percussion, and some songs that includes titles like “Memory of the Sun” (Prokofiev, Op. 27) and “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun” (Finzi). This universal concert experience will be followed by Sun-inspired reception. This concert is generously sponsored by the Mizzou Advantage and the Office of Cultural Affairs.
October 13, 2017 (Fri) 7pm, FBC
with Pre-concert Performance at 6:45pm
Akropolis Reed Quintet
Grand Prize winner of many national chamber music competitions including Plowman and Fischoff, Akropolis Reed Quintet (Akropolis) continues to wow the audiences of all ages with their innovative interpretations on new and cutting edge contemporary music while making it audience-friendly with their comprehensive approach. For this special concert, Missouri composer Paul Seitz has been commissioned by Odyssey to create a substantial new work for this unique reed quintet. This performance marks its world premiere.
December 1, 2017 (Fri) 7 pm, FBC
with Pre-concert Performance at 6:40pm by Thornbrook Piano Trio
Joyeux Noël: Chamber Music of Ravel and Fauré
This program indulges in all-French chamber music, prominently featuring Maurice Ravel’s piano trio, violin sonata and Chansons madécasses for exotic combination of voice, piano, flute and cello. Last half will feature Gabriel Faure’s gorgeous piano quartet No. 1 with musicians from the University of Missouri.
January 13, 2018 (Sat) 3 pm, FBC
with Instrumental Petting Zoo at 2-2:45pm
“Kids@Heart: A Children’s Concert” – Tales Around The World
Kids@Heart program is perfect for someone with kindred spirit, for both children and adult who refuse to grow up. “Tales Around the World” is the theme, encouraging everyone to dress up (or not) in costumes while the performers take stage to share their favorite fairy tale-inspired music! This is a shorter, one-hour long live concert; Free admission.
February 16, 2018 (Fri) 7 pm, FBC
with a Pre-concert Performance at 6:45pm
Baroque Concerto
This season, we will enjoy Baroque production in three parts: Director R. Paul Crabb will lead the Bach Collegium Choir and Odyssey Chamber Ensemble in Bach's Mass in F, and conductor Patrick Clark of Jefferson City Symphony Orchestra and the new Southside Philharmonic Orchestra will lead the Odyssey Chamber Ensemble a Mozart's Symphony. Odyssey has formed a partnership to produce a performance in Columbia, and another in Jefferson City with the same winner from the MMAMTA/Odyssey Pre-collegiate Concerto Competition, which events are generously sponsored by the Paul D. Higday Mozart Trust and the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association.
February 23, 2018 (Fri) 7 pm, in Jefferson City
Co-presentation with the Southside Philharmonic Orchestra
Central United Church of Christ, 118 W. Ashley St in Jefferson City - (573) 635-1041
Conductor Patrick Clark of Jefferson City Symphony Orchestra and the new Southside Philharmonic Orchestra will lead the Odyssey Chamber Ensemble a Mozart's Symphony. Odyssey has formed a partnership to produce a performance in Columbia, and another in Jefferson City with the same winner from the MMAMTA/Odyssey Pre-collegiate Concerto Competition, which events are generously sponsored by the Paul D. Higday Mozart Trust and the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association.
March 2, 2018 (Fri) 7pm, FBC
with Pre-concert Performance at 6:40pm
M-Odyssey: Scenémagic
M-Odyssey” will continue the 2015 initiative to mentor and give real work experience in music administration to young professionals. One or two outstanding musicians will have the opportunity to create and produce their own Odyssey concert, with guidance from the Artistic Director and a supervising Board Member. The title reflects the more modern, “MOD” Odyssey for younger directors, while the capitalization pays homage to our state.
March 16 & 17, 2018 (Sat & Fri) 7pm, Missouri Theatre
Cinderella & Missouri Contemporary Ballet
Dynamic collaboration with the Missouri Contemporary Ballet a few years ago inspired Odyssey for this special production of “Cinderella” by Sergei Prokofiev for two pianos by Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta, with director Karen Grundy’s original choreography. Enjoy the familiar tale with music and dance like you have never experienced before at the Missouri Theatre!
May 4, 2018 (Fri) 7pm, FBC
with a Pre-concert Performance at 6:45pm
Life & Love: Liebeslieder
This spring program reflects on Love and Life from the romantic period in Germany. Featured are Schumann’s sublime song cycle, “Frauenliebe und leben” (A Woman’s Love and Life) with mezzo-soprano Julia Bentley and pianist Peter Miyamoto, and fellow composer, Felix Mendelssohn in his youthful Piano Sextet with the Esterhazy Quartet, bassist Sue Stubbs and pianist Ayako Tsuruta. This delightful program opens with “Overture” from the beloved Midsummer Night’s Dream, arrangement for piano four hands performed by Miyamoto & Tsuruta.
June 3, 2018 (Sun) 3pm, FBC
with a Pre-concert Performance at 2:45pm
Vox Nova
Odyssey welcomes Vox Nova as our first Ensemble-in-Residence! In the past three years, Vox Nova has established itself as the premiere an ensemble with no conductor, and you will really appreciate their phenomenal versatility to cover contrasting repertoire from Baroque to Modern Day eras. Their music knows no boundaries, a creative process which both instrumentalists and vocalists will appreciate. The season finale concert will be followed by a festive reception, which has become Odyssey’s trademark: To bring audience and performers together to celebrate music. More information: www.voxnovacomo.com
August 18, 2017 – Friday, 6:45pm / 7pm
First Baptist Church
Special: Solar Eclipse: A Celestial Celebration
Sponsored by Mizzou Advantage and Office of Cultural Affairs
6:45pm Pre-Concert
Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, arr. Greg Anderson for 5 pianos [12’00]
James Tucker, piano I
Peter Miyamoto, piano II
Priscilla Yuen, piano III
Ayako Tsuruta, piano IV
Brett Klaus, piano V
7:00pm Concert
Ian Clarke (b. 1964): Orange Dawn (1992) [6’18]
Alice K. Dade, flute
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956): “As I lay in the early sun,” from Oh Fair to See, Op.13b No. 3 [1’50]
Sergei Prokofiev: from the Five Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Op. 27 (1916)
“Solntse komnatu napolnilo (The Sun has Filled the Room, Op. 27 No. 1) [1’10]
“Pamyat o solntse (Memory of the Sun, Op. 27 No. 3) [3’00]
G. Finzi: Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun, from Five Shakespeare Songs, Op. 18 No. 3 (1921) [5’30]
Christine Seitz, soprano
Priscilla Yuen, piano
George Tsontakis (b. 1951): from Eclipse (1995)
II. Hyperactive [4’20]
III. Serene but disturbing [5’20]
Wesley Warnhoff, clarinet
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Emma Hoeft, violoncello
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Nathan Daughtrey: Tangling Shadows (2006) [7:50]
DRAX
Leo Saguiguit, soprano saxophone
Megan Arns, percussion
Gustav Holst (1874-1934): The Planets, Op. 32 (1914-16), arr. Greg Anderson for 5 pianos [11’00]
James Tucker, piano II
Priscilla Yuen, piano III
Brett Klaus, piano IV
Ayako Tsuruta, piano V
Intermission
George Crumb: Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) (1974) [37’00]
Ayako Tsuruta, piano II
Julia Gaines and Brian Tate, percussion
Reception will follow.
First Baptist Church
Special: Solar Eclipse: A Celestial Celebration
Sponsored by Mizzou Advantage and Office of Cultural Affairs
6:45pm Pre-Concert
Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, arr. Greg Anderson for 5 pianos [12’00]
James Tucker, piano I
Peter Miyamoto, piano II
Priscilla Yuen, piano III
Ayako Tsuruta, piano IV
Brett Klaus, piano V
7:00pm Concert
Ian Clarke (b. 1964): Orange Dawn (1992) [6’18]
Alice K. Dade, flute
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956): “As I lay in the early sun,” from Oh Fair to See, Op.13b No. 3 [1’50]
Sergei Prokofiev: from the Five Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Op. 27 (1916)
“Solntse komnatu napolnilo (The Sun has Filled the Room, Op. 27 No. 1) [1’10]
“Pamyat o solntse (Memory of the Sun, Op. 27 No. 3) [3’00]
G. Finzi: Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun, from Five Shakespeare Songs, Op. 18 No. 3 (1921) [5’30]
Christine Seitz, soprano
Priscilla Yuen, piano
George Tsontakis (b. 1951): from Eclipse (1995)
II. Hyperactive [4’20]
III. Serene but disturbing [5’20]
Wesley Warnhoff, clarinet
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Emma Hoeft, violoncello
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Nathan Daughtrey: Tangling Shadows (2006) [7:50]
DRAX
Leo Saguiguit, soprano saxophone
Megan Arns, percussion
Gustav Holst (1874-1934): The Planets, Op. 32 (1914-16), arr. Greg Anderson for 5 pianos [11’00]
- Mars, The Bringer of War
- Neptune, The Mystic
- Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity
James Tucker, piano II
Priscilla Yuen, piano III
Brett Klaus, piano IV
Ayako Tsuruta, piano V
Intermission
George Crumb: Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) (1974) [37’00]
- Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening)
- Wanderer-Fantasy
- The Advent (including Hymn for the Nativity of the Star-Child)
- Myth
- Music of the Starry Night
Ayako Tsuruta, piano II
Julia Gaines and Brian Tate, percussion
Reception will follow.
October 13, 2017 – Friday 6:45pm, First Baptist Church
Pre-concert:
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Sonata No. 2 in E-Flat Major. Op. 120 No. 2
I. Allegro amabile
II. Andante allegro appasionato
Andrew Mahonen, clarinet
Ayako Tsuruta, piano.
October 13, 2017 – Friday 7pm, First Baptist Church
Akropolis Reed Quintet
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990): Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs (1949) arr. John Romano [7'00]
Nico Muhly (1981): Look for Me (2015) [6'00]
George Gershwin (1898-1937): An American in Paris (1928) arr. Raaf Hekkema [18'0]
Intermission
Paul Seitz (b. 1951): Bright Promise from the Fire (2017) [20'00]
David Biedenbender (1984): Refraction (2015) [10'00]
Program Notes:
Akropolis Reed Quintet
Program: “Refraction”
Offered: 17/18 and 18/19
Program Description
In "Refraction", Akropolis presents classical music bearing a wide array of influences, from rock and electronic music to jazz, chant, folk songs, and even glass art and ceramics. Each work absorbs the characteristics of a different genre, style, or era, and then creates fresh, relevant music, reflecting upon the original and looking forward. Akropolis also explores their own influences as a reed quintet (their first concert given in 2009), as they build their ensemble's repertoire and re-visit their personal and collective inspirations by which they have forged their genre-bending identity.
Opening the concert is Leonard Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs. In the title alone, Bernstein points to a unification of jazz and classical styles, the Prelude and Fugue being classical music forms, and Riffs referring to Jazz improvisations, which in this piece, Bernstein has written out, rather than them being improvised by the performers. This work was originally written for Woody Herman's big band, but ultimately became re-scored for a small pit-style orchestra, and then arranged recently by John Romano for reed quintet. The brass and rhythm section originally performed the Prelude, and the Fugue was for a section of five saxophones, including bass saxophone (in this version, the Fugue begins with some percussive, repeating bass clarinet notes just before the saxophone quickly enters with the fugue’s theme). The Riffs were “for everyone”, and are a synthesis of all players that recalls the Dixieland mashup style while maintaining Bernstein’s well-choreographed rhythmic playfulness.
Nico Muhly’s Look for Me buries the melody of “Mother in the Graveyard”, a folk song created in the Vermont Appalachia, inside destabilizing, modernized textures and interjections. The resulting sound is as if we are hearing an original field recording, but the wax has been distorted, and we are listening to the original singer as he or she jumps through and is warped by the time travel to today. Through the well-planted organization of these textures and interjections, Muhly re-establishes the beauty of the original, simple field song in a modern context. The composer of the folk song, “Mother in the Graveyard”, is Margaret MacArthur, a renowned performer and archivist of American folk melodies. Originally a city-goer, she and her husband moved to a 200 year-old farmhouse in Marlboro, VT in 1951, where she preserved instruments and field recordings, living without electricity or running water for the first 6 years in the home. Here are two verses of "Mother in the Graveyard":
Mother in the graveyard and I'm on the land
Look for me
Mother in the graveyard and I'm on the land
And I want God's bosom to be my pillow
Hide me over in the rocks of ages
Look for me
Drive the chariot to my door
Look for me
Drive the chariot to my door
And I want God's bosom to be my pillow
Hide me over in the rocks of ages
Look for me
Closing the first set, Akropolis presents a work inspired not only by the popular music of the early 20th century, but marked by a special moment in music composition in which the concept of "acceptable" art music was beginning to rapidly evolve. In An American in Paris, Gershwin aimed to create one of his more serious works despite his natural affinity for frivolity. He consulted Ravel about this conundrum, who wisely instructed that if Gershwin was making more money than Ravel (which he was), he shouldn't change how he writes his music. He sought advice from Nadia Boulanger, the great teacher of Aaron Copland and others. She also wisely suggested to Gershwin try to be nobody but Gershwin. And so, using complex motivic development which is constantly modulating and changing form, Gershwin manages to create his most accessible, but simultaneously most complex piece of music. Among the challenges Dutch saxophonist Raaf Hekkema faced in arranging the work were how to convey these ideas with only 5 instruments. The listener might find Gershwin's ideas even easier to deduce in the chamber music format, and Hekkema brilliantly manages to maintain Gershwin's lush orchestrations by having all 5 members performing for nearly all of the arrangement. The continually repeating and evolving motives make for a challenging but thrilling performance which Akropolis is delighted to bring to the stage.
Intermission
Commissioned by the Odyssey Chamber Music Series and composed for Akropolis, Bright Promise from the Fire opens the second half of this program, and is paired with the closing work, David Biedenbender’s Refraction. Composer Paul Seitz has included these notes about the work, and each movement, which you may find enlighten your hearing of the piece:
“Bright Promise from the Fire is a celebration of all forms of kiln-formed art, with an awareness of all the metaphors about life that can be drawn from the practice of that art.
The creation of kiln-formed art is both ancient and quite central to human cultures everywhere. In researching this subject, I’ve learned that there is no absolute distinction between the production of glass art and ceramics. Although it’s reasonable to think first of clay (rather than glass) in connection with ceramic art, glass almost always plays a crucial role - as a component of the basic material as well as in glazing and elaboration. And many of the techniques for glazing and enameling of ceramics are important in production of glass art, as well.
Movements:
1 – “Earth, Revolving”
The basic materials for both glass and ceramics (sand and clay) are found in the earth. This movement is concerned with the process of creating ceramic art objects from (mostly) clay. The opening of this movement is inspired by the fluid, plastic, quality of clay – a blending of many natural materials - and the kneading and mixing done to prepare material for use as a medium for art. “Revolving” has two meanings: The living earth revolves, of course, but “revolving” also relates to the ancient and modern use of a revolving platform (wheel) in the shaping of ceramic objects, and also to those ceramics traditions that did not employ the wheel but created objects from coils of a single strand of clay formed into ascending circles of many revolutions from the bottom to the top of the object.
2 – “The Great Sand Sea”
This movement is concerned with the story of the earliest formation of clear glass on earth. The title refers to the vast desert in modern Egypt and Libya featuring sand of almost pure silica. It is traditionally believed that the first true glass was formed, many thousands of years ago, when some extraordinary event (possibly an explosion caused by a meteor) created intense heat and the raising of acres of pure silica sand high into the air, where the sand became liquid and formed random shaped globules of clear transparent glass as it fell back to earth (some remaining glass from that explosion can still be found today).
This movement also explores the paradox of the sand sea – the incredibly reductive nature of a desert in which countless tiny individual particles of similar size together form an enormous plastic collective mass that is constantly shifting and reforming. In tribute to that reductive quality this music is very abstract in its references to some of the elements (grains of sand, meteors, explosion, etc.) in the story of earth’s first glass.
3 – “Clarity”
Transparency – the ability to “see through” glass – is surely one of the most important features in the importance of glass in art and design. But the basic quality of glass is also mysterious, since it has all the mechanical properties of a solid while its atomic structure is close to that of ice (any supercooled liquid, below the freezing point). Nobel Laureate (Physics) P. W. Anderson has called the theory of the nature of glass and the glass transition (from liquid to amorphous solid) “the deepest and most interesting unsolved problem in solid state theory.”
This short movement explores some of the unique qualities of glass in its “frozen” state (as we usually find it) - that it is very rigid, has a very hard surface that is resistant to corrosion and impervious to liquid and, of course that it is transparent to visible light – it is “clear.” I have tried to evoke this sense of clarity in several ways: through music that is lucid and restful, through tightly conceived harmonies (as in the opening triad containing the pitches C-D-E) that are presented in textures that are “transparent” – with instruments voiced to be consistently far apart – all in service of the goal of creating music that is both “hard as glass” and also “clear.”
4 – “Luster”
The naturally formed “desert glass” (see “The Great Sand Sea”) was eventually discovered in the desert by the Egyptians and utilized as precious stones in jewelry and decorative objects. But soon, the Egyptians developed the technology for creating new glass and very sophisticated glass art objects, as well. Later, in Syria, additional scientific discoveries made it possible for both glass art and ceramic art to be glazed/enameled in a way that gave the objects the appearance of bright, shining, metal. This technique, called “luster” remains important in both ceramic and art glass production to the present day.
Although some general formal elements and accompaniment textures of traditional Syrian music are very broadly referenced in the early portion of this movement, out of great respect for the expressive virtuosity of the soloists featured in that tradition, I have avoided any reference to those expressive elements in this movement. Instead, I have built very simple melodies from alternating pitches – elaborations and variations on a simple trill. As the piece progresses, these trills gradually develop into a motive representing the metallic “shimmer” - the bright luster of these beautiful objects, ancient and modern.
5 – “Mirrors and Prisms”
Being an amorphous solid (like ice) the surface of glass is ordinarily microscopically smooth since it begins as hot liquid and, as it cools, the molecules can follow surface tension (like freezing water in an ice tray). This feature accounts for the reflective quality of glass. Although transparent to visible light, glass has a different “refractive index” than the environment which causes light shone through glass to bend, curve, and disperse light; this dispersion causes prisms and rainbows to divide white light into the colors of the spectrum. Objects viewed through glass may also appear to be inverted.
This movement explores, musically, the reflective and refractive qualities of glass, so important in the enduring magic of glass art.
6 – Earth, Still
All kiln-formed art begins with a process in which plastic material is shaped and, for a time, changes can be made in design and form. At a certain point, however, the possibility of making additional changes comes to an end. As the objects emerge from the kiln, they are always a bit changed from the form they had when they entered – in ways that are often impossible to predict. These may be “happy surprises” that are immediately embraced, or may require more consideration before finding the beauty in the result. But the artist must find a way to accept this product of all the previous steps; there is no longer any possibility of improving or repairing. All of that work must be done before the kiln – before it is too late. Many aspects of life parallel this process, of course. Even the earth continues to be re-formed from hot liquid material that cools and hardens into the place we are able to live and create. And, as a composer, I have learned to celebrate the fact that every musical performance differs from the printed score in many small, unpredictable, ways - this is the magic of live performance.
This movement opens with a return to the “revolving” music from the opening movement, then develops musical ideas related to the shifting sands of movement two in a new way - now depicting the gradual loss of plasticity to a final point of stillness in which we must try to find beauty, as one more meteor explodes.”
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In conclusion, Akropolis pairs Bright Promise with David Biedenbender’s boisterous work, Refraction, commissioned by Akropolis for its acclaimed third studio CD release, The Space Between Us. "Refraction" refers to the absorption and then splitting of light, or in the case of this piece, of musical influences. Sounds are almost taped and glued together, and at times they seem to pour out from the central texture of the piece. The composition melds several genres, including death metal and Gregorian chant, but never fully boxes them in. “Death Metal Chicken” is inspired by a popular YouTube video of a howling rooster with death metal music being played in the background. The “Kyrie” shimmers with ancient qualities. The final movement, “Goat Rodeo”, refers directly to a chaotic situation that might come to a resolution, but not willingly so. Biedenbender not only re-purposes various genres and combines them with brilliant colorations; he creates a fully-formed, new object which could never be as brilliant without the tatters and shreds which seem to be falling from it.
Pre-concert:
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Sonata No. 2 in E-Flat Major. Op. 120 No. 2
I. Allegro amabile
II. Andante allegro appasionato
Andrew Mahonen, clarinet
Ayako Tsuruta, piano.
October 13, 2017 – Friday 7pm, First Baptist Church
Akropolis Reed Quintet
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990): Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs (1949) arr. John Romano [7'00]
Nico Muhly (1981): Look for Me (2015) [6'00]
George Gershwin (1898-1937): An American in Paris (1928) arr. Raaf Hekkema [18'0]
Intermission
Paul Seitz (b. 1951): Bright Promise from the Fire (2017) [20'00]
- Earth, Revolving
- The Great Sand Sea
- Clarity
- Luster
- Mirrors and Prisms
- Earth, Still
David Biedenbender (1984): Refraction (2015) [10'00]
- Death Metal Chicken
- Kyrie for Machaut and Pӓrt
- Goat Rodeo
Program Notes:
Akropolis Reed Quintet
Program: “Refraction”
Offered: 17/18 and 18/19
Program Description
In "Refraction", Akropolis presents classical music bearing a wide array of influences, from rock and electronic music to jazz, chant, folk songs, and even glass art and ceramics. Each work absorbs the characteristics of a different genre, style, or era, and then creates fresh, relevant music, reflecting upon the original and looking forward. Akropolis also explores their own influences as a reed quintet (their first concert given in 2009), as they build their ensemble's repertoire and re-visit their personal and collective inspirations by which they have forged their genre-bending identity.
Opening the concert is Leonard Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs. In the title alone, Bernstein points to a unification of jazz and classical styles, the Prelude and Fugue being classical music forms, and Riffs referring to Jazz improvisations, which in this piece, Bernstein has written out, rather than them being improvised by the performers. This work was originally written for Woody Herman's big band, but ultimately became re-scored for a small pit-style orchestra, and then arranged recently by John Romano for reed quintet. The brass and rhythm section originally performed the Prelude, and the Fugue was for a section of five saxophones, including bass saxophone (in this version, the Fugue begins with some percussive, repeating bass clarinet notes just before the saxophone quickly enters with the fugue’s theme). The Riffs were “for everyone”, and are a synthesis of all players that recalls the Dixieland mashup style while maintaining Bernstein’s well-choreographed rhythmic playfulness.
Nico Muhly’s Look for Me buries the melody of “Mother in the Graveyard”, a folk song created in the Vermont Appalachia, inside destabilizing, modernized textures and interjections. The resulting sound is as if we are hearing an original field recording, but the wax has been distorted, and we are listening to the original singer as he or she jumps through and is warped by the time travel to today. Through the well-planted organization of these textures and interjections, Muhly re-establishes the beauty of the original, simple field song in a modern context. The composer of the folk song, “Mother in the Graveyard”, is Margaret MacArthur, a renowned performer and archivist of American folk melodies. Originally a city-goer, she and her husband moved to a 200 year-old farmhouse in Marlboro, VT in 1951, where she preserved instruments and field recordings, living without electricity or running water for the first 6 years in the home. Here are two verses of "Mother in the Graveyard":
Mother in the graveyard and I'm on the land
Look for me
Mother in the graveyard and I'm on the land
And I want God's bosom to be my pillow
Hide me over in the rocks of ages
Look for me
Drive the chariot to my door
Look for me
Drive the chariot to my door
And I want God's bosom to be my pillow
Hide me over in the rocks of ages
Look for me
Closing the first set, Akropolis presents a work inspired not only by the popular music of the early 20th century, but marked by a special moment in music composition in which the concept of "acceptable" art music was beginning to rapidly evolve. In An American in Paris, Gershwin aimed to create one of his more serious works despite his natural affinity for frivolity. He consulted Ravel about this conundrum, who wisely instructed that if Gershwin was making more money than Ravel (which he was), he shouldn't change how he writes his music. He sought advice from Nadia Boulanger, the great teacher of Aaron Copland and others. She also wisely suggested to Gershwin try to be nobody but Gershwin. And so, using complex motivic development which is constantly modulating and changing form, Gershwin manages to create his most accessible, but simultaneously most complex piece of music. Among the challenges Dutch saxophonist Raaf Hekkema faced in arranging the work were how to convey these ideas with only 5 instruments. The listener might find Gershwin's ideas even easier to deduce in the chamber music format, and Hekkema brilliantly manages to maintain Gershwin's lush orchestrations by having all 5 members performing for nearly all of the arrangement. The continually repeating and evolving motives make for a challenging but thrilling performance which Akropolis is delighted to bring to the stage.
Intermission
Commissioned by the Odyssey Chamber Music Series and composed for Akropolis, Bright Promise from the Fire opens the second half of this program, and is paired with the closing work, David Biedenbender’s Refraction. Composer Paul Seitz has included these notes about the work, and each movement, which you may find enlighten your hearing of the piece:
“Bright Promise from the Fire is a celebration of all forms of kiln-formed art, with an awareness of all the metaphors about life that can be drawn from the practice of that art.
The creation of kiln-formed art is both ancient and quite central to human cultures everywhere. In researching this subject, I’ve learned that there is no absolute distinction between the production of glass art and ceramics. Although it’s reasonable to think first of clay (rather than glass) in connection with ceramic art, glass almost always plays a crucial role - as a component of the basic material as well as in glazing and elaboration. And many of the techniques for glazing and enameling of ceramics are important in production of glass art, as well.
Movements:
1 – “Earth, Revolving”
The basic materials for both glass and ceramics (sand and clay) are found in the earth. This movement is concerned with the process of creating ceramic art objects from (mostly) clay. The opening of this movement is inspired by the fluid, plastic, quality of clay – a blending of many natural materials - and the kneading and mixing done to prepare material for use as a medium for art. “Revolving” has two meanings: The living earth revolves, of course, but “revolving” also relates to the ancient and modern use of a revolving platform (wheel) in the shaping of ceramic objects, and also to those ceramics traditions that did not employ the wheel but created objects from coils of a single strand of clay formed into ascending circles of many revolutions from the bottom to the top of the object.
2 – “The Great Sand Sea”
This movement is concerned with the story of the earliest formation of clear glass on earth. The title refers to the vast desert in modern Egypt and Libya featuring sand of almost pure silica. It is traditionally believed that the first true glass was formed, many thousands of years ago, when some extraordinary event (possibly an explosion caused by a meteor) created intense heat and the raising of acres of pure silica sand high into the air, where the sand became liquid and formed random shaped globules of clear transparent glass as it fell back to earth (some remaining glass from that explosion can still be found today).
This movement also explores the paradox of the sand sea – the incredibly reductive nature of a desert in which countless tiny individual particles of similar size together form an enormous plastic collective mass that is constantly shifting and reforming. In tribute to that reductive quality this music is very abstract in its references to some of the elements (grains of sand, meteors, explosion, etc.) in the story of earth’s first glass.
3 – “Clarity”
Transparency – the ability to “see through” glass – is surely one of the most important features in the importance of glass in art and design. But the basic quality of glass is also mysterious, since it has all the mechanical properties of a solid while its atomic structure is close to that of ice (any supercooled liquid, below the freezing point). Nobel Laureate (Physics) P. W. Anderson has called the theory of the nature of glass and the glass transition (from liquid to amorphous solid) “the deepest and most interesting unsolved problem in solid state theory.”
This short movement explores some of the unique qualities of glass in its “frozen” state (as we usually find it) - that it is very rigid, has a very hard surface that is resistant to corrosion and impervious to liquid and, of course that it is transparent to visible light – it is “clear.” I have tried to evoke this sense of clarity in several ways: through music that is lucid and restful, through tightly conceived harmonies (as in the opening triad containing the pitches C-D-E) that are presented in textures that are “transparent” – with instruments voiced to be consistently far apart – all in service of the goal of creating music that is both “hard as glass” and also “clear.”
4 – “Luster”
The naturally formed “desert glass” (see “The Great Sand Sea”) was eventually discovered in the desert by the Egyptians and utilized as precious stones in jewelry and decorative objects. But soon, the Egyptians developed the technology for creating new glass and very sophisticated glass art objects, as well. Later, in Syria, additional scientific discoveries made it possible for both glass art and ceramic art to be glazed/enameled in a way that gave the objects the appearance of bright, shining, metal. This technique, called “luster” remains important in both ceramic and art glass production to the present day.
Although some general formal elements and accompaniment textures of traditional Syrian music are very broadly referenced in the early portion of this movement, out of great respect for the expressive virtuosity of the soloists featured in that tradition, I have avoided any reference to those expressive elements in this movement. Instead, I have built very simple melodies from alternating pitches – elaborations and variations on a simple trill. As the piece progresses, these trills gradually develop into a motive representing the metallic “shimmer” - the bright luster of these beautiful objects, ancient and modern.
5 – “Mirrors and Prisms”
Being an amorphous solid (like ice) the surface of glass is ordinarily microscopically smooth since it begins as hot liquid and, as it cools, the molecules can follow surface tension (like freezing water in an ice tray). This feature accounts for the reflective quality of glass. Although transparent to visible light, glass has a different “refractive index” than the environment which causes light shone through glass to bend, curve, and disperse light; this dispersion causes prisms and rainbows to divide white light into the colors of the spectrum. Objects viewed through glass may also appear to be inverted.
This movement explores, musically, the reflective and refractive qualities of glass, so important in the enduring magic of glass art.
6 – Earth, Still
All kiln-formed art begins with a process in which plastic material is shaped and, for a time, changes can be made in design and form. At a certain point, however, the possibility of making additional changes comes to an end. As the objects emerge from the kiln, they are always a bit changed from the form they had when they entered – in ways that are often impossible to predict. These may be “happy surprises” that are immediately embraced, or may require more consideration before finding the beauty in the result. But the artist must find a way to accept this product of all the previous steps; there is no longer any possibility of improving or repairing. All of that work must be done before the kiln – before it is too late. Many aspects of life parallel this process, of course. Even the earth continues to be re-formed from hot liquid material that cools and hardens into the place we are able to live and create. And, as a composer, I have learned to celebrate the fact that every musical performance differs from the printed score in many small, unpredictable, ways - this is the magic of live performance.
This movement opens with a return to the “revolving” music from the opening movement, then develops musical ideas related to the shifting sands of movement two in a new way - now depicting the gradual loss of plasticity to a final point of stillness in which we must try to find beauty, as one more meteor explodes.”
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In conclusion, Akropolis pairs Bright Promise with David Biedenbender’s boisterous work, Refraction, commissioned by Akropolis for its acclaimed third studio CD release, The Space Between Us. "Refraction" refers to the absorption and then splitting of light, or in the case of this piece, of musical influences. Sounds are almost taped and glued together, and at times they seem to pour out from the central texture of the piece. The composition melds several genres, including death metal and Gregorian chant, but never fully boxes them in. “Death Metal Chicken” is inspired by a popular YouTube video of a howling rooster with death metal music being played in the background. The “Kyrie” shimmers with ancient qualities. The final movement, “Goat Rodeo”, refers directly to a chaotic situation that might come to a resolution, but not willingly so. Biedenbender not only re-purposes various genres and combines them with brilliant colorations; he creates a fully-formed, new object which could never be as brilliant without the tatters and shreds which seem to be falling from it.
December 1, 2017 – Friday, 6:40pm / 7pm
First Baptist Church
Joyeux Noël: French Chamber Music
* With regrets - Due to illness, Ms. Julia Bentley will not be performing at this concert.
6:40pm Pre-Concert
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 1 No. 3 [10’00]
Sejoon Jun, violin / Ryan Choe, violoncello / Henry Huang, piano
7:00pm
Ravel: Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano (1923-27) [17’00]
I. Allegretto
II. Blues. Moderato
III. Perpetuum mobile. Allegro
Amy Appold, violin
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Maurice Ravel (1835-1937): Les Chansons madecasses (1925-6) for soprano, flute, cello and piano [13’00]
I. Nahandove
II. Mefiez-vous des blancs
III. Il est doux de se coucher Christine Seitz, soprano
Alice K. Dade, flute
Eli Lara, cello
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Ravel: Piano Trio in A Minor (1914) [29’00]
I. Modéré
II. Pantoum. Assez vite
III. Passacaille. Très large
IV. Final. Animé
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Eli Lara, violoncello
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Intermission
Gabriel Faure (1845-1925): Piano Quartet No. 1, Op. 15 (1876-9; rev. 1883) [ca. 33’00]
Leslie Perna, viola
Eli Lara, violoncello
Peter Miyamoto, piano
First Baptist Church
Joyeux Noël: French Chamber Music
* With regrets - Due to illness, Ms. Julia Bentley will not be performing at this concert.
6:40pm Pre-Concert
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 1 No. 3 [10’00]
- Allegro con brio
- Molto allegro ed agitato
Sejoon Jun, violin / Ryan Choe, violoncello / Henry Huang, piano
7:00pm
Ravel: Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano (1923-27) [17’00]
I. Allegretto
II. Blues. Moderato
III. Perpetuum mobile. Allegro
Amy Appold, violin
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Maurice Ravel (1835-1937): Les Chansons madecasses (1925-6) for soprano, flute, cello and piano [13’00]
I. Nahandove
II. Mefiez-vous des blancs
III. Il est doux de se coucher Christine Seitz, soprano
Alice K. Dade, flute
Eli Lara, cello
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Ravel: Piano Trio in A Minor (1914) [29’00]
I. Modéré
II. Pantoum. Assez vite
III. Passacaille. Très large
IV. Final. Animé
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Eli Lara, violoncello
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Intermission
Gabriel Faure (1845-1925): Piano Quartet No. 1, Op. 15 (1876-9; rev. 1883) [ca. 33’00]
- Allegro molto moderato
- Scherzo: Allegro vivo
- Adagio
- Allegro molto
Leslie Perna, viola
Eli Lara, violoncello
Peter Miyamoto, piano
About the Performers:
Anya Akhmadullina, 10, has been studying violin since she was 4 with Siri Geenen then Amy Appold. Anya has been a Winner or Runner-Up of the Missouri Music Teachers Association state contest in her respective age division during the last 5 years. She also studies piano with her mother Natalia Bolshakova, and Anya has won Honorable Mentions or Runner-Up at the MMTA and superior ratings at the Piano Guild auditions the last six years. For many years, Anya has performed in Piano Showcase recitals, Boone County Historical Museum Concert Series, the Salvation Army Fundraising Concert, and Odyssey's Kids@Heart. Anya attends EEE and sings in the Columbia Public School's 5th Grade Honors Choir. She enjoys the arts, particularly drawing, and she is an avid reader, both in English and in Russian. Anya loves swimming, traveling, and playing with her friends.
Nora Anderson is an 8th grader at Smithton Middle School who has taken piano lessons since 1st grade. She is active in her church youth group, participates in choir, cross country and basketball at school, and loves babysitting and crafting.
Hayley Conklin is a 7th grader at Christian Fellowship School. Since 1st grade, she has competed in MMTA, NFMC, Missouri Theatre Showcase Auditions and MTNA. She has also performed on Blind Boone piano as well as Odyssey's Kids@Heart concerts. In addition to piano, Hayley loves singing in her school choir, playing ukulele, and volleyball.
Lilly Crist is a 7th grader at Gentry Middle School. She started playing piano in the first grade and enjoys playing all types of music, but especially likes learning to play movie themes. Lilly also plays the cello in the Gentry Middle School Orchestra, taught herself to play the ukulele, and hopes to learn to play guitar. She enjoys spending time outside, drawing and painting, and just about anything else that allows her to express her creativity.
Lauren Miyamoto won Honorable Mention at the 2017 MMTA state audition in 3rd Grade. From the first year she began studying the piano with Dr. Natalia Bolshakova, Lauren has participated in Federation, Guild, MMTA auditions and Piano Showcase concerts. She has also participated in many studio recitals and performances, including the 2017 Boone County Historical Society’s Concert Series. She takes ballet from Perlman-Stoy Ballet School, and loves reading, writing, swimming, and doing anything creative.
Audrey Mueller is a sophomore at Rock Bridge High School and has played piano for nine years. She loves to perform and is also involved in the Rock Bridge theatre program. In her time between homework and rehearsals, Audrey enjoys reading, writing, attempting to teach herself new skills (currently, juggling), making films, and braving the heat and cold to go for walks. A majority of the space on her phone is occupied by failed piano recordings, but rest assured that there are some successful ones, too.
Brooke Wagner is an eighth grader at Southern Boone Middle School. When she’s not at the piano she can be found strumming her Ukulele, playing clarinet, or singing. She also enjoys creative writing.
Benjamin Xu, 13, an 8th grader in Gentry middle school, has been learning piano for 7 years under Beverly Kyriakos and Anne Manahan. Ben enjoys playing piano in auditions and performances. In addition to piano, Ben also plays violin and sings pop music. At school, he enjoys science and computer coding, and is a young “mathematician.” At his spare time, Ben plays chess, shoots hoops, swims and is an inspiring soccer player.
Anya Akhmadullina, 10, has been studying violin since she was 4 with Siri Geenen then Amy Appold. Anya has been a Winner or Runner-Up of the Missouri Music Teachers Association state contest in her respective age division during the last 5 years. She also studies piano with her mother Natalia Bolshakova, and Anya has won Honorable Mentions or Runner-Up at the MMTA and superior ratings at the Piano Guild auditions the last six years. For many years, Anya has performed in Piano Showcase recitals, Boone County Historical Museum Concert Series, the Salvation Army Fundraising Concert, and Odyssey's Kids@Heart. Anya attends EEE and sings in the Columbia Public School's 5th Grade Honors Choir. She enjoys the arts, particularly drawing, and she is an avid reader, both in English and in Russian. Anya loves swimming, traveling, and playing with her friends.
Nora Anderson is an 8th grader at Smithton Middle School who has taken piano lessons since 1st grade. She is active in her church youth group, participates in choir, cross country and basketball at school, and loves babysitting and crafting.
Hayley Conklin is a 7th grader at Christian Fellowship School. Since 1st grade, she has competed in MMTA, NFMC, Missouri Theatre Showcase Auditions and MTNA. She has also performed on Blind Boone piano as well as Odyssey's Kids@Heart concerts. In addition to piano, Hayley loves singing in her school choir, playing ukulele, and volleyball.
Lilly Crist is a 7th grader at Gentry Middle School. She started playing piano in the first grade and enjoys playing all types of music, but especially likes learning to play movie themes. Lilly also plays the cello in the Gentry Middle School Orchestra, taught herself to play the ukulele, and hopes to learn to play guitar. She enjoys spending time outside, drawing and painting, and just about anything else that allows her to express her creativity.
Lauren Miyamoto won Honorable Mention at the 2017 MMTA state audition in 3rd Grade. From the first year she began studying the piano with Dr. Natalia Bolshakova, Lauren has participated in Federation, Guild, MMTA auditions and Piano Showcase concerts. She has also participated in many studio recitals and performances, including the 2017 Boone County Historical Society’s Concert Series. She takes ballet from Perlman-Stoy Ballet School, and loves reading, writing, swimming, and doing anything creative.
Audrey Mueller is a sophomore at Rock Bridge High School and has played piano for nine years. She loves to perform and is also involved in the Rock Bridge theatre program. In her time between homework and rehearsals, Audrey enjoys reading, writing, attempting to teach herself new skills (currently, juggling), making films, and braving the heat and cold to go for walks. A majority of the space on her phone is occupied by failed piano recordings, but rest assured that there are some successful ones, too.
Brooke Wagner is an eighth grader at Southern Boone Middle School. When she’s not at the piano she can be found strumming her Ukulele, playing clarinet, or singing. She also enjoys creative writing.
Benjamin Xu, 13, an 8th grader in Gentry middle school, has been learning piano for 7 years under Beverly Kyriakos and Anne Manahan. Ben enjoys playing piano in auditions and performances. In addition to piano, Ben also plays violin and sings pop music. At school, he enjoys science and computer coding, and is a young “mathematician.” At his spare time, Ben plays chess, shoots hoops, swims and is an inspiring soccer player.
January 13, 2018 – Saturday 2pm, First Baptist Church
(Snow day Jan 20)
Kids@Heart - Instrumental Zoo!
Enjoy physically touching and hearing an array of different instruments. FREE balloons! Enter a raffle for a gorgeous Kalimba to take home with you.
January 13, 2018 – Saturday 3pm, First Baptist Church
(Snow day Jan 20)
“Kids@Heart: A Children’s Concert” – Tales Around the World
Collaboration with the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association
Ed Rollins, Narrator
Program
Part I:
Introduction:
CZECHOSLOVAKIA (CZECH REPUBLIC)
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904): Slavonic Dance in C Major, Op. 46 No. 1 (1878) [4’15]
Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta, piano
BELGIUM / AUSTRIA/ HUNGARY
Gustave Michiels (1845-1911): Czardas No 6, Danse Styrienne (ca. 1903) [4'00]
Brooke Wagner and Hayley Conklin, piano
RUSSIA
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893): “Dance of the Flutes” from The Nutcracker, Op. 71 (1892) [2’30]
Audrey Mueller & Janelle Lutz, pianos
NORWAY
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907): Norwegian Dance in A Major, Op. 35 No. 2 (1881) [2’30]
Ayako Tsuruta and Peter Miyamoto, piano
RUSSIA
Alexander Glazunv (1865-1936): “Hail” from ballet, The Seasons, Op. 67 (1900)[1’30]
Anna Sophia Akhmadullina & Natalia Bolshakova, piano
JAPAN
Traditional: Sakura (Cherry blossom), arr. Ayako Tsuruta [2’30]
Lauren Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Prelude:
FRANCE
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): Prélude, from Sonata for four hands (1918) [2’00]
Benjamin Xu and Anne Manahan, piano
FRANCE / SPAIN
Georges Bizet (1838-1875): Transcription of "Habanera" from Carmen (1875) [2:00]
Nora Anderson and Lilly Crist, piano
ARGENTINA
Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla (1921-1992): Oblivion (1982) arr. by Joe Burgstaller for Flugelhorn and Piano [4’30]
Iskander Akhmadullin, flugelhorn and Natalia Bolshakova, piano
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990): “America” from The West Side Story (1957), arr. Derrison Duarte for piano, six hands [4’30]
Ayako Tsuruta, Natalia Bolshakova and Peter Miyamoto, piano
GREAT BRITAIN
Philip Sparke (b. 1951): Song and Dance for Cornet and Piano (1981) [4’00]
Iskander Akhmadullin, flugelhorn and Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Part II
The Raffle Result
FUSION: GREAT BRITAIN & ZIMBABWE
Tim Mocny (b. 1980) and Mike List (b. 1983): Optimism (2012) [4:20]
anna provo, mbira and Abby Rehard, marimba
ZIMBABWE
Shona Mbira, Traditional
Kuzanga
Chandasarira
anna provo and Abby Rehard, mbira
TRINIDAD
Calypso Medley, traditional
Day-o (the banana boat song)
Jamaica farewell
Baja
anna provo and Abby Rehard, steel pan
(Snow day Jan 20)
Kids@Heart - Instrumental Zoo!
Enjoy physically touching and hearing an array of different instruments. FREE balloons! Enter a raffle for a gorgeous Kalimba to take home with you.
January 13, 2018 – Saturday 3pm, First Baptist Church
(Snow day Jan 20)
“Kids@Heart: A Children’s Concert” – Tales Around the World
Collaboration with the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association
Ed Rollins, Narrator
Program
Part I:
Introduction:
CZECHOSLOVAKIA (CZECH REPUBLIC)
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904): Slavonic Dance in C Major, Op. 46 No. 1 (1878) [4’15]
Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta, piano
BELGIUM / AUSTRIA/ HUNGARY
Gustave Michiels (1845-1911): Czardas No 6, Danse Styrienne (ca. 1903) [4'00]
Brooke Wagner and Hayley Conklin, piano
RUSSIA
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893): “Dance of the Flutes” from The Nutcracker, Op. 71 (1892) [2’30]
Audrey Mueller & Janelle Lutz, pianos
NORWAY
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907): Norwegian Dance in A Major, Op. 35 No. 2 (1881) [2’30]
Ayako Tsuruta and Peter Miyamoto, piano
RUSSIA
Alexander Glazunv (1865-1936): “Hail” from ballet, The Seasons, Op. 67 (1900)[1’30]
Anna Sophia Akhmadullina & Natalia Bolshakova, piano
JAPAN
Traditional: Sakura (Cherry blossom), arr. Ayako Tsuruta [2’30]
Lauren Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Prelude:
FRANCE
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): Prélude, from Sonata for four hands (1918) [2’00]
Benjamin Xu and Anne Manahan, piano
FRANCE / SPAIN
Georges Bizet (1838-1875): Transcription of "Habanera" from Carmen (1875) [2:00]
Nora Anderson and Lilly Crist, piano
ARGENTINA
Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla (1921-1992): Oblivion (1982) arr. by Joe Burgstaller for Flugelhorn and Piano [4’30]
Iskander Akhmadullin, flugelhorn and Natalia Bolshakova, piano
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990): “America” from The West Side Story (1957), arr. Derrison Duarte for piano, six hands [4’30]
Ayako Tsuruta, Natalia Bolshakova and Peter Miyamoto, piano
GREAT BRITAIN
Philip Sparke (b. 1951): Song and Dance for Cornet and Piano (1981) [4’00]
Iskander Akhmadullin, flugelhorn and Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Part II
The Raffle Result
FUSION: GREAT BRITAIN & ZIMBABWE
Tim Mocny (b. 1980) and Mike List (b. 1983): Optimism (2012) [4:20]
anna provo, mbira and Abby Rehard, marimba
ZIMBABWE
Shona Mbira, Traditional
Kuzanga
Chandasarira
anna provo and Abby Rehard, mbira
TRINIDAD
Calypso Medley, traditional
Day-o (the banana boat song)
Jamaica farewell
Baja
anna provo and Abby Rehard, steel pan
February 16, 2018 - Friday 6:45pm, First Baptist Church
Pre-concert:
Due to illness, flutist Kristine Poulsen has withdrawn from the program. We are pleased to instead present Rosenfeld/Lara Duo tonight.
Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942): From Duo for Violin and Cello (1925)
I. Moderato
II. Zingaresca: Allegro giocoso
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Eli Lara, violoncello
February 16, 2018 - Friday 7:00pm, First Baptist Church
“Baroque Concerto”
Odyssey’s annual Baroque presentation features MU’s Bach Collegium Choir and Odyssey Chamber Ensemble lead by director R. Paul Crabb to one of the magnificent masterworks by J.S. Bach.
This special event is generously sponsored by the Paul D. Higday Mozart Trust and the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association (MMAMTA).
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV1042 (ca. 1723)
I. Allegro (ca. 8 min)
Hazel Keithahn, violin
The Winner of the MMAMTA/Odyssey 2018 Pre-collegiate Concerto Competition
Patrick Clark, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Symphony No. 29 in A Major, KV201 (1774) (ca. 35 min)
I.Allegro moderato
II.Andante
III.Menuetto: Allegretto – Trio
IV.Allegro con spirito
Patrick Clark, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Intermission
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Mass in F Major, BWV233 (1738) (ca. 24'00)
Bach Collegium Choir
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Bach Collegium Choir
(* = Soloists)
Soprano: Amanda Furtick; McKenna Ranfield; Aubrey Smith*; Kiernan Steiner; Bailey Wilkerson; Hannah Zizza
Alto: Martha Allen; Meaghan Neel; Kate Mosier; Keisha Rush; Samantha Stokes; Samantha Walker
Tenor: Josh Chism; Savon Hayes; David Fazekas; David Peana; James Shemwell; Holt Skinner*
Bass: Patrick Graham*; Hans Bridger Heruth; Marques Ruff; Jacob Stone; Jeremy Wagner; Ben Worley
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Oboe I: Dan Willett
Oboe II: Alison Robuck
Bassoon: Kassandra Ormsby
Horn I: Marcia Spence
Horn II: Michael Hill
Violin I: Siri Geenen, Erik Hassell, Carolina Neves Merritt
Violin II: Amy Appold, Solveig Geenen, Clara Day
Viola: Dustin Frieda, Grant Broadshaw, Morgan Owen
Violoncello: Eli Lara, Mary Manulik, Daniel Keeler
Double Bass: Meyer Neel
Organ: Colleen Ostercamp
Pre-concert:
Due to illness, flutist Kristine Poulsen has withdrawn from the program. We are pleased to instead present Rosenfeld/Lara Duo tonight.
Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942): From Duo for Violin and Cello (1925)
I. Moderato
II. Zingaresca: Allegro giocoso
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Eli Lara, violoncello
February 16, 2018 - Friday 7:00pm, First Baptist Church
“Baroque Concerto”
Odyssey’s annual Baroque presentation features MU’s Bach Collegium Choir and Odyssey Chamber Ensemble lead by director R. Paul Crabb to one of the magnificent masterworks by J.S. Bach.
This special event is generously sponsored by the Paul D. Higday Mozart Trust and the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association (MMAMTA).
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV1042 (ca. 1723)
I. Allegro (ca. 8 min)
Hazel Keithahn, violin
The Winner of the MMAMTA/Odyssey 2018 Pre-collegiate Concerto Competition
Patrick Clark, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Symphony No. 29 in A Major, KV201 (1774) (ca. 35 min)
I.Allegro moderato
II.Andante
III.Menuetto: Allegretto – Trio
IV.Allegro con spirito
Patrick Clark, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Intermission
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Mass in F Major, BWV233 (1738) (ca. 24'00)
- Kyrie eleison
- Gloria in excelsis
- Domine Deus
- Qui tollis
- Quoniam
- Cum sancto Spiritu’
Bach Collegium Choir
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Bach Collegium Choir
(* = Soloists)
Soprano: Amanda Furtick; McKenna Ranfield; Aubrey Smith*; Kiernan Steiner; Bailey Wilkerson; Hannah Zizza
Alto: Martha Allen; Meaghan Neel; Kate Mosier; Keisha Rush; Samantha Stokes; Samantha Walker
Tenor: Josh Chism; Savon Hayes; David Fazekas; David Peana; James Shemwell; Holt Skinner*
Bass: Patrick Graham*; Hans Bridger Heruth; Marques Ruff; Jacob Stone; Jeremy Wagner; Ben Worley
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Oboe I: Dan Willett
Oboe II: Alison Robuck
Bassoon: Kassandra Ormsby
Horn I: Marcia Spence
Horn II: Michael Hill
Violin I: Siri Geenen, Erik Hassell, Carolina Neves Merritt
Violin II: Amy Appold, Solveig Geenen, Clara Day
Viola: Dustin Frieda, Grant Broadshaw, Morgan Owen
Violoncello: Eli Lara, Mary Manulik, Daniel Keeler
Double Bass: Meyer Neel
Organ: Colleen Ostercamp
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February 23, 2018 -
Southside Philharmonic Orchestra Series:
Baroque Concerto Encore
Central United Church of Christ in Jefferson City
$12 Admission / $6 Students
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 1, Hob. III:75 (1796-7) (ca. 23'00)
I. Allegro con spirito
II. Adagio sostenuto
III. Menuetto. Presto
IV. Allegro ma non troppo
The Southside String Quartet
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV1042 (1723)
I. Allegro (ca. 8 min)
Hazel Keithahn, violin
The Winner of the MMAMTA/Odyssey 2018 Pre-collegiate Concerto Competition
Patrick Clark, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Brief Intermission
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1757-1797): Symphony in A Major, KV201 (1774) (ca. 35 min)
I.Allegro moderato
II.Andante
III.Menuetto: Allegretto – Trio
IV.Allegro con spirito
Patrick Clark, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble with Southside Philharmonic Orchestra members:
Oboe I: Dan Willett
Oboe II: Alison Robuck
Bassoon: Kassandra Ormsby
Horn I: Marcia Spence
Horn II: Michael Hill
Violin I: Siri Geenen, Erik Hassell
Violin II: Solveig Geenen, Clara Dey
Viola: Dustin Frieda, Grant Broadshaw, Morgan Owen
Violoncello: Mary Manulik, Daniel Keeler
Double Bass: Maura Higgins
Southside Philharmonic Orchestra Series:
Baroque Concerto Encore
Central United Church of Christ in Jefferson City
$12 Admission / $6 Students
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 1, Hob. III:75 (1796-7) (ca. 23'00)
I. Allegro con spirito
II. Adagio sostenuto
III. Menuetto. Presto
IV. Allegro ma non troppo
The Southside String Quartet
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV1042 (1723)
I. Allegro (ca. 8 min)
Hazel Keithahn, violin
The Winner of the MMAMTA/Odyssey 2018 Pre-collegiate Concerto Competition
Patrick Clark, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Brief Intermission
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1757-1797): Symphony in A Major, KV201 (1774) (ca. 35 min)
I.Allegro moderato
II.Andante
III.Menuetto: Allegretto – Trio
IV.Allegro con spirito
Patrick Clark, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble with Southside Philharmonic Orchestra members:
Oboe I: Dan Willett
Oboe II: Alison Robuck
Bassoon: Kassandra Ormsby
Horn I: Marcia Spence
Horn II: Michael Hill
Violin I: Siri Geenen, Erik Hassell
Violin II: Solveig Geenen, Clara Dey
Viola: Dustin Frieda, Grant Broadshaw, Morgan Owen
Violoncello: Mary Manulik, Daniel Keeler
Double Bass: Maura Higgins
March 2, 2018
“M-Odyssey : Scenémagic"
“M-Odyssey” will continue the 2015 initiative to mentor and give real work experience in music administration to young professionals. One or two outstanding musicians will have the opportunity to create and produce their own Odyssey concert, with guidance from the Artistic Director and a supervising Board Member. The title reflects the more modern, “MOD” Odyssey for younger directors, while the capitalization pays homage to our state. * Early arrival is recommended.
This concert is financially sponsored by the Mizzou New Music Initiative and Phi Mu Alpha.
6:45pm Pre-Concert
Pre Concert
MU Women’s Choir
Conducted by: Meaghan Neel
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901): Witches’ chorus
Words and Music by Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, Annie Lennox: Into the West (from the motion picture “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”), arr. Alan Billingsley
Appalachian folksong: Banjo Pickin’ Girl, arr. Tim Sharp & Andrea Ramsey
Banjo: Marty Oetting
Double Bass: Meyer Neel
Percussion: Brianna Trainor
7:00pm Concert
Jorge Montilla (b. 1970): Clarimba (2013)
Andrew Mahonen, clarinet
Brianna Trainor, marimba
Libby Larsen (b. 1950): Yellow Jersey (2004)
Andrew Mahonen and Victoria Hargrove, clarinets
Michael Webster (b. 1944): Magic Flute Fantasy (1997)
Ryan Koesterer, flute/piccolo
Andrew Mahonen, clarinet
Sarah Amos, piano
intermission
Music and lyrics by Angela Parrish: “On the Side”
Justin Hurwitz: “City of Stars” from La La Land
Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
arr. Angela Parrish
Justin Hurwitz: “Another Day of Sun” from La La Land
Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
arr. Angela Parrish
Andrew Linn (b. 1988): “The Meaning of Living"
Written for Hitt Street Harmony featuring Angela Parrish
~ Funded by the Mizzou New Music Initiative ~
I. Prism Dance, Lyrics by Greg Lapine
Feat. Angela Parrish and Meaghan Neel
II. The Meaning of living, Lyrics by Angela Parrish
Feat. Angela Parrish and Savon Hayes
Angela Parrish, vocals
Hitt Street Harmony
Kiernan Steiner, conductor
with
Austin Walker, trumpet
Alex Jones, tenor saxophone
Caleb Alexander, guitar
Ross Dryer, piano
Christopher Fusco, drums
Meyer Neel, double bass
Special thanks to the Sigma Alpha Iota for their assistance.
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MU Women’s Choir
Director: Emily Edgington Andrews
Assistant Director: Meaghan Neel
Accompanist: Amanda Furtick
Soprano I: Morgan Alexander, Larissa Babiak, Anna Huynh, Amanda Leventhal, Madi Myers, Ashley Rolf, Chloe Shoemaker, Aubrey Smith, Denise Weigand, Emma Wickland, Amanda Furtick
Soprano II: Hannah Bond, Regan Brown, Angie Busby, Olivia Jackson, Victoria Klemm, Mariah Messenger, Anna Preuss, Sydney Robertson, Kaitlin Rohlfing, Kiernan Steiner, Olivia Stricklin, Zoe Tyler, Olivia Wilson
Alto I: Brittany Badding, Kelsey Draeger, Monica Dunn, Maggie Herwig, Amanda Huffman, Taylor Jennings, Hannah Robertson, Valeria Schwent, Bailey Wilkerson
Alto II: Maddie Douglass, Devon Lynch, Mikella Vermaire, Paige Wakefield, Madi Winfield, Anna Yannessa, Victoria Zeyen
Hitt Street Harmony
Kiernan Steiner, director
Soprano: Hannah Hall; Samantha Walker; Bailey Wilkerson
Alto: Bailee Dougherty; Olivia Henderson; Keisha Rush; Anna Yannessa
Tenor: Joshua Chism; Ross Dryer; Savon Hayes; Jacob Moscovitch
Bass: Matt Ahn; Lafe Arens; Truman Butler; Jonathan Crader
“M-Odyssey : Scenémagic"
“M-Odyssey” will continue the 2015 initiative to mentor and give real work experience in music administration to young professionals. One or two outstanding musicians will have the opportunity to create and produce their own Odyssey concert, with guidance from the Artistic Director and a supervising Board Member. The title reflects the more modern, “MOD” Odyssey for younger directors, while the capitalization pays homage to our state. * Early arrival is recommended.
This concert is financially sponsored by the Mizzou New Music Initiative and Phi Mu Alpha.
6:45pm Pre-Concert
Pre Concert
MU Women’s Choir
Conducted by: Meaghan Neel
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901): Witches’ chorus
Words and Music by Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, Annie Lennox: Into the West (from the motion picture “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”), arr. Alan Billingsley
Appalachian folksong: Banjo Pickin’ Girl, arr. Tim Sharp & Andrea Ramsey
Banjo: Marty Oetting
Double Bass: Meyer Neel
Percussion: Brianna Trainor
7:00pm Concert
Jorge Montilla (b. 1970): Clarimba (2013)
Andrew Mahonen, clarinet
Brianna Trainor, marimba
Libby Larsen (b. 1950): Yellow Jersey (2004)
Andrew Mahonen and Victoria Hargrove, clarinets
Michael Webster (b. 1944): Magic Flute Fantasy (1997)
Ryan Koesterer, flute/piccolo
Andrew Mahonen, clarinet
Sarah Amos, piano
intermission
Music and lyrics by Angela Parrish: “On the Side”
Justin Hurwitz: “City of Stars” from La La Land
Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
arr. Angela Parrish
Justin Hurwitz: “Another Day of Sun” from La La Land
Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
arr. Angela Parrish
Andrew Linn (b. 1988): “The Meaning of Living"
Written for Hitt Street Harmony featuring Angela Parrish
~ Funded by the Mizzou New Music Initiative ~
I. Prism Dance, Lyrics by Greg Lapine
Feat. Angela Parrish and Meaghan Neel
II. The Meaning of living, Lyrics by Angela Parrish
Feat. Angela Parrish and Savon Hayes
Angela Parrish, vocals
Hitt Street Harmony
Kiernan Steiner, conductor
with
Austin Walker, trumpet
Alex Jones, tenor saxophone
Caleb Alexander, guitar
Ross Dryer, piano
Christopher Fusco, drums
Meyer Neel, double bass
Special thanks to the Sigma Alpha Iota for their assistance.
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MU Women’s Choir
Director: Emily Edgington Andrews
Assistant Director: Meaghan Neel
Accompanist: Amanda Furtick
Soprano I: Morgan Alexander, Larissa Babiak, Anna Huynh, Amanda Leventhal, Madi Myers, Ashley Rolf, Chloe Shoemaker, Aubrey Smith, Denise Weigand, Emma Wickland, Amanda Furtick
Soprano II: Hannah Bond, Regan Brown, Angie Busby, Olivia Jackson, Victoria Klemm, Mariah Messenger, Anna Preuss, Sydney Robertson, Kaitlin Rohlfing, Kiernan Steiner, Olivia Stricklin, Zoe Tyler, Olivia Wilson
Alto I: Brittany Badding, Kelsey Draeger, Monica Dunn, Maggie Herwig, Amanda Huffman, Taylor Jennings, Hannah Robertson, Valeria Schwent, Bailey Wilkerson
Alto II: Maddie Douglass, Devon Lynch, Mikella Vermaire, Paige Wakefield, Madi Winfield, Anna Yannessa, Victoria Zeyen
Hitt Street Harmony
Kiernan Steiner, director
Soprano: Hannah Hall; Samantha Walker; Bailey Wilkerson
Alto: Bailee Dougherty; Olivia Henderson; Keisha Rush; Anna Yannessa
Tenor: Joshua Chism; Ross Dryer; Savon Hayes; Jacob Moscovitch
Bass: Matt Ahn; Lafe Arens; Truman Butler; Jonathan Crader
Sarah Amos is a graduate student at the University of Missouri pursing a MM in Collaborative Piano. A Michigan native, Ms. Amos began her musical studies in piano and organ at the Flint Institute of Music with Dr. Donald Kaye. In 2016, she completed a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Western Michigan University and received the Service Playing Certification from the American Guild of Organists. Since beginning her masters program at MU, Sarah has enjoyed serving as a pianist for Show-Me Opera, accompanying rehearsals for Choral Union, and performing with fellow music majors in student recitals. An accomplished church musician, Sarah has acted as the music director and organist at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Watervliet, MI, and currently is the organist for the United Methodist Church of Centralia, MO. Her primary instructors have included Dr. Silvia Roederer, Lori Sims, Dr. Karl Schrock, and Dr. Janice Wenger.
Emily Edgington Andrews Long an advocate for quality musical arts in the community, Emily Edgington Andrews is extremely active in Columbia, working with children and adults at every level of their musical development. Emily is on the choral faculty at the University of Missouri, conducting the Women's Choir, co-directing the Concert Chorale, and teaching Basic Conducting and Score Reading, and is the Director of Community Music Outreach, serving as a community liaison for the MU School of Music. In 2013 Emily was appointed Artistic Director for the Columbia Chorale, and under her baton has helped to expand the organization, now in its 39th season, to include 12 choral ensembles. Under its new umbrella title Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri, the organization offers exceptional choral experiences accessible to everyone from youth to adults. Emily also serves as the Assistant Conductor for CAAM’s permanent professional Artists-in-Residence, Prometheus: An American Vocal Consort, managing the ensemble and assisting in conducting the highly sought-after ensemble. Emily teaches adjunct at Stephens College, working with the young women in the Performance Arts School. In addition to her work at the collegiate level, Emily enters her ninth year as one of the vocal music teachers at Columbia Independent School, the city’s only non-sectarian college preparatory campus, conducting two of the six ensembles, an Honor Choir for students in grades 4-5 and a select vocal jazz ensemble for 8th-12th graders.This year marks Emily’s twelfth as conductor at the historic Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Columbia, MO, where she maintains a thriving music program, conducting the 45-member Adult Choir of volunteer and paid musicians. Emily regularly serves as a guest clinician and adjudicator, and is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association and the National Association for Music Education. Emily received her degrees in Music at Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri (B.A.; M.A.) and at the University of Missouri (M.M.).
American clarinetist and bass clarinetist Victoria Hargrove is an avid performer, researcher, and pedagogue. She has performed internationally and throughout the United States. Her research and pedagogical instruction has reached individuals of all ages and levels of education. Victoria is actively performing with the Mizzou New Music Ensemble as the Clarinet/ Bass Clarinet Graduate Assistant with whom she has premiered many new works. Victoria has performed as a guest soloist with the Missouri Symphony and often as guest bass clarinetist with the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra (GA). Internationally, she has been featured as a soloist and chamber musician in Belgium and Quebec. Her pedagogical research has been referenced in other academic writings such as theses and university research papers. Victoria's pedagogical techniques nurture her studio's success with some students being accepted into undergraduate performance programs. Victoria holds a Bachelor’s in Music Performance from Columbus State University and is currently completing her Master's of Music Performance at the University of Missouri. Her principal instructors are Dr. Lisa Oberlander and Dr. Wesley Warnhoff.
Ryan Koesterer is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in music performance at the University of Missouri, studying with Professor Alice K. Dade. As a senior, Ryan actively performs in the University Philharmonic Orchestra, university Wind Ensemble, Columbia Civic Orchestra, the Missouri Symphony Orchestra, and the 312th Army Band and Woodwind Quintet. He also is the woodwind coach for the Missouri Symphony Conservatory, teaches private lessons, and serves as president of the Missouri Flute Society. Recently, Ryan participated in the Eastern Music Festival, Oh My Ears Contemporary Music Festival, and competed in the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) competition, where he won the State auditions and received Honorable Mention at the West Central Division in Denver, Colorado. Ryan is a collegiate member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and will graduate in May 2018. After graduation, Ryan will continue his education pursuing a master's degree in music performance.
Clarinetist Andrew Mahonen is an avid performer, researcher, and educator. Recently, he has been invited to perform at ClarinetFest 2018 in Ostend, Belgium with the Mizzou Clarinet Quartet, and is working with the Odyssey Chamber Music Series as a Performing Fellow. 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 topics in music. Andrew was awarded a research grant to survey the general music knowledge of high school and college students and hopes to continue this research. He has used his 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. He has also performed in several orchestras including the Duluth/Superior Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of the North, and the Minnesota Ballet Orchestra. Having a passion for chamber music, he was the clarinetist and coordinator for the Northern Winds Quintet, he attended the Madeline Island Intensive Wind Quintet Camp, and he was featured at the Minnesota Music Educator’s Association’s mid-winter clinic with the University of Minnesota Duluth Chamber Winds. Andrew is currently pursuing his Masters of Music degree in clarinet performance at the University of Missouri, and he holds his Bachelors of Music in clarinet performance from the University of Minnesota Duluth. His is primary teachers have been Theodore Schoen and Wesley Warnhoff.
Kiernan Steiner is a second year Master’s student in the Choral Conducting program University of Missouri. Her musical experiences growing up in the Driftless region of Wisconsin encouraged her to pursue higher education in Vocal Music, and in 2014, Kiernan completed her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Music Education from Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. From 2014-2016, Kiernan taught private voice and directed the choral program at Lakeland Union High School in Minocqua, Wisconsin. Currently, she is working as a Choral Teaching Assistant and directing Hitt Street Harmony at the University of Missouri.
Brianna Trainor is a passionate percussionist in the Midwestern United States. A diverse performer, she stays active in a variety of classical, contemporary, and world music scenes. She currently performs with the Mizzou New Music Ensemble, the graduate ensemble in residence at the University of Missouri. She has previously performed with the Columbia Civic Orchestra, Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, Monteverdi Master Chorale, Morton Feldman Chamber Players, and Ayodele Drum and Dance. She has performed in masterclasses for Dame Evelyn Glennie, Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, Third Coast Percussion, the U.S. Air Force Band, Ivan Treviño, Bolokada Conde, and others. Recent performance venues include Millennium Park and Constellation in Chicago, Ayodele African Dance Conference, and the Wisconsin Percussive Arts Society Days of Percussion. Brianna will be traveling to Ghana, Africa this summer to study with renown musicians Nani Agbeli and Bernard Woma.
Emily Edgington Andrews Long an advocate for quality musical arts in the community, Emily Edgington Andrews is extremely active in Columbia, working with children and adults at every level of their musical development. Emily is on the choral faculty at the University of Missouri, conducting the Women's Choir, co-directing the Concert Chorale, and teaching Basic Conducting and Score Reading, and is the Director of Community Music Outreach, serving as a community liaison for the MU School of Music. In 2013 Emily was appointed Artistic Director for the Columbia Chorale, and under her baton has helped to expand the organization, now in its 39th season, to include 12 choral ensembles. Under its new umbrella title Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri, the organization offers exceptional choral experiences accessible to everyone from youth to adults. Emily also serves as the Assistant Conductor for CAAM’s permanent professional Artists-in-Residence, Prometheus: An American Vocal Consort, managing the ensemble and assisting in conducting the highly sought-after ensemble. Emily teaches adjunct at Stephens College, working with the young women in the Performance Arts School. In addition to her work at the collegiate level, Emily enters her ninth year as one of the vocal music teachers at Columbia Independent School, the city’s only non-sectarian college preparatory campus, conducting two of the six ensembles, an Honor Choir for students in grades 4-5 and a select vocal jazz ensemble for 8th-12th graders.This year marks Emily’s twelfth as conductor at the historic Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Columbia, MO, where she maintains a thriving music program, conducting the 45-member Adult Choir of volunteer and paid musicians. Emily regularly serves as a guest clinician and adjudicator, and is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association and the National Association for Music Education. Emily received her degrees in Music at Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri (B.A.; M.A.) and at the University of Missouri (M.M.).
American clarinetist and bass clarinetist Victoria Hargrove is an avid performer, researcher, and pedagogue. She has performed internationally and throughout the United States. Her research and pedagogical instruction has reached individuals of all ages and levels of education. Victoria is actively performing with the Mizzou New Music Ensemble as the Clarinet/ Bass Clarinet Graduate Assistant with whom she has premiered many new works. Victoria has performed as a guest soloist with the Missouri Symphony and often as guest bass clarinetist with the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra (GA). Internationally, she has been featured as a soloist and chamber musician in Belgium and Quebec. Her pedagogical research has been referenced in other academic writings such as theses and university research papers. Victoria's pedagogical techniques nurture her studio's success with some students being accepted into undergraduate performance programs. Victoria holds a Bachelor’s in Music Performance from Columbus State University and is currently completing her Master's of Music Performance at the University of Missouri. Her principal instructors are Dr. Lisa Oberlander and Dr. Wesley Warnhoff.
Ryan Koesterer is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in music performance at the University of Missouri, studying with Professor Alice K. Dade. As a senior, Ryan actively performs in the University Philharmonic Orchestra, university Wind Ensemble, Columbia Civic Orchestra, the Missouri Symphony Orchestra, and the 312th Army Band and Woodwind Quintet. He also is the woodwind coach for the Missouri Symphony Conservatory, teaches private lessons, and serves as president of the Missouri Flute Society. Recently, Ryan participated in the Eastern Music Festival, Oh My Ears Contemporary Music Festival, and competed in the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) competition, where he won the State auditions and received Honorable Mention at the West Central Division in Denver, Colorado. Ryan is a collegiate member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and will graduate in May 2018. After graduation, Ryan will continue his education pursuing a master's degree in music performance.
Clarinetist Andrew Mahonen is an avid performer, researcher, and educator. Recently, he has been invited to perform at ClarinetFest 2018 in Ostend, Belgium with the Mizzou Clarinet Quartet, and is working with the Odyssey Chamber Music Series as a Performing Fellow. 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 topics in music. Andrew was awarded a research grant to survey the general music knowledge of high school and college students and hopes to continue this research. He has used his 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. He has also performed in several orchestras including the Duluth/Superior Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of the North, and the Minnesota Ballet Orchestra. Having a passion for chamber music, he was the clarinetist and coordinator for the Northern Winds Quintet, he attended the Madeline Island Intensive Wind Quintet Camp, and he was featured at the Minnesota Music Educator’s Association’s mid-winter clinic with the University of Minnesota Duluth Chamber Winds. Andrew is currently pursuing his Masters of Music degree in clarinet performance at the University of Missouri, and he holds his Bachelors of Music in clarinet performance from the University of Minnesota Duluth. His is primary teachers have been Theodore Schoen and Wesley Warnhoff.
Kiernan Steiner is a second year Master’s student in the Choral Conducting program University of Missouri. Her musical experiences growing up in the Driftless region of Wisconsin encouraged her to pursue higher education in Vocal Music, and in 2014, Kiernan completed her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Music Education from Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. From 2014-2016, Kiernan taught private voice and directed the choral program at Lakeland Union High School in Minocqua, Wisconsin. Currently, she is working as a Choral Teaching Assistant and directing Hitt Street Harmony at the University of Missouri.
Brianna Trainor is a passionate percussionist in the Midwestern United States. A diverse performer, she stays active in a variety of classical, contemporary, and world music scenes. She currently performs with the Mizzou New Music Ensemble, the graduate ensemble in residence at the University of Missouri. She has previously performed with the Columbia Civic Orchestra, Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, Monteverdi Master Chorale, Morton Feldman Chamber Players, and Ayodele Drum and Dance. She has performed in masterclasses for Dame Evelyn Glennie, Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, Third Coast Percussion, the U.S. Air Force Band, Ivan Treviño, Bolokada Conde, and others. Recent performance venues include Millennium Park and Constellation in Chicago, Ayodele African Dance Conference, and the Wisconsin Percussive Arts Society Days of Percussion. Brianna will be traveling to Ghana, Africa this summer to study with renown musicians Nani Agbeli and Bernard Woma.
March 16 & 17, 2018 – Friday & Saturday 7pm, Missouri Theatre
“Missouri Contemporary Ballet presents Cinderella.”
Fugitive Ground (2018)
Island Moving Company
Choreography: Danielle Genest
Music: John Tavener
Costumes: Eileen Stoops
Dancers: Vincent Brewer, Brooke Di Francesco, Shane Farrell, Lauren Di Fede, Tara Gragg, Timur Kan, Glen Lewis, Katie Moorhead, Christine Sandorfi
Duo for Violin and Cello (1925)
II. ZINGARESCA: Allegro giocoso
Composer: Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942)
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Eli Lara, violoncello
Layered (2017)
Commissioned by Elizabeth Paszkiewicz
Missouri Contemporary Ballet & Island Moving Company
Choreography: Karen Mareck Grundy
Composer: Molly Healey
Costume Design: Alex J Gordon
Dancers: Nicole Bell, Vincent Brewer, Brooke Di Francesco, Elise Mosbacher, Lauren Di Fede, Tara Gragg, Timur Kan, Glen Lewis, Katie Moorhead, Fernando Rodriguez, Christine Sandorfi Anthony Sigler, Caitlin Sloan, José Soares, Meredith Green Soares, Alice Wells, Kay Whitney
Duo for Violin and Cello (1925)
IV. FINALE: Moderato - Allegro deciso – Presto
Composer: Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942)
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Eli Lara, violoncello
Flirting (2018)
Island Moving Company
Choreography: Kevin Jenkins
Music: Ludwig Von Beethoven, Edward Grieg
Costumes: Eileen Stoops
Dancers: Vincent Brewer, Brooke Di Francesco, Shane Farrell, Lauren Di Fede, Tara Gragg, Timur Kan, Glen Lewis, Katie Moorhead
15 minute intermission
Cinderella (2018)
Choreography: Karen Mareck Grundy & Fernando Rodriguez
Music: Suite from Cinderella, Op. 87 for two pianos, arr. M. Pletnev
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
I.Introduction. Andante dolce
II.Quarrel. Allegretto
III.Winter. Adagio
IV.Spring. Vivace con brio
V.Cinderella's Waltz. Andante – Allegretto
VI.Gavotte. Allegretto
VII.Gallop. Presto
VIII.Valse lente. Adagio
IX.Finale. Allegro moderato
Costumes: Deborah Green
Ayako Tsuruto, piano I
Peter Miyamoto, piano II
Casting (In Order of Appearance)
Godmother: Kay Whitney
Stepmother: Elise Mosbacher
Stepsisters: Nicole Bell & Caitlin Sloan
Cinderella: Meredith Green Soares
Design Team
Dress: Alice Wells
Hair: José Soares
Shoes: Fernando Rodriguez
Eligible Bachelor: Anthony Sigler
Gala Attendees: Island Moving Company
“Missouri Contemporary Ballet presents Cinderella.”
Fugitive Ground (2018)
Island Moving Company
Choreography: Danielle Genest
Music: John Tavener
Costumes: Eileen Stoops
Dancers: Vincent Brewer, Brooke Di Francesco, Shane Farrell, Lauren Di Fede, Tara Gragg, Timur Kan, Glen Lewis, Katie Moorhead, Christine Sandorfi
Duo for Violin and Cello (1925)
II. ZINGARESCA: Allegro giocoso
Composer: Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942)
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Eli Lara, violoncello
Layered (2017)
Commissioned by Elizabeth Paszkiewicz
Missouri Contemporary Ballet & Island Moving Company
Choreography: Karen Mareck Grundy
Composer: Molly Healey
Costume Design: Alex J Gordon
Dancers: Nicole Bell, Vincent Brewer, Brooke Di Francesco, Elise Mosbacher, Lauren Di Fede, Tara Gragg, Timur Kan, Glen Lewis, Katie Moorhead, Fernando Rodriguez, Christine Sandorfi Anthony Sigler, Caitlin Sloan, José Soares, Meredith Green Soares, Alice Wells, Kay Whitney
Duo for Violin and Cello (1925)
IV. FINALE: Moderato - Allegro deciso – Presto
Composer: Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942)
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Eli Lara, violoncello
Flirting (2018)
Island Moving Company
Choreography: Kevin Jenkins
Music: Ludwig Von Beethoven, Edward Grieg
Costumes: Eileen Stoops
Dancers: Vincent Brewer, Brooke Di Francesco, Shane Farrell, Lauren Di Fede, Tara Gragg, Timur Kan, Glen Lewis, Katie Moorhead
15 minute intermission
Cinderella (2018)
Choreography: Karen Mareck Grundy & Fernando Rodriguez
Music: Suite from Cinderella, Op. 87 for two pianos, arr. M. Pletnev
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
I.Introduction. Andante dolce
II.Quarrel. Allegretto
III.Winter. Adagio
IV.Spring. Vivace con brio
V.Cinderella's Waltz. Andante – Allegretto
VI.Gavotte. Allegretto
VII.Gallop. Presto
VIII.Valse lente. Adagio
IX.Finale. Allegro moderato
Costumes: Deborah Green
Ayako Tsuruto, piano I
Peter Miyamoto, piano II
Casting (In Order of Appearance)
Godmother: Kay Whitney
Stepmother: Elise Mosbacher
Stepsisters: Nicole Bell & Caitlin Sloan
Cinderella: Meredith Green Soares
Design Team
Dress: Alice Wells
Hair: José Soares
Shoes: Fernando Rodriguez
Eligible Bachelor: Anthony Sigler
Gala Attendees: Island Moving Company
April 30, 2018 (Mon), 7pm: DBRL Lecture Series
Join oboist Dr. Alison Robuck in Odyssey's FREE Pre-concert Lecture Series!
On Monday, April 30 from 7:00-7:45 in the Friends Room at the Daniel Boone Regional Library, Dr. Robuck will speak about Mendelssohn and Schumann. Learn about these musicians and enhance your enjoyment to the live concerts that much more. Free Admission to the Monday night lecture.
*Bonus* There will also be a drawing for a free pair of concert tickets.
Hope to see you there!
On Monday, April 30 from 7:00-7:45 in the Friends Room at the Daniel Boone Regional Library, Dr. Robuck will speak about Mendelssohn and Schumann. Learn about these musicians and enhance your enjoyment to the live concerts that much more. Free Admission to the Monday night lecture.
*Bonus* There will also be a drawing for a free pair of concert tickets.
Hope to see you there!
May 4, 2018 (Fri), 6:45pm Pre-Concert,
and 7:00pm "Life & Love: Liebeslieder"
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May 4, 2018
"Life & Love: Liebeslieder"
6:45pm Pre-concert:
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937):
Piano Concerto in G Major (1929-1931)
I. Allegramente
Holly Quist, soloist
Ross Dryer, orchestral accompaniment
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809):
Sonata in E Minor, Hob. XVI: 34 (ca. 1783)
I. Presto
Benedetto Colagvianni, piano
7:00pm
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Overture, from "The Midsummer Night's Dream" Op. 21 (1826) for four hands [12'00]
Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Robert Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42 (1830) [25'30]
Text by Adelbert von Chamisso
"Seit ich ihn gesehen" ("Since I Saw Him")
"Er, der Herrlichste von allen" ("He, the Noblest of All")
"Ich kann's nicht fassen, nicht glauben" ("I Cannot Grasp or Believe It")
"Du Ring an meinem Finger" ("You Ring Upon My Finger")
"Helft mir, ihr Schwestern" ("Help Me, Sisters")
"Süßer Freund, du blickest mich verwundert an" ("Sweet Friend, You Gaze")
"An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust" ("At My Heart, At My Breast")
"Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan" ("Now You Have Caused Me Pain for the First Time")
Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Intermission
F. Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet, Op. 110 (1824) [37’00]
I. Allegro vivace
II. Adagio
III. Menuetto: Agitato
IV. Allegro vivace
Eva Szekely, violin
Leslie Perna and Julie Rosenfeld, viola
Eli Lara, violoncello
Sue Stubbs, double bass
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
"Life & Love: Liebeslieder"
6:45pm Pre-concert:
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937):
Piano Concerto in G Major (1929-1931)
I. Allegramente
Holly Quist, soloist
Ross Dryer, orchestral accompaniment
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809):
Sonata in E Minor, Hob. XVI: 34 (ca. 1783)
I. Presto
Benedetto Colagvianni, piano
7:00pm
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Overture, from "The Midsummer Night's Dream" Op. 21 (1826) for four hands [12'00]
Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Robert Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42 (1830) [25'30]
Text by Adelbert von Chamisso
"Seit ich ihn gesehen" ("Since I Saw Him")
"Er, der Herrlichste von allen" ("He, the Noblest of All")
"Ich kann's nicht fassen, nicht glauben" ("I Cannot Grasp or Believe It")
"Du Ring an meinem Finger" ("You Ring Upon My Finger")
"Helft mir, ihr Schwestern" ("Help Me, Sisters")
"Süßer Freund, du blickest mich verwundert an" ("Sweet Friend, You Gaze")
"An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust" ("At My Heart, At My Breast")
"Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan" ("Now You Have Caused Me Pain for the First Time")
Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Intermission
F. Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet, Op. 110 (1824) [37’00]
I. Allegro vivace
II. Adagio
III. Menuetto: Agitato
IV. Allegro vivace
Eva Szekely, violin
Leslie Perna and Julie Rosenfeld, viola
Eli Lara, violoncello
Sue Stubbs, double bass
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
June 3, 2018
"Vox Nova"
First Baptist Church of Columbia
2:45pm Pre-concert:
Sergei Prokofiev: from "Romeo & Juliet" Suite Op. 75
IV. Juliet as a Young Girl
Justin Hahm, piano
Anton Arensky (1861-1906): Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 32 (1894)
I. Allegro
Thornbrook Piano Trio
Sejoon Jun, violin
Ryan Choe, violoncello
Henry Huang, piano
3:00pm
Idumea arr. Richard Bjella
I am the Rose of Sharon William Billings
Not One Sparrow is Forgotten arr. William Hawley
Beautiful Morning John Wykoff
Psalm 67 Charles Ives
By & By arr. Carol Barnett
Autumn Jussi Chydenius
Frè O Sten Källman
Berusa Er! Sten Källman
Northern Lights Ola Gjeilo
Pseudo-Yoik Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
Intermission
Eternal, Fleeting: Our Souls Meeting Erin Hoerchler
Extase Hans Bridger Heruth
O vos angeli Paul Seitz
Ave Verum Corpus Ryan Hampton
Und fast ein Mädchen wars... Trey Makler
Te lucis ante terminum Levente Gyöngyösi
"Vox Nova"
First Baptist Church of Columbia
2:45pm Pre-concert:
Sergei Prokofiev: from "Romeo & Juliet" Suite Op. 75
IV. Juliet as a Young Girl
Justin Hahm, piano
Anton Arensky (1861-1906): Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 32 (1894)
I. Allegro
Thornbrook Piano Trio
Sejoon Jun, violin
Ryan Choe, violoncello
Henry Huang, piano
3:00pm
Idumea arr. Richard Bjella
I am the Rose of Sharon William Billings
Not One Sparrow is Forgotten arr. William Hawley
Beautiful Morning John Wykoff
Psalm 67 Charles Ives
By & By arr. Carol Barnett
Autumn Jussi Chydenius
Frè O Sten Källman
Berusa Er! Sten Källman
Northern Lights Ola Gjeilo
Pseudo-Yoik Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
Intermission
Eternal, Fleeting: Our Souls Meeting Erin Hoerchler
Extase Hans Bridger Heruth
O vos angeli Paul Seitz
Ave Verum Corpus Ryan Hampton
Und fast ein Mädchen wars... Trey Makler
Te lucis ante terminum Levente Gyöngyösi
Vox Nova (founded 2014) is a vocal chamber choral group based in Columbia, Missouri. The musicians in the ensemble are established music educators, conductors, and professional vocalists. Many of the members are winners of various vocal competitions, as well as perform with other professional choirs, prominent music festivals, and chamber opera and musical theatre companies, both locally and across the United States. Vox Nova is committed to choral excellence and to spreading choral music to listening audiences. In its upcoming seasons, Vox Nova will be collaborating with native Columbia chamber ensembles and composers. Vox Nova has appeared with the Odyssey Chamber Music Series, and have been selected as national semifinalists in the professional division of The American Prize in Choral Performance.
Robert Battle, originally from St. Louis, is glad to be returning for his fourth season with Vox Nova. He received his undergrad in music education from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance while also performing with the Kansas City Symphony Chorus. Battle is the Artistic Director of the Columbia Public Schools 5th Grade Honors Choir, sings with the Prometheus Vocal Consort, and is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, the National Association for Music Education, and the Barbershop Harmony Society. He received his master’s degree in public affairs from the University of Missouri. An active voice teacher and advocate for equal arts opportunities in urban areas, Battle spends most of his off time dancing, gardening, running, cooking, playing in the indie rock band, Dream Squeeze and fronting the neo-soul band, Certified Organic. Battle serves on boards for the Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri, the Missouri Alliance for Arts Education, and the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture.
Emily Bennett has performed the roles of Morgana (Alcina), Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Miss Pinkerton (The Old Maid and the Thief), Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), and chorus roles with Michigan Opera Theatre and the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. As a concert soloist, she has performed with the Missouri Civic Orchestra and Choral Union, the Kalamazoo Bach Festival, the Rackham Symphony Choir, and the Tallahassee Community Chorus, performing: Bach’s B Minor Mass, St. John’s Passion, and Magnificat, Beethoven’s Mass in C and Choral Fantasia, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat, Mozart’s Requiem and Missa brevis in F, Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light, and Orff’s Carmina Burana. Ms. Bennett holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Missouri and a Master of Music from Florida State University studying vocal performance with Ann Harrell and Stanford Olsen respectively, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Kansas, under Joyce Castle.
Betsy Jane Bledsoe, Kansas City native, graduated from the University of Missouri (BM) and Michigan State University (MM). Studying vocal performance, she performed several operatic roles, including Serpetta in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera and was a winner of the 2012 Missouri NATS competition. Betsy can be seen performing and directing music theater in the Kansas City area. Her favorite roles include Eliza Doolittle from My Fair Lady, Luisa from The Fantasticks, and Kate Monster from Avenue Q. An accomplished saxophonist, Betsy is a founding member of the Missing Pearl Saxophone Quartet and has performed in the band for shows at Musical Theater Heritage in Crown Center. In between music gigs Betsy directs and arranges music for the Asbury United Methodist Handbell Choir and works as a pharmacy technician at Children's Mercy Hospital.
Jacob Clifford graduated from the University of Missouri with a Classics degree. During his time at MU, Mr. Clifford was highly involved in several of the choral ensembles, performing with University Singers, Chamber Singers, and Mizzou’s male a cappella ensemble, Add 9. He made his opera debut with Show-Me Opera’s production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, singing the role of Sarastro. He has been a soloist for Columbia Chorale, and received vocal instruction from Christine Seitz. Jake and his wife, Karen, live in Columbia with their son Calvin, who was born last April.
Logan Contreras is a native of Fort Collins, Colorado. Upcoming performances include the alto soloist in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with the Donald and Karen Bailey Choral Festival. Operatic performances this season have included the Witch (Hänsel und Gretel), Eduige (Rodelinda), and selections as Octavian from Der Rosenkavalier. Prior performances have included Mrs. Herring (Albert Herring), Mrs. Grose cover (Turn of the Screw), Zweite Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Mercedes and Carmen cover (Carmen), La tasse, La chatte, L'écureuil (L’enfant et les Sortileges), Alma March (Little Women), Serse (Serse), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), and Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro). Ms. Contreras holds a B.M. from the University of Northern Colorado and a M.M. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is currently pursuing a D.M.A. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City where she has held a GTA since 2014, and serves as adjunct voice faculty at Rockhurst University in Kansas City.
Lacey Gladden, Fayette native, is in her fourth year of teaching K-12 Vocal Music in the Glasgow and New Franklin school districts. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance from Central Methodist University as well as a Master’s degree in Voice from the University of Kansas. She enjoys teaching private voice, flute, and piano to students in central Missouri. Lacey has been a featured soloist on several concerts and recitals throughout her career, and has performed many roles with the Opera Theatre at Central Methodist University and the University of Kansas, including Pamina in The Magic Flute, Yum-Yum in The Mikado, Patience in Patience, Lucy in The Telephone, Mabel in Pirates of Penzance, Mariane in Tartuffe, Rapunzel in Into the Woods, April in Company, Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro,and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte. Outside of teaching and singing, her most important job is being a mom to Clay David.
Darrell J. Jordan has been praised for his “shining, beautiful voice” (Broadway World), and his “classic farce performance” (Seattle Weekly). He holds a B.A. in both Psychology and Music and a M.M. in Voice Performance from the University of Missouri. He is currently pursuing his D.M.A. in Voice Performance at the University of Washington under the tutelage of Dr. Kari Ragan. Recent solo concert engagements have been with Amherst Early Music Festival, the Odyssey Chamber Music Series, Rolla Choral Arts Society, Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri, the Missouri Symphony, the Southside Philharmonic Orchestra, the Toledo Symphony, and the Seattle Art Song Society. Opera credits include St. Louis Opera Collective, Haymarket Opera Company, Gateway Opera, the Institute for 17th Century Music, the Show-Me Opera, Lawrence Opera Theatre, the Puget Sound Concert Opera, Pacific NW Opera, Operamuse, and Seattle Opera. He can be heard as the baritone soloist on The St. Lawrence Psalter by Wolfgang Reisinger.
Ian Meyer comes from Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he teaches music at Sunrise Elementary. Originally from Missouri, he received a Bachelor's in Vocal Music Education and a Piano Pedagogy Certificate from the University of Missouri, where he was an active member of the University Singers, the Show-Me Opera, and performed with the Missouri Symphony as well as local chamber group Exit 128 to premier new music. Previous instruction has been with Steven Tharp, Dr. Natalia Bolshakova, and Dr. Paola Savvidou. His opera credits include Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi), Basillio (Le nozze di Figaro), John (Hatrack), and Dr. Blind (Die Fledermaus). He attended the Amherst Early Music Festival in New London, Connecticut, in 2015 and can be heard as the tenor soloist on The St. Lawrence Psalter by Wolfgang Reisinger. As a soloist and ensemble member, Ian has performed with the Jefferson City Symphony, early music group Pro-Arte of Saint Louis, and he maintains active membership in Vox Nova.
Mickey Miller is a native of Kansas City, Missouri. She recently completed her M.M. from Louisiana State University and earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Missouri in Columbia. Currently based in Louisiana, she performs regularly in concert, operatic, and recital settings. During her time at LSU, Miller performed several leading roles including Countess Almaviva, Anne Truelove, Yum-Yum, and Johanna (Sweeney Todd). As a resident artist with Opera Louisiane, she was involved in regular performances and outreach. In addition to her operatic work, Miller enjoys regular chamber and choral collaboration. She enthusiastically champions new works: recent performances include premieres of Nelson’s “The wanderer speaks to the moon” for soprano and chorus, Mitchell’s “Sleep Songs,” and Constantidines' "Mutability.” She can be seen this April as Baroness Angelina in Dinos Constantidines' opera Rosanna. Mickey serves as a marketing associate with Opera Louisiane and maintains a private voice studio.
Nollie Moore is director of the Columbia College Music Program has been director of the Jane Froman Singers since 1999. He holds both a B.S. and a M.M. in Music Education from the University of Missouri. Under his leadership, the Jane Froman Singers have established a tradition of successful collaborations with mid-Missouri arts organizations in acclaimed performances. Concert tours have taken members to New York City’s Carnegie Hall; the great cathedrals of Scotland, England, Austria, Ireland, Italy; and concert halls in China. Away from campus, Moore is active as a professional tenor singing regularly with the Missouri Symphony Orchestra, for which he has sung leading roles in Die Fledermaus, La Traviata, Madama Butterfly, and Carmen. He also maintains a private voice studio. Nollie lives in Columbia with Julia, his wife of 27 years. They have two sons, Logan and Carter, both studying Music Education at Columbia College.
Hugh Naughtin has a B.M. in Vocal Performance from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, where he studied with Patrice Michaels. Since graduating in 2007, Hugh has sung in the Chicago Symphony Chorus, the Grant Park Chorus, and the Chicago-based a cappella ensemble Bella Voce. He is currently in his 9th season with the Grammy Award-winning Kansas City Chorale. He works at the University of Kansas at the Center for Public Partnerships and Research. Hugh resides in Lawrence, Kansas, with his wife and fellow Vox-er, Rachel Naughtin.
Rachel Naughtin believes that teaching and performing go hand in hand. Since moving to Lawrence, Kansas, in 2013, Rachel has become an active performer and educator in the area. She currently teaches elementary general music and musical theatre classes in Lawrence while continuing to pursue a performance career and maintain a thriving private voice studio. Rachel has sung with Te Deum Chamber Choir, Lawrence Opera Theatre, Kansas City Opera Institute, and the Kansas City Chorale. In 2013, Rachel completed a M.M. in Vocal Performance at the University of Missouri. There, she had a voice teaching assistantship and performed the role of Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, among other roles. Rachel earned her Bachelor of Music degree with majors in Vocal Performance & Choral/General Music Education from Lawrence University Conservatory of Music (2011). She has performed repertoire spanning five-centuries and welcomes the opportunity to explore new music.
Christine Jarquio Nichols is an active music educator, singer, conductor, and pianist in Columbia. She is in her fifth year of teaching middle school vocal music, with which she is completely in love. Christine co-directs the Columbia Public Schools 5th Grade Honors Choir, directs and accompanies various ensembles with the Columbia Youth Choirs, and maintains a private voice studio. She is a frequent vocal concert soloist in the mid-Missouri area. Her most memorable operatic role was singing the sassy Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte. Last year, she performed the role of Hänsel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel and Gretel with her own middle school students singing in the children’s chorus! Christine enjoys singing in professional choral ensembles Prometheus, Pro-Arte of St. Louis, and Vox Nova. She holds a dual Master of Music in Voice Performance and Choral Conducting, and a Bachelor of Science in Vocal Music Education, both from the University of Missouri in Columbia.
Christina Ray is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at University of Missouri-Kansas City with Dr. Aidan Soder. She made her debut with UMKC Opera as Hänsel this fall in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel. Ms. Ray completed the MM at LSU, and also holds a BM from the University of Missouri. Her leading roles include Zosha (Part One of Jake Heggie's Out of Darkness), Isabella (L'Italiana in Algeri), The Beggar Woman (Sweeney Todd), Katisha (The Mikado), and Béatrice (Béatrice et Bénédict). Ms. Ray has also participated in past summer programs such as Opera in the Ozarks and Opera Academy of California, where she portrayed title roles in La Cenerentola and Il Giasone. She was a recipient of the 2016 Encouragement Award at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, in Little Rock, AR. Currently, she teaches private voice at Music/Arts Institute in Independence.
Catherine Sandstedt is soon to finish her M.M. in Vocal Performance at Stony Brook University, where she studies voice with Brenda Harris. Catherine has really enjoyed her time at Stony Brook so far, namely performing the role of Mélisande in the adaptation of Debussy’s opera Impressions de Pelléas. In addition, she has performed with the University Orchestra as a soloist for Handel’s Messiah; performed a duet from Derrick Wang’s new opera Scalia/Ginsburg, with the composer himself playing the piano; and performed the premiere of Nathan Heidelberger’s work, “Come il vento tra queste piante” with the Contemporary Chamber Players. Catherine has also had great pleasure singing with the Marble Church Choir in New York City. She performed Le nozze di Figaro (Susanna) and The Crucible (Mary Warren) while at the University of Missouri; as well as Almirena in Handel’s Rinaldo while at Opera NEO’s 2015 summer program.
Jared Smith is a second-year graduate student at the University of Missouri studying Music Education. As part of his assistantship, Jared works with Marching Mizzou and the concert bands, assists with the basic the conducting course, and performs and recruits with the Mizzou Brass Quintet. Prior to returning to the University to pursue a Master of Music degree, Jared taught for six years as an elementary music specialist for Columbia Public Schools and received his Bachelor of Music Education degree, also from the University of Missouri. Outside of Vox Nova, Jared plays bass trombone in the Columbia Jazz Orchestra and the Missouri Symphony Orchestra. He can be seen performing around Columbia and St. Louis in local band Saint Gnome, as well as other local ensembles throughout the Mid-Missouri area.
Jeremy Wagner is a senior pursuing degrees in both Vocal Performance and Vocal Music Education at the University of Missouri (Columbia) under the tutelage of Steven Tharp. He recently performed in the vocal competition hosted by the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and took second place. Jeremy will be singing the role of Sarastro in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in March 2018, following a series of successful performances with the Show-Me Opera Workshop and Missouri Symphony Society. Jeremy was recently the Music Director at First Christian Church in Centralia, Missouri for the past three years and now performs at Broadway Christian Church in Columbia, Missouri. He is the President of the Student Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association at the University of Missouri and the President of the Music Student Advisory Council.
Jordan Blane Walker attended both Evangel University for his degree in Music Education (BM) and the University of Missouri where he worked on a M.M. in Choral Conducting with Dr. R. Paul Crabb. An active chorister and director, Mr. Walker has performed with and directed/assistant directed numerous choral ensembles including Vox Nova, the church choirs of First Presbyterian Church of Columbia and First Presbyterian Church in Fulton, and University Singers (UM). Mr. Walker has also performed the role of Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Barnaby Tucker in Hello, Dolly!, and Charlie Brown in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. He is currently an elementary music specialist in the Columbia Public School District and looks forward to fostering a culture of choral singing among younger singers, as well as nurturing a mindset of critical thinking, self-dependency, competence, and self-efficacy with students living in poverty.
Robert Battle, originally from St. Louis, is glad to be returning for his fourth season with Vox Nova. He received his undergrad in music education from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance while also performing with the Kansas City Symphony Chorus. Battle is the Artistic Director of the Columbia Public Schools 5th Grade Honors Choir, sings with the Prometheus Vocal Consort, and is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, the National Association for Music Education, and the Barbershop Harmony Society. He received his master’s degree in public affairs from the University of Missouri. An active voice teacher and advocate for equal arts opportunities in urban areas, Battle spends most of his off time dancing, gardening, running, cooking, playing in the indie rock band, Dream Squeeze and fronting the neo-soul band, Certified Organic. Battle serves on boards for the Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri, the Missouri Alliance for Arts Education, and the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture.
Emily Bennett has performed the roles of Morgana (Alcina), Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Miss Pinkerton (The Old Maid and the Thief), Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), and chorus roles with Michigan Opera Theatre and the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. As a concert soloist, she has performed with the Missouri Civic Orchestra and Choral Union, the Kalamazoo Bach Festival, the Rackham Symphony Choir, and the Tallahassee Community Chorus, performing: Bach’s B Minor Mass, St. John’s Passion, and Magnificat, Beethoven’s Mass in C and Choral Fantasia, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat, Mozart’s Requiem and Missa brevis in F, Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light, and Orff’s Carmina Burana. Ms. Bennett holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Missouri and a Master of Music from Florida State University studying vocal performance with Ann Harrell and Stanford Olsen respectively, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Kansas, under Joyce Castle.
Betsy Jane Bledsoe, Kansas City native, graduated from the University of Missouri (BM) and Michigan State University (MM). Studying vocal performance, she performed several operatic roles, including Serpetta in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera and was a winner of the 2012 Missouri NATS competition. Betsy can be seen performing and directing music theater in the Kansas City area. Her favorite roles include Eliza Doolittle from My Fair Lady, Luisa from The Fantasticks, and Kate Monster from Avenue Q. An accomplished saxophonist, Betsy is a founding member of the Missing Pearl Saxophone Quartet and has performed in the band for shows at Musical Theater Heritage in Crown Center. In between music gigs Betsy directs and arranges music for the Asbury United Methodist Handbell Choir and works as a pharmacy technician at Children's Mercy Hospital.
Jacob Clifford graduated from the University of Missouri with a Classics degree. During his time at MU, Mr. Clifford was highly involved in several of the choral ensembles, performing with University Singers, Chamber Singers, and Mizzou’s male a cappella ensemble, Add 9. He made his opera debut with Show-Me Opera’s production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, singing the role of Sarastro. He has been a soloist for Columbia Chorale, and received vocal instruction from Christine Seitz. Jake and his wife, Karen, live in Columbia with their son Calvin, who was born last April.
Logan Contreras is a native of Fort Collins, Colorado. Upcoming performances include the alto soloist in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with the Donald and Karen Bailey Choral Festival. Operatic performances this season have included the Witch (Hänsel und Gretel), Eduige (Rodelinda), and selections as Octavian from Der Rosenkavalier. Prior performances have included Mrs. Herring (Albert Herring), Mrs. Grose cover (Turn of the Screw), Zweite Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Mercedes and Carmen cover (Carmen), La tasse, La chatte, L'écureuil (L’enfant et les Sortileges), Alma March (Little Women), Serse (Serse), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), and Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro). Ms. Contreras holds a B.M. from the University of Northern Colorado and a M.M. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is currently pursuing a D.M.A. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City where she has held a GTA since 2014, and serves as adjunct voice faculty at Rockhurst University in Kansas City.
Lacey Gladden, Fayette native, is in her fourth year of teaching K-12 Vocal Music in the Glasgow and New Franklin school districts. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance from Central Methodist University as well as a Master’s degree in Voice from the University of Kansas. She enjoys teaching private voice, flute, and piano to students in central Missouri. Lacey has been a featured soloist on several concerts and recitals throughout her career, and has performed many roles with the Opera Theatre at Central Methodist University and the University of Kansas, including Pamina in The Magic Flute, Yum-Yum in The Mikado, Patience in Patience, Lucy in The Telephone, Mabel in Pirates of Penzance, Mariane in Tartuffe, Rapunzel in Into the Woods, April in Company, Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro,and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte. Outside of teaching and singing, her most important job is being a mom to Clay David.
Darrell J. Jordan has been praised for his “shining, beautiful voice” (Broadway World), and his “classic farce performance” (Seattle Weekly). He holds a B.A. in both Psychology and Music and a M.M. in Voice Performance from the University of Missouri. He is currently pursuing his D.M.A. in Voice Performance at the University of Washington under the tutelage of Dr. Kari Ragan. Recent solo concert engagements have been with Amherst Early Music Festival, the Odyssey Chamber Music Series, Rolla Choral Arts Society, Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri, the Missouri Symphony, the Southside Philharmonic Orchestra, the Toledo Symphony, and the Seattle Art Song Society. Opera credits include St. Louis Opera Collective, Haymarket Opera Company, Gateway Opera, the Institute for 17th Century Music, the Show-Me Opera, Lawrence Opera Theatre, the Puget Sound Concert Opera, Pacific NW Opera, Operamuse, and Seattle Opera. He can be heard as the baritone soloist on The St. Lawrence Psalter by Wolfgang Reisinger.
Ian Meyer comes from Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he teaches music at Sunrise Elementary. Originally from Missouri, he received a Bachelor's in Vocal Music Education and a Piano Pedagogy Certificate from the University of Missouri, where he was an active member of the University Singers, the Show-Me Opera, and performed with the Missouri Symphony as well as local chamber group Exit 128 to premier new music. Previous instruction has been with Steven Tharp, Dr. Natalia Bolshakova, and Dr. Paola Savvidou. His opera credits include Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi), Basillio (Le nozze di Figaro), John (Hatrack), and Dr. Blind (Die Fledermaus). He attended the Amherst Early Music Festival in New London, Connecticut, in 2015 and can be heard as the tenor soloist on The St. Lawrence Psalter by Wolfgang Reisinger. As a soloist and ensemble member, Ian has performed with the Jefferson City Symphony, early music group Pro-Arte of Saint Louis, and he maintains active membership in Vox Nova.
Mickey Miller is a native of Kansas City, Missouri. She recently completed her M.M. from Louisiana State University and earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Missouri in Columbia. Currently based in Louisiana, she performs regularly in concert, operatic, and recital settings. During her time at LSU, Miller performed several leading roles including Countess Almaviva, Anne Truelove, Yum-Yum, and Johanna (Sweeney Todd). As a resident artist with Opera Louisiane, she was involved in regular performances and outreach. In addition to her operatic work, Miller enjoys regular chamber and choral collaboration. She enthusiastically champions new works: recent performances include premieres of Nelson’s “The wanderer speaks to the moon” for soprano and chorus, Mitchell’s “Sleep Songs,” and Constantidines' "Mutability.” She can be seen this April as Baroness Angelina in Dinos Constantidines' opera Rosanna. Mickey serves as a marketing associate with Opera Louisiane and maintains a private voice studio.
Nollie Moore is director of the Columbia College Music Program has been director of the Jane Froman Singers since 1999. He holds both a B.S. and a M.M. in Music Education from the University of Missouri. Under his leadership, the Jane Froman Singers have established a tradition of successful collaborations with mid-Missouri arts organizations in acclaimed performances. Concert tours have taken members to New York City’s Carnegie Hall; the great cathedrals of Scotland, England, Austria, Ireland, Italy; and concert halls in China. Away from campus, Moore is active as a professional tenor singing regularly with the Missouri Symphony Orchestra, for which he has sung leading roles in Die Fledermaus, La Traviata, Madama Butterfly, and Carmen. He also maintains a private voice studio. Nollie lives in Columbia with Julia, his wife of 27 years. They have two sons, Logan and Carter, both studying Music Education at Columbia College.
Hugh Naughtin has a B.M. in Vocal Performance from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, where he studied with Patrice Michaels. Since graduating in 2007, Hugh has sung in the Chicago Symphony Chorus, the Grant Park Chorus, and the Chicago-based a cappella ensemble Bella Voce. He is currently in his 9th season with the Grammy Award-winning Kansas City Chorale. He works at the University of Kansas at the Center for Public Partnerships and Research. Hugh resides in Lawrence, Kansas, with his wife and fellow Vox-er, Rachel Naughtin.
Rachel Naughtin believes that teaching and performing go hand in hand. Since moving to Lawrence, Kansas, in 2013, Rachel has become an active performer and educator in the area. She currently teaches elementary general music and musical theatre classes in Lawrence while continuing to pursue a performance career and maintain a thriving private voice studio. Rachel has sung with Te Deum Chamber Choir, Lawrence Opera Theatre, Kansas City Opera Institute, and the Kansas City Chorale. In 2013, Rachel completed a M.M. in Vocal Performance at the University of Missouri. There, she had a voice teaching assistantship and performed the role of Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, among other roles. Rachel earned her Bachelor of Music degree with majors in Vocal Performance & Choral/General Music Education from Lawrence University Conservatory of Music (2011). She has performed repertoire spanning five-centuries and welcomes the opportunity to explore new music.
Christine Jarquio Nichols is an active music educator, singer, conductor, and pianist in Columbia. She is in her fifth year of teaching middle school vocal music, with which she is completely in love. Christine co-directs the Columbia Public Schools 5th Grade Honors Choir, directs and accompanies various ensembles with the Columbia Youth Choirs, and maintains a private voice studio. She is a frequent vocal concert soloist in the mid-Missouri area. Her most memorable operatic role was singing the sassy Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte. Last year, she performed the role of Hänsel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel and Gretel with her own middle school students singing in the children’s chorus! Christine enjoys singing in professional choral ensembles Prometheus, Pro-Arte of St. Louis, and Vox Nova. She holds a dual Master of Music in Voice Performance and Choral Conducting, and a Bachelor of Science in Vocal Music Education, both from the University of Missouri in Columbia.
Christina Ray is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at University of Missouri-Kansas City with Dr. Aidan Soder. She made her debut with UMKC Opera as Hänsel this fall in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel. Ms. Ray completed the MM at LSU, and also holds a BM from the University of Missouri. Her leading roles include Zosha (Part One of Jake Heggie's Out of Darkness), Isabella (L'Italiana in Algeri), The Beggar Woman (Sweeney Todd), Katisha (The Mikado), and Béatrice (Béatrice et Bénédict). Ms. Ray has also participated in past summer programs such as Opera in the Ozarks and Opera Academy of California, where she portrayed title roles in La Cenerentola and Il Giasone. She was a recipient of the 2016 Encouragement Award at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, in Little Rock, AR. Currently, she teaches private voice at Music/Arts Institute in Independence.
Catherine Sandstedt is soon to finish her M.M. in Vocal Performance at Stony Brook University, where she studies voice with Brenda Harris. Catherine has really enjoyed her time at Stony Brook so far, namely performing the role of Mélisande in the adaptation of Debussy’s opera Impressions de Pelléas. In addition, she has performed with the University Orchestra as a soloist for Handel’s Messiah; performed a duet from Derrick Wang’s new opera Scalia/Ginsburg, with the composer himself playing the piano; and performed the premiere of Nathan Heidelberger’s work, “Come il vento tra queste piante” with the Contemporary Chamber Players. Catherine has also had great pleasure singing with the Marble Church Choir in New York City. She performed Le nozze di Figaro (Susanna) and The Crucible (Mary Warren) while at the University of Missouri; as well as Almirena in Handel’s Rinaldo while at Opera NEO’s 2015 summer program.
Jared Smith is a second-year graduate student at the University of Missouri studying Music Education. As part of his assistantship, Jared works with Marching Mizzou and the concert bands, assists with the basic the conducting course, and performs and recruits with the Mizzou Brass Quintet. Prior to returning to the University to pursue a Master of Music degree, Jared taught for six years as an elementary music specialist for Columbia Public Schools and received his Bachelor of Music Education degree, also from the University of Missouri. Outside of Vox Nova, Jared plays bass trombone in the Columbia Jazz Orchestra and the Missouri Symphony Orchestra. He can be seen performing around Columbia and St. Louis in local band Saint Gnome, as well as other local ensembles throughout the Mid-Missouri area.
Jeremy Wagner is a senior pursuing degrees in both Vocal Performance and Vocal Music Education at the University of Missouri (Columbia) under the tutelage of Steven Tharp. He recently performed in the vocal competition hosted by the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and took second place. Jeremy will be singing the role of Sarastro in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in March 2018, following a series of successful performances with the Show-Me Opera Workshop and Missouri Symphony Society. Jeremy was recently the Music Director at First Christian Church in Centralia, Missouri for the past three years and now performs at Broadway Christian Church in Columbia, Missouri. He is the President of the Student Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association at the University of Missouri and the President of the Music Student Advisory Council.
Jordan Blane Walker attended both Evangel University for his degree in Music Education (BM) and the University of Missouri where he worked on a M.M. in Choral Conducting with Dr. R. Paul Crabb. An active chorister and director, Mr. Walker has performed with and directed/assistant directed numerous choral ensembles including Vox Nova, the church choirs of First Presbyterian Church of Columbia and First Presbyterian Church in Fulton, and University Singers (UM). Mr. Walker has also performed the role of Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Barnaby Tucker in Hello, Dolly!, and Charlie Brown in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. He is currently an elementary music specialist in the Columbia Public School District and looks forward to fostering a culture of choral singing among younger singers, as well as nurturing a mindset of critical thinking, self-dependency, competence, and self-efficacy with students living in poverty.
PAST EVENTS: Season 13
October 5, 2016 CHANTICLEER
Wednesday 7:30pm - First Baptist Church
MY SECRET HEARTS
About:
The secret heart can lead us to strange and wondrous places. This program invokes images of love across time and space. Love: fond and foolish, ribald, romantic, bawdy or bashful. Love: hidden, forbidden, feverish and forever. The seductive, and frequently erotic, verses from the Biblical “Song of Songs” give way to French madrigals based on texts by the legendary Pierre de Ronsard. Stephen Foster and Eric Whitacre sing of love; so does Noël Coward. Russian soldiers far from home burn with desire as Rachmaninoff sings a wordless lullaby. Two special Chanticleer commissions are highlights of the program: a brand new work from the pen of Finnish composer Jaako Mantyjärvi, and five evocative and heart-wrenching poems from “Love Songs” of Augusta Read Thomas, featured in the Grammy-award winning CD “The Colors of Love.”
MY SECRET HEART
Cortez Mitchell, Gerrod Pagenkopf, Kory Reid, Alan Reinhardt, Logan Shields, Adam Ward – soprano and alto
Chris Albanese, Brian Hinman, Andrew Van Allsburg – tenor
Eric Alatorre, Matthew Knickman, Marques Jerrell Ruff – baritone and bass
William Fred Scott, Music Director
I.
“I am the Rose of Sharon”
Poetry from the Song of Songs
Veni, dilecte mi* Sebastián de Vivanco (1551 - 1622)
Nigra sum Jehan L’Héritier (c. 1480 - 1551)
Osculetur me Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 - 1594)
Ego flos campi (a 3) Jacobus Clemens non Papa (c. 1510 - c. 1556)
Surge, propera amica mea Francisco Guerrero (1528 - 1599)
II.
Poetry by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 – 1585)
Bonjour mon coeur Philippe de Monte (1521 - 1603)
Ce ris plus doux Anthoine de Bertrand (c. 1540 - 1581)
Le premier jour du mois de May, Madame de Monte
III.
Poetry by Edith Södergran (1892 - 1923)
“Hommage à Edith” Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (b. 1963)
Commissioned by Chanticleer, 2016 with the support of the Osher Pro Suecia Foundation
IV.
Go, lovely rose Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)
Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway! Stephen Foster (1826 - 1864)
arr. John Musto
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair* Foster, arr. Gene Puerling
Solo: Brian Hinman
This Marriage Whitacre
INTERMISSION
V.
My Blood is Blazing With Desire Mikhail Glinka (1804 - 1857)
Behold, darkness has fallen Sergey Taneyev (1856 - 1915)
Vocalise Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943)
arr. Elger Niels
Solo: Cortez Mitchell
VI.
Love Songs* Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964)
II. “Look out upon the stars, my love…”
III. “Love is a beautiful dream.”
V. “Alas, the love of women! It is known to be a lovely and a fearful thing.”
VI. “For stony limits cannot hold love out.”
VII. “All mankind love a lover.”
Commissioned for Chanticleer, 1997
by Cathy Nicho (for her husband, Raul), Dianne Nolting (for her husband, George Wolter), Bert Dieringer (for his wife, Janna Blanchard), Peter Henschel (for his wife, Kathy), Ron Barrington (for his wife, Christine), Marshall Rutter (for his wife, Terry Knowles), and an anonymous commissioner.
VII.
A selection of popular songs to be selected from…
I’ll Follow My Secret Heart Noël Coward (1899 - 1973)
arr. Adam Ward
Solo: Andrew Van Allsburg
It was a lover and his lass John Rutter (b. 1945)
Les Chemins de l’Amour Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
arr. Evan Price
La Vie en Rose Édith Piaf (1915 - 1963), arr. Price
Solo: Kory Reid
Love Walked In* George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)
arr. Puerling
Frankie and Johnny Trad. American Song
arr. Robert De Cormier
Somebody to Love* Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991)
arr. Vince Peterson
- Program subject to change -
* These works have been recorded by Chanticleer, and are available at tonight’s performance
or through our digital storefront at www.chanticleer.org
Chanticleer is a non-profit organization, governed by a volunteer Board of Trustees, administered by a professional staff with a full-time professional ensemble. In addition to the many individual contributors to Chanticleer, the Board of Trustees thanks the following Foundations, Corporations and Government Agencies for their exceptional support:
The National Endowment for the Arts • Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation • Dunard Fund USA • The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation
The Bernard Osher Foundation • The Bob Ross Foundation
The Wallis Foundation • The Carol Franc Buck Foundation
Chanticleer Staff
Christine Bullin, President & General Director
Tiffany Lucas, Chief Development Officer
Curt Hancock, Director of Operations and Touring
Brian Bauman, Senior Accountant/Budget Manager
Joe Ledbetter, Marketing/Development & IT Systems Manager
Barbara Bock, Development and Marketing Associate
Ben Johns, Director of LAB Choir
Toran Davenport, LAB Choir Manager and Intern
William Fred Scott, Music Director
Kory Reid, Assistant Music Director
Brian Hinman, Road Manager
Matthew Knickman, Merchandise Manager
Marques Jerrell Ruff, Andrew Van Allsburg, Merchandise Associates
Artist Management: Opus 3 Artists, Ltd.
Label Manager: Lisa Nauful
Founder: Louis Botto (1951 – 1997)
Music Director Emeritus: Joseph H. Jennings
Website – www.chanticleer.org
Wednesday 7:30pm - First Baptist Church
MY SECRET HEARTS
About:
The secret heart can lead us to strange and wondrous places. This program invokes images of love across time and space. Love: fond and foolish, ribald, romantic, bawdy or bashful. Love: hidden, forbidden, feverish and forever. The seductive, and frequently erotic, verses from the Biblical “Song of Songs” give way to French madrigals based on texts by the legendary Pierre de Ronsard. Stephen Foster and Eric Whitacre sing of love; so does Noël Coward. Russian soldiers far from home burn with desire as Rachmaninoff sings a wordless lullaby. Two special Chanticleer commissions are highlights of the program: a brand new work from the pen of Finnish composer Jaako Mantyjärvi, and five evocative and heart-wrenching poems from “Love Songs” of Augusta Read Thomas, featured in the Grammy-award winning CD “The Colors of Love.”
MY SECRET HEART
Cortez Mitchell, Gerrod Pagenkopf, Kory Reid, Alan Reinhardt, Logan Shields, Adam Ward – soprano and alto
Chris Albanese, Brian Hinman, Andrew Van Allsburg – tenor
Eric Alatorre, Matthew Knickman, Marques Jerrell Ruff – baritone and bass
William Fred Scott, Music Director
I.
“I am the Rose of Sharon”
Poetry from the Song of Songs
Veni, dilecte mi* Sebastián de Vivanco (1551 - 1622)
Nigra sum Jehan L’Héritier (c. 1480 - 1551)
Osculetur me Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 - 1594)
Ego flos campi (a 3) Jacobus Clemens non Papa (c. 1510 - c. 1556)
Surge, propera amica mea Francisco Guerrero (1528 - 1599)
II.
Poetry by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 – 1585)
Bonjour mon coeur Philippe de Monte (1521 - 1603)
Ce ris plus doux Anthoine de Bertrand (c. 1540 - 1581)
Le premier jour du mois de May, Madame de Monte
III.
Poetry by Edith Södergran (1892 - 1923)
“Hommage à Edith” Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (b. 1963)
Commissioned by Chanticleer, 2016 with the support of the Osher Pro Suecia Foundation
IV.
Go, lovely rose Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)
Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway! Stephen Foster (1826 - 1864)
arr. John Musto
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair* Foster, arr. Gene Puerling
Solo: Brian Hinman
This Marriage Whitacre
INTERMISSION
V.
My Blood is Blazing With Desire Mikhail Glinka (1804 - 1857)
Behold, darkness has fallen Sergey Taneyev (1856 - 1915)
Vocalise Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943)
arr. Elger Niels
Solo: Cortez Mitchell
VI.
Love Songs* Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964)
II. “Look out upon the stars, my love…”
III. “Love is a beautiful dream.”
V. “Alas, the love of women! It is known to be a lovely and a fearful thing.”
VI. “For stony limits cannot hold love out.”
VII. “All mankind love a lover.”
Commissioned for Chanticleer, 1997
by Cathy Nicho (for her husband, Raul), Dianne Nolting (for her husband, George Wolter), Bert Dieringer (for his wife, Janna Blanchard), Peter Henschel (for his wife, Kathy), Ron Barrington (for his wife, Christine), Marshall Rutter (for his wife, Terry Knowles), and an anonymous commissioner.
VII.
A selection of popular songs to be selected from…
I’ll Follow My Secret Heart Noël Coward (1899 - 1973)
arr. Adam Ward
Solo: Andrew Van Allsburg
It was a lover and his lass John Rutter (b. 1945)
Les Chemins de l’Amour Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
arr. Evan Price
La Vie en Rose Édith Piaf (1915 - 1963), arr. Price
Solo: Kory Reid
Love Walked In* George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)
arr. Puerling
Frankie and Johnny Trad. American Song
arr. Robert De Cormier
Somebody to Love* Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991)
arr. Vince Peterson
- Program subject to change -
* These works have been recorded by Chanticleer, and are available at tonight’s performance
or through our digital storefront at www.chanticleer.org
Chanticleer is a non-profit organization, governed by a volunteer Board of Trustees, administered by a professional staff with a full-time professional ensemble. In addition to the many individual contributors to Chanticleer, the Board of Trustees thanks the following Foundations, Corporations and Government Agencies for their exceptional support:
The National Endowment for the Arts • Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation • Dunard Fund USA • The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation
The Bernard Osher Foundation • The Bob Ross Foundation
The Wallis Foundation • The Carol Franc Buck Foundation
Chanticleer Staff
Christine Bullin, President & General Director
Tiffany Lucas, Chief Development Officer
Curt Hancock, Director of Operations and Touring
Brian Bauman, Senior Accountant/Budget Manager
Joe Ledbetter, Marketing/Development & IT Systems Manager
Barbara Bock, Development and Marketing Associate
Ben Johns, Director of LAB Choir
Toran Davenport, LAB Choir Manager and Intern
William Fred Scott, Music Director
Kory Reid, Assistant Music Director
Brian Hinman, Road Manager
Matthew Knickman, Merchandise Manager
Marques Jerrell Ruff, Andrew Van Allsburg, Merchandise Associates
Artist Management: Opus 3 Artists, Ltd.
Label Manager: Lisa Nauful
Founder: Louis Botto (1951 – 1997)
Music Director Emeritus: Joseph H. Jennings
Website – www.chanticleer.org
October 14, 2016 ENCHANTED FALL
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Paul Dukas (1865-1935): The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1896-97) [11'00]
Peter Miyamoto, piano I
Ayako Tsuruta, piano II
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Sonata for Violin and Cello (1920-22) [22'00]
I. Allegro
II. Très vif
III. Lent
IV. Vif, avec entrain
Katrina Savitski, violin
Emma Hoeft, violoncello
Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Cello Sonata (1915) [11'00]
I. Prologue: Lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto
II. Sérénade: Modérément animé
III. Final: Animé, léger et nerveux
Emma Hoeft, violoncello
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Intermission
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959): Piano Trio No. 2 (1915) [31:10]
I. Allegro moderato [9:30]
II. Berceuse - Barcarolla [8:15]
III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace spirituoso [5:10]
IV. Molto allegro [8:15]
Katrina Savitski, violin
Emma Hoeft, violoncello
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Reception will follow.
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Paul Dukas (1865-1935): The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1896-97) [11'00]
Peter Miyamoto, piano I
Ayako Tsuruta, piano II
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Sonata for Violin and Cello (1920-22) [22'00]
I. Allegro
II. Très vif
III. Lent
IV. Vif, avec entrain
Katrina Savitski, violin
Emma Hoeft, violoncello
Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Cello Sonata (1915) [11'00]
I. Prologue: Lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto
II. Sérénade: Modérément animé
III. Final: Animé, léger et nerveux
Emma Hoeft, violoncello
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Intermission
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959): Piano Trio No. 2 (1915) [31:10]
I. Allegro moderato [9:30]
II. Berceuse - Barcarolla [8:15]
III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace spirituoso [5:10]
IV. Molto allegro [8:15]
Katrina Savitski, violin
Emma Hoeft, violoncello
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Reception will follow.
December 2, 2016 HOT WINTER SLEIGH!
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride, arranged for two pianos by Greg Anderson (1946-8) [3'30]
Ayako Tsuruta and Peter Miyamoto, pianos
Barbara White: Small World, for clarinet and marimba [14'00]
I. “ ‘Time is Fleeting’ …” [in memoriam Joe White]
II. “Musical impromptus are no such thing; no one ever improvises,” pronounces Gaudí, savoring a sangria at Els Quatre Gats, the future site of Picasso’s first solo exhibition, one hundred years before the Archbishop of Barcelona names him patron saint of his profession [irreverent impromptu]
III. “¡Viva la maquina escribir!” [cante chico]
Bill Kalinkos and Megan Arns
Global Winter, for percussion duo featuring world instruments [5'00]
Matthew Henry and Megan Arns
Nathan Daughtrey: Burn, for saxophone and marimba (2016) [5'30]
DRAX: Megan Arns and Leo Saguiguit
Traditional, arr. Mark Hanson: Greensleeves, for saxophone and marimba [5'00]
DRAX: Megan Arns and Leo Saguiguit
Guillaume Connesson (b.1970): Techno Parade (2002) [6'00]
Bill Kalinkos, clarinet
Leo Saguiguit, saxophone
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Intermission
Nikolai Kapustin (b.1937): Concerto Op. 104 for two pianos and percussion (2002) [25’00]
I. Allegro moderato
II. Largo-Presto-Largo
III. Allegro impetuoso
Megan Arns and Matthew Henry, percussion
Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta, pianos
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride, arranged for two pianos by Greg Anderson (1946-8) [3'30]
Ayako Tsuruta and Peter Miyamoto, pianos
Barbara White: Small World, for clarinet and marimba [14'00]
I. “ ‘Time is Fleeting’ …” [in memoriam Joe White]
II. “Musical impromptus are no such thing; no one ever improvises,” pronounces Gaudí, savoring a sangria at Els Quatre Gats, the future site of Picasso’s first solo exhibition, one hundred years before the Archbishop of Barcelona names him patron saint of his profession [irreverent impromptu]
III. “¡Viva la maquina escribir!” [cante chico]
Bill Kalinkos and Megan Arns
Global Winter, for percussion duo featuring world instruments [5'00]
Matthew Henry and Megan Arns
Nathan Daughtrey: Burn, for saxophone and marimba (2016) [5'30]
DRAX: Megan Arns and Leo Saguiguit
Traditional, arr. Mark Hanson: Greensleeves, for saxophone and marimba [5'00]
DRAX: Megan Arns and Leo Saguiguit
Guillaume Connesson (b.1970): Techno Parade (2002) [6'00]
Bill Kalinkos, clarinet
Leo Saguiguit, saxophone
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Intermission
Nikolai Kapustin (b.1937): Concerto Op. 104 for two pianos and percussion (2002) [25’00]
I. Allegro moderato
II. Largo-Presto-Largo
III. Allegro impetuoso
Megan Arns and Matthew Henry, percussion
Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta, pianos
***NEW DATE*** January 21, 2017 KIDS@HEART - A Children's Concert: KINDNESS & DIVERSITY
Saturday 2:30pm & 3pm - First Baptist Church
In collaboration with the Children's Grove and Columbia Youth Choirs
FREE ADMISSION; Donations are accepted.
PRE-CONCERT 2:30PM:
Visual Storyboard featuring slides of CG Art and Photo Contest winners; Live Music by pre-collegiate students provided by Odyssey (30 min)
Saruul-Erdene Jagdagdorj, piano (student of Carrie Conklin)
C. Rollin: Starry Night
Kabalevsky: "Tarantella" from Four Rondos, Op. 60
Nicole Parker, cello (student of Maru Manulik)
with Mary Manulik, piano
Squire: Danse Rustique [3'30]
Stephanie Zhang, piano (student of Anne Manahan)
Debussy: "Prelude" from Pour le piano [4'45]
Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G-sharp Minor Op 32 No 12 [3'00]
Henry Huang, piano (student of Dr. Peter Miyamoto)
Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in g minor, Op. 23 [9'30]
CONCERT AT 3PM:
Welcome by The Children's Grove and Odyssey Chamber Music Series
Ed Rollins, Ayako Tsuruta and Dr. Anne Deaton
“Will the Circle be Unbroken” - traditional Appalachian hymn, arr. by J. David Moore
Columbia Conservatory Choir
Emily Edgington Anderson, director
“Benevolence” by Yash Khanna
Yash Khanna
“O, Colored Earth” by Steve Heitzig
Columbia Conservatory Choir
Emily Edgington Anderson, director
Robert Schumann: "Papillons" (Butterflies) & Scarf Dance with dancers
Introduction - No. 1 - No. 2 - No. 10 - No. 11
Lien Hsin "Emily" Lee, piano
The Perlman-Stoy Ballet School with Margaret Straw, soloist
Poetry Reading of “They Say” by Nevaeh Rule
Tyara Butler
“Letter from a Girl to the World” by Andrea Ramsey
Columbia Conservatory Choir
Emily Edgington Anderson, director
with anna provo and Rebecca McDaniel, percussion
"The Crayon Box That Talked" by Pedre & Shane DeRolf
Addison Melton and Deme McBride
Antonín Dvořák: Sonatina in G Major, Op. 100
I. Allegro risoluto
Anya Akhmadullina, violin
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
"Two Worlds" by Samuel Matthews
Kristine Cho
"What A Wonderful World" by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele
performed by TBA with Audience participation
[Approx. 1 hr in duration]
Saturday 2:30pm & 3pm - First Baptist Church
In collaboration with the Children's Grove and Columbia Youth Choirs
FREE ADMISSION; Donations are accepted.
PRE-CONCERT 2:30PM:
Visual Storyboard featuring slides of CG Art and Photo Contest winners; Live Music by pre-collegiate students provided by Odyssey (30 min)
Saruul-Erdene Jagdagdorj, piano (student of Carrie Conklin)
C. Rollin: Starry Night
Kabalevsky: "Tarantella" from Four Rondos, Op. 60
Nicole Parker, cello (student of Maru Manulik)
with Mary Manulik, piano
Squire: Danse Rustique [3'30]
Stephanie Zhang, piano (student of Anne Manahan)
Debussy: "Prelude" from Pour le piano [4'45]
Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G-sharp Minor Op 32 No 12 [3'00]
Henry Huang, piano (student of Dr. Peter Miyamoto)
Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in g minor, Op. 23 [9'30]
CONCERT AT 3PM:
Welcome by The Children's Grove and Odyssey Chamber Music Series
Ed Rollins, Ayako Tsuruta and Dr. Anne Deaton
“Will the Circle be Unbroken” - traditional Appalachian hymn, arr. by J. David Moore
Columbia Conservatory Choir
Emily Edgington Anderson, director
“Benevolence” by Yash Khanna
Yash Khanna
“O, Colored Earth” by Steve Heitzig
Columbia Conservatory Choir
Emily Edgington Anderson, director
Robert Schumann: "Papillons" (Butterflies) & Scarf Dance with dancers
Introduction - No. 1 - No. 2 - No. 10 - No. 11
Lien Hsin "Emily" Lee, piano
The Perlman-Stoy Ballet School with Margaret Straw, soloist
Poetry Reading of “They Say” by Nevaeh Rule
Tyara Butler
“Letter from a Girl to the World” by Andrea Ramsey
Columbia Conservatory Choir
Emily Edgington Anderson, director
with anna provo and Rebecca McDaniel, percussion
"The Crayon Box That Talked" by Pedre & Shane DeRolf
Addison Melton and Deme McBride
Antonín Dvořák: Sonatina in G Major, Op. 100
I. Allegro risoluto
Anya Akhmadullina, violin
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
"Two Worlds" by Samuel Matthews
Kristine Cho
"What A Wonderful World" by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele
performed by TBA with Audience participation
[Approx. 1 hr in duration]
February 18, 2017 BAROQUE & 1916
Saturday 3pm - First Baptist Church
Arnold Bax (1883-1953): Elegac Trio for flute, viola and harp (1916) [9'30]
Kristine Poulsen, flute
Leslie Perna, viola
Maria Duhova Trevor, harp
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Cantata, 'O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe' (O eternal fire, o source of love), BWV 34 (1727) [20'00]
I. Chorus. "O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe" (O eternal fire, o source of love)
II. Recitative. "Herr, unsre Herzen halten dir dein Wort der Wahrheit für" (Lord, our hearts keep Your word of truth fast)
III. Aria. "Wohl euch, ihr auserwählten Seelen, die Gott zur Wohnung ausersehn" (It is well for you, you chosen souls, whom God has designated for his dwelling)
IV. Recitative, "Erwählt sich Gott die heilgen Hütten, die er mit Heil bewohnt" (If God chooses the holy dwellings that He inhabits with salvation)
V. Chorus. "Friede über Israel" (Peace upon Israel)
R. Paul Crabb, conductor
Bach Collegium Choir
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Intermission
Franz Schreker (1878-1934): Kammersymphonie (The Chamber Symphony, 1916) for 23 instruments [25'00]
I. Langsam, schwebend
II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
III. A Tempo
IV. Langsam, schwebend
Kirk Trevor, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
~~~~~
Bach Collegium Choir
Soprano
Jenna Braaksma
Erin Hoerchler
Maddie Page
Erin Schlabach
Sarah Schulte
Kiernan Steiner
Alto
Martha Allen
Meaghan Linn
Erin Smith
Samantha Stokes
Paige Wakefield
Samantha Walker
Tenor
Andrew Fansher
Nathan Fratzke
Savon Hayes
Topher Otake
George Peng
Holt Skinner
Bass
Patrick Graham
Hans Bridger Heruth
Ryan Layton
Jacob Stone
Jeremy Wagner
Ben Worley
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble (Bach):
R. Paul Crabb, conductor
Flute: Kristine Poulsen, Zahra Kelariz Keshavarz
Oboe: Dan Willett, Lauren Hynes
Trumpet: Iskander Akhmadullin, Daniel Deutsch, Alex Pickard
Violin I: Siri Geenen, Erik Hassell, Carolina Neves Merritt
Violin II: Amy Appold, Miguel Calleja, Xiaoxiao Du
Viola: Dustin Frieda, Grant Bradshaw
Cello: Mary Manulik, Matthew Pierce
Double Bass: Meyer Neel
Organ: Colleen Ostercamp
Timpani: Brian Tate
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble (Schreker):
Kirk Trevor, conductor
Flute: Zahra Kelariz Keshavarz
Oboe: Dan Willett
Clarinet: Wes Warnhoff
Bassoon: Joseph Hendricks
Horn: Marcia Spence
Trumpet: Iskander Akhmadullin
Trombone: Timothy Howe
Violin I: Amy Appold
Violin II: Siri Geenen
Violin III: Erik Hassell
Violin IV: Carolina Neves
Viola I: Grant Bradshaw
Viola II: Dustin Frieda
Cello I: Matthew Pierce
Cello II: Mary Manulik
Cello III: Daniel Keeler
Double Bass I: Meyer Neel
Double Bass II: Maura Higgins
Timpani: Brian Tate
Percussion: anna provo
Harp: Maria Duhova Trevor
Piano: Gyumi Rha
Celeste: Shoko Nelson
Harmonium: Ayako Tsuruta
Saturday 3pm - First Baptist Church
Arnold Bax (1883-1953): Elegac Trio for flute, viola and harp (1916) [9'30]
Kristine Poulsen, flute
Leslie Perna, viola
Maria Duhova Trevor, harp
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Cantata, 'O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe' (O eternal fire, o source of love), BWV 34 (1727) [20'00]
I. Chorus. "O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe" (O eternal fire, o source of love)
II. Recitative. "Herr, unsre Herzen halten dir dein Wort der Wahrheit für" (Lord, our hearts keep Your word of truth fast)
III. Aria. "Wohl euch, ihr auserwählten Seelen, die Gott zur Wohnung ausersehn" (It is well for you, you chosen souls, whom God has designated for his dwelling)
IV. Recitative, "Erwählt sich Gott die heilgen Hütten, die er mit Heil bewohnt" (If God chooses the holy dwellings that He inhabits with salvation)
V. Chorus. "Friede über Israel" (Peace upon Israel)
R. Paul Crabb, conductor
Bach Collegium Choir
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Intermission
Franz Schreker (1878-1934): Kammersymphonie (The Chamber Symphony, 1916) for 23 instruments [25'00]
I. Langsam, schwebend
II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
III. A Tempo
IV. Langsam, schwebend
Kirk Trevor, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
~~~~~
Bach Collegium Choir
Soprano
Jenna Braaksma
Erin Hoerchler
Maddie Page
Erin Schlabach
Sarah Schulte
Kiernan Steiner
Alto
Martha Allen
Meaghan Linn
Erin Smith
Samantha Stokes
Paige Wakefield
Samantha Walker
Tenor
Andrew Fansher
Nathan Fratzke
Savon Hayes
Topher Otake
George Peng
Holt Skinner
Bass
Patrick Graham
Hans Bridger Heruth
Ryan Layton
Jacob Stone
Jeremy Wagner
Ben Worley
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble (Bach):
R. Paul Crabb, conductor
Flute: Kristine Poulsen, Zahra Kelariz Keshavarz
Oboe: Dan Willett, Lauren Hynes
Trumpet: Iskander Akhmadullin, Daniel Deutsch, Alex Pickard
Violin I: Siri Geenen, Erik Hassell, Carolina Neves Merritt
Violin II: Amy Appold, Miguel Calleja, Xiaoxiao Du
Viola: Dustin Frieda, Grant Bradshaw
Cello: Mary Manulik, Matthew Pierce
Double Bass: Meyer Neel
Organ: Colleen Ostercamp
Timpani: Brian Tate
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble (Schreker):
Kirk Trevor, conductor
Flute: Zahra Kelariz Keshavarz
Oboe: Dan Willett
Clarinet: Wes Warnhoff
Bassoon: Joseph Hendricks
Horn: Marcia Spence
Trumpet: Iskander Akhmadullin
Trombone: Timothy Howe
Violin I: Amy Appold
Violin II: Siri Geenen
Violin III: Erik Hassell
Violin IV: Carolina Neves
Viola I: Grant Bradshaw
Viola II: Dustin Frieda
Cello I: Matthew Pierce
Cello II: Mary Manulik
Cello III: Daniel Keeler
Double Bass I: Meyer Neel
Double Bass II: Maura Higgins
Timpani: Brian Tate
Percussion: anna provo
Harp: Maria Duhova Trevor
Piano: Gyumi Rha
Celeste: Shoko Nelson
Harmonium: Ayako Tsuruta
March 17, 2017 M-ODYSSEY
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
William Billing: I am the Rose of Sharon
Johan Friedrich Peter: Glory Be To Him
Topher Otake, conductor
with members of the University Singers
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Kegelstatt Trio, KV 498
Morgan Owen, viola; Holly Dinkel, clarinet;, Steven Groth, piano
Stephen Melillo: ERICH!
Jacob Small and Cody Dailey, euphonium, Tim O’Sullivan and Lucas Vetter, tuba
intermission
Nico Muhly: How About Now
David Crowell: Waiting in the Rain for Snow
Ryan Koesterer, flute, Devin Kaveler, clarinet, Sam Jennings, guitar, Zach Clark, bass, Henry Stewart, piano
Andy Harnsberger: Dark Passenger
Rare Form Percussion Ensemble
Ethan Forte: Praise to All Wild Things
Ryan Koester, flute; anna provo, percussion; Rebecca McDaniel, auxiliary percussion
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
William Billing: I am the Rose of Sharon
Johan Friedrich Peter: Glory Be To Him
Topher Otake, conductor
with members of the University Singers
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Kegelstatt Trio, KV 498
Morgan Owen, viola; Holly Dinkel, clarinet;, Steven Groth, piano
Stephen Melillo: ERICH!
Jacob Small and Cody Dailey, euphonium, Tim O’Sullivan and Lucas Vetter, tuba
intermission
Nico Muhly: How About Now
David Crowell: Waiting in the Rain for Snow
Ryan Koesterer, flute, Devin Kaveler, clarinet, Sam Jennings, guitar, Zach Clark, bass, Henry Stewart, piano
Andy Harnsberger: Dark Passenger
Rare Form Percussion Ensemble
Ethan Forte: Praise to All Wild Things
Ryan Koester, flute; anna provo, percussion; Rebecca McDaniel, auxiliary percussion
Kegelstatt Trio
Holly Dinkel is completing undergraduate degrees in music and chemical engineering at the University of Missouri. At Mizzou, Holly has privately studied clarinet with Wesley Warnhoff, Bill Kalinkos, and Paul Garritson, and bassoon with Kara LaMoure, Elizabeth Roberts, and Maya Stone. On clarinet, Holly has most recently performed in masterclasses for Yehuda Gilad, Paul Meyer, Kliment Krylovskiy, and Diane Barger, and has pursued additional private study with Michael Norsworthy, Steven Cohen, Jean-François Normand, and Marie Picard. Holly gave award-winning performances in the Sigma Alpha Iota – St. Louis Scholarship Competition, the Missouri Music Teachers Association Chamber Music Competition, and the Music Teachers National Association State Competition. Holly attended the Domaine Forget International Music and Dance Academy during the summer of 2016, and she was selected by audition to perform with the 2017 Missouri Music Educators Association All-Collegiate Orchestra. Holly has enjoyed membership in numerous chamber ensembles, MU Bassoon Ensemble, AMBUSH! Clarinet Choir, Creative Improvisation Ensemble, jazz combos, Symphonic Band, and University Philharmonic Orchestra.
Morgan Owen began her career with the Paducah (KY) and Jackson (TN) Symphonies, playing as both a regular member and as assistant principal. She also began playing with the String Machine. After leaving Nashville, Mrs. Owen traveled to Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, where she opened the Escuela de Musica y Alabanza (EMA) which provides low-cost instruction to students seeking to learn how to read hymnals, play piano, guitar, and sing with proper technique. In 2009, Mrs. Owen played for several years with the Salisbury (NC) Symphony while also serving as a member of the Symphony Trio. During this time, she began developing a private violin studio, adding private teaching to her career focus. Relocating to Columbia in the Fall of 2013, Mrs. Owen immediately joined the Columbia Civic Orchestra and Missouri Symphony. She is currently the owner of the Prairie Strings Quartet and Columbia String Studio. Mrs. Owen holds a Bachelors in Music Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she studied with Dr. Scott Rawls of the Steve Reich Trio. Currently, she is pursuing a Masters degree in Viola Performance at Mizzou, studying with Leslie Perna of the Esterhazy Quartet, and serves as principal violist in the University Symphony Orchestra.
Steven Groth is completing a double master's degree in vocal performance and collaborative piano at the University of Missouri. At Mizzou, Steve has studied with Christine Seitz in voice and Janice Wenger in piano. Last year Steve won the Emerging Artist competition at the University and has been a two-time recipient of honorable mention at the NATS singing competition. He received his undergraduate degrees in Music Education and French from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he studied with James Doing in voice and Todd Welbourne in piano. He was the recipient of several merit based scholarships both in piano and voice there. Steve has enjoyed playing in chamber groups throughout his life with Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, UW-Madison, and Mizzou. Steve also serves as a piano, voice, and string teacher in two studios in mid-Missouri and is a church musician at the St. Thomas Moore Newman Center and Sacred Heart parishes.
University Singers
Members of University Singers at the University of Missouri have come together to create this unique chamber choir. University Singers is Mizzou’s top choral ensemble. While many singers in this chamber choir represent students of the School of Music, more than one third are pursuing careers outside of music. Furthermore this ensemble represents every class from freshman to second year graduate students. The chorus is student-lead and will only perform twice, once tonight and once at the Music of America concert in April.
Soprano
Kiernan Steiner
Bailey Wilkerson
Hannah Zizza
Sydnie Robertson
Alto
Erin Smith
Keisha Rush
Meaghan Neel
Samantha Walker
Tenor
Holt Skinner
Nathan Cotner
David Peana
James Shemwell
Bass
Jake Stone
Lafe Arens
Jonathan Crader
Rare Form
The young professionals of Rare Form are active chamber musicians and educators. The trio is dedicated to quality performances and sincere audience relationships, seeking to share their love of percussion with listeners from all walks of life. Passionate about expanding today’s percussion repertoire, they all support new composers by commissioning new works for percussion individually and collectively. Rebecca, anna, and Ryan perform in a variety of groups from local zydeco bands to community orchestras. Currently pursuing Master’s degrees at the University of Missouri-Columbia, the three often work together in varied settings on and off campus. They present workshops on a variety of topics and each maintain private studios with students of all ages.
Ryan Patterson is a native of Easley, South Carolina, and attended Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina for his undergraduate work. He is currently in his first year of graduate study at the University of Missouri-Columbia. While at Furman, he interned with the Carolina Youth Symphony and traveled with them for performance in Carnegie Hall. He has participated in the ‘neif-norf summer festival’ both as an intern and as a performer for multiple years. Ryan was also a performer for the John Psathas Percussion Project that has a multi-CD release soon and scores availabele now. He was also recorded as part of the Burtner: SIx Ecoacustic Quientets recording project. Ryan enjoys working within the marching band world and has taught the James F. Byrnes Marching Band (BOA Semifinalist) as a percussion instructor in 2014 and 2015, and is currently the Drumline Teaching assistant for Marching Mizzou at the University of Missouri.
Rebecca McDaniel is passionate about sharing music with others and about supporting the creativity of young musicians. She completed her undergraduate work at Furman University where she received a B.A. in Music (Percussion, studying with Dr. Omar Carmenates) as well as a B.A. in Earth and Environmental Sciences. She is now pursuing an M.M. (Percussion Performance) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, studying with Professor Megan Arns. An active chamber percussionist, she is privileged to work often with contemporary composers, performing in percussion trio Rare Form and with the Mizzou New Music Ensemble. In addition to the NME, Rebecca performs with the University Philharmonic Orchestra, a university jazz combo, and the University Percussion Ensemble. She teaches percussion lessons privately to students ranging from ages 10-65.
Originally from Charlton, Massachusetts, anna elizabeth provo is pursuing her masters degree in percussion performance at the University of Missouri. She recently graduated with degrees in music education and music therapy from Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania and spent a year teaching music in the area. She has enjoyed performing with Undercroft Opera, Edgewood Symphony, Columbia Civic Orchestra, and with many community and professional theater companies. She is also the Student Member Representative on the Board of Advisors, is the president of the Student Delegate Program, and is on the Interactive Drumming Committee for the Percussive Arts Society. She recently received a Percussive Arts Society Supporter Award for these endeavors. Notable performances include playing an intonarumori residency at the Cleveland Museum of Art, numerous performances of Inuksuit throughout the country, and performing as the timpanist for Undercrofts’ Floyd’s Susannah, runner up of the American Prize. anna is also excited to be serving as one of the Odyssey Chamber Music Series Performance Fellows after an amazing summer with the Odyssey Summer Music Festival. She loves rehearsing and performing in Rare Form, a percussion trio. When not musically involved, anna can be found playing with her cats, hiking on a trail, or curled up with some coffee and a good book. She has studied under Megan Arns, RJ Heid, and PJ Gatch.
Quintet
Devin Kaveler is a clarinetist originally from Platte City, Missouri, just north of Kansas City. He currently studies at the University of Missouri while pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Clarinet performance and a Bachelor of Business Administration in International Business with an emphasis in marketing. An avid proponent of chamber music, Devin is a founding member of the Exit 128 Chamber Orchestra and the wind trio featherweight. He enjoys performing contemporary music, especially pieces written by young or underperformed composers. Devin’s primary teachers have included Jay Jones, Jamie Heil, Paul Garritson, Bill Kalinkos, and Wesley Warnhoff.
Ryan Koesterer recently competed in the Music Teachers National Association competition winning at the state level and received an honorable mention at the divisional level. He also recently travelled to Phoenix, AZ to participate in the Oh My Ears contemporary chamber music festival with his trio, Featherweight. As a junior, Ryan is currently principle of the University Philharmonic Orchestra and is assistant principle of the Columbia Civic Orchestra. He also performs in the contemporary chamber ensemble Exit 128, The Missouri Symphony, and is a bandsman of the 312th Army Band and Woodwind Quintet. He also serves as president of the Missouri Flute Society, a performance fellow with Odyssey Chamber Music Series, and is an active member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. In June of 2016, Ryan graduated from the United States Army School of Music receiving a C1 and was awarded the Adjutant General’s Corps Regimental Association AIT Medal of Excellence. Currently, Ryan is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in music performance at the University of Missouri where he studies with Professor Alice K Dade and will graduate in May 2018.
Sam Jennings is a guitarist, composer, writer, and poet based out of Columbia, Missouri. He is currently working towards a Masters of Music at the University of Missouri, where he studies classical guitar performance under Anthony Glise. During his undergraduate years, he had the good fortune to lead local indie act The Rollups and to perform regularly as a solo performer around Columbia. In 2015, he was honored to participate in the first ever Red Socks and the Guitar festival in Chartres, France, where he will be returning this Summer for the festival’s second installment. He currently works as a Theory Teaching Assistant in the School of Music and as a publishing intern in the Mizzou English Department. This semester, he is mostly likely to be seen performing with the MU Honors Guitar Quartet and the MU Early Music Ensemble.
Born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Henry Breneman Stewart (b. 1992), grew up singing four-part harmony at East Chestnut Street Mennonite Church, as well as playing the piano, flute, and accordion. Stewart earned a BA in music and biochemistry from Goshen College, where he studied composition with Jorge Muñiz of Indiana University South Bend and piano with Matthew Hill and Beverly Lapp. He is currently an MM Composition student at the University of Missouri, where he studies composition with Phillip Sink, Stefan Freund and piano with Janice Wenger, Natalia Bolshakova and Peter Miyamoto.
Hailing from the Greater St. Louis area, Zachary Clark has had a passion for music his entire life. He was raised by family members who have backgrounds in music, mostly percussionists and drummers. He first started playing music on the saxophone, but soon experimented with drums, electric guitar and electric bass. He fell in love with the bass and became highly autodidactic on the instrument. He played the electric bass in numerous ensembles throughout high school. He attended Southern Illinois University Edwardsville from 2010-2014 where he learned how to play double bass, and graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Music in Jazz Performance, studying from great St. Louis jazz musicians such as Rick Haydon, Jason Swagler, Zebediah Briskovich, and Miles Vandiver. He is currently attending the University of Missouri, where he is pursuing a Master’s of Music in Jazz Performance and Pedagogy. He plays jazz, rock, and pop music professionally in the St. Louis area, as well as Columbia, MO. He also enjoys teaching, and has taught bass to students ages six to sixty. He enjoys any chance to play outside of his comfort zone, and is grateful to be in an ensemble that provides this challenge.
Tuba Quartet
A Tennessee native, Cody Dailey began his musical study at Oakland High School under the tutelage of Brandon Jones, the principle euphonist with the Air Force Concert Band. He went on to earn a Bachelor's of Music Education at Tennessee Tech with legendary tuba pedagog R. Winston Morris. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in music performance at the University of Missouri with Dr. Angelo Manzo.
Jacob Small, a Missouri native, has been around music his whole life. He attended high school at California, MO. As a music education major at the University of Missouri, Small is currently studying with Dr. Angelo Manzo. Small is second chair in the University Wind Ensemble and has been selected for the 2015 and 2016 All-State Band.
Tim O'Sullivan is a native of Imperial, Missouri where he attended Windsor High School. In his time there he played in all three ensembles, marching, band, concert band, and jazz band, throughout his time there. Tim was selected as a member of the east-central all-district honor band all four years, as well as the all-state honor band his junior and senior year. Now a music education major at the University of Missouri, O'Sullivan is a member of the University Wind Ensemble.
Lucas Vetter is currently a second year graduate student at the University of Missouri, preparing to graduate in May with his Masters of Music in Tuba Performance. In the spring of 2015, Lucas acquired his bachelors in Music Education. While in college, Lucas had the opportunity to play tuba in many excellent music ensembles on and off campus: the University of Missouri Symphonic Band, University Wind Ensemble, University Philharmonic Orchestra, MU Tuba and Euphonium Studio, Marching Mizzou, Mini Mizzou. He is currently a member of the Columbia Civic Orchestra, the Missouri Symphony Orchestra, The Compton Heights Concert Band of St. Louis, and the Sticks and Stones Tuba Quartet.
Holly Dinkel is completing undergraduate degrees in music and chemical engineering at the University of Missouri. At Mizzou, Holly has privately studied clarinet with Wesley Warnhoff, Bill Kalinkos, and Paul Garritson, and bassoon with Kara LaMoure, Elizabeth Roberts, and Maya Stone. On clarinet, Holly has most recently performed in masterclasses for Yehuda Gilad, Paul Meyer, Kliment Krylovskiy, and Diane Barger, and has pursued additional private study with Michael Norsworthy, Steven Cohen, Jean-François Normand, and Marie Picard. Holly gave award-winning performances in the Sigma Alpha Iota – St. Louis Scholarship Competition, the Missouri Music Teachers Association Chamber Music Competition, and the Music Teachers National Association State Competition. Holly attended the Domaine Forget International Music and Dance Academy during the summer of 2016, and she was selected by audition to perform with the 2017 Missouri Music Educators Association All-Collegiate Orchestra. Holly has enjoyed membership in numerous chamber ensembles, MU Bassoon Ensemble, AMBUSH! Clarinet Choir, Creative Improvisation Ensemble, jazz combos, Symphonic Band, and University Philharmonic Orchestra.
Morgan Owen began her career with the Paducah (KY) and Jackson (TN) Symphonies, playing as both a regular member and as assistant principal. She also began playing with the String Machine. After leaving Nashville, Mrs. Owen traveled to Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, where she opened the Escuela de Musica y Alabanza (EMA) which provides low-cost instruction to students seeking to learn how to read hymnals, play piano, guitar, and sing with proper technique. In 2009, Mrs. Owen played for several years with the Salisbury (NC) Symphony while also serving as a member of the Symphony Trio. During this time, she began developing a private violin studio, adding private teaching to her career focus. Relocating to Columbia in the Fall of 2013, Mrs. Owen immediately joined the Columbia Civic Orchestra and Missouri Symphony. She is currently the owner of the Prairie Strings Quartet and Columbia String Studio. Mrs. Owen holds a Bachelors in Music Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she studied with Dr. Scott Rawls of the Steve Reich Trio. Currently, she is pursuing a Masters degree in Viola Performance at Mizzou, studying with Leslie Perna of the Esterhazy Quartet, and serves as principal violist in the University Symphony Orchestra.
Steven Groth is completing a double master's degree in vocal performance and collaborative piano at the University of Missouri. At Mizzou, Steve has studied with Christine Seitz in voice and Janice Wenger in piano. Last year Steve won the Emerging Artist competition at the University and has been a two-time recipient of honorable mention at the NATS singing competition. He received his undergraduate degrees in Music Education and French from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he studied with James Doing in voice and Todd Welbourne in piano. He was the recipient of several merit based scholarships both in piano and voice there. Steve has enjoyed playing in chamber groups throughout his life with Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, UW-Madison, and Mizzou. Steve also serves as a piano, voice, and string teacher in two studios in mid-Missouri and is a church musician at the St. Thomas Moore Newman Center and Sacred Heart parishes.
University Singers
Members of University Singers at the University of Missouri have come together to create this unique chamber choir. University Singers is Mizzou’s top choral ensemble. While many singers in this chamber choir represent students of the School of Music, more than one third are pursuing careers outside of music. Furthermore this ensemble represents every class from freshman to second year graduate students. The chorus is student-lead and will only perform twice, once tonight and once at the Music of America concert in April.
Soprano
Kiernan Steiner
Bailey Wilkerson
Hannah Zizza
Sydnie Robertson
Alto
Erin Smith
Keisha Rush
Meaghan Neel
Samantha Walker
Tenor
Holt Skinner
Nathan Cotner
David Peana
James Shemwell
Bass
Jake Stone
Lafe Arens
Jonathan Crader
Rare Form
The young professionals of Rare Form are active chamber musicians and educators. The trio is dedicated to quality performances and sincere audience relationships, seeking to share their love of percussion with listeners from all walks of life. Passionate about expanding today’s percussion repertoire, they all support new composers by commissioning new works for percussion individually and collectively. Rebecca, anna, and Ryan perform in a variety of groups from local zydeco bands to community orchestras. Currently pursuing Master’s degrees at the University of Missouri-Columbia, the three often work together in varied settings on and off campus. They present workshops on a variety of topics and each maintain private studios with students of all ages.
Ryan Patterson is a native of Easley, South Carolina, and attended Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina for his undergraduate work. He is currently in his first year of graduate study at the University of Missouri-Columbia. While at Furman, he interned with the Carolina Youth Symphony and traveled with them for performance in Carnegie Hall. He has participated in the ‘neif-norf summer festival’ both as an intern and as a performer for multiple years. Ryan was also a performer for the John Psathas Percussion Project that has a multi-CD release soon and scores availabele now. He was also recorded as part of the Burtner: SIx Ecoacustic Quientets recording project. Ryan enjoys working within the marching band world and has taught the James F. Byrnes Marching Band (BOA Semifinalist) as a percussion instructor in 2014 and 2015, and is currently the Drumline Teaching assistant for Marching Mizzou at the University of Missouri.
Rebecca McDaniel is passionate about sharing music with others and about supporting the creativity of young musicians. She completed her undergraduate work at Furman University where she received a B.A. in Music (Percussion, studying with Dr. Omar Carmenates) as well as a B.A. in Earth and Environmental Sciences. She is now pursuing an M.M. (Percussion Performance) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, studying with Professor Megan Arns. An active chamber percussionist, she is privileged to work often with contemporary composers, performing in percussion trio Rare Form and with the Mizzou New Music Ensemble. In addition to the NME, Rebecca performs with the University Philharmonic Orchestra, a university jazz combo, and the University Percussion Ensemble. She teaches percussion lessons privately to students ranging from ages 10-65.
Originally from Charlton, Massachusetts, anna elizabeth provo is pursuing her masters degree in percussion performance at the University of Missouri. She recently graduated with degrees in music education and music therapy from Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania and spent a year teaching music in the area. She has enjoyed performing with Undercroft Opera, Edgewood Symphony, Columbia Civic Orchestra, and with many community and professional theater companies. She is also the Student Member Representative on the Board of Advisors, is the president of the Student Delegate Program, and is on the Interactive Drumming Committee for the Percussive Arts Society. She recently received a Percussive Arts Society Supporter Award for these endeavors. Notable performances include playing an intonarumori residency at the Cleveland Museum of Art, numerous performances of Inuksuit throughout the country, and performing as the timpanist for Undercrofts’ Floyd’s Susannah, runner up of the American Prize. anna is also excited to be serving as one of the Odyssey Chamber Music Series Performance Fellows after an amazing summer with the Odyssey Summer Music Festival. She loves rehearsing and performing in Rare Form, a percussion trio. When not musically involved, anna can be found playing with her cats, hiking on a trail, or curled up with some coffee and a good book. She has studied under Megan Arns, RJ Heid, and PJ Gatch.
Quintet
Devin Kaveler is a clarinetist originally from Platte City, Missouri, just north of Kansas City. He currently studies at the University of Missouri while pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Clarinet performance and a Bachelor of Business Administration in International Business with an emphasis in marketing. An avid proponent of chamber music, Devin is a founding member of the Exit 128 Chamber Orchestra and the wind trio featherweight. He enjoys performing contemporary music, especially pieces written by young or underperformed composers. Devin’s primary teachers have included Jay Jones, Jamie Heil, Paul Garritson, Bill Kalinkos, and Wesley Warnhoff.
Ryan Koesterer recently competed in the Music Teachers National Association competition winning at the state level and received an honorable mention at the divisional level. He also recently travelled to Phoenix, AZ to participate in the Oh My Ears contemporary chamber music festival with his trio, Featherweight. As a junior, Ryan is currently principle of the University Philharmonic Orchestra and is assistant principle of the Columbia Civic Orchestra. He also performs in the contemporary chamber ensemble Exit 128, The Missouri Symphony, and is a bandsman of the 312th Army Band and Woodwind Quintet. He also serves as president of the Missouri Flute Society, a performance fellow with Odyssey Chamber Music Series, and is an active member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. In June of 2016, Ryan graduated from the United States Army School of Music receiving a C1 and was awarded the Adjutant General’s Corps Regimental Association AIT Medal of Excellence. Currently, Ryan is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in music performance at the University of Missouri where he studies with Professor Alice K Dade and will graduate in May 2018.
Sam Jennings is a guitarist, composer, writer, and poet based out of Columbia, Missouri. He is currently working towards a Masters of Music at the University of Missouri, where he studies classical guitar performance under Anthony Glise. During his undergraduate years, he had the good fortune to lead local indie act The Rollups and to perform regularly as a solo performer around Columbia. In 2015, he was honored to participate in the first ever Red Socks and the Guitar festival in Chartres, France, where he will be returning this Summer for the festival’s second installment. He currently works as a Theory Teaching Assistant in the School of Music and as a publishing intern in the Mizzou English Department. This semester, he is mostly likely to be seen performing with the MU Honors Guitar Quartet and the MU Early Music Ensemble.
Born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Henry Breneman Stewart (b. 1992), grew up singing four-part harmony at East Chestnut Street Mennonite Church, as well as playing the piano, flute, and accordion. Stewart earned a BA in music and biochemistry from Goshen College, where he studied composition with Jorge Muñiz of Indiana University South Bend and piano with Matthew Hill and Beverly Lapp. He is currently an MM Composition student at the University of Missouri, where he studies composition with Phillip Sink, Stefan Freund and piano with Janice Wenger, Natalia Bolshakova and Peter Miyamoto.
Hailing from the Greater St. Louis area, Zachary Clark has had a passion for music his entire life. He was raised by family members who have backgrounds in music, mostly percussionists and drummers. He first started playing music on the saxophone, but soon experimented with drums, electric guitar and electric bass. He fell in love with the bass and became highly autodidactic on the instrument. He played the electric bass in numerous ensembles throughout high school. He attended Southern Illinois University Edwardsville from 2010-2014 where he learned how to play double bass, and graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Music in Jazz Performance, studying from great St. Louis jazz musicians such as Rick Haydon, Jason Swagler, Zebediah Briskovich, and Miles Vandiver. He is currently attending the University of Missouri, where he is pursuing a Master’s of Music in Jazz Performance and Pedagogy. He plays jazz, rock, and pop music professionally in the St. Louis area, as well as Columbia, MO. He also enjoys teaching, and has taught bass to students ages six to sixty. He enjoys any chance to play outside of his comfort zone, and is grateful to be in an ensemble that provides this challenge.
Tuba Quartet
A Tennessee native, Cody Dailey began his musical study at Oakland High School under the tutelage of Brandon Jones, the principle euphonist with the Air Force Concert Band. He went on to earn a Bachelor's of Music Education at Tennessee Tech with legendary tuba pedagog R. Winston Morris. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in music performance at the University of Missouri with Dr. Angelo Manzo.
Jacob Small, a Missouri native, has been around music his whole life. He attended high school at California, MO. As a music education major at the University of Missouri, Small is currently studying with Dr. Angelo Manzo. Small is second chair in the University Wind Ensemble and has been selected for the 2015 and 2016 All-State Band.
Tim O'Sullivan is a native of Imperial, Missouri where he attended Windsor High School. In his time there he played in all three ensembles, marching, band, concert band, and jazz band, throughout his time there. Tim was selected as a member of the east-central all-district honor band all four years, as well as the all-state honor band his junior and senior year. Now a music education major at the University of Missouri, O'Sullivan is a member of the University Wind Ensemble.
Lucas Vetter is currently a second year graduate student at the University of Missouri, preparing to graduate in May with his Masters of Music in Tuba Performance. In the spring of 2015, Lucas acquired his bachelors in Music Education. While in college, Lucas had the opportunity to play tuba in many excellent music ensembles on and off campus: the University of Missouri Symphonic Band, University Wind Ensemble, University Philharmonic Orchestra, MU Tuba and Euphonium Studio, Marching Mizzou, Mini Mizzou. He is currently a member of the Columbia Civic Orchestra, the Missouri Symphony Orchestra, The Compton Heights Concert Band of St. Louis, and the Sticks and Stones Tuba Quartet.
April 6, 2017 RECITAL BY JOEL KROSNICK, CELLO & PETER MIYAMOTO, PIANO
Thursday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival Presentation
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69 [26'00]
I. Allegro, ma non tanto
II. Scherzo. Allegro molto
III. Adagio cantabile - Allegro vivace
Donald Martino (1931-2005): PariSonatina Al'Dodecafonia (1964)
Intermission
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Cello Sonata No. 1 in e minor, Op. 38 (1862-65) [25'00]
I. Allegro non troppo
II. Allegretto quasi Menuetto
III. Allegro
Joel Krosnick, cello and Peter Miyamoto, piano
Thursday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival Presentation
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69 [26'00]
I. Allegro, ma non tanto
II. Scherzo. Allegro molto
III. Adagio cantabile - Allegro vivace
Donald Martino (1931-2005): PariSonatina Al'Dodecafonia (1964)
Intermission
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Cello Sonata No. 1 in e minor, Op. 38 (1862-65) [25'00]
I. Allegro non troppo
II. Allegretto quasi Menuetto
III. Allegro
Joel Krosnick, cello and Peter Miyamoto, piano
April 8, 2017 PLOWMAN CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION: SEMI-FINALS
Saturday 9:30pm-5pm - First Baptist Church
Semi-Finals: Audition Schedule for 15 ensembles - 20 min. ea.
9:30am #1 Piano Trio pn/str
9:50am #2 Saxophone Qtet ww/b
10:10am #3 String Quartet pn/str
10:30am Break (10 min)
10:40am #4 Clarinet-Violin-Piano Trio pn/str
11:00am #5 String Quartet pn/str
11:20am #6 Two Saxophones & Piano Trio ww/b
11:40am #7 String Quartet pn/str
12:00pm Break (2 hr 5 min)
2:05pm #8 Piano Trio pn/str
2:25pm #9 Woodwind Quintet ww/b
2:45pm #10 String Quartet pn/str
3:05pm Break (10 min.)
3:15pm #11 Piano Trio pn/str
3:35pm #12 Saxophone Quartet ww/b
3:55pm #13 String Quartet pn/str
4:15pm Break (5 min.)
4:20pm #14 Piano Trio [cl/vc/pn] pn/str
4:40pm #15 Piano Trio pn/str
5:00pm END.
April 9, 2017 PLOWMAN CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION: FINALS
Sunday 1:30pm - Missouri Theatre
Program TBA, April 8 after 11:59pm.
Saturday 9:30pm-5pm - First Baptist Church
Semi-Finals: Audition Schedule for 15 ensembles - 20 min. ea.
9:30am #1 Piano Trio pn/str
9:50am #2 Saxophone Qtet ww/b
10:10am #3 String Quartet pn/str
10:30am Break (10 min)
10:40am #4 Clarinet-Violin-Piano Trio pn/str
11:00am #5 String Quartet pn/str
11:20am #6 Two Saxophones & Piano Trio ww/b
11:40am #7 String Quartet pn/str
12:00pm Break (2 hr 5 min)
2:05pm #8 Piano Trio pn/str
2:25pm #9 Woodwind Quintet ww/b
2:45pm #10 String Quartet pn/str
3:05pm Break (10 min.)
3:15pm #11 Piano Trio pn/str
3:35pm #12 Saxophone Quartet ww/b
3:55pm #13 String Quartet pn/str
4:15pm Break (5 min.)
4:20pm #14 Piano Trio [cl/vc/pn] pn/str
4:40pm #15 Piano Trio pn/str
5:00pm END.
April 9, 2017 PLOWMAN CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION: FINALS
Sunday 1:30pm - Missouri Theatre
Program TBA, April 8 after 11:59pm.
May 5, 2017 KNOXVILLE & MEXICO
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Aaron Copland (1900-1990): El Salon Mexico (1932-36), arr. for two pianos by Leonard Bernstein [10'00]
Louis Morreau Gottschalk (1829-1869): The Manjo, Op. 15 (1853), arr. for two pianos by Jerome Moross
Ayako Tsuruta and Peter Miyamoto, pianos
Greetings by the Directors
Charles Ives (1874-1954): Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano, "Children's Day at the Camp Meeting" (1900-1916) [10'00]
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro
Amy Kuhlmann Appold, violin
eter Miyamoto, piano
Samuel Barber (1910-81): Knoxville, Summer 1915, Op. 24 (1947), text by James Agee [16'00]
Carline Waugh, soprano
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Intermission
Sergio Emilio Parra Aguilera: Escenas de la Infancia Suite para piano a cuatro manos (2015) [12'00]
I. Marcha de los Soldaditos de Plomo
II. Canción de Cuna
III. Rayuela
Ayako Tsuruta and Peter Miyamoto, piano
Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez (1899-1940) [18'00]
El Tecolote (1931-2)
Ranas (1931-2)
Duo Para Pato Y Canario (1931)
No sé por qué piensas tú (1937)
Caminando (1937)
Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano
Esterhazy String Quartet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Season Finale Reception to follow.
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Aaron Copland (1900-1990): El Salon Mexico (1932-36), arr. for two pianos by Leonard Bernstein [10'00]
Louis Morreau Gottschalk (1829-1869): The Manjo, Op. 15 (1853), arr. for two pianos by Jerome Moross
Ayako Tsuruta and Peter Miyamoto, pianos
Greetings by the Directors
Charles Ives (1874-1954): Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano, "Children's Day at the Camp Meeting" (1900-1916) [10'00]
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro
Amy Kuhlmann Appold, violin
eter Miyamoto, piano
Samuel Barber (1910-81): Knoxville, Summer 1915, Op. 24 (1947), text by James Agee [16'00]
Carline Waugh, soprano
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Intermission
Sergio Emilio Parra Aguilera: Escenas de la Infancia Suite para piano a cuatro manos (2015) [12'00]
I. Marcha de los Soldaditos de Plomo
II. Canción de Cuna
III. Rayuela
Ayako Tsuruta and Peter Miyamoto, piano
Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez (1899-1940) [18'00]
El Tecolote (1931-2)
Ranas (1931-2)
Duo Para Pato Y Canario (1931)
No sé por qué piensas tú (1937)
Caminando (1937)
Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano
Esterhazy String Quartet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Season Finale Reception to follow.
Odyssey Events, 2016-2017
~ PAST EVENTS ~
September 25, 2016 – Sunday at 4pm, Jina Yoo’s Asian Bistro
Fall FUNdraiser with Jina Yoo!
Hosted by Jina Yoo’s Asian Bistro owner, Jina Yoo herself is joined by her friends in a fun-filled musical journey, featuring everything from Beethoven to movie theme songs! Tickets to this relaxed, casual affair cover appetizers and finger food; drinks are extra. Consider enjoying the dinner there too: a portion of dinner sales benefit Odyssey’s concerts, its summer music camp and the Plowman Competition.
October 5, 2016 – Wednesday 7:30pm, FBC
Chanticleer
Described as “America’s A Cappella Pride & Joy,” Grammy-winning Chanticleer was founded in San Francisco in 1978. Known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” and for its seamless blend of twelve male voices ranging from countertenor to bass, Chanticleer is praised for its original interpretations of vocal literature, from Renaissance to jazz, and from gospel to venturesome new music. This special event is sponsored by First Baptist Church of Columbia.
October 14, 2016 – Friday 7pm, FBC
Enchanted Fall
Come and wear your favorite mask! The enchanted evening begins with ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ for two pianos by Paul Dukas – let the magic of music reveal some of life’s mysteries. Help us set the mood for the enchanting sounds of Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy; the night concludes with the dramatically romantic piano trio by Brazilian composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos. Unmask yourselves at the Gala Reception in the foyer!
December 2, 2016 – Friday 7pm, FBC
Hot Winter Sleigh!
The virtuosity required in this jaw-dropping program will leave you breathless! The evening begins with Leroy Anderson’s popular ‘Sleigh Ride’ in this challenging rendition for two pianos by Greg Anderson. That’s only the beginning! Also featured are Guillaume Connesson’s Techno-Parade for clarinet, saxophone and piano, DRAX with Leo Saguiguit, saxophone and Megan Arns, percussion, and Nikolai Kapustin’s jazzy and notoriously difficult Concerto for two pianos and percussion. This is one musical party you will want to attend!
January 21 (New Date), 2017 – Saturday 2:30pm Pre-concert / 3pm Concert, FBC
Kids@Heart: A Children’s Concert – Kindness & Diversity
In collaboration with the Children’s Grove and the Columbia Youth Choir, this year’s Kids@Heart concert takes a more thoughtful turn in touching upon two important issues in our society: Kindness and Diversity. Through a program featuring music, speech and visual arts, the three organizations bring awareness to our community.
February 18, 2017 – Saturday 3pm, FBC
Baroque & 1916
Enjoy a hearty combination of Bach’s Cantata with two chamber works composed in 1916! This matinee concert opens with J.S. Bach’s Cantata, “O eternal fire, o source of love,” BWV 34 performed by the Bach Collegium Choir and Odyssey Chamber Ensemble led by director R. Paul Crabb. Arnold Bax’s Elegiac Trio is performed by flutist Kristine Poulsen, violist Leslie Perna and harpist Maria Trevor. Maestro Kirk Trevor takes the podium to direct the Odyssey Chamber Ensemble in Franz Schreker’s lush Kammersymphonie.
March 17, 2017 – Friday 7pm, FBC
M-Odyssey
“M-Odyssey” will continue the 2015 initiative to mentor and provide real work experience in music administration to young professionals. A few outstanding musicians will have the opportunity to create and produce their own Odyssey concert, with the guidance of the Artistic Director and a supervising Board Member. The title reflects the more modern, “MOD” Odyssey for younger musicians, while the capitalization pays homage to our state.
April 6- 9, 2017
The 8th Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival
April 6 (Thu) 7pm, FBC – Recital by Joel Krosnick, cello & Peter Miyamoto, piano
April 7 (Fri) 7pm, MU – Recital by Alessio Bax, piano
April 8 (Sat) 9:30am-5pm, FBC – Plowman Competition SEMI-FINALS
April 9 (Sun) 1:30pm, Missouri Theatre – Plowman Competition FINALS
In collaboration with the University of Missouri School of Music and First Baptist Church of Columbia, Odyssey will co-present the 8th Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival. This exciting national chamber music event allows the Midwest music lovers and students to participate in a series of performances, master classes, and have their voices heard in Audience Prize, where the audience casts votes as the three guest judges deliberate immediately after the competition finals.
May 5, 2017
Knoxville and Mexico
With a friendly nod to “Cinco de Mayo,” this Mexican-infused program highlights Sergio Emilio Parra Aguilera’s Escenas de la Infancia and Aaron Copland’s El Salon Mexico for two pianos. Two American works provide contrast - Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with soprano Carline Waugh and pianist Ayako Tsuruta, and Charles Ives’ Sonata, performed by violinist Amy Appold and pianist Peter Miyamoto. Look forward to Silvestre Ruvueltas' songs performed by mezzo-soprano Julia Bentley, pianist Natalia Bolshakova and the Esterhazy String Quartet. Please join us in a joyous Mexican feast at the reception!
~ PAST EVENTS ~
September 25, 2016 – Sunday at 4pm, Jina Yoo’s Asian Bistro
Fall FUNdraiser with Jina Yoo!
Hosted by Jina Yoo’s Asian Bistro owner, Jina Yoo herself is joined by her friends in a fun-filled musical journey, featuring everything from Beethoven to movie theme songs! Tickets to this relaxed, casual affair cover appetizers and finger food; drinks are extra. Consider enjoying the dinner there too: a portion of dinner sales benefit Odyssey’s concerts, its summer music camp and the Plowman Competition.
October 5, 2016 – Wednesday 7:30pm, FBC
Chanticleer
Described as “America’s A Cappella Pride & Joy,” Grammy-winning Chanticleer was founded in San Francisco in 1978. Known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” and for its seamless blend of twelve male voices ranging from countertenor to bass, Chanticleer is praised for its original interpretations of vocal literature, from Renaissance to jazz, and from gospel to venturesome new music. This special event is sponsored by First Baptist Church of Columbia.
October 14, 2016 – Friday 7pm, FBC
Enchanted Fall
Come and wear your favorite mask! The enchanted evening begins with ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ for two pianos by Paul Dukas – let the magic of music reveal some of life’s mysteries. Help us set the mood for the enchanting sounds of Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy; the night concludes with the dramatically romantic piano trio by Brazilian composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos. Unmask yourselves at the Gala Reception in the foyer!
December 2, 2016 – Friday 7pm, FBC
Hot Winter Sleigh!
The virtuosity required in this jaw-dropping program will leave you breathless! The evening begins with Leroy Anderson’s popular ‘Sleigh Ride’ in this challenging rendition for two pianos by Greg Anderson. That’s only the beginning! Also featured are Guillaume Connesson’s Techno-Parade for clarinet, saxophone and piano, DRAX with Leo Saguiguit, saxophone and Megan Arns, percussion, and Nikolai Kapustin’s jazzy and notoriously difficult Concerto for two pianos and percussion. This is one musical party you will want to attend!
January 21 (New Date), 2017 – Saturday 2:30pm Pre-concert / 3pm Concert, FBC
Kids@Heart: A Children’s Concert – Kindness & Diversity
In collaboration with the Children’s Grove and the Columbia Youth Choir, this year’s Kids@Heart concert takes a more thoughtful turn in touching upon two important issues in our society: Kindness and Diversity. Through a program featuring music, speech and visual arts, the three organizations bring awareness to our community.
February 18, 2017 – Saturday 3pm, FBC
Baroque & 1916
Enjoy a hearty combination of Bach’s Cantata with two chamber works composed in 1916! This matinee concert opens with J.S. Bach’s Cantata, “O eternal fire, o source of love,” BWV 34 performed by the Bach Collegium Choir and Odyssey Chamber Ensemble led by director R. Paul Crabb. Arnold Bax’s Elegiac Trio is performed by flutist Kristine Poulsen, violist Leslie Perna and harpist Maria Trevor. Maestro Kirk Trevor takes the podium to direct the Odyssey Chamber Ensemble in Franz Schreker’s lush Kammersymphonie.
March 17, 2017 – Friday 7pm, FBC
M-Odyssey
“M-Odyssey” will continue the 2015 initiative to mentor and provide real work experience in music administration to young professionals. A few outstanding musicians will have the opportunity to create and produce their own Odyssey concert, with the guidance of the Artistic Director and a supervising Board Member. The title reflects the more modern, “MOD” Odyssey for younger musicians, while the capitalization pays homage to our state.
April 6- 9, 2017
The 8th Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival
April 6 (Thu) 7pm, FBC – Recital by Joel Krosnick, cello & Peter Miyamoto, piano
April 7 (Fri) 7pm, MU – Recital by Alessio Bax, piano
April 8 (Sat) 9:30am-5pm, FBC – Plowman Competition SEMI-FINALS
April 9 (Sun) 1:30pm, Missouri Theatre – Plowman Competition FINALS
In collaboration with the University of Missouri School of Music and First Baptist Church of Columbia, Odyssey will co-present the 8th Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival. This exciting national chamber music event allows the Midwest music lovers and students to participate in a series of performances, master classes, and have their voices heard in Audience Prize, where the audience casts votes as the three guest judges deliberate immediately after the competition finals.
May 5, 2017
Knoxville and Mexico
With a friendly nod to “Cinco de Mayo,” this Mexican-infused program highlights Sergio Emilio Parra Aguilera’s Escenas de la Infancia and Aaron Copland’s El Salon Mexico for two pianos. Two American works provide contrast - Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with soprano Carline Waugh and pianist Ayako Tsuruta, and Charles Ives’ Sonata, performed by violinist Amy Appold and pianist Peter Miyamoto. Look forward to Silvestre Ruvueltas' songs performed by mezzo-soprano Julia Bentley, pianist Natalia Bolshakova and the Esterhazy String Quartet. Please join us in a joyous Mexican feast at the reception!
January 16, 2016 KIDS@HEART - CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS: MISSOURIANA EDITION
Saturday 2pm PETTING ZOO - First Baptist Church
Saturday 3pm CONCERT - First Baptist Church
Camille Saint-Saëns (1828-1921): Carnival of the Animals (1886): Missouriana edition (World Premieres) [ca. 60 min.]
With original text by Benedetto Colagiovanni & Contributors
I. Introduction et marche royale du lion (Introduction
and Lion's Royal March)
II. Poules et coqs (Hens and Cocks)
III. Hémiones (animaux véloces) (Wild Asses: Swift Animals)
IV. Tortues (Tortoises)
V. L'éléphant (The Elephant)
VI. Kangourous (Kangaroos)
VII. Aquarium
VIII. Personnages à longues oreilles (Personages with Long Ears)
IX. Le coucou au fond des bois (The cuckoo in the Deep Woods)
X. Volière (Aviary)
XI. Pianistes (Pianists)
XII. Fossiles (Fossils)
XIII. Le cygne (The Swan)
XIV. Finale
Narrator: Trevor Harris
Pianists: Students, Teachers and Friends of the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association
Flute: Kristine Poulsen
Clarinet: Erica Manzo
Violin I: Graham Woodland
Violin II: Carolina Neves Merritt
Viola: Dustin Frieda
Cello: Mary Manulik
Double Bass: Sam Copeland
Percussion: Pete Zambito
With some expected and unexpected guests:
Tubas: Aaron Wacker and Tim O'Sullivan
Saxophone: Jeremiah Rittel
Clarinet: ...also Jeremiah Rittel
Violins: Studios of Amy Appold, Siri Geenen and Carolina Neves Merritt
Cellos: Mary Manulik Cello Studio and her friends
and
"Prelude of the Bat" by Patrick Clark, composer
"Snailwalk" by Benedetto (Ben) Colagiovanni, composer
"Unicorn" by Patrick Dell, composer
"Ladybug" by W. Thomas McKenney, composer
"Wooly Mammoth" by Paul Seitz, composer
Saturday 2pm PETTING ZOO - First Baptist Church
Saturday 3pm CONCERT - First Baptist Church
Camille Saint-Saëns (1828-1921): Carnival of the Animals (1886): Missouriana edition (World Premieres) [ca. 60 min.]
With original text by Benedetto Colagiovanni & Contributors
I. Introduction et marche royale du lion (Introduction
and Lion's Royal March)
II. Poules et coqs (Hens and Cocks)
III. Hémiones (animaux véloces) (Wild Asses: Swift Animals)
IV. Tortues (Tortoises)
V. L'éléphant (The Elephant)
VI. Kangourous (Kangaroos)
VII. Aquarium
VIII. Personnages à longues oreilles (Personages with Long Ears)
IX. Le coucou au fond des bois (The cuckoo in the Deep Woods)
X. Volière (Aviary)
XI. Pianistes (Pianists)
XII. Fossiles (Fossils)
XIII. Le cygne (The Swan)
XIV. Finale
Narrator: Trevor Harris
Pianists: Students, Teachers and Friends of the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association
Flute: Kristine Poulsen
Clarinet: Erica Manzo
Violin I: Graham Woodland
Violin II: Carolina Neves Merritt
Viola: Dustin Frieda
Cello: Mary Manulik
Double Bass: Sam Copeland
Percussion: Pete Zambito
With some expected and unexpected guests:
Tubas: Aaron Wacker and Tim O'Sullivan
Saxophone: Jeremiah Rittel
Clarinet: ...also Jeremiah Rittel
Violins: Studios of Amy Appold, Siri Geenen and Carolina Neves Merritt
Cellos: Mary Manulik Cello Studio and her friends
and
"Prelude of the Bat" by Patrick Clark, composer
"Snailwalk" by Benedetto (Ben) Colagiovanni, composer
"Unicorn" by Patrick Dell, composer
"Ladybug" by W. Thomas McKenney, composer
"Wooly Mammoth" by Paul Seitz, composer
Kids@Heart - Carnival Missouriana Performers
Lillie Appold is a seventh grader at Smithton Middle School, and has been playing the violin since the ripe old age of 5. She first started taking lessons with her mom, but soon discovered that Amy Appold knew nothing about the violin; she now gratefully studies with Siri Geenen. She's broken 5 bones and sprained the same ankle 3 times, but (miraculously) hasn't ever broken a bow. She is an avid writer, and was recently published in a poetry collection entitled Eloquence. She enjoys writing (of course), reading, drawing, and playing basketball on her school's team. She studies piano with Natalia Bolshakova, and enjoys her pieces immensely.
Maya Bell learned to play cello in 3rd grade with the Missouri Strings Project, as dozens of 8-year-old practiced bowing by pretending a dinosaur was hiding in a cave. Today, she gets to be a swan in a large room of amazing cellists. In her limited spare time, she kicks a soccer ball, draw, travel and practice being a rock cellist.
Natalia Bolshakova
Julia Bowers is in 8th grade at Gentry Middle School and have been playing cello for 4 years. She just moved to Columbia with her family, including a sister and two cats, all of whom love to run away when she pulls out her cello!
Amanda Bradshaw is a home-schooled 11th grade violinist. Besides playing violin, she enjoys photography, stamp collecting, and graphic designing. She also enjoys playing piano, engraving music, and learning about being a music librarian.
Claire Cheek is a junior at Hickman High School. She is the oldest of four swans in her family! Along with playing the cello, she enjoys playing piano and soccer.
Kristine Cho, a 10th grader at Rock Bridge High School, has played piano for 11 years and violin for 9, studying with Ayako Tsuruta, and with Eva Szekely, respectively. She received Runner Up in piano at MMTA in 2015 and Honorable Mention in both piano and violin at MMTA in 2012 and 2013. She plays the violin with the MOSS conservatory Chamber Players. She wishes she had a pet to play with but alas, instead spends her Saturdays with swordplay in French classical fencing and summers at music camps such as Interlochen, NYSMF, and IIYM.
Ryan Choe is an eighth grader attending Columbia Independent School. He's been flying solo as a swan across the Midwest and East Coast, migrating to various locations for enriching music camps. Ryan also won 2015 MMTA Runner Up for String 7th-9th grade. But now that it's January, he has migrated back Columbia for his performance for the Swan. He started cello as a baby swan at the age of four, and two years ago performed the Swan as a preteen swan. Today he'll be performing the piece as a teenage swan.
Brady Chung is an 8th grader at Smithton Middle School. He has studied the violin since he was 10 years old with Carolina Neves Merritt. He plays for the MOSS Conservatory and is the concertmaster for the Smithton 8th grade orchestra. He also plays piano and is being instructed by Natasha Bolshakova. He was a selected performer for the 2015 Women’s Symphony Piano Showcase and has appeared at MMTA four times. His hobbies besides music include reading, playing tennis, and learning about science.
Christina Chung is a sophomore at Hickman High School. She began studying the violin when she was 11 with Carolina Neves Merritt. She plays in her school chamber orchestra as well as in the Missouri Symphony Conservatory Young Artists Philharmonic and Chamber Players. She also plays piano and studies with Natasha Bolshakova. She has been a selected performer for the Women’s Symphony Piano Showcase numerous times and also participates in MMTA, recently receiving honorable mention in her division at state. When she's not making music, she likes spending time with family, sleeping and traveling.
Carrie Conklin, a native of Columbia, MO, has her BM and MM in Piano Performance from MU School of Music. As a freshman at MU, she was thrilled to get hired for an appearance, to play for a lovely holiday breakfast. Little did she know that her instrument would be a tiny keyboard without pedal. Because of this traumatic ordeal, Carrie has turned into quite the diva, asking specific questions about the instrument before agreeing to any gig! She has won numerous competitions at state and national levels. Conklin enjoys teaching students of all ages and abilities, performing chamber music, accompanying musicians for contests, and performing as soloist with orchestras.
Hayley Conklin, a 5th grader at Christian Fellowship School, began singing for audiences at the age of 2. By 3, she began playing around on the piano. At age 5, she had entered her first competition. Hayley has competed each year at NFMC auditions, as well as MMTA District and State, where she has received 1 ratings, and was named Winner in 2011. She has also performed in the Missouri Theatre several years. Due to so much success at an early age, Hayley thought she should challenge herself before this concert, by breaking her left hand pinky in mid- November, and wearing a cast for 4 weeks.
Justin Douty Justin Douty plays cello in the Advanced Orchestra at Jefferson Middle school and in the Missouri Symphony Conservatory. He has an Indian Ringneck parrot named Bach as an attentive audience when he practices cello. Bach says, "pretty, pretty, pretty bird" when he hears the Swan played.
Home schooled sophomore, Clara Dey, started violin when she was six years old and has studied with Amy Appold since she was seven. It was a childhood dream of hers to play violin concertos while riding dressage horses bareback. However, she is currently still mastering violin concertos while standing on the ground. Clara is involved in the Missouri Symphony Conservatory's Young Artists Philharmonic and Chamber orchestras. She has participated in past MMTA competitions, the Esterhazy String Quartet Seminar, and a theory class with Ayako Tsuruta. She also plays at contra dances with the family band. Besides violin, she enjoys hiking, gardening, studying fish diseases, eating tomatoes, telling jokes, and playing with her pet starling.
Alli Foster is a junior at Rock Bridge High School. She has been playing the cello for six years, but she hasn't been playing a swan for very long. Usually she takes the role of a lion tamer, capable of keeping her two younger brothers in line. Today, however, she will be attempting a much more graceful performance.
Linnea Geenen, age 11 is a 6th grader at West Middle School. She began playing the violin with her Mom at age 2. Although she enjoyed the music, her biggest wish was to be a mermaid. She even told many of her mom's students that at night in her dreams she became a mermaid!! Currently Linnea studies violin with Amy Appold and piano with Colleen Ostercamp. She plays violin with the MOSS Jr. Sinfonia, sings in the MOSS Children's Chorus and studies ballet with Nancy Stoy at the Mid Missouri school of ballet. In addition to her music and dance, Linnea enjoys knitting, reading hiking and of course swimming!
When Solveig Geenen began studying violin at age three with her mom, she thought she was a dog. She found it rather difficult to play the violin with sock “paws” on her hands, however, and finally had to give up being a dog to continue playing the instrument. Eleven years later, Solveig is studying violin with Amy Appold. She is an active member of the MOSS Young Artists’ Philharmonic and the Chamber Players, and also plays in the Hickman Chamber Orchestra. She won the MMTA statewide competition for the 7-9 string division this fall. Solveig also studies piano with Colleen Ostercamp, and when she isn’t busy practicing and performing, she enjoys spending time with her younger sister, Linnea.
Joanna Grafakos is a freshman at Columbia Independent School. She began playing the violin when she was four years old and now studies with Siri Geenen. She also plays the bouzouki, a traditional Greek instrument. Joanna enjoys traveling and once rode up the side of a mountain on a donkey.
Matthew Guess is a junior at Rock Bridge High School and has been playing the piano for 11 years. He moved to Columbia two and a half years ago and is studying with Anne Manahan at the Kyriakos Studio. He enjoys playing soccer and running track. He also enjoys skiing and mountain biking. In his spare time, he likes to play the electric guitar, chess, games, and solving the Rubik's Cube in record time. He is most excited about the opening of Star Wars: the Force Awakens. He has participated in MMTA Auditions, Federated Music Teachers Association Auditions, and the Odyssey's "Kids@Heart" concert, and is thankful to be a part of an elite piano program in Columbia.
Justin Hahm is 12 years old. Today he has been transformed into a swan through the power of music. When he was a human, he went to Jefferson Middle School. he remembers playing cello since he was 7. A fifth of his life is for music, another fifth for sports, another fifth is spent on school, and two fifths is left for deep sleep. This spell only lasts during the concert. Enjoy it while you can!
Henry Huang won a number of awards, including the top award in Piano of the 2013 Stella Boyle Smith Young Artist Concerto Competition sponsored by the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, and the 2012 Beethoven Club Young Artist Competition in Memphis (Junior Division). He was the runner-up at the South Central Division in 2014 MTNA Junior Piano Competition. Henry represented Missouri to compete this time at the West Central Division for the 2015 MTNA Junior Piano Competition.
Connor Joyce is a first year graduate student studying for his degree in piano performance and pedagogy. He lives on an exotic animal farm in the faraway village of Columbia, Missouri, where he trains elephants to play piano, llamas to knit, and pugs to paint replicas of the Mona Lisa. He hopes to one day open his own carnival where patrons pay 5 pickles to see his assortment of spectacles.
Katherine Kalman is a Senior at Battle High School. She asked Father Christmas when she was 4 for a violin, but sadly he was all out of real ones that year and he gave her a cardboard cutout. She finally nagged her slow parents into enrolling her in lessons when she was 6. She took lessons with Shirley Jamison Koch with the Ottawa Suzuki Strings until she moved to Columba, and she now studies with Siri Geenen. Dr. Suzuki said you should only practice on the days that you eat. Katherine took this to heart and practiced 1500 consecutive days without missing a single one. Katherine also enjoys golf, snow skiing and learning to fly.
Hazel Keithahn is 10 years old and has been playing violin since age three. Her favorite musical experiences have been playing in the Suzuki Youth Orchestra of the Americas and playing Christmas music with her family. She looks forward to sounding like a donkey on her violin-intentionally for once!
Hope Keithahn enjoys musical theatre. Many people may not know that she actually began life as a violinist, but today she is playing the role of a swan on the cello. Without her in today’s concert, there would be no Hope.
Brandon Kim is a 6th grader at Jefferson Middle School. He enjoys tennis, watching football, and reading. Brandon plays piano and violin and has started learning the saxophone this year. He is co-concertmaster in the Junior Sinfonia (MOSS). Once when he was eight, Brandon got on stage with his violin during his studio recital and proudly played the first passage…. of the previous person’s piece! He yelled "Auuggh!” and played his piece a few seconds later.
Joseph Gyu-Seok Kim is a junior at Hickman High School. He likes performing violin and listening music, while he also enjoys solving Rubik’s cube, tennis, and debate at school. His best score for solving Rubik’s cube is 6.5sec, and he believes he can lower this record. His dream is to be a great violinist, and he believes the dream will come true someday.
Beverly Kyriakos holds the Bachelor of Music from Eastman School of Music and Master of Music from Indiana University. Both degrees are in Piano Performance, with additional study in organ. She has been teaching in Columbia for at least 100 years, first at Stephens College and the remaining years in the Kyriakos Music Studio. Any success in teaching she attributes to practicing many hours in order to get out of household chores. Mrs. “K” likes to have fun teaching her students, so they won’t get bored, and tries to fool them into thinking practicing is FUN. She has been the organist at Broadway Christian Church for 31 years—this is actually true!
Eric Kwon is a 8th grader at Gentry Middle School. Over the eight years of his music career, he has played piano and violin. He started piano as a kindergartener, and studies with Beverly Kyriakos. With the violin, he has played in the Missouri Symphony Conservatory Young Artists’ Philharmonic and Chamber Players. He currently studies the violin with Amy Appold. Other than playing, practicing, and performing on his instruments, his hobbies are tennis, Science Olympiad, and watching Real Madrid and the St. Louis Cardinals play.
Adam Lake fell and hit his head on a rock at the bottom of some stairs as a young child. He is believed to be mostly recovered. At some point later, he decided to learn violin. The two events may or may not be related. He enjoys reading, eating, and petting dogs, preferably simultaneously.
Nadia Lake started playing violin when she was five years old. She played Witches dance for her schools talent show in the second grade. She now goes to Lange Middle School.
One would think that Jeanne LAMBson would be more about bleating a sheep song but today she will be playing her cello as a sheep in swan’s clothing. Mrs. Lambson is retired from teaching in Columbia schools but she continues to herd a flock of private cello, piano, and bass students now that her own flock of seven lambs…..er, children are grown.
Katie Langen is a sophomore at Hickman High School who has played violin since she was five. She plays classical and Irish music and enjoys listening to every kind of music. One day she will get her friends to like jazz and old movie scores.
Lien Hsin (Emily) Lee is an eighth grader at Gentry Middle School. A student of Ayako Tsuruta, Emily has studied in special music elementary school from 3rd–6th grades in Taiwan with Ju Yin Lai. She was the winner of 2014 MMTA in 7A level, and performed in the 2014 Piano Showcase. Emily also plays viola in MOSS Young Artist Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestra, and has won the 2015 String 7-9 th Honorable Mention. Her hobbies include reading, writing and drawing, and likes to travel around the world with her family.
Snowy Li lives in Columbia, Missouri, with her family. She is a seventh grader who attends Gentry middle school, and is a proud violin player in the school orchestra and Honors orchestra. Snowy has played the violin for almost 7 years. She used to take violin lessons from mentor Qian. This fall she began taking lessons from Carolina Merritt.
Although Erica Lim loves music, playing the piano, clarinet, and especially the cello, the real reason she took up this opportunity is that she finally has an appropriate time and place to tell her swan jokes. What do baby swans dance to? Cygnet-ure-tunes! (Note: A cygnet is a baby swan)
Charles McGrath is a 7th grader at West Middle School and he studies violin with Siri Geenen and Amy Appold. His favorite activities are tennis, violin, traveling, and seeing the Royals win the World Series.
Peter Miyamoto is an active concert pianist, chamber musician and teacher. He resides in Columbia, Missouri, where he serves on faculty at the University of Missouri and looks after approximately 23 lions, 14 dragons, a brood of pianists, a dog and one hunny bunny. When he grows up, he hopes to run away with the circus.
Annika Moser is a freshman at Heritage Academy. She began studying piano when she was six and started violin lessons a year and a half later. Today, Annika is a piano student of Ayako Tsuruta. She received Honorable Mention for piano solo in her division at 2015 MMTA State Competition. Annika also studies violin with Amy Appold. She is a member of the MOSS Conservatory and plays violin in the Young Artists Philharmonic and Chamber Players. Along with her love of music, Annika enjoys spending time with her friends, playing ukulele, and traveling. She is currently saving her pennies to visit her sister who lives in Seoul, South Korea.
Audrey Mueller’s performing career got its start in second grade, when she invited crowds of eight-year-olds to spend their recess at a “concert” featuring songs she herself had composed. After receiving a surprisingly positive reception, Audrey was inspired to pursue music and has been loving it ever since. Piano is her favorite instrument, though she also plays the flute and enjoys singing and acting.
Soyoung (Mary) Park had many dream jobs when she was young. She wanted to be a cashier, a librarian, a hair stylist, a teacher, and even a president. When Mary got introduced to the violin in second grade, she wanted to become a violinist. Currently, Mary is studying with Amy Appold. Through various experiences such as MMTA state competitions, COMP (Creating Original Music Project), and the All-State Orchestra, Mary has learned to have interest and passion in music.
Nicole Parker is a sixth grader at Oakland Middle School. She has been playing the cello for four and half years. In her spare time she likes to read and make duct tape wallets. She is happy to be a swan today because she likes birds with pure white feathers, just like her pet cockatoo, Tango. She is also happy to be a swan because she loves floating in the water (in a canoe).
Holly Quist is a 24-year-old girl who never quit her piano lessons! She came all the way from the wintery Michigan to hang out with the cool kids here in Columbia, Missouri. She enjoys running around, and gets a little crazy sometimes. She dreams that she’ll someday be able to fly like a bird.
Gyumi Rha was born in South Korea and moved to America four years ago. She is currently studying for master’s degree at University of Missouri. She often goes to zoo and heard sound of animals because of her project after graduation, and she practices hard everyday to make her dream come true. Her goal is that makes an ensemble of sounds of the nature with animals such as elephants, lions, and kangaroo at the grasslands of Africa in 2017.
Nathan Roberts is a sophomore and Hickman High School and he has been playing the cello for five and a half years. He also plays
lacrosse. While he is very active in lacrosse, he is always watching out for the younger swans waddling across the field.
Betsy Schlimme, age 16, began studying the violin in 4th grade. Her biggest fan is her dog Jack who likes to sing along during her practice sessions. While appreciative, Betsy enjoys playing for larger audiences in the Rock Bridge High School Chamber orchestra and as Principal Second Violin with the Missouri Symphony Conservatory.
Norah Stone is a sixth grader at West Middle School. She loves hats! She is not graceful and she trips over her feet a lot. Expressing herself through cello allows her to be graceful like a swan. She is a member of the MOSS Conservatory Jr. Sinfonia and Choir and the West Choir. She also plays handbells and the piano.
Margaret Straw is a junior at Hickman High School. As well as studying violin with Siri Geenan, Margaret plays the piano, dances with the Perlman-Stoy School of Ballet, and takes voice lessons with her father, Michael Straw. Margaret is the news lead for her high school’s newspaper, the P&G, and loves anything that has to do with writing- especially short stories about irascible donkeys.
Ayako Tsuruta appeared in Odyssey's first "Carnival of the Animals" May 2007, when there were more musicians on stage than the audience... . She has since improved gathering the crowd for this festive "Kids@Heart: A Children's Concert," thanks to Jedi-like mental exercises she received (receiving?) from her daughter. Choate, Juilliard and Yale contributed to her earlier musical training.
Zeru Wang performed a Liszt etude at City Concert Hall (Hangzhou, China) during his high school years, punched his eyeglasses incidentally owing to using to much strengths for the etude. He is a student pursuing Bachelor of music degree, piano performance major under Dr. Peter Miyamoto.
Zoe Wu is a sophomore at Rock Bridge High School. She has been playing cello since 4th grade, and she absolutely loves how the cello
sounds. She also enjoys cross country and dancing.
Liyue Yin is pursuing master of piano performance under Dr. Peter Miyamotio (Dr. Dragon) at University of Missouri. An active solo pianist and collaborative musician, she accompanied voice studios and opera scenes at school of music, where she also enjoys transforming into a camel and a lion.
William Yoo is12 years old and a 7th grader at Gentry Middle school. He plays cello, his younger brother plays viola, and his youngest brother plays violin, all in order of size. They all play the same size piano. He has played soccer for 8 years, and often plays with his brothers. He hopes one day to play in a Trio with them just like they play soccer now.
Wenzhao Zhu received her Bachelor of Arts in piano performance from Xian Conservatory of Music in China. She then went to Australia and studied with Australian pianist Elizabeth Green. She is currently pursuing her Master of Music degree at University of Missouri under Dr. Peter Miyamoto.
Maya Bell learned to play cello in 3rd grade with the Missouri Strings Project, as dozens of 8-year-old practiced bowing by pretending a dinosaur was hiding in a cave. Today, she gets to be a swan in a large room of amazing cellists. In her limited spare time, she kicks a soccer ball, draw, travel and practice being a rock cellist.
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Julia Bowers is in 8th grade at Gentry Middle School and have been playing cello for 4 years. She just moved to Columbia with her family, including a sister and two cats, all of whom love to run away when she pulls out her cello!
Amanda Bradshaw is a home-schooled 11th grade violinist. Besides playing violin, she enjoys photography, stamp collecting, and graphic designing. She also enjoys playing piano, engraving music, and learning about being a music librarian.
Claire Cheek is a junior at Hickman High School. She is the oldest of four swans in her family! Along with playing the cello, she enjoys playing piano and soccer.
Kristine Cho, a 10th grader at Rock Bridge High School, has played piano for 11 years and violin for 9, studying with Ayako Tsuruta, and with Eva Szekely, respectively. She received Runner Up in piano at MMTA in 2015 and Honorable Mention in both piano and violin at MMTA in 2012 and 2013. She plays the violin with the MOSS conservatory Chamber Players. She wishes she had a pet to play with but alas, instead spends her Saturdays with swordplay in French classical fencing and summers at music camps such as Interlochen, NYSMF, and IIYM.
Ryan Choe is an eighth grader attending Columbia Independent School. He's been flying solo as a swan across the Midwest and East Coast, migrating to various locations for enriching music camps. Ryan also won 2015 MMTA Runner Up for String 7th-9th grade. But now that it's January, he has migrated back Columbia for his performance for the Swan. He started cello as a baby swan at the age of four, and two years ago performed the Swan as a preteen swan. Today he'll be performing the piece as a teenage swan.
Brady Chung is an 8th grader at Smithton Middle School. He has studied the violin since he was 10 years old with Carolina Neves Merritt. He plays for the MOSS Conservatory and is the concertmaster for the Smithton 8th grade orchestra. He also plays piano and is being instructed by Natasha Bolshakova. He was a selected performer for the 2015 Women’s Symphony Piano Showcase and has appeared at MMTA four times. His hobbies besides music include reading, playing tennis, and learning about science.
Christina Chung is a sophomore at Hickman High School. She began studying the violin when she was 11 with Carolina Neves Merritt. She plays in her school chamber orchestra as well as in the Missouri Symphony Conservatory Young Artists Philharmonic and Chamber Players. She also plays piano and studies with Natasha Bolshakova. She has been a selected performer for the Women’s Symphony Piano Showcase numerous times and also participates in MMTA, recently receiving honorable mention in her division at state. When she's not making music, she likes spending time with family, sleeping and traveling.
Carrie Conklin, a native of Columbia, MO, has her BM and MM in Piano Performance from MU School of Music. As a freshman at MU, she was thrilled to get hired for an appearance, to play for a lovely holiday breakfast. Little did she know that her instrument would be a tiny keyboard without pedal. Because of this traumatic ordeal, Carrie has turned into quite the diva, asking specific questions about the instrument before agreeing to any gig! She has won numerous competitions at state and national levels. Conklin enjoys teaching students of all ages and abilities, performing chamber music, accompanying musicians for contests, and performing as soloist with orchestras.
Hayley Conklin, a 5th grader at Christian Fellowship School, began singing for audiences at the age of 2. By 3, she began playing around on the piano. At age 5, she had entered her first competition. Hayley has competed each year at NFMC auditions, as well as MMTA District and State, where she has received 1 ratings, and was named Winner in 2011. She has also performed in the Missouri Theatre several years. Due to so much success at an early age, Hayley thought she should challenge herself before this concert, by breaking her left hand pinky in mid- November, and wearing a cast for 4 weeks.
Justin Douty Justin Douty plays cello in the Advanced Orchestra at Jefferson Middle school and in the Missouri Symphony Conservatory. He has an Indian Ringneck parrot named Bach as an attentive audience when he practices cello. Bach says, "pretty, pretty, pretty bird" when he hears the Swan played.
Home schooled sophomore, Clara Dey, started violin when she was six years old and has studied with Amy Appold since she was seven. It was a childhood dream of hers to play violin concertos while riding dressage horses bareback. However, she is currently still mastering violin concertos while standing on the ground. Clara is involved in the Missouri Symphony Conservatory's Young Artists Philharmonic and Chamber orchestras. She has participated in past MMTA competitions, the Esterhazy String Quartet Seminar, and a theory class with Ayako Tsuruta. She also plays at contra dances with the family band. Besides violin, she enjoys hiking, gardening, studying fish diseases, eating tomatoes, telling jokes, and playing with her pet starling.
Alli Foster is a junior at Rock Bridge High School. She has been playing the cello for six years, but she hasn't been playing a swan for very long. Usually she takes the role of a lion tamer, capable of keeping her two younger brothers in line. Today, however, she will be attempting a much more graceful performance.
Linnea Geenen, age 11 is a 6th grader at West Middle School. She began playing the violin with her Mom at age 2. Although she enjoyed the music, her biggest wish was to be a mermaid. She even told many of her mom's students that at night in her dreams she became a mermaid!! Currently Linnea studies violin with Amy Appold and piano with Colleen Ostercamp. She plays violin with the MOSS Jr. Sinfonia, sings in the MOSS Children's Chorus and studies ballet with Nancy Stoy at the Mid Missouri school of ballet. In addition to her music and dance, Linnea enjoys knitting, reading hiking and of course swimming!
When Solveig Geenen began studying violin at age three with her mom, she thought she was a dog. She found it rather difficult to play the violin with sock “paws” on her hands, however, and finally had to give up being a dog to continue playing the instrument. Eleven years later, Solveig is studying violin with Amy Appold. She is an active member of the MOSS Young Artists’ Philharmonic and the Chamber Players, and also plays in the Hickman Chamber Orchestra. She won the MMTA statewide competition for the 7-9 string division this fall. Solveig also studies piano with Colleen Ostercamp, and when she isn’t busy practicing and performing, she enjoys spending time with her younger sister, Linnea.
Joanna Grafakos is a freshman at Columbia Independent School. She began playing the violin when she was four years old and now studies with Siri Geenen. She also plays the bouzouki, a traditional Greek instrument. Joanna enjoys traveling and once rode up the side of a mountain on a donkey.
Matthew Guess is a junior at Rock Bridge High School and has been playing the piano for 11 years. He moved to Columbia two and a half years ago and is studying with Anne Manahan at the Kyriakos Studio. He enjoys playing soccer and running track. He also enjoys skiing and mountain biking. In his spare time, he likes to play the electric guitar, chess, games, and solving the Rubik's Cube in record time. He is most excited about the opening of Star Wars: the Force Awakens. He has participated in MMTA Auditions, Federated Music Teachers Association Auditions, and the Odyssey's "Kids@Heart" concert, and is thankful to be a part of an elite piano program in Columbia.
Justin Hahm is 12 years old. Today he has been transformed into a swan through the power of music. When he was a human, he went to Jefferson Middle School. he remembers playing cello since he was 7. A fifth of his life is for music, another fifth for sports, another fifth is spent on school, and two fifths is left for deep sleep. This spell only lasts during the concert. Enjoy it while you can!
Henry Huang won a number of awards, including the top award in Piano of the 2013 Stella Boyle Smith Young Artist Concerto Competition sponsored by the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, and the 2012 Beethoven Club Young Artist Competition in Memphis (Junior Division). He was the runner-up at the South Central Division in 2014 MTNA Junior Piano Competition. Henry represented Missouri to compete this time at the West Central Division for the 2015 MTNA Junior Piano Competition.
Connor Joyce is a first year graduate student studying for his degree in piano performance and pedagogy. He lives on an exotic animal farm in the faraway village of Columbia, Missouri, where he trains elephants to play piano, llamas to knit, and pugs to paint replicas of the Mona Lisa. He hopes to one day open his own carnival where patrons pay 5 pickles to see his assortment of spectacles.
Katherine Kalman is a Senior at Battle High School. She asked Father Christmas when she was 4 for a violin, but sadly he was all out of real ones that year and he gave her a cardboard cutout. She finally nagged her slow parents into enrolling her in lessons when she was 6. She took lessons with Shirley Jamison Koch with the Ottawa Suzuki Strings until she moved to Columba, and she now studies with Siri Geenen. Dr. Suzuki said you should only practice on the days that you eat. Katherine took this to heart and practiced 1500 consecutive days without missing a single one. Katherine also enjoys golf, snow skiing and learning to fly.
Hazel Keithahn is 10 years old and has been playing violin since age three. Her favorite musical experiences have been playing in the Suzuki Youth Orchestra of the Americas and playing Christmas music with her family. She looks forward to sounding like a donkey on her violin-intentionally for once!
Hope Keithahn enjoys musical theatre. Many people may not know that she actually began life as a violinist, but today she is playing the role of a swan on the cello. Without her in today’s concert, there would be no Hope.
Brandon Kim is a 6th grader at Jefferson Middle School. He enjoys tennis, watching football, and reading. Brandon plays piano and violin and has started learning the saxophone this year. He is co-concertmaster in the Junior Sinfonia (MOSS). Once when he was eight, Brandon got on stage with his violin during his studio recital and proudly played the first passage…. of the previous person’s piece! He yelled "Auuggh!” and played his piece a few seconds later.
Joseph Gyu-Seok Kim is a junior at Hickman High School. He likes performing violin and listening music, while he also enjoys solving Rubik’s cube, tennis, and debate at school. His best score for solving Rubik’s cube is 6.5sec, and he believes he can lower this record. His dream is to be a great violinist, and he believes the dream will come true someday.
Beverly Kyriakos holds the Bachelor of Music from Eastman School of Music and Master of Music from Indiana University. Both degrees are in Piano Performance, with additional study in organ. She has been teaching in Columbia for at least 100 years, first at Stephens College and the remaining years in the Kyriakos Music Studio. Any success in teaching she attributes to practicing many hours in order to get out of household chores. Mrs. “K” likes to have fun teaching her students, so they won’t get bored, and tries to fool them into thinking practicing is FUN. She has been the organist at Broadway Christian Church for 31 years—this is actually true!
Eric Kwon is a 8th grader at Gentry Middle School. Over the eight years of his music career, he has played piano and violin. He started piano as a kindergartener, and studies with Beverly Kyriakos. With the violin, he has played in the Missouri Symphony Conservatory Young Artists’ Philharmonic and Chamber Players. He currently studies the violin with Amy Appold. Other than playing, practicing, and performing on his instruments, his hobbies are tennis, Science Olympiad, and watching Real Madrid and the St. Louis Cardinals play.
Adam Lake fell and hit his head on a rock at the bottom of some stairs as a young child. He is believed to be mostly recovered. At some point later, he decided to learn violin. The two events may or may not be related. He enjoys reading, eating, and petting dogs, preferably simultaneously.
Nadia Lake started playing violin when she was five years old. She played Witches dance for her schools talent show in the second grade. She now goes to Lange Middle School.
One would think that Jeanne LAMBson would be more about bleating a sheep song but today she will be playing her cello as a sheep in swan’s clothing. Mrs. Lambson is retired from teaching in Columbia schools but she continues to herd a flock of private cello, piano, and bass students now that her own flock of seven lambs…..er, children are grown.
Katie Langen is a sophomore at Hickman High School who has played violin since she was five. She plays classical and Irish music and enjoys listening to every kind of music. One day she will get her friends to like jazz and old movie scores.
Lien Hsin (Emily) Lee is an eighth grader at Gentry Middle School. A student of Ayako Tsuruta, Emily has studied in special music elementary school from 3rd–6th grades in Taiwan with Ju Yin Lai. She was the winner of 2014 MMTA in 7A level, and performed in the 2014 Piano Showcase. Emily also plays viola in MOSS Young Artist Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestra, and has won the 2015 String 7-9 th Honorable Mention. Her hobbies include reading, writing and drawing, and likes to travel around the world with her family.
Snowy Li lives in Columbia, Missouri, with her family. She is a seventh grader who attends Gentry middle school, and is a proud violin player in the school orchestra and Honors orchestra. Snowy has played the violin for almost 7 years. She used to take violin lessons from mentor Qian. This fall she began taking lessons from Carolina Merritt.
Although Erica Lim loves music, playing the piano, clarinet, and especially the cello, the real reason she took up this opportunity is that she finally has an appropriate time and place to tell her swan jokes. What do baby swans dance to? Cygnet-ure-tunes! (Note: A cygnet is a baby swan)
Charles McGrath is a 7th grader at West Middle School and he studies violin with Siri Geenen and Amy Appold. His favorite activities are tennis, violin, traveling, and seeing the Royals win the World Series.
Peter Miyamoto is an active concert pianist, chamber musician and teacher. He resides in Columbia, Missouri, where he serves on faculty at the University of Missouri and looks after approximately 23 lions, 14 dragons, a brood of pianists, a dog and one hunny bunny. When he grows up, he hopes to run away with the circus.
Annika Moser is a freshman at Heritage Academy. She began studying piano when she was six and started violin lessons a year and a half later. Today, Annika is a piano student of Ayako Tsuruta. She received Honorable Mention for piano solo in her division at 2015 MMTA State Competition. Annika also studies violin with Amy Appold. She is a member of the MOSS Conservatory and plays violin in the Young Artists Philharmonic and Chamber Players. Along with her love of music, Annika enjoys spending time with her friends, playing ukulele, and traveling. She is currently saving her pennies to visit her sister who lives in Seoul, South Korea.
Audrey Mueller’s performing career got its start in second grade, when she invited crowds of eight-year-olds to spend their recess at a “concert” featuring songs she herself had composed. After receiving a surprisingly positive reception, Audrey was inspired to pursue music and has been loving it ever since. Piano is her favorite instrument, though she also plays the flute and enjoys singing and acting.
Soyoung (Mary) Park had many dream jobs when she was young. She wanted to be a cashier, a librarian, a hair stylist, a teacher, and even a president. When Mary got introduced to the violin in second grade, she wanted to become a violinist. Currently, Mary is studying with Amy Appold. Through various experiences such as MMTA state competitions, COMP (Creating Original Music Project), and the All-State Orchestra, Mary has learned to have interest and passion in music.
Nicole Parker is a sixth grader at Oakland Middle School. She has been playing the cello for four and half years. In her spare time she likes to read and make duct tape wallets. She is happy to be a swan today because she likes birds with pure white feathers, just like her pet cockatoo, Tango. She is also happy to be a swan because she loves floating in the water (in a canoe).
Holly Quist is a 24-year-old girl who never quit her piano lessons! She came all the way from the wintery Michigan to hang out with the cool kids here in Columbia, Missouri. She enjoys running around, and gets a little crazy sometimes. She dreams that she’ll someday be able to fly like a bird.
Gyumi Rha was born in South Korea and moved to America four years ago. She is currently studying for master’s degree at University of Missouri. She often goes to zoo and heard sound of animals because of her project after graduation, and she practices hard everyday to make her dream come true. Her goal is that makes an ensemble of sounds of the nature with animals such as elephants, lions, and kangaroo at the grasslands of Africa in 2017.
Nathan Roberts is a sophomore and Hickman High School and he has been playing the cello for five and a half years. He also plays
lacrosse. While he is very active in lacrosse, he is always watching out for the younger swans waddling across the field.
Betsy Schlimme, age 16, began studying the violin in 4th grade. Her biggest fan is her dog Jack who likes to sing along during her practice sessions. While appreciative, Betsy enjoys playing for larger audiences in the Rock Bridge High School Chamber orchestra and as Principal Second Violin with the Missouri Symphony Conservatory.
Norah Stone is a sixth grader at West Middle School. She loves hats! She is not graceful and she trips over her feet a lot. Expressing herself through cello allows her to be graceful like a swan. She is a member of the MOSS Conservatory Jr. Sinfonia and Choir and the West Choir. She also plays handbells and the piano.
Margaret Straw is a junior at Hickman High School. As well as studying violin with Siri Geenan, Margaret plays the piano, dances with the Perlman-Stoy School of Ballet, and takes voice lessons with her father, Michael Straw. Margaret is the news lead for her high school’s newspaper, the P&G, and loves anything that has to do with writing- especially short stories about irascible donkeys.
Ayako Tsuruta appeared in Odyssey's first "Carnival of the Animals" May 2007, when there were more musicians on stage than the audience... . She has since improved gathering the crowd for this festive "Kids@Heart: A Children's Concert," thanks to Jedi-like mental exercises she received (receiving?) from her daughter. Choate, Juilliard and Yale contributed to her earlier musical training.
Zeru Wang performed a Liszt etude at City Concert Hall (Hangzhou, China) during his high school years, punched his eyeglasses incidentally owing to using to much strengths for the etude. He is a student pursuing Bachelor of music degree, piano performance major under Dr. Peter Miyamoto.
Zoe Wu is a sophomore at Rock Bridge High School. She has been playing cello since 4th grade, and she absolutely loves how the cello
sounds. She also enjoys cross country and dancing.
Liyue Yin is pursuing master of piano performance under Dr. Peter Miyamotio (Dr. Dragon) at University of Missouri. An active solo pianist and collaborative musician, she accompanied voice studios and opera scenes at school of music, where she also enjoys transforming into a camel and a lion.
William Yoo is12 years old and a 7th grader at Gentry Middle school. He plays cello, his younger brother plays viola, and his youngest brother plays violin, all in order of size. They all play the same size piano. He has played soccer for 8 years, and often plays with his brothers. He hopes one day to play in a Trio with them just like they play soccer now.
Wenzhao Zhu received her Bachelor of Arts in piano performance from Xian Conservatory of Music in China. She then went to Australia and studied with Australian pianist Elizabeth Green. She is currently pursuing her Master of Music degree at University of Missouri under Dr. Peter Miyamoto.
January 21, 2016 JASPER STRING QUARTET
(2008 Plowman Grand Prize Winner)
Thursday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in G major, Op. 76 No. 1 (1796-7)
Allegro con spirito
Adagio sostenuto
Menuetto. Presto
Allegro ma non troppo
Jasper String Quartet
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
Largo
Allegro molto
Allegretto
Largo
Largo
Jasper String Quartet
Intermission
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 (1842)
Allegro brillante
In modo d’una Marcia. Un poco largamente
Scherzo: Molto vivace
Finale: Allegro non troppo
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Jasper String Quartet
J Freivogel, violin I
Sae Chonabayashi, violin II
Sam Quintal, viola
Rachel Henderson Freivogel, violoncello
(2008 Plowman Grand Prize Winner)
Thursday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in G major, Op. 76 No. 1 (1796-7)
Allegro con spirito
Adagio sostenuto
Menuetto. Presto
Allegro ma non troppo
Jasper String Quartet
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
Largo
Allegro molto
Allegretto
Largo
Largo
Jasper String Quartet
Intermission
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 (1842)
Allegro brillante
In modo d’una Marcia. Un poco largamente
Scherzo: Molto vivace
Finale: Allegro non troppo
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Jasper String Quartet
J Freivogel, violin I
Sae Chonabayashi, violin II
Sam Quintal, viola
Rachel Henderson Freivogel, violoncello
February 19, 2016 ELIZABETHAN BAROQUE
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
John Dowland (1563-1626)
“Sorrow, Stay” published in Pilgrim’s Solace (1612) [3'00]
“Tell Me True Love” published in Second Book of Songs or Aires (1600) [4’ 15]
“What If I Never Speed” published in Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires (1603) [3’ 15]
Christine Seitz, soprano
Paul Seitz, lute
Lowell Lieberman (b. 1961): Three Elizabethan Songs, Op. 63 (1999) [6’00]
I. To Electra (Robert Herrick)
II. Orpheus With His Lute (William Shakespeare)
III. The Hag (Robert Herrick)
Vox Nova
Thomas Tallis (1505-1585): O Nata Lux [2'30]
William Byrd (1540-1623): Sing Joyfully [4'00]
Matthew Harris (1956): O Mistress Mine from Shakespeare Songs [2'00]
Charles Ives (1874-1954): Psalm 67
Vox Nova
Intermission
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): Let God arise, HWV 256a, "Chandos Anthem No. 11" (1726) [23'00]
I. Sinfonia
II. Chorus: Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered
III. Air for tenor: Like as the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou drive them away
IV. Air for soprano: Let the righteous be glad and rejoice before God
V. Chorus: O sing unto God, and sing praises unto his name.
VI. Accompagnato: Praised be the Lord.
VII. Chorus: At thy rebuke, O God: both the chariot and horse are fall’n.
VIII. Chorus: Blessed be God, Alleluia.
Bach Collegium Choir
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
R. Paul Crabb, director
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Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Oboe: Dan Willett
Bassoon: Andrew Bell
Violin I: Siri Geenen, Graham Woodland, Carolina Neves Merritt
Violin II: Amy Appold, Joseph Kim, Xiaoxiao Du
Violoncello: Mary Manulik, Shannon Merciel, Aya Chen
Double Bass: Sam Copeland
Organ: Neil Minturn
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
John Dowland (1563-1626)
“Sorrow, Stay” published in Pilgrim’s Solace (1612) [3'00]
“Tell Me True Love” published in Second Book of Songs or Aires (1600) [4’ 15]
“What If I Never Speed” published in Third and Last Book of Songs or Aires (1603) [3’ 15]
Christine Seitz, soprano
Paul Seitz, lute
Lowell Lieberman (b. 1961): Three Elizabethan Songs, Op. 63 (1999) [6’00]
I. To Electra (Robert Herrick)
II. Orpheus With His Lute (William Shakespeare)
III. The Hag (Robert Herrick)
Vox Nova
Thomas Tallis (1505-1585): O Nata Lux [2'30]
William Byrd (1540-1623): Sing Joyfully [4'00]
Matthew Harris (1956): O Mistress Mine from Shakespeare Songs [2'00]
Charles Ives (1874-1954): Psalm 67
Vox Nova
Intermission
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): Let God arise, HWV 256a, "Chandos Anthem No. 11" (1726) [23'00]
I. Sinfonia
II. Chorus: Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered
III. Air for tenor: Like as the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou drive them away
IV. Air for soprano: Let the righteous be glad and rejoice before God
V. Chorus: O sing unto God, and sing praises unto his name.
VI. Accompagnato: Praised be the Lord.
VII. Chorus: At thy rebuke, O God: both the chariot and horse are fall’n.
VIII. Chorus: Blessed be God, Alleluia.
Bach Collegium Choir
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
R. Paul Crabb, director
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Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Oboe: Dan Willett
Bassoon: Andrew Bell
Violin I: Siri Geenen, Graham Woodland, Carolina Neves Merritt
Violin II: Amy Appold, Joseph Kim, Xiaoxiao Du
Violoncello: Mary Manulik, Shannon Merciel, Aya Chen
Double Bass: Sam Copeland
Organ: Neil Minturn
March 18, 2016 M-Odyssey
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Presented by the Odyssey Performance Fellows
Adolf Busch (1891-1952): Suite for alto saxophone and violin (1931) [9'00]
Joseph Rulli, alto saxophone
Xiaoxiao Du, violin
Rudolf Haken (b.1965): Surennatalia II (2012) [20'00]
Prelude
Marche funèbre
Rag a grande vitesse
Rag des regrets
Gigue
Triathlon
Joseph Rulli, alto saxophone
Xiaoxiao Du, violin
Zeru Wang, piano
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): Histoire du Tango
Bordello, 1900 (1986) [4’00]
Xiaoxiao Du, violin
Ryan Marquardt, guitar
Intermission
Russell Peterson (b. 1969): Quintet for alto saxophone and strings (2003) [11’00]
Moderato
Allegro molto
Joseph Rulli, alto saxophone
Xiaoxiao Du, violin
Graham Woodlandm violin
Clifton Gillilland, viola
Shannon Merciel, violoncello
Ben Colagiovanni (b. 1993): Four Jazz Moods for saxophone and piano (2015) [10’00]
Joseph Rulli, alto saxophone
Ben Colagiovanni, piano
Walter Hartley (b.1927): Dance Suite for violin, alto saxophone and piano (1985) [7’00]
Polonaise brillante
Valse lente
Polka fantasque
Joseph Rulli, alto saxophone
Xiaoxiao Du, violin
Zeru Wang, piano
Performers will include Odyssey Performance Fellows, Xiaoxiao Du and Joseph Rulli.
Odyssey Performance Fellowship has been underwritten by Dr. David and Nancy G. Bedan and Drs. Gary and Patricia Coles.
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Presented by the Odyssey Performance Fellows
Adolf Busch (1891-1952): Suite for alto saxophone and violin (1931) [9'00]
Joseph Rulli, alto saxophone
Xiaoxiao Du, violin
Rudolf Haken (b.1965): Surennatalia II (2012) [20'00]
Prelude
Marche funèbre
Rag a grande vitesse
Rag des regrets
Gigue
Triathlon
Joseph Rulli, alto saxophone
Xiaoxiao Du, violin
Zeru Wang, piano
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): Histoire du Tango
Bordello, 1900 (1986) [4’00]
Xiaoxiao Du, violin
Ryan Marquardt, guitar
Intermission
Russell Peterson (b. 1969): Quintet for alto saxophone and strings (2003) [11’00]
Moderato
Allegro molto
Joseph Rulli, alto saxophone
Xiaoxiao Du, violin
Graham Woodlandm violin
Clifton Gillilland, viola
Shannon Merciel, violoncello
Ben Colagiovanni (b. 1993): Four Jazz Moods for saxophone and piano (2015) [10’00]
Joseph Rulli, alto saxophone
Ben Colagiovanni, piano
Walter Hartley (b.1927): Dance Suite for violin, alto saxophone and piano (1985) [7’00]
Polonaise brillante
Valse lente
Polka fantasque
Joseph Rulli, alto saxophone
Xiaoxiao Du, violin
Zeru Wang, piano
Performers will include Odyssey Performance Fellows, Xiaoxiao Du and Joseph Rulli.
Odyssey Performance Fellowship has been underwritten by Dr. David and Nancy G. Bedan and Drs. Gary and Patricia Coles.
2016 M-Odyssey Performers’ Biography (In Alphabetical order)
Xiaoxiao Du, violin | Odyssey Performance Fellow
Violinist Xiaoxiao Du is a proud winner of scholarships including Raymond and Vaona Peck Strings Scholarship, Horace & Ruth M. Allen Music Scholarship and Catherine and Rogers Whitmore Music Scholarship/Fellowship. She was honored by Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honors Society in 2014 in recognition of outstanding achievement in the field of music. Ms. Du has won awards including Alternate in MTNA Missouri State Competition and West Central Division Competition, Runner-Up in MMTA Competition and First Prize in Jiangxi Provincial Violin Competition, China. In 2011, Ms. Du toured with Zhejiang University Wenqin Art Troupe and gave a solo performance at The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. She has given performances in China, Canada, Australia and USA.
Ms. Du is also an enthusiastic chamber and orchestral musician. She actively plays in duo, trio, quartet and other chamber ensembles including the annual Chamber Soloists Ensemble with Evgeni Ratchev. Ms. Du is a founding member and the First Violinist of Exit 128 contemporary chamber orchestra and has performed at the Missouri Theatre, the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Oklahoma Sharp Concert Hall and the Mesa Arts Center for the OME New Music Marathon in Phoenix, AZ. In summer 2015, she attended the prestigious Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine as a scholarship recipient. She served as concertmaster for Zhejiang University Wenqin Symphony Orchestra and Nanchang City Youth Orchestra.
Ms. Du has recently earned a Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance with honors at the University of Missouri. She now continues to study with Prof. Eva D. Szekely. Ms. Du also holds an M.S. degree and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri.
Joseph Rulli, saxophone | Odyssey Performance Fellow
Saxophonist Joseph Rulli loves the challenge of performing in classical and jazz mediums, and continues to enjoy a young career exploring the possibilities of playing both musical styles. Rulli has been selected to perform recitals at conferences of the North American Saxophone Alliance and U.S. Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium, and has performed with the Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, and the Exit 128 Chamber Orchestra. In August of 2015 he was awarded a coveted position as Odyssey Performance Fellow with the Odyssey Chamber Music Series for their 2015-2016 season. In the spring of 2015 Rulli was selected to study and perform as part of the American Saxophone Academy at the Eastman School of Music. Rulli was awarded the Howard and Ruth Melcher Allen Woodwind Scholarship in 2014, given to the top woodwind student at the University of Missouri. In the same year he won the Missouri Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Competition.
Joseph has performed in masterclasses for Eugene Rousseau, Otis Murphy, Kenneth Tse, the Capitol Quartet, the h2 Quartet, the Athens Quartet, Jimmy Greene, John Sampen, John Nichol, Eric Alexander, and Joe Eckert. Since the fall of 2013, Rulli has been lead alto saxophonist and a featured soloist with the nationally prominent University of Missouri Concert Jazz Band, performing and recording with Christian McBride, Jimmy Greene, Byron Stripling, Randy Brecker, John Clayton, Mike Mainieri, MeShell Ndegeocello and Sean Jones. Joseph released his first album entitled Open Window with the ensemble in the fall of 2014, and his second release with the Concert Jazz Band will arrive in March of 2016. An aspiring jazz arranger and composer, Rulli’s arrangements have been premiered and performed by MeShell Ndegeocello, the University of Missouri Concert Jazz Band, the University of Missouri Hard Bop Combo, and the University of Arkansas Summer Jazz Honor Band.
Rulli currently serves as graduate saxophone teaching assistant at the University of Missouri, where he is pursuing Master of Music degrees in Saxophone Performance and Jazz Performance and Pedagogy. He also serves as music graduate assistant for the Fine Arts Residence Community at McDavid Hall, and graduate jazz instructor in the MU Jazz Studies Department. Since the summer of 2015, Rulli has worked as editorial assistant for Dr. Michael Budds, senior series editor for the College Music Society, playing an active role in the editing and publishing of several books on special topics in American music history. In 2013 Rulli graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arkansas with a Bachelor of Music degree in saxophone performance, where he was also a Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences Senior Scholar. His primary saxophone teachers are Leo Saguiguit, Dr. Arthur White, Stanley Morris, and Dr. Richard Salonen.
Benedetto Colagiovanni, composer & piano
Ben Colagiovanni is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Composition on full scholarship at the University of Missouri-Columbia under the tutelage of Dr. W. Thomas McKenney and Dr. Stefan Freund. He has had his music performed by members of the St. Louis Symphony and jazz artists Sean Jones and Christian McBride. He has also had premieres at such renowned venues and conferences as the Sheldon Concert Hall, Forest Park Jewel Box, Jazz at the Bistro in St. Louis, and the U.S. Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium. A finalist for the 2016 Sinquefield Prize and winner of the 2016 MTNA National Young Artist Composition Competition, Colagiovanni also studies piano with Dr. Peter Miyamoto and performs in the MU Concert Jazz Band under the direction of Dr. Arthur White.
Clifton Gilliland, viola
Violist Clifton Bryce Gilliland is a native of Florida and has lived and studied in both the US and Canada. An avid chamber music player, Clifton has performed in a number of ensembles in the United States and Europe including Vols Am Schlern, La Mortella; the home of composer Sir William Walton on the Isle of Ischia, the Baron String Quartet, and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. As an orchestral musician he has been principal violist in the symphonies and chamber orchestras at Stetson University, Southern Illinois University, Evangel University and the Saint Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra. Clifton has won the State Fine Arts competition String Solo division in North Dakota, Ohio, and Missouri, went on to be a finalist at the national level, he won the North Dakota Youth Orchestra concerto competition, and has received honorable mention at the Missouri Music Teachers Association competition. As a church musician, Clifton has served in leadership in some of North America’s largest churches. His teachers include Jesus Alfonso, Dennis Simons (London Symphony), Lenora Anop (The Bach Society), and Leslie Perna. Clifton is a Co-founder of MUSE, a music teaching organization in Missouri that provides qualified teachers and instruction to orchestral and keyboard players. He is currently a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Missouri Columbia and is on the panel of teachers with the Missouri String Project.
Ryan Marquardt, guitar
Ryan Marquardt is a young classical guitarist with international performances ranging from Northern France to the Midwestern US. His many recital contributions have ranged from jamming with the Mizzou jazz combos, participation in the University of Missouri Guitar Ensemble, and in the “Red Socks and the Guitar” international study abroad program in Chartres, France as a soloist and chamber musician. Under the tutelage of Prof. Anthony Glise (at MU), with supplementary lessons by Martha Masters (President of the Guitar Foundation of America), and Ken Sugita (violinist with the French National Orchestra-Lille), he has discovered a particular affinity for the music of the Baroque era. Ryan is pursuing his undergraduate degree in Classical Guitar Performance at the University of Missouri and remains an active member in the community as a musician and academic.
Shannon Merciel, cello
Shannon Merciel is a senior at the University of Missouri-Columbia pursuing a Bachelor's degree in cello performance. She has previously won competitions in her division through the National Federation of Music Clubs and MMTA, performed with the Honor Performance Series at Carnegie Hall, and participated in masterclasses with Peter Wiley and the Philharmonia Quartett Berlin. She recently won MU’s concerto competition and will perform Dmitri Shostakovich’s first cello concerto with the University Philharmonic in April. As an active orchestral player, she performs with the Missouri Symphony and the University Philharmonic, and currently serves as principal cellist of the Maryville Symphony in St. Louis. During past summers, she has attended the Meadowmount School of Music, the Montecito International Music Festival, and Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. At MU, she studies with Darry Dolezal.
Zeru Wang, piano
A native of Hangzhou, China, pianist Zeru Wang is a piano performance major studying with Peter Miyamoto at the University of Missouri School of Music. In addition to the 2015 MU Concerto Competition, he was also selected as winner of the 2015 MU Emerging Artist Competition. In 2013 he received Honorable Mention in the Missouri Music Teachers Association (MMTA) Collegiate Honors Auditions held in St. Louis, Missouri.
From the age of three until he came to the United States, Mr. Wang studied with Professor Linlin Wang of the Shenyang Conservatory. He has performed in the master classes of Sergei Babayan, Julian Martin, Gabriel Chodos, Corey Hamn and Mei-Hsuan Huang. He has studied with Peter Serkin, Douglas Humphreys, Natalya Antonova, Bruce Brubaker, Sean Duggan, Sang Woo Kang and Daniela Mineva at summer festivals such as the Bowdoin International Music Festival and the Atlantic Music Festival, and has coached chamber music with violinist Ani Schnarch and pianist Pei-Shan Lee.
Graham Woodland, violin
Graham Woodland currently studies at the University of Missouri, where he is pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance studying under Eva Szekely. While at MU, he has served as Concertmaster of the University Philharmonic, the Ninth Street Philharmonic, and the Missouri All-Collegiate Orchestra, and has also appeared as Guest Concertmaster of the Quincy Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist, Graham has appeared with the MU Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Edward Dolbashian, and the MU Chamber Soloists, under the direction of Evgeni Ratchev. In addition to being a Fellow at the 2015 Texas Music Festival, he has attended the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, where he was a student of Chin Kim, and the Innsbrook Institute Academy and Festival, where he worked with violinists such as David Halen, Robert Lipsett, and Jonathan Swartz. He has been awarded top prizes in numerous competitions such as the MU Concerto Competition, Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), MU Emerging Artists, and Missouri Music Teachers Association (MMTA) Competitions. Aside from orchestral and solo playing, Graham has studied chamber music with Peter Miyamoto, members of the Emerson, Esterhazy, Jasper, Ariana String Quartets, and currently studies with Julie Rosenfeld as violinist of the newly-formed Everest Duo. He has also participated master classes with musicians such as Pinchas Zukerman, Daniel Stabrawa, Christian Stadelmann, Stephanie Sant’Ambrosio, and members of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Violinist Xiaoxiao Du is a proud winner of scholarships including Raymond and Vaona Peck Strings Scholarship, Horace & Ruth M. Allen Music Scholarship and Catherine and Rogers Whitmore Music Scholarship/Fellowship. She was honored by Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honors Society in 2014 in recognition of outstanding achievement in the field of music. Ms. Du has won awards including Alternate in MTNA Missouri State Competition and West Central Division Competition, Runner-Up in MMTA Competition and First Prize in Jiangxi Provincial Violin Competition, China. In 2011, Ms. Du toured with Zhejiang University Wenqin Art Troupe and gave a solo performance at The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. She has given performances in China, Canada, Australia and USA.
Ms. Du is also an enthusiastic chamber and orchestral musician. She actively plays in duo, trio, quartet and other chamber ensembles including the annual Chamber Soloists Ensemble with Evgeni Ratchev. Ms. Du is a founding member and the First Violinist of Exit 128 contemporary chamber orchestra and has performed at the Missouri Theatre, the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Oklahoma Sharp Concert Hall and the Mesa Arts Center for the OME New Music Marathon in Phoenix, AZ. In summer 2015, she attended the prestigious Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine as a scholarship recipient. She served as concertmaster for Zhejiang University Wenqin Symphony Orchestra and Nanchang City Youth Orchestra.
Ms. Du has recently earned a Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance with honors at the University of Missouri. She now continues to study with Prof. Eva D. Szekely. Ms. Du also holds an M.S. degree and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri.
Joseph Rulli, saxophone | Odyssey Performance Fellow
Saxophonist Joseph Rulli loves the challenge of performing in classical and jazz mediums, and continues to enjoy a young career exploring the possibilities of playing both musical styles. Rulli has been selected to perform recitals at conferences of the North American Saxophone Alliance and U.S. Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium, and has performed with the Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, and the Exit 128 Chamber Orchestra. In August of 2015 he was awarded a coveted position as Odyssey Performance Fellow with the Odyssey Chamber Music Series for their 2015-2016 season. In the spring of 2015 Rulli was selected to study and perform as part of the American Saxophone Academy at the Eastman School of Music. Rulli was awarded the Howard and Ruth Melcher Allen Woodwind Scholarship in 2014, given to the top woodwind student at the University of Missouri. In the same year he won the Missouri Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Competition.
Joseph has performed in masterclasses for Eugene Rousseau, Otis Murphy, Kenneth Tse, the Capitol Quartet, the h2 Quartet, the Athens Quartet, Jimmy Greene, John Sampen, John Nichol, Eric Alexander, and Joe Eckert. Since the fall of 2013, Rulli has been lead alto saxophonist and a featured soloist with the nationally prominent University of Missouri Concert Jazz Band, performing and recording with Christian McBride, Jimmy Greene, Byron Stripling, Randy Brecker, John Clayton, Mike Mainieri, MeShell Ndegeocello and Sean Jones. Joseph released his first album entitled Open Window with the ensemble in the fall of 2014, and his second release with the Concert Jazz Band will arrive in March of 2016. An aspiring jazz arranger and composer, Rulli’s arrangements have been premiered and performed by MeShell Ndegeocello, the University of Missouri Concert Jazz Band, the University of Missouri Hard Bop Combo, and the University of Arkansas Summer Jazz Honor Band.
Rulli currently serves as graduate saxophone teaching assistant at the University of Missouri, where he is pursuing Master of Music degrees in Saxophone Performance and Jazz Performance and Pedagogy. He also serves as music graduate assistant for the Fine Arts Residence Community at McDavid Hall, and graduate jazz instructor in the MU Jazz Studies Department. Since the summer of 2015, Rulli has worked as editorial assistant for Dr. Michael Budds, senior series editor for the College Music Society, playing an active role in the editing and publishing of several books on special topics in American music history. In 2013 Rulli graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arkansas with a Bachelor of Music degree in saxophone performance, where he was also a Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences Senior Scholar. His primary saxophone teachers are Leo Saguiguit, Dr. Arthur White, Stanley Morris, and Dr. Richard Salonen.
Benedetto Colagiovanni, composer & piano
Ben Colagiovanni is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Composition on full scholarship at the University of Missouri-Columbia under the tutelage of Dr. W. Thomas McKenney and Dr. Stefan Freund. He has had his music performed by members of the St. Louis Symphony and jazz artists Sean Jones and Christian McBride. He has also had premieres at such renowned venues and conferences as the Sheldon Concert Hall, Forest Park Jewel Box, Jazz at the Bistro in St. Louis, and the U.S. Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium. A finalist for the 2016 Sinquefield Prize and winner of the 2016 MTNA National Young Artist Composition Competition, Colagiovanni also studies piano with Dr. Peter Miyamoto and performs in the MU Concert Jazz Band under the direction of Dr. Arthur White.
Clifton Gilliland, viola
Violist Clifton Bryce Gilliland is a native of Florida and has lived and studied in both the US and Canada. An avid chamber music player, Clifton has performed in a number of ensembles in the United States and Europe including Vols Am Schlern, La Mortella; the home of composer Sir William Walton on the Isle of Ischia, the Baron String Quartet, and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. As an orchestral musician he has been principal violist in the symphonies and chamber orchestras at Stetson University, Southern Illinois University, Evangel University and the Saint Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra. Clifton has won the State Fine Arts competition String Solo division in North Dakota, Ohio, and Missouri, went on to be a finalist at the national level, he won the North Dakota Youth Orchestra concerto competition, and has received honorable mention at the Missouri Music Teachers Association competition. As a church musician, Clifton has served in leadership in some of North America’s largest churches. His teachers include Jesus Alfonso, Dennis Simons (London Symphony), Lenora Anop (The Bach Society), and Leslie Perna. Clifton is a Co-founder of MUSE, a music teaching organization in Missouri that provides qualified teachers and instruction to orchestral and keyboard players. He is currently a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Missouri Columbia and is on the panel of teachers with the Missouri String Project.
Ryan Marquardt, guitar
Ryan Marquardt is a young classical guitarist with international performances ranging from Northern France to the Midwestern US. His many recital contributions have ranged from jamming with the Mizzou jazz combos, participation in the University of Missouri Guitar Ensemble, and in the “Red Socks and the Guitar” international study abroad program in Chartres, France as a soloist and chamber musician. Under the tutelage of Prof. Anthony Glise (at MU), with supplementary lessons by Martha Masters (President of the Guitar Foundation of America), and Ken Sugita (violinist with the French National Orchestra-Lille), he has discovered a particular affinity for the music of the Baroque era. Ryan is pursuing his undergraduate degree in Classical Guitar Performance at the University of Missouri and remains an active member in the community as a musician and academic.
Shannon Merciel, cello
Shannon Merciel is a senior at the University of Missouri-Columbia pursuing a Bachelor's degree in cello performance. She has previously won competitions in her division through the National Federation of Music Clubs and MMTA, performed with the Honor Performance Series at Carnegie Hall, and participated in masterclasses with Peter Wiley and the Philharmonia Quartett Berlin. She recently won MU’s concerto competition and will perform Dmitri Shostakovich’s first cello concerto with the University Philharmonic in April. As an active orchestral player, she performs with the Missouri Symphony and the University Philharmonic, and currently serves as principal cellist of the Maryville Symphony in St. Louis. During past summers, she has attended the Meadowmount School of Music, the Montecito International Music Festival, and Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. At MU, she studies with Darry Dolezal.
Zeru Wang, piano
A native of Hangzhou, China, pianist Zeru Wang is a piano performance major studying with Peter Miyamoto at the University of Missouri School of Music. In addition to the 2015 MU Concerto Competition, he was also selected as winner of the 2015 MU Emerging Artist Competition. In 2013 he received Honorable Mention in the Missouri Music Teachers Association (MMTA) Collegiate Honors Auditions held in St. Louis, Missouri.
From the age of three until he came to the United States, Mr. Wang studied with Professor Linlin Wang of the Shenyang Conservatory. He has performed in the master classes of Sergei Babayan, Julian Martin, Gabriel Chodos, Corey Hamn and Mei-Hsuan Huang. He has studied with Peter Serkin, Douglas Humphreys, Natalya Antonova, Bruce Brubaker, Sean Duggan, Sang Woo Kang and Daniela Mineva at summer festivals such as the Bowdoin International Music Festival and the Atlantic Music Festival, and has coached chamber music with violinist Ani Schnarch and pianist Pei-Shan Lee.
Graham Woodland, violin
Graham Woodland currently studies at the University of Missouri, where he is pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance studying under Eva Szekely. While at MU, he has served as Concertmaster of the University Philharmonic, the Ninth Street Philharmonic, and the Missouri All-Collegiate Orchestra, and has also appeared as Guest Concertmaster of the Quincy Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist, Graham has appeared with the MU Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Edward Dolbashian, and the MU Chamber Soloists, under the direction of Evgeni Ratchev. In addition to being a Fellow at the 2015 Texas Music Festival, he has attended the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, where he was a student of Chin Kim, and the Innsbrook Institute Academy and Festival, where he worked with violinists such as David Halen, Robert Lipsett, and Jonathan Swartz. He has been awarded top prizes in numerous competitions such as the MU Concerto Competition, Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), MU Emerging Artists, and Missouri Music Teachers Association (MMTA) Competitions. Aside from orchestral and solo playing, Graham has studied chamber music with Peter Miyamoto, members of the Emerson, Esterhazy, Jasper, Ariana String Quartets, and currently studies with Julie Rosenfeld as violinist of the newly-formed Everest Duo. He has also participated master classes with musicians such as Pinchas Zukerman, Daniel Stabrawa, Christian Stadelmann, Stephanie Sant’Ambrosio, and members of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.
October 16, 2015 A TASTE OF ASIA
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Co-sponsored by MU Asian Affairs Center
‘Utage’ (1998) by Yasuhiro Otsuka [ca. 6’30]
'Hanakage' (In the shade of the Cherry Blossoms) by Giichi Toyoda (2002), transcribed by Michiko Murasawa [4'30]
Columbia Handbell Choir
Edward S. Rollins, director
Selected songs from Japanese Art Song Anthology Vol. I, edited and transcribed by Kumiko Shimizu [ca. 10’00]
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Ingrid Lee (1990): Wuste-lieder (Desert Songs, 2012) arr. for one piano (2015) [ca. 10’00]
I. (glitch)
II. (feedback)
III. (signal interruption)
New Muse Piano Duo: Paola Savvidou and Jonathan Kuuskoski
Greetings: Directors Edward S. Rollins and Ayako Tsuruta with Director Sang S. Kim, the MU Asian Affairs Center [ca. 7’00]
Nigel Wood (b. 1960): Qing Feng (2003) [12’00]
I. East. Domain of the Green Dragon
II. West. Domain of the White Tiger
III. North. Domain of the Black Turtle
IV. South. Domain of the Red Phoenix
DRAX with Leo Saguiguit, soprano saxophone and Megan Arns, marimba
Intermission
PEP: Piano & Erhu Project
Nicole Ge Li, erhu
Corey Hamm, piano
ALL works were written for PEP.
Dorothy Chang (b. 1970)
Four Short Poems (flight of fancy/green sheep tango/air/walls of joy) (2014)
Scott Godin (b. 1970)
along the riverrun (2013)
Lucas Oickle (b. 1991)
Firewall (2015)
Aaron Gervais (b. 1980)
Who Made the Inch of Grass (2014)
Keith Hamel (b. 1956)
Homage to Liu Wenjin (2014)
Roydon Tse (b. 1991)
Blues n' Grooves (2014)
Gala Reception: “A Taste of Asia" - catered by Jina Yoo's Asian Bistro, House of Chow, Osaka Japanese Restaurant, Sake Japanese Bistro
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'Qing Feng' is dedicated to Sarah James and was written for her and percussionist Magdalena Vries (runner up and winner respectively of the 2001 Australian Music Competition), and was given its UK premiere in the South Bank Purcell Room, in 2003.
The work has a strongly narrative feel (though the composer provides no programme), and is a concert item which would suit two talented and imaginative players. It is in four short movements:
1. East. Domain of the Green Dragon.
The movement opens with the soprano playing on the mouthpiece alone; it then moves forward positively, making colourful use of the eastern pentatonic scale.
2. West. Domain of the White Tiger.
The marimba launches this section, and the sax picks up its energetic, exciting motifs, before presenting a more sustained melody.
3. North. Domain of the Black Turtle.
The Black Turtle has 'nurturing energy', represented by a slow sax song using more western harmonies, with the pulsating marimba providing the momentum.
4. South. Domain of the Red Phoenix.
Opening with a playful dialogue between soprano and marimba, this movement's rapid mood shifts are mirrored in the special techniques required of the sax (flutter tongueing, subtone etc). Fiery demi-semiquavers surge up and down the sax, bringing the work to an abrupt close.
Ingrid Lee:
"Wuste-lieder was written with Southern California desert landscapes in mind, images of which are at once striking and alienating.
I am interested in exploring ideas of failure as a strategy, an alternative to the unrelenting hyperbole on speed and efficiency in daily urban life. The sounds used in this piece are those of failure in technology and communication: glitch, feedback, electromagnetic interference. The image of technology becoming obsolete and exiting the realm of capital can be alienating, and its embodiment, deliciously perverse." - Ingrid Lee
Composer Nigel Wood studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire where he specialised in saxophone and clarinet performance. He was one of the first students to study the saxophone at the Conservatoire. After graduation, he became a saxophone teacher at the Conservatoire and helped to establish their exam syllabus for that instrument. He was a founder member of the group Saxtet and as part of the group, he was inspired to compose, arrange and later to publish new music for the saxophone resulting in the birth of Saxtet Publications. Nigel composed many pieces that have been performed in the UK and abroad by such notable saxophonists as Gerard McChrystal and John Harle. His works have been broadcast on both radio and television. Several of his compositions have been recorded on Saxtet's CD Safer Sax and are available in sheet music. His compositions include Under the Veil which has been performed and broadcast by the BBC Concert Orchestra and more recently performed by the Azerbaijan Symphony Orchestra as part of the Visions of Britain Festival promoted by The British Council. Cries of the Stentor for soprano and piano was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 from the Wigmore Hall. Where Spirits and Demons Dance for choir was commissioned by the National Youth Wind Orchestra's Saxophonia and performed at the Purcell Room. Some of his music has also been published by Boosey & Hawkes and Stainer & Bell. Nigel continues to write music predominantly for the saxophone which is presently being published by Saxtet Publications. Visit the composer's site: www.soprillo.com.
Four Short Poems - Dorothy Chang (2014)
One of my earliest memories from when I first began studying Chinese music years ago was hearing Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 for solo violin performed effortlessly on the erhu. Prior to that experience I had heard the erhu only in a traditional Chinese folk music context, and I was awed by the versatility and ability of the instrument to display such a decidedly Western style of virtuosity.
Four Short Poems was inspired by this approach of adapting assorted 'Western' musical gestures to the erhu, though the set is not intended to be a virtuosic showpiece. Rather, the four brief movements (1. flight of fancy, 2. green sheep tango, 3. air; 4. wall of joy) feature the erhu and piano in various ways, ranging in character from quirky to serene to exuberant.
a long the riverrun - Scott Godin (2013)
五言律詩
宋之問
題大庾嶺北驛
陽月南飛雁， 傳聞至此回
我行殊未已 何日復歸來？
江靜潮初落 林昏瘴不開
明朝望 應見隴頭梅。
They say that wild geese, flying southward,
Here turn back, this very month....
Shall my own southward journey
Ever be retraced, I wonder?
...The river is pausing at ebb-tide,
And the woods are thick with clinging mist --
But tomorrow morning, over the mountain,
Dawn will be white with the plum-trees of home.
Song Zhiwen (c. 660 – 710)
"a way a lone a last a loved a long the / riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay..."
James Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake (1939)
This work traces an imaginary voyage from the youthful beginnings of a river, winding and surging through maturity to its ultimate destination the ocean. Although the traveller may never return to the river’s origin, there is a deep sense of nostalgia for home and a kinship with the countless travellers who have made a similar trek in days past and still to come.
Firewall -Lucas Oickle (2015)
This piece is a personal reflection on my own experiences with visiting & living in Shanghai, which has become a second home of sorts for me since marrying my wife (whose parents live & work there).
Who Made the Inch of Grass - Aaron Gervais (2014)
Who Made the Inch of Grass was written for Corey Hamm and Nicole Li as part of their Piano and Erhu Project. This is my first time writing for erhu, an instrument that I have long wanted to explore. I am particularly attracted to the lyrical nature of the erhu and its tradition of ornamentation, so I knew I wanted to feature these elements. In addition, I knew I had a short melodic fragment left over from another piece, buried in my stacks of papers. This fragment had to be left out of the earlier piece for logistical reasons, but I had been hanging onto it because I liked it and wanted to use it somewhere else. Who Made the Inch of Grass turned out to be the perfect application, and that fragment now forms the first few phrases of the piece.
Homage to Liu Wenjin - Keith Hamel (2014)
This work includes quotations from Liu Wenjin’s famous composition, Ballad of Northern Henan Province. The quotations should be played expressively using the character and ornamentation of the original melody. The Ballad melodic fragments should be played in a different tempo and at a different dynamic level than the rest of the music, and tempo adjustments to and from the quotation sections should be immediate. While the tempo of the Ballad quotations can be flexible and fluid, the rest of the music should be played with as much rhythmic precision as possible.
During the Ballad quotations, the sustain pedal in the piano should be held down in order to smear the chord changes during these sections.
Blues n’Grooves - Roydon Tse (2014)
Written in 2014 for Nicole and Corey, Blues n'Grooves is a short showpiece piece for erhu and piano. Incorporating the blues scale, the piece is divided between the more lyrical A secion, and a jazzy Vivace section. The inspiration for the piece came from listening to Hilary Hahn's CD "In 27 pieces", featuring encores from 27 living composers. I liked the idea of writing a 'short piece with attitude' that can fit easily into a concert program, thus the piece was born.
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Co-sponsored by MU Asian Affairs Center
‘Utage’ (1998) by Yasuhiro Otsuka [ca. 6’30]
'Hanakage' (In the shade of the Cherry Blossoms) by Giichi Toyoda (2002), transcribed by Michiko Murasawa [4'30]
Columbia Handbell Choir
Edward S. Rollins, director
Selected songs from Japanese Art Song Anthology Vol. I, edited and transcribed by Kumiko Shimizu [ca. 10’00]
- Kojo no Tsuki (The Moon over the Ruined Castle), Rentaro Taki (1879-1903), arr. by Kosaku Yamada, text by Bansui Doi
- Aka Tonbo (Red Dragonfly), Kosaku Yamada (1886-1965), text by Rofu Miki (1889-1964)
- Sakura Yoko-cho (Cherry Alley) from The Poems of Matinee Poetique, Yoshinao Nakada (1923-2000), text by Shuichi Kato (1919-2008)
- Oyasumi (Goodnight) from Six Children's Songs, Yoshinao Nakada (1923-2000), text by Rofu Miki (1889-1964)
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Ingrid Lee (1990): Wuste-lieder (Desert Songs, 2012) arr. for one piano (2015) [ca. 10’00]
I. (glitch)
II. (feedback)
III. (signal interruption)
New Muse Piano Duo: Paola Savvidou and Jonathan Kuuskoski
Greetings: Directors Edward S. Rollins and Ayako Tsuruta with Director Sang S. Kim, the MU Asian Affairs Center [ca. 7’00]
Nigel Wood (b. 1960): Qing Feng (2003) [12’00]
I. East. Domain of the Green Dragon
II. West. Domain of the White Tiger
III. North. Domain of the Black Turtle
IV. South. Domain of the Red Phoenix
DRAX with Leo Saguiguit, soprano saxophone and Megan Arns, marimba
Intermission
PEP: Piano & Erhu Project
Nicole Ge Li, erhu
Corey Hamm, piano
ALL works were written for PEP.
Dorothy Chang (b. 1970)
Four Short Poems (flight of fancy/green sheep tango/air/walls of joy) (2014)
Scott Godin (b. 1970)
along the riverrun (2013)
Lucas Oickle (b. 1991)
Firewall (2015)
Aaron Gervais (b. 1980)
Who Made the Inch of Grass (2014)
Keith Hamel (b. 1956)
Homage to Liu Wenjin (2014)
Roydon Tse (b. 1991)
Blues n' Grooves (2014)
Gala Reception: “A Taste of Asia" - catered by Jina Yoo's Asian Bistro, House of Chow, Osaka Japanese Restaurant, Sake Japanese Bistro
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'Qing Feng' is dedicated to Sarah James and was written for her and percussionist Magdalena Vries (runner up and winner respectively of the 2001 Australian Music Competition), and was given its UK premiere in the South Bank Purcell Room, in 2003.
The work has a strongly narrative feel (though the composer provides no programme), and is a concert item which would suit two talented and imaginative players. It is in four short movements:
1. East. Domain of the Green Dragon.
The movement opens with the soprano playing on the mouthpiece alone; it then moves forward positively, making colourful use of the eastern pentatonic scale.
2. West. Domain of the White Tiger.
The marimba launches this section, and the sax picks up its energetic, exciting motifs, before presenting a more sustained melody.
3. North. Domain of the Black Turtle.
The Black Turtle has 'nurturing energy', represented by a slow sax song using more western harmonies, with the pulsating marimba providing the momentum.
4. South. Domain of the Red Phoenix.
Opening with a playful dialogue between soprano and marimba, this movement's rapid mood shifts are mirrored in the special techniques required of the sax (flutter tongueing, subtone etc). Fiery demi-semiquavers surge up and down the sax, bringing the work to an abrupt close.
Ingrid Lee:
"Wuste-lieder was written with Southern California desert landscapes in mind, images of which are at once striking and alienating.
I am interested in exploring ideas of failure as a strategy, an alternative to the unrelenting hyperbole on speed and efficiency in daily urban life. The sounds used in this piece are those of failure in technology and communication: glitch, feedback, electromagnetic interference. The image of technology becoming obsolete and exiting the realm of capital can be alienating, and its embodiment, deliciously perverse." - Ingrid Lee
Composer Nigel Wood studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire where he specialised in saxophone and clarinet performance. He was one of the first students to study the saxophone at the Conservatoire. After graduation, he became a saxophone teacher at the Conservatoire and helped to establish their exam syllabus for that instrument. He was a founder member of the group Saxtet and as part of the group, he was inspired to compose, arrange and later to publish new music for the saxophone resulting in the birth of Saxtet Publications. Nigel composed many pieces that have been performed in the UK and abroad by such notable saxophonists as Gerard McChrystal and John Harle. His works have been broadcast on both radio and television. Several of his compositions have been recorded on Saxtet's CD Safer Sax and are available in sheet music. His compositions include Under the Veil which has been performed and broadcast by the BBC Concert Orchestra and more recently performed by the Azerbaijan Symphony Orchestra as part of the Visions of Britain Festival promoted by The British Council. Cries of the Stentor for soprano and piano was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 from the Wigmore Hall. Where Spirits and Demons Dance for choir was commissioned by the National Youth Wind Orchestra's Saxophonia and performed at the Purcell Room. Some of his music has also been published by Boosey & Hawkes and Stainer & Bell. Nigel continues to write music predominantly for the saxophone which is presently being published by Saxtet Publications. Visit the composer's site: www.soprillo.com.
Four Short Poems - Dorothy Chang (2014)
One of my earliest memories from when I first began studying Chinese music years ago was hearing Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 for solo violin performed effortlessly on the erhu. Prior to that experience I had heard the erhu only in a traditional Chinese folk music context, and I was awed by the versatility and ability of the instrument to display such a decidedly Western style of virtuosity.
Four Short Poems was inspired by this approach of adapting assorted 'Western' musical gestures to the erhu, though the set is not intended to be a virtuosic showpiece. Rather, the four brief movements (1. flight of fancy, 2. green sheep tango, 3. air; 4. wall of joy) feature the erhu and piano in various ways, ranging in character from quirky to serene to exuberant.
a long the riverrun - Scott Godin (2013)
五言律詩
宋之問
題大庾嶺北驛
陽月南飛雁， 傳聞至此回
我行殊未已 何日復歸來？
江靜潮初落 林昏瘴不開
明朝望 應見隴頭梅。
They say that wild geese, flying southward,
Here turn back, this very month....
Shall my own southward journey
Ever be retraced, I wonder?
...The river is pausing at ebb-tide,
And the woods are thick with clinging mist --
But tomorrow morning, over the mountain,
Dawn will be white with the plum-trees of home.
Song Zhiwen (c. 660 – 710)
"a way a lone a last a loved a long the / riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay..."
James Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake (1939)
This work traces an imaginary voyage from the youthful beginnings of a river, winding and surging through maturity to its ultimate destination the ocean. Although the traveller may never return to the river’s origin, there is a deep sense of nostalgia for home and a kinship with the countless travellers who have made a similar trek in days past and still to come.
Firewall -Lucas Oickle (2015)
This piece is a personal reflection on my own experiences with visiting & living in Shanghai, which has become a second home of sorts for me since marrying my wife (whose parents live & work there).
Who Made the Inch of Grass - Aaron Gervais (2014)
Who Made the Inch of Grass was written for Corey Hamm and Nicole Li as part of their Piano and Erhu Project. This is my first time writing for erhu, an instrument that I have long wanted to explore. I am particularly attracted to the lyrical nature of the erhu and its tradition of ornamentation, so I knew I wanted to feature these elements. In addition, I knew I had a short melodic fragment left over from another piece, buried in my stacks of papers. This fragment had to be left out of the earlier piece for logistical reasons, but I had been hanging onto it because I liked it and wanted to use it somewhere else. Who Made the Inch of Grass turned out to be the perfect application, and that fragment now forms the first few phrases of the piece.
Homage to Liu Wenjin - Keith Hamel (2014)
This work includes quotations from Liu Wenjin’s famous composition, Ballad of Northern Henan Province. The quotations should be played expressively using the character and ornamentation of the original melody. The Ballad melodic fragments should be played in a different tempo and at a different dynamic level than the rest of the music, and tempo adjustments to and from the quotation sections should be immediate. While the tempo of the Ballad quotations can be flexible and fluid, the rest of the music should be played with as much rhythmic precision as possible.
During the Ballad quotations, the sustain pedal in the piano should be held down in order to smear the chord changes during these sections.
Blues n’Grooves - Roydon Tse (2014)
Written in 2014 for Nicole and Corey, Blues n'Grooves is a short showpiece piece for erhu and piano. Incorporating the blues scale, the piece is divided between the more lyrical A secion, and a jazzy Vivace section. The inspiration for the piece came from listening to Hilary Hahn's CD "In 27 pieces", featuring encores from 27 living composers. I liked the idea of writing a 'short piece with attitude' that can fit easily into a concert program, thus the piece was born.
December 4, 2015 RUSSIA & SLOVAKIA
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Jan F. Fischer (1921-2006): Étude No. 4 (Allegro vivo) (ca.1972) [3'00]
Maria Trevor, harp
"Czechoslovakia" [ca. 5'00]
Judith Mabary, Musicologist and Associate Professor, MU School of Music
Zdeněk Folprecht (1900-1961): Malá suita ve starém slohu (Suite in an Ancient style), Op. 16 (1925) [12’30]
I. Preludium
II. Air
III. Menuet
IV. Finale
Maria Trevor, harp
Kristine Poulsen, flute
"Russia" [ca. 5'00]
Timothy Langen, Associate Professor of Russian Literary and Cultural Studies, MU Department of German and Russian Studies
Cesar Cui (1835-1918)
from Eight Romances, Op. 55 No. 1 (ca. 1890) [3'00]
Под небом голубым (Pod nebom golubim – Under the blue skies of her native land)
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
from Four Romances, Op. 7 No. 3 (1867)
Свитезянка (Svitezyanka – The Mermaid) [3'00]
Aleksandr Borodin (1833-1887)
Морская Царевна (Morskaya Tsarevna – The Sea Princess, 1868) [3'00]
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Трепак (Trepak), from Songs and Dances of Death (1875) [5'00]
Christine Seitz, soprano
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Aida Petrovna Isakova (1940-2012): Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (1986) [ca. 11'00]
I. Andante. Allegro. Andante
II. Lento. Andante
III. Allegro
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Intermission
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943): Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 (1940) [33’00]
I. Non Allegro
II. Andante con moto. Tempo di Valse
III. Lento assai—Allegro vivace
Peter Miyamoto, piano I
Ayako Tsuruta, piano II
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Jan F. Fischer (1921-2006): Étude No. 4 (Allegro vivo) (ca.1972) [3'00]
Maria Trevor, harp
"Czechoslovakia" [ca. 5'00]
Judith Mabary, Musicologist and Associate Professor, MU School of Music
Zdeněk Folprecht (1900-1961): Malá suita ve starém slohu (Suite in an Ancient style), Op. 16 (1925) [12’30]
I. Preludium
II. Air
III. Menuet
IV. Finale
Maria Trevor, harp
Kristine Poulsen, flute
"Russia" [ca. 5'00]
Timothy Langen, Associate Professor of Russian Literary and Cultural Studies, MU Department of German and Russian Studies
Cesar Cui (1835-1918)
from Eight Romances, Op. 55 No. 1 (ca. 1890) [3'00]
Под небом голубым (Pod nebom golubim – Under the blue skies of her native land)
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
from Four Romances, Op. 7 No. 3 (1867)
Свитезянка (Svitezyanka – The Mermaid) [3'00]
Aleksandr Borodin (1833-1887)
Морская Царевна (Morskaya Tsarevna – The Sea Princess, 1868) [3'00]
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Трепак (Trepak), from Songs and Dances of Death (1875) [5'00]
Christine Seitz, soprano
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Aida Petrovna Isakova (1940-2012): Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (1986) [ca. 11'00]
I. Andante. Allegro. Andante
II. Lento. Andante
III. Allegro
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Intermission
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943): Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 (1940) [33’00]
I. Non Allegro
II. Andante con moto. Tempo di Valse
III. Lento assai—Allegro vivace
Peter Miyamoto, piano I
Ayako Tsuruta, piano II
2015
October 16 (Fri) - A Taste of Asia
Co-sponsored by the MU Asian Affairs Center
Odyssey’s Season 12 is a musical journey around the world, and it begins with Asia.
Featured in the program are transcriptions of Japanese folk songs,
beautiful compositions inspired by the East, and unique combination of
Piano & Erhu in a setting of contemporary music.
Musicians include virtuosi Megan Arns, Leo Saguiguit, New Muse Piano Duo,
baritone Darrell J. Jordan, Columbia Handbell Ensemble and guest artists of "PEP" - Piano & Erhu Project
with Corey Hamm and Nicole Ge Li. Feast with us in an array of Asian food after the concert!
December 4 (Fri) - Russia & Slovakia
Enjoy lush, late romantic sounds of some Russian, Czech and Slovakia composers.
Performers include soprano Christine Seitz, flutist Kristine Poulsen, harpist Maria Duhova Trevor,
Iskander Ahmadullin on trumpet and pianist Natalia Bolshakova.
Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta will perform Rachmaninoff’s last work
- exciting and gorgeous Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 on two pianos.
2016:
January 16 (Sat) - Kids@Heart: Carnival of the Animals - Missouriana edition
Co-sponsored by the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association (MMAMTA)
Experience ‘Carnival of the Animals’ like NEVER before! It is a popular chamber work by French composer
Camille Saint-Saëns, who wrote this collection of short pieces exploiting sounds of animals!
Drawing a connection to Missouri’s French history, some composers have been commissioned
to add certain guests – or animaux – to add to this one grand party.
Enjoy a witty, original text by Benedetto Colagiovanni, narrated by Trevor Harris of KBIA 91.3FM.
January 21 (Thu) - Jasper String Quartet
2008 Plowman Grand Prize & Audience Prize Winner
Winner of the Grand Prize and Audience Prize in the 2008 Plowman Chamber Music Competition,
the Jasper String Quartet swept through the competition circuit that year, winning the Grand Prize
at the Coleman Competition, First Prize at Chamber Music Yellow Springs, and the Silver Medal
at the 2008 and 2009 Fischoff Chamber Music Competitions. In 2010, they joined the roster of
Astral Artists after winning their national auditions. Awarded the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award in 2012,
the Jaspers have been hailed as “sonically delightful and expressively compelling” (The Strad) and "powerful"
(New York Times). "The Jaspers... match their sounds perfectly, as if each swelling chord were coming out of a single, impossibly well-tuned organ, instead of four distinct instruments." (New Haven Advocate).
Program of this special concert will include Schumann’s Piano Quintet, with pianist Peter Miyamoto.
February 19 (Fri) - Elizabethan Baroque
In our annual Baroque concert, we will visit Great Britain. Vox Nova, an a capella group,
will make its premiere appearance in Odyssey with Lowell Liebermann’s Three Elizabethan Songs and more,
Paul and Christine Seitz will join forces in songs by John Dowland, and
director R. Paul Crabb will return with Bach Collegium Choir and Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
in a performance of George Frideric Handel’s magnificent anthem, “Let God Rise,” HWV 256a.
March 13 (Sun) - "Champagne, Chocolates & Chamber Music" Spring Fundraiser
March 18 (Fri) - M-Odyssey
“M-Odyssey” will continue the 2015 initiative to mentor and give real work experience in music administration to young professionals. One or two outstanding musicians will have the opportunity to create and produce their own Odyssey concert, with guidance from the Artistic Director and a supervising Board Member. The title reflects the more modern, “MOD” Odyssey for younger directors, while the capitalization pays homage to our state.
May 6 (Fri) - Dichterliebe: A Poet's Love
The musical journey comes to an end, ‘in the beautiful month of May,’ with perhaps one of the most sublime song cycle ever composed by romantic German composer Robert Schumann. The season finale includes an epic Octet by Austrian composer Franz Schubert. An all-star cast musicians are tenor Steven Tharp and pianist Peter Miyamoto; clarinetist Bill Kalinkos, bassoonist Kara LaMoure, Marcia Spence on horn with Esterhazy String Quartet and Sue Stubbs on double bass. After the concert, enjoy a heart-warming reception with these amazing musicians!
October 16 (Fri) - A Taste of Asia
Co-sponsored by the MU Asian Affairs Center
Odyssey’s Season 12 is a musical journey around the world, and it begins with Asia.
Featured in the program are transcriptions of Japanese folk songs,
beautiful compositions inspired by the East, and unique combination of
Piano & Erhu in a setting of contemporary music.
Musicians include virtuosi Megan Arns, Leo Saguiguit, New Muse Piano Duo,
baritone Darrell J. Jordan, Columbia Handbell Ensemble and guest artists of "PEP" - Piano & Erhu Project
with Corey Hamm and Nicole Ge Li. Feast with us in an array of Asian food after the concert!
December 4 (Fri) - Russia & Slovakia
Enjoy lush, late romantic sounds of some Russian, Czech and Slovakia composers.
Performers include soprano Christine Seitz, flutist Kristine Poulsen, harpist Maria Duhova Trevor,
Iskander Ahmadullin on trumpet and pianist Natalia Bolshakova.
Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta will perform Rachmaninoff’s last work
- exciting and gorgeous Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 on two pianos.
2016:
January 16 (Sat) - Kids@Heart: Carnival of the Animals - Missouriana edition
Co-sponsored by the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association (MMAMTA)
Experience ‘Carnival of the Animals’ like NEVER before! It is a popular chamber work by French composer
Camille Saint-Saëns, who wrote this collection of short pieces exploiting sounds of animals!
Drawing a connection to Missouri’s French history, some composers have been commissioned
to add certain guests – or animaux – to add to this one grand party.
Enjoy a witty, original text by Benedetto Colagiovanni, narrated by Trevor Harris of KBIA 91.3FM.
January 21 (Thu) - Jasper String Quartet
2008 Plowman Grand Prize & Audience Prize Winner
Winner of the Grand Prize and Audience Prize in the 2008 Plowman Chamber Music Competition,
the Jasper String Quartet swept through the competition circuit that year, winning the Grand Prize
at the Coleman Competition, First Prize at Chamber Music Yellow Springs, and the Silver Medal
at the 2008 and 2009 Fischoff Chamber Music Competitions. In 2010, they joined the roster of
Astral Artists after winning their national auditions. Awarded the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award in 2012,
the Jaspers have been hailed as “sonically delightful and expressively compelling” (The Strad) and "powerful"
(New York Times). "The Jaspers... match their sounds perfectly, as if each swelling chord were coming out of a single, impossibly well-tuned organ, instead of four distinct instruments." (New Haven Advocate).
Program of this special concert will include Schumann’s Piano Quintet, with pianist Peter Miyamoto.
February 19 (Fri) - Elizabethan Baroque
In our annual Baroque concert, we will visit Great Britain. Vox Nova, an a capella group,
will make its premiere appearance in Odyssey with Lowell Liebermann’s Three Elizabethan Songs and more,
Paul and Christine Seitz will join forces in songs by John Dowland, and
director R. Paul Crabb will return with Bach Collegium Choir and Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
in a performance of George Frideric Handel’s magnificent anthem, “Let God Rise,” HWV 256a.
March 13 (Sun) - "Champagne, Chocolates & Chamber Music" Spring Fundraiser
March 18 (Fri) - M-Odyssey
“M-Odyssey” will continue the 2015 initiative to mentor and give real work experience in music administration to young professionals. One or two outstanding musicians will have the opportunity to create and produce their own Odyssey concert, with guidance from the Artistic Director and a supervising Board Member. The title reflects the more modern, “MOD” Odyssey for younger directors, while the capitalization pays homage to our state.
May 6 (Fri) - Dichterliebe: A Poet's Love
The musical journey comes to an end, ‘in the beautiful month of May,’ with perhaps one of the most sublime song cycle ever composed by romantic German composer Robert Schumann. The season finale includes an epic Octet by Austrian composer Franz Schubert. An all-star cast musicians are tenor Steven Tharp and pianist Peter Miyamoto; clarinetist Bill Kalinkos, bassoonist Kara LaMoure, Marcia Spence on horn with Esterhazy String Quartet and Sue Stubbs on double bass. After the concert, enjoy a heart-warming reception with these amazing musicians!
Season 11 Concerts, 2014-2015
1. October 17 (Fri at 7pm)
Romantic Fall
Enjoy the ghostly sounds of Beethoven's Piano Trio, Op. 70 No. 1,
share the heartaches in Schumann's Liederkreis Op. 24, and
love the romance in Dunhill's horn quintet.
Performers include Columbia favorites, including Iskander Akhmadullin on trumpet,
pianists Natalia Bolshakova, Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta, violinist Amy Appold,
tenor Nollie Moore, cellist Matthew Pierce, Marcia Spence on horn, and more!
2. November 9 (Sun at 3pm)
Flute Sparks!
Concert features St. Louis Symphony Orchestra principal flutist Mark Sparks
with pianist Peter Henderson, as featured in their new CD, "French Album."
Program includes repertoire from their new "French Album," a new transcription by Mark Sparks (the Bruch Romanza) and the Brahms F minor sonata, orig. for clarinet and piano.
3. December 5 (Fri at 7pm)
Paganiniana
Virtuoso violinist Saeka Matsuyama plays Paganiniana, Moszkowski,
and Strauss Sonata with pianists Peter Miyamoto, Ayako Tsuruta and violinist Amy Appold
Brilliant virtuosity is also shared by the flutists Steve Geibel & Michael White!
4. January 17 (Sat at 3pm)
Kids@Heart: Dance Music ~ A Children’s Concert ~
Discover the FUN in musical dances, including Hula Hoop choreography
and Waltzes from Disney Films for 2 pianos arr. Greg Anderson!
Performers include MMAMTA members and their students,
the New Muse Duo pianists Jonathan Kuuskoski & Paola Savvidou.
5. February 6 (Fri at 7pm)
Baroque Classics
Our annual Baroque this season comes perfectly paired with Classic Masterpieces,
a dedication to Ann Harrell who inspired so many young, great singers.
Featured are countertenor Chad Payton in Bach Cantata,
pianist Peter Miyamoto and soprano McKenzie Miller in a sublime concert Aria by Mozart,
and Odyssey Chamber Ensemble lead by conductor Kirk Trevor
6. March 6 (Fri, 7pm)
Classic POP!
The many interns and volunteers working behind the scenes at Odyssey
have a moment to shine onstage as they present a program of chamber music.
Their exciting program is now posted under "Programs."
The 7th Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival
Co-presented by First Baptist Church in Columbia, MU School of Music,
Missouri Symphony Society and Odyssey Chamber Music Series.
7. March 19 (Thu) Piano Recital by Sergei Babayan
8. March 21 (Sat) Plowman Competition: Semi-Finals
9. March 22 (Sun) Plowman Competition: Finals
10. May 8 (Fri, 7pm)
American Soundscape
An exciting, all-American program features Corigliano’s ‘Chiaroscuro’ for two pianos, Schoenfeld's Four Souvenirs and Pete Zambito's “Woodburn." Performers include flutist Alice Dade, cellist Darry Dolezal, pianists Peter Miyamoto and
Ayako Tsuruta, percussionists Julia Gaines and Pete Zambito, and more!
Join our performers for a post-concert reception.
October 17, 2014 ROMANTIC FALL
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Enjoy the ghostly sounds of Beethoven's Piano Trio, Op. 70 No. 1,
share the heartaches in Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24, and
love the romance in Dunhill's horn quintet.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Trio in D Major, op. 70 No. 2 "Ghost" (1809) [ca. 28'00]
I. Allegro vivace e con brio
II. Largo assai ed espressivo
III. Presto
Amy Appold, violin
Matthew Pierce, violoncello
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Liederkreis, Op. 24 (1840) [ca. 21'00]
I. Morgens steh’ ich auf und frage
II. Es treibt mich hin
III. Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen
IV. Lieb’ Liebchen
V. Schöne Wiege meiner Leiden
VI. Warte, warte wilder Schiffmann
VII. Berg und Burgen schaun herunter
VIII. Anfangs wollt’ ich fast verzagen
IX. Mit Myrten und Rosen
Nollie G. Moore, tenor
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Eric Ewazen: "Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Brahms" for Trumpet (or Flugelhorn) and Piano
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Intermission
Jorge Muñiz (b.1974): Three American Nocturnes (2012) [ca. 12'00]
I. Chi-Town
II. St. Joseph, Michigan
III. Miami, Florida
The New Muse Duo
Thomas Dunhill (1877-1946)
Quintet for two violins, viola, violoncello & horn in F minor, Op. 6 [ca. 27'00]
I. Allegro molto
II. Andantino
III. Adagio assai - Allegro molto ritmico
Marcia Spence, horn
Amy Appold, violin I
Carolina Neves Merritt, violin II
Dustin Frieda, viola
Matthew Pierce, violoncello
Reception will follow this Season Gala Concert, partially catered by Jina Yoo's Asian Bistro and Senza Gluten-Free Foods.
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Enjoy the ghostly sounds of Beethoven's Piano Trio, Op. 70 No. 1,
share the heartaches in Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24, and
love the romance in Dunhill's horn quintet.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Trio in D Major, op. 70 No. 2 "Ghost" (1809) [ca. 28'00]
I. Allegro vivace e con brio
II. Largo assai ed espressivo
III. Presto
Amy Appold, violin
Matthew Pierce, violoncello
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Liederkreis, Op. 24 (1840) [ca. 21'00]
I. Morgens steh’ ich auf und frage
II. Es treibt mich hin
III. Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen
IV. Lieb’ Liebchen
V. Schöne Wiege meiner Leiden
VI. Warte, warte wilder Schiffmann
VII. Berg und Burgen schaun herunter
VIII. Anfangs wollt’ ich fast verzagen
IX. Mit Myrten und Rosen
Nollie G. Moore, tenor
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Eric Ewazen: "Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Brahms" for Trumpet (or Flugelhorn) and Piano
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Intermission
Jorge Muñiz (b.1974): Three American Nocturnes (2012) [ca. 12'00]
I. Chi-Town
II. St. Joseph, Michigan
III. Miami, Florida
The New Muse Duo
Thomas Dunhill (1877-1946)
Quintet for two violins, viola, violoncello & horn in F minor, Op. 6 [ca. 27'00]
I. Allegro molto
II. Andantino
III. Adagio assai - Allegro molto ritmico
Marcia Spence, horn
Amy Appold, violin I
Carolina Neves Merritt, violin II
Dustin Frieda, viola
Matthew Pierce, violoncello
Reception will follow this Season Gala Concert, partially catered by Jina Yoo's Asian Bistro and Senza Gluten-Free Foods.
November 9, 2014 FLUTE SPARKS!
Sunday 3pm - First Baptist Church
Concert features St. Louis Symphony Orchestra principal flutist Mark Sparks with pianist Peter Henderson, as featured in their new CD, "French Album." Program includes repertoire from their new "French Album," a new transcription by Mark Sparks (the Bruch Romanza) and the Brahms F minor sonata, orig. for clarinet and piano.
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Joueurs de flute, a suite for flute and piano, Op. 27 (The Flute Players, 1924)
I Pan
II Tityre
III Krishna
IV Mr. de la pejaudie
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Romance for violin or flute and piano (1871)
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
D'un matin de printemps, for flute or violin and piano (Of a Spring Morning, 1917-18)
Short Intermission
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Romanze for viola or violin and orchestra, Op. 85 (1911), arr. Mark Sparks
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Sonata in F minor for clarinet or viola and piano, Op. 120 No. 1 (1894), trans. Stephanie Jutt
I Allegro appassionato
II Andante un poco Adagio
III Allegretto grazioso
IV Vivace
This concert is sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha.
Sunday 3pm - First Baptist Church
Concert features St. Louis Symphony Orchestra principal flutist Mark Sparks with pianist Peter Henderson, as featured in their new CD, "French Album." Program includes repertoire from their new "French Album," a new transcription by Mark Sparks (the Bruch Romanza) and the Brahms F minor sonata, orig. for clarinet and piano.
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Joueurs de flute, a suite for flute and piano, Op. 27 (The Flute Players, 1924)
I Pan
II Tityre
III Krishna
IV Mr. de la pejaudie
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Romance for violin or flute and piano (1871)
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
D'un matin de printemps, for flute or violin and piano (Of a Spring Morning, 1917-18)
Short Intermission
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Romanze for viola or violin and orchestra, Op. 85 (1911), arr. Mark Sparks
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Sonata in F minor for clarinet or viola and piano, Op. 120 No. 1 (1894), trans. Stephanie Jutt
I Allegro appassionato
II Andante un poco Adagio
III Allegretto grazioso
IV Vivace
This concert is sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha.
December 5, 2014 PAGANINIANA
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Virtuoso violinist Saeka Matsuyama plays Paganiniana, Moszkowski, and Strauss Sonata with pianists Peter Miyamoto, Ayako Tsuruta and violinist Amy Appold. Brilliant virtuosity is also shared by Steve Geibel & Michael White flute duo.
Gary Schocker (b. 1959 )
Three Dances for two flutes (1993) [ca. 9'00]
I. Easygoing
II. Moody
III. Coffee nerves
Michael White and Steve Geibel, flutes; Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Nathan Mironovich Milstein (1904-1992)
Paganiniana Variations (1954) [ca. 7'00]
Saeka Matsuyama, violin
Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925)
Suite for 2 violins & piano in G minor, Op. 71 (1903) [ca. 19'00]
I. Allegro energico
II. Allegro moderato
III. Lento assai
IV. Molto vivace
Amy Appold and Saeka Matsuyama, violins; Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Intermission
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) *150 year anniversary!
Sonata in E-flat Major for violin and piano, Op. 18 (1887/88) [ca. 30'00]
I. Allegro, ma non troppo
II. Improvisation: Andante cantabile
III. Finale: Andante - Allegro
Saeka Matsuyama, violin; Peter Miyamoto, piano
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Virtuoso violinist Saeka Matsuyama plays Paganiniana, Moszkowski, and Strauss Sonata with pianists Peter Miyamoto, Ayako Tsuruta and violinist Amy Appold. Brilliant virtuosity is also shared by Steve Geibel & Michael White flute duo.
Gary Schocker (b. 1959 )
Three Dances for two flutes (1993) [ca. 9'00]
I. Easygoing
II. Moody
III. Coffee nerves
Michael White and Steve Geibel, flutes; Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Nathan Mironovich Milstein (1904-1992)
Paganiniana Variations (1954) [ca. 7'00]
Saeka Matsuyama, violin
Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925)
Suite for 2 violins & piano in G minor, Op. 71 (1903) [ca. 19'00]
I. Allegro energico
II. Allegro moderato
III. Lento assai
IV. Molto vivace
Amy Appold and Saeka Matsuyama, violins; Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Intermission
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) *150 year anniversary!
Sonata in E-flat Major for violin and piano, Op. 18 (1887/88) [ca. 30'00]
I. Allegro, ma non troppo
II. Improvisation: Andante cantabile
III. Finale: Andante - Allegro
Saeka Matsuyama, violin; Peter Miyamoto, piano
January 17, 2015 KIDS@HEART: DANCE MUSIC
~ Instrumental Petting Zoo ~
Saturday 2pm - First Baptist Church
***FREE ADMISSION***
Co-presented by the MU School of Music - Higday Mozart Outreach Concert Series, with its Program Coordinator, Taryn Doty
Come explore difference sounds and characters of various instruments - including Harp! Balloons and raffles will be available from concession table during this hour.
~ A Children's Concert ~
Saturday 3pm - First Baptist Church
*** FREE ADMISSION *** (No Tickets Required)
Discover the FUN in musical dances, including Hula Hoop choreography
and Waltzes from Disney Films for 2 pianos arr. Greg Anderson!
Performers include MMAMTA members and their students,
the New Muse Piano Duo, Jonathan Kuuskoski & Paola Savvidou.
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849): Polonaise in A Major, Op. 40 No. 1 (1838), arr. for four hands [4’00]
Matthew Guess and Anne Manahan, piano
Manahan Studio
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907): Anitra's Dance from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (1888) [4'00]
Tracy Singer and Stephanie Zhang, piano
Kyriakos and Manahan Studios
Robert D. Vandall (b. 1944): May Dance [1'30]
Elizabeth Lutz and Hayley Conklin
Conklin & Lutz Studios
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904): Humoresque No. 7, Op. 101 for violin and piano (1894) [4'00]
Denise Gillam, piano
Marie Gillam, ballerina
Eugénie Rocherolle (b.1939): Waltz for two pianos (1986) [3'00]
Sherry Xie and John (Hyun Jun) Yoo, pianos
Shaw Studio
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Hungarian Dance No. 6 in D Major [3'30]
Theron Howe and Junyi Wu, piano
Kyriakos & Manahan Studios
Ástor Piazzolla: Oblivion (Tango; 1982), arr. for piano trio [4'00]
Solveig Geenen, violin
Ryan Choe, violoncello
Annika Moser, piano
Appold, Manulik and Tsuruta Studios
Samuel Barber (1910-1981): “Waltz” [4'00] from Souvenirs, Suite for four hands (1952)
Maddy Mueller and Sarah Freyermuth, piano
Conklin & Lutz Studios
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): “La Jardin Feerique" from Ma Mere l’Oye (1910) [3’30]
Lucia Blankenship and Jade Forck, piano
Christa Kiesling, hoop choreography
Houser Studio
Jan Koetsier (1911-2006): Dance Impressions for harp and marimba (1990) [8’00]
II. Tango
III. Walzer
V. Perpetuum Mobile
Maria Duhova Trevor, harp
Pete Zambito, percussion
Intermission [10 min.]
Jack Fina (1913-1970): Bumble Boogie, arr. by Lucy Warren for 2 pianos/8 hands [ca. 3’30].
Annika Moser and Paige Flottman, piano I
Jill Geyer and Zoya Khan, piano II
Tsuruta Studio
Mack Wilberg (1955): Fantasy on Themes from Bizet's Carmen for two pianos, eight hands (excerpt) [6'00]
Henry Huang and Lien Hsin (Emily) Lee, piano I
Ayako Tsuruta and Kristine Cho, piano II
Tsuruta Studio
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012): from Divertimento for two pianos
III. Ragtime Waltz (Homage to Scott Joplin) [3'30]
Veronica Tarka and Charlie Colozza
Larvick Studio
Jeffrey Hoover (b. 1959): Soul Dancing [ca. 10 min]
The New Muse Piano Duo
Paola Savvidou & Jonathan Kuuskoski, pianos
Arr. Greg Anderson (b. 1981): Three Waltzes Made Famous by Disney Films, for two pianos [8’08]
Ayako Tsuruta, piano I
Peter Miyamoto, piano II
This concert is sponsored by Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association (MMAMTA).
~ Instrumental Petting Zoo ~
Saturday 2pm - First Baptist Church
***FREE ADMISSION***
Co-presented by the MU School of Music - Higday Mozart Outreach Concert Series, with its Program Coordinator, Taryn Doty
Come explore difference sounds and characters of various instruments - including Harp! Balloons and raffles will be available from concession table during this hour.
~ A Children's Concert ~
Saturday 3pm - First Baptist Church
*** FREE ADMISSION *** (No Tickets Required)
Discover the FUN in musical dances, including Hula Hoop choreography
and Waltzes from Disney Films for 2 pianos arr. Greg Anderson!
Performers include MMAMTA members and their students,
the New Muse Piano Duo, Jonathan Kuuskoski & Paola Savvidou.
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849): Polonaise in A Major, Op. 40 No. 1 (1838), arr. for four hands [4’00]
Matthew Guess and Anne Manahan, piano
Manahan Studio
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907): Anitra's Dance from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (1888) [4'00]
Tracy Singer and Stephanie Zhang, piano
Kyriakos and Manahan Studios
Robert D. Vandall (b. 1944): May Dance [1'30]
Elizabeth Lutz and Hayley Conklin
Conklin & Lutz Studios
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904): Humoresque No. 7, Op. 101 for violin and piano (1894) [4'00]
Denise Gillam, piano
Marie Gillam, ballerina
Eugénie Rocherolle (b.1939): Waltz for two pianos (1986) [3'00]
Sherry Xie and John (Hyun Jun) Yoo, pianos
Shaw Studio
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Hungarian Dance No. 6 in D Major [3'30]
Theron Howe and Junyi Wu, piano
Kyriakos & Manahan Studios
Ástor Piazzolla: Oblivion (Tango; 1982), arr. for piano trio [4'00]
Solveig Geenen, violin
Ryan Choe, violoncello
Annika Moser, piano
Appold, Manulik and Tsuruta Studios
Samuel Barber (1910-1981): “Waltz” [4'00] from Souvenirs, Suite for four hands (1952)
Maddy Mueller and Sarah Freyermuth, piano
Conklin & Lutz Studios
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): “La Jardin Feerique" from Ma Mere l’Oye (1910) [3’30]
Lucia Blankenship and Jade Forck, piano
Christa Kiesling, hoop choreography
Houser Studio
Jan Koetsier (1911-2006): Dance Impressions for harp and marimba (1990) [8’00]
II. Tango
III. Walzer
V. Perpetuum Mobile
Maria Duhova Trevor, harp
Pete Zambito, percussion
Intermission [10 min.]
Jack Fina (1913-1970): Bumble Boogie, arr. by Lucy Warren for 2 pianos/8 hands [ca. 3’30].
Annika Moser and Paige Flottman, piano I
Jill Geyer and Zoya Khan, piano II
Tsuruta Studio
Mack Wilberg (1955): Fantasy on Themes from Bizet's Carmen for two pianos, eight hands (excerpt) [6'00]
Henry Huang and Lien Hsin (Emily) Lee, piano I
Ayako Tsuruta and Kristine Cho, piano II
Tsuruta Studio
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012): from Divertimento for two pianos
III. Ragtime Waltz (Homage to Scott Joplin) [3'30]
Veronica Tarka and Charlie Colozza
Larvick Studio
Jeffrey Hoover (b. 1959): Soul Dancing [ca. 10 min]
The New Muse Piano Duo
Paola Savvidou & Jonathan Kuuskoski, pianos
Arr. Greg Anderson (b. 1981): Three Waltzes Made Famous by Disney Films, for two pianos [8’08]
Ayako Tsuruta, piano I
Peter Miyamoto, piano II
This concert is sponsored by Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association (MMAMTA).
Lucia Blankenship is a senior at Eldon High School and will be graduating in May. Lucia has been studying piano for 14 years as a student of Jan Houser and if you ever needed to locate Lucia on Saturday mornings from daylight to about noon during those years, you could find her at Mrs. Houser's piano studio. When not in school or working at a local CPA firm, Lucia likes to spend time with her family, especially her grandparents and her boyfriend. Lucia plans to attend college in the fall majoring in business.
Kristine Cho, a 9th grader at Rock Bridge High School, has played piano for 10 years and violin for 8, studying with Anne Manahan and Ayako Tsuruta, and with Amy Appold, respectively. She received Honorable Mention in both piano and violin at MMTA in 2012 and 2013. She plays the violin with the MOSS Young Artists’ Philharmonic and the Chamber Players. She wishes she had a pet to play with but alas, instead spends her Saturdays with swordplay in French classical fencing and summers at music camps such as Interlochen and NYSMF.
Ryan Choe, a 7th grader at Columbia Independent School, began playing the cello at age 4. Ryan has come a long way from his early years when he once declared a "break time” to lie down on a sofa in his teacher’s studio at the beginning of the lesson (the lesson hadn’t even started) to recently performing John Williams' Schindler’s List theme. Ryan has performed solo, chamber, and orchestral pieces in various music camps and festivals in Illinois, Kansas, Colorado, and Iowa as well as several music events in Missouri. Ryan plays in the Missouri Symphony Society Conservatory. He studies cello with Mary Manulik and piano with Ayako Tsuruta.
Charlie Colozza resides in Jefferson City and attends Helias Catholic High School, where he is a National Honor Society member, concert choir member, show choir band member, and an accompanist for mass. He has also participated in the National Federation of Music competitions, Mid-America Music Association competitions, and has performed at the Missouri Theater for the Women's Symphony Orchestra Showcase.
Hayley Conklin, 10, and Elizabeth Lutz, 9, have actually been "playing together" since infancy. Because both their mothers are piano instructors and close friends, it was simply inevitable that they begin their duo career at a young age. This evening marks their world premiere.
Paige Flottman is a freshman at Battle High School, and has been studying with Ayako Tsuruta for 8 years. She is involved in theater at TRYPS Institute at Stephen's College and Battle High. She is also involved in concert and show choir, and has been part of district and state honors choirs. Her favorite pieces to play are upbeat and fast paced, and when she isn't practicing, she is running around frantically to various activities all over Columbia.
Jade Forck is a sixteen year-old junior at Helias. She works part-time at an accounting firm. She enjoys playing volleyball and spending time with her friends. Jade and Lucia have shared a lot of fun as a piano duet team, but this is the first time they have had a hoop friend join them in a performance.
Sarah Freyermuth is a sernior at Rock Bridge High School. She has been a piano student of her dear friend Carrie Conklin for the past 11.5 years. She also sings in the concert choir. Although she loves playing piano, she avoids electric pianos since one arbitrarily began playing a drum beat in the middle of a concert performance when she was 8 yrs old.
When Solveig Geenen began studying violin at age three with her mom, she thought she was a dog. She found it rather difficult to play the violin with sock “paws” on her hands, however, and finally had to give up being a dog to continue playing the instrument. Ten years later, Solveig is studying violin with Amy Appold. She is an active member of the MOSS Young Artists’ Philharmonic and the Chamber Players, and has performed on two honors recitals for the Peaks to Plains Suzuki Institute in Colorado. She also received first runner up at the MMTA statewide competition. When she isn’t playing violin, she enjoys dancing, hiking, reading, singing, writing, knitting, and spending time with her sister, Linnea.
Jill Geyer is a bit of a piano gypsy. Before studying at Tsuruta Studio she had five other piano teachers, or at least that’s how many she thinks. It could be more. Aside from classical music, she loves playing songs from the Pride and Prejudice sound track and considers herself to be Elizabeth Bennet in a former life.
Marie Gillam is 14 years old and has been dancing and playing violin and piano since she was three years old. She is a Freshman at Simonsen Ninth Grade Center in Jefferson City and is a member of the JC Dance Team. When she was only 12 years old she was a professional dancer and magic assistant in the Grand Magic Show in Custer South Dakota. She currently performs with Gillam Family Illusions as a dancer and magical assistant.
Denise Gillam is the owner of Gillam Music Studio in Jefferson City. She has taught in both public school music settings and private music studio settings for the past 18 years. Denise enjoys performing on stage for musical events as well as magical events. You can find her popping out of boxes for her husband who is a professional illusionist as well as other professional magicians around the country.
Matthew Guess is a sophomore at Rock Bridge High School. He has been playing the piano for ten years and is a student of Anne Manahan. In addition to playing the piano, he enjoys playing on his high school soccer team and running track. Matthew moved to Columbia from Kansas City last year and is still getting used to all the Tigers in the area.
Theron Howe is a senior at Rock Bridge High School. Besides classical piano, he also plays in a local teen band Warehaus. His favorite pie is cherry, and he eats all the filling before he eats the crust.
Henry Huang won a number of awards, including the top award in Piano of the 2013 Stella Boyle Smith Young Artist Concerto Competition sponsored by the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, and the 2012 Beethoven Club Young Artist Competition in Memphis (Junior Division). He was the runner-up at the South Central Division in 2014 MTNA Junior Piano Competition. Henry represents Missouri to compete this time at the West Central Division for the 2015 MTNA Junior Piano Competition.
Christa Kiesling loves turtles and is helping them stage world domination. She is a 9th grade student at Simonsen, Jefferson City. Christa started playing with a hoop during the summer of 2012. Since then she has taught herself each new skill she knows, and she even makes her own custom hoops. She frequently drives Mom and Dad crazy by hooping in the middle of the living room instead of going outside. Her self-taught hoop tricks turned into hoop choreography when she started getting requests to display her talent during musical concerts. Lately, she has been striving to combine her love of gymnastics with her hooping hobby. She has been known to throw in a cartwheel or do the splits while doing her routine. Her favorite hoop is a programmable light-up hoop that she received for Christmas.
Zoya Khan is a junior at Rock Bridge High School. Throughout her nine years of piano playing, she has performed a variety of pieces, her most memorable being “Mozart by a Nose”. Even now, years after her breathtaking performance, she receives compliments from eager parents for the finesse of her final note, which was played by her nose. Zoya studies with Ayako Tsuruta.
Lien Hsin (Emily) Lee studied in special music elementary school from 3rd–6th grades in Taiwan with Ju Yin Lai, and now continues her study with Ayako Tsuruta, with whom Emily has studied with in the past summer. She is the winner of 2014 MMTA in 7A level, and performed in the 2014 Piano Showcase. Emily also minored in viola, and plays in MOSS Young Artist Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestra. Her hobbies include reading, writing and drawing, and likes to travel around the world with her family.
Elizabeth Lutz (see “Hayley Conklin”)
Anne Manahan was born in Colon, Rep. of Panama and received her early musical training at the National Conservatory of Music in Panama City. She later attended the Juilliard School where she received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in piano performance, studying with Lonnie Epstein and Josef Raieff. She also attended the Kneisel Hall School for String and Ensemble Playing in Blue Hill, Maine, where she coached chamber music with Artur Balsam and Josef Fuchs. She now teaches private piano lessons at the Kyriakos Music Studio in Columbia.
A recovering hidden Mickey hunter, Peter Miyamoto (AKA "Disneydude") prides himself in finally seeing the hidden Donald on top of the First Baptist Church. A former professor at CalArts, the Conservatory that Walt built, he bides his time between visits to Disney parks by performing and teaching the piano, and hopes that someday Mary Poppins will fly in with her umbrella and help clean Lauren's room.
Annika Moser, an 8th grader at Heritage Academy, has played piano for 8 years, and has recently begun studying with Ayako Tsuruta. She loves playing music from a variety of composers, but her current favorite is Frederic Chopin because of his powerful compositions, which require use of most of the piano keyboard. Annika has also played violin for 6 years, and began studying with Amy Appold this past fall. She enjoys playing violin with the Missouri Symphony Society’s Young Artists’ Philharmonic.
The first performance experience Maddy Mueller can remember is being cast as the lead in the kindergarten play, during which she burst out laughing at a critical moment when she was supposed to be screaming in horror. That embarrassing event made her abandon acting and turn to piano, which she has been playing and performing ever since. She is a student of Janelle Lutz.
New Muse Piano Duo: Paola Savvidou and Jonathan Kuuskoski have been performing together since the beginning of the 21st century. Their duo is called the New Muse Piano Duo and they like to play music by composers who aren’t dead yet (most of the time anyway). Their most frequent distraction when rehearsing is their cat Elgar, who often likes to “paw” a note or two.
Tracey Singer is a 9th grader who loves animals and music. She enjoys her free time either reading or making music, to which her two parakeets almost always like to sing along. A piano student of Anne Manahan, Tracey has spent an entire HALF of her life learning and playing the piano (although many argue that it's only the beginning)! Stay good, kids! If you don't, it'll only lead to treble.
Veronica Tarka was born in San Antonio, TX, about 14 years ago and, coincidentally, about 14 minutes from the Alamo (if you disregard the speed limit). She became interested in music at a very early age, much to the disappointment of her two older engineering-type brothers. She is obsessed with jazz but will play any type of music if it gets her out of cleaning her room."
Maria Duhova Trevor fell in love with the heavenly sound of the harp at the age of 12. People often ask her while she is hauling the harp around " Don't you wish you rather played piccolo? " She never regretted choosing this big instrument despite the fact that she must go car shopping with her harp to make sure it fits in! The harp has taken Maria around the world performing and recording. Maria now lives in Columbia and has an active harp studio with students aging from 8 to 70. Maria is also the principal harpist for the Missouri Symphony and the Springfield Symphony, MO and an adjunct harp instructor at Truman State University and the University of Missouri.
Ayako Tsuruta first met her future husband at her audition at the Curtis Institute as a Choate Rosemary Hall senior. Although she attended the Juilliard School instead, they later became best friends at Yale School of Music where they both earned graduate degrees. It took them another decade and three continents before they got married in Columbia – proving happy endings like Disney truly do come true if you believe in them.
Junyi Wu, a senior at Hickman high school, has been learning piano for 12 years. He is the winner of MMTA of 2012 and 2013, a runner-up in 2014, and a winner of MAMA 2012. Besides playing piano, he is a trombonist at school concert band and a #1 seed in tennis team. One of his fun hobbies is eating spicy food before performing which makes him on fire and win in competitions. He is a student of Beverly Kyriakos.
Sherry Xie is a junior at Hickman High School in Columbia, and has been playing the piano for eight years. She is a student of Judy Shaw and also plays violin in the Hickman High School Chamber Orchestra. She spends her free time volunteering at Boone Hospital Center, playing tennis, writing poetry, and eating unhealthy amounts of chips and salsa. She can usually be found complaining to her two parakeets about her math homework.
John (Hyun Jun) Yoo is a 7th grade at West Middle school and studies piano with Judy Shaw. He received three first place, one second place, and one third place in the MU COMP (state wide) for 5 years. He also won and was placed honorable mention in the MMTA. He is the winner of Missouri state Music Composition PTA reflection in 2013, and 2014. He also was placed in merit award in National PTA reflection. He has Superior rating from National Federation of Piano 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
Pete Zambito first played drum set in second grade for a class performance of "New York New York". After taking a bow at the drum set, his foot got stuck in his floor tom stand, his shoe came off, and he went back to his seat without his shoe. He THEN decided to run back on stage and get the shoe. Somehow, both Wake Forest University and University of North Carolina-Greensboro thought well enough of him to award him advanced degrees.
Stephanie Zhang is a 10th grader at Rock Bridge High School. She has been playing piano for 11 years and flute for 5 years, under Beverly Kyriakos and Lisa Thill Franck. She is part of the school’s Wind Ensemble and the Missouri Symphony Conservatory Young Artists Philharmonic. Even though she likes flute, practicing piano pieces that don’t sound “pretty” gives her personal joy, especially when of her parents leave the room or tell her to stop creating a disturbance, but she just keeps on practicing.
Kristine Cho, a 9th grader at Rock Bridge High School, has played piano for 10 years and violin for 8, studying with Anne Manahan and Ayako Tsuruta, and with Amy Appold, respectively. She received Honorable Mention in both piano and violin at MMTA in 2012 and 2013. She plays the violin with the MOSS Young Artists’ Philharmonic and the Chamber Players. She wishes she had a pet to play with but alas, instead spends her Saturdays with swordplay in French classical fencing and summers at music camps such as Interlochen and NYSMF.
Ryan Choe, a 7th grader at Columbia Independent School, began playing the cello at age 4. Ryan has come a long way from his early years when he once declared a "break time” to lie down on a sofa in his teacher’s studio at the beginning of the lesson (the lesson hadn’t even started) to recently performing John Williams' Schindler’s List theme. Ryan has performed solo, chamber, and orchestral pieces in various music camps and festivals in Illinois, Kansas, Colorado, and Iowa as well as several music events in Missouri. Ryan plays in the Missouri Symphony Society Conservatory. He studies cello with Mary Manulik and piano with Ayako Tsuruta.
Charlie Colozza resides in Jefferson City and attends Helias Catholic High School, where he is a National Honor Society member, concert choir member, show choir band member, and an accompanist for mass. He has also participated in the National Federation of Music competitions, Mid-America Music Association competitions, and has performed at the Missouri Theater for the Women's Symphony Orchestra Showcase.
Hayley Conklin, 10, and Elizabeth Lutz, 9, have actually been "playing together" since infancy. Because both their mothers are piano instructors and close friends, it was simply inevitable that they begin their duo career at a young age. This evening marks their world premiere.
Paige Flottman is a freshman at Battle High School, and has been studying with Ayako Tsuruta for 8 years. She is involved in theater at TRYPS Institute at Stephen's College and Battle High. She is also involved in concert and show choir, and has been part of district and state honors choirs. Her favorite pieces to play are upbeat and fast paced, and when she isn't practicing, she is running around frantically to various activities all over Columbia.
Jade Forck is a sixteen year-old junior at Helias. She works part-time at an accounting firm. She enjoys playing volleyball and spending time with her friends. Jade and Lucia have shared a lot of fun as a piano duet team, but this is the first time they have had a hoop friend join them in a performance.
Sarah Freyermuth is a sernior at Rock Bridge High School. She has been a piano student of her dear friend Carrie Conklin for the past 11.5 years. She also sings in the concert choir. Although she loves playing piano, she avoids electric pianos since one arbitrarily began playing a drum beat in the middle of a concert performance when she was 8 yrs old.
When Solveig Geenen began studying violin at age three with her mom, she thought she was a dog. She found it rather difficult to play the violin with sock “paws” on her hands, however, and finally had to give up being a dog to continue playing the instrument. Ten years later, Solveig is studying violin with Amy Appold. She is an active member of the MOSS Young Artists’ Philharmonic and the Chamber Players, and has performed on two honors recitals for the Peaks to Plains Suzuki Institute in Colorado. She also received first runner up at the MMTA statewide competition. When she isn’t playing violin, she enjoys dancing, hiking, reading, singing, writing, knitting, and spending time with her sister, Linnea.
Jill Geyer is a bit of a piano gypsy. Before studying at Tsuruta Studio she had five other piano teachers, or at least that’s how many she thinks. It could be more. Aside from classical music, she loves playing songs from the Pride and Prejudice sound track and considers herself to be Elizabeth Bennet in a former life.
Marie Gillam is 14 years old and has been dancing and playing violin and piano since she was three years old. She is a Freshman at Simonsen Ninth Grade Center in Jefferson City and is a member of the JC Dance Team. When she was only 12 years old she was a professional dancer and magic assistant in the Grand Magic Show in Custer South Dakota. She currently performs with Gillam Family Illusions as a dancer and magical assistant.
Denise Gillam is the owner of Gillam Music Studio in Jefferson City. She has taught in both public school music settings and private music studio settings for the past 18 years. Denise enjoys performing on stage for musical events as well as magical events. You can find her popping out of boxes for her husband who is a professional illusionist as well as other professional magicians around the country.
Matthew Guess is a sophomore at Rock Bridge High School. He has been playing the piano for ten years and is a student of Anne Manahan. In addition to playing the piano, he enjoys playing on his high school soccer team and running track. Matthew moved to Columbia from Kansas City last year and is still getting used to all the Tigers in the area.
Theron Howe is a senior at Rock Bridge High School. Besides classical piano, he also plays in a local teen band Warehaus. His favorite pie is cherry, and he eats all the filling before he eats the crust.
Henry Huang won a number of awards, including the top award in Piano of the 2013 Stella Boyle Smith Young Artist Concerto Competition sponsored by the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, and the 2012 Beethoven Club Young Artist Competition in Memphis (Junior Division). He was the runner-up at the South Central Division in 2014 MTNA Junior Piano Competition. Henry represents Missouri to compete this time at the West Central Division for the 2015 MTNA Junior Piano Competition.
Christa Kiesling loves turtles and is helping them stage world domination. She is a 9th grade student at Simonsen, Jefferson City. Christa started playing with a hoop during the summer of 2012. Since then she has taught herself each new skill she knows, and she even makes her own custom hoops. She frequently drives Mom and Dad crazy by hooping in the middle of the living room instead of going outside. Her self-taught hoop tricks turned into hoop choreography when she started getting requests to display her talent during musical concerts. Lately, she has been striving to combine her love of gymnastics with her hooping hobby. She has been known to throw in a cartwheel or do the splits while doing her routine. Her favorite hoop is a programmable light-up hoop that she received for Christmas.
Zoya Khan is a junior at Rock Bridge High School. Throughout her nine years of piano playing, she has performed a variety of pieces, her most memorable being “Mozart by a Nose”. Even now, years after her breathtaking performance, she receives compliments from eager parents for the finesse of her final note, which was played by her nose. Zoya studies with Ayako Tsuruta.
Lien Hsin (Emily) Lee studied in special music elementary school from 3rd–6th grades in Taiwan with Ju Yin Lai, and now continues her study with Ayako Tsuruta, with whom Emily has studied with in the past summer. She is the winner of 2014 MMTA in 7A level, and performed in the 2014 Piano Showcase. Emily also minored in viola, and plays in MOSS Young Artist Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestra. Her hobbies include reading, writing and drawing, and likes to travel around the world with her family.
Elizabeth Lutz (see “Hayley Conklin”)
Anne Manahan was born in Colon, Rep. of Panama and received her early musical training at the National Conservatory of Music in Panama City. She later attended the Juilliard School where she received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in piano performance, studying with Lonnie Epstein and Josef Raieff. She also attended the Kneisel Hall School for String and Ensemble Playing in Blue Hill, Maine, where she coached chamber music with Artur Balsam and Josef Fuchs. She now teaches private piano lessons at the Kyriakos Music Studio in Columbia.
A recovering hidden Mickey hunter, Peter Miyamoto (AKA "Disneydude") prides himself in finally seeing the hidden Donald on top of the First Baptist Church. A former professor at CalArts, the Conservatory that Walt built, he bides his time between visits to Disney parks by performing and teaching the piano, and hopes that someday Mary Poppins will fly in with her umbrella and help clean Lauren's room.
Annika Moser, an 8th grader at Heritage Academy, has played piano for 8 years, and has recently begun studying with Ayako Tsuruta. She loves playing music from a variety of composers, but her current favorite is Frederic Chopin because of his powerful compositions, which require use of most of the piano keyboard. Annika has also played violin for 6 years, and began studying with Amy Appold this past fall. She enjoys playing violin with the Missouri Symphony Society’s Young Artists’ Philharmonic.
The first performance experience Maddy Mueller can remember is being cast as the lead in the kindergarten play, during which she burst out laughing at a critical moment when she was supposed to be screaming in horror. That embarrassing event made her abandon acting and turn to piano, which she has been playing and performing ever since. She is a student of Janelle Lutz.
New Muse Piano Duo: Paola Savvidou and Jonathan Kuuskoski have been performing together since the beginning of the 21st century. Their duo is called the New Muse Piano Duo and they like to play music by composers who aren’t dead yet (most of the time anyway). Their most frequent distraction when rehearsing is their cat Elgar, who often likes to “paw” a note or two.
Tracey Singer is a 9th grader who loves animals and music. She enjoys her free time either reading or making music, to which her two parakeets almost always like to sing along. A piano student of Anne Manahan, Tracey has spent an entire HALF of her life learning and playing the piano (although many argue that it's only the beginning)! Stay good, kids! If you don't, it'll only lead to treble.
Veronica Tarka was born in San Antonio, TX, about 14 years ago and, coincidentally, about 14 minutes from the Alamo (if you disregard the speed limit). She became interested in music at a very early age, much to the disappointment of her two older engineering-type brothers. She is obsessed with jazz but will play any type of music if it gets her out of cleaning her room."
Maria Duhova Trevor fell in love with the heavenly sound of the harp at the age of 12. People often ask her while she is hauling the harp around " Don't you wish you rather played piccolo? " She never regretted choosing this big instrument despite the fact that she must go car shopping with her harp to make sure it fits in! The harp has taken Maria around the world performing and recording. Maria now lives in Columbia and has an active harp studio with students aging from 8 to 70. Maria is also the principal harpist for the Missouri Symphony and the Springfield Symphony, MO and an adjunct harp instructor at Truman State University and the University of Missouri.
Ayako Tsuruta first met her future husband at her audition at the Curtis Institute as a Choate Rosemary Hall senior. Although she attended the Juilliard School instead, they later became best friends at Yale School of Music where they both earned graduate degrees. It took them another decade and three continents before they got married in Columbia – proving happy endings like Disney truly do come true if you believe in them.
Junyi Wu, a senior at Hickman high school, has been learning piano for 12 years. He is the winner of MMTA of 2012 and 2013, a runner-up in 2014, and a winner of MAMA 2012. Besides playing piano, he is a trombonist at school concert band and a #1 seed in tennis team. One of his fun hobbies is eating spicy food before performing which makes him on fire and win in competitions. He is a student of Beverly Kyriakos.
Sherry Xie is a junior at Hickman High School in Columbia, and has been playing the piano for eight years. She is a student of Judy Shaw and also plays violin in the Hickman High School Chamber Orchestra. She spends her free time volunteering at Boone Hospital Center, playing tennis, writing poetry, and eating unhealthy amounts of chips and salsa. She can usually be found complaining to her two parakeets about her math homework.
John (Hyun Jun) Yoo is a 7th grade at West Middle school and studies piano with Judy Shaw. He received three first place, one second place, and one third place in the MU COMP (state wide) for 5 years. He also won and was placed honorable mention in the MMTA. He is the winner of Missouri state Music Composition PTA reflection in 2013, and 2014. He also was placed in merit award in National PTA reflection. He has Superior rating from National Federation of Piano 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
Pete Zambito first played drum set in second grade for a class performance of "New York New York". After taking a bow at the drum set, his foot got stuck in his floor tom stand, his shoe came off, and he went back to his seat without his shoe. He THEN decided to run back on stage and get the shoe. Somehow, both Wake Forest University and University of North Carolina-Greensboro thought well enough of him to award him advanced degrees.
Stephanie Zhang is a 10th grader at Rock Bridge High School. She has been playing piano for 11 years and flute for 5 years, under Beverly Kyriakos and Lisa Thill Franck. She is part of the school’s Wind Ensemble and the Missouri Symphony Conservatory Young Artists Philharmonic. Even though she likes flute, practicing piano pieces that don’t sound “pretty” gives her personal joy, especially when of her parents leave the room or tell her to stop creating a disturbance, but she just keeps on practicing.
February 6, 2015 BAROQUE CLASSICS
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Our annual Baroque this season comes perfectly paired with Classic Masterpieces,
a dedication to Ann Harrell who inspired so many young, great singers.
Featured are countertenor Chad Payton in Bach's Cantata,
pianist Peter Miyamoto and soprano McKenzie Miller in a sublime concert Aria by Mozart, and Odyssey Chamber Ensemble lead by conductor Kirk Trevor
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), arr. Greg Anderson
"Sento in seno ch'in pioggia di lagrime" (I feel within a rain of tears) from Tieteberga and Il Giustino (ca. 1724 / arr. 2011) [5'00]
Ayako Tsuruta, piano I and Peter Miyamoto, piano II
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata BWV 82, "Ich habe genug" (1727) [ca. 24'00]
I. Aria: Ich habe genug
II. Recitative: Ich habe genug
III. Aria: Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen
IV. Recitative: Mein Gott! wenn kömmt das schöne: Nun!
V. Aria: Ich freue mich auf meinen Tod
Chad R. Payton, countertenor
Kirk Trevor, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Intermission
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791):
"Ch'io mi scordi di te?/Non temer, amato bene" in E flat Major, KV 505 for soprano, piano obbligato and orchestra (1786) [ca. 10’00]
Performance dedicated to Professor Ann Harrell
McKenzie Miller, soprano
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Kirk Trevor, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No. 60 in C Major, “Il Distratto” (1774-5) [ca. 30'00]
I. Adagio - Allegro di molto
II. Andante
III. Menuetto - Trio
IV. Presto
V. Adagio (di Lamentatione)
VI. Finale: Prestissimo
Kirk Trevor, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble:
Oboe: Dan Willett, Elizabeth Dingman
Clarinet: Bill Kalinkos, Jeremiah Rittel
Bassoon: Kara LaMoure, Andrew Bell
Trumpet: Iskander Akhmadullin, John D. Perkins
Horn: Marcia Spence, Jaron Lester
Timpani: Brian Tate
Organ: Michael Bancroft
Violin I: Siri Geenen, Erik Hassell, Carolina Neves Merritt
Violin II: Amy Appold, Lily Farnen, Graham Woodland
Viola: Dustin Frieda, Korin Wahl
Violoncello: Matthew Pierce, Mary Manulik
Double Bass: Sam Copeland
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Our annual Baroque this season comes perfectly paired with Classic Masterpieces,
a dedication to Ann Harrell who inspired so many young, great singers.
Featured are countertenor Chad Payton in Bach's Cantata,
pianist Peter Miyamoto and soprano McKenzie Miller in a sublime concert Aria by Mozart, and Odyssey Chamber Ensemble lead by conductor Kirk Trevor
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), arr. Greg Anderson
"Sento in seno ch'in pioggia di lagrime" (I feel within a rain of tears) from Tieteberga and Il Giustino (ca. 1724 / arr. 2011) [5'00]
Ayako Tsuruta, piano I and Peter Miyamoto, piano II
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata BWV 82, "Ich habe genug" (1727) [ca. 24'00]
I. Aria: Ich habe genug
II. Recitative: Ich habe genug
III. Aria: Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen
IV. Recitative: Mein Gott! wenn kömmt das schöne: Nun!
V. Aria: Ich freue mich auf meinen Tod
Chad R. Payton, countertenor
Kirk Trevor, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Intermission
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791):
"Ch'io mi scordi di te?/Non temer, amato bene" in E flat Major, KV 505 for soprano, piano obbligato and orchestra (1786) [ca. 10’00]
Performance dedicated to Professor Ann Harrell
McKenzie Miller, soprano
Peter Miyamoto, piano
Kirk Trevor, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No. 60 in C Major, “Il Distratto” (1774-5) [ca. 30'00]
I. Adagio - Allegro di molto
II. Andante
III. Menuetto - Trio
IV. Presto
V. Adagio (di Lamentatione)
VI. Finale: Prestissimo
Kirk Trevor, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble:
Oboe: Dan Willett, Elizabeth Dingman
Clarinet: Bill Kalinkos, Jeremiah Rittel
Bassoon: Kara LaMoure, Andrew Bell
Trumpet: Iskander Akhmadullin, John D. Perkins
Horn: Marcia Spence, Jaron Lester
Timpani: Brian Tate
Organ: Michael Bancroft
Violin I: Siri Geenen, Erik Hassell, Carolina Neves Merritt
Violin II: Amy Appold, Lily Farnen, Graham Woodland
Viola: Dustin Frieda, Korin Wahl
Violoncello: Matthew Pierce, Mary Manulik
Double Bass: Sam Copeland
March 6, 2015 CLASSIC POP!
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
The many interns and volunteers working behind the scenes at Odyssey have a moment to shine onstage as they present a program of chamber music. Here is their exciting program!
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827):
String Quartet in B-Flat Major Op. 18 No. 6 (1798-1800)
I. Allegro con brio
Tony Morales and Graham Woodland, violins; Korin Wahl, viola; Shannon Merciel, cello
George Harrison (1943-2001):
Here Comes the Sun (1969), arr. by Norbert Gerl
Tony Morales and Graham Woodland, violins; Korin Wahl, viola; Shannon Merciel, cello
Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (b. 1975)
Let it Go (2012, arr, 2013), arr. by Al van der Beek, Jon Schmidt, and Steven Sharp Nelson
Sarah Edwards, cello; Taylor Burkhardt, piano
Frank Bridge (1879-1941):
Allegro appassionato (1908)
Korin Wahl, viola; Taylor Burkhardt, piano
Andy Akiho (b. 1979)
Aka (2013)
Daniel Edwards, tenor steel pan; Sarah Edwards, cello; Kyle Bauche, drums
Intermission
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975):
String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110
II. Allegro molto
III. Allegretto
Tony Morales and Graham Woodland, violins; Korin Wahl, viola; Shannon Merciel, cello
Freddie Mercury (1946-1991):
Bohemian Rhapsody (1975), arr. by Anthony Gröger
Tony Morales and Graham Woodland, violins; Korin Wahl, viola; Shannon Merciel, cello
Paul McCartney (b. 1942):
Here, There, and Everywhere (1966, arr. 2015), arr. James Malke and Alec Feldges
James Malke and Alec Feldges, guitar
Stephen Whibley (b. 1975)
¡Higuita! (2012)
The MU Percussion Quartet, marimba
José Guillermo Martínez (b. 1983):
The KoDa is in Clave (2015, World Premiere)
Korin Wahl, viola; Daniel Edwards, marimba
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
The many interns and volunteers working behind the scenes at Odyssey have a moment to shine onstage as they present a program of chamber music. Here is their exciting program!
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827):
String Quartet in B-Flat Major Op. 18 No. 6 (1798-1800)
I. Allegro con brio
Tony Morales and Graham Woodland, violins; Korin Wahl, viola; Shannon Merciel, cello
George Harrison (1943-2001):
Here Comes the Sun (1969), arr. by Norbert Gerl
Tony Morales and Graham Woodland, violins; Korin Wahl, viola; Shannon Merciel, cello
Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (b. 1975)
Let it Go (2012, arr, 2013), arr. by Al van der Beek, Jon Schmidt, and Steven Sharp Nelson
Sarah Edwards, cello; Taylor Burkhardt, piano
Frank Bridge (1879-1941):
Allegro appassionato (1908)
Korin Wahl, viola; Taylor Burkhardt, piano
Andy Akiho (b. 1979)
Aka (2013)
Daniel Edwards, tenor steel pan; Sarah Edwards, cello; Kyle Bauche, drums
Intermission
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975):
String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110
II. Allegro molto
III. Allegretto
Tony Morales and Graham Woodland, violins; Korin Wahl, viola; Shannon Merciel, cello
Freddie Mercury (1946-1991):
Bohemian Rhapsody (1975), arr. by Anthony Gröger
Tony Morales and Graham Woodland, violins; Korin Wahl, viola; Shannon Merciel, cello
Paul McCartney (b. 1942):
Here, There, and Everywhere (1966, arr. 2015), arr. James Malke and Alec Feldges
James Malke and Alec Feldges, guitar
Stephen Whibley (b. 1975)
¡Higuita! (2012)
The MU Percussion Quartet, marimba
José Guillermo Martínez (b. 1983):
The KoDa is in Clave (2015, World Premiere)
Korin Wahl, viola; Daniel Edwards, marimba
Kyle Bauche is a Senior Percussion Performance Major at Mizzou. Originally from Farmington, MO he succeeded at an early age. In high school he was in the East Central All District band for numerous years and selected as a member for the Missouri All State band for three of his four years in high school. At Mizzou he's been very involved in many ensembles, such as the Marching Mizzou Drumline, Mini Mizzou, the University Wind Ensemble, the University Philharmonic, MU Concert Jazz Band, MU Studio Jazz Band, the University Percussion Ensemble, World Percussion, MU Steel, Exit 128 (student driven chamber orchestra) and other percussion chamber groups as well. Outside of Mizzou he's very active in musical activities as well. He's been teaching the drumline and front ensemble at Hickman High a school for the past two years and plans on returning next fall again. During the summer of 2013 and 2014 he was a member of the front ensemble in the Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps based in Denver, Colorado. After graduating from Mizzou, Kyle plans on attending grad school to further his education in percussion and possibly joining the military to play in a military band.
Taylor Burkhardt collaborates with a number of vocalists and instrumentalists as a duo partner, chamber musician, rehearsal pianist, and coach. She has given solo and collaborative performances at the New York Summer Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, Wichita State University, Odyssey Chamber Music Series Outreach, and the University of Missouri-Columbia, and also performed Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with the Jefferson City High School Symphonic Band in 2008. Currently, Ms. Burkhardt performs regularly with the MU New Music Ensemble and is a rehearsal pianist with the MU Show-Me Opera. Her teachers include Dr. Peter Miyamoto and Karen Larvick, and she coached with Erika Eckert, Marianne Gedigian, and Benjamin Sung at Brevard Music Center in addition to studies with Elisabeth Pridonoff, Donna Lee, and Deloise Lima. In addition to being a performer, Ms. Burkhardt is active as an award-winning private teacher, currently maintaining a small studio of eight. As General Manager of the Odyssey Chamber Music Series, she handles the official contact line, ticketing, and concessions, and also helps facilitate events during the biennial Plowman Chamber Music Competition.
Sarah Edwards is currently working as a private piano accompanist at the University of Missouri. She has accompanied over fifteen kinds of instruments, including Eastern and Western instruments, since 1998. She is also a cellist, a music educator, and a songwriter. She was born in Taichung city, Taiwan. At the age of eight, she was accepted into music school as a major in piano performance and a minor in cello performance. She majored in cello performance for most of her music school years from age eleven to eighteen. As a junior high school cellist, she participated in the annual Taiwan National Competition for Orchestra and String Orchestra, where she got first place from 2003 to 2005. As a high school cellist, she performed with the Taiwan Local Chinese Orchestra in Ellis Island, New York. She won 1st place in the Nantou City Cello competition, 1st place in a piano trio competition, and second place in a piano competition during her high school years as well. After she got accepted to Brigham Young University-Hawaii with scholarships, she switched her major back to piano. She later received full scholarships for the next several semesters at BYUH, majoring in piano performance. She is married to Daniel Edwards, a graduate student at the University of Missouri, majoring in percussion performance.
Both born in St. Louis, Alec Feldges and James Malke have performed together as a classical guitar duo for the past two years. Since then, they have performed at numerous events throughout the Columbia community including the Paden Prize Reception and the Chancellor’s Holiday party via the University of Missouri’s ‘Hire a Musician’ program. Now, they both study under the instruction of Professor Anthony Glise as music students of the University. Though they have been trained as classical guitarists, Alec and James often perform both Jazz and Classical music and occasionally play arrangements of more contemporary, pop tunes. Independently, James and Alec both perform as solo artists and intend to both pursue careers in Music. Alec hopes to become a professional-performing artist and to start his own guitar academy. James intends to pursue arts administrations by either starting his own, or running a non-profit arts organization.
José Martínez – Percussionist and Composer: José’s music has a wide range of influences that go from the folk music of his home country to fine art avant-garde music, and goes through different genres of Latin music, heavy metal, and progressive rock. All these sounds find a place to interact in his music and create his personal sound palette. His body of works includes pieces for orchestra, chamber ensembles such as string quintet and saxophone quartet, and solo with electronics. In spite of this, he has a special commitment for music for percussion, and his dual role as creator and performer allows him to have a strong insight. A graduate from the National University of Colombia as both a percussionist and a composer, he is currently pursuing a double MM in these areas at the University of Missouri. To learn more about José, visit his website at www.josemartinezcomposer.com
Shannon Merciel is a junior at the University of Missouri-Columbia pursuing a Bachelor's degree in cello performance, where she studies with Darry Dolezal. She has previously won competitions in her division through the National Federation of Music Clubs and MMTA, performed with the Honor Performance Series at Carnegie Hall, and participated in masterclasses with Peter Wiley and the Philharmonia Quartett Berlin. An active orchestral player, she has been a member of the Missouri Symphony and currently serves as principal cellist of the Columbia Civic Orchestra and University Philharmonic. She is also a dedicated chamber musician, most recently performing and competing with the Everest Quartet. In past summers she attended the Meadowmount School of Music and the Montecito International Music Festival, where she studied with Clive Greensmith, Alan Rafferty, Richard Naill, Richard Slavich, and Ko Iwasaki. In her spare time she enjoys teaching, playing with her dogs, and installing water filters in Haiti.
Tony Morales is currently a graduate student at the University of Missouri, holding an assistantship with the Graduate String Quartet. Tony has been recipient of the Allen Carl Larson Endowed Scholarship Fund for Instrumental Studies given to excellent music performance majors at Webster University as well as the Zoltan Szekely Award given to promising violinists at the University of Missouri. Recently, Tony advanced to the regional level for MTNA chamber music along with his colleagues in the Everest String Quartet, coached by Ms. Julie Rosenfeld. Currently, Tony performs with the Missouri Symphony under the baton of Kirk Trevor sitting section violin, Concertmaster of the University of Missouri Philharmonic, and assistant Principle second violin of the Columbia Civic Orchestra. He also acts as a string coach for various community orchestras, such as the Missouri Symphony Conservatory’s Junior Symphonia, Young Artist Philharmonic, and Chamber Players.
The University of Missouri Percussion Quartet (Ben Gervais, Matthew Stiens, Kyle Bauche, and Daniel Edwards) is the university’s premiere percussion ensemble. Composed of both graduate and upper class students, they strive to perform a variety of diverse pieces for percussion as well as newly commissioned works. They have recently performed as part of the 2014 Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Illinois, the 2014 Mid-Missouri Percussive Arts Trophy, and the 2013 International Percussion Festival in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They plan to participate in a recording project later this year, which will feature original works for the quartet.
Taylor Burkhardt collaborates with a number of vocalists and instrumentalists as a duo partner, chamber musician, rehearsal pianist, and coach. She has given solo and collaborative performances at the New York Summer Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, Wichita State University, Odyssey Chamber Music Series Outreach, and the University of Missouri-Columbia, and also performed Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with the Jefferson City High School Symphonic Band in 2008. Currently, Ms. Burkhardt performs regularly with the MU New Music Ensemble and is a rehearsal pianist with the MU Show-Me Opera. Her teachers include Dr. Peter Miyamoto and Karen Larvick, and she coached with Erika Eckert, Marianne Gedigian, and Benjamin Sung at Brevard Music Center in addition to studies with Elisabeth Pridonoff, Donna Lee, and Deloise Lima. In addition to being a performer, Ms. Burkhardt is active as an award-winning private teacher, currently maintaining a small studio of eight. As General Manager of the Odyssey Chamber Music Series, she handles the official contact line, ticketing, and concessions, and also helps facilitate events during the biennial Plowman Chamber Music Competition.
Sarah Edwards is currently working as a private piano accompanist at the University of Missouri. She has accompanied over fifteen kinds of instruments, including Eastern and Western instruments, since 1998. She is also a cellist, a music educator, and a songwriter. She was born in Taichung city, Taiwan. At the age of eight, she was accepted into music school as a major in piano performance and a minor in cello performance. She majored in cello performance for most of her music school years from age eleven to eighteen. As a junior high school cellist, she participated in the annual Taiwan National Competition for Orchestra and String Orchestra, where she got first place from 2003 to 2005. As a high school cellist, she performed with the Taiwan Local Chinese Orchestra in Ellis Island, New York. She won 1st place in the Nantou City Cello competition, 1st place in a piano trio competition, and second place in a piano competition during her high school years as well. After she got accepted to Brigham Young University-Hawaii with scholarships, she switched her major back to piano. She later received full scholarships for the next several semesters at BYUH, majoring in piano performance. She is married to Daniel Edwards, a graduate student at the University of Missouri, majoring in percussion performance.
Both born in St. Louis, Alec Feldges and James Malke have performed together as a classical guitar duo for the past two years. Since then, they have performed at numerous events throughout the Columbia community including the Paden Prize Reception and the Chancellor’s Holiday party via the University of Missouri’s ‘Hire a Musician’ program. Now, they both study under the instruction of Professor Anthony Glise as music students of the University. Though they have been trained as classical guitarists, Alec and James often perform both Jazz and Classical music and occasionally play arrangements of more contemporary, pop tunes. Independently, James and Alec both perform as solo artists and intend to both pursue careers in Music. Alec hopes to become a professional-performing artist and to start his own guitar academy. James intends to pursue arts administrations by either starting his own, or running a non-profit arts organization.
José Martínez – Percussionist and Composer: José’s music has a wide range of influences that go from the folk music of his home country to fine art avant-garde music, and goes through different genres of Latin music, heavy metal, and progressive rock. All these sounds find a place to interact in his music and create his personal sound palette. His body of works includes pieces for orchestra, chamber ensembles such as string quintet and saxophone quartet, and solo with electronics. In spite of this, he has a special commitment for music for percussion, and his dual role as creator and performer allows him to have a strong insight. A graduate from the National University of Colombia as both a percussionist and a composer, he is currently pursuing a double MM in these areas at the University of Missouri. To learn more about José, visit his website at www.josemartinezcomposer.com
Shannon Merciel is a junior at the University of Missouri-Columbia pursuing a Bachelor's degree in cello performance, where she studies with Darry Dolezal. She has previously won competitions in her division through the National Federation of Music Clubs and MMTA, performed with the Honor Performance Series at Carnegie Hall, and participated in masterclasses with Peter Wiley and the Philharmonia Quartett Berlin. An active orchestral player, she has been a member of the Missouri Symphony and currently serves as principal cellist of the Columbia Civic Orchestra and University Philharmonic. She is also a dedicated chamber musician, most recently performing and competing with the Everest Quartet. In past summers she attended the Meadowmount School of Music and the Montecito International Music Festival, where she studied with Clive Greensmith, Alan Rafferty, Richard Naill, Richard Slavich, and Ko Iwasaki. In her spare time she enjoys teaching, playing with her dogs, and installing water filters in Haiti.
Tony Morales is currently a graduate student at the University of Missouri, holding an assistantship with the Graduate String Quartet. Tony has been recipient of the Allen Carl Larson Endowed Scholarship Fund for Instrumental Studies given to excellent music performance majors at Webster University as well as the Zoltan Szekely Award given to promising violinists at the University of Missouri. Recently, Tony advanced to the regional level for MTNA chamber music along with his colleagues in the Everest String Quartet, coached by Ms. Julie Rosenfeld. Currently, Tony performs with the Missouri Symphony under the baton of Kirk Trevor sitting section violin, Concertmaster of the University of Missouri Philharmonic, and assistant Principle second violin of the Columbia Civic Orchestra. He also acts as a string coach for various community orchestras, such as the Missouri Symphony Conservatory’s Junior Symphonia, Young Artist Philharmonic, and Chamber Players.
The University of Missouri Percussion Quartet (Ben Gervais, Matthew Stiens, Kyle Bauche, and Daniel Edwards) is the university’s premiere percussion ensemble. Composed of both graduate and upper class students, they strive to perform a variety of diverse pieces for percussion as well as newly commissioned works. They have recently performed as part of the 2014 Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Illinois, the 2014 Mid-Missouri Percussive Arts Trophy, and the 2013 International Percussion Festival in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They plan to participate in a recording project later this year, which will feature original works for the quartet.
March 19, 2015 SERGEI BABAYAN PIANO RECITAL
Thursday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Sergei Babayan is one of the most accomplished concert pianist active today. He performs all over the world, with musical legends such as Martha Argerich and Valery Gergiev; has taught International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition winner Daniil Trifonov, and was appointed a faculty at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City while maintaining Artist-in-Residence at Cleveland Institute. Enjoy an INCREDIBLE recital experience by this profound artist!
Mr. Babayan's recital is made possible by the generosity of University of Missouri's Chancellor's Distinguished Visitors Program and Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association (MMAMTA). This concert is also sponsored by Schmitt Music in Kansas City. Mr. Babayan is a Steinway Artist.
~ Program ~
Arvo Pärt (b.1935):
Fur Alina
Franz Liszt (1811– 1886):
Ballade No.2 in b minor
Vladimir Ryabov (b.1950):
Fantasia in C minor, Op. 21, in memory of Maria Yudina
(Introduzione, Sonata I, Marcia Funebre, Sonata II, Capriccio)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):
from the Klavierbüchlein for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Prelude in C Major, BWV 939
Prelude in C minor, BWV 999
Menuet-Trio in G minor, BWV 929
Prelude in E Major, BWV 937
Sinfonia in E-flat Major, BWV 791
Prelude in D minor, BWV 926
Prelude in C-sharp Major, BWV 872
Prelude in F Major, BWV 901
Prelude in C Major, BWV 933
Fugue in C Major, BWV 953
Fugue in C Major, BWV 952
Intermission
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849):
Polonaise Op.26 in C-sharp minor
Valse Op.64 No. 2 in C-sharp minor
Barcarolle Op.60 in F-sharp major
Valse Op.69, No.2 in b minor
Impromptu Op. 29, No.1 in A-flat major
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 -1943):
Etude tableau in e-flat minor op.39 No 5
Etude tableau in c minor op.39 No 1
Moment musical in e-flat minor op.16 No 2
Moment musical in C major op.16 No 6
All artists and programs are subject to change without notice.
Mr. Babayan’s appearance is made possible by generous sponsorship by the MU Chancellor’s Distinguished Visitors Program, First Baptist Church of Columbia, MMAMTA, Schmitt Music in Kansas City, and the Plowman Chamber Music Competition collaborative organizations. Mr. Babayan is a Steinway artist. Special thanks to Harry Reed of Schmitt Music, Associate Pastor Edward S. Rollins of First Baptist Church and MU Piano Associate Professor Dr. Peter Miyamoto for making this concert possible.
*PROGRAM NOTES*
Vladimir Ryabov’s Fantasy in C minor (1983) was written in memory of Maria Yudina (1899-1970, a legendary artist in Russia who is becoming increasingly better known internationally thanks to a recent release of her extensive recorded legacy on CD, spanning almost the entire piano literature from Bach to Stravinsky (although she was also the first to perform Boulez and Stockhausen in Russia).
In her own lifetime, Yudina was not allowed to travel to the West, and was fired from both the Moscow Conservatory and the Gnessin school because of her deep religiosity. A true intellectual institution in Russia, she was close friends with some of the greatest literary luminaries of her time; Pasternak first read his novel Dr. Zhivago at her house. Never afraid to speak up against the Communists and to openly affirm her faith, she was a black sheep under the regime; yet she miraculously escaped harm, in one of those strange—and in this case, fortunate—quirks which were not rare in the history of Stalinism. When she received the Stalin Prize, she donated the money to the Orthodox Church for “perpetual prayers for Stalin’s sins.” Yet this devout Christian woman happened to be the former seminary student’s favorite pianist. According to an oft-repeated story, Stalin was so taken with her performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A major that he demanded a copy of the recording. No one dared tell him that it had been a live broadcast and there was no recording; so they had to summon Yudina to the studio in the middle of the night where, with a hastily assembled orchestra, they recorded the concerto. The next morning, the Great Leader and Teacher was presented with a unique copy. After Stalin’s death, this record was found next to his bed—it was apparently the last thing he had ever listened to.
In his twenty-minute Fantasy, Ryabov (b. 1950), a pianist-composer who had studied with Aram Khachaturyan, managed to say something new and personal, even though his idiom that is strongly indebted to 19th-century Romanticism. Ryabov accomplished this by devising an approach to harmony in which he added upper and lower neighbors to the tones of traditional chords, creating rich, cluster-like sonorities in which the original harmonies are, nevertheless, still recognizable. The formal outline of the piece is also unusual: the five sections of the fantasy are marked Introduction—Sonata I—Marcia funebre—Sonata II—Capriccio. Allusions to the classics abound, from Bach to Mozart to Beethoven to Schumann to Mussorgsky and beyond. The rather extraordinary fugue theme that appears in the second sonata was composed by Yudina herself, at age 18 in 1917; Ryabov used this theme to create the most shattering climax in the entire work.
The tempos and textures of the fantasy are extremely diverse; powerful chordal moments alternate with episodes filled with rapid passagework. The central funeral march is based on a stark rhythmic figure, to be played “like timpani,” against silently depressed chords in the right hand that release a set of otherworldly overtones. In the words of Italian critic Ettore Bruck, who didn’t hesitate to proclaim the Fantasy to be one of the summits of 20th-century piano literature, the work unites “extraordinary power and great tenderness, clarity and enigma, a strong will and intense trepidation, a fleeting moment and all eternity.” Everything in this work, Bruck writes, happens “for the first, but also for the last time.” In the concluding Capriccio, Ryabov, in Bruck’s words, “reconciled Harmony and Chaos.” This is no ordinary Capriccio; like the Brahms capriccios, it plumbs extraordinary depths as it goes to the limits of the piano’s expressive possibilities. The ending sounds almost like a hallucination: Ryabov creates a completely new sound world in which an eerie and ominous perpetual-motion figure is punctuated by a series of individual pitches above and below. The musical material seems to disintegrate completely, leaving us with feelings of hopelessness and despair as the music fades into silence.
Peter Laki
Visiting Associate Professor
Bard College
Thursday 7pm - First Baptist Church
Sergei Babayan is one of the most accomplished concert pianist active today. He performs all over the world, with musical legends such as Martha Argerich and Valery Gergiev; has taught International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition winner Daniil Trifonov, and was appointed a faculty at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City while maintaining Artist-in-Residence at Cleveland Institute. Enjoy an INCREDIBLE recital experience by this profound artist!
Mr. Babayan's recital is made possible by the generosity of University of Missouri's Chancellor's Distinguished Visitors Program and Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association (MMAMTA). This concert is also sponsored by Schmitt Music in Kansas City. Mr. Babayan is a Steinway Artist.
~ Program ~
Arvo Pärt (b.1935):
Fur Alina
Franz Liszt (1811– 1886):
Ballade No.2 in b minor
Vladimir Ryabov (b.1950):
Fantasia in C minor, Op. 21, in memory of Maria Yudina
(Introduzione, Sonata I, Marcia Funebre, Sonata II, Capriccio)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):
from the Klavierbüchlein for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Prelude in C Major, BWV 939
Prelude in C minor, BWV 999
Menuet-Trio in G minor, BWV 929
Prelude in E Major, BWV 937
Sinfonia in E-flat Major, BWV 791
Prelude in D minor, BWV 926
Prelude in C-sharp Major, BWV 872
Prelude in F Major, BWV 901
Prelude in C Major, BWV 933
Fugue in C Major, BWV 953
Fugue in C Major, BWV 952
Intermission
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849):
Polonaise Op.26 in C-sharp minor
Valse Op.64 No. 2 in C-sharp minor
Barcarolle Op.60 in F-sharp major
Valse Op.69, No.2 in b minor
Impromptu Op. 29, No.1 in A-flat major
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 -1943):
Etude tableau in e-flat minor op.39 No 5
Etude tableau in c minor op.39 No 1
Moment musical in e-flat minor op.16 No 2
Moment musical in C major op.16 No 6
All artists and programs are subject to change without notice.
Mr. Babayan’s appearance is made possible by generous sponsorship by the MU Chancellor’s Distinguished Visitors Program, First Baptist Church of Columbia, MMAMTA, Schmitt Music in Kansas City, and the Plowman Chamber Music Competition collaborative organizations. Mr. Babayan is a Steinway artist. Special thanks to Harry Reed of Schmitt Music, Associate Pastor Edward S. Rollins of First Baptist Church and MU Piano Associate Professor Dr. Peter Miyamoto for making this concert possible.
*PROGRAM NOTES*
Vladimir Ryabov’s Fantasy in C minor (1983) was written in memory of Maria Yudina (1899-1970, a legendary artist in Russia who is becoming increasingly better known internationally thanks to a recent release of her extensive recorded legacy on CD, spanning almost the entire piano literature from Bach to Stravinsky (although she was also the first to perform Boulez and Stockhausen in Russia).
In her own lifetime, Yudina was not allowed to travel to the West, and was fired from both the Moscow Conservatory and the Gnessin school because of her deep religiosity. A true intellectual institution in Russia, she was close friends with some of the greatest literary luminaries of her time; Pasternak first read his novel Dr. Zhivago at her house. Never afraid to speak up against the Communists and to openly affirm her faith, she was a black sheep under the regime; yet she miraculously escaped harm, in one of those strange—and in this case, fortunate—quirks which were not rare in the history of Stalinism. When she received the Stalin Prize, she donated the money to the Orthodox Church for “perpetual prayers for Stalin’s sins.” Yet this devout Christian woman happened to be the former seminary student’s favorite pianist. According to an oft-repeated story, Stalin was so taken with her performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A major that he demanded a copy of the recording. No one dared tell him that it had been a live broadcast and there was no recording; so they had to summon Yudina to the studio in the middle of the night where, with a hastily assembled orchestra, they recorded the concerto. The next morning, the Great Leader and Teacher was presented with a unique copy. After Stalin’s death, this record was found next to his bed—it was apparently the last thing he had ever listened to.
In his twenty-minute Fantasy, Ryabov (b. 1950), a pianist-composer who had studied with Aram Khachaturyan, managed to say something new and personal, even though his idiom that is strongly indebted to 19th-century Romanticism. Ryabov accomplished this by devising an approach to harmony in which he added upper and lower neighbors to the tones of traditional chords, creating rich, cluster-like sonorities in which the original harmonies are, nevertheless, still recognizable. The formal outline of the piece is also unusual: the five sections of the fantasy are marked Introduction—Sonata I—Marcia funebre—Sonata II—Capriccio. Allusions to the classics abound, from Bach to Mozart to Beethoven to Schumann to Mussorgsky and beyond. The rather extraordinary fugue theme that appears in the second sonata was composed by Yudina herself, at age 18 in 1917; Ryabov used this theme to create the most shattering climax in the entire work.
The tempos and textures of the fantasy are extremely diverse; powerful chordal moments alternate with episodes filled with rapid passagework. The central funeral march is based on a stark rhythmic figure, to be played “like timpani,” against silently depressed chords in the right hand that release a set of otherworldly overtones. In the words of Italian critic Ettore Bruck, who didn’t hesitate to proclaim the Fantasy to be one of the summits of 20th-century piano literature, the work unites “extraordinary power and great tenderness, clarity and enigma, a strong will and intense trepidation, a fleeting moment and all eternity.” Everything in this work, Bruck writes, happens “for the first, but also for the last time.” In the concluding Capriccio, Ryabov, in Bruck’s words, “reconciled Harmony and Chaos.” This is no ordinary Capriccio; like the Brahms capriccios, it plumbs extraordinary depths as it goes to the limits of the piano’s expressive possibilities. The ending sounds almost like a hallucination: Ryabov creates a completely new sound world in which an eerie and ominous perpetual-motion figure is punctuated by a series of individual pitches above and below. The musical material seems to disintegrate completely, leaving us with feelings of hopelessness and despair as the music fades into silence.
Peter Laki
Visiting Associate Professor
Bard College
2015 Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival
March 19 (Thu) FBC Piano Recital by Sergei Babayan. Mr. Babayan is sponsored by the MU Chancellor's Distinguished Visitors Program.
March 20 (Fri) MU School of Music Master Classes by the Three Plowman Judges
12-2pm SERGEI BABAYAN Piano Master Class
2:30-4:30pm PAUL BISS Violin Master Class
3-5pm FRANK MORELLI Bassoon Master Class
March 21 (Sat) FBC 9:30am-5pm Plowman Competition: Semi-Finals
March 22 (Sun) MO Theatre 1:30pm Plowman Competition: Finals & Award Ceremony
The 7th Plowman Chamber Music Competition
The Finals & Award Ceremony
March 22, 2015 - 1:30 pm
Missouri Theatre - Columbia, Missouri
1:30pm 1. Brass Quintet
Holborne: Elizabethan Dance Suite (unknown)
Almand
Pavan
Gigue
Collier Jones: Four Movements for Five Brass (1957)
Introduction
Pretentions
Waltz
Finale
Ewald: Quintet No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 5 (1890)
Adagio- Allegro Vivace- Adagio
Allegro Moderato
Druckman: Dances with Shadows (1990)
2:00pm 2. String Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in G Major, Op. 77 No. 1, Hob.III:81 (1802)
I. Allegro
III. Menuetto
Tower: Night Fields (1994)
2:30pm 3. Woodwind Quintet
Barber: Summer Music, Op. 31 (1956)
Nielsen: Quintet, Op. 41 (1922)
Allegro ben moderato
Mozart: Serenade in C minor, K. 388 (1782), arr. Mordechai Rechtman
I. Allegro
IV. Allegro
~ Intermission ~
3:15pm 4. String Quartet
Janáček : String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata” (1923)
I. Adagio - con moto
II. Con moto
Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 50 No. 2 (1787)
Adagio. Cantabile
Finale. Vivace assai
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80 (1847)
Allegro vivace assai
3:45pm 5. Piano Sextet (Piano & Woodwind Quintet)
Poulenc: Sextet for Wind Quintet and Piano in C Major, FP 100 (1932-1963)
I. Allegro vivace
Thuille: Sextet for Piano and Woodwind Quintet, Op. 6 (1888)
II. Larghetto
III. Gavotte. Andane, quasi Allegretto
IV. Finale. Molto vivace
After the Reception, Award Ceremony will Follow.
The 7th Plowman Chamber Music Competition Result:
GRAND PRIZE ($5000) - Cardinal Winds, from USC in Los Angeles
FIRST PRIZE ($2000) in Piano/Strings - Quartet Tito, from Chicago, IL
FIRST PRIZE ($2000) in Winds, Brass & Percussion - The Kyodai Brass, from CIM in OH
HONORABLE MENTION ($500) - QuinTexas from UT of Austin, and Pavo Quartet from DePaul University in Chicago, IL
AUDIENCE PRIZE ($200) was awarded to Quartet Tito
JUDGES SPECIAL RECOGNITION to Stellio Trio, from Northwestern in IL and Hathor Winds, from Boston, MA
Odyssey Music @ Lenoir Woods ($240) was given to Deciduous Trio, from Rice University in Houston, TX
The Finals & Award Ceremony
March 22, 2015 - 1:30 pm
Missouri Theatre - Columbia, Missouri
1:30pm 1. Brass Quintet
Holborne: Elizabethan Dance Suite (unknown)
Almand
Pavan
Gigue
Collier Jones: Four Movements for Five Brass (1957)
Introduction
Pretentions
Waltz
Finale
Ewald: Quintet No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 5 (1890)
Adagio- Allegro Vivace- Adagio
Allegro Moderato
Druckman: Dances with Shadows (1990)
2:00pm 2. String Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in G Major, Op. 77 No. 1, Hob.III:81 (1802)
I. Allegro
III. Menuetto
Tower: Night Fields (1994)
2:30pm 3. Woodwind Quintet
Barber: Summer Music, Op. 31 (1956)
Nielsen: Quintet, Op. 41 (1922)
Allegro ben moderato
Mozart: Serenade in C minor, K. 388 (1782), arr. Mordechai Rechtman
I. Allegro
IV. Allegro
~ Intermission ~
3:15pm 4. String Quartet
Janáček : String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata” (1923)
I. Adagio - con moto
II. Con moto
Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 50 No. 2 (1787)
Adagio. Cantabile
Finale. Vivace assai
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80 (1847)
Allegro vivace assai
3:45pm 5. Piano Sextet (Piano & Woodwind Quintet)
Poulenc: Sextet for Wind Quintet and Piano in C Major, FP 100 (1932-1963)
I. Allegro vivace
Thuille: Sextet for Piano and Woodwind Quintet, Op. 6 (1888)
II. Larghetto
III. Gavotte. Andane, quasi Allegretto
IV. Finale. Molto vivace
After the Reception, Award Ceremony will Follow.
The 7th Plowman Chamber Music Competition Result:
GRAND PRIZE ($5000) - Cardinal Winds, from USC in Los Angeles
FIRST PRIZE ($2000) in Piano/Strings - Quartet Tito, from Chicago, IL
FIRST PRIZE ($2000) in Winds, Brass & Percussion - The Kyodai Brass, from CIM in OH
HONORABLE MENTION ($500) - QuinTexas from UT of Austin, and Pavo Quartet from DePaul University in Chicago, IL
AUDIENCE PRIZE ($200) was awarded to Quartet Tito
JUDGES SPECIAL RECOGNITION to Stellio Trio, from Northwestern in IL and Hathor Winds, from Boston, MA
Odyssey Music @ Lenoir Woods ($240) was given to Deciduous Trio, from Rice University in Houston, TX
May 8, 2015 AMERICAN SOUNDSCAPE
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
An exciting, ALL American program features Corigliano’s ‘Chiasrocuro’ for two pianos, Schoenfeld's Four Souvenirs and Pete Zambito's
"Woodburn." Performers include flutist Alice Dade, cellist Darry Dolezal,
pianists Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta, percussionists Julia Gaines
and Pete Zambito, and more! Join our performers for a post-concert reception, sponsored by Jina Yoo's Asian Bistro and Senza Gluten-Free Foods.
Dave Hall (b. 1983): Skylight for multiple percussion [9’00]
...Including: Crotales (2 octaves), Vibraphone (with motor), Wind Chimes, 2-3 Triangle (4 vibraphone mallets, 2 bows, hard plastic mallet for pitch bending) 5-octave Marimba, Patio Wind Chimes (4 marimba mallets, bow)
Julia Gaines and Pete Zambito, percussion
Pete Zambito (b. 1975): Woodburn for marimba and cello (2010, rev, 2015)
Darry Dolezal, violoncello
Pete Zambito, percussion
David P. Jones (b. 1958): Legal Highs for violin and marimba [14:10]
I. Mister Coffee
II. Menthology
III. Sweet Thing
Amy Appold, violin
Pete Zambito, percussion
John Corigliano (b. 1938): Chiaroscuro for two pianos (1997) [13’00]
I. Light
II. Shadow
III. Strobe
Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta, pianos
INTERMISSION
Kerry Turner (b. 1960): The Scorpion in the Sand, for horn, cello and piano (2004) [10’00]
Darry Dolezal, cello
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Paul Schoenfield (b. 1947): Four Souvenirs, arr. for flute and piano by Stephanie Jutt [12’00]
I. Samba
II. Tango
III. Tin Pan Alley
IV. Square Dance
Alice K. Dade, flute
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Reception will follow this Season Gala Concert, partially catered by Jina Yoo's Asian Bistro and Senza Gluten-Free Foods.
* All artists and dates are subject to change without notice.*
Friday 7pm - First Baptist Church
An exciting, ALL American program features Corigliano’s ‘Chiasrocuro’ for two pianos, Schoenfeld's Four Souvenirs and Pete Zambito's
"Woodburn." Performers include flutist Alice Dade, cellist Darry Dolezal,
pianists Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta, percussionists Julia Gaines
and Pete Zambito, and more! Join our performers for a post-concert reception, sponsored by Jina Yoo's Asian Bistro and Senza Gluten-Free Foods.
Dave Hall (b. 1983): Skylight for multiple percussion [9’00]
...Including: Crotales (2 octaves), Vibraphone (with motor), Wind Chimes, 2-3 Triangle (4 vibraphone mallets, 2 bows, hard plastic mallet for pitch bending) 5-octave Marimba, Patio Wind Chimes (4 marimba mallets, bow)
Julia Gaines and Pete Zambito, percussion
Pete Zambito (b. 1975): Woodburn for marimba and cello (2010, rev, 2015)
Darry Dolezal, violoncello
Pete Zambito, percussion
David P. Jones (b. 1958): Legal Highs for violin and marimba [14:10]
I. Mister Coffee
II. Menthology
III. Sweet Thing
Amy Appold, violin
Pete Zambito, percussion
John Corigliano (b. 1938): Chiaroscuro for two pianos (1997) [13’00]
I. Light
II. Shadow
III. Strobe
Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta, pianos
INTERMISSION
Kerry Turner (b. 1960): The Scorpion in the Sand, for horn, cello and piano (2004) [10’00]
- The Scorpion in the Sand
- The Circle is Drawn
- The Circle is Halved
- The Circle is Quartered
- Reflections on the Meanings
- Death of the Scorpion
Darry Dolezal, cello
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Paul Schoenfield (b. 1947): Four Souvenirs, arr. for flute and piano by Stephanie Jutt [12’00]
I. Samba
II. Tango
III. Tin Pan Alley
IV. Square Dance
Alice K. Dade, flute
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Reception will follow this Season Gala Concert, partially catered by Jina Yoo's Asian Bistro and Senza Gluten-Free Foods.
* All artists and dates are subject to change without notice.*
Past Programs, 2013-2014
October 18, 2013
Odyssey & PRIZM
Friday at 7pm - First Baptist Church in Columbia
Ignaz Lachner (1807-1895)
Concertino for bassoon, horn, and orchestra, Op. 43 (1850) [18'00]
I. Allegro spirituoso
II. Romanze - Andante
III. Allegro moderato - Polacca
Lecolion Washington, bassoon; Marcia Spence, horn; Peter Miyamoto, piano
Krzysztof Penderecki (b. 1933)
Quartet for clarinet and strings (1993) [16'00]
I. Notturno
II. Scherzo: Vivacissimo
III. Serenade
IV. Abschied
Carina Nyberg Washington, clarinet; Daniel Gilbert, violin; Anthony Gilbert, viola; Iren Zombor, violoncello
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34 (1919) [10'00]
Carina Washington, clarinet; Daniel Gilbert, violin; Carolina Neves Merritt, violin;
Anthony Gilbert, viola; Iren Zombor, violoncello; Peter Miyamoto, piano
Intermission
Gideon Klein (1919-1945)
String Trio (1944) [14'00]
I. Allegro
II. Variance na téma moravské lidové pisné
III. Molto vivace
Daniel Gilbert, violin; Anthony Gilbert, viola; Iren Zombor, violoncello
François Devienne (1759-1803)
Quartet for bassoon & strings in G minor, Op. 73 No. 3 (ca. 1800) [10'00]
I. Allegro con espressivo
II. Adagio, non troppo
III. Rondo. Allegretto poco moderato
Lecolion Washington, bassoon; Daniel Gilbert, violin; Anthony Gilbert, viola; Iren Zombor, violoncello
Libby Larsen (b. 1950)
Barn Dances for flute, clarinet and piano (2001) [11’00]
I. Forward Six and Fall Back Eight
II. Divide the Ring [Homage for Gene Autry]
III, Varsouvianna (A Simple Dream Waltz)
IV. Rattlesnake Twist
Alice K. Dade, flute; Carina Nyberg Washington, clarinet; Peter Miyamoto, piano
Season Premiere Reception to follow!
Odyssey & PRIZM
Friday at 7pm - First Baptist Church in Columbia
Ignaz Lachner (1807-1895)
Concertino for bassoon, horn, and orchestra, Op. 43 (1850) [18'00]
I. Allegro spirituoso
II. Romanze - Andante
III. Allegro moderato - Polacca
Lecolion Washington, bassoon; Marcia Spence, horn; Peter Miyamoto, piano
Krzysztof Penderecki (b. 1933)
Quartet for clarinet and strings (1993) [16'00]
I. Notturno
II. Scherzo: Vivacissimo
III. Serenade
IV. Abschied
Carina Nyberg Washington, clarinet; Daniel Gilbert, violin; Anthony Gilbert, viola; Iren Zombor, violoncello
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34 (1919) [10'00]
Carina Washington, clarinet; Daniel Gilbert, violin; Carolina Neves Merritt, violin;
Anthony Gilbert, viola; Iren Zombor, violoncello; Peter Miyamoto, piano
Intermission
Gideon Klein (1919-1945)
String Trio (1944) [14'00]
I. Allegro
II. Variance na téma moravské lidové pisné
III. Molto vivace
Daniel Gilbert, violin; Anthony Gilbert, viola; Iren Zombor, violoncello
François Devienne (1759-1803)
Quartet for bassoon & strings in G minor, Op. 73 No. 3 (ca. 1800) [10'00]
I. Allegro con espressivo
II. Adagio, non troppo
III. Rondo. Allegretto poco moderato
Lecolion Washington, bassoon; Daniel Gilbert, violin; Anthony Gilbert, viola; Iren Zombor, violoncello
Libby Larsen (b. 1950)
Barn Dances for flute, clarinet and piano (2001) [11’00]
I. Forward Six and Fall Back Eight
II. Divide the Ring [Homage for Gene Autry]
III, Varsouvianna (A Simple Dream Waltz)
IV. Rattlesnake Twist
Alice K. Dade, flute; Carina Nyberg Washington, clarinet; Peter Miyamoto, piano
Season Premiere Reception to follow!
December 6, 2013
Holiday Songs
Friday at 7pm - First Baptist Church in Columbia
C. William Goff
Shepherd’s Air [2'40]
Pietro Yon (1886-1943)/arr. Ardis Freeman
Gesu Bambino (An Italian Christmas Carol, 1917) [4'30]
John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (1820-1892)/arr. Arnold Sherman (b. 1948)
We Three Kings
Columbia Handbell Ensemble
Pierre Max Dubois (1930-1995)
From Quatour, for 4 flutes (1961/2) [6'00]
I. Fêtes. Vivo e leggiero
II. Passapied. Allegretto
III. Complainte. Andantino
IV. Tambourin. Allegro vivo
I Quattri Venti
Justin Cook, Elysia Crecelius, Mary Jamerson, Katie Smyth, flutes
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) [9'00]
Våren (The Spring), Poem by Aasmund Olavsson Vinje
Jeg Elsker Deg (I love you), Poem by Hans Christian Anderson
Ein Traum (A dream), Poem by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) [6'00]
Våren flyktar hastigt (Spring is flying) Poem by Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Illalle (Evening) Poem by Aukusti Valdemar Forsman-Koskimies
Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings mote (The Tryst) Poem by Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Christine Seitz, soprano and Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Intermission (ca. 10 min)
Mike Mower (b. 1958)
From Fictions Suite for Four Flutes (2004) [4'00]
III. Home Side
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Two Dances of the "Nutcracker Suite" for Four Flutes
Tanz der Rohrpfeifen - Dance of the Reed Flutes (ed. Doris Geller)
Danse Russe Trepak (arr. Sondra K. Tucker)
I Quattri Venti
Justin Cook, Elysia Crecelius, Mary Jamerson, Katie Smyth, flutes
David Ludwig (b. 1974)
Four Hanukkah Songs (Traditional Hebrew and English, 2007) [ca. 12'00]
I. Mi Y’maleil
II. Al Hanisim
III. Canldle Blessing (SSAA)
IV. Maoz Tsur
Coventry Carol (Traditional 16th century carol)
arr. Darmon Meader (b. 1961) [2:34]
Martin Bates (b. 1951)
Three Songs for Christmas [5'30]
1. He comes in the night
2. How will you your christmas keep
3. With a merry ding dong
Mykola Leontovich (1877-1921), arr. Peter J. Wilhousky (1902-1978)
Carol of the Bells [1:40]
Élan Singers of Columbia
with Anthony Hernandez, piano
Holiday Songs
Friday at 7pm - First Baptist Church in Columbia
C. William Goff
Shepherd’s Air [2'40]
Pietro Yon (1886-1943)/arr. Ardis Freeman
Gesu Bambino (An Italian Christmas Carol, 1917) [4'30]
John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (1820-1892)/arr. Arnold Sherman (b. 1948)
We Three Kings
Columbia Handbell Ensemble
Pierre Max Dubois (1930-1995)
From Quatour, for 4 flutes (1961/2) [6'00]
I. Fêtes. Vivo e leggiero
II. Passapied. Allegretto
III. Complainte. Andantino
IV. Tambourin. Allegro vivo
I Quattri Venti
Justin Cook, Elysia Crecelius, Mary Jamerson, Katie Smyth, flutes
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) [9'00]
Våren (The Spring), Poem by Aasmund Olavsson Vinje
Jeg Elsker Deg (I love you), Poem by Hans Christian Anderson
Ein Traum (A dream), Poem by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) [6'00]
Våren flyktar hastigt (Spring is flying) Poem by Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Illalle (Evening) Poem by Aukusti Valdemar Forsman-Koskimies
Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings mote (The Tryst) Poem by Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Christine Seitz, soprano and Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Intermission (ca. 10 min)
Mike Mower (b. 1958)
From Fictions Suite for Four Flutes (2004) [4'00]
III. Home Side
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Two Dances of the "Nutcracker Suite" for Four Flutes
Tanz der Rohrpfeifen - Dance of the Reed Flutes (ed. Doris Geller)
Danse Russe Trepak (arr. Sondra K. Tucker)
I Quattri Venti
Justin Cook, Elysia Crecelius, Mary Jamerson, Katie Smyth, flutes
David Ludwig (b. 1974)
Four Hanukkah Songs (Traditional Hebrew and English, 2007) [ca. 12'00]
I. Mi Y’maleil
II. Al Hanisim
III. Canldle Blessing (SSAA)
IV. Maoz Tsur
Coventry Carol (Traditional 16th century carol)
arr. Darmon Meader (b. 1961) [2:34]
Martin Bates (b. 1951)
Three Songs for Christmas [5'30]
1. He comes in the night
2. How will you your christmas keep
3. With a merry ding dong
Mykola Leontovich (1877-1921), arr. Peter J. Wilhousky (1902-1978)
Carol of the Bells [1:40]
Élan Singers of Columbia
with Anthony Hernandez, piano
January 18, 2014
Kids at Heart
Saturday at 3pm - First Baptist Church in Columbia
- Instrumental Petting Zoo at 2pm -
*ADMISSION FREE*
Patrick Dell! (b. 1985)
Johnny Appleseed: The Fun Variations (2005) [8’00]
Patrick Dell!, kazoo, Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Nikolas Sideris (b. 1977)
Piano Stories (2013) [16'00]
1. If only he was carefree
2. A rather innocent Incubus
3. How to live in an underground home
4. The sparrow and a rainbow
5. Building light momentum
6. Meteor fight
7. An unfortunate dialogue/A fair dialogue
Paola Savvidou and Jonathan Kuuskoski, piano
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Carnival of the Animals (Le carnaval des animaux, 1886) [ca. 30’00]
With text by Peter Schickele
I. Introduction et marche royale du lion (Introduction and Lion's Royal March)
II. Poules et coqs (Hens and Cocks)
III. Hémiones (animaux véloces) (Wild Asses: Swift Animals)
IV. Tortues (Tortoises)
V. L'éléphant (The Elephant)
VI. Kangourous (Kangaroos)
VII. Aquarium
VIII. Personnages à longues oreilles (Personages with Long Ears)
IX. Le coucou au fond des bois (The cuckoo in the Deep Woods)
X. Volière (Aviary)
XI. Pianistes (Pianists)
XII. Fossiles (Fossils)
XIII. Le cygne (The Swan)
XIV. Finale
Narrator: Steve Geibel
Pianists: Students and Teachers of the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association (MMAMTA):
Kristine Cho, Sarah Freyermuth, Denise Gillam, Jonathan Kuuskoski,
Karen Larvick, Lucy Liao, Grace Lyden, Peter Miyamoto, Maddy Mueller, Paola Savvidou,
Maura Shimmens, Rayna Sims, Ayako Tsuruta, Lois You, Zeru Wang, Xiaoying Wen, Junyi Wu,
Stephanie Zhang, Nancy Zhao, Joanna Zou
Flute: Kristine Poulsen
Clarinet: Jeremiah Rittel
Violin I: Siri Heglund Geenen
Violin II: Carolina Neves Merritt
Viola: Dustin Frieda
Cello: Matthew Pierce and Ryan Choe (Swan)
Double Bass: Sam Copeland
Percussion: Pete Zambito
Kids at Heart
Saturday at 3pm - First Baptist Church in Columbia
- Instrumental Petting Zoo at 2pm -
*ADMISSION FREE*
Patrick Dell! (b. 1985)
Johnny Appleseed: The Fun Variations (2005) [8’00]
Patrick Dell!, kazoo, Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Nikolas Sideris (b. 1977)
Piano Stories (2013) [16'00]
1. If only he was carefree
2. A rather innocent Incubus
3. How to live in an underground home
4. The sparrow and a rainbow
5. Building light momentum
6. Meteor fight
7. An unfortunate dialogue/A fair dialogue
Paola Savvidou and Jonathan Kuuskoski, piano
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Carnival of the Animals (Le carnaval des animaux, 1886) [ca. 30’00]
With text by Peter Schickele
I. Introduction et marche royale du lion (Introduction and Lion's Royal March)
II. Poules et coqs (Hens and Cocks)
III. Hémiones (animaux véloces) (Wild Asses: Swift Animals)
IV. Tortues (Tortoises)
V. L'éléphant (The Elephant)
VI. Kangourous (Kangaroos)
VII. Aquarium
VIII. Personnages à longues oreilles (Personages with Long Ears)
IX. Le coucou au fond des bois (The cuckoo in the Deep Woods)
X. Volière (Aviary)
XI. Pianistes (Pianists)
XII. Fossiles (Fossils)
XIII. Le cygne (The Swan)
XIV. Finale
Narrator: Steve Geibel
Pianists: Students and Teachers of the Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association (MMAMTA):
Kristine Cho, Sarah Freyermuth, Denise Gillam, Jonathan Kuuskoski,
Karen Larvick, Lucy Liao, Grace Lyden, Peter Miyamoto, Maddy Mueller, Paola Savvidou,
Maura Shimmens, Rayna Sims, Ayako Tsuruta, Lois You, Zeru Wang, Xiaoying Wen, Junyi Wu,
Stephanie Zhang, Nancy Zhao, Joanna Zou
Flute: Kristine Poulsen
Clarinet: Jeremiah Rittel
Violin I: Siri Heglund Geenen
Violin II: Carolina Neves Merritt
Viola: Dustin Frieda
Cello: Matthew Pierce and Ryan Choe (Swan)
Double Bass: Sam Copeland
Percussion: Pete Zambito
Scenes from "Kids at Heart - A Children's Concert" held on January 18, 2014. The 3pm concert preceded by 2pm Instrumental Petting Zoo directed by Jonathan Kuuskoski, and the events together drew over 400+ people, young and old and LOTS of kids, to the beautiful sanctuary of First Baptist Church in Columbia.
More pictures are posted on our Facebook page,
www.facebook.com/OdysseyMissouri . Enjoy revisiting some of your favorite young performers on stage, and be sure to "Like" us!
If you would like to read the performers' Funny Bio, please scroll all the way down below for listing of concerts that have passed. Thank you for your interest!
Also check us out in Columbia Daily Tribune's Pulse Shots in February 2 Sunday paper! [CLICK HERE]
More pictures are posted on our Facebook page,
www.facebook.com/OdysseyMissouri . Enjoy revisiting some of your favorite young performers on stage, and be sure to "Like" us!
If you would like to read the performers' Funny Bio, please scroll all the way down below for listing of concerts that have passed. Thank you for your interest!
Also check us out in Columbia Daily Tribune's Pulse Shots in February 2 Sunday paper! [CLICK HERE]
Artists Biography:
Kristine Cho, an 8th grader at Jefferson Middle School, has played piano for 9 years and violin for 7, studying with Anne Manahan and Amy Appold, respectively. She received Honorable Mention in both piano and violin at MMTA in 2012 and 2013. She wishes she had a pet to play with but alas, instead spends her Saturdays with swordplay in French classical fencing and summers at music camps such as Interlochen and NYSMF.
Ryan Choe is a sixth grader at Columbia Independent School. He has been playing the cello for 6 years, and currently studies with Mary Manulik. Ryan plays in the Missouri Symphony Society Junior Symphonia, and CIS ensemble. He has performed at music camps in Illinois, Kansas and Colorado for the past three summers. Ryan loves animals and Greek mythology . Ryan also says, "I love making friends with any ages and any sizes."
Sam Copeland has been passionate about tree climbing since the age of five. He loves the feeling of wrapping his arms around large branches. However, after falling off a tree and breaking his arm at age twelve, he decided to give up tree climbing. When his bones healed, he decided to take up playing the bass instead, because it still allows him to wrap his arms around a giant piece of wood. Thankfully, Sam has not broken any bones from playing the bass since then.
Patrick Dell! has been a choir teacher in Hermann and living contradiction for seven years. Even though he is a terrible, terrible singer, his students still receive All-State choir honors, and his choirs still receive Superior rankings in performance and sight-singing. He also received a Master of Music in Music Education from Boston University in 2013, but he has never been to Boston.
Sarah Freyermuth is a junior at Rock Bridge High School. She has been a piano student of her dear friend Carrie Conklin for the past 10.5 years. She also sings in the concert choir and show choir. Although she loves playing piano, she avoids electric pianos since one arbitrarily began playing a drum beat in the middle of a concert performance when she was 8 yrs old.
Dustin Frieda started playing the viola to get out of class... he didn't realize that studying viola would mean MORE school! Frieda now teaches music at Benton Elementary and enjoys torturing his kids with bagpipes.
Violinist Siri Heglund Geenen lives in Columbia Missouri with her husband Rich, two daughters Solveig and Linnea and her very old dog, Iris. Siri spends much of her day playing one of her favorite melodies, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star with many young violinists.
Steve Geibel has played the flute for more than fifty-five years, but he has been speaking even longer than that! In fact, he has spoken in every country, state, and city he has ever visited, and that is a lot! He is especially happy to be able to speak loudly tonight, and hopes everyone will hear him!
Denise Gillam is the owner of Gillam Music Studio in Jefferson City. She has taught in both public school music settings and private music studio settings for the past 18 years. Denise enjoys performing on stage for musical events as well as magical events. You can find her popping out of boxes for her husband who is a professional illusionist as well as other professional magicians around the country.
Paola Savvidou and Jonathan Kuuskoski have been performing together since the beginning of the 21st century. Their duo is called the New Muse Piano Duo and they like to play music by composers who aren’t dead yet (most of the time anyway). Their most frequent distraction when rehearsing is their cat Elgar, who often likes to “paw” a note or two.
Karen Larvick is a former professor of Piano Pedagogy at University of Missouri. She says, "After more than six decades of striving as a pianist, it is pleasant to be a graceful swan for a few minutes today."
Lucy Liao has played piano for ten years and has studied with three piano teachers, all of whom own dogs. The first teacher had a ferocious poodle, the second a giant stuffed golden retriever, and her current teachers Karen Larvick owns a dog-which-looks-like-a-sheep, named Max. Under the tutelage of her teachers, Lucy has fostered a love of music and a love for dogs. She received honorable mention at MMTA 2013 State Honors Auditions.
Grace Lyden is a piano student of Dr. Peter Miyamoto and a senior at the University of Missouri. She loves practicing in the dark and playing with an orchestra. At different times in her life, she has lived in a house, an apartment, a dorm, and a cabin, and she hopes to live in a piano someday.
Peter Miyamoto is an active concert pianist, chamber musician and teacher. He resides in Columbia, Missouri, where he serves on faculty at the University of Missouri and looks after approximately 23 lions, 14 dragons, a brood of pianists, a dog and one hunny bunny. When he grows up, he hopes to run away with the circus.
The first performance experience Maddy Mueller can remember is being cast as the lead in the kindergarten play, during which she burst out laughing at a critical moment when she was supposed to be screaming in horror. That embarrassing event made her abandon acting and turn to piano, which she has been playing and performing ever since. She is a student of Janelle Lutz.
Matthew Pierce once made a cello out of a trash can. Then he did it again a year later (true story). Most of the time he plays his wooden cello, though, unless the band saw needs repairing.
Jeremiah Rittel can relate well with zoological endeavors- such as this performance of "The Carnival of the Animals.” Alongside the past seven years of his musical growth performing with professional symphonies, pit orchestras, and chamber ensembles in the Northwest, Jeremiah has grown immensely as an active member of "The Zoo" Ultimate Frisbee team of Missoula, MT. His fingers have survived these endeavors well, supporting his passion for travel. He has spent focused time in Vienna, Austria, attended an International Clarinet Festival, and plans on returning to Europe this summer.
Rayna Sims, a senior at Hickman High School, has been playing piano for twelve years and is currently a student of Ayako Tsuruta. In addition to piano, Rayna plays trumpet, guitar, and ukulele. Besides playing four instruments, Rayna is also an avid juggler. She has yet to find a way to combine these two talents.
Maura Shimmens’ fondest memory is a hug she received at age seven from Robert Vandall, Guest Composer/ Conductor, for the MMAMTA Monster Piano Concert. She was the youngest soloist in the program and proudly sat between Mr. Vandall and her teacher, Mrs. Denise Gillam, for the evening. Now fifteen, Maura attends Helias Catholic High School in Jefferson City. She shares her love of piano at school functions and regularly at Mass.
Ayako Tsuruta performed her first piano concerto with an orchestra at the age of 12, forgot to put her uncomfortable shoes back on before the bowing to the audience. She has since then mastered the art of wearing heels on stage, even at the Alice Tully Hall. She has been approved by the Juilliard School and the Yale School of Music.
Zeru Wang performed a Liszt etude at City Concert Hall (Hagnzhou, China) during his high school years, punched his eyeglasses incidentally owing to using to much strengths for the etude. He is a student pursuing Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance major under Dr. Peter Miyamoto.
Xiaoying Wen performed his Bachelor of Music recital at Sichuan Conservatory of Music (Chengdu, China) where his performance almost got cut off, due to an unexpected black long hair on the piano after he just touched the first note! He is completing his Master of Music degree under Dr. Peter Miyamoto at University of Misssouri.
Junyi Wu, a Junior at Hickman high school, has been learning piano for 11 years. He is the winner of MMTA of 2012 and 2013, a winner of MAMA 2012. Besides playing piano, he is a trombone player at school concert band and a #1 seed in tennis team. One of his fun hobbies is eating spicy food before performing which makes him on fire and win in competitions. He is a student of Beverly Kyriakos.
Lois You is a senior and the Student Body President at Hickman High School. She studies with Beverly Kyriakos, and has been playing the piano for 12 years. She has been a four time winner of MMTA, three time winner of MAMA and was the winner of the 2013 National Federation Music Clubs Competition. She loves being able to get fancied up in long dresses for piano performances apart from the actual performing! She will be studying at Vanderbilt University in the Fall.
Pete Zambito first played drum set in second grade for a class performance of "New York New York". After taking a bow at the drum set, his foot got stuck in his floor tom stand, his shoe came off, and he went back to his seat without his shoe. He THEN decided to run back on stage and get the shoe. Somehow, both Wake Forest University and University of North Carolina-Greensboro thought well enough of him to award him advanced degrees.
Stephanie Zhang is a 9th grader at Rock Bridge High School. She has been playing piano for 10 years and flute for 4 years, under Beverly Kyriakos and Lisa Thill Franck. She is part of the school’s Wind Ensemble and the Missouri Symphony Conservatory Young Artists Philharmonic. Even though she likes flute, practicing piano pieces that don’t sound “pretty” gives her personal joy, especially when of her parents leave the room or tell her to stop creating a disturbance, but she just keeps on practicing.
Nancy Zhao, a senior at Columbia Independent School (CIS), has been playing piano for 12 years and violin for 11 years. She currently studies with Ayako Tsuruta and Siri Geenen. Due to moving around so much throughout her childhood, she has owned 6 pianos and 5 violins in total. Nancy has passed all eight levels of the ABRSM music exams for both instruments, received I ratings in the 2010, 2011, and 2012 MSHSAA State Level Competition, 2012 Central Methodist University Music Festival, and Honorable Mention in the 2011 MMTA State Music Festival. She is also a first violinist in the Missouri Symphony Conservatory’s Young Artists Philharmonic, concertmaster in the CIS Advanced Orchestra, and a teaching assistant in her school’s String Department.
Joanna Zou is a student of Beverly Kyriakos and has been playing piano for 13 years. It used to be that she would always dress in "concert black" for all her piano auditions; but, the one time when she didn't and wore red instead, she won runner-up in the state MMTA competition! Joanna also enjoys painting, sculpting, and playing tennis.
Kristine Cho, an 8th grader at Jefferson Middle School, has played piano for 9 years and violin for 7, studying with Anne Manahan and Amy Appold, respectively. She received Honorable Mention in both piano and violin at MMTA in 2012 and 2013. She wishes she had a pet to play with but alas, instead spends her Saturdays with swordplay in French classical fencing and summers at music camps such as Interlochen and NYSMF.
Ryan Choe is a sixth grader at Columbia Independent School. He has been playing the cello for 6 years, and currently studies with Mary Manulik. Ryan plays in the Missouri Symphony Society Junior Symphonia, and CIS ensemble. He has performed at music camps in Illinois, Kansas and Colorado for the past three summers. Ryan loves animals and Greek mythology . Ryan also says, "I love making friends with any ages and any sizes."
Sam Copeland has been passionate about tree climbing since the age of five. He loves the feeling of wrapping his arms around large branches. However, after falling off a tree and breaking his arm at age twelve, he decided to give up tree climbing. When his bones healed, he decided to take up playing the bass instead, because it still allows him to wrap his arms around a giant piece of wood. Thankfully, Sam has not broken any bones from playing the bass since then.
Patrick Dell! has been a choir teacher in Hermann and living contradiction for seven years. Even though he is a terrible, terrible singer, his students still receive All-State choir honors, and his choirs still receive Superior rankings in performance and sight-singing. He also received a Master of Music in Music Education from Boston University in 2013, but he has never been to Boston.
Sarah Freyermuth is a junior at Rock Bridge High School. She has been a piano student of her dear friend Carrie Conklin for the past 10.5 years. She also sings in the concert choir and show choir. Although she loves playing piano, she avoids electric pianos since one arbitrarily began playing a drum beat in the middle of a concert performance when she was 8 yrs old.
Dustin Frieda started playing the viola to get out of class... he didn't realize that studying viola would mean MORE school! Frieda now teaches music at Benton Elementary and enjoys torturing his kids with bagpipes.
Violinist Siri Heglund Geenen lives in Columbia Missouri with her husband Rich, two daughters Solveig and Linnea and her very old dog, Iris. Siri spends much of her day playing one of her favorite melodies, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star with many young violinists.
Steve Geibel has played the flute for more than fifty-five years, but he has been speaking even longer than that! In fact, he has spoken in every country, state, and city he has ever visited, and that is a lot! He is especially happy to be able to speak loudly tonight, and hopes everyone will hear him!
Denise Gillam is the owner of Gillam Music Studio in Jefferson City. She has taught in both public school music settings and private music studio settings for the past 18 years. Denise enjoys performing on stage for musical events as well as magical events. You can find her popping out of boxes for her husband who is a professional illusionist as well as other professional magicians around the country.
Paola Savvidou and Jonathan Kuuskoski have been performing together since the beginning of the 21st century. Their duo is called the New Muse Piano Duo and they like to play music by composers who aren’t dead yet (most of the time anyway). Their most frequent distraction when rehearsing is their cat Elgar, who often likes to “paw” a note or two.
Karen Larvick is a former professor of Piano Pedagogy at University of Missouri. She says, "After more than six decades of striving as a pianist, it is pleasant to be a graceful swan for a few minutes today."
Lucy Liao has played piano for ten years and has studied with three piano teachers, all of whom own dogs. The first teacher had a ferocious poodle, the second a giant stuffed golden retriever, and her current teachers Karen Larvick owns a dog-which-looks-like-a-sheep, named Max. Under the tutelage of her teachers, Lucy has fostered a love of music and a love for dogs. She received honorable mention at MMTA 2013 State Honors Auditions.
Grace Lyden is a piano student of Dr. Peter Miyamoto and a senior at the University of Missouri. She loves practicing in the dark and playing with an orchestra. At different times in her life, she has lived in a house, an apartment, a dorm, and a cabin, and she hopes to live in a piano someday.
Peter Miyamoto is an active concert pianist, chamber musician and teacher. He resides in Columbia, Missouri, where he serves on faculty at the University of Missouri and looks after approximately 23 lions, 14 dragons, a brood of pianists, a dog and one hunny bunny. When he grows up, he hopes to run away with the circus.
The first performance experience Maddy Mueller can remember is being cast as the lead in the kindergarten play, during which she burst out laughing at a critical moment when she was supposed to be screaming in horror. That embarrassing event made her abandon acting and turn to piano, which she has been playing and performing ever since. She is a student of Janelle Lutz.
Matthew Pierce once made a cello out of a trash can. Then he did it again a year later (true story). Most of the time he plays his wooden cello, though, unless the band saw needs repairing.
Jeremiah Rittel can relate well with zoological endeavors- such as this performance of "The Carnival of the Animals.” Alongside the past seven years of his musical growth performing with professional symphonies, pit orchestras, and chamber ensembles in the Northwest, Jeremiah has grown immensely as an active member of "The Zoo" Ultimate Frisbee team of Missoula, MT. His fingers have survived these endeavors well, supporting his passion for travel. He has spent focused time in Vienna, Austria, attended an International Clarinet Festival, and plans on returning to Europe this summer.
Rayna Sims, a senior at Hickman High School, has been playing piano for twelve years and is currently a student of Ayako Tsuruta. In addition to piano, Rayna plays trumpet, guitar, and ukulele. Besides playing four instruments, Rayna is also an avid juggler. She has yet to find a way to combine these two talents.
Maura Shimmens’ fondest memory is a hug she received at age seven from Robert Vandall, Guest Composer/ Conductor, for the MMAMTA Monster Piano Concert. She was the youngest soloist in the program and proudly sat between Mr. Vandall and her teacher, Mrs. Denise Gillam, for the evening. Now fifteen, Maura attends Helias Catholic High School in Jefferson City. She shares her love of piano at school functions and regularly at Mass.
Ayako Tsuruta performed her first piano concerto with an orchestra at the age of 12, forgot to put her uncomfortable shoes back on before the bowing to the audience. She has since then mastered the art of wearing heels on stage, even at the Alice Tully Hall. She has been approved by the Juilliard School and the Yale School of Music.
Zeru Wang performed a Liszt etude at City Concert Hall (Hagnzhou, China) during his high school years, punched his eyeglasses incidentally owing to using to much strengths for the etude. He is a student pursuing Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance major under Dr. Peter Miyamoto.
Xiaoying Wen performed his Bachelor of Music recital at Sichuan Conservatory of Music (Chengdu, China) where his performance almost got cut off, due to an unexpected black long hair on the piano after he just touched the first note! He is completing his Master of Music degree under Dr. Peter Miyamoto at University of Misssouri.
Junyi Wu, a Junior at Hickman high school, has been learning piano for 11 years. He is the winner of MMTA of 2012 and 2013, a winner of MAMA 2012. Besides playing piano, he is a trombone player at school concert band and a #1 seed in tennis team. One of his fun hobbies is eating spicy food before performing which makes him on fire and win in competitions. He is a student of Beverly Kyriakos.
Lois You is a senior and the Student Body President at Hickman High School. She studies with Beverly Kyriakos, and has been playing the piano for 12 years. She has been a four time winner of MMTA, three time winner of MAMA and was the winner of the 2013 National Federation Music Clubs Competition. She loves being able to get fancied up in long dresses for piano performances apart from the actual performing! She will be studying at Vanderbilt University in the Fall.
Pete Zambito first played drum set in second grade for a class performance of "New York New York". After taking a bow at the drum set, his foot got stuck in his floor tom stand, his shoe came off, and he went back to his seat without his shoe. He THEN decided to run back on stage and get the shoe. Somehow, both Wake Forest University and University of North Carolina-Greensboro thought well enough of him to award him advanced degrees.
Stephanie Zhang is a 9th grader at Rock Bridge High School. She has been playing piano for 10 years and flute for 4 years, under Beverly Kyriakos and Lisa Thill Franck. She is part of the school’s Wind Ensemble and the Missouri Symphony Conservatory Young Artists Philharmonic. Even though she likes flute, practicing piano pieces that don’t sound “pretty” gives her personal joy, especially when of her parents leave the room or tell her to stop creating a disturbance, but she just keeps on practicing.
Nancy Zhao, a senior at Columbia Independent School (CIS), has been playing piano for 12 years and violin for 11 years. She currently studies with Ayako Tsuruta and Siri Geenen. Due to moving around so much throughout her childhood, she has owned 6 pianos and 5 violins in total. Nancy has passed all eight levels of the ABRSM music exams for both instruments, received I ratings in the 2010, 2011, and 2012 MSHSAA State Level Competition, 2012 Central Methodist University Music Festival, and Honorable Mention in the 2011 MMTA State Music Festival. She is also a first violinist in the Missouri Symphony Conservatory’s Young Artists Philharmonic, concertmaster in the CIS Advanced Orchestra, and a teaching assistant in her school’s String Department.
Joanna Zou is a student of Beverly Kyriakos and has been playing piano for 13 years. It used to be that she would always dress in "concert black" for all her piano auditions; but, the one time when she didn't and wore red instead, she won runner-up in the state MMTA competition! Joanna also enjoys painting, sculpting, and playing tennis.
February 21, 2014
Baroque Italiano
Friday at 7pm - First Baptist Church in Columbia
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata in b minor for flute and harpsichord, BWV 1030 (1735) [18'00]
I. Andante
II. Largo e dolce
III. Presto, allegro
Roberto Maggio, flute; Enrico Baiano, harpsichord
J. S. Bach
Prelude and Fugue in f minor, BWV 881 (1742) [6'30]
from the second part of The Well Tempered Clavier
Enrico Baiano, harpsichord
J. S. Bach
Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt (God so loved the world), BWV 68 (1725) [20'00]
I. Coro: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt
II. Aria (soprano): Mein gläubiges Herze
III. Recitativo (bass): Ich bin mit Petro nicht vermessen
IV. Aria (bass): Du bist geboren mir zugute
V. Coro: Wer an ihn gläubet, der wird nicht gerichtet
R. Paul Crabb, conductor
Bach Collegium Choir and Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Intermission
J. S. Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050 (1720-1721) [22'00]
I. Allegro
II. Affettuoso
III. Allegro
Enrico Baiano, harpsichord; Susan Jensen, violin; Roberto Maggio, flute
R. Paul Crabb, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
2014 Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Violin I: Siri Geenen, Erik Hassell, Carolina Neves Merritt
Violin II: Amy Appold, Lily Farnen, Patrizia Maggio
Viola: Dustin Frieda, Korin Wahl
Cello (Brandenburg): Darry Dolezal
Cello (Cantata): Carol Elliott, Mary Manulik
Double bass: Sam Copeland
Oboe: Dan Willett, Shawn Nemati-Baghestani
English horn: Elizabeth Dingman
Organ: Rachel AuBuchon
Baroque Italiano
Friday at 7pm - First Baptist Church in Columbia
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata in b minor for flute and harpsichord, BWV 1030 (1735) [18'00]
I. Andante
II. Largo e dolce
III. Presto, allegro
Roberto Maggio, flute; Enrico Baiano, harpsichord
J. S. Bach
Prelude and Fugue in f minor, BWV 881 (1742) [6'30]
from the second part of The Well Tempered Clavier
Enrico Baiano, harpsichord
J. S. Bach
Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt (God so loved the world), BWV 68 (1725) [20'00]
I. Coro: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt
II. Aria (soprano): Mein gläubiges Herze
III. Recitativo (bass): Ich bin mit Petro nicht vermessen
IV. Aria (bass): Du bist geboren mir zugute
V. Coro: Wer an ihn gläubet, der wird nicht gerichtet
R. Paul Crabb, conductor
Bach Collegium Choir and Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Intermission
J. S. Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050 (1720-1721) [22'00]
I. Allegro
II. Affettuoso
III. Allegro
Enrico Baiano, harpsichord; Susan Jensen, violin; Roberto Maggio, flute
R. Paul Crabb, conductor
Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
2014 Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Violin I: Siri Geenen, Erik Hassell, Carolina Neves Merritt
Violin II: Amy Appold, Lily Farnen, Patrizia Maggio
Viola: Dustin Frieda, Korin Wahl
Cello (Brandenburg): Darry Dolezal
Cello (Cantata): Carol Elliott, Mary Manulik
Double bass: Sam Copeland
Oboe: Dan Willett, Shawn Nemati-Baghestani
English horn: Elizabeth Dingman
Organ: Rachel AuBuchon
Read about this upcoming performance in Columbia Daily Tribune's OVATION, published March 2, 2014. [CLICK HERE]
Performance and rehearsal pictures are posted on our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/OdysseyMissouri
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March 7 & 8, 2014
Odyssey & MCB (Missouri Contemporary Ballet): Music in Motion
Friday at 8pm / Saturday at 2pm and 8pm - Missouri Theatre*
* Tickets are sold only at the Missouri Theatre Box Office, or online at University Concert Series [CLICK HERE]
Jacob ter Veldhuis (b. 1951)
Billie (2003) [ca. 11'30]
Leo Saguiguit, alto saxophone with tape
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Sonata for two violins in C Major, Op. 56 (1932) [17'00]
I. Andante cantabile
II. Allegro
III. Commodo (quasi allegretto)
IV. Allegro con brio
Amy Appold and Siri Geenen, violins
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Meditango (ca. 1974) [6'30]
Trio Chymera
Leo Saguiguit and Neil Ostercamp, saxophones; Rachel AuBuchon, piano
Intermission
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Suite – L’histoire du soldat (The Soldier’s Tale, 1918) [ca. 26'00]
I. Marche du Soldat
II. Petits Airs du Bord du Ruisseau
III. Pastorale
IV. Marche Royale
V. Petit Concert
VI. Trois Danses (Tango—Valse—Ragtime)
VII. Danse du Diable
VIII. Grand Choral
IX. Marche Triomphale du Diable
Leo Saguiguit, conductor
Paul Garritson, clarinet; Elizabeth Roberts, bassoon; John D. Perkins, trumpet; Timothy Howe, trombone;
Amy Appold, violin; Sam Copeland, double bass; Julia Gaines, percussion
May 2, 2014
Makrokosmos
Friday at 7pm First Baptist Church in Columbia
*Due to unforeseen circumstances, there has been a change in tonight's program.*
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Sonata for two pianos and percussion (1937) [ca. 30'00]
I. Assai lento - Allegro troppo
II. Lento, ma non troppo
III. Allegro ma non troppo
Julia Gaines and Brian Tate, percussion; Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Jennifer Margaret Barker
Na Trì Peathraichean (2000) [ca. 16'00]
I. Gearr Aonach
II. Aonach Dubh
III. Beinn Fhada
Alice K. Dade, flute; Jennifer Margaret Barker, piano
Intermission [15 min]
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Makrokosmos III: Music for a Summer Evening (1974) [ca. 35'00]
I. Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening)
II. Wanderer-Fantasy
III. The Advent (including Hymn for the Nativity of the Star-Child)
IV. Myth
V. Music for the Starry Night
Julia Gaines and Brian Tate, percussion; Peter Miyamoto, piano I; Ayako Tsuruta, piano II
Season Finale Reception will follow!
Makrokosmos
Friday at 7pm First Baptist Church in Columbia
*Due to unforeseen circumstances, there has been a change in tonight's program.*
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Sonata for two pianos and percussion (1937) [ca. 30'00]
I. Assai lento - Allegro troppo
II. Lento, ma non troppo
III. Allegro ma non troppo
Julia Gaines and Brian Tate, percussion; Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Jennifer Margaret Barker
Na Trì Peathraichean (2000) [ca. 16'00]
I. Gearr Aonach
II. Aonach Dubh
III. Beinn Fhada
Alice K. Dade, flute; Jennifer Margaret Barker, piano
Intermission [15 min]
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Makrokosmos III: Music for a Summer Evening (1974) [ca. 35'00]
I. Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening)
II. Wanderer-Fantasy
III. The Advent (including Hymn for the Nativity of the Star-Child)
IV. Myth
V. Music for the Starry Night
Julia Gaines and Brian Tate, percussion; Peter Miyamoto, piano I; Ayako Tsuruta, piano II
Season Finale Reception will follow!
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 The Book of Hanging Gardens featuring soprano Christine Seitz and pianist Peter Miyamoto. Join us for the reception after the concert! READ ABOUT THIS CONCERT IN COLUMBIA TRIBUNE - CLICK HERE.
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 Trio Chymera (saxophonists Neil Ostercamp and Leo Saguiguit and pianist Rachel AuBuchon) in Sakamoto's "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" and Piazzolla's "Invierno porteño" (Buenos Aires), 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. This recital is generously sponsored by MU Chancellor's Distinguished Visitors Grant, Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association, and by the presenters of the 2013 Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival.
April 5 (Fri at 7pm, First Baptist Church): Verdehr Trio
co-presented by the Mizzou New Music Initiative
An acknowledged leader in the field of new music, the Verdehr Trio for 40 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. This concert is generously sponsored by the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation through MU School of Music's Mizzou New Music Initiative.
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 Whitmore Recital Hall in the MU School of Music.
April 7 (Sun, 1:30pm, Missouri Theatre): Plowman Finals Concert & Awards Ceremony
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 determine which ensemble deserves the honor of carrying Plowman's name and national recognition.
April 8 (Mon, 7pm, First Baptist Church): 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 Beaux Arts Trio or Guarneri String Quartet, both of which he was a member of for many, many years. A faculty member of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, he is joined by pianist Anna Polonsky for this very special FREE recital. YES, that's right - Admission is FREE (!). This recital is generously sponsored by MU Chancellor's Distinguished Visitors Grant, University of Missouri Lectures Committee, and by the presenters of the 2013 Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival.
May 3 (Fri, 7pm): Missouriana
This year's season finale is dedicated to composers who are currently living in Missouri. Hear new sounds of William J. Lackey’s "screaming electric whispers" for alto saxophone and electronics (Missouri Premiere, 2013) with saxophonist Leo Saguiguit; Paul Seitz’s “…and that the moon survives” (1994) with violinist Amy Appold and pianist Ayako Tsuruta; Stefan Freund's new work for oboe and piano (2012) with Dan Willett and Natalia Bolshakova; Patrick Dell's new work for trumpet and piano (2012-13) with Iskander Akhmadullin and composer at the keyboard, and Anthony Glise’s The Missouri Fables, Op. 26 (2005). Join us to celebrate the Season 9 – and onward to Season 10!
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 The Book of Hanging Gardens featuring soprano Christine Seitz and pianist Peter Miyamoto. Join us for the reception after the concert! READ ABOUT THIS CONCERT IN COLUMBIA TRIBUNE - CLICK HERE.
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 Trio Chymera (saxophonists Neil Ostercamp and Leo Saguiguit and pianist Rachel AuBuchon) in Sakamoto's "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" and Piazzolla's "Invierno porteño" (Buenos Aires), 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. This recital is generously sponsored by MU Chancellor's Distinguished Visitors Grant, Mid-Missouri Area Music Teachers Association, and by the presenters of the 2013 Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival.
April 5 (Fri at 7pm, First Baptist Church): Verdehr Trio
co-presented by the Mizzou New Music Initiative
An acknowledged leader in the field of new music, the Verdehr Trio for 40 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. This concert is generously sponsored by the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation through MU School of Music's Mizzou New Music Initiative.
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 Whitmore Recital Hall in the MU School of Music.
April 7 (Sun, 1:30pm, Missouri Theatre): Plowman Finals Concert & Awards Ceremony
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 determine which ensemble deserves the honor of carrying Plowman's name and national recognition.
April 8 (Mon, 7pm, First Baptist Church): 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 Beaux Arts Trio or Guarneri String Quartet, both of which he was a member of for many, many years. A faculty member of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, he is joined by pianist Anna Polonsky for this very special FREE recital. YES, that's right - Admission is FREE (!). This recital is generously sponsored by MU Chancellor's Distinguished Visitors Grant, University of Missouri Lectures Committee, and by the presenters of the 2013 Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival.
May 3 (Fri, 7pm): Missouriana
This year's season finale is dedicated to composers who are currently living in Missouri. Hear new sounds of William J. Lackey’s "screaming electric whispers" for alto saxophone and electronics (Missouri Premiere, 2013) with saxophonist Leo Saguiguit; Paul Seitz’s “…and that the moon survives” (1994) with violinist Amy Appold and pianist Ayako Tsuruta; Stefan Freund's new work for oboe and piano (2012) with Dan Willett and Natalia Bolshakova; Patrick Dell's new work for trumpet and piano (2012-13) with Iskander Akhmadullin and composer at the keyboard, and Anthony Glise’s The Missouri Fables, Op. 26 (2005). Join us to celebrate the Season 9 – and onward to Season 10!
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Season 8
September 11* Remembrance: Tenth Anniversary of 9/11
Sunday, 7pm
*Missouri Theatre co-presented by the First Baptist Church
Time may heal the sorrow but the shocking day of unspeakable sadness that engulfed the world only ten years ago has not been forgotten. This special concert presentation, including Wiberg's Requiem, will honor those who rebuilt their lives since the great tragedy.
October 14 Fête Locale!
Friday, 7pm
Take a journey around the globe: Beethoven’s 25 Scottish Songs with tenor Nollie Moore, Henry Cowell’s Homage to Iran featuring flutist Alice Dade del Campo, Paul Seitz’s new commissioned work featuring saxophonist Leo Saguiguit and others, Graham Fitkin’s Hard Fairy for two pianos and saxophone, and Greg Anderson’s Fantasy for two pianos based on themes by Bizet’s Carmen, played by pianists Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta. Come join us for the post-concert reception, and celebrate our musicians from Columbia!
December 2 Roe-mantic Holidays
Friday, 7pm
There is nothing like listening to a Viennese waltz around New Years! Enjoy the Anderson-Roe rendition of Strauss' Blue Danube Waltz and Rachmaninoff's Vocalise for piano four hands, Pachelbel’s Canon in D, works for guitar featuring Anthony Glise, and Wagner's dedication to his wife in Siegfried Idyll for 13 instruments lead by maestro Edward Dolbashian.
February 3 Baroque Virtuosi
Friday, 7pm
Director R. Paul Crabb leads our ever popular Baroque concert this season with Cantata BWV 106 by Johann Sebastian Bach. Also featured are the virtuosic Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 with Iskander Akhmadullin on trumpet, Concerto for Oboe d'amore with Dan Willett as the soloist, and Tomás Albinoni’s famous Adagio in G minor. Read about this concert in the Columbia Tribune's Art Axis by Aarik Danielsen.
March 9 eighth blackbird
Friday, 7pm co-presented by
the Mizzou New Music Initiative
World-renowned and Grammy-winning eighth blackbird is known for its creative and unique presentations, making it the nation’s most exciting chamber ensemble today. eighth blackbird will be in residency with MU for the week before the concert, giving classes and lectures. See their week-long schedule HERE. Read all about their upcoming concert in "Ovation" of Columbia Tribune. Also visit their web site www.eighthblackbird.org and check them out on Youtube. You will NOT be disappointed by this rare live performance in Columbia! *BREAKING NEWS* Congratulations to eighth blackbird for winning their second Grammy. The Grammy was awarded for Best Small Ensemble Performance, for their recording; “Lonely Motel: Music from Slide”. This latest Grammy was presented to the group at the Staples Center, Los Angeles on February 12 as part of the Grammy Awards Ceremony. Hear "Lonely Motel" HERE. *ANOTHER BREAKING NEWS* Mellon Funds 3-Year, $450K eighth blackbird Residency at Curtis Institute!
May 4 Tzigane Unleashed
Friday, 7pm
Virtuoso violinist David Colwell is featured with pianists Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta in a true, tour-de-force program of Bartok Sonata No. 2 and Ravel Tzigane for violin and piano, and Chausson Concerto for violin, piano and string quartet featuring pianist Peter Miyamoto and members of the Esterhazy Quartet. Read all about us in pre-concert article in the Columbia Tribune, HERE. Join us for the post-concert reception and meet the artists in the foyer!
Sunday, 7pm
*Missouri Theatre co-presented by the First Baptist Church
Time may heal the sorrow but the shocking day of unspeakable sadness that engulfed the world only ten years ago has not been forgotten. This special concert presentation, including Wiberg's Requiem, will honor those who rebuilt their lives since the great tragedy.
October 14 Fête Locale!
Friday, 7pm
Take a journey around the globe: Beethoven’s 25 Scottish Songs with tenor Nollie Moore, Henry Cowell’s Homage to Iran featuring flutist Alice Dade del Campo, Paul Seitz’s new commissioned work featuring saxophonist Leo Saguiguit and others, Graham Fitkin’s Hard Fairy for two pianos and saxophone, and Greg Anderson’s Fantasy for two pianos based on themes by Bizet’s Carmen, played by pianists Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta. Come join us for the post-concert reception, and celebrate our musicians from Columbia!
December 2 Roe-mantic Holidays
Friday, 7pm
There is nothing like listening to a Viennese waltz around New Years! Enjoy the Anderson-Roe rendition of Strauss' Blue Danube Waltz and Rachmaninoff's Vocalise for piano four hands, Pachelbel’s Canon in D, works for guitar featuring Anthony Glise, and Wagner's dedication to his wife in Siegfried Idyll for 13 instruments lead by maestro Edward Dolbashian.
February 3 Baroque Virtuosi
Friday, 7pm
Director R. Paul Crabb leads our ever popular Baroque concert this season with Cantata BWV 106 by Johann Sebastian Bach. Also featured are the virtuosic Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 with Iskander Akhmadullin on trumpet, Concerto for Oboe d'amore with Dan Willett as the soloist, and Tomás Albinoni’s famous Adagio in G minor. Read about this concert in the Columbia Tribune's Art Axis by Aarik Danielsen.
March 9 eighth blackbird
Friday, 7pm co-presented by
the Mizzou New Music Initiative
World-renowned and Grammy-winning eighth blackbird is known for its creative and unique presentations, making it the nation’s most exciting chamber ensemble today. eighth blackbird will be in residency with MU for the week before the concert, giving classes and lectures. See their week-long schedule HERE. Read all about their upcoming concert in "Ovation" of Columbia Tribune. Also visit their web site www.eighthblackbird.org and check them out on Youtube. You will NOT be disappointed by this rare live performance in Columbia! *BREAKING NEWS* Congratulations to eighth blackbird for winning their second Grammy. The Grammy was awarded for Best Small Ensemble Performance, for their recording; “Lonely Motel: Music from Slide”. This latest Grammy was presented to the group at the Staples Center, Los Angeles on February 12 as part of the Grammy Awards Ceremony. Hear "Lonely Motel" HERE. *ANOTHER BREAKING NEWS* Mellon Funds 3-Year, $450K eighth blackbird Residency at Curtis Institute!
May 4 Tzigane Unleashed
Friday, 7pm
Virtuoso violinist David Colwell is featured with pianists Peter Miyamoto and Ayako Tsuruta in a true, tour-de-force program of Bartok Sonata No. 2 and Ravel Tzigane for violin and piano, and Chausson Concerto for violin, piano and string quartet featuring pianist Peter Miyamoto and members of the Esterhazy Quartet. Read all about us in pre-concert article in the Columbia Tribune, HERE. Join us for the post-concert reception and meet the artists in the foyer!
Season 8: 2011-2012
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October 14, 2011 Fête Locale!
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): from Twenty-five Scottish Songs, Op. 108 (1815-1818) [15'00]
Nollie Moore, tenor - Susan Jensen, violin - Matthew Pierce, violoncello - Peter Miyamoto, piano
Between 1809 and 1818 Beethoven composed over 170 arrangements of Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and assorted Continental songs for one or more voice with piano, violin and cello accompaniment. It might surprise some classical music lovers to learn that folksong arrangements form the largest body of work produced by the composer. Most of these are from this late period of Beethoven’s output and were commissioned by the Scotsman George Thomson, a publisher in Edinburgh. Biographers of Beethoven tell us that Thomson “distinguished himself by tastes and acquirements that led to an appointment to the ‘Board of Trustees for the Encouragement of Arts and Manufacture in Scotland’ - an office from which he retired upon a full pension after a service of fifty years. He was, especially, a promoter of all good music and an earnest reviver of ancient Scottish melody.” (Thayer) It is to this end that Thomson payed over 700 gold ducats (fees from Continental publishers included) to Beethoven for 126 his folk-settings and commissioned similar work from Pleyel, Haydn, Hummel, and Weber. (Solomon)
In his late period, a growing interest in folksong and their arranging marks characteristic elements of Beethoven’s compositional work-- the song cycle An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98 (1816) was also completed--yet their artistic value often debated. Often, Beethoven was not provided with the texts of titles of the songs and despite reception of some of the titles, scant descriptions, or expressive markings, he was encouraged (but did not yield) to keep the keyboard parts as simple as possible. Additionally, partly because he was catering to conventional taste, Thomson modified the texts and tunes of some of the songs. As a result, Beethoven set the songs, what with their modal language and irregular rhythmic structure, to Classical-style harmonies with symmetrical rhythm patterns. The Twenty-five Scottish songs of reflect this blending of the folk tradition with the Classical in a way that neither undermines the expressive quality of the songs nor compromises Beethoven’s unique musical voice.
-notes partially informed by Nicolas Miecowski. © J. Scott Clemens
Henry Cowell (1897-1965): Homage to Iran (1963) [15'00]
Alice Dade Del Campo, flute - Julia Gaines, drum - Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Homage to Iran was originally written for violin and piano and was performed by violinist Leopold Avakian, to whom it is dedicated, for the Shah of Iran in a 1959 concert in Tehran. Performance practice often substitutes the role of the violin, passing the material to wind instruments (the flute, in tonight’s performance), and replaces piano textures with a Middle Eastern drum in three of the movements. This piece, from 1957, demonstrates Cowell’s interest in the music of other cultures. He had long been aware of the world’s musical offerings. Both instruments (for example, gongs from China and Japan and porcelain bowls from India) and techniques derived from various cultures’ musical traditions were used as elements in his work. He was one of the pioneers in teaching about the music of other cultures and laid much groundwork for the young field of ethnomusicology.
This influence was felt by many of Cowell’s students, including Cage, and, most noticeably, Lou Harrison. Both at different times had taken Cowell’s course titled Music of the Peoples of the World, which was taught at San Francisco State College and at the New School in New York as well as through a radio series on WBAI in New York. Harrison often spoke of Cowell opening up the world for him, and remembered his first hearing of many traditions in Cowell’s class. As a result, Harrison felt that a musician who did not know at least one tradition other than his own was not really whole.
After the 1940s, the pioneering experimentalism in Cowell’s music lessened, or rather became a synthesis and digestion of all that he had done and experienced before. He had married Sidney Robertson, an ethnomusicologist, in 1941, and her work influenced his own. In 1956, with the aid of a Rockefeller Foundation grant, they visited a wide number of countries, and Cowell began compositions influenced by the various traditions they visited. In addition to Ireland, where Cowell had family roots, they visited Turkey, Japan, India, Pakistan, and Iran. Resulting compositions include his Madras Symphony, the orchestral work Ongaku, and from Iran the chamber orchestra works Teheran Movement and Persian Set, and the work performed tonight, Homage to Iran. © J. Scott Clemens
Paul Seitz (b.1951): Some place where your spirit sounds... (2011 Odyssey Commission) [12'00]
Leo Saguiguit, tenor saxophone - Chris Baumgartner, conductor
with Sarah Lucas, oboe - Stephanie Berg, clarinet - Andrew Bell, bassoon - Michael Hill, horn -
Erik Hassell, violin - Matthew Pierce, violoncello - Rachel AuBuchon, piano
The idea of composing a chamber work featuring tenor saxophone came first from my love of the incredible range of colors and the inherent human vulnerability of the saxophone and also from the past collaborations with inspiring saxophonists, including my colleague at MU, Leo Saguiguit, from whom I always learn much -- about craft, surely, but also about the kinds of motivations and questions that elevate music making from craft to art. (It was important to the process that Leo agreed to perform in this premiere before I began work on the composition.)
Perhaps it was through thinking about such things, that the idea of a solo concerto as a kind of instrumental opera emerged. But soon, my object became the creation of a recognizable personality, in the musical material of the soloist, that one can follow through its interactions with a variety of contrasting musical environments – distinct musical communities – portrayed by the ensemble. That ensemble was chosen to include instruments that are in some way related to the saxophone (oboe & clarinet) or to each other (oboe & bassoon; violin & cello; clarinet & horn) or quite distinct from one another (strings, winds, piano) but also are capable of combining to create additional colors and textures.
The title, “Some place where your spirit sounds...” is a translation of a line from a Rilke poem written in response to the death of his friend, the proto-Modernist portrait artist Paula Modersohn Becker, at age 31. This artist continues to be highly esteemed for her combination of important technical innovations with a deep empathy for her human subjects. Because Paula’s life was filled with travel to study and create in a variety of artistic communities and because her own work was always immediately recognizable even as it grew in both craft and art, it is possible to think of this music as associated with her story, specifically. But it is also, by design, instrumental music. And, if there is any narrative here at all, it is surely a more universal one, perhaps related to the determined and unsteady search we all make for whatever it is that can sometimes transform experience into art. © Paul Seitz
See also www.paulseitz.net
Camille Saint-Saens, trans. Greg Anderson: The Swan (2007) [3'00]
Peter Miyamoto, piano I - Ayako Tsuruta, piano II
(Notes below)
Graham Fitkin (b.1963): Hard Fairy for two pianos and saxophone (1994) [17'00]
Leo Saguiguit, soprano saxophone - Ayako Tsuruta, piano I - Peter Miyamoto, piano II
Graham Fitkin is a UK composer and has worked with orchestras such as RLPO, Halle, BBC Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, and London Chamber Orchestra. He has composed for dance companies such as Shobana Jeyasingh, Random Dance, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and Bi-Ma and many instrumental ensembles. Performing has always been an important aspect of Graham’s work. In two recent projects, KAPLAN for keyboards and live visuals, and STILL WARM for electronically manipulated harps and sampler, he collaborated with his partner Ruth Wall. There have been recent collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Powerplant, and Royal Ballet choreographer Jonathan Watkins. Graham’s work has been released on CD by Decca’s Argo label, Factory, Sanctuary’s Black Box, and many others. About his piece Hard Fairy the composer says: “A lot of the material used in the piece is a complete reworking and restructuring without the visual and narrative elements. It is non-programmatic, works by juxtaposition of blocks of material, and, I like to think, is propelled by rhythmic momentum until the final coda, when everything sits back and the whole business can be viewed from a different angle.” Graham Fitkin – May 1994
Greg Anderson (b.1981): Carmen Fantasy: Fantasy for two pianos based on themes by Georges Bizet [14'00] Ayako Tsuruta, piano I - Peter Miyamoto, piano II
The Anderson and Roe Piano Duo (comprised of Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe) met in 2000 as freshmen at The Juilliard School and formed their dynamic musical partnership shortly thereafter. Their wildly creative original compositions push the boundaries of the collaborative piano experience. Like the performing artists of tonight’s duos, Anderson & Roe believe strongly in the communicative potential of music, and they aim to make classical piano music a relevant and powerful force in society.
The selections tonight draw from famous themes of Romantic music. The Swan, comes from the thirteenth movement of The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns and features a solo cello and two pianos. By way of frequent legato articulation and slurring the music evokes the scene of a swan gliding through the water. Anderson offers this about the piece: “In this arrangement, I honored the spirit of the original composition but recreated the music according to the strengths of our instrumentation, immersing the melody in pianistic ripples of sound. Imagine a swan drifting in a pond and the water rippling in its wake. Try listening similarly: drift; allow yourself to explore aimlessly. We are surrounded by beauty; it's just that we sometimes forget to acknowledge it.”
Because of its overall charm, slow tempo, and performance indications, the movement a source for many other arrangements. Tonight’s performance aligns itself with the rich history of other transcriptions of the work including Louis van Waefelghem’s adaptation for viola or viola d'amore and piano (1895), an arrangement central to the theremin repertoire, Leonard Bernstein’s famous recording of the piece with the New York Philharmonic performed on double bass, and a version by Monserrat Caballe in which she vocalizes sections of the melody accompanied by a piano.
The Carmen Fantasy creates a mosaic of sound as notable passages and tunes from the opera of the same name. Included in this brilliant arranging is music of the Habanera aria, which is known for its graceful dotted rhythm and teasing chromatic melodies. In a blog update from January 2011, Anderson’s duo partner, Elizabeth Joy Roe, announced the publication of the music and wrote: “Carmen. The very name immediately conjures up the irresistible melodies of Bizet’s beloved opera as well as the dramatic story of its tempestuous heroine. As for the Fantasy itself, it is a kaleidoscopic mishmash of our favorite themes from the opera. With this composition, we aimed to push the virtuosic possibilities of two pianos to the hilt.”
I’m sure you’ll agree. © J. Scott Clemens
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December 2, 2011 Roe-mantic Holidays
Francesco Petrarca, Italian humanist and writer in the 14th century, is credited for the eponymous Petrarchan sonnet: a verse form usually regarding unattainable love for an idealized woman. Sonnetto 104 is no exception, with its opening line: “Warefare I cannot wage, yet know not peace.” The speaker equally despises death and life, for he lives with the pain of unreturned love, and the poem is a series of contradictions: “by grief I’m nurtured; and, though tearful, gay.” Franz Liszt was in no such situation at the age of 26, though, when he was quoting Petrarch in letters to Countess Marie d'Agoult, who had left her husband for him three years prior.
The two lived together in Switzerland and Italy from 1835-39, and as Liszt’s composing matured under her influence, he wrote the Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage). The second book, titled “Italy,” includes his setting of Sonnetto 104, in addition to two other Petrarch sonnets. The Petrarch sonnets have been set to music by noteworthy composers, including Franz Schubert and Arnold Schoenberg, since the 16th century, but Liszt’s settings have had the greatest vitality. Though originally conceived for tenor voice, they were first published for piano solo in 1846. Liszt then revised them multiple times before they reached definitive form in 1858.
Between the desperate introduction and just barely stable close, this is primarily a simple song—probably simple enough to include in a basic sight-singing course, as long as the singer ignored the occasional virtuosic runs over the length of the piano. Yet amidst the songlike nature, which would only get at the “peace” mentioned in Petrarch’s work, Liszt calls upon the performer to swiftly change from dolce to appassionato to even agitato, mimicking the confused and tormented narrator of the sonnet. The restatements of the theme get increasingly tempestuous, and it is clear that this is the “war.” The juxtaposition and swift changes between peace and war are almost schizophrenic, and the piece actually slows to a calm end. With one final tension to remind us of the Petrarch narrator’s “wretched state,” the last chord can only be described as peace.
As mentioned, Liszt worked with his music of the Sonneto over a period of several years transcribing it from a previous composition for voice and piano. Like Liszt with his Sonnotto discussed above, transcription is also informs the compositional practice of Greg Anderson and his duet partner Elizabeth Rose. Their wildly creative and unique works push the boundaries of the collaborative piano experience. On the topic of the history of their transcriptions they offer that "transcriptions are simultaneously retrospective and forward-looking, as the transcriber takes a work of the past and re-imagines in into an entity that resonates with the present. The art of transcription used to flourish as an essential element on the pianist's prowess, whether for purposes of modernization, virtuosic display, or as a conduit for large-scale ensembles works before the age of recording."
Further demonstration on the transcription process (with just as much pianistic prowess, virtuosic display, and sensitive performanceship as that in the Liszt piece) show up in the Rachmaninoff Vocalise and the Strauss Blue Danube Waltz. In arranging Vocalise for piano duet, the Anderson/Roe duo paid homage to Rachmaninoff’s indelible piano writing and to the song’s emotional intimacy and passion. Rachmaninoff composed his Vocalise to be sung without any words, yet somehow the song still manages to communicate a heart-rending story. Words are certainly unneeded in the Vocalise (originally for voice and piano containing no words, but rather sung using a single vowel of the singer’s choosing) and the song, with its glorious melody and lack of text, has proven to be an ideal piece for transcription: there are numerous arrangements for orchestra, chamber ensemble, choir, and solo instruments, including solo piano. The kaleidoscopic Blue Danube Fantasy takes the elegance of the Viennese waltz as a point of departure and plunges headlong into the passions that undulate beneath the dance's restrained façade. The choreography of the four hands brings up the striking resemblance of a couple dancing and two pianists nestled at one piano. A rather masterful handling of the themes occurs throughout this work, most notably when seven of the motives are played in tandem towards the end of the Waltz.
- Notes for Sonnetto 104 provided by Grace Lyden ©2011
- Additional commentary informed by notes from www.andersonroe.com (composer's website)
Luis de Narváez (ca.1500-1555): Guárdame las Vacas [5'00]
Luis Narvarez was a Spanish composer and vihuelist, which is the name (etymologically related to the viola) given to the guitar-like string instrument popular in sixteenth-century Spain. Many books of tablature and notation exist—an indication of its prominence during the Spanish Renaissance—and chief among these scores is Los seys libros del Delphin, a six-volume collection of music for viheula by Narvarez. The entire set is dedicated to a patron of the composer, Francisco de los Cobos, and contains repertoire characterized by polyphony, transcription, and variation.
Guardame las vacas, from the last volume, is a romanesca, which refers to a piece with a repeating chord sequence that yields the groundwork for variation or improvisation. The practice of improvising variations over a pre-existing harmonic pattern was central to most musical traditions in the sixteenth century and Spain was no exception, though the culture and its composers had their own popular tunes to use as the basis for such pieces. The Guardame las vacas mentioned above was among the most frequently used to the point that it became synonymous with "variation technique" or, to use the Spanish term, "diferencias." The piece begins with the unaffected and straightforward presentation of the theme before taking it through seven variations. Scholars cite the importance of Guardame las vacas due to the fact that it is regarded as the first printed version of a variation form in music history. Prof. Anthony Glise, tonight's performer of the work, offers the following, which nicely ties the piece into tonight's romantic era programming: "The title for the theme and variations on Guardame las Vacas translates loosely as 'Guard my Cows.' This may not seem a particularly romantic venture until we look at the words from the original song: 'Guard the cows for me, Juan, and I will kiss you. Or 'I'll guard the cows, and you can kiss me!' If not slightly tongue-in-cheek, one can't deny the romantic 'win-win' of Renaissance husbandry.
Francisco Tarrega (1852-1909): Capriccio Arabe [8'00]
A capriccio is a piece of music that has improvisational characteristics and many were improvised and not always notated. Capriccios are written with a variety of moods and contain virtuosic characteristics. Capriccio Arabe is one of the most important works written by the premenant Spanish guitarist/composer Francisco Tarrega during the romantic/classical era. This piece demonstrates his interest in Romantic trends in music with elements of Spanish folk music. The music cries out romantic melodies with call and response phrases of contrasting characters. “Capriccio” was arranged by the German composer and lutenist Silvius Leopold Weiss. Weiss is an important prolific composer of Baroque Lute music and was a technically accomplished lute player in his day. Weiss was said to have challenged J.S. Bach to an improvisation competition and won. Capriccio Arabe is unpredictable, it breathes full of life, with thick harmony and the melodies are not always apparent. Romantic music made use of the extremes of form expressing emotion above all other values. The turn of the 19th century and the rise of Romanticism reflected the values and belief systems of the culture. Spanish romantic guitarist Fransico Tarrega was an emotional composer and arranged his music with these characteristics.
- Notes informed by Charles Clark of Central Washington University
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706), transcribed by Fabrizio Ferrari: Canon & Gigue in D Major, arr. for string quartet [7'00]
A canon can mean two things in music: a set of core works that become the mainstays of the repertory, and a compositional procedure that involves a single line being strictly woven into dialogue with itself by each voice starting one after the other. Pachelbel's Canon is an example of the latter type that became the baroque member of the former type: a most recognizable piece due to its pleasing bass-line (as instantly memorable as a twelve-bar blues) and the fantasies and flourishes of the violin lines above it.
Although Pachelbel was renowned in his lifetime for his chamber works (most of them were lost. Only Musikalische Ergötzung, a collection of partitas published during Pachelbel's lifetime, is known, and a few isolated pieces in manuscripts. Canon and Gigue in D Major is one of such pieces. A single manuscript copy of it survives in the Berlin State Library. The circumstances of the piece's composition are wholly unknown. One writer hypothesized that the Canon may have been composed for J. C. Bach's wedding, on 23 October 1694, which Pachelbel attended. The canon (without the accompanying gigue) was first published in 1919 by scholar Gustav Beckmann, who included the score in his article on Pachelbel's chamber music. His research was inspired and supported by renowned early music scholar and editor Max Seiffert, who in 1929 published his arrangement of Canon and Gigue in his Organum series. The canon was first recorded in 1940 by Arthur Fiedler, and the first famous recording of the piece was made by the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra. Over the years, the canon has been arranged numerous times for a wide variety of ensembles. The canon's chord progression is used in many pop and rock songs, but it is debatable whether it was deliberately used, because the progression is a very common. The gigue that originally accompanied the canon never received the same amount of popularity, even though it is a lively and energetic dance.
- Notes informed by Grove Music Online
Richard Wagner (1813-1883): Siegfried Idyll, original version for 13 instrumentalists [19'00]
Although Cosima Wagner was born on December 24, she chose to celebrate her birthday on the twenty-fifth. Her diary entry for Sunday, December 25, 1870, reads:
When I woke up I heard a sound, it grew ever louder, I could no longer imagine myself in a dream, music was sounding, and what music! After it had died away, R. came in to me with the five children and put into my hands the score of his "symphonic birthday greeting." I was in tears, but so, too, was the whole household; R. had set up his orchestra on the stairs and thus consecrated our Tribschen forever! The Tribschen Idyll—so the work is called…
R. is her beloved Richard, and two of the five children are Cosima's from her previous marriage to Hans von Bülow, whom she abruptly left for the man that even Hans, a talented pianist and conductor, admitted to be his superior in the world of music. The other three are five-year-old Isolde; Eva, three; and Siegfried, eighteen months—Cosima and Richard Wagner's children, all born before their marriage on August 25, 1870. Tribschen is the name of the house on a Lake Lucerne, where Cosima and Richard made their home. Tribschen Idyll is, of course, the Siegfried Idyll—though it wasn't given that name for many years, after the Wagner's elected to publish their private musical communication in exchange for a nice sum of money. ("The secret treasure is to become public property," Cosima wrote in her diary.)
he Siegfried Idyll—this title apparently dates from a performance in Meiningen in 1877—remains Wagner's only instrumental work that is regularly played. The main theme is a generous and lilting melody sung by Brünnhilde in act 3 of Siegfried to the words beginning "Ewig war ich" (I always was, I always am, always in sweet yearning bliss). Wagner claimed that this music came to him during the summer of 1864 at the Villa Pellet, overlooking Lake Starnberg, where he and Cosima consummated their union. (He is contradicted, however, by his own obsessive record keeping: the melody was composed that November 14, when he was alone in Munich.) A second theme, introduced by the oboe, is a lullaby Wagner jotted down on New Year's Eve 1868. The music is unusually intimate and restrained for a composer who lived a life of excess. More than any other of Wagner's scores, the Siegfried Idyll marries the private and public sides of the most famous composer of the nineteenth century.
- Excerpts and notes informed by Grove Music Online and Phillip Huscher of the CSO
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February 3, 2012 Baroque Virtuosi
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Concerto in A Major for oboe d'amore, strings and basso continuo, BWV1055 (1741) [15'00]
Dan Willett, oboe d'amore - R. Paul Crabb, conductor - Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Like the musical talent of the Bach family, many of Johann Sebastian's compositions went through several generations. It was a common eighteenth-century practice for composers to rework their own music to add to a social or religious engagement. Among the best-known of such pieces in the Bach canon are the concertos for harpsichord, all of which seem to be arrangements of some of his earlier music. The harpsichord concertos were based on works Bach wrote for his duties at the court of Anhalt-Cöthen between 1717 and 1723, where he was responsible for the instrumental rather than the sacred music. Most of the model works were originally for solo violin, but the esteemed English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey showed that the Concerto in A major was written originally for oboe d'amore, an ancestor of the modern English horn.
The opening movement of the Oboe d'amore Concerto begins with a orchestral ritornello whose “returns” (“ritornelli ” in Italian) give the form both its structure and its name. Between the music of the ritornelli , the solo instrument develops a complementary motive. The regular phrases, disposed in eight-measure blocks, give this movement a dance-like quality. The following Larghetto offers a stark contrast in mood from the jolly opening movement. Above a chromatically descending, passacaglia-like bass, the soloist intones a mournful song-like melody full of rich emotion. (Such music is a reminder that the Baroque era was essentially a romantic age in the deeply expressive nature of its art.) The jubilant finale, modeled perhaps on the gigue, returns the dancing motion and high spirits of the first movement.
J.S. Bach: Brandenburg No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047 (1717-18) [12'00]
Iskander Akhmadullin, piccolo trumpet - Steve Geibel, flute - Dan Willett, oboe - Siri Geenen, violin
R. Paul Crabb conductor - Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Brandenburg, in Bach’s day, was a political and military powerhouse. It had been part of the Holy Roman Empire since the mid-12th century, and its ruler — the Margrave — was charged with defending and extending the northern imperial border in return for which he was allowed to be an Elector of the Emperor. The house of Hohenzollern acquired the margraviate of Brandenburg in 1415, and the family embraced the Reformation a century later with such authority that they came to be regarded as the leaders of German Protestantism; Potsdam, near Berlin, was chosen as the site of the electoral court in the 17th century.
Johann Sebastian Bach met Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg, in 1719, during his tenure as music director at the court of Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen. Bach worked at Cöthen from 1717 to 1723, and early in 1719, he was sent by Leopold to Berlin to finalize arrangements for the purchase of a new harpsichord, a large, two-manual model made by Michael Mietke, instrument-builder to the royal court. While in Berlin, Bach played for Christian Ludwig, who was so taken with his music that he asked him to send some of his compositions for his library. He picked six of the finest concertos he had written at Cöthen and sent them to Christian Ludwig in March 1721.
Trumpet, flute, oboe and violin are on equal terms as solo instruments in the Brandenburg No. 2. An orchestral tutti begins the opening movement, after which each of the soloists are thinned out in turn for a brief statement of greeting. The remainder of the movement is given over to musical conversations of the themes among the soloists and the orchestra. The second movement is a quiet but impassioned trio for flute, oboe and violin supported only by the bass and keyboard. The solo trumpet returns in the finale to begin one of Bach’s most joyous flights of contrapuntal ingenuity and rhythmic vivacity.
Remo Giazotto (1910-1998): Adagio in G Minor for Strings and Organ, on Two Thematic Ideas and on a Figured Bass by Tomaso Albinoni (ca. 1708/1958) [10'00]
Siri Geenen, violin - Colleen Ostercamp, organ - R. Paul Crabb, condcutor - Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
By a coincidence, Tomaso Albinoni remains most popular today for a piece he never wrote. His Adagio in G Minor is a reconstruction (actually, an entirely new composition) by the Italian musicologist Remo Giazotto, based on a six-bar fragment found in one of Albinoni’s manuscripts. Giazotto’s arrangement, published in 1958, helped contribute to the booming interest in baroque music in the years after World War II, and it has become one of the most popular of classical pieces–the current catalog lists over 35 different recordings.
Albinoni himself was a contemporary of Bach, who admired his music (and who paid Albinoni the subtle compliment of borrowing some of his themes to use as fugue subjects). The son of a wealthy family, Albinoni never had to take a court or church position to support himself as a musician, but he was far from being a dilettante, as he is sometimes characterized: he wrote over fifty operas, forty cantatas, and a vast amount of instrumental music that was widely published, and his name was–at the time of his death–known throughout Europe.
The Adagio in G Minor opens with the organ outlining a series of chords over a very slow moving bass line. The strings enter and bring forth a rich and contrapuntal melody which floats over the undulating bass line and organ chords. There are moments of cadenza for a solo violin before the whole group reasserts the melodic momentum and after a dramatic final exposition of the chords the work fades into its conclusion.
J.S. Bach: Cantata BWV 106, 'Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit' [Actus tragicus] (1707/8) [22'40]
R. Paul Crabb, conductor/director - Bach Collegium Choir - Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
We know of no definite date for the “Actus tragicus,” but its style seems to suggest the very beginning of Bach’s career as a composer of vocal music, the time when he was organist of the Blasiuskirche in Mühlhausen 1707-8. Here he did not compose vocal music as a regular weekly or monthly cycle; rather the works were necessitated by specific occasions (in this case, almost certainly a funeral). The text is an amalgam of free poetry, much biblical verse (notably from the Psalms, Isaiah, Luke and Revelation) and two Lutheran chorales. Despite the early date, the work is a masterpiece of the seventeenth century style of text-setting; the music is intimately crafted to the succession of the words without a hint of the newer Italian styles of recitative and da capo aria.
The first half of the cantata is concerned with the inevitability of death while the latter section shows that the “new” Christian message cancels the old covenant: death leads to union with Jesus and eternal life. Incidentally, it is only in the second part that we hear chorales, symbolic as they are of the new, Christian, covenant and of the new Lutheran confession superseding the older Catholic order. The final chorus manages both heightened spirituality and grandeur. In the instrumental prelude, the motive that has until now been marked by downward wavering steps is now inverted, the upward intervals suggesting a sense of ascension and triumph. The chorus enters accompanied by instrumental emphasis on off-beats. A light, brilliant choral fugue ends the piece, with the final "Amen" echoed by the instruments very softly-a sublime finish.
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March 9, 2012 "Fractured Jams" by eighth blackbird
David Lang: these broken wings (2007)
Bruno Mantovani: Chamber Concerto No. 2 (2011)
Andy Akiho: ErAsE (2011)
Intermission
Philip Glass: Music in Similar Motion (1969)
Stephen Hartke: Meanwhile: Incidental music to imaginary puppet plays (2007)
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Join Grammy-winning ensemble eighth blackbird for a dangerous musical high wire act. This sextet combines the finesse of a finely-honed string quartet with the energy of a rock band, and Fractured Jams presents an absorbing, provocative and motley program. Swedish composer Fabian Svensson enacts a thrilling, virtuosic face-off between the "two sides" of the group, while American Dan Visconti's Fractured Jams feeds pop music through a musical shredder to generate an over-caffeinated jam session. Philip Glass's mesmerizing Music in Similar Motion contrasts with renowned French composer Bruno Mantovani's colorful new work for eighth blackbird, and Derek Bermel's Tied Shifts is a wild Balkan romp.
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May 4, 2012 TZIGANE UNLEASHED
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano, BB85/Sz. 76 (1922) [21'00]
Although Béla Bartók’s conservatory education was in German, he was not pleased with just studying German or French composers. Despite feeling disconnected with the conservatory’s Western European focus, he did absorb the musical techniques and trends of turn-of-the-century Europe. It was only after hearing a concert of Hungarian folk tunes in 1903 that the young composer began to seek inspiration and enlightenment in his native music. Generally, Hungarian folk music is zesty rhythmically, simple yet often quite quirky melodically, with relatively austere accompaniment. The composer’s Violin Sonata No. 2, however, is not an arrangement of a naïve folk song or a gypsy violin tune disguised as a classical concert work. The continuos, two-movement Sonata is intricate and complex, far removed from the Hungarian peasant tunes and Turkish wedding songs that Bartók had begun to study and chronicle.It is also a very difficult work, written for a violin virtuoso of the highest caliber. Bartók described it to his concert agent in a 1924 letter: “The violin part of the two violin sonatas… is extraordinarily difficult, and it is only a violinist of the top class who has any chance of learning them…“ The Sonata was written in 1922 and premiered the next year in Berlin. It was dedicated to violinist Jelly d’Arányi, niece of famous violinist Joseph Joachim. Together, they gave the work its first performance in England.
© J. Scott Clemens
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)Tzigane ("Gypsy," 1922-24) [10'00]
Tzigane was originally written for violin and piano, and once again, Jelly d’Arányi, to whom it is dedicated, gave the first performance with pianist Henri Gil-Marchex in London on April 26, 1924.
Like the Bartok Sonata, Tzigane celebrates the artistry and temperament of a particular performer. Fire and dash irradiate the famous pieces written for her—Tzigane. The adventurous Ms. d’Arányi was quick to take several of Ravel’s exceedingly difficult pieces into her repertory, and the gestation for Tzigane came about after much collaborative work. According to an account gave to Ravel’s biographer Arbie Orenstein, “late in the evening Ravel asked the Hungarian violinist to play some Gypsy melodies. After Mlle. d’Arányi obliged, the composer asked for one more melody, and then another. The Gypsy melodies continued until about 5 a.m., with everyone exhausted except the violinist and the composer. That evening,” adds Orenstein, “was to mark the initial gestation of Tzigane.” Gestation took almost two years, quiet years in which Ravel finished his orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Ms. d’Arányi introduced Tzigane at the Aeolian Hall in London, she created a sensation with it. The way Tzigane begins is a distillation of what happened at that party in London in the summer of 1922—recollection, improvisation, explosions of exuberant virtuosity, all for violin alone. The piano, egged on by the violin’s sliding harmonies, tries a cadenza, too, and that opens the door for the whirlwind of peppery, seductive dance-tunes in the second part of Ravel’s rhapsody. Almost needless to say, the presentation of these tunes is a feast of sounds and melody to the audience.
© J. Scott Clemens
Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Concerto for piano, violin, and string quartet, Op. 21 in D Major (1899-91) [40'16]
Chausson was a late starter musically, and it was only in 1879 that he began his formal musical education, when he enrolled in the Paris Conservatoire at the age of twenty-nine. He quickly came under the influence of César Franck and the circle who gathered round him, though he was never officially one of Franck’s students. His first mature compositions are full of Franck’s influence, but his music began to be enriched by a more classical eighteenth-century outlook. He took to consciously using older musical forms, even adopting French baroque tempo markings. It is in this light that this unique work must be considered. To 18th-century French composers such as François Couperin and Rameau the term concert indicated simply an instrumental work in several movements. In no sense of the word is Chausson’s work a concerto – neither a violin concerto nor a double concerto for violin and piano - but a piece of true chamber music.
Chausson dedicated it to the Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe, who took part in the first performance in Brussels in 1892. The première gave him his first taste of real success. As he wrote in his diary: “Never have I had such a success! I can’t get over it. Everyone seems to love the Concert. Very well played, with wonderful moments, and so artistically executed! I feel light and joyful, something I haven’t been for a long time. It’s done me good and has given me courage. I believe I’ll work with more confidence in the future.” The turbulent first movement is dominated by the three-note figure hammered out, twice, at the start, and the point of departure for both the tranquil passage that follows and the vigorous opening theme of the main body of the movement. Though the work as a whole is far from being baroque pastiche, the second movement does share the graceful lilting rhythm of the eighteenth-century dance from which it takes its title. There is no contrasting central section. Instead the music moves in a single arc to its forceful climax, before sinking back to its graceful conclusion .Just as the first movement is dominated by its three-note figure, so the third is underpinned by various forms of the chromatic figure heard low on the piano at the start. The passionate central climax begins more abruptly than that of the Sicilienne, returning eventually to the quiet in which the movement began.The finale’s vigor and drive comes as the perfect counterbalance, full of springy rhythms, and moments when the mood becomes lighter, even playful. Particularly impressive is the final section, marked ‘très vif’ (very lively) in which Chausson sustains the growing excitement without resorting to empty rhetoric. No wonder he was pleased with his achievement.
© J. Scott Clemens
October 14, 2011 Fête Locale!
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): from Twenty-five Scottish Songs, Op. 108 (1815-1818) [15'00]
Nollie Moore, tenor - Susan Jensen, violin - Matthew Pierce, violoncello - Peter Miyamoto, piano
Between 1809 and 1818 Beethoven composed over 170 arrangements of Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and assorted Continental songs for one or more voice with piano, violin and cello accompaniment. It might surprise some classical music lovers to learn that folksong arrangements form the largest body of work produced by the composer. Most of these are from this late period of Beethoven’s output and were commissioned by the Scotsman George Thomson, a publisher in Edinburgh. Biographers of Beethoven tell us that Thomson “distinguished himself by tastes and acquirements that led to an appointment to the ‘Board of Trustees for the Encouragement of Arts and Manufacture in Scotland’ - an office from which he retired upon a full pension after a service of fifty years. He was, especially, a promoter of all good music and an earnest reviver of ancient Scottish melody.” (Thayer) It is to this end that Thomson payed over 700 gold ducats (fees from Continental publishers included) to Beethoven for 126 his folk-settings and commissioned similar work from Pleyel, Haydn, Hummel, and Weber. (Solomon)
In his late period, a growing interest in folksong and their arranging marks characteristic elements of Beethoven’s compositional work-- the song cycle An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98 (1816) was also completed--yet their artistic value often debated. Often, Beethoven was not provided with the texts of titles of the songs and despite reception of some of the titles, scant descriptions, or expressive markings, he was encouraged (but did not yield) to keep the keyboard parts as simple as possible. Additionally, partly because he was catering to conventional taste, Thomson modified the texts and tunes of some of the songs. As a result, Beethoven set the songs, what with their modal language and irregular rhythmic structure, to Classical-style harmonies with symmetrical rhythm patterns. The Twenty-five Scottish songs of reflect this blending of the folk tradition with the Classical in a way that neither undermines the expressive quality of the songs nor compromises Beethoven’s unique musical voice.
-notes partially informed by Nicolas Miecowski. © J. Scott Clemens
Henry Cowell (1897-1965): Homage to Iran (1963) [15'00]
Alice Dade Del Campo, flute - Julia Gaines, drum - Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Homage to Iran was originally written for violin and piano and was performed by violinist Leopold Avakian, to whom it is dedicated, for the Shah of Iran in a 1959 concert in Tehran. Performance practice often substitutes the role of the violin, passing the material to wind instruments (the flute, in tonight’s performance), and replaces piano textures with a Middle Eastern drum in three of the movements. This piece, from 1957, demonstrates Cowell’s interest in the music of other cultures. He had long been aware of the world’s musical offerings. Both instruments (for example, gongs from China and Japan and porcelain bowls from India) and techniques derived from various cultures’ musical traditions were used as elements in his work. He was one of the pioneers in teaching about the music of other cultures and laid much groundwork for the young field of ethnomusicology.
This influence was felt by many of Cowell’s students, including Cage, and, most noticeably, Lou Harrison. Both at different times had taken Cowell’s course titled Music of the Peoples of the World, which was taught at San Francisco State College and at the New School in New York as well as through a radio series on WBAI in New York. Harrison often spoke of Cowell opening up the world for him, and remembered his first hearing of many traditions in Cowell’s class. As a result, Harrison felt that a musician who did not know at least one tradition other than his own was not really whole.
After the 1940s, the pioneering experimentalism in Cowell’s music lessened, or rather became a synthesis and digestion of all that he had done and experienced before. He had married Sidney Robertson, an ethnomusicologist, in 1941, and her work influenced his own. In 1956, with the aid of a Rockefeller Foundation grant, they visited a wide number of countries, and Cowell began compositions influenced by the various traditions they visited. In addition to Ireland, where Cowell had family roots, they visited Turkey, Japan, India, Pakistan, and Iran. Resulting compositions include his Madras Symphony, the orchestral work Ongaku, and from Iran the chamber orchestra works Teheran Movement and Persian Set, and the work performed tonight, Homage to Iran. © J. Scott Clemens
Paul Seitz (b.1951): Some place where your spirit sounds... (2011 Odyssey Commission) [12'00]
Leo Saguiguit, tenor saxophone - Chris Baumgartner, conductor
with Sarah Lucas, oboe - Stephanie Berg, clarinet - Andrew Bell, bassoon - Michael Hill, horn -
Erik Hassell, violin - Matthew Pierce, violoncello - Rachel AuBuchon, piano
The idea of composing a chamber work featuring tenor saxophone came first from my love of the incredible range of colors and the inherent human vulnerability of the saxophone and also from the past collaborations with inspiring saxophonists, including my colleague at MU, Leo Saguiguit, from whom I always learn much -- about craft, surely, but also about the kinds of motivations and questions that elevate music making from craft to art. (It was important to the process that Leo agreed to perform in this premiere before I began work on the composition.)
Perhaps it was through thinking about such things, that the idea of a solo concerto as a kind of instrumental opera emerged. But soon, my object became the creation of a recognizable personality, in the musical material of the soloist, that one can follow through its interactions with a variety of contrasting musical environments – distinct musical communities – portrayed by the ensemble. That ensemble was chosen to include instruments that are in some way related to the saxophone (oboe & clarinet) or to each other (oboe & bassoon; violin & cello; clarinet & horn) or quite distinct from one another (strings, winds, piano) but also are capable of combining to create additional colors and textures.
The title, “Some place where your spirit sounds...” is a translation of a line from a Rilke poem written in response to the death of his friend, the proto-Modernist portrait artist Paula Modersohn Becker, at age 31. This artist continues to be highly esteemed for her combination of important technical innovations with a deep empathy for her human subjects. Because Paula’s life was filled with travel to study and create in a variety of artistic communities and because her own work was always immediately recognizable even as it grew in both craft and art, it is possible to think of this music as associated with her story, specifically. But it is also, by design, instrumental music. And, if there is any narrative here at all, it is surely a more universal one, perhaps related to the determined and unsteady search we all make for whatever it is that can sometimes transform experience into art. © Paul Seitz
See also www.paulseitz.net
Camille Saint-Saens, trans. Greg Anderson: The Swan (2007) [3'00]
Peter Miyamoto, piano I - Ayako Tsuruta, piano II
(Notes below)
Graham Fitkin (b.1963): Hard Fairy for two pianos and saxophone (1994) [17'00]
Leo Saguiguit, soprano saxophone - Ayako Tsuruta, piano I - Peter Miyamoto, piano II
Graham Fitkin is a UK composer and has worked with orchestras such as RLPO, Halle, BBC Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, and London Chamber Orchestra. He has composed for dance companies such as Shobana Jeyasingh, Random Dance, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and Bi-Ma and many instrumental ensembles. Performing has always been an important aspect of Graham’s work. In two recent projects, KAPLAN for keyboards and live visuals, and STILL WARM for electronically manipulated harps and sampler, he collaborated with his partner Ruth Wall. There have been recent collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Powerplant, and Royal Ballet choreographer Jonathan Watkins. Graham’s work has been released on CD by Decca’s Argo label, Factory, Sanctuary’s Black Box, and many others. About his piece Hard Fairy the composer says: “A lot of the material used in the piece is a complete reworking and restructuring without the visual and narrative elements. It is non-programmatic, works by juxtaposition of blocks of material, and, I like to think, is propelled by rhythmic momentum until the final coda, when everything sits back and the whole business can be viewed from a different angle.” Graham Fitkin – May 1994
Greg Anderson (b.1981): Carmen Fantasy: Fantasy for two pianos based on themes by Georges Bizet [14'00] Ayako Tsuruta, piano I - Peter Miyamoto, piano II
The Anderson and Roe Piano Duo (comprised of Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe) met in 2000 as freshmen at The Juilliard School and formed their dynamic musical partnership shortly thereafter. Their wildly creative original compositions push the boundaries of the collaborative piano experience. Like the performing artists of tonight’s duos, Anderson & Roe believe strongly in the communicative potential of music, and they aim to make classical piano music a relevant and powerful force in society.
The selections tonight draw from famous themes of Romantic music. The Swan, comes from the thirteenth movement of The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns and features a solo cello and two pianos. By way of frequent legato articulation and slurring the music evokes the scene of a swan gliding through the water. Anderson offers this about the piece: “In this arrangement, I honored the spirit of the original composition but recreated the music according to the strengths of our instrumentation, immersing the melody in pianistic ripples of sound. Imagine a swan drifting in a pond and the water rippling in its wake. Try listening similarly: drift; allow yourself to explore aimlessly. We are surrounded by beauty; it's just that we sometimes forget to acknowledge it.”
Because of its overall charm, slow tempo, and performance indications, the movement a source for many other arrangements. Tonight’s performance aligns itself with the rich history of other transcriptions of the work including Louis van Waefelghem’s adaptation for viola or viola d'amore and piano (1895), an arrangement central to the theremin repertoire, Leonard Bernstein’s famous recording of the piece with the New York Philharmonic performed on double bass, and a version by Monserrat Caballe in which she vocalizes sections of the melody accompanied by a piano.
The Carmen Fantasy creates a mosaic of sound as notable passages and tunes from the opera of the same name. Included in this brilliant arranging is music of the Habanera aria, which is known for its graceful dotted rhythm and teasing chromatic melodies. In a blog update from January 2011, Anderson’s duo partner, Elizabeth Joy Roe, announced the publication of the music and wrote: “Carmen. The very name immediately conjures up the irresistible melodies of Bizet’s beloved opera as well as the dramatic story of its tempestuous heroine. As for the Fantasy itself, it is a kaleidoscopic mishmash of our favorite themes from the opera. With this composition, we aimed to push the virtuosic possibilities of two pianos to the hilt.”
I’m sure you’ll agree. © J. Scott Clemens
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December 2, 2011 Roe-mantic Holidays
- Franz Liszt (1811-1886): Sonnetto 104 del Petrarca from Années de pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage): Deuxième année: Italie, S. 161 No. 5 [7’00]
- Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), arr. Greg Anderson: Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14 (1912), arr. for piano four hands [4'30]
- Johann Strauss II (1825-1899), arr. Greg Anderson: Blue Danube Waltz (1866), arr. for piano four hands [11'00]
Francesco Petrarca, Italian humanist and writer in the 14th century, is credited for the eponymous Petrarchan sonnet: a verse form usually regarding unattainable love for an idealized woman. Sonnetto 104 is no exception, with its opening line: “Warefare I cannot wage, yet know not peace.” The speaker equally despises death and life, for he lives with the pain of unreturned love, and the poem is a series of contradictions: “by grief I’m nurtured; and, though tearful, gay.” Franz Liszt was in no such situation at the age of 26, though, when he was quoting Petrarch in letters to Countess Marie d'Agoult, who had left her husband for him three years prior.
The two lived together in Switzerland and Italy from 1835-39, and as Liszt’s composing matured under her influence, he wrote the Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage). The second book, titled “Italy,” includes his setting of Sonnetto 104, in addition to two other Petrarch sonnets. The Petrarch sonnets have been set to music by noteworthy composers, including Franz Schubert and Arnold Schoenberg, since the 16th century, but Liszt’s settings have had the greatest vitality. Though originally conceived for tenor voice, they were first published for piano solo in 1846. Liszt then revised them multiple times before they reached definitive form in 1858.
Between the desperate introduction and just barely stable close, this is primarily a simple song—probably simple enough to include in a basic sight-singing course, as long as the singer ignored the occasional virtuosic runs over the length of the piano. Yet amidst the songlike nature, which would only get at the “peace” mentioned in Petrarch’s work, Liszt calls upon the performer to swiftly change from dolce to appassionato to even agitato, mimicking the confused and tormented narrator of the sonnet. The restatements of the theme get increasingly tempestuous, and it is clear that this is the “war.” The juxtaposition and swift changes between peace and war are almost schizophrenic, and the piece actually slows to a calm end. With one final tension to remind us of the Petrarch narrator’s “wretched state,” the last chord can only be described as peace.
As mentioned, Liszt worked with his music of the Sonneto over a period of several years transcribing it from a previous composition for voice and piano. Like Liszt with his Sonnotto discussed above, transcription is also informs the compositional practice of Greg Anderson and his duet partner Elizabeth Rose. Their wildly creative and unique works push the boundaries of the collaborative piano experience. On the topic of the history of their transcriptions they offer that "transcriptions are simultaneously retrospective and forward-looking, as the transcriber takes a work of the past and re-imagines in into an entity that resonates with the present. The art of transcription used to flourish as an essential element on the pianist's prowess, whether for purposes of modernization, virtuosic display, or as a conduit for large-scale ensembles works before the age of recording."
Further demonstration on the transcription process (with just as much pianistic prowess, virtuosic display, and sensitive performanceship as that in the Liszt piece) show up in the Rachmaninoff Vocalise and the Strauss Blue Danube Waltz. In arranging Vocalise for piano duet, the Anderson/Roe duo paid homage to Rachmaninoff’s indelible piano writing and to the song’s emotional intimacy and passion. Rachmaninoff composed his Vocalise to be sung without any words, yet somehow the song still manages to communicate a heart-rending story. Words are certainly unneeded in the Vocalise (originally for voice and piano containing no words, but rather sung using a single vowel of the singer’s choosing) and the song, with its glorious melody and lack of text, has proven to be an ideal piece for transcription: there are numerous arrangements for orchestra, chamber ensemble, choir, and solo instruments, including solo piano. The kaleidoscopic Blue Danube Fantasy takes the elegance of the Viennese waltz as a point of departure and plunges headlong into the passions that undulate beneath the dance's restrained façade. The choreography of the four hands brings up the striking resemblance of a couple dancing and two pianists nestled at one piano. A rather masterful handling of the themes occurs throughout this work, most notably when seven of the motives are played in tandem towards the end of the Waltz.
- Notes for Sonnetto 104 provided by Grace Lyden ©2011
- Additional commentary informed by notes from www.andersonroe.com (composer's website)
Luis de Narváez (ca.1500-1555): Guárdame las Vacas [5'00]
Luis Narvarez was a Spanish composer and vihuelist, which is the name (etymologically related to the viola) given to the guitar-like string instrument popular in sixteenth-century Spain. Many books of tablature and notation exist—an indication of its prominence during the Spanish Renaissance—and chief among these scores is Los seys libros del Delphin, a six-volume collection of music for viheula by Narvarez. The entire set is dedicated to a patron of the composer, Francisco de los Cobos, and contains repertoire characterized by polyphony, transcription, and variation.
Guardame las vacas, from the last volume, is a romanesca, which refers to a piece with a repeating chord sequence that yields the groundwork for variation or improvisation. The practice of improvising variations over a pre-existing harmonic pattern was central to most musical traditions in the sixteenth century and Spain was no exception, though the culture and its composers had their own popular tunes to use as the basis for such pieces. The Guardame las vacas mentioned above was among the most frequently used to the point that it became synonymous with "variation technique" or, to use the Spanish term, "diferencias." The piece begins with the unaffected and straightforward presentation of the theme before taking it through seven variations. Scholars cite the importance of Guardame las vacas due to the fact that it is regarded as the first printed version of a variation form in music history. Prof. Anthony Glise, tonight's performer of the work, offers the following, which nicely ties the piece into tonight's romantic era programming: "The title for the theme and variations on Guardame las Vacas translates loosely as 'Guard my Cows.' This may not seem a particularly romantic venture until we look at the words from the original song: 'Guard the cows for me, Juan, and I will kiss you. Or 'I'll guard the cows, and you can kiss me!' If not slightly tongue-in-cheek, one can't deny the romantic 'win-win' of Renaissance husbandry.
Francisco Tarrega (1852-1909): Capriccio Arabe [8'00]
A capriccio is a piece of music that has improvisational characteristics and many were improvised and not always notated. Capriccios are written with a variety of moods and contain virtuosic characteristics. Capriccio Arabe is one of the most important works written by the premenant Spanish guitarist/composer Francisco Tarrega during the romantic/classical era. This piece demonstrates his interest in Romantic trends in music with elements of Spanish folk music. The music cries out romantic melodies with call and response phrases of contrasting characters. “Capriccio” was arranged by the German composer and lutenist Silvius Leopold Weiss. Weiss is an important prolific composer of Baroque Lute music and was a technically accomplished lute player in his day. Weiss was said to have challenged J.S. Bach to an improvisation competition and won. Capriccio Arabe is unpredictable, it breathes full of life, with thick harmony and the melodies are not always apparent. Romantic music made use of the extremes of form expressing emotion above all other values. The turn of the 19th century and the rise of Romanticism reflected the values and belief systems of the culture. Spanish romantic guitarist Fransico Tarrega was an emotional composer and arranged his music with these characteristics.
- Notes informed by Charles Clark of Central Washington University
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706), transcribed by Fabrizio Ferrari: Canon & Gigue in D Major, arr. for string quartet [7'00]
A canon can mean two things in music: a set of core works that become the mainstays of the repertory, and a compositional procedure that involves a single line being strictly woven into dialogue with itself by each voice starting one after the other. Pachelbel's Canon is an example of the latter type that became the baroque member of the former type: a most recognizable piece due to its pleasing bass-line (as instantly memorable as a twelve-bar blues) and the fantasies and flourishes of the violin lines above it.
Although Pachelbel was renowned in his lifetime for his chamber works (most of them were lost. Only Musikalische Ergötzung, a collection of partitas published during Pachelbel's lifetime, is known, and a few isolated pieces in manuscripts. Canon and Gigue in D Major is one of such pieces. A single manuscript copy of it survives in the Berlin State Library. The circumstances of the piece's composition are wholly unknown. One writer hypothesized that the Canon may have been composed for J. C. Bach's wedding, on 23 October 1694, which Pachelbel attended. The canon (without the accompanying gigue) was first published in 1919 by scholar Gustav Beckmann, who included the score in his article on Pachelbel's chamber music. His research was inspired and supported by renowned early music scholar and editor Max Seiffert, who in 1929 published his arrangement of Canon and Gigue in his Organum series. The canon was first recorded in 1940 by Arthur Fiedler, and the first famous recording of the piece was made by the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra. Over the years, the canon has been arranged numerous times for a wide variety of ensembles. The canon's chord progression is used in many pop and rock songs, but it is debatable whether it was deliberately used, because the progression is a very common. The gigue that originally accompanied the canon never received the same amount of popularity, even though it is a lively and energetic dance.
- Notes informed by Grove Music Online
Richard Wagner (1813-1883): Siegfried Idyll, original version for 13 instrumentalists [19'00]
Although Cosima Wagner was born on December 24, she chose to celebrate her birthday on the twenty-fifth. Her diary entry for Sunday, December 25, 1870, reads:
When I woke up I heard a sound, it grew ever louder, I could no longer imagine myself in a dream, music was sounding, and what music! After it had died away, R. came in to me with the five children and put into my hands the score of his "symphonic birthday greeting." I was in tears, but so, too, was the whole household; R. had set up his orchestra on the stairs and thus consecrated our Tribschen forever! The Tribschen Idyll—so the work is called…
R. is her beloved Richard, and two of the five children are Cosima's from her previous marriage to Hans von Bülow, whom she abruptly left for the man that even Hans, a talented pianist and conductor, admitted to be his superior in the world of music. The other three are five-year-old Isolde; Eva, three; and Siegfried, eighteen months—Cosima and Richard Wagner's children, all born before their marriage on August 25, 1870. Tribschen is the name of the house on a Lake Lucerne, where Cosima and Richard made their home. Tribschen Idyll is, of course, the Siegfried Idyll—though it wasn't given that name for many years, after the Wagner's elected to publish their private musical communication in exchange for a nice sum of money. ("The secret treasure is to become public property," Cosima wrote in her diary.)
he Siegfried Idyll—this title apparently dates from a performance in Meiningen in 1877—remains Wagner's only instrumental work that is regularly played. The main theme is a generous and lilting melody sung by Brünnhilde in act 3 of Siegfried to the words beginning "Ewig war ich" (I always was, I always am, always in sweet yearning bliss). Wagner claimed that this music came to him during the summer of 1864 at the Villa Pellet, overlooking Lake Starnberg, where he and Cosima consummated their union. (He is contradicted, however, by his own obsessive record keeping: the melody was composed that November 14, when he was alone in Munich.) A second theme, introduced by the oboe, is a lullaby Wagner jotted down on New Year's Eve 1868. The music is unusually intimate and restrained for a composer who lived a life of excess. More than any other of Wagner's scores, the Siegfried Idyll marries the private and public sides of the most famous composer of the nineteenth century.
- Excerpts and notes informed by Grove Music Online and Phillip Huscher of the CSO
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February 3, 2012 Baroque Virtuosi
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Concerto in A Major for oboe d'amore, strings and basso continuo, BWV1055 (1741) [15'00]
Dan Willett, oboe d'amore - R. Paul Crabb, conductor - Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Like the musical talent of the Bach family, many of Johann Sebastian's compositions went through several generations. It was a common eighteenth-century practice for composers to rework their own music to add to a social or religious engagement. Among the best-known of such pieces in the Bach canon are the concertos for harpsichord, all of which seem to be arrangements of some of his earlier music. The harpsichord concertos were based on works Bach wrote for his duties at the court of Anhalt-Cöthen between 1717 and 1723, where he was responsible for the instrumental rather than the sacred music. Most of the model works were originally for solo violin, but the esteemed English musicologist Sir Donald Tovey showed that the Concerto in A major was written originally for oboe d'amore, an ancestor of the modern English horn.
The opening movement of the Oboe d'amore Concerto begins with a orchestral ritornello whose “returns” (“ritornelli ” in Italian) give the form both its structure and its name. Between the music of the ritornelli , the solo instrument develops a complementary motive. The regular phrases, disposed in eight-measure blocks, give this movement a dance-like quality. The following Larghetto offers a stark contrast in mood from the jolly opening movement. Above a chromatically descending, passacaglia-like bass, the soloist intones a mournful song-like melody full of rich emotion. (Such music is a reminder that the Baroque era was essentially a romantic age in the deeply expressive nature of its art.) The jubilant finale, modeled perhaps on the gigue, returns the dancing motion and high spirits of the first movement.
J.S. Bach: Brandenburg No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047 (1717-18) [12'00]
Iskander Akhmadullin, piccolo trumpet - Steve Geibel, flute - Dan Willett, oboe - Siri Geenen, violin
R. Paul Crabb conductor - Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
Brandenburg, in Bach’s day, was a political and military powerhouse. It had been part of the Holy Roman Empire since the mid-12th century, and its ruler — the Margrave — was charged with defending and extending the northern imperial border in return for which he was allowed to be an Elector of the Emperor. The house of Hohenzollern acquired the margraviate of Brandenburg in 1415, and the family embraced the Reformation a century later with such authority that they came to be regarded as the leaders of German Protestantism; Potsdam, near Berlin, was chosen as the site of the electoral court in the 17th century.
Johann Sebastian Bach met Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg, in 1719, during his tenure as music director at the court of Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen. Bach worked at Cöthen from 1717 to 1723, and early in 1719, he was sent by Leopold to Berlin to finalize arrangements for the purchase of a new harpsichord, a large, two-manual model made by Michael Mietke, instrument-builder to the royal court. While in Berlin, Bach played for Christian Ludwig, who was so taken with his music that he asked him to send some of his compositions for his library. He picked six of the finest concertos he had written at Cöthen and sent them to Christian Ludwig in March 1721.
Trumpet, flute, oboe and violin are on equal terms as solo instruments in the Brandenburg No. 2. An orchestral tutti begins the opening movement, after which each of the soloists are thinned out in turn for a brief statement of greeting. The remainder of the movement is given over to musical conversations of the themes among the soloists and the orchestra. The second movement is a quiet but impassioned trio for flute, oboe and violin supported only by the bass and keyboard. The solo trumpet returns in the finale to begin one of Bach’s most joyous flights of contrapuntal ingenuity and rhythmic vivacity.
Remo Giazotto (1910-1998): Adagio in G Minor for Strings and Organ, on Two Thematic Ideas and on a Figured Bass by Tomaso Albinoni (ca. 1708/1958) [10'00]
Siri Geenen, violin - Colleen Ostercamp, organ - R. Paul Crabb, condcutor - Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
By a coincidence, Tomaso Albinoni remains most popular today for a piece he never wrote. His Adagio in G Minor is a reconstruction (actually, an entirely new composition) by the Italian musicologist Remo Giazotto, based on a six-bar fragment found in one of Albinoni’s manuscripts. Giazotto’s arrangement, published in 1958, helped contribute to the booming interest in baroque music in the years after World War II, and it has become one of the most popular of classical pieces–the current catalog lists over 35 different recordings.
Albinoni himself was a contemporary of Bach, who admired his music (and who paid Albinoni the subtle compliment of borrowing some of his themes to use as fugue subjects). The son of a wealthy family, Albinoni never had to take a court or church position to support himself as a musician, but he was far from being a dilettante, as he is sometimes characterized: he wrote over fifty operas, forty cantatas, and a vast amount of instrumental music that was widely published, and his name was–at the time of his death–known throughout Europe.
The Adagio in G Minor opens with the organ outlining a series of chords over a very slow moving bass line. The strings enter and bring forth a rich and contrapuntal melody which floats over the undulating bass line and organ chords. There are moments of cadenza for a solo violin before the whole group reasserts the melodic momentum and after a dramatic final exposition of the chords the work fades into its conclusion.
J.S. Bach: Cantata BWV 106, 'Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit' [Actus tragicus] (1707/8) [22'40]
R. Paul Crabb, conductor/director - Bach Collegium Choir - Odyssey Chamber Ensemble
We know of no definite date for the “Actus tragicus,” but its style seems to suggest the very beginning of Bach’s career as a composer of vocal music, the time when he was organist of the Blasiuskirche in Mühlhausen 1707-8. Here he did not compose vocal music as a regular weekly or monthly cycle; rather the works were necessitated by specific occasions (in this case, almost certainly a funeral). The text is an amalgam of free poetry, much biblical verse (notably from the Psalms, Isaiah, Luke and Revelation) and two Lutheran chorales. Despite the early date, the work is a masterpiece of the seventeenth century style of text-setting; the music is intimately crafted to the succession of the words without a hint of the newer Italian styles of recitative and da capo aria.
The first half of the cantata is concerned with the inevitability of death while the latter section shows that the “new” Christian message cancels the old covenant: death leads to union with Jesus and eternal life. Incidentally, it is only in the second part that we hear chorales, symbolic as they are of the new, Christian, covenant and of the new Lutheran confession superseding the older Catholic order. The final chorus manages both heightened spirituality and grandeur. In the instrumental prelude, the motive that has until now been marked by downward wavering steps is now inverted, the upward intervals suggesting a sense of ascension and triumph. The chorus enters accompanied by instrumental emphasis on off-beats. A light, brilliant choral fugue ends the piece, with the final "Amen" echoed by the instruments very softly-a sublime finish.
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March 9, 2012 "Fractured Jams" by eighth blackbird
David Lang: these broken wings (2007)
Bruno Mantovani: Chamber Concerto No. 2 (2011)
Andy Akiho: ErAsE (2011)
Intermission
Philip Glass: Music in Similar Motion (1969)
Stephen Hartke: Meanwhile: Incidental music to imaginary puppet plays (2007)
DESCRIPTION:
Join Grammy-winning ensemble eighth blackbird for a dangerous musical high wire act. This sextet combines the finesse of a finely-honed string quartet with the energy of a rock band, and Fractured Jams presents an absorbing, provocative and motley program. Swedish composer Fabian Svensson enacts a thrilling, virtuosic face-off between the "two sides" of the group, while American Dan Visconti's Fractured Jams feeds pop music through a musical shredder to generate an over-caffeinated jam session. Philip Glass's mesmerizing Music in Similar Motion contrasts with renowned French composer Bruno Mantovani's colorful new work for eighth blackbird, and Derek Bermel's Tied Shifts is a wild Balkan romp.
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May 4, 2012 TZIGANE UNLEASHED
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano, BB85/Sz. 76 (1922) [21'00]
Although Béla Bartók’s conservatory education was in German, he was not pleased with just studying German or French composers. Despite feeling disconnected with the conservatory’s Western European focus, he did absorb the musical techniques and trends of turn-of-the-century Europe. It was only after hearing a concert of Hungarian folk tunes in 1903 that the young composer began to seek inspiration and enlightenment in his native music. Generally, Hungarian folk music is zesty rhythmically, simple yet often quite quirky melodically, with relatively austere accompaniment. The composer’s Violin Sonata No. 2, however, is not an arrangement of a naïve folk song or a gypsy violin tune disguised as a classical concert work. The continuos, two-movement Sonata is intricate and complex, far removed from the Hungarian peasant tunes and Turkish wedding songs that Bartók had begun to study and chronicle.It is also a very difficult work, written for a violin virtuoso of the highest caliber. Bartók described it to his concert agent in a 1924 letter: “The violin part of the two violin sonatas… is extraordinarily difficult, and it is only a violinist of the top class who has any chance of learning them…“ The Sonata was written in 1922 and premiered the next year in Berlin. It was dedicated to violinist Jelly d’Arányi, niece of famous violinist Joseph Joachim. Together, they gave the work its first performance in England.
© J. Scott Clemens
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)Tzigane ("Gypsy," 1922-24) [10'00]
Tzigane was originally written for violin and piano, and once again, Jelly d’Arányi, to whom it is dedicated, gave the first performance with pianist Henri Gil-Marchex in London on April 26, 1924.
Like the Bartok Sonata, Tzigane celebrates the artistry and temperament of a particular performer. Fire and dash irradiate the famous pieces written for her—Tzigane. The adventurous Ms. d’Arányi was quick to take several of Ravel’s exceedingly difficult pieces into her repertory, and the gestation for Tzigane came about after much collaborative work. According to an account gave to Ravel’s biographer Arbie Orenstein, “late in the evening Ravel asked the Hungarian violinist to play some Gypsy melodies. After Mlle. d’Arányi obliged, the composer asked for one more melody, and then another. The Gypsy melodies continued until about 5 a.m., with everyone exhausted except the violinist and the composer. That evening,” adds Orenstein, “was to mark the initial gestation of Tzigane.” Gestation took almost two years, quiet years in which Ravel finished his orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Ms. d’Arányi introduced Tzigane at the Aeolian Hall in London, she created a sensation with it. The way Tzigane begins is a distillation of what happened at that party in London in the summer of 1922—recollection, improvisation, explosions of exuberant virtuosity, all for violin alone. The piano, egged on by the violin’s sliding harmonies, tries a cadenza, too, and that opens the door for the whirlwind of peppery, seductive dance-tunes in the second part of Ravel’s rhapsody. Almost needless to say, the presentation of these tunes is a feast of sounds and melody to the audience.
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Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Concerto for piano, violin, and string quartet, Op. 21 in D Major (1899-91) [40'16]
Chausson was a late starter musically, and it was only in 1879 that he began his formal musical education, when he enrolled in the Paris Conservatoire at the age of twenty-nine. He quickly came under the influence of César Franck and the circle who gathered round him, though he was never officially one of Franck’s students. His first mature compositions are full of Franck’s influence, but his music began to be enriched by a more classical eighteenth-century outlook. He took to consciously using older musical forms, even adopting French baroque tempo markings. It is in this light that this unique work must be considered. To 18th-century French composers such as François Couperin and Rameau the term concert indicated simply an instrumental work in several movements. In no sense of the word is Chausson’s work a concerto – neither a violin concerto nor a double concerto for violin and piano - but a piece of true chamber music.
Chausson dedicated it to the Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe, who took part in the first performance in Brussels in 1892. The première gave him his first taste of real success. As he wrote in his diary: “Never have I had such a success! I can’t get over it. Everyone seems to love the Concert. Very well played, with wonderful moments, and so artistically executed! I feel light and joyful, something I haven’t been for a long time. It’s done me good and has given me courage. I believe I’ll work with more confidence in the future.” The turbulent first movement is dominated by the three-note figure hammered out, twice, at the start, and the point of departure for both the tranquil passage that follows and the vigorous opening theme of the main body of the movement. Though the work as a whole is far from being baroque pastiche, the second movement does share the graceful lilting rhythm of the eighteenth-century dance from which it takes its title. There is no contrasting central section. Instead the music moves in a single arc to its forceful climax, before sinking back to its graceful conclusion .Just as the first movement is dominated by its three-note figure, so the third is underpinned by various forms of the chromatic figure heard low on the piano at the start. The passionate central climax begins more abruptly than that of the Sicilienne, returning eventually to the quiet in which the movement began.The finale’s vigor and drive comes as the perfect counterbalance, full of springy rhythms, and moments when the mood becomes lighter, even playful. Particularly impressive is the final section, marked ‘très vif’ (very lively) in which Chausson sustains the growing excitement without resorting to empty rhetoric. No wonder he was pleased with his achievement.
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