In cooperation with the California State University, Fresno Department of Music

Presents An Evening of Music

Thomas Lowenheim, cello

Hatem Nadim, Founded in 1897 at the University of Maine, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest, largest, and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Its chapters are on more than 300 campuses in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Each year, approximately 30,000 members are initiated.

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Thomas Lowenheim, cello

Hatem Nadim, piano

A big thank you to our student volunteers: Program

Heather Donat Natasha Tayar Variations on a Theme by Corelli Giuseppe Tartini Mika Petrucci (1692-1770) Daniel Ward

Sonata for Cello and Piano in A major, Op. 69 Allegro, ma non tanto (1170-1827) Scherzo And Student Officers: Adagio cantabile - Allegro vivace

Madison Artist Eric Battles Phillippe Prohoroff Sonata for Cello and Piano in F major, Op. 99 Allegro moderato (1833-1897) Scherzo Largo Finale. Allegro

Friday January 20, 2012 8:00 p.m. Concert Hall California State University, Fresno Thomas Loewenheim is a modern Hatem Nadim was born in Cairo (Egypt). At the renaissance man: a unique musician who age of ten he visited the Cairo Conservatoire, where enjoys an international career, combining cello he studied solo piano with R. Yassa, V. Fedorovtzew performance, , and teaching at the and V. Samaliotow and graduated with highest levels. He has toured North America, honors. Later, as a music scholarship winner at the Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East, University at Frankfurt (Germany), he continued performing with orchestras, giving recitals, and his post-graduate studies in and playing chamber music, and has been broadcast vocal accompaniment, with Professors Joachim over the national radio networks in Austria, Volkmann and Rainer Hoffmann, where he earned Canada, and . his degree.

Loewenheim is currently director of orchestras and professor of cello at California From 1989 to 1996 he held the position of faculty member at the Johannes Guten- State University, Fresno, and music director and the conductor of the Philhar- berg University in Mainz teaching solo piano. In 1989 he also accepted the monic Orchestra of the Youth Orchestras of Fresno (YOOF). Previously he taught coveted position as faculty member at the University of Music in Mannheim, at the Indiana University String Academy and the Memorial University of where his responsibilities included those of collaborative , chamber music Newfoundland (MUN), and served as music director and conductor of the coach and piano accompaniment teacher. In September 2006, Mr. Nadim was Musical Arts Youth Orchestra (MAYO) in south-central Indiana. appointed staff accompanist at California State University in Fresno.

As a conductor, Loewenheim has earned a reputation for getting the most out of Mr. Nadim has performed extensively throughout Europe, the United States, any orchestra, whether coming in for a single performance or festival week, as at Korea and the Middle East. He has performed chamber music with some of the the Hong Kong International School Choral and Orchestra Festival, or building most renowned performing artists including Leslie Parnas, Arto Noras, Michael an orchestra over a period of years, as at MUN or for MAYO. He founded the Flaksman, Susanne Rabenschlag, Jean-Michel Tanguy, Michael Hasel, the Verdi iMAYO festival in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a co-founder of the Quartet, Herrmann Voss, and Helene Joseph-Weil. international Tuckamore chamber music festival in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Mr. Nadim has several recordings, the latest of which is a complete collection of Through his own performing, working with some of the great musicians of our the Mozart Sonatas and Variations with the German violinist, Susanne day, and his cumulative experience as a teacher, Loewenheim has synthesized an Rabenschlag for Avi-Music and Deutschland Radio. Soon he will start recording approach to teaching and conducting which produces a technical confidence that the complete Violin Sonatas of Beethoven and the German Romantiks (Brahms, rapidly enables music-making at a sophisticated level. He is currently Schumann, Mendelssohn) also with Susanne Rabenschlag. demonstrating this approach in his master classes around the world.

Loewenheim is also an active researcher, who has been rediscovering lost master- pieces, then performing and editing them. He has been the dedicatee of a number of cello works, most unaccompanied.

Loewenheim earned a doctorate in cello performance from the renowned Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where he studied with Janos Starker and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, and was mentored in conducting by David Effron. He received a master’s degree from the University of Michigan under Erling Blöndal Bengtsson and a bachelor’s degree from the Rubin Academy for Music and Dance in Jerusalem. He also took part in master classes with Yo-Yo Ma, Mischa Maisky, Antonio Meneses, Arto Noras, Aldo Parisot, William Pleeth, and Menahem Pressler, among others. He plays a Jean Baptiste Vuillaume cello, made in 1848.