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The 2013 Cleveland Trombone Seminar (CTS) Is a 9-Day Intensive Session Designed to Further the Professional Education of Young Trombonists Pursuing a Life in Music Welcome from CTS Director, Shachar Israel: The 2013 Cleveland Trombone Seminar (CTS) is a 9-day intensive session designed to further the professional education of young trombonists pursuing a life in music. In its second year, the seminar provides ample performance opportunities in a positive learning environment to trombone enthusiasts and music lovers. As we tailor each annual seminar to the attending trombonists within the given year, this second seminar was born anew in anticipation for the 34 talented Participants and Associates who are joining us. Together with faculty members, staff, clinicians and guests, we are all very excited for many recitals, concerts, masterclasses and other seminar events. In addition to the 4 faculty recitals by Haim Avitsur, Mark Lusk, Toby Oft and myself, we will also be presenting a special concert by the Great Whigham, will play his event at Nighttown in Cleveland Heights, together with the Paul Ferguson Octet (see page 12). In producing such an event, the 2013 CTS is supported through generous sponsorships by the Edwards Instruments Company, Royalton Music Center and our host, the Music Department of Cleveland State University. I would like to thank these gracious benefactors along with a few anonymous donors who provide for an incredible foundation for this seminar. Special Simna and WCLV-104.9FM for their extensive support. On behalf of all of us at CTS, I do hope you will enjoy our events and we hope to meet you during our seminar. We are thrilled to welcome you, either as a Participant, an Associate, an Cleveland Trombone Seminar. Shachar Israel, Director 1 leveland 2013 CTS Participants and Associates C Eli Brauner Matt Nedimyer rombone Christopher Brosius Christopher Caine Thomas Newcomer Seminar Evan Clifton Dan DiMarino Aaron Pisula Andrew Duncan Nolan Plunkett Andrew Roberts Table of Contents Page Morgan Fite Ryan Rongone Christopher Graham Louis Setzer Director’s Welcome 1 Michael Giuliani Dan Sherman Sarah Shulbank-Smith Bradley Snyder Daniel Kolan Ian Striedter CTS Participants, Associates, Faculty and Staff 2 David Kraus Santiago Latorre Wesley Thompson Richard Liverano Robert Violette Alex McCoy Martin Walters Great Lakes Trombone Choir (Mon, 6/10) 6 2013 CTS Faculty Haim Avitsur Shachar Israel Mark Lusk Toby Oft Haim Avitsur Recital (Thurs, 6/13) 10 2013 CTS Staff Kate Bill, CSU Liaison Toby Oft Recital (Sat, 6/15) 14 Dan Dimarino, Seminar Assistant Deborah Yasutake, Piano Ralitsa Georgieva-Smith, Piano Martin Walters, Seminar Assistant Final Concert, feat 2013 CTS Participants (Sun, 6/16) 16 Michael Giuliani, Seminar Assistant Ed Zadrozny, Trombone 2 3 Cleveland Trombone Seminar Presents: Shachar Israel, trombone Shachar Israel, trombone Cited by the New York Times as “a gifted young trombonist”, Deborah Yasutake, piano Shachar Israel serves as Assistant Principal Trombone of the Cleveland Orchestra. Prior to joining the Cleveland Orchestra in the 2009-10 4pm, Saturday season, Mr. Israel served as Principal Trombone of the Hartford (CT) 8 June, 2013 Drinko Hall major orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Cleveland State University Philharmonic and the Montreal Symphony. A soloist and chamber musician, Mr. Israel performed Berio’s Concerto Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ‘Sequenza V’ for solo trombone at New York’s Lincoln Center for the New York Philharmonic’s “Day of Berio”. He has been a soloist with Andante cantabile Allegro – Allegretto on several occasions with Canadian Brass, including at the Blossom Festival. Also with this prestigious ensemble, he recorded 4 commercial Concerto in D Minor, Op. 9, No. 2 Tomaso Albinoni CD’s. The trombonist was the winner of the Lewis Van Haney Allegro e non presto (1674-1745) Adagio Festival. An avid teacher, Mr. Israel is on the faculty of Cleveland State Allegro University. He is the founder and director of the Cleveland Trombone Seminar (CTS). Intermission Born in Nahariya, Israel, Mr. Israel received his Bachelors of Music from The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied with Nitzan Haroz, Principal Trombonist of the Philadelphia has been a member of the Verbier Festival Orchestra, the Spoleto Allemande Festival Orchestra and attended 2 summers at the Music Academy Courante of the West. Mr. Israel is a graduate of the Thelma Yellin High School Sarabande in Givatyim, Israel. His studies while in Israel were made possible by Menuet I the generosity of the America Israel Cultural Foundation through Menuet II; Menuet I da capo its scholarship program, the Keren Sharet Competitions. Gigue Mr. Israel is a clinician for the Edwards Instruments Company. He performs on a T350 model Tenor Trombone. Varietals Andrew Skaggs Opening - Barolo (b. 1972) Deborah Yasutake, piano Intermezzo - Toscana Deborah Yasutake received a bachelor’s degree in trombone Tarantella - Verduzzo performance from Northwestern University, but has found her greatest musical joy as a collaborative pianist. She has worked as an accompanist at Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, the University of Akron and Kent State University. She has worked with members of the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Akron Symphony and Canton Symphony. Ms. Yasutake is currently a faculty member at the University of Akron School of Music as well as an active freelance accompanist. She maintains a private piano studio in Hudson, OH. 4 5 Cleveland Trombone Seminar Presents: Great Lakes Trombone Choir Great Lakes Trombone Choir: 7pm, Monday The Great Lakes Trombone Choir was formed in 2011 and 10 June, 2013 played its inaugural performance at the 2012 Cleveland Trombone Drinko Hall Seminar. The choir is comprised of professional musicians from the Cleveland State University Great Lakes region of the United States. It performs original music and arrangements of known tunes through its versatile style. Adagio for Strings Samuel Barber Lisa Albrecht (Rochester Philharmonic) David Bruestle (Erie Philharmonic) Shachar Israel (Cleveland Orchestra) Mark Lusk (Penn State University) Scherzo funèbre Derek Bourgeois Garth Simmons (Toledo Symphony) (b. 1941) Tim Smith (Buffalo Philharmonic) An Alpine Fantasy Richard Strauss Ken Thompkins (Detroit Symphony) arr. Ben Mansted Intermission Tonight's concert was made possible by the generous sponsorship of the Edwards Instruments Company. 6.35 Steven Verhelst O Nata Lux Morten Lauridsen from Lux Aeterna (b. 1943) arr. Edward Losinger (b. 1932) Special thank you to WCLV 104.9FM for tonight's live radio broadcast of this program. We ask our audience to please pay close attention to silencing all electronic devices. 6 7 Cleveland Trombone Seminar Presents: Mark Lancaster Lusk, bass-trombone Mark Lancaster Lusk, bass-trombone Mark Lancaster Lusk joined the Penn State faculty as professor Deborah Yasutake, piano career with such diverse groups as the Woody Herman Thundering 6pm, Tuesday Herd, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, 11 June, 2013 and the Chicago Contemporary Chamber Players. He continues to Drinko Hall have an active playing career as a soloist, clinician, and freelance Cleveland State University musician. As a member of the Woody Herman Alumni Band, he has performed throughout the United States and abroad, including featured performances at jazz festivals in China, England, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Scotland, Allemande and Sweden. The two most recent recordings of the Woody Herman Courante Sarabande Menuet I Professor Lusk has performed on Broadway in many shows, Menuet II; Menuet I da capo including the most recent production of Little Women. The original cast Gigue album is currently available from Ghostlight Records. His successful career on Broadway has allowed him to play such memorable shows as Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, Victor/ Victoria, Miss Saigon, and Beauty and the Beast. Ich wandte mich, und sahe Professor Lusk’s performing and teaching have also taken him O Tod, wie bitter bist du to South America. He has toured Chile as an artist/clinician, teaching Wenn ich mit Menschen- und mit Engelszungen redete and performing throughout the country, including a performance of Raymond Premru’s “Concerto for Tuba” with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción and Robert Spillman’s “Concerto for Bass Trombone Intermission and Orchestra” with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile. Lusk was also invited to Argentina as an artist/clinician. His performance of the Spillman Concerto with the Orquesta Filharmónica de Buenos Aires Sonata for Bass-Trombone and Piano Alec Wilder Teatro Colon. Each year Professor Lusk’s tours as a soloist and with various Slowly groups take him to numerous universities and schools of music across Lively the United States. He has often performed at the New York Brass Expressivo Conference, the Eastern Trombone Workshop, and the International Swinging Trombone Workshop where he was invited to conduct the William Cramer Memorial Trombone Ensemble of College Professors. Concertino for Bass-Trombone Eric Ewazen Lusk is a native of Brandenburg, Kentucky. He holds With members of the Penn-State Trombone Choir (b. 1954) undergraduate and graduate degrees from The Eastman School University. Lusk is a clinician for the S. E. Shires Company and is published by Lyceum Press, including the Trombonist’s Guide to the Deborah Yasutake, piano For Ms. Yasutake’s bio, please see page 5 of the program. 9
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