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Featuring music by Martin Bresnick and Yale School of Music graduate-student Thursday, February 6, 2020 | 7:30 pm | Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall

Eli Greenhoe People and Places b.1994 I. Willow II. Eugène III. Alpaca

Eli Greenhoe, electric guitar

Samantha Wolf Collideoscope, for mouthpiece and audio playback b. 1990 Linda Dallimore, flute and audio playback

Soomin Kim My Dream Journal b. 1995 I. intro II. yōkai III. trampoline IV. fugue: the mirror V. reflection VI. the f-hole guitar VII. outro

Jade Conlee,

Frances Pollock Tomorrow b. 1990 Frances Pollock, soprano Eli Greenhoe, guitar Program, cont.

Alexis Lamb Familiar b. 1993 Alyssa Resh, percussion

intermission

Joel Thompson “Mama’s Eyes” from The Snowy Day b. 1988 Leah Brzyski, soprano Miles Walter, piano

Gabrielle Herbst I cannot see b. 1986 the trees are falling

Gabrielle Herbst, soprano Frances Pollock, voice Soomin Kim, voice Linda Dallimore, flute Eli Greenhoe, electric guitar Roberto Granados, electric guitar Nate Huvard, electric guitar Alexis Lamb, percussion Miles Walter, piano Paul Mortilla, conductor

Martin Bresnick Josephine the Singer b. 1946 Elly Toyoda,

Bresnick Bird As Prophet

Elly Toyoda, violin Lisa Moore, piano

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Martin Bresnick, Eli Greenhoe ’18MM ’24DMA Student of Hannah Lash Composer Martin Bresnick is Professor » eligreenhoe.com of Composition and Coordinator of the Composition Department at the Yale Samantha Wolf ’21MM School of Music. He has also taught at Student of Christopher Theofanidis the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, » samanthawolfmusic.com Eastman School of Music, New College in Oxford, and Royal Academy of Music in Soomin Kim ’21MM London, among other schools. In 2006, Student of Aaron Jay Kernis Bresnick was elected to membership in the » soominkimcomposer.com American Academy of Arts and Letters. Joel Thompson ’20MM Bresnick’s music has been performed by Student of David Lang the San Francisco Symphony , St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Münster Frances Pollock ’19MM ’24DMA Philharmonic, Orquestra Sinfonica do Student of Aaron Jay Kernis Estado de Sao Paulo, Izumi Sinfonietta » francespollock.com Osaka, Society of Lincoln Center, Da Capo Chamber Players, Bang Alexis Lamb ’20MM on A Can All Stars, and MusicWorks! Student of Martin Bresnick among other ensembles, and at the Prague » alexislamb.com Spring, Tanglewood, Banff, New Music America, and New Horizons festivals. Gabrielle Herbst ’20MM He has received commissions from the Student of David Lang National Endowment for the Arts, Fromm » iamgabimusic.com Foundation, Lincoln Center Chamber Players, Meet the Composer, and Chamber Music America. Staff

Bresnick has received the Elise L. Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Manager Lincoln Center, the Charles Ives Living Jeffrey M. Mistri Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the ASCAP Foundation’s Music Librarian Aaron Copland Prize for teaching, and a Samuel Bobinski Guggenheim Fellowship. Bresnick’s music is published by Carl Fischer Music, Bote Fellow and Bock, and Common Muse Music Ryan Tani Publishers. office assistant Andrew Sledge Performer Profiles

Elly Toyoda, violin Elly Toyoda lives in New York City. She is currently a full-scholarship doctoral Violinist Elly Toyoda, a native of Osaka, student at Rutgers University, where she Japan, has performed in festivals in studies with Yura Lee. Elly is a faculty Asia, Europe, and North America. She member of Lindeblad School of Music, holds her Bachelor’s degree from Oberlin and SpeakMusic Conservatory. In the Conservatory, where she studied with 2019–20 season Elly will be performing Marilyn McDonald on both modern with the noted new-music ensemble and baroque violin, and was elected Eighth Blackbird. membership to Pi Kappa Lambda of the National Music Honor Society. She Lisa Moore, piano studied for a semester in Vienna, Austria, supported by a Thomastik-Infeld City The New York Times writes ‘Lisa Moore of Music Scholarship and Fine Arts has always been a natural, compelling Scholarship. Toyoda earned her Master’s storyteller’. Pitchfork claims “Lisa Moore degree from the Yale School of Music is a tightrope-walker, a daredevil. She’s where she studied with Syoko Aki. She the best kind of contemporary classical served as concertmistress of the Yale musician, one so fearsomely game that she Philharmonia, was a finalist of their inspires composers to offer her their most concerto competition, and received the wildly unplayable ideas. She can play school’s Alumni Prize. them all.”

Toyoda has been a semi-finalist of the This multi-faceted pianist and avid 2017 Gershwin International Music collaborator won the silver medal in Competition, and a finalist of the 2018 the 1981 Carnegie Hall International Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra American Music Competition. Based Concerto Competition. An avid performer in New York City since 1985, she has and supporter of contemporary music, released 10 solo discs, ranging from Leoš she was awarded the Prix de Musique Janáček to Philip Glass, and more than Contemporaine by the Fontainebleau thirty collaborative discs. While the Schools Association. Elly has performed founding pianist (‘92-’08) of the Bang on programs at National Sawdust and On A Can All-Stars, Lisa Moore won (le) poisson rouge in New York City, and Musical America’s 2005 Ensemble of the Elb Philharmonie in Germany. She the Year award. Over her 40 year career has collaborated with many composers she has collaborated with more than and premiered numerous works through 200 composers – from Iannis Xenakis, the Lucerne Festival, Massachusetts Elliot Carter, Philip Glass, Meredith International Festival of the Arts, Norfolk Monk, and Frederic Rzewski to Ornette Chamber Music Festival, and Talis Coleman, Jonny Greenwood, Thurston Festival. Moore, Martin Bresnick, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe. Lisa has performed with University of Illinois (BM), Eastman the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln School of Music (MM), SUNY Center, New York City Ballet, Steve Stonybrook (DMA), and in Paris for a Reich Ensemble, American Composers year with Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen. She Orchestra, and is a current member of coaches at the Yale-Norfolk Festival New Grand Band, Ensemble Signal, TwoSense, Music Workshop, and has been a regular Tempus Duo, and the Paul Dresher guest at the Australian National Academy Double Duo. of Music. Past teaching residencies include the Banff Centre (Canada), Royal As a concerto soloist, Lisa Moore has Academy of Music (London), Eastman performed with the London Sinfonietta, School of Music, Sydney, , and Australian Chamber Orchestra, Albany Queensland Conservatoriums, Australian Symphony, La Jolla Symphony, Sydney Youth Orchestra National Music Camp. Symphony, Tasmania Symphony, Thai Lisa Moore is a Steinway Artist. National, Monash MAPA, Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Virtuosi, Wesleyan University Orchestra- Sumarsam Gamelan, and the Queensland Philharmonic. She has worked under the batons of David Robertson, Leonard Bernstein, , Bradley Lubman, Steven Schick, , , Reinbert de Leeuw, Jorge Mester, and Angel Gil-Ordonez. Lisa has performed in the Royal Albert Hall, La Scala, Carnegie Hall, Musikverein, and the Sydney House. Her festival appearances include Lincoln Center, BAM Next Wave, Banff, Tanglewood, Aspen, Chautauqua, Gilmore, Chamber Music Northwest, Huddersfield, Vale of Glamorgan, Liquid Music, Holland, Graz, Paris d’Automne, Rome, Milan, Turin, Hong Kong, BBC Proms, Southbank, , Perth, , Sydney, Melbourne Metropolis, Israel, and Warsaw.

Born in Australia, Lisa Moore studied piano at the Sydney Conservatorium, Program Notes by the composers

Soomin Kim And oh, how Mama’s eyes are watching this world! My Dream Journal is a set of miniatures about various dreams I had since childhood. I made a promise to let you go out in the snow Movements II, III, and IV are about dreams alone, that I had when I was young, and move- And today I keep my word. ments V and VI are about dreams I had But, that doesn’t mean I don’t worry, recently. I was interested in exploring my as I see you hurry down the snowy sidewalk... subconscious and finding out why certain dreams stuck with me when the majority And oh, how Mama’s eyes are watching this of them faded. world!

Alexis Lamb Red-chested birdie flying today, While I watch, while I pray: Familiar is about the idea of home and You are happy. storytelling with a list of some of my You are safe. favorite memories of what I have considered to be “home.” The concept of home to me And oh, how Mama’s eyes are watching this is not necessarily a physical location, but world! instead, it is like a permanent bread crumb trail that you can follow throughout your Program note: life and return to emotionally, mentally, After helping Peter get dressed and and perhaps physically as well. Ultimately, bundled in his winter clothes, Mama I think home is a place where you can find sings this prayerful aria of hope, anxiety, love, comfort, and security at any point in and love as she sees her beautiful boy go your life. out on his first solo adventure in the snow. For more information about the opera: Joel Thompson » houstongrandopera.org/snowyday

Text: Martin Bresnick My beautiful boy in a blanket of white, Bright as the day you came into our lives. Josephine The Singer takes its title from Franz Like a snowflake, you fell, Kafka’s last published story, “Josephine Nestled into our hearts: the Singer or the Mouse People.” This You, Peter. You, child. You... valedictory tale was Kafka’s prescient meditation both on musical divas and also Got your Daddy’s hands, what he considered might be the future of holding fast to what’s right the Jews as a persecuted minority in Europe Got your Mama’s eyes, in the 20th century. seeing far and wide

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The composition is an extended passacaglia on a subject derived from my earlier work mar Suzanne Farrin, guest composer Songs of The Mouse People. This subject it- 5 New works by alumna Suzanne self is found to be consistent with the narrow Farrin ’08dma. intervals employed in most mouse melodies. apr Tania Leon, guest composer Josephine The Singer was commissioned by 16 “Fueled by a humanist curiosity” the International Max Rostal competition — NBC News in Berlin as the required solo composition for violin. Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. Morse Recital Hall Bird as Prophet is the last in a series of free twelve pieces entitled Opere della Musica Povera (Works of a Poor Music). The title Bird as Prophet refers to a piano miniature of the same name from the Waldszenen of Robert Schumann. Bird as Prophet’s combi- nation of simple programmatic suggestive- ness and abstract patterning seeks to recapture the vivid, oracular, but finally enigmatic spirit of Schumann’s (and Charlie Parker’s) remarkable musical prophecies.

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