Faculty Recital An Evening of French Music

Parry Karp, Cellist Eli Kalman, Pianist

Mills Hall University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music

Thursday, February 28, 2019 7:30 PM Program

Sonate pour Violoncelle et Piano (1915) Claude Debussy Prologue (1862-1918) Sérénade et Finale

Sonate pour Violoncelle et Piano in A Major, Op. 20 (1909-10) Albéric Magnard Sans lenteur (1865-1914) Sans faiblir Funèbre Rondement

Intermission

Soirs Étrangers pour Violoncelle et Piano, Op. 56 (1928) Louis Vierne I. Grenade (1870-1937)

Sonata No. 1 pour Violoncelle et Piano in C Minor, Op. 32 (1872) Camille Saint-Saëns Allegro (1835-1921) Andante tranquillo sostenuto Allegro moderato

Cellist Parry Karp is Artist-in Residence and Professor of Chamber Music and Cello, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is director of the string chamber music program. He has been cellist of the Pro Arte Quartet for the past 43 years, the longest tenure of any member in the quartet’s over 100 year history. Parry Karp is a active solo artist, performing numerous recitals annually in the United States, and has recorded six solo CDs. He is active as a performer of new music and has performed in the premieres of dozens of works, many of which were written for him, including concerti, sonatas and chamber music. Unearthing and performing unjustly neglected repertoire for cello is a passion of Mr. Karp’s. In recent years he has transcribed for cello many masterpieces written for other instruments. This project has included performances of all of the Duo Sonatas of Brahms. As cellist of the Pro Arte Quartet he has performed over 1000 concerts throughout North, Central and South America, Europe, and Japan. His discography with the group has been ex- tensive (over two dozen recordings) and includes the complete string quartets of Ernest Bloch, Miklos Rosza, and Karol Szymanowski. Many of these recordings received awards from Fanfare and High Fidelity Magazines. Former students of Mr. Karp’s are members of professional string quartets, major orchestras, and teachers in North America. In 2012 he was a recipient of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the spring of 2016, Parry Karp was named a fellow of the Wisconsin Academy. Pianist Eli Kalman has performed extensively in Romania, Israel, Germany, Hungary, Japan, United States and Canada. Hailing from Romania and Israel, he was the recipient of the Paul Collins Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship for Excellence at UW-Madison. Prior to his teaching appointment at UW-Oshkosh in 2006, he held educator positions on the piano faculty at the Center of Arts, Mizra in Israel and previously at the Lyceum of Arts, Baia Mare in Romania. As a performer, he has been featured at the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington D.C., on “San Francisco Performances” and “Tuesday Evening Concert Series” in Virginia, on the Emmanuel Music-Schumann Chamber Series in Boston, the Connoisseur Series at Wichita State University, the Myra Hess Series in Chicago, in addition to other venues. He was an enthusiastic artist-in-residence at the Chamber Music Festival at Banff, Canada, and a guest artist for five years at the Token Creek Festival directed by celebrated American composer John Harbison. Solo and chamber appearances have included the Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall with tubist Marty Erickson, the Krieger String Series at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts with cellist Amit Peled, soloist with the Water City Chamber Orchestra, the Sylvia Adalman Artist Recital Series at the Peabody Institute in Balti- more, “Sunday Afternoon Live from the Chazen” live on NPR, WFMT in Chicago, Farley’s House of Pianos Series in Madison, and Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society. As a recording artist, he offers the works for solo piano and cello and piano by Erwin Jung- er (2001) and Robert Schumann’s Sonatas for Violin and Piano with violinist Rose Mary Harbison (2006) and “The Jewish Soul” CD with cellist Amit Peled from the Peabody Institute on Centaur Records (2009). His solo recording entitled Homo Ludens highlights solo piano music of Russian-American pianist-composer Lera Auerbach, released on Centaur in 2015. A new CD with music for violin and piano by Respighi was released in 2018 in collaboration with violinist Jameson Cooper. Other recordings of his recitals have been broadcast on Jerusa- lem Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio and WFMT in Chicago. As a scholar, Dr. Kalman’s research interests focus on neglected repertoire for strings and piano, the compositions of Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti and Israeli composer Erwin Junger, as well as on unpublished chamber works by Ottorino Respighi. His research in the field has led to the world premiere publication of Respighi’s first Sonata for violin and piano (1897) published on A-R Editions/Special Publi- cations, 2011. We thank the Vilas Trust, the Anonymous Fund, and our many donors for supporting these concerts and other activities at the School of Music.

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