Regency Series

Regency String Quartet “Reformation & Revolution”

Sunday, October 15, 2017, at 8pm Jennie Lee Hansen Recital Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Center Pacific Lutheran University School of Arts and Communication / Department of Music presents

Regency Series

Regency String Quartet “Reformation & Revolution”

Svend Rønning & Mary Manning, ; Betty Agent, viola; Richard Treat,

Sunday, October 15, 2017, at 8pm Jennie Lee Hansen Recital Hall, Mary Baker Russell Music Center

Welcome to Jennie Lee Hansen Recital Hall. Please disable the audible signal on all watches, pagers and cellular phones for the duration of the concert. Use of cameras, recording equipment and all digital devices is not permitted in the concert hall.

PROGRAM

Selections from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 ...... (1685-1750) arr. Richard Klemm & Carl Weymar I. Contrapunctus I VI. Doppelfuge I X. Gegenfuge II XV. Kanon IV der Umkehrung und Vergröβerung XVI. Spiegelfuge I

String Quartet in G Major, K. 387 (“Spring”) ...... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Allegro vivace assai Menuetto: Allegro Andante cantabile Molto allegro

INTERMISSION

String Quartet No. 1, op. 50 ...... Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Allegro Andante molto—Vivace Andante

About the Artists

Svend Rønning, , is Chair of the Faculty of Stringed Instruments and Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University. He studied violin with Ann Tremaine at Pacific Lutheran University and with Syoko Aki, Sidney Harth and Jaap Schröder at Yale University, where he earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Svend is a founding and former member of the Rivanna String Quartet, in residence at the University of Virginia and is currently Artistic Director of the Second City Chamber Music Series, Tacoma’s award winning producer of classical chamber music. Dr. Rønning serves as Concertmaster of the Tacoma Symphony and has served previously as Concertmaster for the Charlottesville Symphony, the San Jose Symphony, the Spoleto Chamber Orchestra, and the Tacoma Opera Orchestra.

Mary Manning, violin, is in her fourth season as a member of the Regency String Quartet and has been on PLU’s String Faculty since 2007. She is a Tacoma native and a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio where she studied both modern and baroque violin performance. Her extensive work as a baroque orchestral musician has included being a member of the Seattle, Portland, and Pacific (Vancouver BC) Baroque Orchestras. On modern violin Mary has played with the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, and the Tacoma Symphony in addition to serving as Concertmaster for the Northwest Sinfonietta during the 2005-2006 Season and as Concertmaster for Seattle Pro Musica’s Mozart Orchestra in 2005. Tacoma audiences will recognize her as the longtime Principal Second Violin of the Northwest Sinfonietta. In addition to her extensive experience as a violinist, Mary is also an avid violist on both modern and early instruments.

Betty Agent, viola, is an Affiliate Artist at Pacific Lutheran University where, in addition to her Regency String Quartet duties, she teaches viola. An active chamber music player, Ms. Agent has performed in the Governor’s Chamber Music Series, the Second City Chamber Series and the Auburn Symphony Chamber Music Series. Ms. Agent has appeared as soloist with the Pacific Lutheran University Symphony Orchestra and the Auburn Symphony. She is currently Assistant Principal Viola of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra and Principal Viola of the Auburn Symphony. Ms. Agent works in all the major recording studios in Seattle, playing for film scores and video games. She was able to combine her love of chamber music and the great outdoors when she joined the Beau Quartet in 2004 and 2005, presenting concerts for the Canyon Expedition River Rafting Trip in the Grand Canyon.

Richard Treat, cello, joined the Regency String Quartet and the string faculty of Pacific Lutheran University in September, 2006. A native of Los Angeles, Richard earned both Bachelors and Masters Degrees from California State University at Los Angeles, where he studied with Stephen De’ak, Eleonore Schoenfeld, and Lucien LaPorte. Mr. Treat has worked with several orchestras in greater Los Angeles, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Pasadena, Long Beach, and Glendale Symphonies. In addition, Richard has been principal cellist of the Santa Barbara and South Coast Symphonies, the Mozart Camerata, and the Pasadena Chamber Orchestra and played for many years with the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra and the Deodara String Quartet. He is now a member of the Max Aronoff Institute faculty in Kenmore, and is regularly featured in performances of solo and chamber music in the Northwest.

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