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FACULTY RECITAL • ,.. presented by ,. THE SHEPHERD SOCIETY ... Sunday, September 28, 2003 3:00 p.m. ' Lillian H Duncan Recital Hall • • . ) ti . ~ RICE UNNERSITY School~ ofMusic PROGRAM Canonic Sonata No. 4 in D Minor Georg Philipp Telemann Vivace ma moderato (1681-1767) Piacevole non largo • Presto • Leone Buyse, flute • Robert Atherholt, oboe .. \ Sonata in B-flat Major Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for Bassoon and Cello, K. 292 (1756-1791) Allegro Andante Rondo: Allegro Benjamin Kamins, bassoon Norman Fischer, cello ., Tafelmusik II Georg Philipp Telemann • • for flute, oboe, bassoon, and continuo I Andante Vivace Largo Allegro ., .. Leone Buyse,flute Robert Atherholt, oboe Benjamin Kamins, bassoon Norman Fischer, cello Thomas Jaber, harpsichord Nachtpoema (1963) Proctor Van Eechaute . .. (1904-1964) .- Una voce poco fa Gioacchino Rossini from II Barbiere di Siviglia (1792-1868) "' William Ver Meulen, horn Thomas Jaber, piano )- - Five Romantic Songs .. ,.. Standchen Franz Schubert ,.. (1797-1828) Zueignung Richard Strauss (1864-1949) r - L'Invitation au Voyage Henri Duparc (1848-1933) 0 Never Sing To Me Again Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) If Ever I Would Leave You Frederick Loewe (1901-1988) Stephen King, baritone r- Thomas Jaber, piano PERFORMER BIOGRAPHIES LEONE B UYSE is Professor ofFlute and Chamber Music at the Shepherd l ' School ofMusic. In 1993 she relinquished her principal positions with the Bos ton Symphony Orchestra to pursue a more active teaching and solo career after twenty-two years as an orchestral musician. Previously assistant principal flutist I > > of the San Francisco Symphony and solo piccoloist of the Rochester Philharmonic ) Orchestra, Ms. Buyse has appeared as soloist with those orchestras, as well as with l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops, the Utah Symphony, and the New Hampshire Music Festival, of which she was principal flutist for ten years. She has performed with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players throughout Europe and Japan, with the Tokyo, Juilliard, and Muir String Quartets, with Da Camera of Houston, and in recital with Jessye J' Norman and Yo-Yo Ma. Ms. Buyse has taught at the New England Conservatory, Boston University, Tanglewood Music Center, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, the Uni versity of Michigan, and as a visiting associate professor at the Eastman School l .. of Music. Festival appearances include Aspen, Sarasota, Norfolk, Domaine For ,/ get (Quebec), Sitka, Maui, Steamboat Springs, and Park City. Ms. Buyse has pre sented recitals and master classes at universities and conservatories across the United States, as well as in Canada, New Zealand, and Japan. She may be heard as solo flutist on numerous recordings of the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, and the San Francisco Symphony for the Philips, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Victor, and Sony Classical labels. Her solo recordings are available on the Crystal label and the Boston Records label. ROBERT ATHERHOLT is currently Professor of Oboe at the Shepherd School ofMusic. He accepted this position in 2003 after having served as Princi pal Oboist of the Houston Symphony for twenty years. Prior to joining the Hous ton Symphony, he was Principal Oboist of the New Jersey Symphony, a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke's, and Princi pal Oboist of the Opera Orchestra of New York. He appeared frequently as soloist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra. As • • a chamber musician, Robert Atherholt was the solo oboist for the Houston Sym phony Chamber Players, with whom he has toured Japan and Europe. He appears regularly with Da Camera of Houston and CONTEXT. He has performed at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, Japan's Pacific Music Festival, the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Caramoor Festival in New York, and the Grand Teton Festival in Wyoming. In the 2000-2001 season, he performed as Guest Principal Oboist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in performances of Mahler's Seventh Symphony with Bernard Haitink conducting, and later served as Acting Principal Oboist on their European tour in 2000 with Seiji Ozawa conducting. Robert Atherholt's solo recordings include the Schumann/Picker Romances and Interludes for the Virgin Classics label and Mozart's Oboe Concerto for Pickwick International. Both recordings are with the Houston Symphony, Christoph Eschenbach conducting. A native of Pennsylvania, Robert Atherholt is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music. He has been on the faculty of the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestral Seminar in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the National Orchestra Institute in College Park, Maryland, the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, and in Houston, the Texas Music Festival and the American Festival for the Arts. BENJAMIN KAM/NS is currently Professor of Bassoon at the Shepherd School of Music. He accepted this position in 2003 after having served as Prin cipal Bassoonist of the Houston Symphony for twenty-two years. Before hisfull time appointment at the Shepherd School, he taught there for sixteen years as a member of the faculty in an adjunct position. During that time he had the oppor tunity to teach many wonderful students who currently play in orchestras and teach in universities throughout the US. and abroad. After studies with Norman Herzberg in his native Los Angeles, Mr. Kamins began his professional career at age nineteen as Associate Principal Bassoonist of the Minnesota Orchestra. During his tenure with the Minnesota Orchestra, Mr. Kamins made solo appearances in works of Vivaldi and Haydn. As a soloist with the Houston Symphony, he was often featured playing concertos of Mozart, Weber and Vivaldi. In 2002 he played the world premiere of Pierrot, a concerto composed by Larry Lipids and commissioned for him by the Houston Symphony. He recorded the Mozart Concerto with Christoph Eschenbach and the Houston Symphony for IMP Masters. In addition to his positions in Minnesota and Houston he has served as a Guest Principal Bassoonist with the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony. Mr. Kamins' musical activities outside Houston have taken him to numerous festivals including Marlboro, Ravinia, Tanglewood, and Park City. He has also been a faculty member of the Grand Teton Orchestral Seminar, the Pacific and Blossom Music Festivals, and is currently spending his summers on the faculty of the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, and the Aspen Music Festival. A devoted chamber musician, Mr. Kamins was a founding member of the Aurora and Epicurean Wind Quintets. He has toured with the Clarion Wind Quintet and Music from Marlboro. He was a member of the Houston Symphony Chamber Players and is a featured pe,former on their highly acclaimed record ing of the Schoenberg Quintet for Winds. In addition, he is active nationally and internationally as a solo and chamber musician. NORMAN FISCHER is one ofAmerica's most versatile cellists. After com pleting instrumental study with Richard Kapuscinski, Claus Adam, and Bernard Greenhouse, he first graced the international concert stage as cellist with the Concord String Quartet, a group that won the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, an Emmy and several Grammy nominations, and recorded over forty works on RCA Red Seal, Vox, Nonesuch, Turnabout, and CR!. The New York Times recentlJ said, "During its sixteen years, the supervirtuosic Concord String Quartet cham pioned contemporary works while staying rooted in the Western tradition." In ad dition to performing the major concertos, Mr. Fischer has premiered and record ed many new scores for cello and orchestra. Recitals of unaccompanied cello works have received rave reviews such as "Inspiring" (The New York Times) for his New York debut recital of the complete Bach Suites in one evening, and "Coruscating" (The Boston Globe)for his performance of Osvaldo Golijov's Omaramor at the opening of the 1998 Tanglewood festival. His chamber music expertise has led to guest appearances with the Juilliard, Cleveland, Emerson, Chiara, Chester, Blair, Schoenberg, Ciompi, Mendelssohn, and Audubon string quartets, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Ann Arbor, Chamber Music International, CONTEXT, and Da Camera of Houston. Norman Fischer and pianist Jeanne Kierman perform together as the Fischer Duo, and two years ago they celebrated the 30th anniversary of their founding. The Fischer Duo has been widely praised by music critics for its choice of rep ertoire. Thoroughly versed in the classical repertoire ofBeethoven, Brahms, and Schumann, the Fischer Duo has acquired an equally impressive reputation for rediscovering neglected works of the past (Busoni, Boulanger, Foote, and Liszt). They have commissioned many new scores by contemporary composers such as George Rochberg, David Stock, Robert Sirota, Augusta Read Thomas, Richard Lavenda, Pierre Jalbert, Anthony Brandt, Shih-Hui Chen, and Richard Wilson. Last October they launched a new chamber music festival in Vermont with violin ist Curtis Macomber. A devoted teacher and mentor to younger players, Mr. Fischer has taught at Dartmouth College, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and currently is Pro fessor of Violoncello at the Shepherd School of Music. Since 1985 he has taught at the Tanglewood Music Center, where is now the Coordinator of Strings. THOMAS JABER is Director of the Choral Ensembles at the Shepherd School of Music, coaches singers, and is often heard as piano accompanist in many concerts annually at the Shepherd School and elsewhere. Mr. Jaber has often prepared and conducted operatic productions of the Shepherd School. Mr. Jaber has degrees in piano from Arkansas State University and Indiana Univer sity and holds a Performer's Certificate from the Curtis Institute of Music. He was a principal vocal coach at the Curtis Institute for twelve seasons and also coached and conducted many productions at Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal .. Arts. In addition, he was the music director of the opera department of Temple University and was the Brown Visiting Professor at Baylor University. Long recognized for his musical versatility, Thomas Jaber is also an accom plished organist and harpsichordist.

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