THE UNIVERSITY OF ,MEMPHIS,·. . . . Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music - ·

presents

An Evening of Piano Trios

Dale Barltrop, violin Joshua Roman, cello Victor Santiago Asuncion, piano

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Saturday, September 8, 2012 7:30PM Harris Concert Hall

College of Communication and Fine Arts Piano Trio op. 11 in B-flat major Ludwig van Beethoven I. Allegro con brio ( 1770-1827) II. Adagio Ill. Thema: Pria ch'io l'impegno

Lonesome Roads for piano trio (2012) Dan Visconti (b. 1982)

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Piano Trio op. 100-0. 929 in E-flat major Franz Schubert I. Allegro (1797-1828) II. Andante con mota Ill. Sche~ndo-AIIegro motto IV. Allegro moderato

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Please turn off all cell phones, pagers, and other electronic devices. DALE BARL TROP, violin Hailing from Brisbane, Australia, Dale Barltrop has performed across North America, Europe and Australia. He has served as Principal Second Violin in the Saint Paul Chamber for six years prior to his appointment with the Vancouver Symphony. During this time, Barltrop appeared regularly as soloist with the SPCO, including a series of baroque concerts under his direction and a performance of his own orchestration of Schubert's Rondo in B minor. Barltrop is a regular artist at the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego and the Festival Mozaic in San Luis Obispo. He has also performed at the Yellow Barn, Kneisel Hall, Swannanoa and Tanglewood music festivals, Music in the Vineyards and the New York String Orchestra Seminar. As a soloist, Barltrop has performed with the Bloomington Symphony, Maryland Chamber Orchestra, University of Maryland Symphony and back home with the Queensland Orchestra and Queensland Pops Orchestra. He served as associate concertmaster of the Akron Symphony Orchestra and 1st violinist of the Verklarte Quartet, which won the grand prize at the 2003 Fischoff National Competition. Barltrop moved to the United States in 1998 to attend the University of Maryland as a student of Gerald Fischbach and the Guarneri Quartet. He continued his studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with William Preucil. Barltrop has a keen interest in teaching and has served on the faculty of the National Orchestral Institute and worked regularly with the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies. In addition to playing the violin, Dale loves to travel and enjoys. swimming, running, hiking and skiing.

JOSHUA ROMAN, cello Dubbed a "Classical Rock Star'' by the press, cellist Joshua Roman has earned a national reputation for performing a wide range of repertoire with an absolute commitment to communicating the essence of the music at its most organic level. The San Francisco Chronicle hailed Roman as "a cellist of extraordinary technical and musical gifts" following his 2010 debut with the San Francisco Symphony under Herbert Blomstedt. For his ongoing creative initiatives on behalf of , Roman was named a 2011 TED Fellow, joining a select group of Next Generation innovators of unusual accomplishments with the potential to positively affect the world. In the 2011/12 season Roman is guest artist for the Seattle Symphony's opening night gala, which marks Ludovic Morlot's first concert as Music Director. He makes his Toronto Symphony debut, performs at the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament, and is presentedMusic in recital by San FranciscoLibrary Performances Copy and on the Dame Myra Hess series in Chicago. He also plays concertos with in Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina and Oregon. Among the highlights of this past season, Roman performed duos with Yo-Yo Ma at a State Department event hosted by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden for the President of China, participated in the 2011 TED Conference in Long Beach and played at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway. He made his debut as soloist and conductor with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris at the Cite de Ia Musique in Paris, and appeared with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. Summer engagements included debuts at the Caramoor International and La Jolla Summerfest. Before embarking on a solo career, Roman was for two seasons principal cellist of the Seattle Symphony, a position he won in 2006 at the age of 22. Since that time he has appeared as soloist with the with the Seattle Symphony, where he gave the world premiere of David Stock's Cello Concerto, as well as with the Albany and Santa Barbara Symphonies, and the Orquesta Sinf6nica Nacional del Ecuador, among many others. He performed Britten's third Cello Suite during New York's Mostly Mozart Festival in a pre-concert recital at Avery Fisher Hall, and was the only guest artist invited to play an unaccompanied solo during the YouTube Symphony Orchestra's 2009 debut concert at Carnegie Hall. In addition to his solo work, Roman is an active chamber music performer. He has enjoyed collaborations with veterans like Earl Carlyss, Christopher Taylor and Christian Zacharias, as well as with the Seattle Chamber Music Society and the International Festival of Chamber Music in Lima, Peru. He often joins forces with other dynamic young soloists and performers from New York's vibrant music scene, including artists from So Percussion, the JACK Quartet and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's CMS Two. In spring 2007, Roman was named Artistic Director of TownMusic in Seattle, where he creates programs that feature new works and reflect his eclectic musical influences and inspirations. TownMusic's 2011/12 season offerings feature Roman in the complete Bach Cello Suites, performances by Brooklyn Rider and Alarm Will Sound, and a commission for composer Mason Bates. Committed to making music accessible to a wider audience, Roman may be found anywhere from a club to a classroom, performing jazz, rock, chamber music, or a solo sonata by Bach or Kodaly. His versatility as a performer and his ongoing exploration of new concertos, chamber music, and solo cello works have spawned projects with composers such as Aaron Jay Kern is, Mason Bates, Derek Bermel, Gabriela Lena Frank and Dan Visconti. He has collaborated with photographer Chase Jarvis on Nikon video projects, and Paste magazine singled out Roman and DJ Spooky for their cello and iPad cover of Radiohead's "Everything in Its Right Place," created for The Voice Project. One of Roman's ongoing undertakings is an online video series called "The Popper Project": wherever the cellist and his laptop find themselves, he performs an etude from David Popper's "High School of Cello Playing" and uploads it, unedited, to his YouTube channel. Roman's outreach endeavors have taken him to Uganda with his violin-playing siblings, where they played chamber music in schools, HIV/AIDSMusic centers, and displacement Library camps, communicating Copy a message of hope through music. The Oklahoma City native began playing the cello at the age of three on a quarter-size instrument, and played his first public recital at age ten. Home-schooled until he was 16, Roman then pursued his musical studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Richard Aaron. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Cello Performance in 2004, and his Master's in 2005, as a student of Desmond Hoebig, former principal cellist of the Cleveland Orchestra. Joshua Roman has been singled out as "Musical America's New Artist of the Month." He is grateful for the loan of an 1899 cello by Giulio Degani of Venice. VICTOR SANTIAGO ASUNCION, piano Hailed by the Washington Post for his "poised and imaginative playing," pianist Victor Santiago Asuncion is recognized as a pianist of innate musical sensitivity, fiery temperament, and superb technique. As a recitalist and concerto soloist, he has appeared in major concert halls in Brazil, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Turkey and the Philippines. He played his orchestral debut at the age of 18 with the Manila Chamber Orchestra and his New York recital debut in Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall in 1999. In addition, he has worked with conductors including Sergio Esmilla, Enrique Batiz, Zev Dorman, Arthur Weisberg, Corrick Brown, David Loebel, Leon Fleisher, Michael Stern, Jordan Tang, Arturo Molina, and Bobby McFerrin. A chamber music enthusiast, he has performed with artists such as Lynn Harrell, Zuill Bailey, Andres Diaz, Antonio Meneses, Cho-Liang Lin, James Dunham, Ronald Leonard, Susanne Mentzer, H.K. Gruber, John O'Connor, Marc Neikrug, Liang Wang, Ensemble Sao Paolo, and the Vega and Emerson String quartets at venues that include the Phillips Collection, the Corcoran Ga~lery, 92nd Street Y, Benaroya, Merkin, Spivey and Shriver Concert Halls, and the Santa Fe, Aspen, Highlands­ Cashiers, Madison, Virtuosi, Pera, and Amelia Island Music Festivals. He was on the chamber music faculty of the Aspen Music Festival and School, as well as the Garth Newel Summer Music Festival. He was also the pianist for the Garth Newel Piano Quartet for three seasons. In addition to his active performing career, Mr. Asuncion is sought after as a piano, vocal, and chamber music coach. He is currently an associate professor of piano, and Director of Collaborative Arts Studies at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at the University of Memphis. In addition, he is also visiting professor at the University of the Philippines College of Music. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in 2007 from the University of Maryland at College Park. His principal teachers include Rosario Picazo, Avelina Manalo, Roberta Rust, and Rita Sloan.

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