The Classical Recording Foundation

FOURTEENTH ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY

TUESDAY, NOVEMER 24, 2015 NATIONAL SAWDUST IN WILLIAMSBURG NEW YORK CITY

The Classical Recording Foundation FOURTEENTH ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY

National Sawdust Brooklyn, New York Tuesday, November 24, 2015, 8:00 PM

2015 FOUNDATION AWARDS

2015 Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award Alan R. Kay and Jon Klibonoff

2015 Foundation Award Jan Vinci

2015 Composer of the Year Award Christopher Theofanidis

2015 Young Artist Award Francesca dePasquale

Mission Statement To provide great performing artists and composers with an opportunity to record, release, and promote new classical recordings in a manner that captures ideal performances that define our era, by providing established artists with awards and new artists with grants.

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CONCERT AND PRESENTATION OF 2015 AWARD WINNERS

Opening Remarks Kaoru (1994) for two flutes ...... Christopher Theofanidis Adam Abeshouse, I. darting, restless President of The Classical Recording Foundation II. bitter, sharp III. joyous

Andrew Robson and Victor Wang, flutes Sonata No. 3 in B-flat Major, Op. 107 ...... Max Reger II. Vivace Presentation of the Composer of the Year Award to Christopher Theofanidis Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 49 No. 2 ...... Max Reger Amy Beth Kirsten, Visiting Professor of Composition IV. Allegretto affabile (con moto) at Peabody and Artistic Director of HOWL

Albumleaf ...... Max Reger

Alan R. Kay, clarinet and Jon Klibonoff, piano Thème et variations ...... Messiaen

Presentation of the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award to Francesca dePasquale, violin and David Kaplan, piano Alan R. Kay and Jon Klibonoff Fred Sherry, Faculty of the Presentation of the Young Artist Award to Francesca dePasquale Sedgwick Clark, Editor, Musical America International Directory of the Performing Arts Flute Poetic for flute and piano ...... Jennifer Hidgon Blue Hills

Crow's Nest for solo flute ...... Mark Vinci Closing Remarks Adam Abeshouse Jan Vinci, flute, and Reiko Uchida, piano

Presentation of the Foundation Award to Jan Vinci Mark Vinci, Jazz Saxophonist and Composer, Faculty of The Juilliard School and Skidmore College

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ALAN R. KAY AND JON KLIBONOFF Mr. Klibonoff is a past recipient of a NEA solo recitalist's grant and has been sponsored by the Pro Musicis Foundation in recital throughout the Praised by the New York Times for his “spellbinding” world. A founding member of the acclaimed ensemble, Trio Solisti, he has performances and “infectious enthusiasm and performed in major venues such as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, panache,” Alan R. Kay is Principal Clarinetist and a and at numerous colleges and universities throughout the United States. Mr. former Artistic Director of Orpheus Chamber Klibonoff is a also a principal member of Associated Solo Artists, an Orchestra as well as Principal Clarinet of New York’s organization that performs concerts, educational programs and corporate Riverside Symphony and the Little Orchestra Society. events. He holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and from He also appears as Principal with the American The Juilliard School and is on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Symphony and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Mr. Kay’s Music and Concordia Conservatory of Music. honors include the C.D. Jackson Award at Tanglewood, a Presidential Scholars Teacher Recognition Award, Juilliard’s 1980 Competition, and the 1989 Young Concert Artists Award THE SAMUEL SANDERS COLLABORATIVE ARTIST AWARD with the sextet Hexagon later featured in the prizewinning documentary film, “Debut.” Mr. Kay is a founding member of Windscape and Hexagon; The Samuel Sanders Award to Alan R. Kay and Jon Klibonoff went to he appears regularly with the Society of Lincoln Center. underwrite their new disc Max Reger: Music for Clarinet and Piano. This His summer festivals include the Yellow Barn and Skaneateles Festivals, landmark recording captures Kay’s unique musical approach to the and his innovative programming for the New York Chamber Ensemble is a complete Reger repertoire. And in the true spirit of Sam Sanders, Klibonoff feature of the Cape May Music Festival. A virtuoso of wind repertoire, Mr. joins this recording as the ideal partner to realize Kay’s vision. This disc Kay has recorded with Hexagon, Windscape, the Sylvan Winds, Orpheus will be released in Spring 2016 by Bridge Records. and numerous other ensembles. Mr. Kay taught at the Summer Music Academy in Leipzig, Germany in 2004 and currently teaches at the ABOUT THIS AWARD Manhattan School of Music, Juilliard and Stony Brook University. The Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award commemorates A versatile recitalist, orchestra soloist and chamber Samuel Sanders, a consummate chamber musician and beloved teacher. musician, Jon Klibonoff has performed extensively Mr. Sanders was the recital partner of choice to many instrumentalists and throughout the U.S. and abroad. His various honors singers including Itzhak Perlman, Mstislav Rostropovich, Robert White, and include first prizes in the Kosciuszko Chopin Paula Robison. Competition and the silver medal in the 1984 Gina Mr. Sanders had always preferred the term collaborator to Bachauer International Piano Competition. Klibonoff accompanist, and so embodied the essence of chamber music in all of his has appeared as soloist with the Utah, Baltimore, performances. He helped each artist find his or her voice, always achieving Richmond, Denver, New Orleans, Oakland, Syracuse, the right balance between leading and following, anticipation and support. and North Carolina symphonies, as well as the His range of tonal color was inspiring, without demanding the spotlight and Buffalo Philharmonic and the Denver Chamber always in service to the music. The Foundation has established this award Orchestra. in his honor and consequently it is reserved for chamber music of the highest caliber.

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JAN VINCI THE FOUNDATION AWARD

First Prizewinner of England's International The Foundation Award to Jan Vinci went to underwrite a new recording Electric Music Performance Competition, Jan entitled American Flutescape: A Tapestry of Premieres and Classics. Vinci Vinci has performed in Alice Tully, Carnegie, is a true champion of flute music and applies herself with a courageous and and Merkin Halls and for events such as the adventuresome attitude for new music. This recording was an opportunity to Blossom Festival, ICMC in The Netherlands, showcase her voice and to preserve this amazing collection of new flute Electric Music Festival in England and music. The recording will be released by Albany Records in April 2016. Killington Music Festival. She is often the featured artist for flute club festivals and performs for NFA conventions. Vinci recorded three CD's on Albany Records. Vinci earned a D.M.A. from The Juilliard School, M.M. from The Cleveland Institute of Music, and B.M. from Bowling Green State University, studying with Julius Baker, Samuel Baron, Maurice Sharp and Judith Bentley. Former faculty member of Queens College, Hofstra University and the Skidmore Flute Institute, Vinci is Senior Artist-in-Residence at Skidmore College and often teaches master classes at colleges. Vinci served as President of the New York Flute Club.

Pianist Reiko Uchida made her New York solo debut in 2001 at Carnegie's Weill Hall under the auspices of the Abby Whiteside Foundation. She has performed solo and chamber music concerts in Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Finland, Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech Republic, Korea, and Japan, in venues including Suntory Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Kennedy Center, and the White House. First prize winner of the Joanna Hodges Piano Competition and Zinetti International Competition, she has appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Santa Fe Symphony, Greenwich Symphony, and the Princeton Symphony, among others. As a chamber musician she has performed at the Marlboro, Santa Fe, Tanglewood, and Spoleto Music Festivals. Ms. Uchida currently resides in New York City, where she is an associate faculty member at Columbia University.

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CHRISTOPHER THEOFANIDIS THE COMPOSER OF THE YEAR AWARD

Christopher Theofanidis has had The Composer of the Year Award went to underwrite a new disc of performances by many leading orchestras Theofanidis’ chamber works. Theofanidis has a humility about himself that from around the world, including the belies his considerable talent. He has way of creating scores with a sense of London Symphony, the New York wonderment and is truly a fresh voice of this generation. The disc will be Philharmonic, the Philadelphia released Fall 2016. Orchestra, the Moscow Soloists, the National, Atlanta, Baltimore, St. Louis, PERFORMING TONIGHT and Detroit Symphonies, among many others. He has also served as Composer St. Louis native Andrew Robson is an emerging of the Year for the Pittsburgh Symphony during their 2006-7 season, for flutist and teacher. Andrew is currently pursuing which he wrote a violin concerto for . graduate studies at the Yale School of Music with Mr. Theofanidis holds degrees from Yale, the Eastman School of Ransom Wilson, and has previously studied with Music, and the University of Houston, and has been the recipient of the Mark Sparks, Jennifer Nitchman, and Julianna International Masterprize, the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Moore. Andrew was the recent winner of the St. Fulbright fellowship to France to study with Tristan Mural at IRCAM, a Louis National Society of Arts and Letters Tanglewood fellowship, and two fellowships from the American Academy Woodwind Competition, and was named a Presser of Arts and Letters. In 2007 he was nominated for a Grammy award for Scholar by the department of music at Truman State best composition for his chorus and orchestra work, The Here and Now, University. based on the poetry of Rumi. His orchestral work, Rainbow Body, has been one of the most performed new orchestral works of the new millennium, having been performed by over 150 orchestras internationally. Victor Wang is a flutist originally from Rochester, Mr. Theofanidis’ has written a ballet for the American Ballet Theatre, a NY. He is currently an inaugural member of The work for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra as part of their ‘New Orchestra Now, a new training orchestra that performs Brandenburg’ series, and two operas for the San Francisco and Houston at Bard College and around New York City. In recent Grand Opera companies. sang the lead role in the San summers, Victor has been a fellow at the Norfolk, Francisco work. He has a long-standing relationship with the Atlanta Colorado College, Atlantic, and Texas music festivals. Symphony and Maestro Robert Spano, and has just had his concert length Victor studied at , where he earned oratorio, Creation/Creator, recorded with them. His new work, Dreamtime both a Master of Music in flute performance and a Ancestors, for the orchestral consortium New Music for America will be Bachelor of Sciences in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. played by over fifty orchestras this coming season. He has served as a While at Yale, Victor performed with the Yale Philharmonia and as delegate to the US-Japan Foundations’s Leadership Program, and he is a principal flute with the Yale Symphony Orchestra. former faculty member of the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University as well as the Juilliard School. Mr. Theofanidis is currently a professor at Yale University.

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FRANCESCA DEPASQUALE THE YOUNG ARTISTS AWARD

Celebrated for her purity and intensity of The Young Artist Award to Francesca dePasquale went to underwrite the artistry, violinist Francesca dePasquale is the self-titled debut recording Francesca dePasquale. She exhibits a level of First Prize winner of the 2010 Irving M. Klein artistic maturity that supports this exquisite recording with a nuanced and International String Competition and recipient sophisticated understanding of the musical material. The recording will be of the prestigious 2014-2016 career grant from released in March 2016. the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts. Francesca recently recorded her debut album in collaboration with pianist Meng-Chieh Liu, including a newly PERFORMING WITH MS. DEPASQUALE commissioned work for violin and electronics by composer Paola Prestini. During the 2015-2016 season, Francesca will perform the debut album David Kaplan, pianist, has been praised for his “grace and fire” by the repertoire in recital, including performances for the Philadelphia Chamber Boston Globe, and by The New York Times for “striking imagination and Music Society and National Sawdust. Additionally, Francesca will also creativity.” Performing widely as a soloist and chamber musician, David’s appear on the Marinus Ensemble, Fort Worth Chamber Music Society, and recent appearances include the Barbican in London and Seattle’s Town Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players series this season, and collaborate with Hall. He has appeared as a guest soloist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, groups such as Orpheus and the orchestral collective The Knights. and performed at Miami’s Arscht Center with Itzhak Perlman. A veteran of Francesca is a member of the violin faculty at Rutgers University many distinguished chamber music festivals and series, he has appeared at Mason Gross School of the Arts and the Starling Fellow assistant to Itzhak the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Perlman at the Juilliard School, where she is also teaching assistant to Center, Chamber Music Northwest, Barge Music, Ravinia’s RSMI, Catherine Cho. Tanglewood, Bard, and the Mostly Mozart Festival. Kaplan´s enthusiasm for contemporary music has led him to premiere dozens of works, including piano concertos by (2008) and Alex Weston (2012).

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ABOUT THE FOUNDATION

The Classical Recording Foundation (CRF) was formed to address the growing needs of classical musicians who have found it increasingly difficult to record their musical visions. It was founded by Adam Abeshouse, a Grammy-winning classical producer and engineer, whose passion in life is recording classical music of all periods and working with artists to achieve their ultimate performance on CD. From the outset, Mr. Abeshouse believed that the economic climate for most classical recording artists was bleak, and therefore many great projects that deserved to be preserved would not be recorded. Thus, it became the Foundation’s mission to support classical music recording philanthropically, following the same model as most live performance organizations. The Foundation wishes to thank you for attending its Annual Awards Ceremony as it honors not only this year’s award recipients, but also those who have helped to guide it and ensure its future success.

Foundation Catalogue Please visit our website for a complete history of all awards, a total of 59 recordings to-date. www.ClassicalRecordingFoundation.org

THE FOUNDATION BOARD Adam Abeshouse, President Robert W. Jones Dr. Julius H. Jacobson II, MD Neil Yelsey Dimitri Sogoloff

SPECIAL THANKS

Friends and Advisors Thanks to Christopher Beach Ed Court David Bury Silas Brown Mario Davidovksy Paul Cox Lawrence Dutton Dew Graphics Edward Houser Andy Ryder Christina Jensen David and Becky Starobin Susan Rose Scott Starrett Thomas Shepard Laura Emert, Whitmore Group

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