The Department of Music
proudly presents
The FAU Symphony Orchestra Laura Joella - Conductor
17th Season
Russian, Hungarian and Finnish Music
Sunday, October 12, 3 pm
University Theatre
FAU Boca Raton
RAD SCHOOL OF THE ARTS Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters ~_.....:Florida Atlantic Universit!..y~...... --;~"0£~ Overture, from the opera "Russian and Ludmilla" Mikhail Glinka (1804- 1857)
"Gopok" from the opera "The Fair at Sorochinski" Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881 ) orch. Anatol Liadov (1855-1914)
Piano Concerto No.2 in A Major Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Leonid Treer, piano
intermission
Symphony No.2, Op. 43 in D Major I. Allegretto II. Tempo Andante, Ma Rubato . Andante Sostenuto III. V;vacissimo - Lento e Suave - Largamente IV. Finale (Allegro Moderato) Leonid Treer, born in the former Soviet Union, performs in the tradition of his great Russian predecessors. Critics hail his "striking demonstration of the grand Russian piano manner," citing his union of "sensitive, emotional interpretations with a formidable technique."
He began piano studies at the age of six and progressed under the tutelage of Anna Stoliarevich, a student of the eminent pianist, composer and conductor Felix Blumenfeld, who taught Vladimir Horowitz. Blumenfeld came from the schools of Rimsky- Korsakoff and Anton Rubinstein. Pofessor Treer's distinguished teacher at the prestigious Gnessin State Institute of Musical Pedagogics in Moscow was Professor Boris Moiseyevich Berlin. His musical lineage can be traced all the way back to Franz Liszt by way of legendary pianists Konstantin Igumnov and Alexander Siloti.
Mr. Treer has performed throughout the former USSR, Europe, Israel, the United States and most recently, the People's Republic of China, as soloist, chamber musician and lecturer-performer. The Burganger and Treer Piano Duo was invited to perform concerts and teach master classes in two of the world's most prestigious music conservatories, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. He is a frequent guest of music festivals and has performed with prominent ensembles such as the Lark, Biava, Audubon, Alexander and Miami String Quartets. His master classes and lecture recitals include works of the great eastern European composers Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Gubaidulina and Schnittke. His versatility is demonstrated in his series of concerts "Roots of Classical Music," which present a range of ethnic and national music from African-American to Gaelic, Armenian and Jewish themes, as well as an annual salute to the works of women composers and performers. He is the founder of a Russian chamber music festival in South Florida.
Mr. Treer is Professor of Music/Artist-in-Residence at FAU's School of the Arts in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, where he teaches courses in piano, chamber music and accompanying literature, as well as Russian music and culture. He is Associate Artistic Director of the FAU Chamber Soloists. Laura Joella, a second generation conductor, is the Director of Orchestral Studies and the Music Director/ Conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel praised her as having "a superbly idiomatic touch" and for "drawing tremendously energized rhythmic kick and verve" from FAU's students. She has been on the faculty at FAU since May af 2005. Joella is also the Music Director/Conductor of New England Music Camp's Concert Orchestra in Sidney, Maine. Her previous posts include Music Director/Conductor of the Mason Orchestral Society in Mason, Michigan including both the Community Orchestra and the Youth Symphony; Conductor for the Michigan State University Concert Orchestra; and Assistant Instructor of Strings at Michigan State University School of Music in East Lansing, Michigan.
This season Laura Joella will be guest conducting two concert series for the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra in Naples, Florida. The first concert series will be a run-out with the core members in March 2009, and the second will be a side-by-side with the Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and their concerto competition winners in May 2009. She will also be guest conducting for the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association District 8 Stringfest in November 2008.
Dr. Joella received both her Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in Orchestral Conducting from Michigan State University. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance with a dual concentration in Double Bass and Saxophone, as well as her Bachelor of Science in Music Education, from Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania. She was a participating conductor at the Naples Philharmonic Conductor's Institute. She studied and conducted at the Conductor's Institute at Spoleto USA, and the Conductor's Institute of South Carolina. As a guest conductor, she has appeared with the Wind Symphony of Florida; the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association District 8 Orchestra Festival; the Portland Orchestral Society in Michigan; the Michigan State University Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras; and the Lake Orion School District Orchestra Festival in Michigan. Joella has studied conducting with Jorge Mester; Professor Leon Gregorian and Dr. Raphael Jimenez at Michigan State University; and with Donald Portnoy, Paul Vermel, Kate Tamarkin, Peter Jaffe, and Samuel Jones at the Conductor's Institute of South Carolina. Violin * Lehins Aragon, Concert Master * John Harris IV, Principal Cory Baker Clarinet lil Batista-Perez Samuel Heine Emily Dwyer Lakeisha Frith Bassoon Jennifer Lubarsky Rebecca Teed Ilona Machado Adam Wachtel Jennifer Raymond Tatiana Rojas Horn Brian Trew Ryan Erker * Sarah Wallace Kelly Murphy Crystal Yan Brian Petuch Daniel Quintero Viola Felicia Besan, Principal Trumpet Laurie Beson Jonathan Baran Salomon Palacios III Clifford Coleman Ivette Portillo Alexander Schultz Jennifer Reaves William Seward KaitH Richardson Danielle Ruiz Trombone Jacqueline Russell Richard Powali Christopher Redraw Cello Daniel Cascante, Principal Bass Trombone * Anne Louise-Turgeon Daniel Lorghi Lana Thompson Boudieny Titus Tuba Kristen Vegas Christopher Brostowski
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