Sunday Oberlin Baroque Orchestra May 27, 2012 4:00 and 5:30 pm Fairchild Chapel Concert Nos. 417 and 418

Concerto grosso in D Major, Op. 6, No. 4 Arcangelo Corelli Adagio – Allegro – Adagio – Vivace – Allegro – Allegro (1653–1713)

Nathan Lesser, Wyatt Underhill, violin David Ellis, cello

Concerto grosso in F Major, Op. 3, No. 4 George Frideric Handel Largo – Allegro – Andante – Allegro – Menuet: Allegro (1685–1759)

Augusta McKay Lodge, Katherine Floriano, violin Pablo Moreno, Eliana Schenk, oboe

Concerto for Recorder, Flute, Strings, Georg Philipp Telemann and Basso Continuo in E Minor, TWV 52:e1 (1681–1767) Largo – Allegro – Largo – Allegro

John West, recorder Susan Shaw, flute

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Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Andrea Beyer began her musical studies at age 6 on the piano, and began playing bass at age 9. Now a third year double bass performance major, she studies with Thomas Sperl and receives additional instruction from Scott Dixon and Peter Dominguez. Currently the principal of the Oberlin Orchestra, Beyer has also participated in Oberlin’s Opera Theater Orchestra and Sinfonietta, and has toured with the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble. Beyer is currently a substitute for the Firelands Symphony and the Canton Symphony, and is participating in the 2012 Youth Orchestra of the Americas tour of Chile. She is an alumnus of the Chautauqua Music School Festival Orchestra and the Hot Springs Festival. Past teachers include Curtis Burris, Scott Haigh, and Colin O’Bryan. David Ellis, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, is presently completing a Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance and a Master of Music in Historical Performance on viola da gamba and baroque cello with Catharina Meints. He has played in the Contemporary Music Ensemble, served as principal in both the Oberlin Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra, and played an instrumental role in the revival of Oberlin’s Baroque Orchestra, for which he serves as manager. He has appeared at the Kennedy Center, Boston Early Music Festival, and Baldwin-Wallace’s Bach Festival, performed with ensembles such as the Bach Project and Apollo’s Fire, and toured with the Oberlin Orchestra to Los Angeles and China. Ellis has attended summer programs at Youth Orchestra of the Americas, National Repertory Orchestra, and Aspen Music Festival. In 2012, he will attend the Pierre Monteux School as both cellist and conductor. Previous cello teachers include Amir Eldan, Alison Wells, and Pam Kelly. Ellis will return to Oberlin for a Master of Music in conducting, under Raphael Jiménez and Tim Weiss. Batmyagmar Erdenebat, was born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, went to United World College of the Adriatic in Italy, and studied Chamber Music with Trio di Trieste and Trio di Parma. In 2008, his chamber group won First and Special Prizes in La Musica Nella Scoula’s Chamber Music Competition, and Third Prize in the Paolo Spincich International Music Competition. Erdenebat is a junior at Oberlin Conservatory, studying viola with Peter Slowik. He has been principle violist for Oberlin Chamber Orchestra, and the 2011 Round Top Summer Music Festival Orchestra. He regularly substitutes with the Canton Symphony. Sophomore violinist Xiang Fang was born in Changsha, China. She began her musical studies in the middle school attached to the Central Conservatory, studying with Wei Zhao. Fang won first prize in the chamber music category and third prize in the Piazzolla category of the 2009 Castelfidardo International Competition in Italy. In 2010, Xiang received a full scholarship from Oberlin College and Conservatory, where she studies with Marilyn McDonald. Growing up in the mountains of Colorado, Luke Fatora began his violin studies at the age of 8. He is now entering his senior year at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, studying with Gregory Fulkerson. At the age of 15, Fatora developed an interest in writing works of his own and began to experiment with composition; several of his works have received honorable mention in an international field of competitors at the Pikes Peak Young Composers Competition. In 2009 he was the Colorado Youth Symphony Orchestra’s concerto competition winner, and performed the Dvorak Violin Concerto with the orchestra in Gates Hall at the University of Denver. He has participated in the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Killington Music Festival, ARIA, and the Meadowmount School of Music, and performed in master classes for Chin Kim, Lawrence Dutton, Samuel Rhodes, the Jasper Quartet, and Edward Dusinberre. In addition to his musical endeavors, Fatora enjoys spending time outdoors. Originally from Rochester, New York, Katherine Floriano is currently studying with David Bowlin at Oberlin Conservatory, where she is pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance. She has toured with the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble to New York City, and the Oberlin Orchestra to China and Singapore. Floriano has participated in Colorado College’s Summer Music Festival, the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, and was in residence at Opera Viva! in Verona, Italy. An avid chamber musician, Floriano has participated in master classes with the Ying Quartet, Takács String Quartet, Violaine Melancon, and William Bolcom. Pi Kappa Lambda inductee Augusta McKay Lodge is a senior at Oberlin, where she studies with Milan Vitek and Marilyn McDonald. Recently, Lodge spent a semester at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where she studied with Johannes Leertouwer and Sophie Gent. Recently, Lodge has performed at the Kennedy Center, and the Boston Early Music Festival. She has been principal second violin in the Sweelinck Baroque Orchestra, assistant concertmaster of the Netherlands Student Orchestra, and concertmaster in the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra, and performed in the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble and the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra. She has worked with such conductors as Kurt Masur, Michael Tilson Thomas, Alan Gilbert, James Gaffigan, David Zinman, Teunis van der Zwart, Timothy Weiss, Bridget Reischl, and Robert Spano. She began violin studies at age 3, and continued at the Moscow Central Special Music School under Zoya Mahktina. She has also studied with Gregory Fulkerson, and Almita and Roland Vamos, and will move to Bloomington, Indiana next year to study with Alex Kerr. Oboist Pablo Moreno of Manizales, Colombia, began his musical studies at the University of Caldas. He was admitted to the conservatory of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and in 2002, attained a bachelor’s degree in performance at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Moreno graduated from Oberlin last year with an Artist Diploma in modern oboe, under the tutelage ofAlex Klein and Robert Walters and is pursuing an Artist Diploma in baroque oboe with Kathryn Montoya. In 2005, Moreno became a member of Ensamble Sinsonte, researching different ways of playing traditional Colombian music. Ensamble Sinsonte recorded Reversiones, an album that was named one of the top ten in new Colombian music. In addition, Moreno is part of the Orchestra of the Americas, has participated in the 2011 Boston Early Music festival, and was a winner of the national performance competition in Colombia. His interests include playing new music by young composers, free music improvisation, and teaching and sharing his musical experiences with other musicians. Zizai Ning was born in Shanghai, China, and began playing cello at age 6. In 2002, she was offered a full scholarship to attend the Shanghai Middle School, an affiliate of the Shanghai Conservatory, where she studied with Meijuan Liu, a renowned cello educator in China. Soon thereafter, she was awarded top honors in China’s National Cello Competition. In 2007, Ning received a full scholarship, including a Conservatory Dean’s Talent Scholarship, to study at Oberlin under Amir Eldan. She has participated in master classes with Steven Isserlis, Marcy Rosen, and Desmond Hoebig, among others. Oboist Eliana Schenk has appeared as soloist with the Landon Symphonette, and was a finalist in the Oberlin Conservatory’s Senior Concerto Competition. In 2011, she was nominated to perform with the China Conservatory of Music Orchestra at the Beijing Performing Arts Center. She currently studies with Robert Walters at the Oberlin Conservatory, where she is completing a Bachelor of Music in Oboe Performance. Schenk also studies baroque oboe with Kathryn Montoya. In the fall, she will study with Jonathan Blumenfeld at Rutgers University while pursuing a master’s degree in oboe performance. Her former teachers include Alex Klein and Carol Stephenson. A native of Buffalo, New York, Susan Shaw began studying the Boehm flute at the age of 11 with Czech-born avant-garde composer and flutist Petr Kotik. She continued her musical studies at the University of Buffalo, concentrating on the performance of twentieth-century music under resident composers Kotik, Morton Feldman, and Lejaren Hiller, and on the performance of pre-modern music under musicologists David Fuller, James McKinnon, and Jeremy Noble. After earning a bachelor’s degree in history, Shaw pursued additional performance studies at Vienna’s Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst under Werner Tripp. Susan has worked as a freelance flutist and teacher in France, Germany, Austria, Tunisia, and the United States. A growing passion for baroque flute and music led her to recommence formal studies at Oberlin in 2010, where she is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Historical Performance under Kathie Stewart. Massachusetts native Jacob Street graduated from College of the Holy Cross in 2010, and will graduate from Oberlin with a Master of Music in Historical Performance in the spring of 2012. He has studied organ with James David Christie, harpsichord with Webb Wiggins, and clavichord with David Breitman. During his time at Oberlin, Street has won awards for historical performance and music criticism, and has participated in master classes with several notable keyboardists, including harpsichordists Arthur Hass, Davitt Moroney, Ton Koopman, and Mitzi Meyerson, and organist Olivier Latry. This fall, he plans to participate in international competitions for both harpsichord and organ. A native of Elm Grove, Wisconsin, Wyatt Underhill is currently a junior at the Oberlin Conservatory, where he studies with Gregory Fulkerson. Underhill has been studying baroque violin with Marilyn McDonald for the past two years, and has performed in master classes with Walter Reiter and Jaap Schröder. In March of 2012, he performed with Apollo’s Fire in their semi-staged production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. On the modern violin, Underhill served as concertmaster of the Oberlin Orchestra on a seven-concert tour of China and Singapore. Daniel Walden, from Berkeley, California, is a double-degree student at Oberlin College and Conservatory in piano performance and classics, studying piano with Peter Takács and harpsichord with Webb Wiggins. A recipient of the Conservatory Dean’s Talent Scholarship and the Louis and Annette Kaufman prize in chamber music, he was a winner of the 2011/12 Concerto Competition, and also appeared as a soloist with the Oberlin Baroque Orchestra. In previous years, Walden was selected as Cleveland Orchestra’s Artist-in-Residence Fellow in 20th and 21st century music, with pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, performing at Severance Hall. He has performed at Aspen Music Festival, Mannes Beethoven Festival, and has appeared in master classes with Joseph Kalichstein, Ann Schein, Malcolm Bilson, and Wu Han. Walden was featured twice on NPR’s From the Top, performing at the Ravinia Festival and San Francisco’s Herbst Hall. He has been a fellow at Norfolk Chamber Music Festival’s New Music Workshop, Bang on a Can, and NEC’s Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice, and will be a young artist fellow this summer at Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in Blue Hill, Maine. Walden’s articles on music theory and performance appear in Music Theory Online and MTNA e-Journal. Next year, he will attend Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. John West is graduating from Oberlin College and Conservatory with degrees in historical performance and philosophy. West is a founding member of the experimental music ensemble The Wrong Note/Banana Peels and the Baroque ensemble Toekomst. West’s solo work—which includes two full-length concept recitals: Modern Mythologies and The Odyssey—attempts to build coherent narratives using disparate songs as the base unit, exploring the interplay between the historical and ahistorical contexts of baroque music. A finalist at the 2009 Montreal International Recorder Competition, West received an award for creativity in programming and took fourth place. He is grateful to have studied with Katherine Montoya for the last two years, and has studied with Allison Mellvile, and his mentor and friend, Clea Galhano. Oberlin Baroque Orchestra

Violin Bass Xiang Fang Andrea Beyer Luke Fatora Flute Katherine Floriano Susan Shaw Nathan Lesser Augusta McKay Lodge Oboe Wyatt Underhill Pablo Moreno Eliana Schenk Viola Batmyagmar Erdenebat Harpsichord Jacob Street Daniel Walden Cello David Ellis Zizai Ning