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School of Music February 23 - 25, 2018 117 Natalie L. Haslam Music Center 1741 Volunteer Blvd. Natalie L. Haslam Music Center Knoxville, TN 37996 music.utk.edu 865-974-3241 UTKSOM Born in 1997, Anne Richardson began her cello studies when she was six. 2018 Tennessee Cello Workshop Moving to New York in 2012, Richardson is now enrolled at The Juilliard School as a student of Richard Aaron. Her other primary teachers have Opening Night Guest Artist Recital included Louise Harris, Wayne Krigger, Helga Winold, Irene Sharp, Eric Friday, February 23, 2018 at 8 p.m. Kim, and Julie Albers. Richardson made her solo debut at age ten with the Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall Louisville Orchestra, later making three additional appearances. She has also performed with the Blue Ash Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, Bryan Natalie L. Haslam Music Center Symphony Orchestra, Louisville Philharmonia, Massapequa Philharmonic, and Juilliard’s Pre-College Symphony Orchestra. Most recently, Richardson made her Lincoln Center debut, soloing with the Juilliard Orchestra, led by Alan Gilbert in David Geffen Hall. She has been featured twice on NPR’s From the Top and was presented in recital on both the Moorings Park and Trinity- Sonata in A major Luigi Boccherini by-the-Cove Concert Series in Naples, Florida, and on the Calvary Lenten (1743-1805) Recital Series and St. Paul Concert Series in Louisville, Kentucky. Richardson Hannah Moses, cello has been a featured soloist at the Juilliard in Aiken Festival, Juilliard’s Spring Eileen Downey, piano Salon, United Nations Chamber Music Society, and the New York Piano Society. Richardson has been a first-place winner in the Juilliard Concerto Competition, Juilliard Pre-College Concerto Competition, Strings International Music Festival, Louisville Orchestra and BAMSO Concerto Competitions, Fratres Arvo Pärt Kentucky ASTA Solo Competition, Tennessee Cello Workshop Competition, (b. 1935) and the National Federation of Music Clubs Mary Alice Cox and Stillman-Kelly Anne Richardson, cello Competitions. Richardson has performed at a number of summer programs, Kevin Class, piano including the Innsbrook Institute, Aspen Music Festival, and Kneisel Hall.

Suite for Two Cellos and Piano Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007) Hannah Moses and Anne Richarson, celli Kevin Class, piano

Opening night reception to follow the concert in room 110 Lisa Liske-Doorandish pursues and promotes the art of cello playing, giving concerts and workshops widely, working with her Philadelphia-based trio 2018 Tennessee Cello Workshop New River Ensemble, and teaching cello to a wide array of students ages three through seventy-something. She holds degrees from St. John’s College (the Faculty Recital Great Books Program) and San Francisco Conservatory of Music (M.M., cello Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 6 p.m. performance). Lisa played with the Roanoke Symphony and Opera Roanoke for ten years before leaving to pursue more solo and chamber music playing. Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall She has been on the faculty of Washington and Lee and Southern Virginia Natalie L. Haslam Music Center Universities, and currently teaches cello at Hollins University and Roanoke College. She happily propagates new cellists through her Blacksburg, Virginia studio, Community Cello Works. El cant dels Ocells (Song of the Birds) arr. David Johnstone Christopher Hutton, cello John Michel, in his twenty-fifth year as cello professor at Central Washington University, enjoys his career as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. In addition to regular solo recital programs, he has performed a dozen La Suite dels Ocells Lera Auerbach concertos including the Shostakovich #1, Herbert, Dvorak and the Brahms (Hommage à Pablo Casals) (2015) (b. 1973) Double with his wife Carrie Rehkopf. In double series concerts, Mr. Michel II. Moderato ma poco agitato, libero has performed all of the six Bach Cello Suites for memory, and regularly appears in the Seattle Bach Marathon. He has published many recordings and V. Moderato numerous live performances that are readily available online. VI. Allegretto grazioso Christopher Hutton, cello Mr. Michel is cellist and founding member of the Kairos String Quartet, which holds an endowed professorship as the resident ensemble of Central Desire Kim Seung Il Washington University and Icicle Creek. He is the founder and former director of the Internet Cello Society (cello.org), a cyber-community of cellists. (b. 1940) Lisa Liske-Doorandish Cellist Hannah Moses is pursuing an Artist Diploma at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studies with Dr. Melissa Kraut. Hannah is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Dr. Bennett Levine Chamber Music Award, Sonate Claude Debussy the CIM Alumni Achievement Award, the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Prologue (1862-1918) Award through “From the Top”, and many others. In the summers, Hannah Sérénade et Final has studied at renowned festivals such as the Heifetz International Music Desmond Hoebig, cello Festival, the Meadowmount School of Music, the NAC Young Artist Program, Kevin Class, piano Morningside Music Bridge, the Banff Centre Chamber Music Residency, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Sitka Cello Seminar, and the Taos School of Music. Hannah has performed in masterclasses for cellists such as Zuill Hungarian Rhapsody David Popper Bailey, Andres Diaz, Lynn Harrell, Desmond Hoebig, Hans Jorgen-Jensen, (1848-1913) Ralph Kirshbaum, Mark Kosower, Joel Krosnick, David Requiro, and Alisa Dan Allcott, cello Weilerstein. Hannah has appeared as soloist with the CIM Orchestra, the Eileen Downey, piano Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, and other area orchestras. An avid chamber musician, Hannah studies in the Intensive Quartet Seminar program at CIM as cellist in the Callisto Quartet, Suite Latino Americano José Elizondo CIM’s 2017 Apprentice Quartet. The quartet has competed in the Fischoff (b. 1972) National Chamber Music Competition, won top prizes in the Ohio String John Michel and Wesley Baldwin, celli Teachers Association Competition, the WDAV Young Chamber Musicians Competition, and has made concert appearances in South Carolina, Ohio, and New York. In summer of 2017, the Callisto Quartet was honored to receive “Miserlou” from Pulp Fiction arr. Dick Dale and fellowships to study at the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, the Norfolk Bernard Amrani Chamber Music Festival, and the McGill International String Quartet Academy. Christopher Hutton, Alicia Randisi-Hooker, Lisa Liske-Doorandish, Wesley Baldwin, celli A passionate teacher, Wesley has taught at the University of Maryland and 2018 Tennessee Cello Workshop Florida International University, where he was artist-in-residence with the Collegiate Cello Competition Division Plymouth Quartet. He currently serves as Professor of Cello at the University of Tennessee, where he received the Chancellor’s Award for Professional Finalists’ Recitals Promise. His former students play and teach throughout the United States. Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 11 a.m. Dr. Baldwin founded the Tennessee Cello Workshop in 1999, and is gratified Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall to be celebrating its 20th year in 2018. Natalie L. Haslam Music Center Born in Belgium, Kevin Class studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Eileen Downey, piano as well as in the U.S and Canada. Teachers have included Romeo Fracalanza, Ralph Votapek, Gyorgy Sebok and Daniel Blumenthal. In 1997, the Belgian government named Kevin a Fellow of the Flemish Community. He has Performing Cellists TBA (up to three in each category) recorded more than 15 CDs, including piano concerti by Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart and Schumann with the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra, several albums as a collaborative pianist with saxophonists Timothy McAllister Collegiate Competition Finalists’ Program and James Romain, cellist Wesley Baldwin, violinists Francisco Caban and Juhi Kee, soprano Soo Yeon Kim and others. He has also recorded several albums of solo piano works by Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Elliott Carter. His sold out performances in China have been broadcast nationally by China’s state television agency CCTV. He has given solo recitals in numerous Sonata for solo violoncello George Crumb important venues worldwide, including Leeds’ Town Hall, Geneva’s Ansermet (b. 1929) Hall, Munich’s Grosse Saal of the Hochschule fur Musik, Amsterdam’s Fantasia Concertgebouw, Vienna’s Musikverein and six performances in New York’s Tema pastorale con variazioni Carnegie Hall. Toccata Kevin is currently Associate Professor of Collaborative Piano and Music Director and Conductor of Opera Theatre at the University of Tennessee- Knoxville. During the summer he serves as Professor and Coordinator of Sonata in E major, François Francoeur the Conducting, Collaborative Piano and Chamber Music programs for first 2 movements (1698-1787) Oberlin in Italy, where he is also Music Director/Conductor of the Emerging Artists Opera Program. He has been profiled by BBC, NPR, PBS, Radio Noord Adagio cantabile Holland, KBS (Korea) and CCTV (China). Allegro vivo Desmond Hoebig, Professor of Cello at The Shepherd School of Music at , has had a distinguished career as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician. Cello Concerto in B minor Antonin Dvorak Allegro (1841-1904) Desmond was born in 1961 and raised in , Canada. He studied with James Hunter, Jack Mendelsohn and Ian Hampton. In 1978 he moved to Philadelphia to study with at the Curtis Institute of Music. He received his BM and MM at the Juilliard School with and Channing Robbins, and participated in master classes with Janos Starker and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi at the Banff Centre. Mr. Hoebig won the First Prize at the Munich International Competition (1984), the Grand Prize of the CBC Talent Competition (1981) and the Canadian Music Competition (1980). He was also an award winner at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1982). Mr. Hoebig has been a soloist with many prominent orchestras in North America, including; Cincinnati, Cleveland, , Montreal, and Vancouver. His international orchestral engagements have been in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Japan, Mexico and Columbia. 2018 Tennessee Cello Workshop Dan Allcott holds degrees in cello performance from Indiana University and Final Cello Orchestra Concert Drake University. His teachers at those institutions were John Ehrlich, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Janos Starker. and Helga Winold. He has performed in master Sunday, February 25, 2018, 2:30 p.m. classes with Stephen Kates, Ann Martindale Williams, and Dennis Parker. He Natalie L. Haslam Music Center Room 135 was a member of the Des Moines Symphony, the Columbus Philharmonic and is currently a member of the Cumberland Piano Trio. A widely respected cello teacher, Allcott is Professor of Music at Tennessee Tech University where he Featuring the TCW Cello Orchestra teaches cello and directs the University Orchestra. His students have gone to festivals throughout the southeast (Sewanee, Brevard, Eastern Music Conducted by Dan Allcott Festival) and held prominent positions in the youth orchestras and graduate schools. Mr. Allcott is on the faculty of Cellospeak and the Tennessee Cello Program to be selected from the following Workshop. He is past president of the Tennessee chapter of the American String Teacher’s Association. He has presented at the national conference of ASTA, and his research in the area of Sensory Integration and String Playing was featured in the July 2013 issue of Strad Magazine. Mr. Allcott is an accomplished conductor, having served as Music Director of Atlanta Ballet for ten years. He is currently Music Director of the Bryan Symphony Orchestra and of the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra, and frequently guest conducts professional and youth orchestras throughout the United States. Cellist Wesley Baldwin holds a BA, cum laude, from Yale College, a Master of Theme and Variations, op. 15 Julius Klengel Music degree, with honors, from the New England Conservatory, and a DMA (1859-1933) from the University of Maryland. He performs throughout the United States and Europe as soloist and chamber musician. As a soloist he has appeared with the Laredo Philharmonic, the Oregon Mozart Players, the Symphony of Tico Tico non fuba Zequinhua Abreu the Mountains, and the Aberdeen, Bemidji, Bryan, Chattanooga, Florence, (1880-1935) Johnson City, Hot Springs, Knoxville, La Porte, Oak Ridge, Manchester, arr. Espinoza New River Valley, Salisbury, Wintergreen, and Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestras, among others. His passionate and charismatic performances have garnered much critical acclaim. Holberg Suite Edvard Grieg Wesley was the founder of the Plymouth String Quartet, with whom he was a Sarabande (1843-1907) top prize-winner in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and a Air arr. Thomas finalist in the Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition. He was Praeludium also cellist of the James Piano Quartet for five years, with residencies at both Sweet Briar College and the Wintergreen Festival. Solo and chamber music performing honors Baldwin has received include the Prix Mercure, Homer Ulrich Awards, and a Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Performing Artist Fellowship. Dr. Baldwin has performed chamber music at the Aspen, Cazenovia, Hot Springs, Ojai, Sandpoint, Mainly Mozart, May in Miami, Skaneateles, and Sub-tropics Music Festivals, and internationally in Italy, France, Monte Carlo, Spain, Austria, Brazil, Argentina, the United Kingdom and Costa Rica. His most recent international concert activity saw him performing as a recitalist in cities throughout China in the summer of 2017. In the summers he performs and teaches at the Michigan City Chamber Music Festival, the ARIA International Academy, and at the Wintergreen Festival, where he holds the Leonard Rose Memorial chair as principal cellist of the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra, and also serves on the faculty and chair of strings of the Wintergreen Summer Music Academy. 2018 Tennessee Cello Workshop As a chamber musician, Desmond was the cellist with the Orford String Quartet when they won a Juno award for the best classical music album in Junior and High School Cello Competition Division 1990. He has also performed for 30 years with the Hoebig-Moroz Trio and Finalists’ Recitals a duo with Andrew Tunis. Mr. Hoebig has taught and performed at festivals Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 11 a.m. throughout North America, including; Aspen, Banff, La Hoya, Marlboro, Music Bridge, Orcas Island, Sarasota and Steamboat Springs. Room 110, Natalie L. Haslam Music Center Before joining the faculty of The Shepherd School, Mr. Hoebig had been Bernadette Lo, piano Principal Cellist of the Cleveland, Houston, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras. Performing Cellists TBA (up to three in each category) Eileen Downey is currently Lecturer of Piano at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she is a vocal coach and collaborative pianist, as well as a Junior Division Finalists’ Program rehearsal pianist for Knoxville Opera. She was previously a member of the adjunct faculty at Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, TX, as well as a frequent collaborator with the Texas Christian University School of Music. Orbit Philip Glass (b. 1937) Ms. Downey was one of the 2011 staff accompanists for the AIMS in Graz program. She traveled to Austria after attending the SongFest program in Malibu, CA as a second-time recipient of the SongFest at Pepperdine Marc and Eva Stern Fellowship. During the previous summer, Eileen traveled to Kol Nidrei Max Bruch Spain to play a recital with the winner of the 2nd annual Miguel Zanetti (1838-1920) Competition and participate in Project Canción Española’s International Festival: Interpretation of Spanish Song. Ms. Downey is an alumna of the Merola Opera Program of the San Francisco Opera Center, where she spent BRIEF INTERMISSION the summer of 2008. She has also worked as a Fellowship Coach for the Aspen Opera Theater Center, a coach/accompanist for the Opera North Young Artist Program, a studio pianist for the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of High School Division Finalists’ Program Lucca, Italy, and a pianist for the Texas Christian University Summer Institute of Art Song in Spanish and Project Canción Española Competition.

Suite for Solo Cello Gaspar Cassado Preludio-Fantasia (1897-1966) Christopher Hutton is an avid performer and is the cellist for the Greenville- based Poinsett Piano Trio. A native of New Zealand, Hutton has performed across the globe and worked with a number of orchestras, including the New World Symphony and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He has Romanze Richard Strauss recorded for New Zealand’s Concert FM and Germany’s SWF Radio as well (1864-1949) as Albany Classics for a disc of contemporary chamber music for Albany Classics. Hutton plays on a cello made by John Betts in c. 1795. A graduate of Boston University and the University of Rochester’s Eastman Sonata No. 5 in D major Ludwig von Beethoven School of Music, Hutton taught at the University of Rochester, the University Allegro con brio (1770-1827) of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of Delaware before coming to Furman. He has twice led Furman students to Arezzo, Italy for the music department’s “Music in Italy” study away program. When he’s not playing cello or teaching, Hutton is an enthusiastic runner. He has run several marathons, including the Boston Marathon. 2018 Tennessee Cello Workshop Taiwanese pianist Bernadette Lo (Lo, Wei-Chun) has become a much sought- after collaborative pianist, with extensive experience in both vocal and Suzuki One-Day Workshop Mini-Recital instrumental music. She has worked in the studios of such renowned artists Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 5:40 p.m. as Carol Vaness, Cynthia Haymon and Martina Arroyo, and for several years Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall has been an official accompanist for the Orpheus National Vocal Competition in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She has been engaged by the Sugar Creek Natalie L. Haslam Music Center Festival, Opera Illinois, Illinois Opera Theatre and the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre. She has performed in recital with acclaimed instrumentalists such as Yuri Mazurkevich, Dale Clevenger and David Griffin (both of the Led by Lisa Liske-Doorandish and Alicia Randisi-Hooker Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Ronald Barron (of the Boston Symphony Orchestra) and flutist Tadeu Coelho. She has concertized nationally with violist Hillary Herndon, which whom she has recorded two compact discs Program to be selected from the following pieces: of works featuring female composers such as Harrison, Decruck, Clarke, and others. She is regularly invited to collaborate with guest artists at the Tennessee Cello Workshop, Tennessee Viola and was one of three invited collaborative pianists to perform for the 41st International Horn Symposium. Book I Twinkle Variations, Allegro, Perpetual Motion, Alicia Randisi-Hooker has been an active cellist and teacher for more than Rigadoon, Minuet in C, Minuet No. 2 twenty-five years. She holds a Master of Music degree in cello performance from Temple University in Philadelphia PA, and a Bachelor of Music in performance from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her principal Book II teachers were Mary Fraley, Lev Aronson, Deborah Reeder, Hans Jorgen- Handel’s Chorus, Hunter’s Chorus, Jensen, Laszlo Varga, and Valentin Erbin of the Alban Berg Quartet. March in G, Two Grenadiers An enthusiastic champion of the Suzuki philosophy, Alicia completed all ten units of Suzuki cello teacher training in a long term Suzuki apprenticeship with internationally acclaimed teacher trainer Annette Costanzi, and through Book III individual units and courses offered by the Suzuki Association of the Americas. Scherzo, Humoresque She presently enjoys a richly varied career teaching students aged five through fifty both in her private studio and at Maryville College. Her students have been the recipients of many prizes, scholarships, and competitions, including the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition. She has Book IV been named Outstanding Teacher in the state of Tennessee by the Governor’s Chanson Triste School for the Arts, and continues to develop the musicianship of young cellists and chamber musicians in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. She has been a member of the Shreveport Symphony, the Philly Pops, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, the Oak Ridge Symphony, among others. As a member of the piano trio, Trillium, she performs regularly throughout the East coast. The mother of two young adults, Alicia currently lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with her husband, a medical doctor and two very spoiled cats. The TCW would simply not be possible without the support of our sponsors. MANY THANKS to:

Joshua Henry, Bowmaker Sponsor of the Josh Henry bow special prize Voss Violins Ronald Sachs Violins Wilhite Strings Dear participants of the 2018 Tennessee Cello Workshop, The University of Tennessee School of Music Carriage House Violins of Johnson Strings Welcome to the 2018 Tennessee Cello Workshop. This year marks the twentieth Reuning and Son Violins anniversary of this weekend of shared music-making, exploration, learning, challenge, The Chicago Violin Shop discovery, and celebration of cello playing. A440 Violin Shop The Tennessee Cello Workshop is privileged to have on its faculty some of the Daniel Oliver Violin Shop country’s most distinguished cellist/pedagogues. Dan Allcott, Desmond Hoebig, The Fresh Market Christopher Hutton, Lisa Liske-Doorandish, John Michel, Hannah Moses, Alicia Randisi-Hooker, Anne Richardson, and I will be working to expand your musical, A special word of thanks also to Operations Director Jeanine Wilkinson, The cellistic, and pedagogical compass with the rest of our TCW community this TCW elves, Phi Mu Alpha, Tracy Viles, Susan Harbin, Adrienne Dilulio, weekend. It is especially exciting to welcome Hannah Moses and Anne Richardson Landin Fleres, Jeremy Hughes, Chris Jerger, and Jeffrey Pappas. to our faculty, as each of them was both a first prize and special Joshua Henry bow http://www.music.utk.edu/tcw/sponsors.html prize winner at previous TCW cello competitions. They are each thriving in their early careers, and represent a big part of the mission of the TCW of supporting the Put the 21st anniversary Tennessee Cello Workshop in your calendars now! continuing growth of young cellists. February 22-24, 2019 Guest Artists include: The Tennessee Cello Workshop could simply not exist in its current form without the Eric Kim (Indiana University-Bloomington) help of many generous sponsors. Please take the opportunity to thank this weekend’s Kim Cook (Pennsylvania State University) on-campus sponsors at their tables this weekend: RONALD SACHS VIOLINS, VOSS Horacio Contreras (Lawrence Conservatory) VIOLINS, WILHITE STRINGS, JOSHUA HENRY, DANIEL OLIVER VIOLIN SHOP, and Kirsten Cassel Greer (Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University) FORKS ON THE ROAD FOOD TRUCK. We are also grateful to sponsors who support Dan Allcott (Tennessee Technological University) this event but won’t have representatives with us on campus this weekend. Many Alicia Randisi Hooker (Maryville College) thanks to Carriage House Violins, Reuning and Son Violins, A440 Violin Shop, and The Wesley Baldwin Fresh Market for their support of this event. If, at any time during the TCW you need help (you are confused, have gotten lost, need directions, etc.), please feel free to ask any of the UT cello studio Elves, who will If you have enjoyed the Tennessee Cello Workshop in any of the last 20 years, and have star stickers on their nametags to identify themselves. Schedules and directions would like to support its ongoing activities, please consider making a donation to to help orient (and re-orient) participants during the TCW can be found in your the Tennessee Cello Workshop Fund. We are building an endowment specifically registration packets. You can also direct logistics questions all weekend to Jeanine for the TCW. This endowment will help insure that all who are eager to attend the Wilkinson, Operations Director, at [email protected]. TCW in future years are able to, and to make sure that the legacy built in its first 20 years, of world class cello pedagogues and enthusiastic cellists from throughout Thanks for sharing your love for cello this weekend at the Tennessee Cello Workshop, the United States converging on campus each February, can continue indefinitely. and for being part of this community of enthusiastic cellists! I wish you great delight, growth and happiness in the coming days. Checks should be made payable to the UT Foundation with Warmly, “Tennessee Cello Workshop Gift Fund” in the memo line. Please send checks to: School of Music 117 Natalie L. Haslam Music Center Wesley Baldwin 1741 Volunteer Blvd. Knoxville, TN 37996 Founder and Director, Tennessee Cello Workshop