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Department of Music Presents

Duo Violin Recital

Olga Kaler, Violin Carla Trynchuk, Violin Beilin Han,

8:15 PM Saturday, September 19, 2015

Howard Performing Arts Center

PROGRAM and was honored as a Young Artist in 2003. In 2004, Ms. Han became a prize winner of the "Vianna Da Motta International Piano Competition" in Portugal. She was invited to perform Tchaikovsky Piano with University of Kansas No. 5 in E minor for Two , Op. 3, No. 5 Jean Marie Leclair Symphony Orchestra, Mozart Piano Concerto with T'ang Quartet Allegro ma poco (1697-1764) in Singapore and Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 with Portugal Gulbenkian Orchestra. Gavotte (Andante grazioso)

Presto Ms. Han has toured internationally as a concert pianist performing in such countries as China, Portugal, Spain, and throughout the US. She also appeared on the radio show in Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 56 Singapore, US and TV Show in Shanghai, China. In 2008, Ms. Han graduated from Roosevelt University where she attended Andante cantabile (1891-1953) her Artistic Diploma with Dr. Soloman Mikowsky (Manhatten Allegro Music School) and Mr.Meng-Chieh Liu (Curtis Institute of Music). Commodo (quasi allegretto) In addition to Ms. Han's successful solo career, she has enjoyed Allegro con brio chamber music and collaborating with such artists as pianist Alberto Portugheis, world-Renowned counter-tenor Paul Esswood, World-Renowned Violinist Shmuel Ashkenasi, Yossif Suite in G Minor for Two Violins and Piano, Op. 71 Maurice Moszkowski Ivanov, Kyoko Takezawa and Elmar Oliveira among others. She Allegro energico (1854-1925) has also worked for world-famous conductors such as Riccardo Muti and christoph Eschenbach. Allegro moderato Ms. Han is currently a collaborative pianist in both Roosevelt Lento assai University (Chicago College of Performing Arts) and DePaul Molto vivace School of Music, She joined collaborative piano faculty of Heifetz International Music Institute in 2011 and Cremona

International music academy (Italy) in 2014. Navarro (Danza espagnole), Op. 33 Pablo de Sarasate

(1844-1908)

About the Performers Faculty-Artist at numerous music festivals, has given master classes worldwide, and has served as a judge and adjudicator for string and Praised by critics for her "deep, soulful sound" and "powerful, chamber music competitions and festivals throughout the United enchanting renditions,” Olga Dubossarskaya Kaler toured three States and . continents as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra member, combining performing and teaching careers with equal success. Beilin Han was born in Shanghai, China. Ms. Han started playing She joined the applied violin faculty of DePaul University piano at the age of 3. After four years of piano studies, she won the School of Music in 2004 and currently serves as Associate 1st prize of young artist competition in Shanghai, China. Ms. Professor of Violin. Han attended Shanghai Conservatory of Music for Primary and Middle school; she was the winner of 8th Hong Kong International Kaler holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Northwestern Piano Competition and was awarded the highest scholarship University Bienen School of Music and previous degrees from available in China. In 1996, Ms. Han recorded her first Selling CD, the New England Conservatory of Boston, the State showing her strong commitment and challenge to the music. Then, in Conservatory in Russia and the Stolyarsky Special Music School a year of 1997, she was accepted by Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts for Gifted Children in Odessa, Ukraine. Most influential in Singapore with a full scholarship. After graduating from teachers include Professors Almita Vamos, Nelli Shkolnikova, Singapore, Ms. Han immediately got into University of Kansas for Benjamin Mordkovich, Naoum Latinsky, Inna Gaukhman and her Master Degree; at that time, she was the only one who had the James Buswell. full scholarship. In Kansas, she studied with Famous American Dr. Kaler's work on the subject of violin pedagogy, An Effective Pianist Jack Winerock and world-renowned Portuguese Pianist Method for Teaching and Studying Violin Technique, received Sequire Costa, under his instruction, Ms. Han has won top prizes in enthusiastic approval from teachers worldwide. Kaler’s new many prestigious competitions including first place in Sigma Alpha work, Scale System For Reluctant Scale Enthusiasts, was Iota International Music Scholarship Competition; Kansas City published in the summer of 2015. National Scholarship Competition and Naftzgar National Young Artist Competition. She was invited to perform at the 7th Annual Her numerous awards as a performing artist include Special World Piano Pedagogy Conference in Las Vegas in 2002 Prize at the Rodolfo Lipitzer International Competition, 1st Prizes at the Northwestern University Beinen School of Music Concerto Competition and Thaviu-Isaacs Competition, among others. Dr. Kaler’s previous orchestral engagements include the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, as well as permanent positions of the Assistant

Concertmaster of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Assistant Filarmônica da PUCRS (Brazil), Iaşi Philharmonic Orchestra Concertmaster of the Ars Viva! Orchestra, Principal Associate (Romania), Banatul Philharmonic Orchestra (Timisoara, Concertmaster of the Lake Forest Symphony Orchestra, and Romania), the National Philharmonic Orchestra (Moldova), the Principal Second Violin of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Bacau Philharmonic (Romania), Bostani Philharmonic (Romania), and Oltenia Philharmonic (Craiova, Romania). Dr. Kaler is currently a member of the World Orchestra for Peace under the direction of Valery Gergiev, the Chautauqua Symphony Ms. Trynchuk collaborated with Maestro Paul Freeman and the Orchestra of NY and The Chicago Ensemble. Dr. Kaler appeared as Czech National Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague for the world a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician and artist-teacher at premiere recording of Tibor Serly Concerto for Violin. The CD Bowdoin International Music Festival in Maine, Skaneateles Music has been released on the Albany label. festival in NY, Montreal Festival in Canada, Steamboat Springs As an advocate of music by contemporary composers, Ms. Chamber Festival in Colorado, and Athens Music Festival in Greece, Trynchuk gave the premiere recording of Kittyhawk by the Villa Musica and Schleswig-Holstein Festivals in Germany. Kaler American composer Randall Davidson. She has performed appeared on the worlds legendary concert stages, such as the Robert MacBride’s Violin Concerto (“Variety Day”), Carnegie Hall of New York, Moscow Conservatory Great Hall, the Hartmann’s Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra (Concerto Albert Hall of London, Philharmonie Hall, to name a few. She funèbre) and Astor Piazzolla’s Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas is highly sought out as a national and international competition judge (The Four Seasons). and a chamber musician, frequently sharing the stage with today's leading artists. A graduate of The of Music in New York City, Ms. Trynchuk was granted the Bachelor and Master of Music

degrees studying under the legendary pedagogue Dorothy DeLay Violinist Carla Trynchuk this 2015 season has performed the and Hyo Kang. Brazilian premiere of the American Barber Violin Concerto, with the Ms. Trynchuk is currently Professor of Music and Director of the National Theater Symphony Orchestra of Brazil in a concert String Program at Andrews University, Michigan and has taught commemorating 200 years of friendship between the United States String Pedagogy at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. She and Brazil and Astor Piazzolla’s Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas was awarded the Siegfried H. Horn Award for Excellence in (The Four Seasons) at the Oregon Music Festival. She has Research and Creative Scholarship. She is the Director of the performed internationally as soloist with orchestra and recitalist in String Program for the Oregon Music Festival and has served as the United States, Canada, , England, France, Austria, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Romania, Moldova, Brazil, and India, including solo performances with the Calgary Philharmonic (Alberta, Canada), the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra (Croatia), Orquestra