Faculty Tuesdays

Influences of Nadia Boulanger

Claude Sim, Margaret McDonald,

Extasis Tango Ensemble Evan Orman, bandoneón Michael Tilley, piano Steve Metcalf, double bass

Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the house manager.

7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 17, 2020 Grusin Music Hall Imig Music Building Program

Sonata for Violin and Piano Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Claude Sim, violin Margaret McDonald, piano

Après un rêve G a b r i e l F a u r é (1845-1924)

Sicilienne

Claude Sim, violin Margaret McDonald, piano

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Extasis Tango Quartet (Selections announced from stage)

Claude Sim, violin Evan Orman, bandoneón Michael Tilley, piano Steve Metcalf, bass About the performers Claude Sim enjoys a varied career as a Pianist Margaret McDonald, a native chamber musician, orchestral leader, soloist of Minnesota, is associate professor of and multi-genre performing artist. He studied collaborative piano at the University of violin performance at the Oberlin Conservatory Boulder. She joined the College of with Greg Fulkerson and Almita Vamos and Music keyboard faculty in the fall of 2004. viola with Roland Vamos. At age 21, he was She helped to develop the college’s graduate appointed associate concertmaster of the degree program in Collaborative Piano and Colorado Symphony under Music Director the undergraduate collaborative curriculum. Marin Alsop. He was formerly associate Praised for her poetic style and versatility, principal second violin of the Baltimore McDonald enjoys an active performing career Symphony Orchestra and has served as guest and has partnered many distinguished artists, concertmaster of the Kansas City Symphony, including the Takács Quartet, Glenn Dicterow, principal second violin of the National Arts Zuill Bailey, Joshua Roman, Paula Robison, Centre Orchestra of Ottawa and first violin with Carol Wincenc, Eugene Izotov, Ben Kamins, the Philadelphia Orchestra. Equally talented David Shifrin, David Jolley, Julie Landsman, on violin and viola, Sim has been a grand Craig Morris, Paul Merkelo, Ian Bousfield, prizewinner at the Fischoff National Chamber Joseph Alessi, Steven Mead and Velvet Brown. Music Competition. He is the solo violinist of She has performed throughout the United Extasis, the noted tango group with a studio States, Canada and Europe. McDonald is active album to its credit. Known for his multi-genre throughout the country, giving master classes interests, Sim’s jazz album Time With You at institutions from coast to coast, including presents a collection of standards from the The Juilliard School, Indiana University, New Great American Songbook. Sim has performed England Conservatory of Music, University of with Hamilton star Leslie Odom Jr. and Odom’s Texas at Austin, University of Minnesota Twin jazz quintet as guest soloist. He has also Cities, Arizona State University, University of shared the stage with Irish American fiddler California Santa Barbara and Louisiana State Eileen Ivers, Warren Haynes (Allman Brothers University. She has released recordings with Band, Gov’t Mule), rock band Guster and iconic Michelle Stanley, ; Velvet Brown, tuba; rock band Devotchka, both live and Aaron Tindall, tuba; and Erika Eckert, viola on the album 100 Lovers. He performed as a for the Potenza, Parma and Meridian record duo with Grammy Award-winning artist and labels. McDonald has been a staff accompanist banjo master Béla Fleck on a 2014 Colorado at the Meadowmount School for Strings in tour. Sim’s performing career and concurrent New York and an official accompanist at the teaching philosophy are driven by striving to Music Teachers National Association national be a complete artist and citizen. His previous competitions and the National Flute Association teaching appointments include University annual convention. She spends her summers of Colorado Denver and Colorado State as a member of the collaborative piano faculty University. at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California.

As musical administrator for Lyric Theatre @ to acquire his first instrument in 1996. Orman Illinois and coordinator of Vocal Coaching and has performed with the Black Oak Ensemble Accompanying at the University of Illinois, at the French Music Festival, Musique Dan Le Michael Tilley works with voice and keyboard Gers, Camerata San Antonio, the Colorado students in private lessons, coachings, lecture, Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Chamber workshops, and main stage productions. After Musicians, Virtuosi Chicago Chamber receiving his Master’s in collaborative piano Orchestra, the Sphere Ensemble, the University from the University of Colorado Boulder (also of Colorado Symphony Orchestra and the bachelor’s degrees in piano and molecular Columbus (Georgia) Symphony Orchestra. biology), Tilley was hired as Musical Director for Along with Extasis violinist, Claude Sim, Orman Franc D’Ambrosio’s national tours. During the has performed with the band Devotchka last decade, he has served as music director on many occasions and can be heard on for concerts and shows in New York City and the album 100 Lovers. He performs on two throughout the country. As a conductor, he has bandoneóns: an Alfred Arnold, ca. 1935 and a led ensembles from Central City Opera, Opera modern instrument by Carlfelder Bandoneón Colorado, Emerald City Opera and Boulder and Concertina Fabrik (AA) that was made Opera. He has been a featured performer in 2011. In addition to his musical activities, with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Orman is a maker and restorer of bows for other regional orchestras, as well as with the stringed instruments and currently maintains Martha Graham Dance Company at the Vail a shop in Denver. He is a member of the International Dance Festival. His orchestrations American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers. and arrangements, from solo piano to full symphony to rock opera, have been heard Steve Metcalf was born in Raleigh, North across the country and abroad. He has also Carolina where he began his studies under the composed music for the stage and a feature- tutelage of North Carolina Symphony member length soundtrack. Tilley is currently associate Craig Brown. Metcalf went on to attend Indiana music director for The Four Phantoms touring University under the instruction of Professor show. He is jazzed to return to his alma mater Emeritus, Lawrence Hurst, where he received with his favorite musical partners. his Bachelor of Music and the coveted Performer’s Certificate. Upon graduating Evan Orman studied cello at the North Carolina from Indiana, Metcalf moved to Los Angeles School of the Arts, the Banff Centre In Canada, to continue his graduate studies with Peter and the New England Conservatory. His Lloyd at the Colburn Conservatory, where he teachers include Colin Carr, Eleanor Shoenfeld received a Professional Studies Certificate. and Robert Marsh. He has performed in master Previously, Metcalf served as principal bassist classes for Yo-Yo Ma, Janos Starker and the of the New York String Orchestra Seminar Guarneri Quartet and has worked closely at Carnegie Hall in 2009 and 2010, attended with violinist Louis Krasner and composer the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Music Iannis Xenakis. Orman studied tango music Academy of the West, and the Spoleto Festival. and the bandoneón in Buenos Aires, and is a In the fall of 2017, Metcalf taught adjunctly founding member of the Denver-based group, at the University of Colorado Boulder. Most Extasis. His interest in the bandoneón, and recently, Metcalf made his solo debut with in the music of Astor Piazzolla prompted him the Colorado Symphony in 2019 performing Bottesini’s Passione Amorosa with assistant principal bassist Nicholas Recuber. Metcalf has been principal double bassist of the Colorado Symphony since February 2017. In his free time, Metcalf likes to enjoy the merits of living in Colorado, which include traditional climbing, backcountry skiing and running ultramarathons.

Theory Tidbit By the mid-1900s, America had come to be perceived as a land of wide-open spaces and seemingly endless resources. Copland, who was interested in developing a quintessentially American sound, reflected this aspect of the American psyche with disjunct melodies and widely spaced harmonies. In the first movement of his Violin Sonata, listen to the violin’s opening melody with its widespread leaps and expansive range. The ratio of leaps to steps in the first thirty-nine measures is a staggering 91:8. Also, notice the spaciousness of the final chord of the last movement—the violin plays a double-stop (two notes at once) that reaches the interval of a 12th, and the piano plays a three-note chord that consists of a 29th and a 10th which together span more than five octaves. —Karin Buer, Instructor of Music Theory Interact with other audience members and with Professor Buer on today’s Tidbit through our Facebook group “CU Music Theory” bit.ly/CU_MT or by email at [email protected]. Upcoming performances Ticketed events Live broadcast at cupresents.org

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