EASTMAN • THE ATRE EASTMAN PERFORMANCE SERIES
2018-2019 SEASON September - November
Eastman Presents Kilbourn Concert Series Eastman-Ranlet Series Fernando Laires Piano Series Barbara B. Smith World Music Series
EXPERIENCE EASTMAN EXCELLENCE
insidewhat’s Welcome From the Director | 3 Dawn Upshaw & Gilbert Kalish | 21
The Historian’s Corner | 6 Sandro Russo | 25
Cyro Baptista’s Banquet of the Spirits | 8 St. Lawrence Quartet | 28
Pink Martini | 12 Leila Josefowicz | 30
Ying Quartet | 17 Aritmia Duo | 32
CONTACT US: Location: Eastman School of Music - ESM 101 EASTMAN THEATRE BOX OFFICE Phone: (585) 274-1109 Mailing Address E-mail: [email protected] Eastman School of Music Concert Office 26 Gibbs Street Mike Stefiuk, Director of Concert Operations Rochester, NY 14604 Julia Ng, Assistant Director of Concert Operations Eastman Theatre Box Office Greg Machin, Ticketing and Box Office Manager 433 East Main Street Joseph Broadus, Box Office Supervisor Rochester, NY 14604 Christine Benincasa, Secretary Ron Stackman, Director of Stage Operations, Phone Eastman Theatre Eastman Theatre Box Office: (585) 274-3000 Jules Corcimiglia, Assistant Director of Stage Lost & Found: (585) 274-3000 Operations (Kodak Hall) Eastman Concert Office: (585) 274-1109 Daniel Mason, Assistant Director of Stage Hall Rentals: (585) 274-1109 Operations (Kilbourn Hall) Michael Dziakonas, Assistant Director of Stage Operations (Hatch Recital Hall)
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welcome from the director
reetings, and welcome to one of the many Gconcerts in the new season of our Eastman Performance Series! To showcase the breadth of concerts here at Eastman, we have gathered together all five of our established concert series—Eastman Presents, the Kilbourn Concert Series, the Eastman-Ranlet Series, the Fernando Laires Piano Series, and the Barbara B. Smith World Music Series—all into one booklet.
As you page through this program, you’ll note that the Eastman Performance Series focuses on diversity and inclusion, presenting cultural programs that appeal and bring together a wide audience. This ability to find unity in diversity is perhaps the most important aspect of the hundreds of performances presented here at Eastman each year.
Eastman is a vibrant community of performers and artists, all at the top of their musical game as virtuosos and interpreters, presenting and performing for the larger Rochester community. We encourage you to participate in the enjoyment of listening, engage in a spirited dialogue about what you see and hear, and allow your curiosity to bring you back for another concert or two!
Thank you for being here tonight on this musical journey and enjoy the 2018/19 season!
Mike Stefiuk Director of Concert Activities
P.S.–We’re always open to your feedback. Please, if you’re so inclined, take a moment to write us at [email protected]
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The Planning and Construction of the Eastman Theatre 1919-1922 By Vincent Lenti
he idea of establishing a music school and supervised by the well-known American muralist Ttheater for the University of Rochester was Ezra Winter. The interior walls, constructed of reportedly first suggested by George Eastman a product known as Zenitherm, created the in 1918, but it was not until February 1919 illusion of stone facing typical of an Italian that the announcement was made to the Renaissance palace. Ezra Winter was responsible public that Eastman had committed himself for the beautiful murals on the left side of the to providing a new concert hall and school of theater, which represent festival, lyric, martial, music “surpassed by no other in the world.” and sylvan music. The corresponding murals Prior to that announcement, a building site on on the right side were executed by Barry the corner of Main Street and Gibbs Street had Faulkner in a similar style, and they represent been selected, and the property and existing religious, hunting, pastoral, and dramatic music. buildings quietly acquired. By early 1920 the All of the figures on both sides were painted site had been cleared and construction against an Italian landscape background. began. The school and theater buildings were completed in a relatively short period of time. Forty carloads of marble were used in the The Eastman School of Music opened its doors theater’s construction, coming from American to students in September 1921, and the and Italian quarries. Marble was used in Eastman Theatre opened its doors to audiences the lobbies, stairways, the auditorium and a year later. mezzanine foyers, balconies, and general interior. Copies of the famous “Cupid and Two architectural firms were involved: Gordon Psyche” decorations, based on drawings of and Kaelber, local Rochester architects, were Jacques-Louis David and prepared by the engaged to provide only the basic floor plans, French artist Lafitte for Napoleon Bonaparte, while the noted New York firm of McKim, were installed in the lobby and the mezzanine. Mead, and White was chosen for the general Another artistic treasure was a painting architectural design and artistic decoration of entitled “Interlude” by Maxfield Parrish, which both the exterior and interior of the buildings. was placed in the stairway landing leading to The interior decoration of the theater was the balcony foyer. Because of concern for
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possible damage, the original was removed about twenty years ago and replaced by a photographic reproduction. The original, however, may still be seen in the Memorial Art Gallery. fixtures by using two galvanized washtubs The most striking feature of the theater is in which wiring and light bulbs were hastily the beautiful ceiling dominated by a 2.5 ton inserted. It was hoped that no one would notice crystal chandelier containing 546 lights and this “temporary” solution, but George Eastman 20,000 pieces of glass and crystal. The most not only noticed but was greatly amused and unusual feature of the theater, however, is pleased with the result of the workman’s the two smaller chandeliers on either side initiative. He insisted that the washtub light of the rear of the hall. The fixtures that were fixtures should not be replaced, and they ordered failed to arrive in Rochester in time remained in place, essentially undisturbed ever for the opening show on September 4, 1922. since their improvised installation in 1922. Therefore, workman cleverly improvised lighting
Vincent Lenti, Professor of Piano and Eastman School Historian, received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the school in 1960 and 1963, respectively. He has served on the Eastman faculty since then, and also directed Eastman’s Preparatory Department (now the Eastman Community Music School) from 1970 to 1996. In 2001 he was appointed Eastman School Historian. He has published the first two volumes of a history of the Eastman School: For the Enrichment of Community Life: George Eastman and the Founding of the Eastman School of Music (2004) and Serving A Great and Noble Art: Howard Hanson and the Eastman School of Music (2009). He is engaged in research for a third volume. EASTMAN PERFORMANCE SERIES 7 Barbara B. Smith World Music Series
Thursday, September 20, 2018 Kilbourn Hall 7:30pm
Cyro Baptista’s Banquet of the Spirits
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This band is a musical manifestation of the We eat, we speak, we kiss, we smile and sing “process of eating, swallowing, and digesting The mouth is the portal to our brain, stomach all the tendencies that are part of the sonic and heart landscape. The music is a product of the sounds The mouth is the system connecting our intellect, these players have collectively consumed over emotion and spirit the years; some of them they have digested and And it digests everybody and everything in its others they have rejected. Through this process path it has been difficult to identify what belongs to All is gloriously regurgitated what country, culture, or religion. We choose the essentials And eat again We all have the anthropofagic nature within us And again We devour each other seeking transformation And again” The mouth is sacred because of all the things —Cyro Baptista that come in and go out
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and collaborating with myriad luminaries such as Paul Simon, Herbie Hancock, John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Yo-Yo Ma, Caetano Veloso, and many others. Described by Thom Jurek of All Music as “simply one of the most limitless musicians we have,” Baptista’s many honors include the DownBeat Critics Poll Percussionist of the Year in 2013 and 2011, Jazz Journalists Association Percussionist of the Year in 2010 and 2007, Drum Magazine Percussionist of the Year in 2004 and 2003, and U.S. Artists Walker Fellow in 2009/10.
Recent seasons have seen Baptista touring heavily with Phish lead-singer Trey Anastasio. CYRO BAPTISTA Meanwhile, his community building project through music, the Sound of Community, razilian performer and bandleader Cyro continues to grow, with recent iterations in both BBaptista is widely considered one of the Japan and Mexico that interlace professional premier percussionists on the planet, bringing musicians and non-musicians participating his unique charm and undeniable rhythmic in workshops and a public performance. As a drive to countless stages, performing on 2017 artist-in-residence at the University numerous Grammy Award-winning recordings, of Buffalo’s Creative Arts Alliance, Cyro was
EASTMAN PERFORMANCE SERIES 9 guest artist commissioned to compose music played on Baptista’s critically acclaimed, seven-plus- a newly created public art sculpture, leading member ensemble, Beat the Donkey, or “Pau musicians and non-musicians in a performance Na Mula” (Brazilian slang meaning “Let’s at the ArtPark in Niagara Falls, New York. go!” or “Let’s do it!”), performs with the wild, Baptista has also been collaborating with joyous energy of a carnival drum line, fusing drummer Billy Martin (Medeski Martin & Wood) music, dance, humor and madcap theatrics on annual five day percussion/drum camps into unforgettable events. The project has that invite over fifty musicians, along with toured to major venues and festivals guest teachers, to participate. including Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Grand Performances in Los Angeles, Detroit As a bandleader, Baptista’s inimitable world International Jazz Fest, Quebec City Summer music quartet, Banquet of the Spirits, embodies Fest, the Chicago World Music Fest, the the Brazilian philosophy of anthropofagia, or International Festival of Arts and Ideas, the cultural cannibalism, as a creative imperative. Krannert Center, the Hancher Auditorium, Described by All About Jazz as “a must-listen,” the Walker Art Center, George Washington and “a diversity of sounds and colors that can’t University, Central Park Summerstage, FloydFest be found anywhere else,” the group draws in Virginia, and 92nd Street Y. Beat the Donkey’s freely from an expansive array of musics from self-titled release was selected by The New around the globe, combining Afro-Brazilian York Times’ Jon Pareles as one of the top ten beats with improvised, experimental jazz alternative albums of the year, and by The Wire trappings. Banquet of the Spirits has performed as a top ten Global Music album of the year. internationally at such venues as the Newport Jazz Fest, the Andy Warhol Museum, the Village Baptista has performed on hundreds of Vanguard, the Wexner Center, Town Hall NYC, recordings, composed music for Nickelodeon, SFJAZZ, Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Bimhuis in and appeared in major motion pictures, Amsterdam, SESC Pompeia in São Paulo, the including 2008’s “Rachael’s Getting Married” Adelaide Festival in Australia and many more. and 2007’s “Across the Universe.” He The group has released three albums on Tzadik, has performed as guest artist with many each hailed by critics for their infectious major orchestras, including the New York grooves and sheer elemental beauty, most Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, recently receiving a five out of five star rating Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Mostly from All About Jazz. In 2012, they recorded Mozart Festival Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Zorn’s Mount Analogue, along with vibraphonist Orchestra and others. As an educator, he as Kenny Wollesen, producing an album which was conducted workshops and master classes at declared by All Music “one of [Zorn’s] greatest The Juilliard School, Berklee College of Music, achievements.” Banquet is preparing to put Mannes College of Music, The New School, out their latest album with a release event at New World Symphony Orchestra, Kimmel the legendary Village Vanguard in New York City. Center Jazz Camp, the University of Buffalo and many others.
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Eastman Presents
Friday, October 5, 2018 Kodak Hall 8:00 pm
Pink Martini
Selections to be announced from the stage
Thomas M. Lauderdale, piano China Forbes, vocals Gavin Bondy, trumpet Antonis Andreou, trombone Phil Baker, upright bass William Marsh, guitar Nicholas Crosa, violin Timothy Nishimoto, vocals and percussion Miguel Bernal, percussion Brian Davis, percussion Andrew Borger, drums and percussion
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band, but because we spend a lot of time abroad we have the incredible diplomatic opportunity to represent a broader, more inclusive America…the America that is the most heterogeneously-populated country in the world. Except for Native Americans, all of us are immigrants from every country, of every language, of every religion,” says Lauderdale.
Featuring a dozen musicians with songs in over 25 languages, Pink Martini performs its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and North and South America. Pink Martini made its European debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 and its orchestral debut with the Oregon Symphony in 1998 under the direction of Norman Leyden. n 1994 in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, Since then, the band has gone on to play with IThomas Lauderdale was working on political more than 70 orchestras around the world, campaigns, with the intention of eventually including multiple engagements with the Los running for office. Drawing inspiration from Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, music from all over the world—crossing genres the Boston Pops, the National Symphony at of classical, jazz, and old-fashioned pop—and the Kennedy Center, the San Francisco hoping to appeal to conservatives and liberals Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the alike, he founded the “little orchestra” Pink Minnesota Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, Martini “to bring a little bit of “Breakfast at the Cleveland Orchestra, and the BBC Concert Tiffany’s” to political fundraising for causes Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall. such as civil rights, affordable housing, cleaning up the Willamette River, libraries and Other appearances include the grand opening education, among others. of the LA Philharmonic’s Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, with return sold-out One year later, Lauderdale called China Forbes, engagements for New Year’s Eves in 2003, a Harvard classmate who was living in New 2004, 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2016; four York City, and asked her to join Pink Martini. sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall; the They began to write songs together. Their first opening party of the remodeled Museum of song—“Je ne veux pas travailler” or “I don’t Modern Art in New York City; three sold out want to work”—became an overnight sensation shows with the Sydney Symphony at the in France, was nominated for Song of the Year renowned Sydney Opera House; sold-out at France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards, concerts at Royal Albert Hall in London in and to this day remains a mantra for striking 2011, 2013 & 2016, sold-out concerts at French workers. “Pink Martini is an American Paris’ legendary L’Olympia Theatre in 2011
EASTMAN PERFORMANCE SERIES 13 program note and 2016; and Paris’ fashion house Lanvin’s the band’s holiday album and the band’s 10-year anniversary celebration for designer collaborative album with Japanese singer Alber Elbaz in 2012. In 2014, Pink Martini Saori Yuki, respectively). was inducted into both the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame and the Oregon Music Hall of Fame. One of the most significant moments in the band’s 23-year history began to formulate Television appearances include The Late Show at a luncheon for the Central Oregon-based with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan art camp Caldera at the Portland Art Museum O’Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Later in 2010. In his introduction of Myrlie Evers- with Jools Holland, and a feature on CBS Williams—civil rights leader and widow Sunday Morning. The band created a nationally of Medgar Evers, who was assassinated in broadcast 2015 NPR holiday concert special, Jackson, Mississippi in 1963—Dan Wieden Joy to the World: A Holiday Spectacular, and revealed that, as a young person growing up has been featured on multiple New Year’s in Mississippi, Myrlie was a classical pianist Eve broadcasts on NPR’s Toast of the Nation. with dreams of playing Carnegie Hall. Two years later, Pink Martini invited Myrlie— The band has collaborated with numerous at age 79—to realize her childhood dream. artists, including Phyllis Diller, Jimmy Scott, In a sparkling red dress provided by Ikram Carol Channing, Rita Moreno, Jane Powell, Goldman of Chicago, and with her family and Rufus Wainwright, Japanese legends Saori Yuki friends in the audience, Myrlie not only played and Hiroshi Wada, Henri Salvador, Chavela the piano; she sang George Gershwin’s “The Vargas, New York performer Joey Arias, Man I Love” to an instant standing ovation. puppeteer Basil Twist, Georges Moustaki, Myrlie’s debut was documented by filmmaker Michael Feinstein, Charo, Doc Severinsen, Albert Maysles, of Grey Gardens fame. filmmaker Gus Van Sant, Courtney Taylor Taylor of The Dandy Warhols, clarinetist and conductor In 2016, Pink Martini released its ninth studio Norman Leyden, Italian actress and songwriter album, Je dis oui!, featuring singers China Alba Clemente, DJ Johnny Dynell and Chi Chi Forbes, Storm Large, Ari Shapiro, fashion guru Valenti, Faith Prince, Mamie Van Doren, the Ikram Goldman, civil rights leader Kathleen original cast of Sesame Street, the Portland Saadat, and Rufus Wainwright. The album’s Youth Philharmonic, Mariachi Aztlan of Pueblo 15 songs span eight languages (French, High School in Tucson, Arizona; the Jefferson Farsi, Armenian, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, High School Gospel Choir; the Royal Blues Xhosa and English), and affirm the band’s of Grant High School; the Pacific Youth Choir 23-year history of global inclusivity and of Portland, Oregon; and Karen Early (who collaborative spirit. played sleigh bells and crash cymbals on
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he and his partner Hunter Noack created and performed a dazzling, rhapsodic two-piano arrangement of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with choreographer Nicolo Fonte for Oregon Ballet Theatre.
Active in Oregon politics since a student at U.S. Grant High School (where he was student body president), Thomas served under Portland Mayor Bud Clark and Oregon governor Neil Goldschmidt. In 1991, he worked under Portland City Commissioner Gretchen Kafoury on the drafting and passage of the city’s civil rights ordinance. He graduated with honors from Harvard with a degree in History and Literature in 1992. He spent most of his collegiate years, however, in cocktail dresses, taking on the role of “cruise director” … throwing waltzes with live orchestras and ice THOMAS M. LAUDERDALE sculptures, disco masquerades with gigantic pineapples on wheels, midnight swimming aised on a plant nursery in rural Indiana, parties, and operating a Tuesday night RPink Martini bandleader Thomas M. coffeehouse called Café Mardi. Lauderdale began piano lessons at age six with Patricia Garrison. When his family moved to Instead of running for political office, Lauder- Portland in 1982, he began studying with Sylvia dale founded Pink Martini in 1994 to play po- Killman, who to this day continues to serve as litical fundraisers for progressive causes such as his coach and mentor. He has appeared as civil rights, the environment, affordable soloist with numerous orchestras and ensembles, housing and public broadcasting. In addition including the Oregon Symphony, the Seattle to his work with Pink Martini, Lauderdale is Symphony, Portland Youth Philharmonic, Chamber currently working on three different record- Music Northwest and Oregon Ballet Theatre ing projects with international superstar and (where he collaborated with choreographer singing sensation Meow Meow, the surf band James Canfield and visual artists Storm Tharp Satan’s Pilgrims and singer/civil rights leader and Malia Jensen on a ballet based on Felix Kathleen Saadat. Salten’s Bambi, written in 1923). In Spring 2008, Lauderdale completed his first In 2008, he played Gershwin’s Piano Concerto film score for Chiara Clemente’s documentary in F with the Oregon Symphony under the di- Our City Dreams, a portrait of five New York rection of Christoph Campestrini. Lauderdale City-based women artists of different returned as soloist with the Oregon Symphony in generations. In 2016, Lauderdale created the multiple concerts in 2011, and again in 2015, score and three featured songs for the Belgian under the direction of Carlos Kalmar. In 2017,
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Love Handle was released in 1995, and she was chosen to sing “Ordinary Girl,” the theme song to the TV show Clueless.
In 1995, she was plucked from New York City by Harvard classmate Thomas Lauderdale to sing with Pink Martini, and has since co- written many of the band’s most beloved songs with Lauderdale, including “Je ne veux pas travailler,” “Lilly,” “Clementine,” “Let’s Never Stop Falling in Love,” “Over the Valley,” and “A Snowglobe Christmas,” which can be heard on Pink Martini’s holiday album Joy to the World. Her original song “Hey Eugene” is the title song of Pink Martini’s third album. She sang “Qué Será Será” over the opening and closing credits of Jane Campion’s film In the Cut, and her original song “The Northern Line” appears at the end of sister Maya Forbes’ directorial CHINA FORBES debut Infinitely Polar Bear (Sony Pictures Classics). Both films star Mark Ruffalo. hina Forbes was born and raised in CCambridge, Massachusetts, where she Forbes has performed songs in over twenty graduated cum laude from Harvard and was languages and has sung duets with Michael awarded the Jonathan Levy Prize for “most Feinstein, Jimmy Scott, Georges Moustaki, promising actor” in 1992. She appeared in New Henri Salvador, Saori Yuki, Faith Prince, Carol York regional theatre and Off-Off Broadway Channing, and Rufus Wainwright, among productions, earning her Equity card alongside others. She has performed in venues from future stars of stage and screen such as Norm Carnegie Hall to Red Rocks, the Hollywood Lewis, Peter Jacobson, and Rainn Wilson. Bowl to the Grand Rex in Paris. She released her second solo album ’78 on Heinz Records China and her first band played regularly in 2008, a collection of autobiographical folk- at CBGB’s Gallery, the Mercury Lounge, and rock songs. Brownies in New York City. Her first solo album
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Sunday, October 7, 2018 Kilbourn Hall 3:00 pm
Ying Quartet
String Quartet No. 3, Op. 44, No. 1 Felix Mendelssohn Molto allegro vivace (1809-1847) Menuetto. Un poco allegretto Andante espressivo ma con moto Presto con brio
Crisantemi Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
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Italian Serenade Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Ricardo Morales, clarinet
YING QUARTET Robin Scott, violin Janet Ying, violin Phillip Ying, viola David Ying, cello
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“The Ying Quartet came as close to the prisons, and the White House. In fact, the ideal as possible, delivering chamber Ying Quartet’s constant quest to explore the music of astonishing, refreshing creative possibilities of the string quartet has exaltation and exhilaration.” led it to an unusually diverse array of musical projects and interests. – The Los Angeles Times The Ying’s ongoing LifeMusic commissioning project, created in response to their commitment to expanding the rich string quartet repertoire, has already achieved an impressive history. Supported by the Institute for American Music, the Ying Quartet commissions both established and emerging composers to create music that reflects contemporary American life. Recent works include Billy Childs’ Awakening; Lera Auerbach’s Sylvia’s Diary; Lowell Liebermann’s String Quartet No. 3, To the Victims of War; Sebastian Currier’s Next Atlantis; and John Novacek’s Three Rags for String Quartet. In August 2016 the Ying Quartet released a new Schumann/ Beethoven recording on Sono Luminus with the cellist Zuill Bailey, and in 2016-17 the five toured with the Schumann Cello Concerto transcribed for cello and string quartet along with Beethoven’s “Kreutzer THE YING QUARTET Sonata,” also reimagined for cello quintet. The 2017-18 season will see the Quartet continuing he Ying Quartet occupies a position of its work in the relatively new field of medicine, Tunique prominence in the classical music music, and healing with the staff at Houston world, combining brilliantly communicative Methodist, while simultaneously maintaining performances with a fearlessly imaginative its busy touring schedule. view of chamber music in today’s world. Now in its third decade, the Quartet has established The Ying Quartet’s many other recordings itself as an ensemble of the highest musical reflect many of the group’s wide-ranging qualifications. Their performances regularly musical interests and have generated take place in many of the world’s most consistent, enthusiastic acclaim. The group’s important concert halls; at the same time, the CD “American Anthem” (Sono Luminus), Quartet’s belief that concert music can also heralding the music of Randall Thompson, be a meaningful part of everyday life has also Samuel Barber, and Howard Hanson, was drawn the foursome to perform in settings as released in 2013 to rave reviews; their 2007 diverse as the workplace, schools, juvenile Telarc release of the three Tchaikovsky
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Quartets and the Souvenir de Florence (with As quartet-in-residence at the prestigious James Dunham and Paul Katz) was nominated Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, for a Grammy Award in the Best Chamber the Ying Quartet teaches in the string Music Performance category. department and leads a rigorous, sequentially designed chamber music program. One The Ying Quartet first came to professional cornerstone of chamber music activity at prominence in the early 1990s during their Eastman is the noted “Music for All” program, years as resident quartet of Jesup, Iowa, a farm in which all students have the opportunity to town of 2000 people. Playing before audiences perform in community settings beyond the of six to six hundred in homes, schools, concert hall. The Quartet is the ensemble- churches, and banks, the Quartet had its first in-residence at the Bowdoin International opportunities to enable music and creative Music Festival and at Arizona State University, endeavor to become an integral part of and from 2001-2008, the members of the community life. The Quartet considers its Ying Quartet were the Blodgett Artists-in- time in Jesup the foundation of its present Residence at Harvard University. musical life and goals.
Philadelphia Orchestra as principal clarinet in 2003, having held the same position with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since the age of 21. His virtuosity and artistry as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician have been hailed and recognized in concert halls around the world. He has been asked to perform as principal clarinetist with the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and at the invitation of Sir Simon Rattle, as principal clarinet with the Berlin Philharmonic. He also performs as principal clarinetist with the Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra and the Mito Chamber Orchestra, at the invitation of Maestro Seiji Ozawa.
A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Morales began his studies at the Escuela Libre de Musica, along with his five siblings, who are RICARDO MORALES, CLARINET all distinguished musicians. He continued his studies at the Cincinnati Conservatory of icardo Morales is one of the most sought Music and Indiana University, where he Rafter clarinetists of today. He joined The received an Artist Diploma.
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He has been a featured soloist with many and master classes, which have taken him orchestras including the Metropolitan Opera throughout North America and Europe. In Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the addition, he currently serves on the faculty of Cincinnati Symphony, the Indianapolis Temple University. Symphony, the Seoul Philharmonic and the Flemish Radio Symphony. During his tenure His performances have been met with critical with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Mr. acclaim. The Philadelphia Inquirer hailed his Morales soloed under the baton of James Levine appointment to the Philadelphia Orchestra, in Carnegie Hall and on two European stating that it “in fact, may represent the most tours. He made his solo debut with The salutary personnel event of the orchestra’s last Philadelphia Orchestra in 2004 with Charles decade.” He was also praised by the New York Dutoit and has since performed as soloist on Times as having “… fleet technique, utterly numerous occasions. natural musical grace, and the lyricism and breath control of a fine opera singer,” Mr. Morales An active chamber musician, Mr. Morales has was also singled out in the New York Times review performed in the MET Chamber Ensemble of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Berlioz’s series at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall with Les Troyens, describing his playing as “exquisite” James Levine at the piano, at the Santa Fe and declared that he “deserved a place onstage Chamber Music Festival, the Philadelphia during curtain calls.” Chamber Music Society, the Seattle Chamber Music Summer Festival, the Saratoga Chamber His debut solo recording, French Portraits, is Music Festival, on NBC’s The Today Show, and available on the Boston Records label. Morales’ with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln recent recordings include performances with Center. He has performed with many The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, the distinguished ensembles such as The Juilliard Pacifica Quartet, which was nominated for a Quartet, the Pacifica Quartet, the Miró Quartet, Latin Grammy Award, and the Mito Chamber the Leipzig Quartet and The Kalichstein- Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Seiji Laredo-Robinson Trio. He has also collaborated Ozawa. In 2004, Mr. Morales joined forces with with Christoph Eschenbach, André Watts, internationally recognized musical instrument Emmanuel Ax, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, James designer, Morrie Backun, to develop MoBa, a Ehnes, Gil Shaham and Kathleen Battle. Mr. line of professional clarinets and clarinet Morales is highly sought after for his recitals accessories by Backun Musical Services.
Did you know… The first chamber music composition performed in Kilbourn Hall was Beethoven’s String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op.18 No.6. It was played by the Kilbourn Quartet, then the resident quartet of the Eastman School of Music, at the formal dedication of Kilbourn on March 4, 1922. Vincent Lenti
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Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Kilbourn Hall 7:30 pm
Dawn Upshaw, soprano Gilbert Kalish, piano
Program to include works of
Songs Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896)
from Clairieres dans le ciel Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Song Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
Song Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953)
Song Louise Talma (1906-1996)
from Sappho (1981) Elizabeth Vercoe Irreveries (b. 1941)
Song Set Sheila Silver (b. 1946)
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to the Metropolitan Opera, where she began her career in 1984 and has since made nearly 300 appearances, Dawn Upshaw has also championed numerous new works created for her including The Great Gatsby by John Harbison; the Grawemeyer Award-winning opera, L’Amour de Loin and oratorio La Passion de Simone by Kaija Saariaho; John Adams’s Nativity oratorio El Niño; and Osvaldo Golijov’s chamber opera Ainadamar and song cycle Ayre.
It says much about Dawn Upshaw’s sensibilities as an artist and colleague that she is a favored partner of many leading musicians, including Gilbert Kalish, the Kronos Quartet, James Levine, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. In her work as a recitalist, and particularly in her work with composers, Dawn Upshaw has become a generative force in concert music, having DAWN UPSHAW premiered more than 25 works in the past decade. From Carnegie Hall to large and small oining a rare natural warmth with a venues throughout the world she regularly Jfierce commitment to the transforming presents specially designed programs composed communicative power of music, Dawn Upshaw of lieder, contemporary works in many languages, has achieved worldwide celebrity as a singer and folk and popular music. She furthers this of opera and concert repertoire ranging from work in master classes and workshops with the sacred works of Bach to the freshest young singers at major music festivals, sounds of today. Her ability to reach to the conservatories, and liberal arts colleges. She heart of music and text has earned her both is Artistic Director of the Vocal Arts Program at the devotion of an exceptionally diverse the Bard College Conservatory of Music, and audience, and the awards and distinctions the Head of the Vocal Arts Program at the accorded to only the most distinguished of Tanglewood Music Center. artists. In 2007, she was named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, the first vocal artist A five-time Grammy Award-winner, Dawn to be awarded the five-year “genius” prize, Upshaw is featured on more than 50 recordings, and in 2008 she was named a Fellow of the including the million-selling Symphony No. 3 American Academy of Arts & Sciences. by Henryk Gorecki for Nonesuch Records. Her discography also includes full-length opera Her acclaimed performances on the opera stage recordings of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro; comprise the great Mozart roles (Susanna, Messiaen’s St. Francois d’Assise; Stravinsky’s Ilia, Pamina, Despina, and Zerlina) as well The Rake’s Progress; John Adams’s El Niño; as modern works by Stravinsky, Poulenc, and two volumes of Canteloube’s Songs of the Messiaen. From Salzburg, Paris and Glyndebourne Auvergne, a dozen recital recordings, and an
EASTMAN PERFORMANCE SERIES 22 guest artists acclaimed three-disc series of Osvaldo Golijov’s of the Metropolitan Opera Young Artists music for Deutsche Grammophon. Her most Development Program. recent Grammy was the 2014 Best Classical Vocal Solo Grammy for Maria Schneider’s Winter Ms. Upshaw has recorded extensively for the Morning Walks on the ArtistShare Label. Nonesuch label. She may also be heard on Angel/EMI, BMG, Deutsche Grammophon, Dawn Upshaw holds honorary doctorate London, Sony Classical, Telarc, and on Erato and degrees from Yale, the Manhattan School of Teldec in the Warner Classics Family of labels. Music, the Juilliard School, Allegheny College, and Illinois Wesleyan University. She began Dawn Upshaw is represented by Colbert Artists her career as a 1984 winner of the Young Management, Inc. 307 Seventh Avenue, Suite Concert Artists Auditions and the 1985 Walter 2006, New York, NY 10001 www.colbertartists.com W. Naumburg Competition, and was a member
making. A native New Yorker, Mr. Kalish studied with Leonard Shure, Julius Hereford and Isabelle Vengerova. He is a frequent guest artist with many of the world’s most distinguished chamber ensembles. He was a founding member of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, a pioneering new music group that flourished during the 1960’s and ‘70’s. He is noted for his partnerships with other artists, including cellists Timothy Eddy and Joel Krosnick, soprano Dawn Upshaw, and, perhaps most memorably, his thirty-year collaboration with mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani. In addition to teaching at Stony Brook, he has also served on the faculties of the Tanglewood Music Center, the Banff Centre and the Steans Institute at Ravinia. Mr. Kalish’s discography of some 100 recordings encompasses classical repertory, 20th-century masterworks and GILBERT KALISH, PIANO new compositions. In 1995 the University of Chicago presented him with the Paul Fromm s head of the performance faculty, Gilbert Award for distinguished service to the music AKalish had done much to create the of our time. uniquely supportive and stimulating environment of Stony Brook’s music department. Through Gilbert Kalish leads a musical life of unusual his activites as performer and educator, he variety and breadth. As educator he is Leading has become a major figure in American music Professor and Head of Performance Activities
EASTMAN PERFORMANCE SERIES 23 guest artists at the State University of New York at Stony 20th Century masterworks and new Brook. From 1968-1997 he was a faculty compositions. Of special note are his solo member of the Tanglewood Music Center and recordings of Charles Ives’ Concord Sonata served as the “Chairman of the Faculty” at and Sonatas of Joseph Haydn, an immense Tanglewood from 1985-1997. He often serves discography of vocal music with Jan DeGaetani as guest faculty at distinguished music and landmarks of the 20th Century by institutions such as the Banff Centre and the composers such as Carter, Crumb, Shapey and Steans Institute at Ravinia, and is renowned Schoenberg. In 1995 he was presented with for his master class presentations. the Paul Fromm Award by the University of Chicago Music Department for distinguished Mr. Kalish’s discography of some 100 service to the music of our time. recordings encompasses classical repertory,
Did you know… Dawn Upshaw is the latest in a very long and impressive list of famous sopranos who have presented recitals at Eastman. The first soprano to sing in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre was Lydia Civetti, who appeared as an assisting artist to the great Italian tenor Giovanni Martinelli on October 25, 1922. Vincent Lenti
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Friday, October 19, 2018 Kilbourn Hall 7:30 pm
Sandro Russo, piano
3 Mazurkas, Op. 56 Frédéric Chopin Allegro non tanto (1810-1849) Vivace Moderato
Berceuse in Db Major, Op. 57 Frédéric Chopin
Barcarolle in F# Major, Op. 60 Frédéric Chopin
Polonaise-Fantasie, Op. 61 Frédéric Chopin
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Sonata No. 10 in C Major, Op. 70 Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915)
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune Claude Debussy (1862-1918) trans. Leonard Borwick
from Nocturnes Claude Debussy II. Fêtes trans. Vladimir Leyetchkiss
La Valse Ravel-Icharev-Russo
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earned the Piano Performing Diploma from the Royal College of Music in London with honors. While still a student, he won top prize awards in numerous national and international competitions, including Senigallia and the Ibla Grand Prize. During that time, he performed in some of the country’s most reputable concert halls.
Soon after Mr. Russo moved to the United States in 2000, he won the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Concerto Competition, which led to a performance of the Liszt A major Concerto at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, NJ. Shortly thereafter, he gave an acclaimed Chopin recital at the prestigious Politeama Theatre in Palermo, Italy, and later appeared at the Nuove Carriere Music Festival, an international showcase for the world’s most SANDRO RUSSO promising young musicians. Mr. Russo also has gained attention for an extensive repertoire cclaimed for his profound sense of poetry that is comprised not only of well-known Aand distinctive style, Sandro Russo has masterpieces from all periods but of rarities been in demand as a soloist in many venues of the piano literature, as well. Some of his around the world. He unanimously receives virtuoso performances of works by Cziffra, accolades for his sparkling virtuosity and Sorabji, Marc-André Hamelin and other his playing has often been referred to as a composer-pianists have enthralled music lovers throwback to the grand tradition of elegant from around the world. He has also premiered pianism and beautiful sound. Abbey Simon compositions by Lowell Liebermann, Paul has praised him as “an artist to his finger Moravec and Mr. Hamelin. tips…musical, intuitive, and a master of the instrument.” Lowell Liebermann has called He has performed in such prestigious concert him “a musician’s musician, and a pianist’s halls as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the pianist. There is no technical challenge too Konzerthaus Berlin, Weill and Zankel halls at great for him, but it is his musicianship that Carnegie Hall, Salle Cortot in Paris and Teatro ultimately makes the greatest impression. His Politeama in Palermo. His recitals include interpretations reveal a unique and profound performances for The Rachmaninoff Society, artist at work.” the Dame Myra Hess series in Chicago, Concerts Grand in Santa Rosa (CA), the Born in San Giovanni Gemini, Italy, Mr. Russo American Liszt Society, the Houston displayed exceptional musical talent from an International Piano Festival, the Husum early age. In 1995, he graduated summa cum Festival of Piano Rarities in Germany and the laude from the V. Bellini Conservatory and Chetham’s International Piano Festival in
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Manchester (U.K.), among others. In November the first recording on this legendary instrument 2010 the Italian Academy Foundation presented after Horowitz’s death. Mr. Russo’s latest Mr. Russo in a sold-out Chopin & Schumann recording, Rachmaninov—Solo Piano Works, anniversary concert at Carnegie Hall. released in March 2017 on the Steinway & Sons label, has received great critical acclaim Mr. Russo has also appeared as a soloist and has been chosen “Disc of the Month” by with the Slovak Philharmonic in Bratislava, Italy’s The Classic Voice magazine. The Jacksonville Symphony in Florida and The Brussels Chamber Orchestra at the opening In summer of 2017, Mr. Russo gave a solo gala of The Music Festival of the Hamptons recital in the newly opened Stoller Hall in in 2008. In July of the same year he gave Manchester, UK., where he also gave master three highly praised performances of the classes to a group of international students. Rachmaninoff 3rd Piano Concerto on tour In September 2017, Mr. Russo had the honor with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana and he of performing with the world-renowned South was also the featured soloist with the New Korean soprano, Sumi Jo, in two special NYC York Asian Symphony for a Japan tour in 2009. events in the presence of the president of His performances have aired on major radio South Korea and other dignitaries in stations in the U.S. and abroad. celebration of the forthcoming PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics. In January 2009, Bechstein-America invited Mr. Russo to record a DVD on the historical 1862 Sandro Russo is a Steinway Artist. Bechstein piano (#576) owned by Franz Liszt. In addition, the DVD “Sandro Russo Plays the www.sandrorussopianist.com Steinway CD-75 Horowitz Piano” represents
Did you know… Sandro Russo opens his program this evening with a selection of music by Frédéric Chopin. Like Russo, many pianists who have appeared at Eastman have programmed music by the Polish master. Perhaps the first sounds of Chopin heard in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre were from the great Polish pianist Paderewski, whose program on November 15, 1922, included a Chopin Ballade, Nocturne, Mazurka, and Scherzo. Vincent Lenti
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Sunday, November 11, 2018 Kilbourn Hall 3:00 pm
St. Lawrence Quartet Geoff Nuttall, violin Owen Dalby, violin Lesley Robertson, viola Christopher Costanza, cello
String Quartet in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3 (the “Bird”) Franz Josef Haydn Allegro moderato (1732-1809) Scherzo: Allegretto Adagio ma non troppo Finale: Rondo - Presto
Second Quartet (2014) John Adams Allegro molto (b. 1947) Andantino-Energico
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String Quartet in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2 Johannes Brahms Allegro non troppo (1833-1897) Andante moderato Quasi Minuetto, Moderato-Allegro vivace Finale (Allegro non assai)
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St. Lawrence String recordings can be heard on EMI Classics and ArtistShare (www.artistshare.com) The St. Lawrence String Quartet is Ensemble-in-Residence at Stanford University www.slsq.com
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many others has yielded some of the finest additions to the quartet literature in recent years. The Quartet is also especially dedicated to the music of Haydn, and recording his groundbreaking set of six Op. 20 quartets in high-definition video for a free, universal release online in the 2018-19 season. According to The New Yorker, “…no other North American quartet plays the music of Haydn with more intelligence, expressivity, and force…”
Established in Toronto in 1989, the SLSQ quickly earned acclaim at top international chamber music competitions and was soon playing hundreds of concerts per year worldwide. They established an ongoing residency at Spoleto Festival USA, made prize-winning recordings for EMI of music by Schumann, Tchaikovsky, and Golijov, earning ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET two Grammy nominations and a host of other http://www.slsq.com prizes before being appointed ensemble-in- residence at Stanford University in 1999. odern…dramatic…superb…wickedly “Mattentive…with a hint of rock ‘n roll At Stanford, the SLSQ is at the forefront of energy…” are just a few ways critics describe intellectual life on campus. The SLSQ directs the musical phenomenon that is the St. the music department’s chamber music Lawrence String Quartet. The SLSQ is renowned program, and frequently collaborates with for the intensity of its performances, its breadth other departments including the Schools of of repertoire, and its commitment to concert Law, Medicine, Business and Education. The experiences that are at once intellectually Quartet performs regularly at Stanford Live, exciting and emotionally alive. Highlights in hosts an annual chamber music seminar, and 2018-19 include performances with pianist runs the Emerging String Quartet Program Inon Barnatan, and the long-awaited release through which they mentor the next generation of their recording of all six Haydn Op. 20 of young quartets. In the words of Alex Ross “Sun” Quartets. of The New Yorker: “The St. Lawrence are remarkable not simply for the quality of their Fiercely committed to collaboration with living music making, exalted as it is, but for the joy composers, the SLSQ’s fruitful partnership with they take in the act of connection.” Adams, Jonathan Berger, Osvaldo Golijov, and
Did you know… Christopher Costanza, cellist of the St. Lawrence Quartet, studied in the preparatory department of the Eastman School (now known as the Eastman Community Music School) from age eleven through age seventeen. He and his two sisters made the weekly trip from their home in Utica to pursue their early music training here in Rochester. Vincent Lenti Kilbourn Concert Series
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 Kilbourn Hall 7:30 pm
Leila Josefowicz, violin John Novaeck, piano
Valse Triste Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) arr. Friedrich Hermann
Violin Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 80 Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Reflection Oliver Knussen (1952-2018)
from Symphony No. 5 Gustav Mahler IV. Adagietto (1860-1911) arr. Otto Wittenbecher
Sonata for Violin and Piano Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-1970)
Did you know… Jean Sibelius, whose Valse Triste opens this evening’s recital, was offered a position as teacher of theory and composition on the original Eastman School of Music faculty in 1921. In spite of being offered a salary that was two and half times higher than the salary being earned by the school’s director (dean), Sibelius declined the offered and remained in his native country of Finland. Vincent Lenti
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such as New York’s Zankel Hall and London’s Wigmore Hall, where she returns in autumn 2017.
Violin concertos have been written especially for Leila Josefowicz by composers including John Adams, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Colin Matthews and Steven Mackey. Scheherazade.2 (Dramatic Symphony for Violin and Orchestra) by Adams was given its world premiere by Josefowicz in 2015 with the New York Philharmonic. Luca Francesconi’s concerto Duende – The Dark Notes, also written for Josefowicz, was given its world premiere by her in 2014 with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Susanna Mälkki before being performed by Josefowicz, Mälkki and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms in 2015.
Recent highlights include engagements with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Tonhalle-Orchester eila Josefowicz’s passionate advocacy of Zürich, Helsinki Philharmonic and Tokyo Lcontemporary music for the violin is reflected Metropolitan, St. Louis, San Francisco and in her diverse programmes and enthusiasm to Minnesota symphony orchestras. In summer perform new works. She frequently collaborates 2017, Josefowicz appeared at Birmingham’s with leading composers and works with Symphony Hall and London’s Royal Albert Hall orchestras and conductors at the highest level at the BBC Proms with City of Birmingham around the world. In 2008 she was awarded Symphony Orchestra. She returned to the a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, joining London Symphony Orchestra in December 2016, prominent scientists, writers and musicians performing John Adams’ Scheherazade.2 in who have made unique contributions to London, Paris and Dijon. contemporary life. Josefowicz has released several recordings, Highlights of Josefowicz’s 2017/18 season include notably for Deutsche Grammophon, Philips/ concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Universal and Warner Classics and was Concertgebouw Orchestra and Iceland, Boston, featured on Touch Press’ acclaimed iPad app, Lahti and Finnish Radio symphony orchestras, The Orchestra. Her latest recording, featuring as well as Washington’s National Symphony Scheherazade.2 with the St Louis Symphony Orchestra. Alongside pianist John Novacek, conducted by David Robertson, was released with whom Josefowicz has enjoyed a close in 2016 and nominated for a Grammy Award. collaboration since 1985, she performs recitals Josefowicz’s recording of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s in Reykjavik, Leeds, Chicago, San Francisco, Violin Concerto with the Finnish Radio Symphony Santa Barbara and Halifax (Nova Scotia) and Orchestra conducted by the composer, was also has appeared recently at world-renowned venues nominated for a Grammy Award in 2014.
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Friday, November 15, 2018 Kilbourn Hall 7:30 pm
Aritmia Duo Merima Kljuco,ˇ accordion & Miroslav Tadi´c, guitar Vranjanski Coˇ cekˇ Traditional - Serbia arr. Miroslav Tadi´c Gnosienne No.1 (1890) Erik Satie (1866-1925) arr. Kljuˇco / Tadi´c Gde si Dušo, Gde si Rano Davorin Jenko (1835-1914) arr. Kljuˇco / Tadi´c Balkan Song & Dance (2014) Merima Kljuˇco / Miroslav Tadi´c Mujo (2007) Merima Kljuˇco Accordion solo (b.1973) Fantasy on Bartók’s Romanian Dances (2014) Merima Kljuˇco / Miroslav Tadi´c I. Moderato II. Allegro III. Andante Rustemul (1990) Miroslav Tadi´c Guitar solo (b. 1959) Kopanica (2006) Merima Kljuˇco Tamamale and Grandpa Nigun (2009) Merima Kljuˇco Accordion solo “Nana” (1914) Manuel de Falla from Siete Canciones Populares Españolas (1876-1946) arr. Kljuˇco / Tadi´c Walk Dance (1990) Miroslav Tadi´c Guitar solo Kaleš bre Andjo Traditional - Macedonia arr.Kljuˇco / Tadi´c “Hajd’ Sad Majka” (2013) Merima Kljuˇco from Sevdah Songs II
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forms. The album was voted by The Sunday Times (UK) as one of the “Top 100” albums of 2010”, as well as fourth in “Top 10 World Music Albums”.
In commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Siege of Sarajevo in 2012, the East West Theater Company and renowned Bosnian theater director Haris Pasovic invited Merima as musical director to compose, arrange, and perform a music poem “Sarajevo Red Line” (“Sarajevska Crvena Linija”). The piece, which incorporated traditional and pop songs, as well as classical music—music with deep cultural significance, was performed on April 6, 2012 to an audience of 11,541 empty red chairs lining the main boulevard in Sarajevo, with one chair for every life lost in the siege. On that day, thousands of people from all walks of life congregated to witness and remember.
MERIMA KLJUCOˇ Her most recent multimedia work “The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book” (for accordion, erima Kljucˇo, accordion, imbues a dizzying piano and video, 2014) traces the dramatic Mvariety of music with playing that moves story of one of Jewish culture’s most treasured with its depth of understanding and experience. manuscripts. Using the musical traditions of Whether performing in recital, with ensembles Spain, Italy, Austria, and Bosnia-Herzegovina such as Serendipity 4 (with Theodore Bikel), Kljuˇco illustrates and illuminates the Haggadah’s MusikFabrik, and the Asko/Schönberg Ensemble, travels from medieval Spain to 20th century or as guest soloist with orchestras such as the Bosnia where it was hidden and rescued during Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Netherlands World War II, to its restoration by the National Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the soulful Museum in Sarajevo after the 1992-1995 war. traditions of her instrument are not only given Inspired by the historical novel by Pulitzer a unique voice, but they are given new life and Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks, “The meaning. Merima’s love of world music, and the Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book” creatively music of Bosnia in particular, is something she interprets this miraculous artifact as a universal seeks to share with audiences everywhere. symbol of exile, return, and coexistence.
As the producer, composer, and arranger for Merima Kljuˇco has given workshops and master her highly rated album, Zumra (World Village classes in conservatories and universities all 2010), she has created a multi-layered classical over the world, including the Guildhall School interpretation of a musical tradition she treasures. of Music (England), the University of Edinburgh Her compositions and arrangements are original (Scotland), and Syracuse and Georgetown and contemporary in their juxtaposition of Universities (USA), and is a guest faculty extended techniques with traditional musical member at Yellow Barn (USA).
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The Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte-Carlo, Howard Levy, Joachim Kühn, L. Shankar, Markus Stockhausen, Dusan Bogdanovic, Vlatko Stefanovski, Teofilovic Brothers, Wadada Leo Smith, David Torn, Maria João, Jack Bruce, The Grandmothers of Invention, Theodosii Spassov, Kudsi Erguner, Djivan Gasparyan, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri and Ustad Ashish Khan, among others.
Tadi´c has recorded worldwide and his music can be heard on CMP Records, M–A Recordings, Third Ear, Avalon, Croatia Records, ENJA, Nine Winds and Sony/BMG. He performs regularly in Europe, North and South America and Japan. In recent years Tadi´c has concentrated on developing an approach to improvisation which combines and juxtaposes musical material drawn from many diverse sources, including MIROSLAV TADIC´ Baroque, European classical and North Indian classical music, Flamenco, Eastern European uitarist, composer and improviser Miroslav folk traditions, Blues, Jazz, and Rock. GTadi´c completed his formal music education in the United States after studying Tadi´c has composed solo and chamber works in Italy and his native Yugoslavia. He has published by Les Editions Doberman-Yppan. performed and recorded in a wide variety of He has also written music for numerous settings and musical styles, ranging from experimental film, dance and theatre works, music of the Baroque and Classical periods most recently music for Croatian feature film to Blues, Jazz, Rock and World music. “Seventy Two Days” by Danilo Serbedzija.
Tadi´c’s performing and recording credits Since 1985, Tadi´c has been a professor at the include projects with Mark Nauseef, The Los prestigious California Institute of the Arts in Angeles Opera with Placido Domingo, London Los Angeles, CA. Symphony Orchestra, MDR Leipzig Symphony,
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