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PROGRAM HONOR CHOIR Jonathan Talberg—Conductor, Amanda Mitton—Piano, the Bob Cole Chamber Choir—Guest Artist WITH GUEST ARTISTS MICHELE ZUKOVSKY, DENNIS KIM, AND THE BOB COLE CHAMBER CHOIR JONATHAN TALBERG, MONI SIMEONOV, JOHN ALAN CARNAHAN, AND JERMIE S. ARNOLD, CONDUCTORS AMANDA MITTON, PIANO SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2019 3:30PM CARPENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER PLEASE SILENCE ALL ELECTRONIC MOBILE DEVICES. PROGRAM HONOR CHOIR Jonathan Talberg—conductor, Amanda Mitton—piano, The Bob Cole Chamber Choir—guest artist Program to be selected from the following: The Last Words of David .............................................................................................................................Randall Thompson Tenebrae fact sunt................................................................................................................................Marco Antonio Ingineri Come to me, My Love .................................................................................................................................. Norman Dello-Joio Dream Song .......................................................................................................................................... Matthew Lyon Hazzard If Music Be The Food Of Love ...............................................................................................................................David Dickau Hark I Hear the Harps Eternal .......................................................................................................................arr. Alice Parker Venike.......................................................................................................................................................................... arr. Rubtsov HONOR STRINGS Moni Simeonov—coach Program to be selected from the following: Air ....................................................................................................................................................... Arthur Foote (1853-1937) Concerto for Two violins .............................................................................................Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Vivace Largo ma non tanto Allegro Mizuki Horiguchi, Rachael Kim, Daichi Horiguchi—violin HONOR BAND John Alan Carnahan and Jermie S. Arnold—conductors, Michele Zukovsky—guest artist Program to be selected from the following: Lighting Field ...........................................................................................................................................John Mackey (b. 1973) Dream of Coming Home ..........................................................................................................John Alan Carnahan (b. 1955) Viktor's Tale ...........................................................................................................................................John Williams (b. 1932) arr. Paul Lavender Michele Zukovsky—clarinet Curtain Call ............................................................................................................................................John Wasson (b. 1956) Jermie Arnold—conductor 2 BIOGRAPHIES ABOUT MICHELE ZUKOVSKY Michele Zukovsky is an American clarinetist and is the longest serving female woodwind player in the history of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Born and raised in the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles, she played alongside and later succeeded her father, Kalman Bloch, as the principal clarinetist of the L.A. Philharmonic. She is related through her mother Frances to famed violin virtuoso Jascha Heifetz. Her brother Gregory Bloch played violin and mandolin for the Italian rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM), the American progressive-rock bands String Cheese and It’s a Beautiful Day, on Gilda Radner Live on Broadway, and with the Saturday Night Live band. Zukovsky has performed worldwide, including with the Boston Pops, the St. Petersburg String Quartet, the Lincoln Center Chamber Players, and at the Mostly Mozart Festival. She taught at the California Institute of the Arts. She currently teaches clarinet at the University of Southern California. She premiered John Williams' Clarinet Concerto with the Boston Pops in 1991. In 1986, she premiered a version of the Sonata in F minor, Op. 120 #1, by Johannes Brahms, arranged for clarinet and orchestra under commission from the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra by Luciano Berio. As a recording artist, Zukovsky has released several works, including most recently Simeon Bellison: The Arrangements for Clarinet (Summit Records, 2008), a compilation recording that includes arrangements by the Russian-American Simeon Bellison and Jewish-themed works by other composers. As a film industry studio clarinetist, Zukovsky played of several films scored by John Williams. She has served on the faculty of the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California and the Pasadena Conservatory of Music. ABOUT DENNIS KIM Dennis Kim is Pacific Symphony’s new concertmaster. A citizen of the world, Dennis was born in Korea, raised in Canada and educated in the United States. He has spent more than a decade leading orchestras in the United States, Europe and Asia. Most recently, he was concertmaster of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in New York. He was first appointed concertmaster of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra at the age of 22. He then served as the youngest concertmaster in the history of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, before going on to lead the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra in Finland. As guest concertmaster, Mr. Kim has performed on four continents, leading the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lille, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Montpelier Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Western Australia Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra of Navarra. He served as guest concertmaster with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra on their 10-city tour of the United Kingdom and led the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra in their BBC Proms debut in 2014. After making his solo debut at the age of 14 with the Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra, Mr. Kim has gone on to perform as a soloist with many of the most important orchestras in China and Korea. Highlights include performing on 10 hours’ notice to replace an ailing William Preucil, performing Vivaldi’s "Four Seasons" 20 times in one week and touring Japan with the Busan Philharmonic in 2008. During his tenure as concertmaster with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, he was featured annually as a soloist. Over the last two seasons, he was a guest soloist with the Lebanon Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra NOW, with repertoire ranging from Mozart and Haydn to Glass and Penderecki. Future engagements include those with the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba. A dedicated teacher, Mr. Kim is currently on the faculty at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada’s PRISMA festival and the Interlochen Center for the Arts as Valade Concertmaster in the World Youth Symphony Orchestra summer program. He has also been on the faculty of the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Korean National University of the Arts, Yonsei University, Tampere Conservatory and the Bowdoin International 3 Music Festival, Atlantic Music Festival and Suolahti International Music Festival. His students have been accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music, Colburn School, Juilliard School, Peabody Conservatory and the Queen Elizabeth College of Music and play in orchestras around the world. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and Yale School of Music, Mr. Kim’s teachers include Jaime Laredo, Aaron Rosand, Peter Oundjian, Paul Kantor, Victor Danchenko and Yumi Ninomiya Scott. He plays the 1701 ex-Dushkin Stradivarius, on permanent loan from a generous donor. ABOUT JONATHAN TALBERG Recipient of the President’s Award from the California Music Educators Association honoring "extraordinary accomplishments in music education," Dr. Jonathan Talberg serves as Director of Choral Music at the Bob Cole Conservatory, where he is conductor of the international award- winning Bob Cole Conservatory Chamber Choir. Recent career highlights include leading the Chamber Choir to first place awards at the Spittal International Choir Festival in 2017 and the "Choir of the World" competition in Wales in 2016. Additionally, he and the choir have performed with groups as diverse as the Kronos Quartet, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Pacific Symphony and the Rolling Stones. A passionate advocate for choral music education, Dr. Talberg is regularly engaged to conduct honor choirs across the US, including numerous all-state choruses, and the National Association for Music Education conference choirs. His choirs from Long Beach State have performed in venues throughout Europe and Asia, including the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter’s, and the Great Hall of the People in China. His professional experience includes appointments as Director of Music at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Bach Festival. He also served as Conducting Assistant to the Cincinnati Symphony and the Aspen Music Festival and as principal choral conductor at Arrowbear Music Camp in Southern California. A past-president of the California Choral Directors Association, he also serves as an editor at Pavane Music Publishing, where a choral series dedicated to outstanding quality, collegiate-level music is published under his name. Dr. Talberg is proud to
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