BLAIR CONCERT SERIES fall 2009

Blair School of Music Vanderbilt University a season of uncommon delights

WELCOME! to the fall 2009 concert series at the Blair School of Music!

This year promises to be one of our most exciting ever, as Blair continues to mature as a center for musical exploration and performance with a growing national reputation for excellence.

Our concert performance season expands with new offerings in the Music on Film Series, now in its second year, curated and introduced this fall by celebrat - ed Blair String Quartet violist John Kochanowski. We will take up further experi - mentations in the popular Nightcap Series, a unique opportunity for our faculty performers and scholars to explore new musical frontiers before audiences of music students and general music lovers alike. Our students, ever more talent - ed and astute as musicians, will be featured in more concerts than ever before, in performances such as the fall 2009 Vanderbilt Opera Theatre production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro —fully staged and costumed, with the Vanderbilt University Orchestra.

Spring 2010 brings an even more exciting schedule with the highly anticipated premiere of a work by composer and soprano Susan Botti, who will perform with the Blakemore Trio in premieres in Nashville and at Merkin Hall in New York.

Blair will also serve as proud host to several guest artist residencies, including a rare series of visits throughout the year by the innovative composer, performer, violinist, and band leader Daniel Bernard Roumain and by the dean of American pianists, Leon Fleisher, in the spring.

It’s an uncommon year for the school and for our audiences. We cordially invite you to sample the eclectic offerings in store and to hear why Blair is becoming one of the most talked-about performance venues around.

Mark Wait, Dean

Cover photos: Vanderbilt Wind Symphony; violin played by Peter Sheppard Skærved; the Blair String Quartet; Robin Fountain and the Vanderbilt Orchestra The Blair School of Music gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the following 2009/2010 Concert Series sponsors:

BMI Nissan North America Inc. Anonymous frined Anonymous friend Sartain Lanier Family Foundation, Inc. Susan and Frank Genovese The Martin Foundation The Mary Cortner Ragland Master Series Fund Delphine and Ken Roberts 2009/2010 SPECIAL EVENT ARTIST IN RESIDENCE DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAIN Daniel Bernard Roumain, better known as “DBR,” has carved a reputation for himself as an innovative composer, performer, violinist, and band leader. The Haitian-born, Florida-raised DBR melds his roots with his own cultural references and vibrant musical imagination.

He has composed orchestral scores and chamber pieces, music for film, theatre, and modern dance, and electronica, premiering his works in multiple years at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Next Wave Festival. In 2009, he will premiere a commissioned work at Carnegie Hall, as well as works for Eliot Fisk and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and newly commissioned works for the Florida Youth Orchestra, the Ahn Trio, and the Claremont Trio.

From Australia’s Sydney Opera House to Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, DBR continues to premiere and perform solo and chamber works from his debut international solo album etudes4violin&electronix (Thirsty Ear Recordings) in a worldwide tour with Elan Vytal, aka DJ Scientific. Described as a “demonstration of unquestionable virtuosity and commitment to the violin’s expressivity” (All About Jazz), the album showcases a unified dialogue between DBR and artists from today’s contemporary musical landscape including Philip Glass, Ryuichi Sakamoto, DJ Spooky, and DJ Scientific.

Proving that he’s “about as omnivorous as a contemporary artist gets” (New York Times), DBR has received many accolades. He was voted “America’s Assignment” on the CBS Evening News, garnered praise as one of the “Top 100 New Yorkers” (New York Resident), one of the “Top 40 Under 40” business people (Crain’s New York Business), and one of the entertainment industry’s “Top 5 Tomorrow’s Newsmakers” (1010 WINS Radio), and was spotlighted as a “New Face of Classical Music” in Esquire magazine.

DBR’s career blossomed when he studied music as an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. He completed his master’s and doctoral work at the University of Michigan under the tutelage of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer .

DBR will be a very special artist in residence at the Blair School in 2009/2010, conducting and participating in a series of master classes, concerts, lectures and special events throughout the year. Watch for more information about DBR residency activities, scheduled for September 10 –14, October 14 –19, January 24 –28, March 16 –19, and April 19 –22. Photos: Clockwise from top left—Nancy Buck; Marian Shaffer, Amy Dorfman and John Johns; Agnes Wan; Peter Sheppard Skærved september

SIGNATURE SERIES FACULTY RECITAL FACULTY RECITAL JOHN JOHNS KAREN CLARKE AGNES WAN guitar violin piano A plucked-string event featuring MARK WAIT Friday, September duets with Blair’s Marian Shaffer, Steve and Judy piano harp, and Amy Dorfman, Turner Recital Hall harpsichord An evening of duo sonatas for violin 8:00 p.m. 25 and piano by Mozart, Beethoven, and A collection of shorter compositions Thursday, September Brahms by Scarlatti, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Ingram Hall Bach, Schumann, Schubert, and Monday, September 8:00 p.m. contemporary female composer The program features Fantasia para Steve and Judy Pui-Shan Cheung. un gentilhomme by the g10reat Joaquin Turner Recital Hall Rodrigo, Sonata in C Major, BWV 529, 8:00 p.m. A DULCIMER by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata in A Sonata in A Major, K. 526 (Mozart1 ) Major by Antonio Vivaldi, and the Sonata in A Minor, Op. 23 (Beethoven) AFTERNOON Introduction and Fandango by Luigi Sonata in A Major (Brahms) Boccherini. Johns also presents a set The dulcimer concert sponsored of his own solo transcriptions of works by the David Schnaufer Fund GUEST ARTIST RECITAL by Bach, Mendelssohn, and Gluck. Sunday, September NANCY BUCK Steve and Judy BLAIR PRESENTS viola Turner Recital Hall MUSIC ON FILM Tuesday, September 2:00 p.m. Introduced by Steve and Judy Featuring this year’s John Kochanowski Turner Recital Hall guest artist, contempo2rary mount7 ain dulcimer pioneer Rob Brereton, with Sunday, September 8:00 p.m. 22 Blair faculty members Sandy Conatser, Steve and Judy Zada Law, and Lee Rowe. NIGHTCAP SERIES Turner Recital Hall 4:00 p.m. PETER SHEPPARD The Music on Film seri1es pres3 ents SKÆRVED large-format screenings of contempo - guest artist rary conductors filmed in live perform - ance, with 5.1 surround-sound technol - THE VIOLIN NOW! ogy. John Kochanowski, violist for the Blair String Quartet, leads the Thursday, September pre-film discussion. Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall 8:00 p.m., Discussion 24 VANDERBILT 8:30 p.m., Performance ORCHESTRA World-class violinist Peter Sheppard Robin Fountain, conductor Skærved explores in a lecture/ demonstration style what it is to be a Overture to La Forza del Destino (Verdi) violinist today, drawing on his reper - Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven) SMTWTH FS toire of rare works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the 12345 VANDERBILT CONCERT many works written for him. Skærved is leader of the Kreutzer Quartet and 678910 11 12 WINDS Fellow of Performance Studies at the Thomas Verrier, conductor Royal Academy of Music. He plays 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 American standards—works for the Joseph Joachim’s 1698 Stradivari. wind band from yesterday and today Sponsored by Nissan North America Inc. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Thursday, September 27 28 29 30 Ingram Hall 8:00 p.m. 17 All events are free and open to the public except where noted. Photos: Clockwise from top—Blair String Quartet; Melissa Rose; Michael Rose; Jared Hauser october VANDERBILT WIND NIGHTCAP SERIES BLAIR BRASS CHAMBER SYMPHONY WORKS BY ENSEMBLES Thomas Verrier, conductor BLAIR FACULTY FALL CONCERT VANDERBILT STRING COMPOSERS Sunday, October Thursday, October Steve and Judy ORCHESTRA Turner Recital Hall Robin Fountain, conductor Steve and Judy 2:00 p.m. Turner Recital Hall 18 With guest conductor 8:00 p.m., Discussion 1and Perf5 ormance Michel Camatte, Directeur, This evening features works by Stan COLLEGIUM VOCALE Conservatoire Darius Milhaud Link, Michael Alec Rose, and Michael David Childs, director Slayton, performed by student and Sunday, October “VIVE LA FRANCE!” faculty musicians including Josh Westminster Thursday, October and Jennifer McGuire and the Blair String Quartet. Presbyterian Church Ingram Hall 3900 West End Avenue Sponsered by Nissan North America, Inc. 8:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. Program to include Debussy’s Danse Music by Benjamin Bri1tten, Ta8rik SIGNATURE SERIES Sacrée et Profane and 8Milhaud’s O’Regan, Charles Villiers Stanford, Suite Français CRAIG NIES and others solo piano TICKETED EVENT Friday, October THE NASHVILLE JAZZ Ingram Hall ORCHESTRA 8:00 p.m. Blair’s resident professional The Complete 481 Prelude6 s and jazz orchestra Fugues: The Well-Tempered Clavier Jim Williamson, director Continuing his Bach series, Craig Nies LATIN NIGHT will include Ravel’s mesmerizing Ondine and thrilling Alborada del Friday, October gracioso, Chopin’s second Impromptu, Ingram Hall and Rachmaninoff’s powerful 8:00 p.m. Sonata No. 2. Tickets: All genera9l Sponsored by The Martin Foundation admission, sold at the door. $20 regular adult/$15 VU staff and faculty; seniors/$10 students with ID/ $5 VU students VANDERBILT SYMPHONIC CHOIR SMTWTH FS David Childs, director 123 FALL CONCERT 45678 9 10 Saturday, October Ingram Hall 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 8:00 p.m. 10 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

All events are free and open to the public except where noted. Photos: Left to right—Michael Kurek, Leslie Norton october (cont.) GUEST MASTERCLASS/RECITAL VANDERBILT SIGNATURE SERIES JAMES ZIMMERMANN ORCHESTRA THE BLAIR STRING clarinet Robin Fountain, conductor QUARTET CELEBRATES Principal clarinetist for the Program includes Symphony No. 5 MENDELSSOHN Nashville Symphony by Shostakovich Christian Teal, violin With Melissa Rose, Cornelia Heard, violin piano VANDERBILT WIND John Kochanowski, viola Felix Wang, cello Monday, October SYMPHONY Steve and Judy Thomas Verrier, conductor With guest artists Turner Recital Hall The Ceruti Quartet 7:30 p.m. With the Blair Women’s Choir 19 David Childs, director Friday, October Ingram Hall FACULTY RECITAL Nashville premiere of Macbeth Fantasy by Blair faculty composer 8:00 p.m. JARED HAUSER Michael Kurek The Blair String Quar3tet brings 0 oboe together two of the finest quartets to Wednesday, October celebrate the 200th anniversary of the LESLIE NORTON Ingram Hall birth of . The Ceruti Quartet will join the Blair artists for a horn 8:00 p.m. performance of the incredible Octet, Op. 20, composed when Mendelssohn MELISSA ROSE was sixteen years old and considered piano one of the great works in musical his - Monday, October 28 tory. The Ceruti Quartet, currently in residence at the University of Steve and Judy Memphis, will perform another short Turner Recital Hall Mendelssohn work, the Quartet, 8:00 p.m. Op. 81, as well as the Samuel Barber 26 String Quartet with its famous “Molto adagio” movement. The program opens with Beethoven’s exciting Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18, No. 4. Sponsored by Delphine and Ken Roberts in honor of Norma Gandy, Operations Officer, Blair School of Music

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All events are free and open to the public except where noted. Photos: Clockwise from top left—John Kochanowski, David Williams, Kathryn Plummer, Michael Kurek, Craig Nies, David Childs november VANDERBILT CONCERT BLAIR COMPOSERS PERCUSSION VORTEX CHOIR FORUM Michael Holland, director David Binns Williams, Michael Kurek, director Monday, November director Wednesday, November Steve and Judy Sunday, November Turner Recital Hall Steve and Judy 8:00 p.m. Ingram Hall Turner Recital Hall 2:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. The American premiere 4 of Jeffery Briggs’s Eclip9tic for marimba The oldest performing group on Blair student musicians perform works quartet, and the whimsical music of campus performs cho1ral works of written by their peers. Eric Stokes using springs, broom all genres. handles, and coffee cans! Eric Stokes’s 1980 Spring Song, composed on a NIGHTCAP SERIES VANDERBILT STEEL commission from New Music THREE BY THREE: DRUM ENSEMBLES America, combines musical genius Mat Britain, director with childlike curiosity. Extra!—Audience members will get FLUTE AND FRIENDS Thursday, November one more chance to see Mary Ellen Monday, November Ingram Hall Childs’ s CLICK. The piece for three Steve and Judy 8:00 p.m. stick-wielding performers that brought Turner Recital Hall the house down in the spring 2009 8:00 p.m., Discussion GUEST ARTIST RECIT5AL Concert Series is back by popular 8:30 p.m., Performance TONY ARNOLD demand for this fall’s program. When is three not a crow2d? soprano When it’s a trio of trios!

Jane Kirchner and faculty friends MOVSES POGOSSIAN Marian Shaffer, Cynthia Estill, Kathryn solo violin Plummer, and Craig Nies, along with Friday, November exceptional harp student Frances Cobb, team up to present a program Steve and Judy of three charming, highly varied works. Turner Recital Hall Enjoy a trio version of Debussy’s 8:00 p.m. beloved Afternoon of a Faun for flute Clarity, depth, imagi6nation, and vocal and two harps; a rarely programmed beauty mark the performances of Beethoven opus for flute, bassoon, soprano Tony Arnold, internationally and piano; and the Southern recognized for her interpretation of the premiere of an imaginative twenty- contemporary repertoire. In 2001, she first-century piece for flute, harp, became the first vocalist to win the and viola by American composer prestigious Gaudeamus International Libby Larsen. Interpreters Competition and took top The pre-concert lecture by faculty honors at the McMahon International composer/theorist Michael Kurek will Music Competition. She has been both inform and delight. widely sought as both a concert and recording artist. For her Blair recital, Sponsored by Nissan North America Inc. SM TW T F S she and violinist Movses Pogossian will perform Gyorgy Kurtag’s 1987 1 2 3 4 5 67 BLAIR CHAMBER CHOIR “Kafka Fragments,” a bracing David Childs, distillation of ten “normal” songs, concentrated into an intense series of 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 director emotional epigrams, written by a giant Tuesday, November of contemporary music. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Steve and Judy Mr. Pogossian is a professor of violin 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Turner Recital Hall at the University of California, Los 8:00 p.m. Angeles, and is artistic director of the 3 new Dilijan Series at 29 30 Zipper Hall in Los Angeles. All events are free and open to the public except where noted. Photos: Clockwise from top left— Jane Kirchner, Cynthia Estill, Vanderbilt Orchestra november (cont.) VANDERBILT OPERA VANDERBILT OPERA FACULTY RECTIAL THEATRE THEATRE An evening of jazz with members of the Blair jazz faculty and VANDERBILT and Wednesday, November ORCHESTRA VANDERBILT Steve and Judy Gayle Shay, director ORCHESTRA Turner Recital Hall Robin Fountain, music director 7:30 p.m. Gayle Shay, director present Robin Fountain, music director Sponsored by Susan and Frank Genovese 18 THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO by present THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO by Fully staged Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart VANDERBILT CHAMBER and costumed. ORCHESTRA Sung in English. Fully staged and costumed. Sung in English. Robin Fountain, Friday, November Sponsored by an conductor Ingram Hall anonymous friend of Thursday, November the Blair School 6:45 p.m., Openin1g night p3 re-show Ingram Hall talk with musicologist Sunday, November 8:00 p.m. Melanie Lowe Ingram Hall 19 8:00 p.m., Performance 2:00 p.m. VANDERBILT CONCERT Sponsored by an anonymous friend of the Blair School 15 CHOIR SIGNATURE SERIES THE BLAIR BRASS David Binns Williams, director FACULTY RECITAL Sunday, November QUINTET Ingram Hall JOHN KOCHANOWSKI Allan Cox, trumpet viola 2:00 p.m. Pat Kunkee, trumpet A potpourri of choral Rose Viola Sonatas Leslie Norton, horn favorites performed Blair String Quartet violist John Lawrence Borden, trombone just in time for Thanks2giving. 2 Kochanowski performs works written Gilbert Long, tuba by composer Michael Alec Rose . Monday, November Saturday, November Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall Steve and Judy 8:00 p.m. Turner Recital Hall 8:00 p.m. 14 16 SM TW T F S 1 2 3 4 5 67 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

All events are free and open to the public except where noted. Photos: Clockwise from top—Marian Shaffer, Hazel Somerville, Curb Youth Orchestra, Kwame Ahima december BLAIR HARP ENSEMBLE BLAIR CHILDREN’S CURB YOUTH Marian Shaffer, CHORUS HOLIDAY SYMPHONY director Carol Nies, director Tuesday, December CONCERT Hazel Somerville, WINTER CONCERT Steve and Judy artist director and conductor Turner Recital Hall Monday, December Coni Ely Guerin, 8:00 p.m. 1 Young Singers Ingram Hall 7:30 p.m. BLAIR SUZUKI VIOLIN d irector Friday, December 14 NASHVILLE YOUTH PERFORMING GROUP Ingram Hall Carol Smith, director 7:30 p.m. REPERTORY ORCHESTRA Sally McFadden, director Featuring the Blair 1Childre1n’s Concert BLAIR CHILDREN’S Choir, Young Men’s Chorus, Choristers, CELLO CHOIR Nashville Boychoir at Blair, and Young SUZUKI READING Kirsten Cassel Greer and Singers of Blair ORCHESTRA, YOUTH Anne Hall Williams, co-directors STRINGS ORCHESTRA, HOLIDAY PROGRAMS BLAIR PRE-COLLEGE BEGINNING READING Saturday, December PROGRAM ORCHESTRA Steve and Judy SCHOLARSHIP Turner Recital Hall Celeste Tuten, 2:30 p.m. RECITAL director 5 Saturday, December Tuesday, December SANKOFA Steve and Judy Vanderbilt’s African Drum Ingram Hall Turner Recital Hall 7:30 p.m. and Dance Ensemble 5:00 p.m. 15 Kwame Ahima, Blair’s finest pre-colleg1e stude2 nts director featured in a variety of solo works for Wednesday, December piano, strings, woodwinds, brass, and voice Ingram Hall 4:00 p.m. 9 TICKETED EVENT BLAIR PRE-COLLEGE BLAIR BIG BAND PROGRAM ORCHESTRA Billy Adair, director SCHOLARSHIP with the RECITAL NASHVILLE JAZZ Wednesday, December ORCHESTRA and Jim Williamson, director SMTWTH FS Thursday, December 9 HOLIDAY JAZZ 12345 Steve and Judy Saturday, December Turner Recital Hall 6789 10 11 12 6:00 p.m. Ingram Hall 8:00 p.m. Blair’s finest 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 pre-college students featured in a Tickets sold at the doo1r: 2 10 $20 adults/$15 VU faculty and staff; variety of solo works for piano, strings, 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 woodwinds, brass, and voice seniors/$5 students with ID Free to Vanderbilt students 27 28 29 30 31 Sponsored by Susan and Frank Genovese

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concert series information SEATING COMPLIMENTARY AND All seating, unless otherwise indicated, is general admission. Seats in both VALET PARKING Ingram and Turner Halls are available Blair is proud to offer complimentary on a first-come, first-served basis. valet parking for all Concert Series Hall doors generally open 30 minutes events, provided by Phi Mu Alpha before concert time or at the discre - fraternity, at the main entrance of the tion of the stage manager. concert halls, for guests arriving at least 15 minutes before concert time. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the ushers. Complimentary self-parking is also available right across the street on The facilities are wheelchair Children’s Way in the South Garage accessible, and hearing devices are (formerly Capers Garage), adjacent to available upon request. For special the new Children’s Hospital at needs accommodations, contact the Vanderbilt. Simply drive in, or, if the concert manager or technical director gate is down, remove the ticket in the at 322-7651. machine, and drop it in the ticket box on your way out of the garage after USHERS AND HOUSE the concert. MANAGEMENT INFORMATION Blair is assisted with any seating All concert information is needs by a professional house man - SUBJECT TO CHANGE. agement team, and ushering services Look for updated information are provided by the women of Sigma on all Blair events at Alpha Iota music fraternity. www.vanderbilt.edu/blair/calevents CONSTRUCTION We apologize for any inconvenience the current construction project on Children’s Way may present as Vanderbilt improves the parking areas.

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