Guest Artist Recital, Luby Symposium
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2016 Luby Violin Symposium Guest Artist Recital Kevork Mardirossian, violin Lee Phillips, piano Wednesday, May 18, 2016 7:30 PM Person Recital Hall Program Sonata in D Major, HWV 371 (1681) George Frideric Handel Affetuoso (1685-1759) Allegro Larghetto Allegro Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100 Johannes Brahms Allegro amabile (1833-97) Andante tranquilo – Vivace – Andante Allegretto grazioso Intermission Sonata No. 1 in G Minor for violin solo, BWV 1001 J.S. Bach Adagio (1685-1750) Fuga Suite Populaire Espagnole (1926) Manuel De Falla/arr. Paul Kochanski El paño moruno (1876-1946/1887-1934) Nana Canción Polo Asturiana Jota Tzigane (1924) Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Special thanks to the UNC Summer School and Dean Jan Yopp, the UNC Music Department and Chair Louise Toppin, and Susan Klebanow. About the Luby Violin Symposium Named in honor of its founder, violinist and former UNC professor Richard Luby, the Symposium offers participants an intensive one-week immersion focused on individual instrumental and musical growth within the context of a supportive and nurturing atmosphere. Previously directed by Richard Luby and Fabian Lopez, the Symposium is in its eighth summer. The Symposium includes private lessons masterclasses student performances faculty performances guest artist performances HIP Bach perspectives body awareness methods practice techniques performance psychology All course activities take place on the beautiful campus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Kenan Music Building and Person Hall. The Symposium is supported by the UNC Music Department, sponsored as a course by the UNC Summer School, and by donations which support student scholarships, activities, and artists. This year’s artist faculty features 2016 guest artist Kevork Mardirossian (Indiana University Jacobs School of Music), 2016 Luby Baroque Violinist Daniel S. Lee, Aaron Berofsky (University of Michigan), Kevin Lawrence (UNC School of the Arts) Fabian Lopez (UNC Greensboro), Ara Gregorian (East Carolina University), Hye-Jin Kim (East Carolina University), and director Nicholas DiEugenio (UNC Chapel Hill). Students at this year’s Symposium range from rising high school seniors to second-year graduate students, and attend music schools and departments across the US, including Indiana University, Baylor, UNC Chapel Hill, UNC Greensboro, UNC School of the Arts, Appalachian St., and Duke. Please email [email protected] or [email protected] for more information on how to support this unique and valuable project. About the Artists Kevork Mardirossian is James H. Rudy Professor of Violin at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he was appointed in 2008. His first solo recital was at age 12, and his intensive concert career started when he won the gold medal and first prize at the Obretenov Violin Competition in Bulgaria in 1978, the Gold medal at Katya Popova International Music Festival in 1979, and several international chamber music competitions in 1985-86 with his duo partner, pianist Lee Phillips. Mardirossian performed as concert soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician throughout Bulgaria, the former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe before moving to Europe, where he developed an impressive solo career, with tours of England, Wales, Italy, France, and the United States, including debuts in London and Carnegie Hall in 1992. He has appeared as guest artist at international music festivals such as Manuel De Falla in Spain; Shanghai festival in China; in Cheltenham, England; European Cultural Months; International Chamber Music Festival in Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Czech Festival in Trento, Italy; and Sofia Musical Weeks, among others in France, Germany, Spain, Japan, China, and Korea. His education and training are from the Dobrin Petkov Music School in Bulgaria, Bulgarian State Conservatory, Maison de la Culture in Brussels, and Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he was awarded the Concert Artist (Premier Prix) award. Mardirossian's teachers and mentors were Elena Doikova, Anton H. Atanasov, Vladimir Avramov, Artur Grumiaux, Janos Starker, and Yfrah Neaman. In 1980, he became the concertmaster of the Plovdiv Philharmonic until 1988, when he moved to the United States, where he was appointed artist-in-residence at the University of Central Arkansas. There he co-founded the Kapelle Trio with pianist Lee Phillips and cellist Felice Farrell as well as the Heber Springs Chamber Music Festival and master courses in 1998. From 1995 to 2008, he was violin professor and chair of the String Department at the College of Music and Drama at Louisiana State University (LSU). Mardirossian has established himself as a highly respected violin pedagogue and devoted mentor to more than 100 outstanding students, many of them winners in numerous national and international competitions. Others can be found in the world’s leading orchestras as concertmasters and principals, and as teachers in universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Mardirossian is a British Council scholar and recipient of the Indiana University James H. Rudy faculty award, LSU Distinguished Faculty Award, and LSU School of Music Award for Excellence in Teaching, as well as the Galante Professorship and the San Diego II Alumni Professorship of Honor. He is on the jury of several international violin competitions, such as the Henrik Szheryng International Violin competition in Mexico, Vladigerov International Competition in Bulgaria, Beethoven Violin Competition in the Czech Republic, and Shanghai International Violin Competition, among others. He has served on the faculties of the International Institute at Round Top, Texas (2001-08); Aria String Academy in Massachusetts; Aurora Chamber Music festival in Sweden; Manuel De Falla International Courses in Granada, Spain; String Academy in Pontedeume, Spain; and international master courses at the Shanghai Conservatory. He presents regular master classes in Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States in many major schools and universities. Lee Phillips, a New Orleans native, studied at Louisiana State University with Daniel Sher, Michael Gurt, and Panayis Lyras, earning a B.M. and an M.M. in piano performance. Following extensive doctoral work, he specialized for some years with Eric Heidsieck in Paris and John Ogdon in London. As winner of many regional and national competitions in the U.S. and international chamber music competitions in France, Italy, and Sicily, he has appeared regularly as recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestra. His first international appearances came in 1982 on tour in South America, which included a series of concerts in Montevideo and Buenos Aires, and since then, he has performed frequently throughout the U.S., Italy, Spain, Japan, China, and Great Britain. Phillips has appeared at international festivals such as Cheltenham, England, Sofia Musical Weeks, Roundtop, Texas, Plovdiv Chamber Music (Bulgaria), Pontedeume, Spain, and Trento, Italy, and frequently gives concerts, master classes, and courses in conservatories in Granada, Murcia and Cadiz, Spain, and Shanghai and Guangzhou, China. He was formerly on the piano faculties of the University of the Ozarks, U.C.A. (Arkansas) and Louisiana St. University and is co-founder of the Heber Springs Chamber Music Festival with his Kapelle Trio, formed in 1991. Recordings include live performances from Sofia of the trio (for Gega New, formerly Balkanton) and the complete Bach works for cello with Felice Magendanz (Trimble Productions). Soon to be published are archival live performances and the three Brahms sonatas with favored partner, violinist Kevork Mardirossian. .