2007-2008 Season Sponsors The City of Cerritos gratefully thanks our 2007-2008 Season Sponsors for their generous support of the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. Season 07/08 Your Favorite Entertainers, Your Favorite Theater If your company would like to become a Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts sponsor, please contact the CCPA Administrative Offices at (562) 916-8510. presents MOIRA SMILEY & VOCO MOIRA SMILEY JOHN BALLINGER • JESSICA BASTA • JESSICA CATRON • CHRISTINE ENNS Thursday, March 6, 2008, 7:30 PM There will be one 20-minute intermission. A question-and-answer session will immediately follow this performance. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited. BIOGRAPHY Singer-composer MOIRA SMILEY is based in Los the composers for TRIP Dance Theatre’s Synergy at Ford Angeles and performs and writes an extraordinary range of Amphitheatre. She has received several grants for her Bartok vocal music. Recently, she premiered the critically acclaimed Sings project creating new vocal music around the piano Ukrainian-based Rusalka with the women’s vocal ensemble miniatures of composer Béla Bartók. Smiley’s neo-traditional KITKA; re-opened the Getty Villa performing the Sorceress hymn Stand in That River is popular around the world. in Henry Purcell’s Opera Dido and Aeneas; recorded a solo MOIRA SMILEY & VOCO fuses a new sound album Rua, a compilation of Irish, Appalachian songs; and with voices, banjo, cello, and percussion that is rooted in toured with Goin’ South Band and the Irish band Molly’s traditional song. A vibrant, fast-rising force on the Folk Revenge. music scene, the group brings percussive movement and Smiley was born in Vermont and graduated from warm wit to festivals across the United States and Canada. Indiana University (IU) with a degree in Early Music Vocal Founded in 2006, the group was chosen to represent FAR- Performance. While at IU, Smiley toured with her vocal West at Folk Alliance ’07. National a capella champions in quartet VIDA, singing a cappella Folk songs. VIDA went 2007, VOCO has been touring and performing music from on to record three albums of traditional and original songs, its CD Blink at the Kate Wolf Festival, California WorldFest, performed at prestigious venues such as Lincoln Center, and WorldOne Festival, Lotus Festival, The Getty Center, and UCLA Live, and was featured in Billboard magazine. Smiley the San Luis Mozart Festival The ensemble performs an writes music for choral groups worldwide, dance and theater amazing spectrum of music that it describes as “post-Folk, ensembles, and film. She won the Lester Horton Award for improvisation-built songs, ballads, vocal symphonies, and “Outstanding Achievement in Music for Dance” along with dance songs.” g 2 presents CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER David FINCKEL AND WU HAN, Artistic Directors INON BARNATAN, PIANO STEPHEN TAYLOR, OBOE DAVID SHIFRIN, CLARINET PETER KOLKAY, BASSOON STEWART ROSE, HORN MUSIC FOR WINDS Friday, March 7, 2008, 8:00 PM There will be one 20-minute intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited. Please hold your applause until after all movements of a work have been performed, and do not applaud between movements. Thank you for your cooperation. As a courtesy to the performers and your fellow patrons, please mute all cellular phones, pagers, and watch alarms prior to the start of the performance. 3 PROGRAM Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Ludwig van Beethoven and Horn, Op. 16 (1770-1827) Grave – Allegro ma non troppo Andante cantabile Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo Barnatan, Taylor, Shifrin, Kolkay, and Rose Divertissement for Oboe, Clarinet, and Bassoon Jean Françaix Prélude: Moderato –Più vivo, poco portamento, (1912-1997) animato – Tempo I Allegretto assai Elégie: Grave Scherzo Taylor, Shifrin, and Kolkay INTERMISSION Trio for Piano, Oboe, and Bassoon Francis Poulenc Lent – Presto (1899-1963) Andante con moto Rondo: Très vif Barnatan, Taylor, and Kolkay Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Horn, K. 452 (1756-1791) Largo – Allegro moderato Larghetto Rhondo: Allegretto Barnatan, Taylor, Shifrin, Kolkay, and Rose The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s touring program is made possible in part by the Lila Acheson and DeWitt Wallace Endowment Fund. Opus 3 Artists 470 Park Avenue South, 9th Floor North New York, New York 10016 www.opus3artists.com 4 BIOGRAPHIES The CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CMS’ discography ranges from Johann Sebastian Bach CENTER (CMS) is one of 12 constituents of Lincoln to Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and includes critically acclaimed Center for the Performing Arts, the largest performing recordings of Antonin Dvořák, Ludwig van Beethoven, arts complex in the world. Along with other constituents and William Walton. Fi Magazine named CMS’ recording such as the New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet, of Bach’s Complete Brandenburg Concertos “one of the best Lincoln Center Theater, and The Metropolitan Opera, the recordings of the year” in 1996. The ensemble’s recent CMS’ home base is Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center. releases include Felix Mendelssohn – Sextet, Op. 110 & Through its performance, education, and recording activities, Octet, Op. 20 and the Grammy-nominated The Complete it draws more people to Chamber music than any other Chamber Music of Claude Debussy, both on the Delos label. organization of its kind. The blossoming career of pianist INON BARNATAN As plans for Lincoln Center for the Performing takes him to some of the most important music centers and Arts were in the final stages in 1965, the distinguished festivals worldwide. In addition to making his New York American composer and president of recital debut at Carnegie Hall, he has Lincoln Center, William Schuman, appeared at The Metropolitan Museum conceived of an organization dedicated of Art, Salla Verdi, the Royal Festival to performing the finest Chamber Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Musikverein, music. This association, to be housed the Louvre, Shanghai’s Arts Theater, in its own specially designed recital and the Rising Stars series of the hall, would take its place among the Ravinia and Gilmore festivals. This finest Ballet, Symphonic, and Opera season, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw companies at Lincoln Center. Pianist will present a three-concert project, Charles Wadsworth became the center’s conceived and organized by Barnatan, artistic director. Under the inspiring featuring the solo, Chamber, and song leadership of patron Alice Tully, the output of Franz Schubert’s last year. The plan was brought to fruition. On September 11, 1969, Alice project will feature Barnatan along with the Belcea Quartet, Tully Hall opened with CMS’ first performance, beginning a baritone Christopher Maltman, and pianist Jonathan Biss. new era for Chamber music in the United States. In 2004, His orchestral appearances include performances with CMS appointed cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han as the Houston Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Jerusalem artistic directors. They succeeded Wadsworth (1969-1989), Symphony, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de Fred Sherry (1989-1993), and David Shifrin (1993-2004). la Suisse Romande, and the Shanghai Symphony. He has CMS’ annual activities include a full season of concerts appeared at festivals in the United States and Europe with and activities, national and international tours, nationally the Jerusalem String Quartet, Cho-Liang Lin, Miriam Fried, televised broadcasts on Live From Lincoln Center, and regular Gary Hoffman, and Liza Ferschtman. His debut CD of appearances on National Public Radio’s Performance Today. piano works by Schubert was released in 2006. Barnatan is a Besides its ability to regularly program a variety of member of Chamber Music Society Two. Chamber works, CMS’ achievements include innovative STEPHEN TAYLOR is one of the most sought- projects such as collaborations with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie after oboists in the country. He holds the Mrs. John D. Zane Dance Company and Jazz at Lincoln Center; thematic Rockefeller III solo oboe chair at The Chamber Music “series within a series,” such as two Musical Evolutions Society of Lincoln Center. Taylor is solo oboe with New examinations; and the highly successful Great Day in New York Woodwind Quintet, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, St. Luke’s York, which brought together New York composers in all Chamber Ensemble (where he is co-director of Chamber musical genres for a festival in collaboration with Merkin music), American Composers Orchestra, New England Bach Concert Hall. Festival Orchestra, and the Contemporary music group Continued on page 6 5 Speculum Musicae, and co-principal oboe with Orpheus Shifrin is the recipient of a Solo Recitalist Fellowship from Chamber Orchestra. He appears regularly as soloist and the National Endowment for the Arts. Chamber musician at Spoleto, Caramoor, Aldeburgh, Bassoonist PETER KOLKAY has already amassed Bravo! Vail Valley, Music from Angel Fire, Chamber Music an impressive list of accolades in his performing career. He Northwest, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Aspen Music was the first bassoonist to win first prize at the Concert Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Schleswig- Artists Guild International Competition, and an Avery Holstein. Among his more than 200 recordings are Johann Fisher Career Grant, and the first on his instrument to Sebastian Bach arias with Itzhak Perlman and Kathleen become a member of Chamber Music Society Two. His Battle, Bach’s Oboe d’Amore Concerto, Wolfgang Amadeus upcoming concerts include an appearance with the Colonial Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, premiere recordings of the Symphony in Harold Meltzer’s Likes and Unlikes, which Wolpe Oboe Quartet, works of André Previn, and Elliott was commissioned for Kolkay by the Concert Artists Carter’s Oboe Quartet, for which he received a Grammy Guild. He has been presented by Chicago’s Dame Myra nomination. He has premiered many of Carter’s works Hess Memorial Concert Series and New York’s Symphony including A Mirror on Which to Dwell, Syringa, Tempo e Space and is a member of the IRIS Chamber Orchestra.