Musica de Camara Eva de La O, Founder Francisco Roldán, Director

41st Anniversary Season

Virtual Concerts Live-streamed on Musica de Camara’s YouTube Channel Musica de Camara dedicates its 41st Anniversary Season to the Memory of our Founding Director Eva de La O January 20, 1931 - May 4, 2019 Luis Casal, violin Daniel Rieppel, piano

Violin, Piano &

Thursday, June 3, 2021 at 7:30 PM EDT Program Sonata para violin y piano (Londres - 1901) Narciso Garay (1876-1953) I. Lento Maestoso – Allegro Panama II. Andante Mesto III. Scherzando

Sonatina para violin y piano (1946) Roque Cordero (1917-2008) I. Adagio – Allegro con spirito Panama II. Largo e recitativo. Andante, quasi adagio III. Allegro moderato e burlesco

Nostalgia Colenense (2012) Norberto Ulloa (b. 1953) Panama

David Alejandro (cumbia atravesa’) (2004) Luis Casal (b. 1972) Panama

Sonatensatz, Opus posthumous – Scherzo (1853) Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Germany

About the Artists Luis Casal, violin One of Panama’s leading violinists and violists, Luis Casal has been awarded “Remarkable Citizens of Panama 2015” by Panama’s National Commission Pro Civic Values and Morals. The Panama News cites: “Panama does have a worthy classical scene, and right at the top of it we find Luis Enrique Casal.” Mr. Casal is vice president of the Sinfonía Concertante Foundation of Panama, an honorary academic adviser to the Alfredo De Saint Malo Festival, viola instructor at the Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program, and violin/viola instructor at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Lucy Moses School at the Kaufman Music Center, the Washington Heights Community Conservatory of Fine Arts and the Opportunity Music Project. Known for his charisma, versatility, and musicality, Mr. Casal is a favorite among audiences and an established artist in both art and folk music stages. He has performed and/or given master classes in the Bahamas, England, France, Japan, Italy, Romania, Spain, the United States, and Uruguay. An experienced orchestra player, Mr. Casal has held the position of Principal Violist ad honorem of the National Symphony of Panama, Principal Violist of the Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra, Concertmaster of the Butler Symphony Orchestra in Butler, Pennsylvania, Concertmaster of the Viola Ensemble of the 2003 Tertis International Viola Workshop and Competition, and guest concertmaster of the Altoona Symphony Orchestra. Some of the prestigious conductors he has worked under include Sergio Commissiona, Charles Dutoit, David Effron, Larry Rachleff,Esa- Pekka Salonen, Juan Pablo Izquierdo, Eduardo Díaz-Muñóz, Roberto Abbado, Elisabeth Heath Charles, and Teresa Cheung. He is co-founder and member of the Camerata Alfredo De Saint Malo, and currently performs as concertmaster of La Camerata Washington Heights, concertmaster of the BCCO (Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra), principal second violin of the Musica De Camara String Orchestra (New York), principal violist of the Brooklyn Metro Chamber Orchestra, and violist of The Paramount Chamber Players. A concert artist in both the violin and the viola, Mr. Casal has performed solo and chamber music in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, Merkin Hall at Kaufman Center, Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center, the Hall of the Americas at the Organization of American States, the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and residency at the Harper School Chamber Music Camp 2011 and the Loon Lake Live 2011 Summer Concert Series. Previous commitments have included recitals with pianists Wonsun Clara Bae, Emile Blondel, Yulia Dusman, Judith Jain, Katya Mihailova, and Michael Rose. Recent commitments have included performances and tour with his brother Isaac Casal’s project, ENSEMBLAST. Mr. Casal is also enthusiastic about collaborating with modern having premiered pieces by Carlos Bernales, Dinos Constantinides, Alexandra Dubois, Halim El-Dabh, Jorge Figueroa, Mikolja Gorecki, Howard Lew, Ricardo Risco, Bartosz Smoragiewicz, and Norberto Ulloa. Aside from his duties as a performer, Mr. Casal invests much time as a pedagogue. His professorships include violin instructor of the National Institute of Music in Panama (1996), viola instructor of the 2003 Oklahoma Arts Institute Summer Festival, violin/viola instructor of the Laredo Community College, Texas (2005 to 2008), conductor and clinician of Region 14 Middle School Orchestra in Texas (November 2006 and 2007), violin instructor of Queensborough Youth Conservatory of Music at the Queensborough Community College (2009-2010), and upper strings coach of the Brooklyn Conservatory Youth Orchestra (2009 to 2011), and violin instructor at the Léman Manhattan Preparatory School (2015-2017). Additionally, through the Foundation, Mr. Casal has led music seminars for the National Institute of Culture of Panama (January 2008 and 2009) and has been a clinician for the Panama Festival (2009 and 2010). In general, he maintains a close relationship with the arts in Panama by frequently giving lectures and master classes in several of Panama’s universities and educational music programs. Mr. Casal’s discography includes Luis Casal: Homage to Panama released in January 2007 by the label Earthcds Partners (www.earthcds.com) [semifinalist in the 2007 Independent World Music Series (IMWS)]; Gustavo Salamín y Luis Casal, Música de Cámara Folclórica Panameña (Folk Chamber Music of Panama) re-released in September 2014 by Earthcds Parners (first released in August 2002); and Luis Casal y la Música de Artemio Córdova (Luis Casal and the music of Artemio Córdova) released in 2015 by Multicultura Media’s Rootstock Recording (www. worldmusicstore.com) Luis began his violin studies at the age of 6 under professor Jorge Vergara and in 1992 moved to the United States to study under scholarship at the New World School of the Arts. He holds degrees from the University of Florida (with honors), Carnegie Mellon University, Indiana University, and the University of Oklahoma. His major teachers include Jorge Vergara, Carmen Cedeño, Cathy Robinson, the Miami String Quartet, Carolyn Huebl, Matthew Dane, Daniel Heiftetz, Atar Arad, and Ilya Kaler. website: luiscasal.com

Dr. Daniel Rieppel, piano Pianist Daniel Rieppel, a Minnesota native of Austrian and Norwegian descent, holds degrees in Piano Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Indiana University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Minnesota under Lydia Artymiw. His principal teachers include Jack Radunsky and Leonard Hokanson, as well as John Perry at the Aspen Music Festival. Before relocating to the Twin Cities, he studied in Munich, Germany with the eminent German pianist Gerhard Oppitz. Daniel Rieppel made his solo piano recital debut at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, a performance aired subsequently by MPR. He has worked as a chamber with members of the Minnesota Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; in the Midwest he has appeared as soloist with numerous ensembles, including the South Dakota Symphony, the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and The Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra. He has performed widely in the U.S., Latin America and Europe, including the Palais Corbelli in Vienna, for the U.S. Ambassador to Panama on several occasions, and is a frequent collaborator of the “Alfredo de Saint Malo” International Music Festival. In February, 2019, the piano/percussion quartet “Sticks and Hammers” made its official debut at the New World Center in Miami Beach, Florida.

A recognized Schubert scholar, Dr. Rieppel has lectured and performed Schubert’s works in New York City, Vienna, and at Oxford University. He has published articles on Schubert’s early piano sonatas for several academic journals; Dr. Rieppel was named a Fulbright Scholar to Vienna, Austria in 2004. Dr. Rieppel has served as Professor of Music at SMSU, Marshall since 1998, and at the MacPhail Center for Music, Minneapolis since 2011. He appears on a new of the Lieder of Julius Burger with his protégé Ryan Hugh Ross on the Spaetlese Musik label. website: danielrieppel.com About Musica de Camara Musica de Camara celebrates its 41st anniversary this season. Founded by soprano Eva de La O, Musica de Camara concerts have presented Puerto Rican, and Hispanic classical : instrumentalists, singers and composers in concert since its inception. The several hundred concerts have also included non-Hispanic artists in events at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Kaufman Cultural Center, the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, the Hostos Center for the Arts, Pregones Theater and the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Musica de Camara concerts and lectures also travel to learning institutions, community centers, churches and museums bringing classical music to those who have little or no access to traditional concert venues. Lecture Demonstration Programs in aural analysis, instrumentation, repertoire and have been introduced in a number of New York City public schools. Musica de Camara welcomed Francisco Roldán as its new Director in November of 2019.

Musica de Camara is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; Council Member Diana Ayala, Council Member Ruben Diaz, Sr., former Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito; former Council Member Annabel Palma; former Council Member Maria del Carmen Arroyo; former Council Speaker Christine Quinn; the New York City Council; New York State Council for the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; State Assemblyman Robert J. Rodriguez; the New York State Senate and Assembly; El Museo del Barrio; Hispanic Federation; Comitre Noviembre; Myrna Rivera and Jose Gonzalez; Vertas Group; San Juan Asset Management; X-Square Capital; Boston Common Asset Management; Glovista Investments, LLC; Palladium Equity Partners; Pax World Management LLC; Pluscios Management, LLC; RBC Capital Markets, Ltd.; Trilliam Asset Management; Walden Asset Management; Atlanta Capital Management; HITN; Dr. Ricardo R. Fernandez, past President – Lehman College; Karl Michaelis; Stephen De Maio; Danosa Carribean, Inc.; Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center; Con Edison; Patane Press; Linda Talbert – Stams LLC; Taino Towers; ARCO Management; Generoso Pope Foundation; Bloomberg Philanthropies; the Delmar Foundation; The New York Community Trust, Lissner Charitable Fund, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation, LMCC and the Friends of Musica de Camara.