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MICHAEL HEALD • Saturday, February 17, 2018: Liederabend: Art Songs in English, Guk-Hui Han, Director 5:00Pm Daniel VIOLIN Recital Hall Tickets FREE UPCOMING EVENTS * Events marked with an asterisk are free with a valid Music Major Pass. • Friday, February 9, 2018: Bob Cole Conservatory Symphony, Ioannis Protopapas, graduate conductor and 2017/2018 Concerto Competition Winner, Rachel Trumbore, trombone 8:00pm Carpenter Performing Arts Center Tickets $15/10 • Friday, February 9, 2018 GUEST ARTIST RECITAL Saturday, February 10, 2018: The Beach Café, Jonathan Talberg, director 8:00pm Daniel Recital Hall Tickets $10 • Tuesday, February 13, 2018: Guest Artist Masterclass, Denis Bouriakov, flute 5:30pm Choir Room UMC-A301 Tickets FREE MICHAEL HEALD • Saturday, February 17, 2018: Liederabend: Art Songs In English, Guk-Hui Han, director 5:00pm Daniel VIOLIN Recital Hall Tickets FREE • Monday, February 19, 2018: New Music Ensemble, Alan Shockley, director 8:00pm Daniel Recital Hall Tickets $10/7 * VALERIA • Wednesday, February 21, 2018: Musical Masterpieces of the Baroque Era, John Barcellona—flute, Mark Uranker—harpsichord, David Garrett—viola da gamba 8:00pm Daniel Recital Hall Tickets $10/7 * • Saturday, February 24, 2018: MORGOVSKAYA Faculty Artist Recital, Darrin Thaves, flute 8:00pm Daniel Recital Hall Tickets $10/7 * PIANO • Monday, February 26, 2018: Guest Artist Recital, HOCKET Piano Duo, Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff 8:00pm Daniel Recital Hall Tickets $10/7 * FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2018 8:00PM GERALD R. DANIEL RECITAL HALL For tickets please call 562.985.7000 or visit the web at: PLEASE SILENCE ALL ELECTRONIC MOBILE DEVICES. This concert is funded in part by the INSTRUCTIONALLY RELATED ACTIVITIES FUNDS (IRA) provided by California State University, Long Beach. ABOUT MICHAEL HEALD Michael Heald is Associate Professor of Violin at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia. He received his doctoral degrees at Michigan State University. His violin teachers were Emanuel Hurwitz, Richard Deakin, and Walter Verdehr. He has played solos and chamber music in Europe and United States, and in his native England he was PROGRAM a member of the English String Orchestra and he performed with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia, and many others. Sonata for Piano and Violin in B Flat, K. 454 .............. W. A. Mozart He has appeared on stage as an orchestral musician with such Largo - Allegro (1756-1791) artists as Simon Rattle, Yehudi Menuhin, Radu Lupu, Verlery Andante Gergiev, and Bob Hope. In 2002 he recorded a CD of music by Elgar Allegretto and Beethoven. He is currently on the faculties of the Montecito International Music Festival in California and Chamber Music on the Hill in South Carolina. Concerto Performances include those works by Elgar, Mendelssohn, Bruch, and Wieniawski. Michael had the honour of performing The Lark Ascending to Her Majesty Queen 3 Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22 ...............Clara Schumann Elizabeth II on one of her official visits to Hereford, England. Andante molto (1819-1896) Allegretto Leidenschaftlich schnell ABOUT VALERIA MORGOVSKAYA Valeria Morgovskaya graduated from the Kiev State Conservatory. Since her immigration to the US in 1990, Ms. Morgovskaya has been in high demand as accompanist for singers and all orchestral instrumentalists. She has been an official accompanist for festivals and courses such as Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 82 ...............................Edward Elgar Piatigorsky Cello Seminar and Beverley Hills Music Festival, and Allegro (1857-1934) has performed throughout the US, Germany and Japan, as well as Romance on numerous radio broadcasts. She has provided accompaniment Allegro non Troppo for many national and international competitions, and was an official accompanist at Schoenfeld International String Competition in Hong Kong (2013) and Harbin (2014). Ms. Morgovskaya is currently staff accompanist at Loyola Marymount University and UCLA, and is often engaged in that capacity at USC, CSULB, Colburn School, Montecito International Music Festival, Academy of the West and Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts. 2 3.
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