The Curtis Institute of Music Roberto Díaz, President
This concert will be available online for free streaming 2008–09 Student Recital Series and download on Thursday, February 19. The Edith L. and Robert Prostkoff Memorial Concert Series Visit www.instantencore.com/curtis after 12 noon and enter this download code in the upper-right corner of the webpage:
Feb09CTour Forty-Fourth Student Recital: Curtis On Tour Click “Go” and follow the instructions on the screen to save music Wednesday, February 18 at 8 p.m. Field Concert Hall onto your computer. Divertimento for Violin and Piano Igor Stravinsky Next Student Recital Sinfonia (1882–1971) Friday, February 20 at 8 p.m. Danses suisses 20/21: The Curtis Contemporary Music Ensemble— Scherzo Second Viennese School, Program III Pas de deux: Adagio—Variation—Coda Field Concert Hall Josef Špaček, violin Kuok-man Lio, piano Berg Sieben frühe Lieder Amanda Majeski, soprano Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo Stravinsky Mikael Eliasen, piano Yao Guang Zhai, clarinet
String Quartet, Op. 3 From the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám David Ludwig Joel Link, violin (world premiere) (b. 1972) Bryan A. Lee, violin Secrets of Creation Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola Turning of Time Camden Shaw, cello Labor of Life Floating Particles Schoenberg Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, Op. 15 Carpe Diem Charlotte Dobbs, soprano Allison Sanders, mezzo-soprano David Moody, piano Yao Guang Zhai, clarinet William Short, bassoon Phantasy, Op. 47 Christopher Stingle, trumpet Elizabeth Fayette, violin Ryan Seay, trombone Pallavi Mahidhara, piano Benjamin Folk, percussion Josef Špaček, violin Programs are subject to change. Harold Hall Robinson, double bass Call the Recital Hotline, 215-893-5261, for the most up-to-date information. Kuok-man Lio, conductor INTERMISSION Performers Benjamin Folk, from Leland, Miss., is a student of Christopher L’Histoire du soldat Stravinsky Deviney, Don Liuzzi, and Robert Van Sice and entered Curtis in 2006. The Soldier’s March Kuok-man Lio, from Macau, China, is a student of Otto-Werner Music to Scene I Mueller and entered Curtis in 2005. Music to Scene II Music to Scene III Allison Sanders, from Memphis, is a student of Marlena Kleinman The Soldier’s March Malas and entered Curtis in 2005. The Royal March Ryan Seay, from Denver, is a student of Nitzan Haroz and entered The Little Concert Curtis in 2007. Tango—Waltz—Ragtime The Devil’s Dance William Short, from Round Rock, Tex., is a student of Bernard The Little Choral—The Devil’s Song Garfield and Daniel Matsukawa and entered Curtis in 2006. Grand Choral Josef Špaček, from Prague, is a student of Ida Kavafian and entered Triumphal March of the Devil Curtis in 2004. David Ludwig, narrator Yao Guang Zhai, clarinet Christopher Stingle, from Media, Pa., is a student of David Bilger William Short, bassoon and entered Curtis in 2006. Christopher Stingle, trumpet Yao Guang Zhai, from Taiyuan, Shan Xi Province, China, is a Ryan Seay, trombone student of Donald Montanaro and entered Curtis in 2005. Benjamin Folk, percussion
Josef Špaček, violin Harold Hall Robinson, double bass David Ludwig (Composition ’01), faculty Kuok-man Lio, conductor Harold Hall Robinson, faculty