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An Evening of New Canadian and American Music Music At Bennington Presents: An Evening of New Canadian and American Music with guest artists Sylvia Shadick-Taylor & Karen J. Minish Friday, March 7, 1997 at 8 p.m. Deane Carriage Barn "This concert is made possible in part through the generous support of Judith Rosenberg Hoffberger '54 and the Henry and Bennington College Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation." About the Artists: Toronto Women's Chorus, the Claude Watson School of the Arts Orchestra, the Edmonton Symphony, and the Toronto Symphony. Competition awards have included SYLVIA SIIADICK-TAYLOR - Pianist first place prizes in th e Canadian Contempora1y Music Workshop, and Arraynrnsic's Canadian pianist, Sylvia Shadick-Taylor holds a Il.Mus. cum laude Young Composers' Competition. Hi s compositions have been recorded by CBC with from the University of Alberta, where she studied with Alexandra Munn, as future broadcasts to include the Three Spanish Songs. Two Etudes For Organ had its well as Licentiate and Associate Diplomas. Her studies have taken her from European debut in Warsaw. IJpcoming performances will feature the CBC commissioned her early years with Sheila Shinkewski in Saskatchewan, to Ilanff, Aspen, work The Painter Suite for Edmonton's Hammerhead Consort, and an orchestral work New York and Salzburg. Other teachers who have contributed ~o Sylvia's entitled 011ve1·h1re Sauvage, commissioned by the Edmonton Symphony through the musicianship have been Thomas Muraco, Menahem Pressler, Ed 1th Oppens, and Gyorgy Sebok. Now based in Edmonton, she has worked for Edmonton Alberta Arts Foundation. Opera, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Pro Coro Canada, Alberta College, and the CosmoPohtan Music Society. She is presently a member of the PATRTCK CARDY music faculty at the University of Alberta, a freelance accompanist, vocal Born in Toronto in 1953, and raised in Kitchener, Patrick Cardy holds a coach, examiner and private teacher. Mus.13. from the University of Western Ontario, where he studied with Arsenio Giron As a chamber musician, Ms. Shadick-Taylor has performed with and Donald Steven, and M.M.A. and D.Mus. degrees (Composition) from McGill many Canadian ensembles including SPECTRUM, the Clarion Trio, and University, where he studied with Bengt Hambraeus. He is a Full Professor at Carleton Ivory Winds. As an accompanist, she spans opera classics to demanding l Jniversity. contemporary concert repertoire, her work often being heard on enc [fad id. He has received commissions from numerous performers and institutions, She has accompanied many internationally renownecfinstrumentalist and including symphony orchestras, the CBC, chamber ensembles, and soloists. His music theatre stars. As a soloist Sylvia has a strong interest in contemporary music and frequently premieres new works. She can be heard on the CD's workshave been performed and broadcast frequently in Canada, in the US, in Europe and Nortltern Arch and Sound/and Alberta as well as her recently released CD the Middle East. entitled At Your Service, highlighting the art of accompanying. His numerous awards include three CAPAC Fellowships, the Canadian Federation of University Women Creative Arts Award, three finalist selections in the This concert is part of a contemporary music tour presented in New CBC Radio Competition for Young Composers, and a JUNO Award nomination for York, Vermont, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. Virclai. A recording of Virelai featuring John Rapson and the CBC Vancouver Orchestra, conducted by Mario Bernardi, has been released on CD by CBC Records (CBC SM5094). A recording of Eclat will be released on CD in the near future. KAREN J. MINISH - Soprano STEPHEN STEGEL Born in Birmingham, Alabama and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Stephen Karen J. Minish is a versatile artist who has performed in opera, musical Siegel began violin lessons at the age of 7 and began composing shortly thereafter. As a theatre, drama, cabaret and the concert stage. She has performed with major opera and youth, he studied at the New England Conservatory of Music. He earned his theatre companies in Canada and has performed in major centers in the United States. undergraduate degree from Columbia University where he studied musical composition Career highlights are the title role in Carm en, Mrs. Maurrant in S1ree1 Scene and th e with Otto Luening, Vladimir Ussachevsky and Charles Wuorinen, and received a Masters Witch in Into the Woods. Ms. Minish is also a concert soloist and performs regularly with degree from The Juilliard School where his principal teachers were Elliott Carter and Canadian classical guitarist John Goulart. This marks her American concert debut. Vincent Persichetti. His output includes solo instrumental pieces, vocal and chamber music and works for full orchestra. He is currently completing a Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra. Siegel has also written music for film and television and has Ulol11•t• Clu Atl•lto1 '"~noerva Doportmcinl of FonMgn Atfnln ..... ol du Commo1ca lo.1«o ..... 1ouuttl arkl li1lum.1lloua.t Trlldtt taught musical composition and theo1y for many years in New York City. He is presently Canada a member of the music faculty at Bennington College. MARC TREMBLAY Marc Tremblay studied percussion at the Conservatoire in Chicoutimi, Quebec, Sylvia wishes to gratefully acknowledge fiindingfi"om the Canadian Depar1111e11/ under Andre Morin as preparation for his studies at the Conservatoire in composition of Foreign Affairs and international Trade with Jacques Flaubert and Clermont Pepin, and electroacoustics with Yves Daoust. Having composed for acoustic instruments, he now concentrates on electroacoustic composition. He is presently interested in the integration of electroacoustics within multidisciplina1y and environmental contexts, particularly in collaboration within the group Les grnlignes. His music is often heard overseas and in Canada. ca ll ail a. to hu sh it. March 7, 1997 Uora 111 011 6to11a It weeps monotonous como 1l ora el agua as th e water weeps co 1no llora el vi ent o as th e wind weeps sobre la 11 evada. over the snowfall. PROGRAM Es imposibl e It is imposs ibl e ca ll arla. to hu sh it. Llura por cosas It weeps for thi11 gs lejanas. far away. Arena de! Sur ca li ente Sands of th e warm South que pide camdias blancas. which ask for white camcli as. Six Themes So/a ires (I 990 )..... ... ................. ...... .. .... .. .. .. ........ ......... Denis Gougeon Ll ora nec ha sin blanco, Weeps, arrow wi th out target, I . Piano-Soleil 3. Voix-Venus* la tarde sin maiiana, the evening without moming, with Karen Minish, soprano y cl prinu.:r pajaro n1t1 e1to and the first bird dead so bre la rama. upon the branch. jOh guit arra! Oh guitar! Corazon malherido Heart stabbed Nebulae* ( 1995) .......... .................................. .... ......... ... ........... .A ll an Gordon Bell por cinco espaua. by five swords.· I . O ri o n 2. Veil 3. Helix A bout the Composers: Three Spanis/1 Songs* ( I 996) .. .... .... ... ................... ......... ..... .. ....... .Jeffrey McCune DENIS GOUGEON ( commissioneJ by Sylvia Shadick-Taylor) · Denis Gougeon is a prolific, prize-winning Quebecois composer who studied with Andre Prevost and Serge Garant. He has written stage works, pieces for soprano Marie-Danielle I. Serenade 2. Romance de los Taros 3. La Guitan-a Parent, and for orchestral and chamber forces. He describes himself as an "intuitive" with Karen Minish, soprano con1poser who wishes to touch th e li stener emotionally. ALLAN GORDON B ELL Allan Gordon Bell was born in Calgary in 1953 . I le received a Master of Music INTERMISS ION degree from the University of Alberta where he studi ed with Violet Archer, Malcolm Fo rsyth, and Manus Sasonkin. He also did advanced st udi es in composition at the Banff Centre fo r th e Aris where hi s teachers were Jean Coulthard, ll rn ce Mather, and Oskar Morawetz. The Masks o/A.11m·1e ( 198 1) .. ... ..................... .................. ...... ........ .. Patrick Cardy He has created works for soloists, ensembles and eleclroacoustic media. l le has 2. C allll, trn nce-li ke 3. Incisively, with elan been commi ssioned by the Canada Council, the CBC, th e Ca nad ian Band Directors Association, and the Societe du musique contemporaine du Quebec. His works have been perfo rmed by the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Calgaiy Philharmoni c, Esprit Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the Orford Fantasia* ( I 995) .. .. ... .... .... .. .. ... ........................... .... ........................ Stephen Siegel String Quartet, the Purcell String Quartet, and others in Canada, th e United States, the United Kingdom, West Germany, lsrael, and Japan. The CBC has recently recorded five of his orchestral works for real ease on its SM5000 series. Don'! shout the piano player!* (1995) ..... .. ..... .... .. ... ...... ...... ...... .... Marc Tremblay Bell is Professor of Music al the University of Calgaty. His mu sic is avail able with tape fro m the CMC, Alberta Keys Music Publishing and Gordon V. Thompson M usic. JEFFREY McCUNE Jeffrey McCun e received hi s Masters of Music degree in Comp osit ion at th e University of Alberta in 1994. His music has been performed by th e University of *A1nerica11 premi e r•; Yoix-Yenus (text by Goethe) sobre pi11tada s calesas, 011 painted two-wheeled ca lerhes In Yoix-Venus. Deni s Gougeon chose to pay tribute to Mozart through a text that (iocthe con abani cns redo11clos with circular fnns bordados de le11t c j11 elas. embroidered with spangles .. wrote to honor the compo·;r T. Y los j6ve11cs de Ronda An d th e yu 111h s from Ronda sobrcjacil s pi 111 u1e1as, 011 affected ponies, the In solchcr le irli chen l'rncht Ins anchns so111hre1os gri ses broad grey sombreros pressed Wirsl du 1111n b:1ld der ganzen Well erscheinen calados hasta las ccjas. down to their eyebrows. l11 s Re ich der Sonne wirket deine Macht La pl aza con ii ge111i o The bull-ring with the crowd Pamina und Tamin o weinen (calaiies y alt as peineta s) (calaiies and tall peinetas) lhr hochstes Gli1 ck li egt in des Grabes Nacht giraba co1 no 1111 zodiaco rotated lik e a zodiac de ri sas bl an cas y 11 eg1a s.
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