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Ilya KALER & FRIENDS Friday, April 6, 2018 • 8:00 P.M. AN EVENING WITH ILYA KALER & FRIENDS Faculty Recital DePaul Concert Hall 800 West Belden Avenue • Chicago Friday, April 6, 2018 • 8:00 P.M. DePaul Concert Hall AN EVENING WITH ILYA KALER & FRIENDS Ilya Kaler, violin Beilin Han, piano with guest artists Jonathan Cohler, clarinet Rasa Vitkauskaite, piano PROGRAM Béla Bartók (1881-1945) Contrasts for clarinet, violin and piano (1938) Verbunkos (Recruiting Dance). Moderato, ben ritmato Pihenö (Relaxation). Lento Sebes (Fast Dance). Allegro vivace Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Suite from L’Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier’s Tale) (1919) The Soldier’s March The Soldier’s Violin (Scene at the brook) A Little Concert Tango - Waltz - Ragtime The Devil’s Dance Paul Schoenfield (b. 1947) Trio for clarinet, violin and piano (1986) Freylakh March Nigun Kozatzke AN EVENING WITH ILYA KLER & FRIENDS • APRIL 6, 2018 BIOGRAPHIES Ilya Kaler is one of the most outstanding personalities of the violin today, whose career ranges from that of a soloist and recording artist to chamber musician and professor. Mr. Kaler earned rave reviews for his solo appearances with such distinguished orchestras throughout the world as the Leningrad, Moscow and Dresden Philharmonic Orchestras, Montreal Symphony, Danish and Berlin Radio Orchestras, Moscow and Zurich Chamber Orchestras, as well as many of the major American orchestras. Kaler collaborated with a number of outstanding conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Dmitry Kitayenko, Mariss Jansons and Jerzy Semkow. His solo recitals have taken him throughout the five continents. Kaler also performed at many concert venues around the world as a member of The Tempest Trio with cellist Amit Peled and pianist Alon Goldstein. The trio had recently recorded their debut CD for Naxos record company which features complete set of piano trios by Antonin Dvorak. Kaler’s orchestral career includes guest Concertmaster appearances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburg Symphony and Baltimore Symphony, as well as tours with the World Orchestra for Peace under the direction of Valery Gergiev. He held Concertmaster positions with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, NY and the Lake Forest Symphony, IL. One of the most sought-after teachers in the world, Kaler held Professor of Violin positions at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY and at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, IN. Kaler currently serves as Professor of Violin at the DePaul University School of Music in Chicago. He frequently serves as a jury member at international violin competitions throughout the world. Kaler is a Gold Medal winner at three of the world’s prestigious international violin competitions: the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1986), the Sibelius Competition in Helsinki (1985), and the Paganini Competition in Genoa (1981). Mr. Kaler records exclusively for Naxos Records. His highly acclaimed albums include Sonatas by Schumann and Brahms, Concertos by Paganini, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Schumann, Dvorak, Glazunov, Szymanowski, Karlowicz, as well as Taneyev Suite, Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo and Ysaye’s Six Sonatas for Violin Solo. AN EVENING WITH ILYA KLER & FRIENDS • APRIL 6, 2018 BIOGRAPHIES Jonathan Cohler is recognized throughout the world as “an absolute master of the clarinet” (International Clarinet Association’s Clarinet Magazine). Through his performances around the world and on record, he has thrilled an ever widening audience with his incredible musicianship and total technical command. His technical feats have been hailed as “superhuman” and Fanfare Magazine has placed him in the pantheon of legendary musicians: “one thinks of Dinu Lipatti.” In recent years, Mr. Cohler has teamed up with multiple award winning Lithuanian pianist Rasa Vitkauskaite to form today’s leading clarinet-piano duo, which is featured in three recent recordings: American Tribute, Romanza, and Rhapsodie Française. Another recent CD, Jonathan Cohler & Claremont Trio, features the award winning Claremont Trio, and his newest CD Cohler plays & conducts Weber (released August 2016) features Mr. Cohler with the world renowned Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra from Budapest, Hungary. A highly acclaimed recording artist, his recordings have received numerous accolades and awards including nomination for the INDIE Award, the Outstanding Recording mark of the American Record Guide, BBC Music Magazine’s Best CDs of The Year selection, and top ratings from magazines, radio stations, and record guides worldwide including Penguin Guide, BBC Music Magazine, MusicWeb International, and Listener Magazine, which wrote, “Cohler possesses such musical integrity and taste that everything he touches seems like the last word”. Gramophone lauded Mr. Cohler’s expression of “the poetry that lesser artists miss.” Fanfare Magazine featured his Weber CD on its cover praising his “extraordinary musical intelligence and technical wizardry” and dubbing his playing as “supernatural” while it hailed American Tribute as, “one of the best clarinet CDs to come along in some time” and they ranked his recording of the Brahms and Beethoven trios (Jonathan Cohler & Claremont Trio) the all-time best: “I know of no finer recording of the Beethoven, and this one stands with the best classic versions of the Brahms.” Rhapsodie Française was chosen as Best of the Year by the Buffalo/Toronto classical station 94.5 WNED alongside two CDs featuring legendary artists Pierre Fournier, Mstislav Rostropovitch, Leonid Kogan, and Emil Gilels. Mr. Cohler’s maintains a busy international schedule that takes him around the Globe to cities in the United States, Italy, Poland, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Hungary, Belgium, Spain, Canada, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, China, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, Mexico and Cuba. He has performed at many festivals including those of Tanglewood, Aspen, Domaine Forget (Canada), Campos do Jordao (Brazil), Xativa (Spain), Arezzo (Italy), Rockport, Newport, Martha’s Vineyard and the Hamptons. He has been featured on the prestigious Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, and he has been a frequently invited performer, adjudicator, and clinician at the International Clarinet Association’s annual ClarinetFest and many other clarinet festivals around the world. AN EVENING WITH ILYA KLER & FRIENDS • APRIL 6, 2018 BIOGRAPHIES In addition to holding several honorary positions, Mr. Cohler has been invited to teach as guest faculty at conservatories, universities and festivals around the world such as Eastman School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, Harvard University, Central Conservatory in Beijing, National Conservatory of Music in Mexico, and University of Chile, to name a few. Mr. Cohler is the Music Director of the Massachusetts Philharmonic Orchestra, and founder and director of Chamber Music Boston, the Boston Clarinet Academy, and the International Woodwind Festival. He is also in demand as a guest conductor around the world with orchestras such as the Simon Bolivar Orchestra of Caracas, Venezuela. Mr. Cohler’s clarinet teachers include legendary Boston Symphony Orchestra clarinetist Pasquale Cardillo, Harold Wright, Karl Leister, Charles Neidich and Frank Martin. He graduated with high honors in physics from Harvard University. He is Professor of Clarinet and Chamber music at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jonathan Cohler is a Vandoren, Rossi, and Royal Musical artist and records exclusively for Ongaku Records. Hailed for “artistry of poetic and observant sensitivity” (Gramophone), internationally acclaimed pianist Rasa Vitkauskaite released her debut solo CD Reflections on Ongaku Records in 2014, featuring works by Beethoven, Ravel, Guastavino and Liebermann. Fanfare Magazine highlighted the release on its cover, praising her “scintillating pianism” and dubbing her “a Beethoven interpreter of penetrating insight.” Last season featured Ms. Vitkauskaite’s debut recording as soloist with orchestra performing Liszt/Weber Polonaise brillante recorded at the Hungarian National Radio. Winner of the Grand Prix at the Mendelssohn Cup Piano Competition in Italy, Rasa Vitkauskaite has won top prizes at numerous prestigious international piano competitions including First Prizes at Les Rencontres Internationales des Jeunes Pianistes (Belgium), the competition in Taurisano (Italy), and the Rubinstein Piano Competition (Paris). Other awards include the Westmont Fellowship at the Montecito International Music Festival in Santa Barbara, California, and a Kathryn Wasserman Davis $10,000 grant supporting a tour of Israel promoting peace. Ms. Vitkauskaite has also won top prizes at six national competitions in her native country of Lithuania. Next season will include the release of her debut concerto CD featuring Mozart’s Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 and Beethoven’s Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra. Recent recital tours have taken Ms. Vitkauskaite to China, South Korea, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, and across the United States. Her solo engagements include the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, AN EVENING WITH ILYA KLER & FRIENDS • APRIL 6, 2018 BIOGRAPHIES Kaunas, Latvian and Kaliningrad Philharmonic orchestras, I Solisti di Perugia, and the Boston Conservatory Orchestra. She has appeared at festivals in Assisi (Italy), Madrid (Spain), Mexico City, Caracas (Venezuela), Taiyuan (China), Porto (Portugal), and Moscow (Russia).
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