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37TH CONCERT SEASON - 2019.2020 BRINGING MUSIC TO LIFE! MAGIC MOUNTAIN OCT 19TH & OCT 20TH KALISPELL 2 MAGIC MOUNTAIN | GLACIER SYMPHONY & CHORALE 406.407.7000 | GSCMUSIC.ORG ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF John Zoltek – Music Director and Conductor Ron Osterbauer – Director of Development and Operations Susan Estes – Office/Box Office Manager Teresa Connell – Reception/Box Office Laura Welch– Patron Services Manager ARTISTIC STAFF John Zoltek – Music Director and Conductor Dr. Micah Hunter – Chorale Conductor Griffin Browne – Orchestra Personnel/Librarian Heather Catlett – Chorale Personnel Manager Barb Walden – Chorale Librarian GLACIER SYMPHONY BOARD/ STAFF Alma Ramlow – Chorale Accompanist Roger Blair – Stage Manager BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2019/2020 Jon Johnson – President Mark Holston – Vice President Dan Chisholm – Treasurer Lucy Smith – Secretary Mona Charles Jim Coolidge Ginnie Cronk Heidi Escalante Joanna Galbraith Laurie Miller Julie Moffitt Marylou Patterson Tamara Williams HONOREES Rebecca duBois – Founding Director Shaun Garner – Founding Chorale Conductor A MEMBER OF THE MONTANA ASSOCIATION OF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS PO Box 2491 • Kalispell MT 59903 • 406-407-7000 • www.glaciersymphony.org ALL GSC VENUES HAVE LARGE PRINT PROGRAM HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE SEATING AVAILABLE ON REQUEST MAGIC MOUNTAIN | GLACIER SYMPHONY & CHORALE 406.407.7000 | GSCMUSIC.ORG 3 JOHN ZOLTEK MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR Founding Music Director and Conductor – Festival Amadeus John Zoltek, Music Director and Founding Artistic Director of Festival Amadeus, is currently entering his 23rd season as the artistic leader of the Glacier Symphony, orchestra and chorale. He earned degrees from the University of British Columbia (M.M. composition) and Berklee College of Music,(B.M. composition), where he studied both classical and jazz, graduating with honors. At Berklee he was awarded the prestigious Youth Concerts at Symphony prize for classical composition for his Sonata for Cello and Piano. He studied conducting privately with Attilio Poto, a legendary conducting mentor at the Boston Conservatory. He was also selected to attend the Pierre Boulez Carnegie Hall Foundation program in New York. He later studied conducting abroad in the Czech Republic. Notable teachers include Zdenek Bilek, Tsung Yeh, Jorma Panula, Kirk Trevor, John Bavicchi, George Monseur and Elliot Weisgarber. A native of Rhode Island, Zoltek began studying guitar at the age of seven with traditional jazz master Alvin Pulley. After playing in various rock and jazz groups and getting to know classical music during his high school years, Zoltek auditioned and was accepted into the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston. This began his academic life and serious career path in music. As a composer, Zoltek has written a wide range of music in many genres from symphonic scores to instrumental and choral works. Many have been performed by the Glacier Symphony as well as orchestras in Canada, South America and Europe. Orchestras conducted include the National Latvian Symphony Orchestra (Riga, LV), Philharmonic Bohuslav Martinu (CZK), Vancouver CBC Orchestra, Orchestra Now, Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, Vancouver Pro Musica Orchestra and the Altoona Symphony (PA). Internationally, Zoltek made his European conducting debut with the Philharmonic Bohuslav Martinu in Luhachovice, Czech Republic. He has worked with notable composers Alan Hovhaness, Sofia Gubaidulina, R. Murray Schafer, Stephen Chatman and Mark Armanini. In 2009 he was invited to South America to lead the MUSIC DIRECTOR BIO Orquesta Sinfonica de Guayaquil in Ecuador. Recent activities include conducting the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra during their Global Soundscapes Festival in Canada (6/18 and 6/19). In August 2018 Maestro Zoltek traveled to Amsterdam (NL) and later Winnipeg, Manitoba, to conduct the recently formed AU Ensemble in a concert of new music by Canadian composers Rita Ueda and Mark Armanini. Zoltek is enthusiastically looking forward to an exciting musical future as he and the Glacier Symphony work with Flathead Valley Community College to build a new concert hall on the college campus in Kalispell, establishing what will become the permanent performance home of the Glacier Symphony. 4 MAGIC MOUNTAIN | GLACIER SYMPHONY & CHORALE 406.407.7000 | GSCMUSIC.ORG GLACIER SYMPHONY John Zoltek, Music Director and Conductor * Denotes section principal VIOLIN I Adam Collins HORN Sally Jerde, Concertmaster Melinda Morison Paul Rossi* Lynn Andenoro Melinda Payne-Sanders Chip Davis Sarah Fazendin Diane Sine Bob Green Ian Nicklin Amy Zoltek Laurie Miller Trevor Ostenson Will Shackelton Amelia Thornton BASS TRUMPET Ella Wilkinson Michelle Tanberg* Martin Weimer* Virginia Bowland BJ Lupton VIOLIN II Paul Faessel Anita Ho* TROMBONE Marilyn Anderson FLUTE Hank Handford* Lindsey Groves Beth Pirrie* Dave Lawrence Linda Kuntz Betsy Finch Jim Lehner Jan Lord Kate Fraser TUBA Connie Rudie GLACIER SYMPHONY Phyllis Snow OBOE Brian Hawken* Reid Merley* VIOLA Mary Notess TIMPANI Jenny Smith* Jeremy Reinbolt* Jodi Allison-Bunnell CLARINET Tamara Farr Dinah Weimer* PERCUSSION Aimee Zupicich Joe Valenti Jane Copper Nic Hannah CELLO BASSOON Griffin Browne* Alicia McLean* Jessica Catron Dylan Myers THANK YOU TO OUR SEASON BENEFACTOR AND TO OUR SUSTAINING SUPPORTER MAGIC MOUNTAIN | GLACIER SYMPHONY & CHORALE 406.407.7000 | GSCMUSIC.ORG 5 ANDREW TYSON FEATURED ARTIST, PIANO Hailed by BBC Radio 3 as “a real poet of the piano,” American pianist Andrew Tyson is emerging as a distinctive and important new musical voice. In summer 2015, he was awarded First Prize at the Géza Anda Competition in Zürich, as well as the Mozart and Audience Prizes. These victories have resulted in numerous performances throughout Europe under the auspices of the Géza Anda Foundation. Tyson is also a laureate of the Leeds International Piano Competition where he won the new Terence Judd- Hallé Orchestra Prize, awarded by the orchestra and conductor Sir Mark Elder with whom he enjoys an ongoing relationship. With concerto performances taking him across North America, Europe and further afield, Tyson has performed with orchestras from the North Carolina Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Alice Tully Hall, to the Osaka Symphony, SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Musikkollegium Winterthur and the National Orchestra of Belgium. High- lights this season include a return to the Hallé and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestras as well as his debut with the Flanders Symphony Orchestra. Recital appearances include major cities across the US and Europe at venues such as Brussels’ Palais des Beaux-Arts, New York’s Carnegie Hall and the Zürich Tonhalle. Following last season’s recitals in Shanghai, Vancouver, St Petersburg, Tokyo and a return to London’s Wigmore Hall, this season sees Tyson giving recitals in Taiwan for the first time as well as a tour in Switzerland. No stranger to the festival scene, Tyson’s previous performances include Caramoor Centre for the Music and the Arts, the Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Lucerne Piano Festival, the Pacific Music Festival in Japan and the Musica Viva festival in Sydney for a mixture of solo and chamber performances. An active chamber musician, Tyson regularly ap- pears in recital with violinist Benjamin Beilman; this season they join up again for performances in the USA. FEATURED ARTIST Tyson’s three recital discs have been issued on the Alpha Classics label. His debut disc comprises the complete Chopin Preludes whilst his second album released in March 2017 features works by Scriabin and Ravel. His latest disc, Landscapes, released in September 2019, features works by Mompou, Albéniz, Scarlatti and Schubert and is described by Tyson as a programme which “synthesizes my love of Spanish music, my love of nature and my fascination with the coloristic aspects of piano playing.” The album title takes its name from Federico Mompou’s Paisajes, which are “landscapes of the mind as much as intimate, yet vivid depictions of Spain”. As winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 2011, Tyson was awarded YCA’s Paul A. Fish Memorial Prize and the John Browning Memorial Prize and following that he received an Avery Fisher Career Grant. After early studies with Thomas Otten he attended the Curtis Institute of Music where he worked with Claude Frank. Tyson later studied with Robert McDonald earning his Master’s degree and Artist Diploma at The Juilliard School, winning the Gina Bachauer Piano Competition and receiving the Arthur Rubinstein Prize in Piano. THANK YOU for shuttling people from Whitefish to our concert 6 MAGIC MOUNTAIN | GLACIER SYMPHONY & CHORALE 406.407.7000 | GSCMUSIC.ORG came to fruition. In later life, his failure to see ideas PROGRAM NOTES through to conclusion was sadly due to his alcohol- ism; in his youth it was mere exuberance and naive MODEST MUSSORGSKY (1839-1881) optimism, which could never quite be translated NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN (COMPOSED 1867) into reality. One work that did survive this particular Modest Mussorgsky was an influential Russian grand plan, though, was the orchestral poem Night composer whose legacy is based on only a handful on Bald Mountain. It wasn’t completed until nine of works, some of them completed by fellow com- years after his initial inspiration for St. John’s Eve poser and friend Rimsky-Korsakov and in the 20th and, despite its great popularity today, Mussorgsky century, Shostakovich. Like many Russian compos- really struggled to convince anyone to perform it. ers of the era, Mussorgsky was not a professional musician. He was born into a wealthy land-owning The work was begun in 1866 but completed during family and began studying piano at the age of 6. He one stormy St. John’s Night in 1867 while he was was guided at a young age towards military service visiting a relative’s estate outside of Kiev, staying in and eventually posts as a civil servant. He did, how- a room with a view towards the Bald Mountain. Rus- ever, maintain his musical pursuits and after meet- sian legend suggests that witches gathered on the ing Borodin began to pursue composition seriously. top of this particular mountain during St.