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THE UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY Peter Eros, conductor

with guest artists

Michael Jinsoo Lim, Melia Watras, viola

December 7, 2006 7:30PM MEANY THEATER

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SINFONIA CONCERTANTEIN Eb MAJOR, K 364 32-;// ...... WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791) ~ 1 Allegro maestoso ~ Ij Andante I1J III Presto Michael Jinsoo Lim, Violin / Melia Watras, Viola

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SYMPHONY NO. 3 IN Eb MAJOR. OP. 55 "EROICA /I 5'1.' 0 / perfonnances. She has long been at the forefront of the American new music ...... LUDWIG VAN BEETIWVEN (1770-1827) scene, perfonning numerous commissions and world premieres as a soloist and co-founder of the award-winning Corigliano Quartet (www.cori12.lianoguartet. OJ 1. Allegro can brio com). Ms. Watras has performed in Carnegie Hall. Weill Recital Hall, Alice I~ 11. Marciafunebre (Adagio assai) Tully Hall and the Kennedy Center and at festivals such as Aspen and Ravinia. L3] 111. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) As the violist of the Corigli ano Quartet, she has received awards such as the i3J IV Finale (Allegro malta - Poco Andante - Presto) Grand Prize at the Fischoff Competition and the ASCAPICMA A ward for Adventurous Programming. Ms. Watras's debut solo CD, Viola Solo, was released by Fleur De Son (www.f1eurdeson.com) to much critical acclaim. Strings remarked, "Watras is a Korean-American violinist MICHAEL JINS OO LIM: enjoys a dynamic musical young player in possession of stunning virtuosic talent and deserving of the career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral performer, recording artist, and growing acclaim." The Strad called her "excellent" and "authoritative", while teacher. Widely known for his work as co-founder of the renowned Corigliano the American Record Guide proclaimed, "Watras is a terrific violist." Com­ Quartet, he is in demand as a chamber musician and as a performer of new and posed entirely of unaccompanied viola works, the disc fe atures world premiere experimental music. He is a member of Open End, a new music and improvi­ recordings ofpieces by Andrew Waggoner and Paola Prestitll, as well as the first satory group, and holds a first violin position in the American Ballet Theater recording on viola of John Corigliano's Fancy on a Bach Air. With the Orchestra. Corigliano Quartet, she has recorded for Albany, Bayer, eRJ, Riax, and Aguava Mr. Lim's solo engagements have included appearances with the Indian­ and has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered and Performance Today and apolis Symphony Orchestra, the International Chamber Orchestra of Girona, WFMT-Chicago's Livefrom Studio One. Spain, the Indiana University Philharmonic, the Evansville Philhannonic Watras attended Indiana University, where she studied with Abraham Sker­ Orchestra, and the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra as well as a performance in nick and , earning Bachelor's and Master's degrees and the prestigious Weill Recital Hall for a tribute concert for celebrated American composer John Performer's Certificate. While at Indiana, she served as Arad's assistant for Corigliano. many years, and was a member of the faculty as a Visiting Lecturer. She went As a member of the Corigliano Quartet (www.coriglianoquartet.com), Lim on to study chamber music at the Juilliard School, while also teaching as an has enjoyed critical acclaim across the U.S. and abroad and has won numerous assistant to the luilliard . Watras then served as Musical Artist in awards, including the Grand Prize at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition Residence at Dickinson College and on the faculty of the New York Youth and the ASCAP/CMA Award for Adventurous Programming. The Corigliano Symphony Chamber Music Program. In 2004 she was appointed Assistant Pro­ Quartet has performed in the nation's leading music centers, including Carnegie fessor of Viola at the University of Washington School of Music, where she Hall, Weill Recital Hall, and the Kennedy Center. teaches viola and chamber music. For more information on Melia Watras, Lim received his fonnal training at Indiana University, where he studied please visit www.meliawatras.com. with the legendary violinist and teacher Josef Gingold. While at Indiana, he won First Prize in the school 's Violin Concerto Competition and served on the PETER EROS is professor of instrumental conducting at the University of Wash­ faculty as a Visiting Lecturer. Lim later studied chamber music at the Juiliiard ington School of Music. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, and is a graduate School and taught there as an assistant to the . He cur­ of the Franz Liszt Music Academy, where his teachers included Zoltan Kodaly rently serves on the faculty of the Seattle Conservatory and has a private studio and Leo Weiner. In 1956, during the Hungarian Revolution, he emigrated to of violin and viola students. Holland. At age 27, he was named associate conductor of the Amsterdam Con­ Lim has recorded for DreamWorks, Albany Records, CR!, Bayer Records, certgebouw Orchestra, a post he held for five years. In the summers of 1960 and and Aguava New Music, and appears on numerous television and film sound­ 1961 he was a coach for the Bayreuth Wagner Festival, and in 1961 Eros was tracks. He has been heard on NPR programs such as Performance Today and assistant conductor of the Salzburg Mozart Festival's production of Mozart's All Things Considered. Lim currently lives in Seattle with his wife, violist Melia Jdomeneo, among others, though 1964. Watras. He performs on a violin made by Tomaso Balestrieri in Cremona, Italy As a guest conductor, Eros has appeared with numerous major symphony in 1774. For more information on Michael Jinsoo Lim, please visit orchestras and opera companies on five continents, such as the Chicago Sym­ www.michaeljinsoolim.com. phony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Royal Described as "staggeringly virtuosic" by Th e Strad, violist MELLA WATRAS has Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Stockholm been hailed by audiences and critics alike for her electrifying and vibrant Philharmonic Orchestra, the Scottish National Orchestra, and others, including nine tours of South Africa. He received AS AP awards in 1983 and 1985 for playing music by American composers. Eros came to the UW School of Music in 1989 as conductor of the Univer­ sity Symphony Orchestra. He has also taught at the Amsterdam Conservatory and at the Peabody Conservatory ofMusic.

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UNNERSITY SYMPHONY (*denotes principal) Peter Eros, conductor Philip Tschopp, assistant conductor

VIOLIN I VIOLA FLUTE Julia Tai, Julia King* Ivy (Hsaio-Chieh) Lih* Concertmaster Jonathan Ip* Torrey Kaminsld Lauren Roth, Dane Armbruster Co -conce11master Lisa Philip OBOE MatthewWu Anthony Pierce Beethoven IanMa Jacqueline Benthuysen Justin Henderlight* Rebecca Kim Ruth Navarre Chris Aagaard Audrey Djunaedi Sam AIkek Mozarl Kelli Geiger Tony Chen Kelly Sixt Genevieve Lin Sam Whittle Justin Henderlight Sam Byun Emily Bishop CELLO CLARINET Eo-Lin Hsu* Kent VanAlstyne VIOLIN II Janice Lee Timothy Nelson Eric Wong* So Young Lee Kang Yu* Nathan Whittaker BASSOON Aurora Burd Haeyoon Shin Ya-Yuo Tseng* Rachel Simon Suhrim Choe Kirsten AIfedson Kevin Mosher Ruth Marshall Grace Moon James Quoell HORN Keisuke Natsume Amy McAdams Kenji Ulmer* Haley Anderson Josiah Boothby* Sean Chang BASS Tim Herold Bren Plummer* Jeff Norwood TRUMPET Emily Snow Fambam Toby Penk* Will Jameson Carey Rayburn Brett Nakashima Anna Brodie TIMPANI Evan Muehlhausen Paul Progreba

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