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VCUARTS DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC GUEST ARTIST AND FACULTY RECITAL

Richard Demy, Philippe Brunet, trumpet Magdalena Adamek, piano

Tuesday, October 4, 2019 at 5 p.m. Sonia Vlahcevic Concert Hall I W. E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts 922 Park Avenue I Richmond, Va.

Cascades Allen Vizzutti (b. 1952) Richard Demy, euphonium

Fantasy Variations Ito Yasuhide (b.1960) Richard Demy, euphonium and Magdalena Adamek, piano

Legende Georges Enesco (1881-1955) Philippe Burnet, trumpet and Magdalena Adamek, piano

The Fox and the Wolf Richard Demy (b. 1983) Richard Demy, euphonium and fixed media

La Mort de L'aigle (Death of an Eagle) for Solo Trumpet in C Michael Blake Watkins (b. 1948) Philippe Brunet, trumpet

Necroterror Ian Lester (b.1994) Richard Demy, euphonium and fixed media

Concert for 2 Trumpets Erik Morales (b. 1966) Mvm. I Boldly Mvm. II Rubato Mvm. Ill Allegro Philippe Burnet, trumpet, Richard Demy, euphonium and Magdalena Adamek, piano

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About the Artists

Richard Demy is an international award-winning musician who has performed all over the world. Richard won the 2012 Leonard Falcone Euphonium Artist Solo Competition and is a Willson Sponsored Artist. He was a finalist in the National Symphony Concerto Competition and the International Euphonium Conference Euphonium Artist Division. He graduated from the University of North Texas with his DMA under Dr. and has studied with Dr. Joseph Skillen, Don Palmire, and others. He performed a solo recital at the Kennedy Center as well as with wind bands across the United States and Europe. He has performed with symphonies and given over 100 recitals and master classes across the USARichard has worked hard to expand performance opportunities on the euphonium. He plays a specially built quarter tone euphonium made by Willson to play traditional Arabic music. He has published articles promoting lesser-known genres featuring the euphonium, such as the Porro tradition of San Palejo, Colombia. Richard has presented recitals on historical instruments at The US Army Band Conference and the International Euphonium-Tuba Institute on Serpent and Ophicleide. He also performs regularly on electro-acoustical media, such as the heavy metal cover band N.A.M.E, and experimental projects that use audience biometrics to render a real-time musical composition.Richard currently lives in Washington DC and is an assistant professor of low brass at NOVA Community College. He actively solos, gives clinics and performs in the Baltimore Brass Quintet. Richard Demy plays exclusively on a Willson 2900 Euphonium.

Philippe Brunet, D.M.A. has been an active performer and educator all across North America and Europe appearing as an orchestral musician, chamber musician, and soloist. He has performed with the Kennedy Center House Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, The Florida Orchestra, The Naples Philharmonic, the Southwest Florida Orchestra, and for four seasons as a member of the Miami City Ballet Orchestra. He has also been heard at prestigious festivals such as the Cabrillo Festival for Contemporary Music, the Aspen Music Festival, the Dartington International Music Festival, the Center for Advanced Musical Studies at Chosen Vale, and the Atlantic Music Festival. Philippe is also a member of the Parkway Brass, an innovative brass quintet that performs in the mid Atlantic region and is the ensemble in residence at Christ Lutheran Cathedral in Baltimore, Maryland. As an advocate for New Music and soloist, he has performed and often memorized works by Stockhausen, Berio, Erickson, Gruber, Henze, Rabe, and many others. He has also collaborated with several composers on creating over a dozen new works including a commissioned trumpet concerto for chamber ensemble and soloist, Fanfares for The Apocalypse by Rome Prize winning composer, Ken Ueno. In 2009 he was presented with the VCU School of the Arts highest honor, the Award of Excellence, and he has been awarded the 2011 Theresa Pollack Prize for Excellence in the Arts. The Pollack Prize selectors wrote: "Richardson stands at the vanguard of jazz, classical and contemporary American music. As his star has risen internationally, he's maintained a clear commitment to education. He is an extraordinary musician.".

A native of Poland, Magdalena Adamek currently serves as Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, where she participates in various performance projects with Faculty and students and teaches chamber music, including her own Advanced Chamber Music course. For the past four years, Adamek has been on the Faculty at Global Summer Institute of Music (Richmond, VA), both as an instructor and a pianist-collaborator. She has also been active as a solo, chamber music performer, clinician, and adjudicator. Her future, and prominent engagement includes serving as a pianist-collaborator during the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition (Richmond, 2020). Magdalena holds Master of Arts (Piano Performance) from the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw and Doctor of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Alberta. Being a versatile pianist, she enjoys performing both as a solo recitalist and in chamber music settings. Her performing career includes recitals across Poland, Germany, Austria, Lithuania, France, China, USA, and Canada. Her long-term artistic project involves promoting piano music by composers from her native country: Chopin, Szymanowski, Maria Szymanowska, Nowowiejski, and others.

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