Williams College Department of Music
Berkshire Symphony Ronald Feldman, director
**Program**
Roy Harris Symphony No. 3 (1898-1979)
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Violin Concerto in E Minor, op. 64 (1809-1847) I. Allegro molto appassionato II. Andante III. Allegretto non troppo— Allegro molto vivace Mark Peskanov, violin
***intermission***
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F Major, op. 90 (1833-1897) I. Allegro con brio II. Andante III. Poco allegretto IV. Allegro—Un poco sostenuto
Friday, November 20, 2015 8:00 p.m. Chapin Hall Williamstown, Massachusetts
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Upcoming Events: Sat Nov 21 4pm Gospel Choir Chapin Hall Sat Nov 21 8pm The Fall All Dance Department Concert & ’62 Center, MainStage Kusika/Zambezi Tue Dec 1 4:15pm Master Class: Michael Mizrahi, piano - Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall Visiting Artist Series Tue Dec 1 8pm Michael Mizrahi, piano - Visiting Artist Series Chapin Hall Wed Dec 2 12:15pm MIDWEEKMUSIC Chapin Hall, stage Wed Dec 2 4pm Violin Studio Recital with Students of Joanna Kurkowicz Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall Wed Dec 2 7pm Chinese Music Ensemble Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall Fri Dec 4 8pm Williams Percussion Ensemble Chapin Hall Sat Dec 5 2pm Student Piano Recital with Michael Chen ’18 Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall Sat Dec 5 4:30pm Woodwind Chamber Music Studio Recital Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall Sat Dec 5 8pm Williams Jazz Ensemble Chapin Hall Berkshire Symphony Personnel Violin I Cello Clarinet Tuba Joanna Kurkowicz, Nathaniel Parke, principal Susan Martula, principal John Bottomly, principal concertmaster Stephanie Caridad ’18 Wei Luo ’18 William Doyle ’19 Scott Daniel ’17, Mea Cook asst. concertmaster Patricia Ho ’16 Bass Clarinet Timpani Deanna Baasch Richard Mickey Christopher Hough Deane ’18 Matthew Gold, principal Melanie Dexter Perri Morris Austin Paul, ’16 Hanna Goodrick ’18 David Ogulnick Bassoon Katherine Hrach ’16 Stephen Walt, principal Percussion Samuel Lang ’19 Double Bass Nathaniel Vilas ’17 Jay Sager Mandela Namaste ’19 Robert Zimmerman, principal Kendall Bazinet ’18 Cindy Ogulnick Chris Janson ’16 Contrabassoon Gregory Mora ’18 William Stoll Orchestra Manager Violin II Steve Moran Jenny Dewar Joana Genova, principal Patrick O’Connell Horn Ouisa Fohrhaltz Victor Sungarian, principal Librarian Joseph Jewett Flute Jessica Lascoe Lisa Liu ’16 Sophie Lu ’19 Jacqueline DeVoe, principal Christopher Wayland ’16 Abigail Miller ’19 Calvin Ludwig ’18 Collin Williams ’18 Teaching Assistant Morris Reeves ’18 Tiffany Sun ’18 Claire Leyden ’16 Abigail Soloway ’18 Trumpet Harriet Welther Oboe David Wharton, principal Stage Managers Carl Jenkins, principal Paul Heggeseth Michael Navarette ’16 Viola Mollie Bernstein ’18 § Jimmy Miotto ’19 Angie Sun ’17 Ah ling Neu, principal Samantha Stone ’17 ∫ Tiffany Sun ’18 James Bergin Trombone Yi-Tong Tseo ’17 Leo Goldmakher English Horn Wes Hopper, principal Catherine Hall-Schor Mollie Bernstein ’18 David Lee ’19 ∫ = principal on Harris Bing Liu Matthew Luhn § = principal on Dawn Wu ’18 Mendelssohn Lauren Yu ’16 Bass Trombone Charles Morris
Ronald Feldman, director Since joining the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s cello section at the age of 19, Ronald Feldman has received critical acclaim for a wide variety of musical achievements. Increasingly in demand as a conductor, Mr. Feldman was appointed assistant to Boston Pops conductor John Williams in 1989, a position he held until 1993. As conductor Mr. Feldman has appeared with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Quebec Symphony, the Springfield Symphony, the Saint Louis Symphony, the George Enescu Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony of Costa Rica, the Landmarks Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Feldman has appeared as cello soloist with many orchestras performing a wide range of concerto repertoire from Dvorak to Ligeti. His many chamber music affiliations have included performances with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Collage New Music Ensemble, the Boston Conservatory Chamber Players, and the Williams College Chamber Players. His performances include collaborations with artists Emanuel Ax, Garrick Ohlsson, Gil Shaham, Christian Tetzlaff, and Yo Yo Ma. He is on the fac- ulties of Williams College, Berklee College of Music, and The New England Conservatory. Born in Brooklyn, NY and a graduate of Boston University, Mr. Feldman's teachers have included, Joseph Emonts, Claus Adam, Lorne Monroe, John Sant’Ambrogio, and Harvey Shapiro. In September 2001, Mr. Feldman joined the faculty of Williams College as Artist in Residence and Director of the Berkshire Symphony, ending a distinguished career with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Mark Peskanov, violin American virtuoso violinist and artistic visionary Mark Peskanov was born in Odessa. Peskanov sang before he could walk or talk, and soon became a star violin student at the famed Stolyarsky school. At fifteen, he emigrated to the United States, where he was immediately accepted at the Aspen Music Festival and the Juilliard School. His phenomenal facility and musicianship won him both the Aspen and Juilliard concerto competi- tions, bringing him to the notice of Isaac Stern and Mstislav Rostropovich and rocketing him into the top echelons of the music world. Upon his debut with the Chicago Symphony, the Chicago Tribune called him a “sensational soloist.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer proclaimed, “Violinist Adds Glory to Odessa” and the New York Times declared, “Mark Peskanov is a tremendous young violinist and his Friday evening concert at Carnegie Hall was a triumph...He has it all—technique, temperament, and taste.” Peskanov is a staunch champion of American composers. He premiered the John Williams Concerto with the St. Louis Symphony, and the Stanley Wolfe Concerto (written for Peskanov) with the New York Philharmonic. He has performed more than fifty concertos with virtually every major U.S. orchestra and in Europe, the Middle East, Australia, South America and Japan. Peskanov’s major accolades include the Avery Fischer Career Grant, the first Frederick R. Mann Award, and Carnegie Hall’s first Isaac Stern Award. Peskanov inaugurated Tokyo’s Suntory Hall with Yo-Yo Ma and Stern, and Weill Recital Hall with Stern, Midori and Gil Shaham. Collaborating with these colleagues prompted Peskanov to turn intensively to the chamber music repertoire’s more intimate, complex, and dialogical possibilities. His delight in chamber music, his independent artistic vision, and his desire to mentor promising musicians as he had been mentored, led to Peskanov’s present role. Since 2005, he is president and artistic/executive director of Bargemusic, New York City’s floating concert hall, moored at the Fulton Ferry Landing under the Brooklyn Bridge. Peskanov has curated over 3,000 chamber concerts at Bargemusic, encompassing a vast rangen of genres and styles, presenting over 200 concerts annually to New York audiences. Under his leadership Bargemusic con- tinues to evolve as an innovative, influential, and integral component of New York City’s cultural world. Peskanov is known for his openness to an astonishing range of music and artists at all stages of their careers. Muses the New York Times, “One reason that openness seems to come so easily to Mr. Peskanov is that few proposals crossing his desk are likely to outpace his own vision of what Bargemusic can be.”
Special thanks to: Thanks to the Department of Music and Custodial staff; Jonathan Myers, Concert and Event Manager; Harry Van Baaren, poster design; and Dan Czernecki, recording engineer for assisting with tonight’s performance.