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Home , Hilary Hahn, Jaime Laredo, Jascha Brodsky, Josh Ritter, Violin Concerto (Brahms)

UNLV presents , & NATAsHA PAReMSKI, with the UNLV Symphony Orchestra

Thursday, September 30, 2010 • 8 p.m. The Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall University of Nevada, Las Vegas Performing Arts Center Hilary Hahn appears by arrangement with IMG Artists, 152 W. 56th St., 5th Floor, New York, NY 10019. Ms. Hahn’s recordings are available on and Sony Classical/Sony BMG Masterworks.

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Programs and artists are subject to change without notice. 3 To n i g h t ’s Pr o g r a m Overture to Coriolan, Op. 62 ...... (1770-1827) UNLV Symphony Orchestra ~ Taras Krysa, Director of Orchestras Piano No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15...... Maestoso (1833-1897) Adagio Rondo: Allegro non troppo Natasha Paremski, Piano ~~ Intermission ~~ in , Op. 35...... Allegro moderato (1840-1893) Canzonetta: Andante Finale: Allegro vivacissimo Hilary Hahn, Violin To Ou r Au d i e n c e The Performing Arts Center is delighted to hear your generous appreciation for our artists.Please hold your applause until all of the movements in a particular piece are finished. Generally, a conductor will indicate the time for your applause; you can also count the number of movements in each piece – movements are listed underneath the piece’s title. Thank you for your continued enjoyment and support of the Charles Vanda Master Series. Pr o g r a m No t e s Overture to Coriolan, Op. 62 troops against his own people. Nothing Ludwig van Beethoven could persuade him not to destroy Rome, (Born December 15, 1770, in Bonn; died until his wife and mother pleaded with March 26, 1827, in Vienna) him. His mother succeeded where no one

else could, wearing down his pride and Although Coriolanus is often identified determination. He then yielded and with- with Shakespeare, Plutarch was the first drew, abandoning his conquest and, in the to tell the story of the legendary Roman end, committing suicide. general, Gaius Marcus Coriolanus, who It was Beethoven’s contemporary, the vanquished the Volscian tribe, captured popular Austrian dramatist, Heinrich their capital city of Corioli and took its Joseph von Collin (1772-1811), who in- name as his, in around 500 B.C. When spired Beethoven to write his Overture to Coriolanus came home from battle to find Coriolan, although Beethoven did know that the privileges of his patrician class had the traditional versions of the tale by Plu- been diminished, he was enraged, went tarch and Shakespeare. The story of Cori- over to the enemy and led the Volscian continued on page 8 7 Pr o g r a m No t e s , continued from page 8 olanus appealed to Beethoven because of composer, movements of a symphony he its themes of freedom for the individual, had sketched. They played it at two pia- recklessness, daring, pride, and the power nos, and friends who heard it, suggested of female persuasion; its most predomi- that it could be made into a concerto. nant themes of love and patriotism were For four years, Brahms worked over this qualities for which Beethoven had much music, composed a new third movement respect. The play, Coriolan (in German) (the original one became part of his Ger- was first performed in 1802 and was very man Requiem, Op 45, of 1868) and in popular for several seasons, but when 1858, completed the concerto. It was first Beethoven wrote the Overture in 1807, performed January 22, 1859, with the it was no longer frequently performed; composer as soloist and his friend, Joseph nevertheless, his composition quickly be- Joachim, conducting. came a popular concert piece. It was first Audiences and musicians both resisted performed at a subscription concert in Vi- the fiercely difficult concerto, not a virtu- enna during March 1807, at the palace of oso’s showpiece of the kind favored at the Beethoven’s patron, Prince Lobkowitz. time. In Germany, it was not a success un- Beethoven intended this dark, dramatic til two years before Brahms’s death, and in overture to present a musical portrait of the , it was hardly performed the play’s hero. The first theme outlines at all until 1900. Now it is one of the most the impulsive mood of Coriolan’s complex admired and often performed works in the emotions, while the more lyrical second repertoire, a huge, solemn piece of incom- theme may depict the pleading of the gen- parable grandeur. eral’s wife and mother. The quiet ending A substantial work, it was then the lon- mirrors Coriolan’s despair and resignation gest concerto ever published. The first to death. movement, Maestoso, is a majestic and The score calls for two , two , monumental structure without equal in two , two , two horns, its era except perhaps, on a less grandiose two , and strings. scale, in Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto. It is tumultuous and dark in the beginning Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, with a long orchestral passage in which the Op. 15 strings state the main theme over a timpa- Johannes Brahms ni roll, before the piano joins. The piano’s (Born May 7, 1833, in Hamburg; died first entrance is energetic, and it becomes, April 3, 1897, in Vienna) later in the movement, gentle and expres- sive. After the lyrical section, the move- The history of this piano concerto be- ment then fulfills Joachim’s hopes that it be gins in 1854, when Brahms showed Schu- “appropriately magnificent…[and] com- mann’s wife, Clara, who was one of the greatest pianists of the time and also a continued on page 10 9 Pr o g r a m No t e s , continued from page 9 mensurately elevated and beautiful.” An garian violinist with whom he first met elaborate development section is followed the Schumanns. Joachim put the spirit of by a brilliant coda. Brahms once suggested the Brahms music into words quite accu- that the grave slow movement, Adagio, was rately when he described this movement’s inscribed Benedictus qui venit in nomine themes as “the pithy, bold spirit of the first Domine (Blessed is he who comes in the theme [and] the intimate and soft B-flat name of the Lord) in memory of Robert major passage.” The movement brings the Schumann, and at another time, he said concerto to an end with a long and bril- that it was a lovely portrait of Clara. To liant coda after a piano . both, regardless, Brahms has paid homage The orchestra is scored for two flutes, by musically projecting his love (and his two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, pain) in this romanza-like movement. It four horns, two trumpets, timpani and is based on a poetic theme that the piano strings. takes up after its initial statement in the strings and bassoons. The clarinets intro- Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 duce a subsidiary theme in the contrasting Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky middle section. The final Rondo: Allegro (Born May 7, 1840, in Votkinsk; died No- non troppo recalls the music of gypsies that vember 6, 1893, in ) Brahms had first learned from the Hun- Ab o u t Hi l a r y Ha h n Recently named Gramophone magazine’s land, Croatia, China, Japan, and Korea Artist of the Year, violinist Hilary Hahn is as guest soloist with traveling orchestras, a two-time Grammy Award-winning solo- among them the Bavarian Radio Sympho- ist celebrated for her probing interpreta- ny Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, tions, technical brilliance, and compelling San Francisco Symphony, National Sym- presence on stage. For a decade and a half, phony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.), extensive touring and acclaimed record- Detroit Symphony, Montreal Symphony, ings have made Hahn one of the most Milwaukee Symphony, and Royal Scottish sought-after artists on the international National Orchestra. Recent recital tours concert circuit. and solo concert collaborations have taken Hilary Hahn appears regularly with the her throughout the United States, Canada, world’s elite orchestras and on the most Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Argentina, Colom- prestigious recital series in Europe, Asia, bia, France, Italy, Luxembourg, , Australasia, and North and South Ameri- Denmark, Switzerland, Vietnam, Cam- ca. In addition, she has toured the United bodia, and Japan. In a special project this States, , Canada, Sweden, Germany, season, Hahn joins baritone Matthias Go- Luxembourg, Spain, Israel, Great Britain, Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, Scot- continued on page 14 10 Ab o u t Ms. Ha h n , continued from page 10 erne, soprano Christine Schäfer and the and other features a complete live perfor- for a series mance of the Korngold violin concerto. In of European concerts featuring arias from April 2007, she played Mozart’s Concerto their album Bach: Violin and Voice, which 3 as soloist in Pope Benedict XVI’s 80th was released on Deutsche Grammophon birthday celebration at the Vatican – an in January 2010. event subsequently released as a concert In the dozen years since she began re- DVD by Deutsche Grammophon. cording, Hahn has released eleven fea- While primarily a classical musician, ture albums on the Deutsche Gram- Hahn participates in a number of other mophon and Sony labels, in addition to projects and collaborations. In 2004, she three DVDs, an Oscar-nominated movie was the violin soloist on James Newton soundtrack, an award-winning recording Howard’s Oscar-nominated soundtrack to for children, and various compilations. M. Night Shyamalan’s film The Village. In In repertoire as diverse as Bach, Stravin- 2005 and 2006, she appeared as a guest sky, Elgar, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, on albums by the alt-rock band And You Mozart, Schoenberg, Paganini, Spohr, Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead. More Barber, Bernstein, Korngold, and others, recently, she wrote and performed violin her recordings have received every critical tracks for singer/songwriter Tom Bros- prize in the international press and have seau’s record Grand Forks. Hahn works fre- met with equal popular success. All have quently with folk-based singer/songwriter spent weeks on Billboard’s Classical Top Josh Ritter; they have toured together in Ten list. Hahn’s most recent concerto re- Canada, Europe, the United States, and cording, which paired Schoenberg and Japan. Hahn is also active on the contem- Sibelius, debuted at No. 1 and spent the porary classical music scene. In 1999, she next twenty-three weeks on the Billboard premiered and recorded the violin concer- classical charts. The album brought Hahn to written for her by the American bassist her second Grammy: the 2009 Award for and composer , and in 2009 Best Instrumental Soloist Performance she did the same with ’s with Orchestra. Her first Grammy win violin concerto, also written for her. A came in 2003 for her Brahms and Stravin- recording of the Higdon concerto was re- sky concerto album. leased on Deutsche Grammophon in Sep- On DVD, Hahn first appeared in a live tember 2010 alongside the Tchaikovsky recording of Mozart’s Concerto 4 in Royal concerto. Albert Hall, in the millennial concert of Hahn has received numerous interna- the Last Night of the Proms in London in tional distinctions throughout her career, 2000. Six years later she was the subject of including multiple Diapason “d’Or of the a full-length documentary, Hilary Hahn: A Year” and “Preis der deutschen Schallplat- Portrait, which included with its interviews continued on page 19 14 Ab o u t Ms. Ha h n , continued from page 14 tenkritik” (German Record Critics’ Award) ma; studying with Felix prizes, the 2008 Classical FM / Gramo- Galimir and pianist ; and phone Artist of the Year, the Cannes Clas- coaching regularly, after Mr. Brodsky’s sical Award, and the ECHO Klassik Artist death, with violinist . She of the Year and other ECHO awards. She graduated from The Curtis Institute at age has appeared on the covers of all major 19 with a Bachelor of Music degree. classical music publications and has been Hahn’s major orchestral debut came featured in mainstream periodicals such with the Symphony in 1991, as Vogue, Elle, Town and Country, and the year after she entered Curtis. Her in- Marie Claire. In 2001, Hahn was named ternational debut followed at age 14 in “America’s Best Young Classical Musician” Hungary, playing Bernstein with Ivan Fis- by Time Magazine. And in January 2010 cher and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. she appeared as guest artist, playing Bar- In March 1995, at age 15, she made her tok and Brahms, on TheT onight Show with German debut, playing the Beethoven Conan O’Brien. concerto with and the Ba- Hilary Hahn was born in Lexington, varian Radio Symphony Orchestra in a Virginia, in 1979. At the age of three, concert broadcast on radio and television she moved to Baltimore, where she began throughout Europe. Two months later, playing the violin one month before her she received the Avery Fisher Career Grant fourth birthday in the Suzuki program of in New York. For several summers in her the Peabody Conservatory. From the age of teens she attended the Marlboro Music five Hahn studied in Baltimore with Klara Festival in Vermont, and in 1996 she made Berkovich, a native of Odessa who taught her debut as soloist with the for 25 years at the Leningrad School for Orchestra. the Musically Gifted. From 10 to 17, she An entertaining and enthusiastic writer, studied at The Curtis Institute of Music Hahn posts journal entries and informa- with the legendary Jascha Brodsky – the tion for young musicians on her website last surviving student of the great Belgian (www.hilaryhahn.com). In video, she pro- violinist Eugene Ysaye – working closely duces a YouTube channel (www.youtube. with him until his death at age 89. Hahn com/hilaryhahnvideos) and serves as guest completed her university degree require- interviewer for Sequenza21, the contem- ments at 16, but she deferred graduation porary classical music blog. Elsewhere, her and remained at Curtis for several more violin case comments on life as a travel- years, taking additional elective courses ing companion, on Twitter (www.twitter. in languages, literature, writing, and dra- com/violincase).

19 Ab o u t Na t a s h a Pa r e m s k i With her consistently striking and dy- Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall, San namic performances, 22-year-old pianist Diego Symphony, the Orpheum Foun- Natasha Paremski reveals astounding vir- dation for the Advancement of Young tuosity and voracious interpretive abilities. Soloists (with the Tonhalle Orchestra in She continues to generate excitement from Zurich), Residentie Orchestra, and Royal all corners as she wins over audiences with Scottish National Orchestra. She has also her musical sensibility and flawless tech- given recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall, nique. the Auditorium du Louvre in , the In the summer of 2009, Natasha made Schloss Elmau and Verbier festivals, and celebrated appearances at the Colorado on the Rising Stars Series of Gilmore and Music Festival and with the Buffalo Phil- Ravinia. harmonic Orchestra. In the coming sea- With a strong focus on new music, son, Natasha will continue to perform Natasha’s growing repertoire reflects an with major orchestras including a return artistic maturity beyond her years. At engagement with the National Arts Centre the suggestion of John Corigliano, she Orchestra in Ottawa, will appear at Lin- brought her insight and depth to his Piano coln Center in the fall as part of the “What Concerto with the Colorado Symphony Makes it Great?” series with Rob Kapilow, in the 2007-2008 season, both on sub- and will tour the United Kingdom with scription and in a featured concert at the the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. National Performing Arts Convention in The 2008-2009 season saw Natasha June 2008. In recital, she has played sev- make her Asian debut with the National eral pieces by Fred Hersch. Natasha has Symphony Orchestra in Taipei and in re- also performed Rubinstein’s Fourth Piano cital in Tokyo; she also toured the United Concerto in the United States and Europe Kingdom with the Berlin Symphony Or- in past seasons to great acclaim. chestra. In the summer of 2007, Natasha Natasha continues to extend her per- gave her Spanish debut with recitals in Las formance activity and range beyond the Palmas and Oviedo. She also performed traditional concert hall. In December Rachmaninoff’s Second Concerto as a last- 2008, she was the featured pianist in cho- minute replacement for the opening nights reographer Benjamin Millepied’s Danse of both the Caramoor Festival in Katonah, Concertantes at New York’s Joyce Theater. NY and the Bravo! Vail Valley Festival in She was featured in a major two-part film Vail, Colorado. Her past appearances in- for BBC Television on the life and work clude performances with the San Fran- of Tchaikovsky, shot on location in St. Pe- cisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philhar- tersburg, performing excerpts from Tchai- monic, Baltimore Symphony, Colorado kovsky’s first piano concerto and other Symphony, Houston Symphony, Toronto works. In the winter of 2007, she partici- Symphony, Dallas Symphony, New York continued on page 23 20 Ab o u t Ms. Pa r e m s k i , continued from page 20 pated, along with Simon Keenlyside and Her growing list of awards includes the , in the filming of Twin Prix Montblanc 2007, the 2006 Gilmore Spirits, a project starring Sting and Trudie Young Artist Award, top prize in the 2002 Styler that explores the music and writing Bronislaw Kaper Awards sponsored by the of Robert and Clara Schumann, which ; top prize in the will be released on DVD. She has previ- Young Artists in Carnegie Hall 2000 In- ously performed the piece several times ternational Piano Festival, and many oth- with the co-creators in New York and the ers. UK, all directed by John Caird, the direc- Natasha made her professional debut tor/adaptor of the musical Les Misérables. at age nine with the El Camino Youth Born in Moscow, Natasha began her Symphony in California. At the age of piano studies at the age of 4 with Nina fifteen she debuted with the Los Angeles Malikova at the Andreyev School of Mu- Philharmonic and recorded two discs on sic there. In 1995 she emigrated with her the Bel Air Music Label with the Moscow family to the United States and became Philharmonic Orchestra under Dmitry a US citizen in 2001. She studied at the Yablonsky, the first featuring Anton Ru- San Francisco Conservatory of Music be- binstein’s Piano Concerto No. 4 coupled fore moving to New York to study with with Rachmaninov’s Paganini Rhapsody Pavlina Dokovska at Mannes College of and the second featuring all of Chopin’s Music, from which she graduated in 2007. shorter works for piano and orchestra. Ab o u t Ta r a s Kr y s a Director of Orchestras, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Maestro Taras Kry- In recent seasons, he has conducted the sa was born in Kiev, National Ukrainian Symphony Orches- to a musical tra, Orchestra van het Osten, New World family and began his Symphony, St. Petersburg Symphony, formal studies as a Moscow, Slovak Sinfonietta, Spoleto Fes- violinist at the Moscow Conservatory. Af- tival Chamber Orchestra, Kiev Chamber ter moving to the United States, Mr. Krysa Orchestra and the Lublin Philharmonic continued his studies at Indiana Univer- Orchestra. He has made three critically sity and Northwestern University both in acclaimed recordings for the Brilliant violin and conducting. His conducting Classics label. In addition, Mr. Krysa teachers have included Victor Yampolsky, has served as Principal Conductor of the Jorma Panula and . As a vi- Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra. olinist, Mr. Krysa has performed with the Currently, Maestro Krysa also serves as New World Symphony orchestra and St. Music Director of the Henderson Sym- Louis Symphony Orchestras. phony Orchestra.

23 Th e UNLV Sy m p h o n y Or c h e s t r a FIRST VIOLIN (continued) Emilee Wong Tracy Bu Kristen Mosca Samantha Alterman Jessica Kahal Anna Childs SECOND VIOLIN Alex Hayashi Svetlin Belneev Matthew Guschl Brandie Frias Christopher Fujiwara Debra Yavitz Marla Huizar Robert Hunt Aki Oshima Belinda Martinez Kanade Oi Angela LaBella Bryan Wente Stefanie Martin Kish Hipsak Kim Chai Megan Hermansen Emily Grady VIOLA Brandon Durham John Pollock Carlos Guzman Erin Paul Joe Cha Fred Stone Youngmee Merrick Kyle Tolstyka Rahmaan Philip Chris Kase CELLO Jordan Rush David Warner Courtney Waldron Travis Higa Eddie Yue Allison McSwain Anthony Rodriguez Kendall Demavivas Cynthia Javier Robert Chavez PERCUSSION Adrian Smallwood Melaney Scarberry Jeremy Russo Melody Loveless Bradley Taylor FIRST VIOLIN Dominique Jackson Sandro Ladu BASS Matthew Tsai Blake Riley Christina Riegert Ryan Bell Amanda Gentile Korey Mueller Elaine Thomas Hayden Bryant Michael Burkhard Zuriel Santoyo Edward Mendiola 24