The Classical Recording Foundation ELEVENTH ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY TUESDAY, NOVEMER 20, 2012 WEILL RECITAL HALL AT CARNEGIE HALL NEW YORK CITY The Classical Recording Foundation ELEVENTH ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall Tuesday, November 20, 2012, 7:30 PM 2012 FOUNDATION AWARDS 2012 Foundation Award Gerald Ranck 2012 Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award Barbara Govatos and Marcantonio Barone 2012 Young Artist Award Bridget Kibbey 2012 Composer of the Year Award Philip Lasser CONCERT AND PRESENTATION OF 2012 AWARD WINNERS — INTERMISSION — Opening Remarks Adam Abeshouse, President of The Classical Recording Foundation Selections from Music Box ...................................................... Various I. Habanera and Bandoneon (by Paquito d’Rivera) Selections from The Well-Tempered Clavier ......................... J.S. Bach II. It’s About Time (by Kinan Azmeh) III. Caja de Musica 1 and 2 (by David Bruce) I. Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846 II. Prelude and Fugue in c minor, BWV 847 Bridget Kibbey, harp III. Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 874 IV. Prelude and Fugue in g minor, BWV 885 Presentation of the Young Artist Award to Gerald Ranck, harpsichord Bridget Kibbey Andrew Cyr, Director of Metropolis Ensemble Presentation of the Foundation Award to Gerald Ranck William Zito Guitarist and Hofstra University Music Faculty Four Songs from “Les Visages de l'Amour” (“The Faces of Love”) ...................................................... Philip Lasser I. L’amour est une Vallée (poem by Michel d’Arençon) Sonata in A for violin and piano, Opus 47 .......................... Beethoven II. L’Oiseau dans les bois (poem by Gerard de Nerval) III. J’aime une femme (poem by Paul Laurent) I. Adagio sostenuto―Presto IV. Souvenir et plaisir (poem by Louise de Vilmorin) Barbara Govatos, violin and Marcantonio Barone, piano Elizabeth Futral, soprano and Margo Garrett, piano Presentation of the Composer of the Year Award to Presentation of the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award to Philip Lasser Barbara Govatos and Marcantonio Barone Ken Noda, Miriam Lewin, The Metropolitan Opera Documentary Production Executive, Lavine Production Group Closing Remarks Adam Abeshouse 2 3 CLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION AWARD WINNERS 2012 GERALD RANCK THE FOUNDATION AWARD Gerald Ranck, one of Gerlad Ranck’s recording of the complete Well-Tempered Klavier is the America's premier culmination of a lifelong passion and study of this masterwork. A renowned harpsichordists, was Bach specialist, Gerald Ranck has elected to record the work utilizing born in Pennsylvania harpsichord, pianoforte, and organ for different preludes and fugues, and began piano studies depending upon the character of the music. This fresh approach has at age 6. He was a resulted in a landmark recording that is an extension of Bach’s own scholarship student of inventiveness. Cantilena Records will release the disc in 2013. Jose Echaniz at the Eastman School of Music before coming to New York to study the harpsichord with Sylvia Marlowe at the Mannes College. His New York debut was in 1967; in 1976, he gave the first complete performance of Bach's Art of Fugue, the year in which he became the first ever harpsichord soloist to appear in Teheran. Since then, he has appeared to great acclaim in London (Wigmore Hall) and Stockholm (Drottningholm), and has given two complete cycles of Bach's harpsichord music (Cathedral of St. John the Divine). He has recorded for Soundspells (Bach flute sonatas with Samuel Baron), Cantilena (numerous discs with Laurel Zucker), and Decca (with Andreas Scholl and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra). He is a founding member of the Strathmere Ensemble, and has appeared as soloist with the Bach Aria Group, the Orchestra of St. Lukes, and the Metropolitan Opera Chamber Ensemble with James Levine (complete Brandenburg Concerti and Elliot Carter Sonata). He is the music director of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, a position he has held for twenty-eight years. 4 5 CLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION AWARD WINNERS 2012 BARBARA GOVATOS AND MARCANTONIO BARONE THE SAMUEL SANDERS COLLABORATIVE ARTIST AWARD Barbara Govatos and Barbara Govatos and Marcantonio Barone represent the highest form of Marcantonio Barone first collaborative artistry. This duo brings together two artists who are also of encountered one another when, as great renown for other facets of their concert careers: Govatos for her teenagers, they won prizes in leadership role in the Philadelphia Orchestra and Barone for his different divisions of the same performances of the music of George Crumb. Their new disc, Complete concerto competition in Beethoven Sonatas for Violin & Piano, represents a culmination of a Philadelphia. They have performed lifetime of collaboration; their artistry deserved to be captured and chamber music concerts and sonata preserved in this landmark recording. The disc will be released by Bridge recitals together regularly since Records. 1985. As a duo, they made their New York recital debut in 2000, performing the complete works for violin and piano by Brahms at Weill ABOUT THIS AWARD Recital Hall. Barbara Govatos holds the Wilson H. and Barbara B. Taylor chair of The Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award commemorates the first violin section of the Philadelphia Orchestra and was named the Samuel Sanders, a consummate chamber musician and beloved teacher. winner of the 2012 C. Hartman Kuhn Award for enhancing the standards Mr. Sanders was the recital partner of choice to many instrumentalists and and the reputation of the Fabulous Philadelphians. singers including Itzhak Perlman, Mstislav Rostropovich, Robert White, and As a chamber musician, Ms. Govatos has collaborated with Emmanuel Paula Robison. Ax, Radu Lupu, Riccardo Muti, Christopher Parkening, Wolfgang Mr. Sanders had always preferred the term collaborator to Sawallisch, and the Emerson String Quartet. She made her solo debut in accompanist, and so embodied the essence of chamber music in all of his Alice Tully Hall with the Juilliard Orchestra and has made appearances with performances. He helped each artist find his or her voice, always achieving the Dallas and Delaware Symphonies and the Chamber Orchestra of the right balance between leading and following, anticipation and support. Philadelphia His range of tonal color was inspiring, without demanding the spotlight and Marcantonio Barone, an American pianist of mixed Italian and always in service to the music. The Foundation has established this award German ancestry, was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1962. He in his honor and consequently it is reserved for chamber music of the studied with Eleanor Sokoloff at the Curtis Institute of Music and with Leon highest caliber. Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Among his other teachers were Susan Starr and Leonard Shure. As a solo recitalist, Mr. Barone has performed for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and at the Metropolitan Musem in New York, the Wigmore Hall in London, and the Large Hall of the St. Petersburg Filarmoniya, among many other venues. In the 1980s and ’90s, he frequently performed as soloist with major orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. 6 7 CLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION AWARD WINNERS 2012 BRIDGET KIBBEY Lauded for her artistry and ability to Ms. Kibbey is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where she studied captivate audiences, harpist Bridget with Nancy Allen. She is on the harp faculties of Bard Conservatory, New Kibbey “makes it seem as thought her York University, and the Juilliard Pre-College program instrument had been waiting all its life to explode with the gorgeous colors and energetic figures she was getting from it” (New York Times). She is a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, and THE YOUNG ARTIST AWARD winner of Concert Artist Guild's International Competition and Astral Artist Bridget Kibbey is expanding the harp repertoire in new and exciting ways. Auditions. Bridget's debut album, Love is She has commissioned a set of new works for harp and in doing so, has Come Again, was named one of 2007's Top found new ways to connect with her audience. This season marks the Ten Releases by Time Out New York. She release of these new works on her recording entitled Music Box. The may also be heard on Deutsche commissions are a celebration of solo harp and showcase the rich cultural Grammaphon with Dawn Upshaw, on a fabric of the United States, including a special collaboration with Dawn recording of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ayre and Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs, as Upshaw. The disc will be released in 2013. well as on Music@Menlo LIVE in a collection of French Masterworks for harp and string quartet. Ms. Kibbey's solo performances have been broadcast on NPR's Performance Today, New York's WQXR, WNYC's Soundcheck, WETA’s Front Row Washington, WRTI’s Crossover, and A&E's Breakfast with the Arts. This season, Bridget performs as concerto soloist with the Brazilian State Orchestra in Porto Alegre, the Pensacola Symphony, the Atlantic Coastal Orchestra, and will be featured with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center live and on NPR. She performs and records the world premier of a new work by luminary Kaija Saariaho in Rothko's Chapel, and joins the International Contemporary Ensemble for solo and chamber works at Cité de la Musique in Paris. She makes her debut at the Savannah Music Festival, and will be featured as soloist and chamber musician with the Philipps Camerata at the Philipps Collection, in Boston’s Gardner Museum, Los Angeles’ Camerata Pacifica, Houston’s Da Camera, Denver’s Pendulum New Music, University of Arizona Presents, and at the Music@Menlo, Mostly Mozart, and Bay Chamber Festivals. 8 9 CLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION AWARD WINNERS 2012 PHILIP LASSER THE COMPOSER OF THE YEAR AWARD The composer Philip Lasser’s music is a Philip Lasser is one of the most important composers of our time, and unique sound world that blends the subtle continues to explore his unique voice and musical language.