FACULTY RECITAL Fusco Studied Conducting at the University of Illinois and Was a Conduct- Ing Fellow at the Conductors Institute of South Carolina
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8 1 Eastman School of Music where he studied with Cecile Genhart, Frank Sunday, March 21, 2010 - 4:00 p.m. Mixon Hall Glazer and Barbara Lister-Sink. He also studied accompanying with John Wustman at the University of Illinois. In addition to being a pianist, Mr. FACULTY RECITAL Fusco studied conducting at the University of Illinois and was a Conduct- ing Fellow at the Conductors Institute of South Carolina. He has guest con- Mary Kay Fink, flute/piccolo ducted the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra, the Heights Chamber Richard King, horn Orchestra of Shaker Heights, Ohio, the Chagrin Valley Chamber Orchestra Randall Fusco, piano, guest artist and the Youngstown Opera Guild’s production of Verdi’s La Traviata. Nicholas Underhill, piano, guest artist Randall Fusco is Professor of Music at Hiram College, where he teaches piano, music theory, music history, introductory courses and serves as staff Program accompanist. He was also conductor of the Hiram Chamber Orchestra from 1998-2005. In recognition for his services at Hiram College, he was awarded the Michael Starr New Faculty Award and in 2007 was inducted ROBERT BEASER "Souvenirs" for Piccolo and Piano into the College’s Honorary Garfield Society. (b. 1954) I. Happy Face II. Lily Monroe Composer/ Pianist Nicholas Underhill studied composition at Hampshire III. Y2K College, Amherst College and New England Conservatory of Music. His IV. Spain composition teachers include Pulitzer Prize winner Lewis Spratlan, V. Cindy Redux William Thomas McKinley, Donald Wheelock and James McElwaine, as VI. Ground O well as consultations with Donald Erb, Margaret Brouwer and Dennis Eberhard. He has been commissioned by The Cleveland Orchestra, the Gramercy Trio, the Ohio Music Teachers Association, The Fortnightly TY ALAN EMERSON "Rogue" (World Premiere) (b. 1972) for Flute, Horn and Piano Musical Club, The Cleveland Flute Society, Cleveland Orchestra players Mary Kay Fink, Takako Masame, Lisa Boyko and Richard King, as well as harpist Jocelyn Chang, saxophonist Greg Banaszak, Soprano Elizabeth ~ Intermission ~ Stuart and the Gramercy Trio. Well known in Boston and New York City and Cleveland as a champion of new music for the piano, he has performed solo recitals in Carnegie Recital Hall and Merkin Concert Hall. He OSKAR MORAWETZ Sonata for Horn and Piano currently teaches composition at Cleveland State University. During the (1917-2007) Adagio last season, Underhill has received critical acclaim from Donald Rosenberg Allegro for his solo piano albumn, "Light and Sirius", as well as from Bernard Hol- Adagio land, for his Piano Trio No 1. His second Piano Trio was premiered in NY Allegro in June of 2008 by the Gramercy Trio on the Bargemusic series in Brook- lyn, NY. He currently teaches composition and other music courses at ERIC EWAZEN Ballade, Pastorale and Dance Cleveland State University. (b. 1954) for Flute, Horn and Piano Attention Patrons: As a courtesy to others, please reduce the volume on hearing aids and other devices that may produce noise that would detract from the performance. Infrared Assistive Listening Devices are available for performances in Mixon Hall. 2 7 Program Notes Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony (as youth soloist), New Jersey Sym- Robert Beaser writes: phony, New Mexico Symphony and Ohio Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Fink Souvenirs, for piccolo and piano, was commissioned by the piccolo was awarded first prize in the 1986 National Flute Association (NFA) committee of the National Flute Association. I collected the ideas for Young Artist Competition. She has performed in five National Flute Souvenirs' six movements over the course of the late '90s and finally Association conventions: St. Louis (1987), San Diego (1988), Orlando composed the work in earnest during the summer and fall of (1995), Washington, D.C. (2003) and Albuquerque (2007), where she 2001. From the outset of the process I understood that I wanted to write performed Bruce Broughton's Piccolo Concerto on the NFA Gala a work which continued in the path of my Mountain Songs for flute and Concerto Concert. She has taught at the Baldwin-Wallace College guitar (1985)--one which explored folk elements reformatted in one Conservatory of Music and was Assistant Professor of flute at the Uni- way or another. In the earlier work I explicitly took extant and some- versity of Wisconsin-Madison (1988-89). She presents flute and piccolo times well-known Appalachian tunes and processed them through master classes at colleges and universities throughout the United States. reinvented harmonies, materials and architectures. Souvenirs comes She joined the CIM faculty in 2006. from more disparate sources, including Mountain Songs itself (Cindy Redux being a piano version of Cindy). Three of the six songs are com- Richard King is a member of the CIM horn faculty. He began serving pletely original, two are based on folk tunes and one is an invented as principal horn of The Cleveland Orchestra in 1997, having joined the Trope on a Lorca transcription of a Spanish folk song (The Four Mules) ensemble in 1988 as associate principal at the age of 20. An active -- discovered, lost and re-remembered. chamber musician and recitalist, Mr. King performs frequently as a guest at summer festivals and as a member of the Center City Brass The opening Happy Face uses only the white keys of the piano. It was Quintet since 1985. Their five recordings on the Chandos label have one of the last pieces composed in the cycle (I wrote it upon returning been met with wide critical acclaim. In addition, he has recently from Rome in July 2002), and is as light as a zabaglione. Lily Monroe eleased an album of Schubert Lieder transcribed for horn and piano on is based on the eponymous folk song and is treated in a Mountain Song- Albany Records. Mr. King is also on the faculty of the Kent/Blossom like fashion: strophic, alternation between light and shadow, with an Music Professional training program. He previously served on the implied arch from, becoming increasingly schizophrenic and finally faculties of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Carnegie collapsing under the weight of its own hubris. I found the tune in the Mellon University. extraordinary Alan Lomax collection "Folk Songs of North America" -- Randall Fusco is an active piano soloist and collaborative artist. He has one of my bibles. Y2K has actually nothing to do with the Millen- performed solo and chamber music concerts in Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, nium. It is an original Vocalise --a song without words, dedicated to a Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Michigan and New Jersey. He has friend. I sketched it a few years back, but couldn't find a context for also appeared as soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, it. When I finally understood how it fit in Souvenirs I was able to finish CIM Orchestra, Alliance Symphony Orchestra, Hiram College Concert it. Spain comes from the Federico Garcia Lorca fragment based on a Band, W. D. Packard Band of Warren, Ohio, Pennsylvania Intercolle- Spanish song "Los Cuatro Muleros". I was given this by the guitarist giate Festival Band, the West Shore Chorale of Cleveland and Winds Eliot Fisk; it sat in my studio for a while and promptly disappeared. I on the Lake in Erie, PA. Mr. Fusco has recorded vocal music with vari- kept trying to remember it, but, as any composer does, I kept ous artists including members of The Cleveland Orchestra and Youngs- re-imagining it instead, until it morphed. The process of re-inventing town State University. He has made two recordings with Barrick Stees, allowed me to turn it into something rich and strange---and it became assistant principal bassoonist with The Cleveland Orchestra.: Opera the longest of the six movements and the centerpiece of the work. Spain Transcriptions and Paraphrases, available on the Claves label, and is followed jarringly and without warning by Cindy Redux-- which is Nostalgica, available on Centaur. Mr. Fusco earned his Bachelor of about as far removed from it as Granada is from Apalachicola. I had Music and Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance from the long wanted to make a transcription of Cindy and had worked on one 6 3 “Telling Tales” featuring music by Cleveland Composers’ Guild mem- sporadically over the years between other projects. It fits remarkably bers. His latest project, Metal Chamber, is available for viewing and well into this collection, even though it serves a completely different downloads at www.chambercollective.com. This artist was awarded an structural function. Ground O (the letter O, not zero) was composed on Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2009. October of 2001. It is simply impossible for anyone from around where ~ ~ ~ I live not to have been profoundly affected by the events of the prior Composer Eric Ewazen was born in 1954 in Cleveland, Ohio. He month. As we all hobbled around trying make sense of it all, many of us studied composition with Samuel Adler, Milton Babbitt, Warren Ben- resorted to the only thing we knew how to do: compose. For the longest son, Gunther Schuller and Joseph Schwantner at the Eastman School, time I was uncomfortable referring to it literally, and left the song hang- Tanglewood and Juilliard, where he received his DMA. He has been a ing with temporary working titles. Yet as time receded and worked its member of the faculty at Juilliard since 1980, composer-in-residence magic, I began to more readily accept things for what they were. And so with the St. Lukes Chamber Ensemble of New York City, lecturer for sometime later I accepted the present title, albeit slightly skewed, for the New York Philharmonic's Musical Encounter Series and vice- what it was as well. president of the League of Composers-ICSOM.