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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 and 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 ; 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 's Musical Encounter Series and vice- what it was as well. president of the League of Composers-ICSOM. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Ty Emerson writes, A recipient of numerous composition awards and prizes, his works have Rogue was commissioned by Mary Kay Fink for her joint recital with been commissioned and performed by many chamber ensembles and Richard King at the Cleveland Institue of Music. It had been a long orchestras around the world. Soloists in performance of his music time since I had worked with Horn as a featured instrument, so I include members of the most prestigious orchestras in the world. His decided to listen to orchestral excerpts on-line. As I was studying, an music has been heard at festivals such as Woodstock, Tanglewood, idea began to brew. I kept coming back to a pretty well know horn solo Aspen, Caramoor and the Music Academy of the West. by R. Strauss, looking at his use of range and chromatic inflection. There was also a Bruckner motive that caught my imagination. I took About the Performers these two, dissected them, and looking past the obvious tonal structures, found some interesting intervalic parallels. It is from these collections Mary Kay Fink joined The Cleveland Orchestra as piccoloist in 1990 that the whole piece is created. Unlike Strauss' work, there is no story and has appeared as soloist with the Orchestra on numerous occasions. to hang the piece on, but from time to time you may catch a glimpse of Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she attended UW-Madison where she the prankster. studied with Robert Cole from 1979-81. She received a Bachelor of ~ ~ ~ ~ Music degree in 1983 from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music ~ From the score by Eric Ewazen as a student of Robert Willoughby. She earned a Master of Music Ballade, Pastorale, and Dance was composed in the winter of 1992- degree from The of Music, where she studied with 93. It was commissioned by, and is dedicated, to David Wakefield and and Paula Robison. She has also studied with avant-garde Barli Nugent, who premiered the work at Aspen in July of 1993. The flutist/composer Robert Dick, with whom she recorded a duo titled combination of the flute, horn and piano produces a chamber music Recombinant Landscapes for the disc Venturi Shadows (O.O. Discs, kaleidoscopic world of alternating moods and dynamics. The first move- 1989). Prior to coming to Cleveland, Ms. Fink was a member of the ment begins ominously and mysteriously, but it quickly turns frenetic and New Jersey Symphony (1986-88), Madison Symphony (principal flute, wild with spinning flute flourishes, percussive horn gestures and dramatic 1988-89) and the New York Philharmonic (acting piccolo, 1989-90). piano chords. The second movement, composed during the winter holi- She has also performed with the San Francisco Symphony and the Min- days, has a gentle and impressionistic feel. Long, beautiful and personal nesota Orchestra. Ms. Fink has also appeared as soloist with the songs are sung by both the horn and flute. The final movement, with its Bismarck Symphony, Concert Artists of Baltimore, Madison lively dance rhythms, brings the piece to an exhilarating conclusion. 4 5 About the Composers ~ ~ ~ Born in Boston, , Robert Beaser studied literature, Louisville Courier-Journal music critic Andrew Adler wrote of Ty political philosophy and music at Yale College, graduating summa cum Alan Emerson’s award winning piano trio Dedications that it laude, Phi Beta Kappa in 1976. He went on to earn his Master of Music, “possessed surprising emotional resonance and was quite expertly M.M.A. and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Yale School of wrought.” Cleveland radio personality and music critic Eric Kisch Music. His principal composition teachers have included Jacob Druck- stated, “This is a young man with a great future ahead of him. I look man, Earle Brown, Toru Takemitsu, , forward to many musical experiences from his pen.” Composer and and Goffredo Petrassi. From 1978-1990 he served as co-Music Director president of the School of Music, Robert Sirota, called and Conductor of the innovative contemporary chamber ensemble Emerson’s double concerto, 5 Pieces, “A true work of substance.” He Musical Elements at the 92nd Street Y, bringing premieres of over two continued by saying, “It deserves many performances.” The music of hundred works to Manhattan. From 1988-1993 he was the Meet the Emerson has been heard across the U.S. and abroad. His work has been Composer/Composer-in-Residence with the American Composers featured at several festivals and in Cleveland, Emerson has been a Orchestra at , and served as the ACO’s artistic director featured composer on two of WCLV radio’s programs, “Not the Dead until January 2001, when he assumed the role of Artistic Director. Since White Male Composer’s Hour” and “Musical Passions.”Emerson has 1993, he has been Professor and Chairman of the Composition Depart- received several commissions and composed works for: The Cleveland ment at the Juilliard School in New York. Chamber Collective, Mary Kay Fink and Richard King, Gary Louie, Kirsten Taylor, Michaela Trnkova, The Malcolm Kerr Peace Choir and Beaser’s compositions have earned him numerous awards and honors. the Peabody Wind Ensemble conducted by Harlan Parker. His work has In 1977 he became the youngest composer to win the Prix de Rome also received noteworthy performances from Nicholas Underhill, John from the American Academy in Rome. In 1986, Beaser’s widely heard Sampen, Janice Martin, the Peabody Percussion Ensemble and the Quo- Mountain Songs was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category rum New Music Ensemble. His Piano Sonata was commissioned by the of Best Contemporary Composition. He has received fellowships from Fortnightly Musical Club of Cleveland. He has been the recipient of the Guggenheim and Fulbright Foundations, the National Endowment many awards including: The Randolph S. Rothschild Award, Frank D. for the Arts, the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Willis Memorial Prize, Southeastern Composers League Composer Academy of Arts and Letters, a Charles Ives Scholarship, an ASCAP Award, as well as the prestigious ASCAP Morton Gould Award and the Composers Award, a Nonesuch Commission Award and a Barlow National Society of Arts and Letters Eleanor Searle McCullum Donor Commission. Award. His work has been funded by The Bascom Little Fund and the Argosy Foundation. In 2000 Emerson was named the New Hampshire Beaser’s music has been performed and commissioned with regularity Committee Fellow to the famed MacDowell Colony. He holds degrees both in America and abroad. He has received commissions from major from Shenandoah University, Louisiana State University and the Doctor symphony orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic (150th Anni- of Musical Arts degree from The Peabody Institute at The Johns versary Commission), the Chicago Symphony (Centennial Commis- Hopkins University. Emerson has been on the faculty at Shenandoah sion), the Saint Louis Symphony, The American Composers Orchestra, University and Cleveland State University. He has been a visiting com- The Baltimore Symphony and The Minnesota Orchestra. His music has poser at Bowling Green State University, Youngstown State University, been performed, recorded and commissioned by artists such as Leonard University of Akron and the Interlochen Academy. Emerson has also Slatkin, Paula Robison, Richard Stoltzman, Eliot Fisk, James Galway, been a visiting lecturer of American Music at the Peabody Institute and , Carol Wincenc, Dawn Upshaw, Renée Fleming, Kim the Royal Academy of Music in London. His music is published by Kashkashian and Big Bird. HoneyRock Publishing and Chocorua Music. His Birch Whispers for flute and harp was released by Capstone Records on a CD entitled