GUEST ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS 2014-15 TEXAS STATE UNIV. SCHOOL OF MUSIC Antonio Pompa-Baldi pianist TxStateIntConcertSeries September 16 Born and raised in Italy, Antonio Pompa-Baldi won the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 1999 and embarked on a career that continues to extend across five continents. A top prize-winner at the 1998 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition of Paris, France, Antonio Pompa-Baldi also won a silver medal at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Mr. Pompa-Baldi appears regularly at the world's major concert venues including New York's Carnegie Hall, Cleveland's Severance Hall, Milan's Sala Verdi, Boston's Symphony Hall, and Paris' Salle Pleyel, to name a few. He has collaborated with leading conductors including Hans Graf, James Conlon, Miguel Harth- Bedoya, and Keith Lockhart, performing with the Houston Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Berliner Symphoniker, Orchestre National de Paris-Radio France, National Orchestra of Ukraine, Fort Worth Symphony, among many others. Notable recital engagements took place in Beijing, Seoul , Paris, London, Chicago, and Houston. Among recent orchestral appearances, Mr. Pompa- Baldi performed with the Santo Domingo Festival Orchestra under Maestro Benjamin Zander, the National Symphony of Ecuador, and the Johannesburg and Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestras in South Africa. He has recorded 17 CDs for Centaur Records. Antonio Pompa-Baldi is a Steinway Artist. He serves as Distinguished Professor of Piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Guafa Trio Colombian music Sept 18-19 Consisting of flute, cuatro, and bass, the Trio is considered by the music world as one the most influential and innovative groups in the current scene of Colombian music. Guafa Trio was formed in 1998 under the direction of flutist Ignacio Ramos. Since then Guafa has obtained the highest awards in Colombia, as well as international acclaim. Guafa specializes in musical genres from the central and eastern regions of Colombia, rendered through a combination of traditional and orchestral/jazz instruments. Trio Con Brio chamber music October 11 TCU artist faculty Gary Whitman, clarinet, Misha Galaganov, viola, and John Owings, piano, Trio Con Brio has toured throughout the United States and China and presented recitals and world premieres in venues such as the University of San Juan (Puerto Rico), Weill Recital Hall (New York City) and the Shanghai Concert Hall (China). Their recitals include the standard repertoire of Mozart, Bruch and Schumann, as well as 20th century composers Leslie Bassett, Paul Walter Fürst, Gordon Jacob, Gyorgy Kurtag, Alfred Uhl, and Jean Francaix. Their newly commissioned works highlight composers Robert Garwell, Luis Jorge Gonzalez, Richard Lavenda, Eric Ewazen, Norbert Goddaer, Leon Biriotti, Andrea Talmelli, Elena Sokolovski, Thierry Huillet, Till MacIvor Meyn and James Scott Balentine. Their CD on Albany Records, A Musical Celebration, features new works for clarinet, viola and piano by Elena Sokolovski and Eric Ewazen. GUEST ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS 2014-15 TEXAS STATE UNIV. SCHOOL OF MUSIC Manuel Barrueco classical guitarist TxStateIntConcertSeries October 16 Internationally recognized as one of the most important guitarists of our time, Barrueco’s unique artistry has been continually described as that of a superb instrumentalist and a superior and elegant musician, possessing a seductive sound and uncommon lyrical gifts. During three decades of concertizing, he has performed across the United Sates from the New World Symphony in Miami to the Seattle Symphony, and from the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic to New York’s Lincoln Center. He has appeared with such prestigious orchestras as the Philadelphia Orchestra and with the Boston Symphony under the direction of Seiji Ozawa, in the American premiere of ToruTakemitsu’s "To the Edge of Dream." In addition, he appears regularly with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and with San Francisco Performances. His international tours have taken him to the Royal Albert Hall in London, Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Philharmonie in Berlin, Teatro Real in Madrid, and Palau de la Musica in Barcelona. In Asia he has completed close to a dozen tours of Japan and made repeated appearances in Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, China, and Hong Kong. Barrueco’s tours of Latin America have included performances in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico. He has also performed as a guest soloist with other international orchestras such as the Russian State Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, New Japan Philharmonic, Auckland Symphony in New Zealand, and the radio symphonies of Munich and Frankfurt. Maria Guenette harpsichord November 10 Keyboardist for the East Texas Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Maria Mika Guénette is staff pianist at Southern Methodist University. She holds an M.M. in Harpsichord Performance and Literature and a D.M.A. in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music with a minor in Baroque Performance Practice from the Eastman School of Music. Her performance activities include solo and collaborative venues in Canada, U.S., Japan and Austria. She has worked with renowned early music specialists, such as Brent Wissick, Gesa Kordes, Barbara Krumdieck and Rebecca Troxler. Steve Bolton gamelan music of Indonesia February Through a lifelong immersion in the gamelan music of Indonesia, North Indian classical music and jazz, Steve Bolton has mastered a wide repertoire on many different gamelan instruments, and has performed at temple ceremonies, in hotels and on television. Steve Bolton studied in the unique environment of Dartington College of Arts in the UK. In the early 1990’s he was offered a scholarship to further his gamelan studies in Bali. He settled in Indonesia and is today involved in a wide range of music-making activity, as well as maintaining a busy teaching schedule. GUEST ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS 2014-15 TEXAS STATE UNIV. SCHOOL OF MUSIC Margot Garrett collaborative pianist TxStateIntConcertSeries February 24 Pianist Margo Garrett is well known to audiences for her frequent performances in chamber, sonata and vocal recitals. The large roster of internationally-known artists with whom she has long performing relationships includes sopranos Kathleen Battle, Barbara Bonney, Elizabeth Futral, Beverly Hoch, Sandra McClain, the late Judith Raskin, Lucy Shelton, Dawn Upshaw, Benita Valente, mezzo Shirley Close, tenors Anthony Dean Griffey and Paul Sperry, violinists Jaime Laredo and Daniel Phillips, violist Paul Neubauer, and cellists Sharon Robinson, Matt Haimowitz, and the late Stephen Kates. Her recordings can be found on Albany, CRI, Deutsche Grammophon (1992 Grammy for Best Vocal Recital), Dorian, Musical Heritage Society, Nonesuch, and Sony Classical. Active for many years in the world of contemporary music, she has performed the premieres of more than 30 works. Miss Garrett is a dedicated leader among educators of collaborative pianists. After an 8-year absence, she returned in 2000 to The Juilliard School Collaborative Piano Faculty, which she headed from 1985 to 1992. She also was the first holder of the Ethel Alice Hitchcock Chair in Accompanying and Vocal Coaching at the University of Minnesota's School of Music, the first privately endowed collaborative chair in the US. She has also formerly headed collaborative programs at New England Conservatory and Westminster Choir College. At the Tanglewood Music Center she directed the vocal fellowship program for the last 6 of her 19 years of teaching there and oversaw the Center's return, after many years, to opera in the 50th Anniversary performances of Britten's "Peter Grimes", whose premiere was at Tanglewood. There she also worked closely with a large international roster of composers in preparation for performances of their music in the annual week-long Festival of Contemporary Music. She toured Brazil with her trio, Fiati, was in residence at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, and has appeared at the Vancouver International Song Institute, and given classes at the Aspen School of Music, Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan. Hans de Jong saxophone March 3 As an acclaimed saxophone soloist and chamber musician, Hans de Jong can claim some 150 compositions dedicated to him, primarily chamber music in various combinations but also solo concertos. He is an active composer and Professor of Music at the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerpen, Belgium and artistic director of RASP, the Royal Antwerp Saxophone Project. In cooperation with Paul Hermsen (piano) he produced the CD series “Vintage European Saxophone Music” with exclusively original chamber music compositions for saxophone and piano, released on Casa Nova Records. Andrew Dell’Antonio musicologist March 12 Specializing in musical repertories of early modern Europe, with focus on seventeenth- century Italy, Dell'Antonio's numerous articles and essays are published in prestigious musical encyclopedias and journals. His most recent book focuses on musical styles and aesthetics in early Italian Baroque. Other research interests include musical historiography, feminist/queer theory and cultural studies. Professor Dell’Antonio is the University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas, Austin. GUEST ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS 2014-15 TEXAS STATE UNIV. SCHOOL OF MUSIC Marina Piccinini flutist TxStateIntConcertSeries March 24 Hailed by Gramophone