SHARING the SPOTLIGHT BOSON MO, Violin DESMOND HOEBIG

SHARING THE SPOTLIGHT BOSON MO, violin DESMOND HOEBIG, cello ANDREW STAUPE, piano Friday, February 21, 2014 8:00 p.m. Lillian H. Duncan Recital Hall PROGRAM Cello Sonata, Op. 6 Samuel Barber Allegro ma non troppo (1910-1981) Adagio Allegro appassionato Cello Sonata, Op. 65 Benjamin Britten Dialogo (1913-1976) Scherzo – pizzicato Elegia Marcia Moto perpetuo INTERMISSION Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pezzo elegiaco (Moderato assai – Allegro giusto) (1840-1893) Tema con variazioni: Andante con moto – Variazione Finale e coda The reverberative acoustics of Duncan Recital Hall magnify the slightest sound made by the audience. Your care and courtesy will be appreciated. The taking of photographs and use of recording equipment are prohibited. BIOGRAPHIES BOSON MO discovered the violin at the age of seven and has since received numerous national and international distinctions. Mr. Mo was recently the Third Prize winner of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition. He was the recipient of the “Prix Joseph-Rouleau” at the 2010 Montreal International Violin Competition in Canada, and was a participant at the Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition, the Menuhin Interna- tional Violin Competition, and the International Violin Competition of India- napolis. A winner of the Canadian Music Educators’ Association’s W. Harvey Award for the Best Small Ensemble Performance, he also won Third Prize at the Concours Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and First Prize at the Canadian Music Competition. Boson has attended the Perlman Music Program (New York), the Banff Centre’s Chamber Music Residency, Morningside Music Bridge (Cal- gary), and the Aspen Music Festival and School as a Fellowship recipient for four consecutive years. Boson was featured as soloist with the CIM Orchestra and the Orchestre symphonique de Longueuil. He served as concertmaster of the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra, Shepherd School Chamber Orchestra, the CIM Orches- tra, and the F.A.C.E. Symphony Orchestra. As a member of the Merydian String Quartet for two years, he performed throughout North America. Recent performance engagements include a five-recital tour of east-coast Canada presented by Début Atlantic, as well as feature performances at the Montreal Chamber Music Festival. As a student of Paul Kantor, Boson pursues his graduate studies at the Shepherd School of Music. He completed his undergraduate studies as a Starling Foundation Scholarship recipient at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Addition- ally, he has performed in masterclasses for Itzhak Perlman, Donald Weilerstein, Sylvia Rosenberg, Olivier Charlier, Cho-Liang Lin, Peter Salaff, Masao Kawa- saki, Joan Kwuon, Paul Katz, Roger Tapping, Jerome Lowenthal, and Yoheved Kaplinsky. Boson currently performs on a violin by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1871), gra- ciously on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts. Recipient of the 2011 Pro Musicis International Award, American pianist ANDREW STAUPE is an internationally recognized soloist hailed by audiences and critics alike for his compelling virtuosity and poetic lyricism. Staupe has performed across the United States and extensively in Europe, appearing in Russia, Holland, Latvia, Romania, France, Germany, and Bulgaria. On tour in Europe, he has performed in distinguished concert venues including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Rachmaninov Hall in Moscow, and the Ateneul Roman in Romania among others. This season Andrew will make his Carnegie Hall debut, as well as his Boston debut at Pickman Hall. Recent highlights include an acclaimed San Diego Symphony debut under Jahja Ling as a last minute replacement for Orli Shaham, and debuts with the Rochester Symphony and Minnesota Sinfonia. Since 2005 Andrew has been consistently re-engaged with the Minnesota Orchestra, and has performed with the orchestra five times with Osmo Vänskä, Andrew Litton, Mischa Santora, and Daniel Alfred Wachs. He was a guest artist at the 2010 Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, and performed on numerous occasions with acclaimed violinist Chee-Yun, including a recital at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. An avid chamber musician, Staupe has collaborated with distinguished artists such as Martin Chalifour, Anne Martindale Williams, James Dunham, Leone Buyse, and Norman Fischer. Staupe has a keen interest in performing new music and has premiered a number of works for solo piano and chamber ensemble. Andrew has participated in a number of master classes, performing for pianists Yefim Bronfman, Stephen Hough, Gary Graffman, Awadagin Pratt, Lee Kum-Sing, Paul Schenly, Jerome Lowenthal, and Eugene Pridinoff. Other notable performances include concerts at the Kennedy Center and the Library of Congress in Washington DC, a solo performance at Jones Hall in Houston, and an appearance on “A Prairie Home Companion” in 2004. His live performances have been broadcast nationally on KSJN in Minneapolis, KUHF in Houston, and WQXR in New York City. Staupe has earned prizes in a number of competitions including the Gold Medal at the 2010 Young Texas Artists Music Competition, and first prize at the 2006 WAMSO (Minnesota Orchestra Volunteer’s Association) Competition. A native of Saint Paul, Minnesota, Staupe is currently completing his D.M.A in Piano Perfor- mance at Rice University with pianist Jon Kimura Parker. Andrew completed his B.M. and M.M. in Piano Performance at the University of Minnesota, studying with pianist and Distinguished McKnight Professor Lydia Artymiw. Before studying piano, Andrew was an actor and worked in numerous theater productions in Minneapolis, including performances of Martin Guerre at the Guth- rie Theater. He studied violin with Mark Bjork at the University of Minnesota, and also enjoys performing jazz standards. Andrew founded The Leoninus Ensemble, a Medieval-Renaissance choral group, at the University of Minnesota in 2004, and continues to have a passion for early music. Other hobbies include studying ancient history, archaeology, playing competitive soccer and Ultimate Frisbee, and watch- ing the NFL season with family and friends. DESMOND HOEBIG, Professor of Cello at The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, has had a distinguished career as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician. Desmond was born in 1961 and raised in Vancouver, Canada. He studied with James Hunter, Jack Mendelsohn and Ian Hampton. In 1978 he moved to Philadel- phia to study with David Soyer at the Curtis Institute of Music. He received his BM and MM at the Juilliard School with Leonard Rose and Channing Robbins, and participated in master classes with Janos Starker and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi at the Banff Centre. Mr. Hoebig won the First Prize at the Munich International Competition (1984), the Grand Prize of the CBC Talent Competition (1981) and the Canadian Music Competition (1980). He was also an award winner at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1982). Mr. Hoebig has been a soloist with many prominent orchestras in North Amer- ica, including Cincinnati, Cleveland, Houston, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. His international orchestral engagements have been in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Japan, Mexico and Colombia. As a chamber musician, Desmond was the cellist with the Orford String Quartet when they won a Juno award for the best classical music album in 1990. He has also performed for 30 years with the Hoebig-Moroz Trio and in a duo with Andrew Tunis. Mr. Hoebig has taught and performed at festivals throughout North America, including Aspen, Banff, La Jolla, Marlboro, Music Bridge, Orcas Island, Sarasota and Steamboat Springs. Before joining the faculty of The Shepherd School, Mr. Hoebig had been Princi- pal Cellist of the Cleveland, Houston, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras..

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