559639 bk Biscardi US 21/3/11 11:15 Page 12 Society. Recent New York Times reviews have cited her work in Tania León’s Alma, and her “passionate, warm- blooded performance” of the Berio Sequenza. Spencer has commissioned dozens of pieces, including Thea AMERICAN CLASSICS Musgrave’s now-classic Narcissus and Judith Shatin’s Kairos recorded on Neuma Records. Spencer has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music. She teaches flute and chamber music at Bard College and Hofstra University. Meighan Stoops CHESTER BISCARDI Clarinetist Meighan Stoops has distinguished herself in the classical and new-music realms as a solo, chamber, and orchestral performer. Recent highlights include Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto with Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the première of Gunther Schuller’s Three Little Expressions (Homage to Brahms), In Time’s Unfolding and a Switzerland tour with the Glass Farm Ensemble. Recent reviews in The New York Times praised her “vibrant, richly shaded” solo performance of Mario Davidovsky’s Synchronisms No. 12, her “star turn” in Joan Tower’s Chamber and Instrumental Music Wings, and her “impressive agility and a supple sound” in Schuller’s Three Little Expressions. She has recorded for Bridge, CRI, Naxos, Albany, and Chesky Records, including music for some of the country’s most cutting-edge films. A founding member of the American Modern Ensemble and Walden School Players, Stoops has also Da Capo Chamber Players • Goldsworthy • Helias appeared with the Gotham Sinfonietta, Wet Ink, Talea Ensemble, and Washington Square Chamber Music Society. Stoops teaches clarinet and piano privately and at the Rudolf Steiner School in New York City. She holds degrees from Northwestern and Yale and is pursuing her doctorate at SUNY Stony Brook. Hesselink • Neubauer • Panner • Peloquin • Zur Yonah Zur Yonah Zur appears regularly as a chamber musician in New York City and throughout the East Coast. He has performed at the Marlboro, Yellow Barn, and Tanglewood music festivals. A strong advocate of new music, Yonah Zur has given numerous world and U.S. premières, and he is a regular guest with the various new music ensembles in New York City. He has been a member of New York Philomusica since 2007. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where he studied with Avi Abramovich, and his Master’s Degree from The Juilliard School, having studied with Robert Mann. In 2008-2010 he was a fellow of the ACADEMY, a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute, in partnership with the NYC Department of Education. As an educator he has served on the faculties of Opus 118 – Harlem School of Music, the Thurnauer School of music, and Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, as well as teaching in various public schools throughout New York City where he performs for thousands of school children in various programs. He was a recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation award from 1995 through 2001. 8.559639 12 559639 bk Biscardi US 21/3/11 11:15 Page 2 Chester Daniel Panner Daniel Panner enjoys a varied career as a performer and teacher. As violist of the Mendelssohn BISCARDI String Quartet, he has concertized extensively throughout the United States and Israel. He has (b. 1948) performed at music festivals in Marlboro, Tanglewood, Aspen, and on National Public Radio’s 1 Performance Today, and has collaborated with members of the Cleveland, Emerson, Guarneri, In Time’s Unfolding for Piano (2000) 5:41 and Juilliard String Quartets. As a member of the Whitman String Quartet, Panner received the 2 Tartini for Violin and Piano (1972) 4:45 1998 Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award. He currently teaches at The Juilliard School, the Mannes College of Music, SUNY Stonybrook, and the Queens College Conservatory of 3 Piano Quintet for Piano and Violin, Music. He has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Musicians from with Violin, Viola and Cello (2004) 13:31 Marlboro, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He has served as the principal violist of such orchestras as the New York City Opera and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. An active performer of new 4 Mestiere for Piano (1979) 5:34 music, he is a member of Sequitur and the Locrian Ensemble and has performed as a guest artist with Speculum 5 Musicae, the Da Capo Chamber Players, and Transit Circle. Panner studied with Jesse Levine at Yale University Di Vivere for Clarinet in A and Piano, (B.A. History), Joseph dePasquale at the Curtis Institute of Music, Samuel Rhodes at The Juilliard School, and with Flute, Violin and Cello (1981) 9:46 Daniel Phillips at CUNY. 6 The Viola Had Suddenly Become a Voice Marc Peloquin for Viola and Piano (2005) 4:34 7 Hailed for playing that is “first rate” and “fascinating” in The New York Times, pianist Marc Companion Piece (for Morton Feldman) Peloquin is recognized for his highly imaginative and insightful music making, earning the for Contrabass and Piano (1989) 7:05 admiration of musicians, critics and audiences alike. Marc Peloquin’s inventive programs break 8 the boundaries of the recital format, highlighting music from different periods and representing In Time’s Unfolding for Piano (2000) 5:51 diverse styles, creatively connected by imagery and themes. These programs, with titles such as Water Music:H20, Americana, From Italy: The Art of the Transcription, and David Del Tredici: 5 A Tribute, showcase works by Schumann, Ives, Debussy and Rzewski as well as his own piano Da Capo Chamber Players transcriptions of works by such composers as Mahler, Rorem, and Wagner. He has appeared in a Meighan Stoops, Clarinet, and Blair McMillen, Piano, with Patricia Spencer, Flute, wide range of venues from New York’s Merkin Concert Hall, Symphony Space, the Brooklyn Curtis Macomber, Violin, and André Emilianoff, Cello Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art to the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and the American Academy in Rome. Other performances include appearances at the Darmstadt International Festival, the John Cage 6 7 “Rolywholyover” Festival at the Guggenheim Museum, and the Cultural Center of Roubaix, France. Marc Peloquin James Goldsworthy, Piano • Mark Helias, Contrabass received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music, with additional studies at Boston Greg Hesselink, Cello 3 • Curtis Macomber, Violin 2 3 5 University, the New England Conservatory, and Tanglewood. 2 3 4 5 6 Blair McMillen, Piano • Paul Neubauer, Viola Patricia Spencer Daniel Panner, Viola 3 • Marc Peloquin, Piano 1 7 8 • Yonah Zur, Violin 3 Historic career peaks for flutist Patricia Spencer include premières of Elliott Carter’s Enchanted Preludes, the U.S. première of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Kathinkas, Harvey Sollberger’s Riding the Wind, and Shulamit Ran’s Publishers: concerto, Voices. In August 2009 she gave the world première of Shirish Korde’s Lalit, written for her and C.F. Peters Co./Edition Peters (tracks 1, 5, 7, 8); Biscardi Music Press (tracks 3, 6); renowned tabla player Samir Chatterjee. Other career highlights include the Boulez Sonatine for the Bard Music Merion Music, Inc. of Theodore Presser Co. (tracks 2, 4) Festival, Joan Tower’s Flute Concerto for the National Flute Association Convention in Nashville, and a guest appearance with the Avalon String Quartet in Mario Davidovsky’s Quartetto for the Washington Square Music 8.559639 2 11 8.559639 559639 bk Biscardi US 21/3/11 11:15 Page 10 member of the Apollo Trio, and violinist for Speculum Musicae. His most recent recordings include a solo Chester Biscardi (b. 1948) recording, Casting Ecstatic, on CRI, the complete Grieg Sonatas on Arabesque, and on Bridge the music of Steven In Time’s Unfolding Mackey, Interior Design, as well as the complete Brahms Sonatas. Macomber is a member of the chamber music faculty of The Juilliard School, where he earned B.M., M.M., and D.M.A. degrees as a student of Joseph Fuchs. He In one way or another all of the works on this disc – (Howard Dietz/Arthur Schwartz) on his 1999 solo is also on the violin faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and has taught at the Tanglewood, Taos, and Yellow spanning thirty-three years from 1972 through 2005 – recording, The Melody At Night, With You (ECM 1675). Barn Music Festivals. reveal an ongoing aspect of my creative process that Tartini, for violin and piano (1972), was written for looks back in order to move forward. It’s about being in Thomas Moore, a member of the Pro Arte Quartet. It Blair McMillen the present by unraveling memories and feelings – both employs a twelve-tone row constructed from the joyful and full of loss – from the past. melodies that make up the Allegro assai-Andante- Blair McMillen has established himself as one of the most sought-after and versatile pianists today. Comfortable as In Time’s Unfolding – the title of this disc as well as Allegro assai movement of Giuseppe Tartini’s “Devil’s both a performer and improviser, his solo repertoire runs the gamut from late-medieval keyboard manuscripts to the solo piano work that frames its musical program – Trill” Sonata in G minor (ca. 1714). I also borrow challenging scores from the 21st century. He made his Carnegie Hall début under the baton of David Robertson and comes from the seventh section of Galway Kinnell’s melodic fragments from that work as well as Tartini’s has performed at Miller Theatre, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Aspen Music Festival, Caramoor, Bard Summerscape, eleven-part poem, “When One Has Lived a Long Time virtuosic technique of juxtaposing two simultaneous CalArts, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and Bargemusic, and as soloist with the American Alone” (1990), where “as the conscious one among voices against an extended trill as countermelody, for Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of St.