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TThis season, 2015-2016, Tri-County Concerts Association proudly celebrates its 75th year as one of the region’s most significant venues for . In December 1941, chamber music in the area received a remarkable boost from Ellen Winsor and Rebecca Winsor Evans when the two sisters decided to sponsor the original Curtis in a free public concert at Radnor Junior High School. An early program says that “its aim was to bring the spiritual peace and the beauty of music in the lives of our fellow-citizens who were living under the shadow of war; thus strengthening them with the knowledge that music is the great international language which unites all peoples in the common bond of friendship.” The musicians were enthusiastically received and the Tri-County Concerts Association was successfully launched. In 1943, the fledgling organization held its first Youth Music Festival and assumed a vital position in the area’s cultural life. From the early 1950’s to the late 1970’s, the driving force behind the Tri-County Concerts Association was Mrs. Guida Smith. Her energies were devoted to bringing top musical artists to the community, as well as relatively unknown virtuosi who later became internationally renowned. In 1979 Jean Wetherill of Radnor assumed leadership of the Association. She fostered the organization’s continued health during a period of transition. That year, the Association became a nonprofit corporation in order to strengthen its mission and its increasingly important fund-raising functions. When the 76 Years of Unparalleled Opportunitiestunities Radnor Middle School underwent renovations in 1980, the concert series was relocated to Delaware County Community College. After a brief return to Wayne Auditorium in for Exceptional Music Studentsts 1987, the series moved to Centennial Hall at Haverford College in 1989, then to the Main Line Unitarian Church in 1992 and to our present location at Eastern University The Philadelphia Youth AuditionAudition in 1999. Orchestra is one of the world’ss TThehe PPYOYO oorganizationrganization hostshosts Throughout these changes, Tri-County upheld its tradition of the highest musical top youth orchestras. Underr aauditionsuditions tthroughouthroughout tthehe yyear.ear. standards. Its roster of virtuoso performers includes Marian Anderson, Eugene Istomin, the direction of Maestro LouisLouis FForor aapplicationpplication fforms,orms, aauditionudition Vladimir Sokoloff, Paul Badura-Skoda, the Budapest and Juilliard String Quartets, Scaglione and guidance fromfrom Leontyne Price, Rosalyn Tureck, Cynthia Raim, and Peter Wiley, among others. In sscheduleschedules andand infoinfo vvisitisit oonline:nline: recent years, Tri-County has focused primarily on “Emerging Artists,” one part of its prestigious faculty mmembers,embers, wwww.pyos.org/auditionww.pyos.org/audition heritage. From the start, Tri-County has showcased brilliant young musicians who were students from thee ttri-stateri-state aarearea on their way to distinguished professional careers. When he performed with Tri-County, receive superiorr technical,technical, AAttendttend William Kapell was only twenty, Gil Shaham was seventeen, and Pamela Frank was musical, performance,ormance, andand llifeife FForor a ffullull sschedulechedule ooff upcomingupcoming twenty-two. Local stars who appeared with us early in their careers include the legendary skills instructionuction tthoughhough ffiveive pperformances,erformances, ppleaselease vvisitisit Anna Moffo, as well as Marcantonio Barone, Mimi Stillman, and Eric Owens. We carry on this fine tradition today by continuing to bring you outstanding young musicians in divisions:s: tthehe PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia YouthYouth wwww.pyos.orgww.pyos.org our chamber series. Orchestraestra fforor agesages 114–21;4–21; No less important is Tri-County Concerts’ Youth Festival, which has been a stepping- Philadelphialadelphia YoungYYounoung AArtistsrtists stone to achievement for many of the thousands of young musicians who have participated. OrchestraOrchestra fforor agesages 110–18;0–18; BBravoravo Former winners have established national and international careers as soloists and as BBrassrass fforor agesages 12–21;12–21; PPhiladelphiahiladelphia members of major symphony orchestras. Opera stars Anna Moffo and Clamma Dale RRegionegion YouthYYoouth StringString MMusicusic fforor first received recognition in Tri-County’s Youth Festival. At present, other winners hold positions as principals in the , Cincinnati, Houston, Indianapolis, and agesages 6–14;6–14; aandnd TTuneune UUpp PPhilly,hilly, aann Symphony Orchestras, and four have seats in the . after-schoolafter-school outreachoutreach pprogramrogram With both our Emerging Artists Series and our Youth Festival, we afford our audiences fforor 33rd–8thrd–8th ggraderade sstudents.tudents. the opportunity to see and hear tomorrow’s stars. OUR PURPOSE

TTri-County Concerts Association serves the Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery County communities by fostering the performance and appreciation of the highest quality solo and ensemble chamber music. It is the only chamber music series in the area run by an independent community board. Tri-County Concerts is unique in presenting recitals both by emerging professional artists and by promising Welcomes Tri-Counttyy Concerrtsts Associaciaatition local youths. E  A S SERVING OUR COMMUNITY the EAEASTERNSTERN EEXPERIENCEXPERIENCE P       Part of the Tri-County Concerts’ mission is to reach a widely varied audience with subsidized ticket arrangements. In this manner, many young people have received their introduction to chamber music, conservatory students their inspiration, and Music Schollararships AAvvvailailable members of retirement communities sheer musical enjoyment in exposure to Composition/Electronic Music world-class artists. Ticket prices are kept low to enable families to share a rich Church Music Individualized Maajjors cultural experience. Performance Contemporary Music Prograram BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2015-2016 Eastern Universittyy P RESIDENT Anne Marie Bedford Eleanor James Carolyn Hammond Joy M. Kiszely V ICE P RESIDENT Matthew Bengtson Barbara Miller Edmond H. Morse T REASURER Robert V. Rossi Richard Hammond Barbara Schick S ECRETARY Wendy Schmid Rebecca J. Clement Sherrill Shaffer

IN MEMORIAM Pearl Z. Steinberg (1919 – 2015) Board Member, 1997 – 2015

Tri-County Concerts Association, Inc. Box 222, Wayne, PA 19087 610-649-2517 [email protected] www.tricountyconcerts.org 5 VIRTUOSO PERFORMANCES SINCE 1941

1941 Curtis String Quartet 1983 The Ridge String Quartet 1942 William Kincaid, flute 1986 Cynthia Raim, piano 1943 William Kapell, piano Raphael Trio 1944 Marian Anderson, contralto 1987 Peter Wiley, 1946 Budapest String Quartet 1989 Gil Shaham, 1946 Samuel Mayes, cello and Orion String Quartet Vincent Persichetti, piano 1989 Pamela Frank, violin 1947 Roland Hayes, tenor Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano 1949 1993 Peabody Trio 1952 M. Horszowski, piano 1995 Meng-Chieh Liu, piano 1953 Anna Moffo, soprano Brentano String Quartet 1955 Joseph Szigeti, violin 1996 Ying Quartet 1956 Eugene Istomin, piano 1997 Juliette Kang, violin 1957 Leontyne Price, soprano 1998 Alexander Shtarkman, piano 1958 Guiomar Novaes, piano 1999 Jason Vieaux, guitar 1960 Rosalyn Tureck, piano 2000 Sari Gruber, soprano 1963 Ruggiero Ricci, violin 2001 Eric Owens, basso 1964 Hans Richter-Haaser, piano Reiko Watanabe, violin 1966 Benita Valente, soprano 2002 Sergey Schepkin, piano 1971 Balsam, Kroll & Heifetz Trio Mimi Stillman, flute 1972 Masuko Ushioda, violin 2004 Shunsuke Sato, violin Gyorgy Sandor, piano 2006 Matthew Bengtson, 1973 Orlando Cole, cello and harpsichord and piano Vladimir Sokoloff, piano 2010 Giora Schmidt, violin 1976 Clamma Dale, soprano 2011 Benjamin Beilman, violin 1981 Kristine Ciesinski, soprano 2012 Daedalus Quartet Marcy Rosen, cello 2013 Horszowski Trio 1982 David Wetherill, French horn 2014 Stefan Jackiw, violin

50 TH ANNIVERSARY GALA PERFORMANCE

Rosalyn Tureck, piano Alan Stepansky, cello Fei-Ping Hsu, piano Timothy Baker, violin James Barbagallo, piano Marcantonio Barone, piano Deborah Carter, flute David Hamilton, tenor 7 YOONIE HAN | PIANO YOONIE HAN P Praised for her “flowing tones, poetic phrasing, and S UNDAY • S EPTEMBER 27, 2015 • 3 PM heavenly singing melodies” (Cincinnati Enquirer) and “her musical imagination and feel for complex textures drew McInnis Auditorium, Eastern University vivid images” (Washington Post) , South Korean pianist Yoonie Han has won top prizes in distinguished international competitions and the highest accolades for Yoonie Han, piano her performances in major concert halls in the U.S. and around the world. Melodie from Orpheus ed Euridice Gluck/Friedman In 2009, Yoonie Han won South Korea’s Gawon Music (1886 – 1948) Award as the “most brilliant pianist aged 17 to 31 of any nationality who possesses the most promising potential for Goyescas, Op. 11 Enrique Granados global prominence.” She also won first prize in the Los requiebros (The Compliments) (1867 – 1916) Washington International Piano Competition (2011), the Fulbright Competition Quejas, o la maja y el ruiseñor (The Girl and the Nightingale) (2011), Juilliard’s Gina Bachauer Piano Competition (2008), the Cincinnati World El amor y la muerte (Love and Death) Piano Competition (2008), and the Kosciuszko Chopin Competition (2005). She has garnered major prizes at the Helsinki Maj Lind International Piano Competition and Milan Concorso Pianistico Ettore Pozzoli Internaziole. Following INTERMISSION her 2001 grand-prize award in the Korea National Music Competition, she was named “most promising young artist” by the Korean Ministry of Culture. Shadows of Summer Karen LeFrak Having made her solo debut with the Seoul Philharmonic at age 13, Ms. Han has (premiére) (b. 1947) since performed with the Berlin Symphoniker, Buffalo Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Banff Festival Orchestra, and I Pomeriggi El Jaleo Theodore Wiprud Musicali di Milan, under such maestros as JoAnn Falletta, Leif Segerstam, Philippe (written for Yoonie Han) (b. 1958) Entremont, and Lior Shambadal. Rhapsody in Blue She has played such celebrated venues as Alice Tully Hall, , and the (1898 – 1937) Kennedy Center, the Frick and the Phillips Collections, and the Myra Hess Series in the U.S; at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Salle Cortot in Paris, Berlin Philharmonie Hall, Finlandia Hall, Slovak Philharmonic Hall, and Se-Jong Performing Arts Center in Korea. Her performances have aired on WQXR-, NPR’s “Artist Showcases,” Chicago’s WFMT, and many others. Ms. Han received a bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music studying with Eleanor Sokoloff, and master’s degree from The as a student of Robert McDonald. She is pursuing her doctorate at SUNY Stony Brook, studying with Philippe Entremont. Yoonie Han is a Steinway Artist. Yoonie Han is represented by Reggie Bahl at MANHATTAN MUSIC ENSEMBLE. To learn more about her and MME's other artists, please visit www.mmensemble.com

This performance was supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

8 9 ALEXI KENNEY | VIOLIN ALEXI KENNEY

Violinist Alexi Kenney has been praised by the New UNDAY • CTOBER 25, 2015 • 3 PM York Times for “…immediately drawing listeners in S O with his beautifully phrased and delicate McInnis Auditorium, Eastern University playing.” These qualities, paired with his distinctive poise, musical intellect, and thoughtful Alexi Kenney, violin repertoire led to his win at the 2013 Concert Artists Renana Gutman, Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition at the age piano of nineteen.

In 2014-15 Alexi made his Carnegie Hall recital 4 Romantic Pieces, Op. 75 Antonin Dvořák debut at Weill Hall and gave recitals on the Dame Allegro moderato (1841 – 1904) Myra Hess series in Chicago, Newtown Friends of Music (CT), Highfield Hall Allegro maestoso (MA), the Trust Performing Arts Center (PA), and at ’s Barbes Bar. Allegro appassionato Concerto performances this season included those with the Santa Fe Larghetto Symphony, the Hofheim Academy Orchestra in Bad Soden, Germany, and the Roswell Symphony in New Mexico. In summer 2015 Alexi will perform at the Marlboro and Caramoor Music Festivals. Nocturne for Solo Violin Kaija Saariaho (b. 1952) Alexi has given recitals at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Napa’s Festival del Sole, and the Mondavi Center and has been featured on NPR’s “From the Top.” Recent chamber music performances include those at Carnegie Hall, as part of a INTERMISSION week-long residency studying with the Takács Quartet;the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Jordan Hall in Boston; and a tour with Musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute and Miriam Fried. Sonata in E minor, K. 304 W. A. Mozart Allegro (1756 – 1791) Alexi has collaborated with Pamela Frank, Miriam Fried, Gary Graffman, Wu Han, Tempo di Menuetto Frans Helmerson, Steven Isserlis, Kim Kashkashian, Gidon Kremer, and Christian Tetzlaff, and members of the Borromeo, , Guarneri, and Takács Quartets at festivals including Caramoor’s “Rising Stars,” Music@Menlo Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 25 George Enescu and its Winter Residency, and Yellow Barn. While at the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Moderato malinconico (1881 – 1955) Institute, he was the youngest participant and a recipient of the Gene Witz Andante sostenuto e misterioso Allegro con brio, ma non troppo mosso memorial fellowship. He is the recipient of top prizes at the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition (2012), the Mondavi Center Competition (2010), and the 2013 Kronberg Academy master classes. He was praised by Strings magazine for his “beautiful, aching tone” for his performance of the Sibelius Concerto with the China Philharmonic Orchestra in Beijing during the Menuhin Competition. Alexi Kenney is a winner of the CONCERT ARTISTS GUILD International Competition Born in Palo Alto, California, Alexi attends the New England Conservatory of and appears by special arrangement with Music in Boston, where he will begin in its Artist Diploma program in fall 2015 CONCERT ARTISTS GUILD – 850 Seventh Ave, PH-A, New York, NY 10019 studying with Donald Weilerstein and Miriam Fried. Previous teachers include www.concertartists.org Wei He, Jenny Rudin, and Natasha Fong. This performance was supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Alexi plays a violin made by Stefan-Peter Greiner in 2009. a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. (Renana Gutman on p. 13)

10 11 RENANA GUTMAN

Praised by the New York Sun for playing “with great vigor and aplomb” and for the “true poetry in her phrasing,” Renana Gutman has performed across three continents as an orchestral soloist, recitalist and collaborative artist. A top prize winner at Los Angeles Liszt competition, International Keyboard Festival in New York, and Tel-Hai International Master Classes, she has performed with the Jerusalem Symphony, Haifa Symphony, Belgian “I Fiamminghi,” and Mannes College Orchestra. An earnest student of Beethoven’s music, she was one of four young pianists selected by the renowned Leon Fleisher to participate in his workshop on Beethoven piano sonatas hosted by Carnegie Hall where she presented performances of “Hammerklavier” and “Appassionata” to critical acclaim. Renana has spent summers at the Marlboro and Ravinia Music Festivals where she collaborated with Richard Goode, Mitsuko Uchida, members of the and clarinetist Anthony McGill. She toured with “Musicians from Marlboro” to the People’s Symphony Concerts, Gardener Museum and Freer Gallery. In demand as a chamber musician, Renana serves as the staff collaborative pianist of Steans Institute at Ravinia Festival. Last season, Renana performed solo and chamber music concerts at St. Petersburg’s Philharmonia, Stresa Music Festival, Carnegie’s Weill Hall and Rockefeller University, Ravinia Rising Stars and Dame Myra Hess, Jordan Hall, Herbst Theatre, Marlboro, and Washington National Gallery. She tours regularly with violinist Dan Zhu. From 2008-2010 Renana was on the piano faculty of the Yehudi Menuhin Music School in the UK, as an assistant of professor Marcel Baudet. She currently teaches at 92nd Street Y, and Bard College Preparatory in NY. A native of Israel, she started piano playing at age six. Her most influential teachers were pianists Natasha Tadson and Victor Derevianko in Israel, and Richard Goode at Mannes College of Music in New York where she completed her bachelor and master’s degrees. Her recording of Chopin Études Op. 25 will be released in 2015.

13 FORMOSA QUARTET FORMOSA QUARTET W Winners of the First Prize and the Amadeus Prize at S UNDAY • FEBRUARY 21, 2016 • 3 PM the London International String Quartet St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Wayne, PA Competition in 2006, the Formosa Quartet is “one of the very best quartets of their generation” FORMOSA QUARTET (David Soyer) . Its debut recording on the EMI label Jasmine Lin, violin was hailed as “spellbinding” (Strad Magazine) . Wayne Lee, violin Formed in 2002 when the four founding members Che-Yen Chen, came together for a concert tour of Taiwan, the Ru-Pei Yeh, cello Formosa Quartet is deeply committed to championing Taiwanese music and promoting the arts in the land of its heritage. To that end, in 2013 the quartet founded an annual chamber Heights and Depths festival in Taiwan modeled after American summer festivals such as Marlboro String Quartet Opus 59 No. 1 and Ravinia. I. Allegro (1770 – 1827) In 2014, the Formosa Quartet began a two-year residency with Art of Élan, a San II. Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando Diego arts-presenting organization. As ensemble-in-residence, the Quartet works III. Adagio molto e mesto with UCSD professor of composition Lei Liang to create a new piece based on IV. Thème Russe — Allegro music indigenous to the aboriginal tribes of Taiwan. The culmination of the two-year project will be the premiere performance of the commission and a new disc of music inspired by Hungarian and Taiwanese folk traditions. INTERMISSION In its relatively brief existence, the Formosa Quartet’s active commissioning has contributed significantly to the 21st century’s string quartet literature. They Returning Souls Shih-Hui Chen premiered Taiwanese-American composer Shih-Hui Chen’s Returning Souls in 2014, Four Pieces on Three Formosan Amis Legends (b. 1962) and the Quartet’s recording of its first commission from Ms. Chen, Fantasia on the Introduction: Sun, the Glowing Maiden Theme of Plum Blossom , was released on the New World Records label in Legend I: The Great Flood, The Descending Shaman 2013. Other pieces recently written for the Quartet include three pieces by Dana Legend II: Head Hunting, the Ascending Stars Legend III: The Glowing Maiden, Returning Souls Wilson — Hungarian Folk Songs, The night of h’s , and Apart — Wei-Chieh Lin’s Pasibutbut , and Thomas Oboe Lee’s Piano Quintet and Jasmine Variations . Hungarian Folk Songs Dana Wilson The members of the Formosa Quartet – Jasmine Lin, Wayne Lee, Che-Yen Chen, Dudatánc (Bagpipe Dance) (b. 1946) and Ru-Pei Yeh – have established themselves as leading solo, chamber, and orchestral Ballada (Ballad) musicians. With degrees from the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, and Arátóti (People from Rátót) New England Conservatory, they have performed in major venues throughout the Lancz (Chain) , Asia, and , and have been top prizewinners in prestigious Porondos (Circus) Ej Gorbénye (Hey, Gorbénye) competitions such as the Paganini, Primrose, Naumburg, and Tertis. As chamber Máramarosi (People from Máramos) musicians, they have appeared regularly at the Marlboro, Kingston, Santa Fe, Nechoczety (The Refusal; sometimes known as “Bear Dance”) Ottawa, Ravinia festivals, as well as at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, La Jolla Summerfest, and the Seattle Chamber Music Society. They have held positions in the San Diego Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, and the The Formosa Quartet appears by special arrangement with New York Philharmonic, and have taught at the University of Southern California, ARIEL ARTISTS LLC, 392 Belmont Street , Quincy, MA 02170-4011 California State University Fullerton, Roosevelt University, Taos School of Music, This performance was supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Stanford University, McGill University, and the Juilliard School. In 2014, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Quartet became the faculty quartet-in-residence at the National Youth Orchestra the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. of Canada.

14 15 FROM THE ARCHIVES ... 75 TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

S UNDAY • A PRIL 10, 2016 • 7 PM Rotwitt Theater, Rosemont College

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano Mimi Stillman, flute

Fantasias (1681 – 1767)

Syrinx (1862 – 1918)

Huldah Mimi Stillman (b. 1982)

Fantaisie brillante on themes from “Carmen” Bizet-Borne (1840 – 1920)

Mimi Stillman , flute, with Matthew Bengtson, piano

INTERMISSION

Sonata for Piano no. 27 in E minor, Op. 90 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)

Images, Book I Claude Debussy Reflets dans l’eau (1862 – 1918) Hommage à Rameau Mouvement

Miroirs Maurice Ravel Oiseaux tristes (1875 – 1937) Une barque sur l’océan Alborada del gracioso

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet , piano

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet appeared on Tri-County Concerts’ Emerging Artists Series in 1992. Mimi Stillman appeared on the Emerging Artists Series in 2002.

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet appears by special arrangement with HARRISON PARROTT , London, UK.

Steinway piano selected from Jacobs Music Company

This performance was supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. 17 MIMI STILLMAN JEAN - EFFLAM BAVOUZET

Mimi Stillman , one of the most celebrated and One of the most engaging performers of his generation, innovative flutists of her generation, has been hailed by the multi award-winning pianist Jean-Efflam The New York Times as “a consummate and charismatic Bavouzet regularly works with conductors such performer.” Called “the coolest flute player” by as Pierre Boulez, Andrew Davis, Daniele Gatti, Philadelphia Magazine , she is critically acclaimed for Valery Gergiev, Neeme Järvi, and Andris Nelsons, her dazzling artistry and communicative powers. She among others. has performed as soloist with orchestras including The An active recitalist, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet regularly

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P Chamber Music Festival, and Kol HaMusica (Israel). Amsterdam, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Sociedad At age 12, Ms. Stillman was the youngest wind player ever admitted to the Curtis Filarmónica de Bilbao, Casa da Música in Porto, the Moscow Conservatoire, and at Institute of Music, where she studied with and . Her the Schwetzinger Festspiele. many awards include Young Concert Artists international Auditions, Astral Artists, the Bärenreiter Prize for Best Historical Performance for Winds, and the 2012 Renowned for his work on disc, Bavouzet has won awards for his recording of Women in the Arts Award from Women for Greater Philadelphia. concerto works by Debussy and Ravel with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Yan Pascal Tortelier, and for his fourth volume of Debussy’s Complete Works for Piano. A wide-ranging artist, Ms. Stillman is equally at home with the classical canon, new His interpretations of Debussy and Ravel have also earned him two BBC Music music, and Latin genres. She holds an MA in history from the University of Magazine awards and Diapason d’Or, whilst his first volume of Haydn’s Piano Pennsylvania and is a published author on music and history, integrating scholarship Sonatas received a Choc de l’année and his Bartók Piano Concertos disc with the with her artistic vision in projects with her hallmark, thought-provoking depth. BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Gianandrea Noseda was shortlisted for multiple A Yamaha Performing Artist and Clinician, Mimi Stillman has taught masterclasses international awards. Bavouzet records exclusively for Chandos and current recording for the National Flute Association, , University of projects include a Beethoven Piano Sonatas cycle. In 2012 Gramophone nominated California, , and conservatories and flute societies throughout the Bavouzet as one of their Artists of the Year. world. She is on faculty at Curtis Institute of Music Summerfest and Music For All National Festival. Named Artist of the Year at the 2012 International Awards, his recent highlights have included an appearance at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York Ms. Stillman can be heard on several CDs for EMI, Innova, and other labels, as well with Louis Langrée, a BBC Prom with Vladimir Jurowski and the London as a film score for Kevin Bacon. Her recording “Odyssey: 11 American Premieres for Philharmonic Orchestra. He returns to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Flute and Piano,” with pianist Charles Abramovic (Innova), has received rave Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Philharmonia reviews on four continents. Her recordings can be heard on Performance Today, Orchestra, as well as performances with the Orchestra National de Lyon, Tivoli Sirius XM Satellite Radio, and WWFM The Classical Network where she is Symphony Orchestra with Kirill Karabits, and in Japan with the NHK Symphony broadcast co-host. She is a frequent guest speaker at arts organizations and interviewee and Kyoto Symphony orchestras. on radio, television, and online media. Her unique project Syrinx Journey, a tribute to Claude Debussy on his 150th anniversary through her daily recordings of Syrinx A former student of Pierre Sancan at the Paris Conservatoire, Bavouzet was invited on her blog, garnered an international following. by Sir George Solti to give his debut with the Orchestre de Paris in 1995 and is widely considered as the Maestro’s last discovery. As well as his performing activities, As Artistic Director of Dolce Suono Ensemble which she founded in 2005, Mimi Bavouzet has also made a transcription for two pianos of Debussy’s Jeux, published Stillman has created a dynamic force in the music world. With acclaimed by Durand with a foreword by Pierre Boulez. He won first prize in the International performances and the premieres of 42 commissioned works in ten seasons, Dolce Beethoven Competition in Cologne as well as the Young Concert Artists Auditions Suono Ensemble was Chamber Music America’s featured American Ensemble and in New York in 1986. won the Knight Arts Challenge for its “Música en tus Manos” engagement initiative with the Latino community. www.mimistillman.org. Bavouzet is Artistic Director of the Lofoten Piano Festival in Norway. 18 (Matthew Bengtson bio, p. 21) 19 FROM THE ARCHIVES ... FROM THE ARCHIVES ...

Memories of Melvin W. Hendren (1903-2003) startled man seated behind him at the piano. DDuring the early years of Tri County Concerts I was stage manager. This dubious When the excess audience had grumblingly departed honor entitled me to move furniture, especially pianos, and adjust their lids, to to the satisfaction of the marshall, and quiet once locate and place music stands and chairs as the more prevailed, Mr. Badura-Skoda began where he occasion demanded, in accordance with the had left off and finished the concert, to the great whims of the players. While more important admiration of all who remained. There were those members of the organization enjoyed the music who marveled that he had not “picked up his from choice seats in the auditorium, it was my marbles and gone home”; and we couldn’t help job to adjust lights, and pilot the artists out wondering why risk of conflagration and front at the proper moments. This last subsequent panic could not have continued until responsibility was the most rewarding of all, the end of the sonata! bringing back even now, a host of interesting The years have memories of the great and hear-great. For dimmed many of example, the composed, gracious manner of these recollections, Marian Anderson before stepping on stage but one remains indelible. The soloist was Sammy was in marked contrast to that of the violinist Mayes , then first cellist with the Phila. Orch. I was who had decided to exchange his seat in the posted hear the entrance hallway to welcome and Phila. Orch. for a career as a soloist. I have never been sure whether guide him. Very shortly he appeared, sans cello. his repeated assertions that he “couldn’t go on” were sheer histrionics or genuine “This way, Mr. Mayes,” I said, indicating the route terror, though in view of the performance (he did go on) the latter seems likely. to the artists’ room. Whereupon Sammy Mayes The famous appeared several times during my tenure as turned and motioned a large man struggling stage-hand. On one occasion their violist sought me in great distress, minutes through the door with the cello. “This way, boy,” before curtain time: He found himself in imminent danger of losing his trousers due he called. The man was Gregor Piatigorsky. to a broken suspender. Could I lend him a safety pin? Unaware that stage managers should carry safety pins I found myself derelict at the moment. But as a teacher in that building (Radnor High School) I quickly located the Home Ec. Department and, miracle of miracles, a MATTHEW BENGTSON sizeable safety pin with which to truss him up. In any account for Tri County history CCritically acclaimed as a “musician’s pianist,” Matthew Bengtson has performed mention would have to be made of the numerous times throughout Europe, in Mexico, and at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital night Paul Badura-Skoda played to a Hall. Versatile as a harpsichordist, fortepianist, composer, soloist and collaborator, more-than-full house. Minutes before he is a strong advocate of both contemporary and rarely-heard music, performing an curtain time every seat was taken. Yet unusually diverse repertoire ranging from Byrd to Ligeti. Noted as an outstanding the crowds continued to pour in, ignoring the young ushers’ assurances that there interpreter of the music of Alexander Scriabin, he is considered by Fanfare magazine were no more seats. People filled up the aisles. The sat in window sills and on the “a Scriabinist upon whom future generations can rely for definitive interpretations,” floor. The big moment came, as in deep concentration the artist launched into a while the American Record Guide compares him to Horowitz and Richter, praises difficult Beethoven sonata. (Was is the Appassionata?) Midway into the second his “rich tonal colors and dazzling technique,” and asks, “Has Scriabin ever been movement there was a disturbance at the back of the hall which increased as Wayne’s played better?” irate fire marshall threaded his way toward the stage and onto it. Announcing in firm tones that the aisles and exits must be cleared at once he seemed unaware of the

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