FACULTY and GUEST ARTIST RECITAL January 23, 2013
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FACULTY AND GUEST ARTIST RECITAL “Music for Two Flutes and Piano” Leone Buyse, flute Sergio Pallottelli, flute (guest) Robert Moeling, piano Wednesday, January 23, 2013 8:00 p.m. Lillian H. Duncan Recital Hall PROGRAM Variazioni Brillanti on Russian Themes Cesare Ciardi (1818-1877) Duo Seraphim from the Vespers of 1610 Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) arr. Claudia Anderson/Jill Felber Sonata in D Major, KV 448 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Allegro con spirito (1756-1791) Andante arr. András Adorján Molto allegro PAUSE Three Duos of Mendelssohn and Lachner Theobald Boehm Allegretto non troppo (1794-1881) Allegro agitato Allegro non troppo ‘maya’ (2000) Ian Clarke (b. 1964) La Sonnambula Franz Doppler (1821-1883) Paraphrased from Bellini’s opera, in memory of Adelina Patti 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. PROGRAM LEONE BUYSE is the Mullen Professor of Flute at Rice University. Previ- ously a principal flutist of the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops and member of the San Francisco Symphony and the Rochester Philharmonic, she has appeared as soloist with those orchestras and also with the Utah Symphony, l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Xalapa Symphony, and the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional of Mexico. She has performed with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players throughout Europe and Japan, with the Tokyo, Juilliard, Brentano, and Muir String Quartets, and in recital with Jessye Norman and Yo-Yo Ma. A renowned educator, she has taught at the New England Conser- vatory, Boston University, the University of Michigan, and the Aspen, Saraso- ta, and Norfolk music festivals, and has presented recitals and master classes across the United States and in Canada, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Chile, Brazil, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. In 1988 she co-founded the Webster Trio, in which she plays with her husband, clarinetist Michael Webster, and pianist Robert Moeling. Her solo and chamber music recordings are available on the Crystal, Boston Records, Albany and C.R.I. labels; she may be heard as solo flutist on recordings of the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops and the San Francisco Symphony for the Phil- ips, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Victor, and Sony Classical labels. In 2010 Ms. Buyse received the National Flute Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to the flute community worldwide. Her former students hold positions at major univer- sities and in many major orchestras, including the symphony orchestras of Boston, Cleveland, San Francisco, St. Louis, Houston, Kansas City, and Charlotte, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Colo- rado Symphony, the Louisiana Philharmonic, the Florida Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony, the Adelaide Symphony, and the Singapore Symphony. Also an accomplished pianist, Ms. Buyse served for two years as a collabora- tive pianist at Jean-Pierre Rampal’s summer master classes in Nice, France. She maintains a web presence at www.leonebuyse.com. SERGIO PALLOTTELLI has performed as a soloist and chamber musician across the United States, Europe, Australia, and South America. Praised for his elegant virtuosity, multi-colored sound, and passionate programming, he connects charismatically with his audiences in large concert halls or intimate chamber settings alike. Comfortable with music of all eras, he frequently col- laborates with composers, both to increase the repertoire for the flute and to broaden his own musical horizons. Having toured Central America and South America for over ten years, he has developed a deep passion for the music of Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela. Recent engagements include recitals, master classes, and concertos in Lima, Peru; Quito, Ecuador; San Juan, Costa Rica; and at National Flute Associa- tion conventions in Charlotte, North Carolina and Las Vegas, Nevada. In ad- dition to chamber music appearances in New England and North Carolina, he has presented master classes at Rice University and Texas Tech and at univer- sities in Tennessee and North Carolina. Upcoming engagements this semester include performances in Salt Lake City and for the Houston Flute Club’s Flute Fest, and classes at Baylor University and in Seattle. In 2011 Pallottelli relocated from New Haven to Houston, where he teaches a private studio of advanced flutists and plays with leading organizations in the area. Previously he was an adjunct faculty member at the University of Bridgeport and the prestigious Taft School, and for fi ve years served as director and faculty member of Ransom Wilson’s summer course in Monter chi, Tuscany, his childhood home. In June he will again perform in Ecuador FACULTY AND GUEST and in July will launch Flauti al Castello, a week-long fl ute class in the heart of Tuscany, with fl utist Leone Buyse. He holds performance degrees from the ARTIST RECITAL Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan, the University of Utah, and the Yale School of Music. His principal teachers have been Ransom Wilson, Roberto Fabbriciani and Susan Goodfellow; in addition he spent several summers working intensely with the legendary French fl utist Maxence Lar rieu. Pallottelli plays a 9K gold Muramatsu fl ute of Japan and a 14K gold head “Music for Two Flutes and Piano” joint by Tobias Mancke of Germany. For further information please visit www. sergiopallottelli.wordpress.com. A native of the Netherlands, pianist ROBERT MOELING has received international acclaim as a soloist, chamber musician and recording artist. He Leone Buyse, fl ute has been a concerto soloist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Den ver Chamber Orchestra, and has collaborated with Joshua Bell, Cho-Liang Lin, Lynn Harrell and Karl Leister, among others. He is a frequent guest with Sergio Pallottelli, fl ute (guest) such organizations as the Park City Chamber Music Society, the Sitka Festival, the Amsterdam Chamber Music Society, Anchorage Winter Classics, Chamber Music International, Dallas and the Texas Music Festival. Among his numer Robert Moeling, piano ous, critically acclaimed recordings are the complete cello and piano works of Mendelssohn, sonatas of Brahms and Liszt, songs of Brahms, the complete piano works of Dutch composer Willem Pijper, and World Wide Webster, a re cent Webster Trio CD with works of Debussy, Dvořák, Brahms and Gottschalk. A devoted pedagogue, Moeling has held posts at the University of Wis consin/Milwaukee, the Wisconsin Conservatory, Bethany College, Concordia University and Codarts, the University for the Performing Arts in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is currently Artist Teacher of piano in the preparatory program at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and pianist of the Web ster Trio, in residence at Rice University. Moeling has been artistic director of the Wisconsin Conservatory’s Faculty/Guest Artist Series and the Ling Cham ber Society in Lindsborg, Kansas. With his wife, flutist Patrice Moeling, he is Wednesday, January 23, 2013 currently co-artistic director of HausMusik in Houston. 8:00 p.m. Lillian H. Duncan Recital Hall.