The Department of Music

proudly presents

Florida Woodwind Quintet

Elissa Lakofsky, flute Paul Green, clarinet Jeff Apana, oboe Michael DeGregorio, bassoon Gregory Miller, horn Azure String Quartet

Rebecca Lautar, violin Laura Hilgemann Miller, violin Diane Kennedy Weisberg, viola Iris van Eck, cello

Kyle Prescott - Conductor

Saturday, November 10, 8 p.m. University Theatre FAU Boca Raton Cam~-=..:us=----I

FAU srnOOLOF THE ARTS Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and letters Florida Atlantic University Florida Woodwind Quintet, Azure String Quartet, 11/10/2007

Program

Trois Pieces Breves Jacques Ibert Allegro (1890-1962) Andante Assez lent, Allegro scherzando

Elissa Lakofsky, flute Paul Green, clarinet Jeff Apona, oboe Michael DeGregorio, bassoon Gregory Miller, horn

String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, op. 95 Ludwig van Beethoven Allegro con brio (1770-1827) Allegretto rna non treppe Allegro assai vivace rna serioso Larghetto espressivo-AI/egretto agitato

laura Hilgemann Miller, violin 1 Rebecca Lauter, violin II Diane Kennedy Weisberg, viola Iris van Eck, cello

Intermission

Woodwind Quintet in Eb Major, op.88 #2 Anton Reiche Lento, Allegro moderato (1770-1836) Scherzo, Allegro Andante grazioso Finale, Allegro molto

Looking Both Ways Arthur Weisberg for Woodwind Quintet and String Quartet {b. 1938)

Commissioned by FAU Department of Music

Elissa Lakofsky, flute Paul Green, clarinet Jeff Apona, oboe Michael DeGregorio, bassoon Gregory Miller, horn Rebecca Lautar, violin I Laura Hilgemann Miller, violin II Diane Kennedy Weisberg, viola Iris van Eck, cello Kyle Prescott, conductor Florida Woodwind Quintet, Azure String Quartet, 11/10/2007

Performing Artists

Arthur Weisberg attended the High School of Music and Art and the of Music, majoring in bassoon with Simon Kovar. He played first bassoon with the Houston and Baltimore Symphonies and second bassoon with the , before coming back to to study conducting with Jean Morel. At this time, Weisberg was first bassoon with the Symphony of the Air (formerly the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini).

He was bassoonist with the New York Woodwind Quintet for 14 years and has taught at Juilliord, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Yole University. Weisberg and the have recorded George Crumb's "A Haunted Landscape." He has conducted the Milwaukee Symphony and the Sjoellonds and Aolborg Symphonies of Denmark.

Weisberg created the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble in 1961. W~i1e he was the conductor and music director, the CCE toured throughout the and the rest of the world, giving over 100 world premieres. They have several prize winning recordings to their credit.

Weisberg is the author of two books, "The Art of Wind Playing", published by G. Schirmer, and "Performing -a Handbook for Conductors and Instrumentalists," published by Yale University Press. He has composed numerous works, and has made several editions for bassoon, including a transcription of the Bach Cello Suites and a set of 15 Etudes for Bassoon in the style of 20th Century music.

Kyle Prescott is director of bands and assistant professor of music at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. His responsibilities include conducting the Wind Ensemble and coordinating all aspects of a comprehensive university bands program. He also teaches graduate instrumental conducting and various courses in the music education curriculum. Born and reared in the shadow of Mt. St. Helens in Washington State, he holds Bachelor of Music degrees from the Lionel Hampton School of Music at The University of Idaho, and the Master of Music and the Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in wind conducting from The University of Texas at Austin, where his principal mentor was professor Jerry F. Junkin.

Prior to his work at UT, Prescott served on the faculty of The University of Great Falls in Montana, and spent eight years conducting high school bands and orchestras in the Pacific Northwest. Ensembles under his direction were twice invited to perform for the convention of MENC: The National Florida Woodwind Quintet, Azure String Quartet, 11/10/2007

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Association for Musk Education. He has given presentations at the state, regional and national levels on various topics, including assessment methods for Jarge ensembles. Prescott is active as an adjudicator, clinician and guest conductor and maintains memberships in several professional organizations, including MENC, the College Band Directors National Association oo"d Phi Beta Mu, the International Bandmasters' Fraternity. He is also an honorary member of Tau Beta Sigma.

Michael DeGregorio received a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education in 1986 from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (I.U.P.) and a Master's degree in performance from the University of Miami. Over the post 20 years, Michael has performed with many orchestras in South Florida including, the South Florida Symphony, Miami Symphony, Symphony of the Americas, the Florida Philharmonic, Atlantic Classical Orchestra, Boca Pops, Palm Beach Orchestra,Palm Beach Pops, Naples Philharmonic and the Miami City Ballet Orchestra.

Currently he is Principal Bassoon with the Florida Sunshine Pops and the Florida Classical Orchestra - the official orchestra for Florida Grand Opera. Michael is also an elementary school teacher (K-5 music) at Riverland Elementary in Fort lauderdale, Flo

Equally at home as a soloist, teacher, chamber musician, and symphonic horn player, Gregory Miller is fast becoming one of the most accomplished horn players of his generation. As hornist with the internationally acclaimed Empire Brass, Miller has performed in nearly every major concert hall in the world, including Carnegie Hall, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Tokyo Opera City, the Mozarteum, Petronas Towers, the Barbican, and Suntory Hall. His solo career includes appearances with the Orquesta Sinfonia Nacional, San Jose, Costa Rica; the Daegu City Symphony Orchestra, Daegu, South Korea; and the U.S. Navy Band of Washington, DC. His recordings with Empire Brass, which include Class Brass: Firedance and The Glory of Gabrieli, can be heard exclusively an the Telorc label. In 2003, Mr. Miller released his solo debut recording entitled From Bach to Bernstein: Romantic Music for Horn and Piano on the MSR label and in 2006 released his second solo album entitled Solos for the Horn Player, also an the MSR label.

Miller joined the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Music in the Fall of 2000. Prior to his appointment, he served on the faculties of Florida International University, the Conservatory of Music at lynn University, and the University of Hawaii. His orchestral experience includes principal positions with the New World Symphony under Michael Tilson Florida Woodwind Quintet, Azure String Quartet, 11/10/2007

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Thomas and the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with the Pittsburgh, Jacksonville, National, Baltimore Symphony Orchestras, and the Florida Philharmonic. Mr. Miller, a founding member of the New World Brass Quintet, recorded the Ingolf Dahl Music for Brass Instruments on the Argo Decca label. He is a clinician for Conn~SelmerMusical Instruments and performs exclusiveiy on the CONN 8 D.

Active as a recitalist and clinician, Miller currently serves on the faculties of the National Orchestral Institute at the University of Maryland and the las Vegas Music Festival at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He has served on the faculties of the Bowdoin Summer Festival and the Trombones de Costa Rica International Brass Festival. In 1999, he was appointed an International Principal at the Pacific Music Festival of Sapporo, Japan. Mr. Miller also performs annually at the Festival de Musique de St. Barthelemy, the Monadnock Music Festival of New Hampshire, and witn tne Palm Beacn Opera Orchestra.

A native of Youngstown, Ohio, Miller received his BM in Performance from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music where he studied with Robert Fries, former co-principal horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mr. Miller makes his home in Silver Spring, Maryland and Boca Raton, Florida with his wife, violinist laura Hilgeman, and their six children.

Jeffrey Apana holds music performance degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Florida State University. He has played for numerous organizations including the Florida Philharmonic, Palm Beach Opera, Boca Pops, and Seaside Music Theater, and is presently oboist and English hornist for Florida Grand Opera and Florida Classical Orchestra.

Elissa Lakofsky is principal flute with the Florida Grond Opera Orchestra, the Florida Classical Orchestra, and the Sunshine Pops Orchestra. An avid chamber music performer, she is also a member of the Florida ~I ~,t Woodwind Quintet, South Florida's premier woodwind ensemble. lakofsky has been an active flutist since receiving her degrees from the University of Michigan and Northwestern University, where she studied with Walfrid Kujala. She continued her studies with the famed Julius Baker and Keith Underwood. She hos performed throughout South Florido with the Florida PhH~armonic,the Boca Pops, and the Naples Philharmonic. Summer performances have included those at the Aspen Music Festival and the Sarasota Music Festival. Ms. lakofsky has also had the opportunity to tour with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Italy, and she has performed concertos with Florido Woodwind Quintet, Azure String Quartet, 11/10/2007

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Rebecca Lautar is professor of music at Florida Atlantic University, where she teaches violin, viola, chamber music and string education courses. She performs in the Palm Beach Opera and the Palm Beach Symphony, and has performed as a member of the FAU Chamber Soloists and Ensemble 21. Lautor has been an advocate for string music education, founding and directing the FAU String Academy and also the A.D. Henderson University School violin program. She is an active clinician in the public schools, and recently served as clinician and music director for the Four-County Honors Orchestra in Martin, St. lucie, Okeechobee and Glades counties. She has also served as head strings adjudicator and master clinician for the Michael and Madelyn Savarick Music Competition, held at Florida Atlantic University. Professor Lautar received her Bachelor of Music degree from Western Michigan University and a Master of Music with Distinction from Indiana University, where her teachers included Mimi Zwieg and Franco Gulli.

Laura Hilgeman Miller has been Co-Concertmaster of the Palm Beach Opera since 1996 and maintains an active freelance career in the Washington, DC area where she frequently performs at the National Cathedral, the Kennedy Center and the Wolf Trap Performing Arts Center. Prior to her appointment to the Palm Beach Opera, she held positions with the Florida Philharmonic, the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra and the Charleston Symphony. In 1990, she joined the New World Symphony and spent four seasons as co-concertmaster under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas. In a<;Jdition, she has performed with the National, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, and Fort Wayne Symphony Orchestras. Ms. Miller's festival career is equally diverse. She was concertmaster of the prestigious Spo/eto Festival (Italy and Charleston, SC) and associate concertmaster of the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder and has held positions with the Pacific Music Festival (Japan), Schleswig-Holstein Festival (Germany) and Fontainebleau Conservatoire (France). Currently, Ms. Miller performs annually with the St. Barth's Chamber Festival (French West Indies). Ms Hilgeman Miller received her Bachelor's degree with high distinction from Indiana University, where she studied with Henryk Kowalski and Josef Gingold and obtained her Master's degree with honors from the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University. Miller makes her homes in Boca Raton, Florida and Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband; Gregory Miller, and their six children. Florido Woodwind Quintet, Azure String Quartet, 11/10/2007

Performing Artists

Cellist Iris van Eck wos born in the Netherlands to on artist pointer (father) and a piano teacher (mother). She studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hogue with Jean Decroos (principal cellist in the Concertgebouw orchestra) and Rene van Ast before moving to the United Stotes where she studied with Madame Raya Gorbousova.

She was the winner of the Edith Stein Concours in the Netherlands (on flute) and the Concerto Competition at Northern Illinois University (on cello). She participated in master classes with Paul and Maude Tortellier at the Hochschule in Essen and in Luzerni at the Piattigorsky Seminar in los Angeles, she studied with William Pleeth, lyn Harrell, Misha Maiski and Jeffrey Solow and at the Cleveland Chamber Music Seminar with Joseph Gingold and the Guarneri Qu~rtet. von Eck is principal cellist for the Florida Grand Opera Orchestra and the Florida Classical Orchestra. She has appeared as soloist with various orchestras in the United States and in Europe and is frequently heard on the chamber music circuit in South Florida and abroad. She plays a beautiful French cello mode by Bernardel Pere in 1831.

"Works for cello and piano by women composers" was recorded in September 2005 in Delft, the Netherlands, together with Dutch pianist Arielle Vernede. It was released by Eroica Classical Recordings (www. eroica.com) in December 2006. A recording of Faure's complete works for cello and piano together with pianist Kemal Gekic was put on tope in February 2006 at Wertheim Auditorium and is in the editing stages. van Eck is the founder of the successful "Chameleon Chamber Music Series at the Leiser Opera center" in Fort Lauderdale. Chameleon Musicians, Inc (www.chameleonmusicians.org) is a not-for-profit, tax exempt organization, dedicated to bringing chamber music of the highest quality to South Florida.

Diane Kennedy Weisberg, viola, is a member of the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra and is an active freelance player in South Florida. She teaches viola at FAU and has a large studio of violin and viola students. Florido Woodwind Quintet, Azure String Quartet, 11/10/2007

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