IN THE WINGS Saturday, April 10, 4 p.m. PRESENTS Faculty Artist Series Awadagin Pratt, piano, conductor Featuring Mozart’s Piano Concerto, K. 414 in A Major, Barber’s Adagio for Strings and world premiere works by student composers with the WIRED STRING BAND. Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall Admission: FREE ____ Saturday, April 17, 3 p.m. CCM Preparatory Department 1st annual BearcAT Gino DiMario Scholarship Recital CCM Preparatory students and friend of the family perform in recital for the scholarship fund. Piano FeSTIVAL Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall Admission: FREE with donations being accepted Monday, March 29-Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Robert J. Werner Recital Hall ____ Ian HoBSon, piano Sunday, April 18, 7 p.m. Pianopalooza V ROBERt WeiricH, piano Featuring performances by distinguished guests and the entire piano faculty, as well as Bengals Offensive Line Coach Paul Alexander with his teacher, Albert Muhlbock. NELITa TRUE, piano Master of Ceremonies: Jack Atherton of WLWT Location: Corbett Auditorium CCM Piano MajorS, piano Tickets: $15 general admission, $10 non-UC students, UC students FREE For tickets and the latest performance information, please call the CCM Box Office at 513-556-4183. 3/29/10 “Schumann-y Beautiful Pieces” 11:00a.m. Weirich Masterclass: Chopin Etudes 4:00 p.m. Ian Hobson Recital 8:00 p.m. 3/30/10 Ian Hobson Masterclass 10:00 a.m. Chopin Etude Competition 1:00 p.m. Robert Weirich Recital 8:00 p.m. 3/31/10 Nelita True Masterclass 4:00 p.m. “Schumann-y Beautiful Pieces” Marathon 7:00 p.m. Awadagin Pratt, festival coordinator “Schumann-y Beautiful Pieces” “Schumann-y Beautiful Pieces” Marathon 3/29/10 @ 11:00 a.m. 3/31/10 @ 7:00 p.m. from Faschingsswank aus Wien, Op. 26 Robert Schumann Abegg Variations, Op. 1 Robert Schumann I. Allegro (1810-1856) (1810-1856) Sarah Gillespie Fantasiestück, Op. 12 Rachel Bletstein Susan Ha Blumenstuck, Op. 19 Robert Schumann Yukiko Kaneko — Intermission — Kinderszenen, Op. 15 Robert Schumann Young Eun Song Papillons, Op. 2 Robert Schumann Eun Hye Lee Kreisleriana, Op. 16 — Intermission — Mikael Darmanie Arabesque, Op. 18 Robert Schumann — Intermission — Ed Choi Fantasie, Op. 17 Robert Schumann Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13 Robert Schumann I. Jae Won Kim Carnaval, Op. 9 Tianjao Wang Minji Kim II. III. Widmung Robert Schumann Bret Blasius arr. Franz Liszt Awadagin Pratt — Intermission — Throughout his childhood, Awadagin Pratt devoted his time to piano, violin and tennis, but eventually determined music to be his passion as he Three Romances, Op. 28 Robert Schumann began college at age 16 at the University of Illinois. He then transferred to the Peabody Conservatory Connor Chee of Music where he was the first student to receive a Davidsbundlertanze, Op. 6, Bk1 Robert Schumann performer’s certificate in piano and violin as well as Hyun Min Kee a graduate performance diploma in conducting. His win at the Naumburg Competition, where he was the first African-American classical instrumentalist to win first prize, skyrocketed his career and Robert Weirich Masterclass: over the next few years he gave over 100 recitals Chopin Etudes including concerts in New York, Los Angeles and 3/29/10 @ 4:00 p.m. Chicago. In 1994 he was awarded the Avery Fisher Career Grant and also released his debut CD A Long Way From Normal, followed by Beethoven Op. 25, No. 8; Op. 10, No. 6 Frédéric François Chopin Piano Sonatas, Live From South Africa and Transformations. He also played piano on (1810-1849) Terence Blanchard’s soundtrack for The Caveman’s Valentine, a film about a mentally ill Mikael Darmanie classical pianist. He has performed worldwide in Japan, Germany, South Africa, Israel, Op. 25, No. 1; Op. 10 No. 3 Italy, Switzerland and Poland, as well as with the major symphony orchestras in the Sarah Gillespie U.S. He has also performed on NPR’s Performance Today and Weekend Edition, the Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, Good Morning America and Sesame Street. Pratt Op. 25, No. 6; Op. 10, No. 7 has studied with Leon Fleisher, Robert Weirich, Ian Hobson and Daisy deLuca Jaffe. Woori Kim Increasingly active as a conductor, he has conducted the Toledo, New Mexico, Winston- Op. 25, No. 10 Salem, Santa Fe and Prince George’s County symphonies. Xiao Wang Find Mr. Pratt on the web at awadablog.typepad.com/bearcatpianofestival Nelita True Masterclass Ian Hobson, piano 3/31/10 @ 4:00 p.m. 3/29/10 @ 8:00 p.m. Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 Frédéric François Chopin Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 Frédéric François Chopin (1810-1849) (1810-1849) Jeongin Kim Mazurka, Op. 59, No. 1 Frédéric François Chopin Mazurka, Op. 59, No. 2 Partita in E Minor, BWV 830 Johann Sebastian Bach Mazurka, Op. 59, No. 3 (1685-1750) Bora Kim Barcarolle, Op. 60 Frédéric François Chopin Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue César Franck Waltz, Op. 69, No. 1 Frédéric François Chopin (1822-1890) Waltz, Op. 34, No. 1 Anastasia Solomatina — Intermission — Barcarolle, Op. 60 Frédéric François Chopin Nocturne, Op. 62, No. 1 Frédéric François Chopin Nocturne, Op. 62, No. 2 Weiting Yin Sonata No. 3 in B Minor Frédéric François Chopin Since Nelita True made her debut at age seventeen 1. Allegro maestoso with the Chicago Symphony in Orchestra Hall and her New York debut with the Juilliard Orchestra 2. Scherzo: Molto vivace in Avery Fisher Hall, her career has taken her to 3. Largo the major cities of Western and Eastern Europe, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, Mexico, Iceland, New 4. Finale: Presto non tanto; Agitato Zealand, Brazil, Australia, Canada, and to Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as to all fifty states in America. She was a visiting professor at the St. Pianist and conductor Ian Hobson is recognized Petersburg Conservatory in Russia, performing internationally for his masterly performances of and conducting master classes and has been in the the Romantic repertoire, his deft and idiomatic People’s Republic of China more than 20 times for readings of neglected piano music old and new, and recitals and master classes. She has played recitals his assured conducting from both the piano and the on French national television and on Australian podium. In addition to being a lauded performer, national radio. Her most recent recital in Boston Mr. Hobson is a dedicated scholar and educator was cited as one of the “Ten Best Classical who has pioneered renewed interest in the music Performances of the Year.” She will perform and give classes in India next fall. of such lesser known masters as Ignaz Moscheles Ms. True has been a jury member for the China International Piano Competition (Beijing), and Johann Hummel. He has also been an effective the Queen Sonja International Piano Competition (Oslo), the National piano Competition advocate of works written expressly for him by a in Brazil, the Horowitz Competition (Kiev), the Concours de Musique in Canada, the number of today’s noted composers, including PTNA (Tokyo), the Lev Vlassenko Competition in Australia, and the Gina Bachauer, New Benjamin Lees, John Gardner, David Liptak, Alan Orleans, Hilton Head, and William Kapell International Piano Competitions in the U.S. Ridout, and Roberto Sierra. Hobson is an artist A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan as a student of Helen Titus, of prodigious energy and resource, having to date Ms. True went on to Juilliard to study with Sascha Gorodnitzki, and then earned the amassed a discography of some 60 releases, DMA with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory. In Paris, she studied with Nadia including the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven and Schumann and a complete Boulanger on a Fulbright grant. Formerly Distinguished Professor at the University of edition of Brahms’s variations for piano. Maryland, Ms. True is currently Professor of Piano at the Eastman School of Music. One of the youngest ever graduates of the Royal Academy of Music, Mr. Hobson began Many of her students have won top prizes at national and international competitions, his international career in 1981 when he won First Prize at the Leeds International including an unprecedented five First Prizes in national MTNA competitions. Ms. True Piano Competition, after having earned silver medals at both the Arthur Rubinstein was awarded the the 2002 Achievement Award from the Music Teachers’ National and Vienna-Beethoven competitions. Born in Wolverhampton, England, he studied at Association, the Lifetime Achievement Award in Graduate Teaching from the University Cambridge University (England), and at Yale University, in addition to his earlier studies of Rochester, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Keyboard Pedagogy at the Royal Academy of Music. A professor in the Center for Advanced Study at Conference (USA). the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Hobson received the endowed chair of Find Mrs. True on the web at awadablog.typepad.com/bearcatpianofestival Swanlund Professor of Music in 2000. Find Mr. Hobson on the web at www.ianhobson.net Ian Hobson Masterclass Robert Weirich, piano 3/30/10 @ 10:00 a.m. 3/30/10 @ 8:00 p.m. Berceuse, Op. 57 Frédéric François Chopin The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 Johann Sebastian Bach (1810-1849) Aria (1685-1750) Yoon Sook Song 1. Two-part Invention 2. Three-part Sinfonia from Sonata No. 3, Op. 58 Frédéric François Chopin 3. Two-part Canon at the unison with free bass 4. Four-part imitative movement, quasi Passepied I. Allegro maestoso 5. Two-part Invention for two manuals with crossing of hands Kara Huber 6. Two-part Canon at the second with free bass 7. Two-part Gigue Partita in C Minor, BWV 826 Johann Sebastian Bach 8. Two-part Invention for two manuals with crossing of hands (1685-1750) 9.