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Phone: 847.392.9003 Fax: 847.392.5 155 Email: [email protected] Northwest Chicago Symphony Meet the Soloist Orchestra Nazar Dzhuryn , piano A native of Lviv, Ukraine, cellist Michael Holian, Music Director Nazar Dzhuryn graduated from the Lviv Music School, where he studied with Evgeny Shpitzer, and earned his VIOLIN I BASS TROMBONE Master of Music degree at the Daria Horodyskyj *Ivan Smalley *Daniel Lawlor Moscow State Conservatory under Prof. Igor Gavrysh. Upon graduation, Concertmaster Franco Caballero Keith Dyrda Nazar taught at the Moscow State Olena Hima David Malatesta Conservatory as an assistant professor Acting Concertmaster BASS TROMBONE before moving to Chicago in 1998. Helen Chen FLUTE & PICCOLO Callan Milani Since then, he has been in high Debbie Lee *Denise Calderon demand as a soloist, chamber and TUBA orchestral musician, and teacher. Milan Miscovic Dalia Chin Brian Edwards Elizabeth Rodgriguez Suzy Fox Nazar’s solo recitals for the Dame Nancy Webster KEYBOARD Myra Hess Memorial Concerts and OBOE Magdalena Kozik the PianoForte Salon Series have been broadcast live on 98.7WFMT. He has VIOLIN II *Melanie Frigo TIMPANI & PERCUSSION appeared as a soloist with the Moscow *Vera Mucha-Chytra Wayne Ryerson State Symphony “Young Russia,” Christopher Reed Fernando Esquivel Moscow Conservatory Symphony, ENGLISH HORN Daniel J. Hoppe Elgin Symphony Orchestra. In 2010 and 2011 he appeared as a soloist with Peter Kapsalis Wayne Ryerson Sean Carey Lviv Philharmonic, National Symphony of Ukraine in Kiev, Minsk Ann Kosiba Philharmonic and Ensemble of Soloists Classicus in Zagreb, performing Marilyn Picchietti CLARINET ORCHESTRA MANAGER Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante, Barber’s Concerto and Haydn’s Concertos. In addition, Nazar has given numerous solo recitals and master classes in Noemi Salazar *Michael Dworak Jill Sternberg Russia, Ukraine, South America, South Africa, and the U.S., and in 2008 he Antela Tori Diannamarie Kurk ASSISTANT MANAGER released his solo debut CD, Cello Monologue, featuring works by Reger and Kodaly. Denise Calderon VIOLA BASSOON PERSONNEL MANAGER Nazar has performed in Rush Hour Concerts at St. James Cathedral and as a *Judith Sandstrom Bula Bulicek guest artist with the Chicago Chamber Musicians; his chamber-music partners Chad Taylor Marilyn Picchietti have included members of the orchestra of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Susan Bohlman Formerly the principal cello of the Moscow State Symphony “Young Kathy Hennessy FRENCH HORN ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Russia” and the Moscow Conservatory Symphony, Nazar has served as the Richard Hirsh *Don Parsons Mary Ann Tapper assistant principal cello of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra since 2000 and as the principal cello of the Woodstock Mozart Festival Orchestra since 2004. He Dora Peters LIBRARIAN participated in the Rostropovich Festival in Evian, France, and has performed CELLO Jill Sternberg Wayne Ryerson as an orchestral musician under Georg Solti, Mstislav Rostropovich, Daniel *Daniel Pankratz Barenboim, and Helmuth Rilling. Nazar maintains private studios in Chicago Elizabeth Lopez Nancy Webster Oksana Danylyk and Elgin in addition to serving on the faculties of Northeastern Illinois University, Elgin Community College, and the Naperville School for the Dennis House TRUMPET PROGRAM COORDINATORS Performing Arts. He also coaches chamber ensembles for the Chicago Youth Susan Shallcross *Verne Schwager Lawrence Buonaguidi Symphony Orchestra (CYSO). Nazar’s students have won prizes in numerous competitions, including the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the W. Brad Hecker Mechelle Rodriguez Walgreens National Concerto Competition, and the Chicago Chamber Music Competition (sponsored by Midwest Young Artists). 8 1 John Phillip Sousa (1854 –1932), Alexander Borodin (1833 – 1887), The Stars and Stripes Forever Symphony No 2 in b minor Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Russian John Phillip Sousa, was an American Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian–Russian composer and conductor of the late parentage. He was a member of the group of Romantic era, known particularly for military composers called The Five (or "The Mighty Handful"), and patriotic marches. Because of his who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian mastery of march composition, he is known kind of art music. He is best known for his three as "The March King". Among his best symphonies (one unfinished), his two string quartets, known works are "The Washington Post", In the Steppes of Central Asia and his opera Prince Igor. "Semper Fidelis" (Official March of the Music from Prince Igor and his string quartets was later United States Marine Corps), and "The Stars adapted for the American musical Kismet. and Stripes Forever" (National March of the He was born in Saint Petersburg, the illegitimate son of United States of America). a Georgian noble, Luka Gedevanishvili and a Russian woman, Evdokia Konstantinovna Antonova. The nobleman had him registered as the son of one of his His father was Portuguese, and his mother serfs, Porfiry Borodin. As a boy, he received a good education, including piano of Bavarian ancestry. Sousa began his career lessons. He entered the Medico–Surgical Academy in 1850 and pursued a career in playing violin and studying music theory and chemistry. On graduation he spent a year as surgeon in a military hospital, followed composition. His father eventually enlisted by three years of advanced scientific study in western Europe. him in the United States Marine Band as an apprentice in 1868. After departing the band in 1875, Sousa eventually learned He began taking lessons in composition from Mily Balakirev in 1862. In 1863 he to conduct. From 1880 until his death, Sousa focused on conducting and wrote married Ekaterina Protopopova, a pianist. Music remained a secondary many marches. He eventually rejoined the Marine Band and served there for 12 vocation for Borodin, outside of his main career as a chemist and physician. He years as director. Upon leaving the Marine Band, Sousa organized his own died suddenly in 1887, and was interred in Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander band, with which he toured Europe and Australia. On the outbreak of World Nevsky Monastery in Saint Petersburg. War I, he was commissioned a Lieutenant Commander and led the Naval Reserve Band in Illinois. Following his tenure there, he returned to conduct the In 1869, Borodin started on his Symphony No. 2 in B minor. It was premiered Sousa Band until his death in 1932. premiere in 1877 under Eduard Nápravník but was not particularly successful. But with some minor re-orchestration, it received a successful performance in 1879 by the Free Music School under Rimsky-Korsakov's direction. It remains his most popular symphony. Program Notes adapted and edited by Richard Hirsh SYLVIA & MIKE’S Family Hair Care A Full Service Hair Salon Hair Cuts $5.00 Phone :773-836-9910 Monday through Saturday 9:00AM to 7:00PM 2621 N. Harlem Ave. Chicago IL 60707 2 7 Bedrich Smetana (1824 – 1884), Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904), Overture to “The Bartered Bride” Cello Concerto in b minor, op. 104 Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer whose music was closely identified with his country's Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech aspirations to independent statehood. He is composer. Following the nationalist example of widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Bedřich Smetana, he frequently employed Czech music. Internationally he is best known for features of the folk music of Moravia and his his opera The Bartered Bride, for the symphonic native Bohemia. Born in Nelahozeves, Dvořák cycle Má vlast ("My Fatherland”) and for his First displayed his musical gifts at an early age. After String Quartet From My Life. graduating from an organ school in Prague, he began writing his first compositions at the age of He was born Friedrich Smetana in Litomyšl, east 20. In the 1860s, he played as a violist in the of Prague, near the traditional border between Bohemian Provisional Theater Orchestra and Bohemia and Moravia. At this time, German was taught piano lessons. the official language of Bohemia. His father knew Czech, but for business and social reasons rarely used it. It was not until later in In 1873, he married Anna Čermáková, and left his life that Smetana began using the Czech form of his name. the orchestra to pursue a career as a church organist. He wrote several compositions during Smetana was naturally gifted as a pianist, and gave his first public performance this period, notably a Stabat Mater, which is still at the age of six. After his conventional schooling, he studied music under Josef performed. Proksch in Prague. His first nationalistic music was written during the 1848 Prague uprising, in which he briefly participated. After failing to establish his Dvořák's music attracted the interest of Johannes Brahms, who assisted his career in Prague, he left for Sweden, where he set up as a teacher and career, and he was also supported by the critic Eduard Hanslick. Dvořák was choirmaster in Gothenburg, and began to write large-scale orchestral works. appointed professor at the Prague Conservatory in 1891. In 1892, he moved to the United States and became the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York City, where he also composed. He returned to In the early 1860s, a more liberal political climate in Bohemia encouraged Bohemia in 1895, and until his death, he composed mainly operatic and Smetana to return permanently to Prague.