Department of Music presents Kennesaw State University Faculty Chamber Players Sunday, October 21, 2007 7:30 pm Dr. Bobbie Bailey and Family Performance Center Concert Hall Twelfth concert of the 2007-2008 season Kennesaw State University Kennesaw State University Faculty Chamber Players Upcoming Music Events October 21, 2007 7:30 pm Tuesday, October 30 Dr. Bobbie Bailey and Family Performance Center Kennesaw State University Concert Hall Male Chorus Day 7:30 pm • Bailey Performance Center Concert Hall PROGRAM Sunday, November 4 Cobb Symphony Orchestra Georgia Youth Symphony Philharmonia Rapid.fire (1992) Jennifer Higdon 4:00 pm • Bailey Performance Center Concert Hall (b. 1962) Robert Cronin, flute Sunday, November 4 Cobb Symphony Orchestra Mariel (1999) Osvaldo Golijov Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra (b. 1960) 7:00 pm • Bailey Performance Center Concert Hall Charae Krueger, cello and John Lawless, marimba Thursday, November 8 A Deviant Fantasy (1993) Mark Anthony Turnage Kennesaw State University (b. 1960) Orchestra and Chamber Singers John Warren, Ted Gurch, and Heather Rodriguez, clarinets 8:00 pm • Bailey Performance Center Concert Hall Alcides Rodriguez, bass clarinet Saturday, November 10 This Is How It Is (1995) Kevin Volans Kennesaw State University (b. 1949) Community Alumni Choir 8:00 pm • Bailey Performance Center Concert Hall Serenade in d minor, Op. 44 (1878) Antonin Dvorak Monday, November 12 Moderato, quasi Marcia (1841-1904) Kennesaw State University Minuetto and Trio Jazz Faculty and Percussion Ensemble Concert Andante con moto 8:00 pm • Bailey Performance Center Concert Hall Finale (Allegro molto) For the most current information, please visit http://www.kennesaw.edu/arts/events/ Kennesaw State University Faculty Chamber Players Robert Cronin, flute √ Robin Johnson, oboe and English horn √† Toni Marie Marchioni, oboe √† Ted Gurch, clarinet and bassett horn √† John Warren, clarinet √† Heather Rodriguez, clarinet √ Alcides Rodriguez, bass clarinet √ Carl Nitchie, bassoon † Laura Najarian, bassoon √† Juan de Gomar, bassoon and contra bassoon √† Richard Deane, horn √† Tom Witte, horn √† Kathy Wood, horn † Charae Krueger, cello † Douglas Sommer, bass † John Lawless, marimba Peter Witte, conductor √† √ Volans † Dvorak PROGRAM NOTES HIGDON – Rapid.fire (1992) “This work is about the violence of the cities, more specifically, the innocent young who are cut down in their homes and on the streets. It is an expression of rage, of pain, and of disbelief. It is the fear and terror. It is an inner city cry.” Note by Jennifer Higdon ••• Jennifer Higdon (b. Brooklyn, NY, December 31, 1962) maintains a full schedule of commissions and her music is known for its technical skill and audience appeal. Hailed by The Washington Post as "a savvy, sensitive composer with a keen ear, an innate sense of form and a generous dash of pure esprit," she is one of America's most frequently performed composers. Her works have been recorded on over two dozen CDs. In 2004, the Atlanta Symphony released the Grammy-winning Higdon: Concerto for Orchestra/City Scape. In fall of 2006, NAXOS released a recording of Higdon's chamber works (performed by the Cypress String Quartet). At Douglas Sommer the same time, Cedille released a recording of Zaka, performed by eighth Artist-in-Residence in Bass blackbird, and Crystal Records released a recording of DASH, performed by the Verdehr Trio. Douglas Sommer joined the faculty at KSU in 1997. He has been a member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra since 1989. Prior to his Higdon enjoys more than 200 performances a year of her works. Her arrival in Atlanta, Mr. Sommer held positions with the orchestras in work blue cathedral is one of the most-performed orchestral works by a Columbus, San Francisco, Portland, and San Jose. He received his M.M. living composer (100 orchestras have performed the work since its 2000 from the New England Conservatory and his B.M. from the San premiere). Francisco Conservatory. His teachers include Lawrence Wolfe, S. Charles Siani, Edwin Barker, Stephen Tramontozzi, and Harold Robinson. He She teaches composition at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. has performed in the summer festivals at Tanglewood, Spoleto, and Grand Teton and performs frequently with the Atlanta Chamber Players. GOLIJOV – Mariel (1999) Peter Witte "I wrote this piece in memory of my friend Mariel Stubrin. I attempted to Conductor capture that short instant before grief, in which one learns of the sudden death of a friend who was full of life: a single moment frozen forever in Raised in Georgia's arts and education communities, Peter Witte is Chair one's memory, and which reverberates through the piece, among the of the Department of Music and Director of Instrumental Studies at waves and echoes of the Brazilian music that Mariel loved. The work Kennesaw State University. Conductor of the KSU Wind Ensemble since was written for and premiered by Maya Beiser and Steve Schick." 1997, Mr. Witte previously held a conducting position at Gettysburg College. Note by Osvaldo Golijov Recently Mr. Witte led performances in Carnegie Hall with the National ••• Wind Ensemble, the Metropolitan Atlanta Youth Wind Ensemble, and with the Atlanta Wind Symphony, with whom he served as Music "The high energy in Bartok and Stravinsky's music was this ethnic Director for seven years. Additionally, he is a member of the KSU energy, a Jewish energy, a Gypsy energy, and it was precisely the energy Faculty Chamber Players, a collaborative ensemble comprised of that was literally exterminated in the death camps of Europe. It is what members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Atlanta Opera has been missing from most European music for a while. It's that huge, Orchestra. unbearable melody of lament which is devastating and life-affirming at the same time. Which is, of course, a huge tradition of Jewish music, and Mr. Witte has conducted performances at the University of Michigan, the which has been missing in action. Osvaldo has brought it back from Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, Georgia State University and Eastern Europe, through Israel, through Argentina. It is transformed but with the Cobb Symphony Orchestra, and the Third Army Ground Forces still wailing." Band. Committed to music in our schools, he serves as conductor, Peter Sellars clinician and coach with bands, orchestras and honors ensembles throughout the south. Osvaldo Golijov (born December 5, 1960) grew up in an Eastern European Jewish household in La Plata, Argentina. Born to a piano While earning degrees in conducting and horn performance from the teacher mother and physician father, Golijov was raised surrounded by University of Michigan, Mr. Witte studied with H. Robert Reynolds, chamber classical music, Jewish liturgical and klezmer music, and the Louis Stout, Lowell Greer and Bryan Kennedy. new tango of Astor Piazzolla. After studying piano at the local conservatory and composition with Gerardo Gandini he moved to Israel Mr. Witte is a graduate of the Northside School for the Arts in Atlanta. in 1983, where he studied with Mark Kopytman at the Jerusalem Rubin An alumnus of the Brevard Music Center and the Atlanta Symphony Academy and iM.M.ersed himself in the colliding musical traditions of Youth Orchestra, he currently serves as an advisor to the Cobb that city. Upon moving to the United States in 1986, Golijov earned Symphony Orchestra. Charae Krueger his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Artist-in-Residence in Cello George Crumb, and was a fellow at Tanglewood, studying with Oliver Knussen. Charae Krueger joined the faculty at Kennesaw State University in 2006 and is a member of KSU ‘s Faculty String Trio. She received her training For the past seven years Golijov has been inspired by the voice of Dawn in cello studies at the New England Conservatory of Music where she Upshaw, for whom he composed several works, including the Three studied with Laurence Lesser and Colin Carr and received a B.M. degree Songs for Soprano and Orchestra, the opera Ainadamar, the cycle Ayre, in cello performance. She also holds an Artist Diploma from the Longy and a number of arrangements of popular songs. School of Music in Cambridge, MA. Ms. Krueger received her chamber music training with Eugene Lehner of the Kolisch Quartet, as well as In 2000, the premiere of Golijov's St. Mark Passion took the music world with Robert Mann and Samuel Rhodes of the Juilliard String Quartet. by storm. Commissioned by Helmuth Rilling for the European Music She has also coached with such artists as Menahem Pressler of the Beaux Festival, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of J.S. Bach's death, the Arts Trio, Louis Krasner, Felix Galimir and Leon Kirchner. She has piece featured the Schola Cantorum of Caracas, with the Orquesta La played in masterclasses with Aldo Parisot, Janos Starker and Tsuyoshi Pasión (especially assembled for this work by Golijov together with Tsutsumi at the Banff School for the Arts. percussionist Mikael Ringquist), all conducted by Maria Guinand. The CD of the premiere of this work, on the Haenssler Classic label, received Principal Cellist of the Atlanta Opera Orchestra, Ms. Krueger also Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations in 2002. For the premiere of performs frequently with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Ayre, Golijov founded another virtuoso ensemble: The Andalucian Dogs. Chamber Orchestra of Tennessee, where she will be served as soloist this Together with Dawn Upshaw, they premiered the piece at Zankel Hall season. She enjoys playing chamber music with various ensembles and recorded it on a Grammy-nominated CD for Deutsche throughout the city, performing with the Amadeus String Ensemble, the Grammophon in 2005. In 2006 Deutsche Grammophon released the Musica Da Camera, the Chamber Music Society of Atlanta and the Lyra recording of Ainadamar, with Dawn Upshaw, Kelley O'Connor and String Quartet.