Ensemble and Faculty Concert: 2019-10-30 -- University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra Audio Playlist Video Playlist Access to audio and video playlists restricted to current faculty, staff, and students. If you have questions, please contact the Rita Benton Music Library at [email protected]. Scroll to see Program PDF University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra Professor David E. Becker, Interim Director of Orchestral Studies SCHOOL OF All UISO students rotate part assignments and seating throughout the year VIOLIN 1 CELLO BASSOON MUSIC Allen, Nicole Airhart, Emily Hockett, Keegan (principal) Anderson, Amy Conroy, Eden Morales, Clara (cbsn) Barker, Lou Escalada, Alex Seguin, Shawn (cbsn) Harmon, Sarah Fruhling, Caleb Helmkamp, Amalia Gomez, Adrian HORN Hontilâ, Luciana (co-principal 2nd violin) Hansen, Sarah (principal) Hajek, Delaney Maddaleno, Megan Huang, Bennet Halbert, Katey (co-principal) McCourt, Madeline Kaut, Oskar Olson, Zoe Palazzolo, Joshua (concertmaster) Meikle, Lydia Tang, Yi-Hsun (co-principal) Staub, Ryan Richards, Eva TRUMPET Valencia, Caitlyn Steele, Brooke Wemmie, Sasha Buhr, Matt VIOLIN 2 Wibe, Dean Krist, Ciarra (co-principal) Bean, Bailee McCall, Claire Binosi, Eddie BASS Powell, Bryan (co-principal) Bonder, Anna Hilliard, Garrett (principal) Talukder, Kamal Johnson, Maddie Kundel, Lauren TROMBONE Leahy, Anna Montgomery, Tyler Li, Rachel Vance, Cescily Fjeldheim, Karissa Pinski, Hannah Whitford, Abigail Kelley, Tom (principal) Soemadi, Arielle Williams-Yee, Abigail Truax, Kiersten Thompson, Kendra Yager, Will TUBA Zerpa, Simon (co-principal) FLUTE Mercedes, David VIOLA Bardwell, Greg (co-principal) PERCUSSION Archambeau, Dominique Lampkin, Christian Anderson, Matthew Beaty, Marissa (co-principal piccolo) Cooke, Jilly Han, Donghee Mizzi, Paul Eisenstein, Yoni Hoherz, Anton (co-principal and piccolo) Lapage, Connor Lastra, Fernanda Smith, Trevor timpani Miller, Ruth OBOE Moses, Anna Doremus, Lexi (co-principal) HARP Rybarczyk, Daniela Sehmann, Jenna (co-principal) Pamela Weest-Carrasco Schenck, Jill Wallace, LaBarrin (Eng. horn) Vig, Zachary CLARINET Wilson, Samantha (principal) Cassisa, Kim (co-principal) UI ORCHESTRA STAFF ENSEMBLE CONCERT Edvenson, Arianna (co-principal) Simón Zerpa, orchestra manager UI Symphony Orchestra Fernanda Lastra, head librarian Professor David E. Becker, Director of Orchestral Studies Adrian Gomez Hernandez, For the most up to date listing of concerts and wind librarian Megan Maddaleno, recitals please visit arts.uiowa.edu string librarian Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. Sung Hun, attendance Voxman Music Building, Concert Hall communities, Fernanda Lastra created “La Trama Ensamble,” an interesting project she led for four UI Symphony Orchestra years as artistic and musical director. David E. Becker, Interim Director of Orchestral Studies Fernanda Lastra holds an undergraduate music degree from La Plata University, Argentina, in Fernanda Lastra, Simón Zerpa Carballo, Megan Maddaleno, Graduate Orchestra Conductors orchestral and choral conducting and a master’s degree in orchestral conducting from Penn State University. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in orchestral conducting at the University of Iowa under the tutelage of Maestro David Becker. MEGAN MADDALENO Maddaleno received her Bachelor of Music Education degree with emphasis in instrumental studies from Webster UniversitY located in St. Louis, Missouri. During her time there, she was the PROGRAM recipient of the PeggY Fossett Endowed Scholarship Fund for Music, the Buder Foundation Music Performance Scholarship, and was inducted into Omicron Delta Kapp — The National Leadership Honors SocietY. In the summer of 2013, Maddaleno worked as an editing and logistics intern for Jonathan Kozol’s Institute for Public Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, providing research on Rienzi Overture Richard WAGNER recent developments in the world of music education for a world-renowned social justice and public (1813–1883) education fgure. She graduated in 2014 with departmental and academic honors. Fernanda Lastra, conductor Maddaleno then worked in the Columbia Public School District as the director of orchestras for both West Middle School and Hickman High School, directing students grades 7–12. Her students Symphony No. 5, C Minor, Op. 67 Ludwig van BEETHOVEN have won honors from such organizations as MMTA, MTNA, State Solo and Ensemble, District Allegro con brio (1770–1827) Large Ensemble, All-State Orchestra, and COMP. While in Columbia, Missouri, Maddaleno was a Andante con moto conducting student of Maestro Kirk Trevor and acted as musical assistant of the Missouri Symphony Simon Zerpa Carballo, conductor Society Conservatory. Since leaving Columbia, Maddaleno has been involved in festivals and Allegro workshops including those by The International Conducting Institute and Miami Music Festival. Allegro Megan Maddaleno, conductor SIMÓN ZERPA Simón Zerpa is an energetic and charismatic orchestra conductor who was trained as a violinist in the National System of Youth Orchestras and Choirs of Venezuela. Most recently, Zerpa has been named to serve as the 2019 Karen Smuda Emerging Conductor at the Peninsula Music Festival. ——— Intermission ——— In recent years, Mr. Zerpa has maintained an active conducting schedule throughout the United States and abroad. In 2015, he co-produced and conducted an orchestral festival in Mérida, Venezuela, Orquesta Jóvenes de Mérida. The same year, Simón collaborated with American composer and Tales of Hemingway for Cello and Orchestra (2015) Michael DAUGHERTY Pulitzer Prize winner David Land, conducting his work Pierced at the composer’s Festival at the 1. Big Two-Hearted River (1954) University of Shenandoah. 2. For Whom the Bell Tolls In 2017, he toured in Argentina with the orchestra of the Shenandoah Conservatory as assistant 3. The Old Man and the Sea director to the Venezuelan conductor Jan Wagner and had the opportunity to conduct in multiple 4. The Sun Also Rises cities of the tour. Anthony Arnone, cellist Zerpa made his opera debut conducting Mozart’s Magic Flute with the Shenandoah Conservatory Opera in April 2017. Then, by the end of that year, Simón was invited to conduct at the most important music education conference in the United States, the Midwest Clinic, with the Sartartia Middle School Orchestra whose live recordings can be found on the Amazon platform. In 2018, Mr. Zerpa was engaged as assistant conductor at the National Music Festival with Maestro Richard Rosenberg. Simón Zerpa is currently pursuing his doctorate in orchestral conducting at the University of Iowa under the tutelage of Maestro David Becker and also serves as the orchestra artistic director of the College Community Orchestra at Central College in Pella. In consideration of our performers and guests, please take a moment to turn off your cell phone. A native of Honolulu, Mr. Arnone received his bachelor of music degree from the New England PROGRAM NOTES Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Colin Carr. He left graduate studies with Bonnie Hampton at the San Francisco Conservatory to accept a position with the Orchestré Philharmonique Rienzi Overture (Richard Wagner) de Nice, France, where he remained for two years, continuing his studies with Paul and Maude In 1837 Wagner encountered Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel, Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tortelier. He later returned to the United States to complete his master’s degree in conducting at Tribunes, which inspired him to create a libretto for a grand opera. The composer had completed Wichita State University. two acts of music before he left his position at a theater in Riga in 1839, escaping his creditors Before coming to the University of Iowa, Mr. Arnone was principal cellist of the Madison Symphony by being smuggled aboard a ship with his wife. He ended up in Paris, where he continued to and taught at Ripon College in Wisconsin. He has also taught and performed at the Madeline Island struggle fnancially. With help from Giacomo Meyerbeer, Rienzi fnally premiered at the Dresden Music Camp, Eastern Music Festival, the Stonybrook Music Camp, the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, Hoftheater in 1843, where it was well received, even though it lasted from six o’clock until well SC., and the Festival Dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, where he was co-principal cellist for seven years. after midnight. MICHAEL DAUGHERTY Wagner strongly identifed with the work’s central character, who rises to power in fourteenth- Multiple GRAMMY Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa century Rome; Rienzi is, according to Thomas Grey, “a charismatic demagogue with a messianic in 1954. He is the son of a dance-band drummer and the oldest of fve brothers, all professional sense of his own mission.” Adolf Hitler was also taken with Rienzi and remarked, cryptically, that musicians. Daugherty has achieved international recognition as one of the ten most performed his attendance at the opera around 1906 was “where it all began.” Rienzi was revived in Berlin American composers of concert music, according to the League of American Orchestras. His and Frankfurt in 1933 after he came to power. The autograph score was in Hitler’s possession at orchestral music, recorded by Naxos over the last two decades, has received six GRAMMY Awards, his death and is thus presumed lost. including Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2011 for Deus ex Machina for piano and Wagner’s goal of “sumptuous extravagance” is apparent in Rienzi’s opulent overture, composed