Curtis on Tour The Nina von Maltzahn Global Touring Initiative of the Curtis Institute of Music WHEN: VENUE: Sunday, BInG March 4, 2018 cOncErT haLL 4:00 PM Photo: Pete checchia Program Artists Sonata for Clarinet and Piano Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) david Shifrin, clarinet Grazioso—Un poco più mosso dominic armstrong, tenor Andantino—Vivace e leggiero Zorá String Quartet david Shifrin, clarinet • Jiacheng Xiong, piano Jiacheng Xiong, piano Zizai ning , cello “Extinguish my eyes” from Two Love Songs Leonard Bernstein “I’ve been Afraid” from A Quiet Place “So Pretty” “When My Soul Touches Yours” from Two Love Songs About “My Twelve Tone Melody” the Program “Dream with Me” from Peter Pan dominic armstrong, tenor • Jiacheng Xiong, piano • Zizai ning, cello Leonard Bernstein, aaron copland, and George Gershwin composed some of Sextet for Piano, Clarinet, and String Quartet Aaron Copland (1900–1990) america’s most iconic and beloved Allegro vivace music. Each told a distinctly american Lento story: the Tin Pan alley songs of Finale: precise and rhythmic Gershwin, the open spaces of the david Shifrin, clarinet • Zorá String Quartet • Jiacheng Xiong, piano frontier as expressed by copland, or the —Intermission— bustling jazz-flavored urbanity of Bernstein. With this program curtis joins Lullaby George Gershwin (1898–1937) the worldwide centenary celebrations of Zorá String Quartet Leonard Bernstein, a 1941 conducting graduate, who studied at the school in Songs and Dances (from West Side Story ) Leonard Bernstein his early twenties just before launching arr. John B hedges his meteoric career. In addition to curtis “Something’s coming” on Tour performances in arizona, “dance at the Gym” california, Florida, Oregon, “Maria” Pennsylvania, and Washington, d.c., the Ballet Sequence - “Somewhere” curtis Opera Theatre presents dominic armstrong, tenor • david Shifrin, clarinet Bernstein’s A Quiet Place , the american Zorá String Quartet • Jiacheng Xiong, piano premiere of the chamber arrangement by Garth Edwin Sunderland, in new york “Songs and Dances” is commissioned by the Curtis Institute of Music for Curtis on Tour in celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s Centenary. and Philadelphia. and the curtis archives open their collection to the This program is generously supported by Mary and Clinton Gilliland. public with photos, letters, programs, and more available online. Learn more PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE . Please be considerate of others and turn off all phones, pagers, and watch alarms. Photography and recording of any kind are not permitted. Thank you. at www.curtis.edu/Bernstein. 2 About the Artists the Voice in a co-production of Frédéric chaslin’s new opera Clarimonde . he also made his debut with dayton Opera as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte , returned to Opera Memphis as The husband in Les mamelles de Tirésias , and joined ash Lawn Opera as Freddy in its summer production of My Fair Lady . On the concert stage, he appeared with the Brooklyn art Song Society in recital, sang Lawrence Siegel’s Kaddish with the rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and sang the Verdi Requiem with the Waterbury Symphony. Dominic Armstrong, tenor Opera colorado as arthur dominic armstrong has quickly dimmesdale in the anticipated world during the 2013-14 season, Mr. established himself internationally as premiere of The Scarlet Letter , sang the armstrong debuted with the new york an artist of superb and distinguished Second Jew in Salome with the detroit Philharmonic, in acclaimed musicality and characterization. he is Symphony Orchestra, and performed performances of Britten’s Spring a winner of the 2013 George London in recital with the Brooklyn art Song Symphony, conducted by Music Foundation Vocal competition. Society. during the summer of 2016, director alan Gilbert. The tenor Mr. armstrong performed the role of essayed his first performance of This season, dominic armstrong alfredo in La traviata with chautauqua cavaradossi in Tosca with the returns to dayton Opera as don José Opera. northwest Indiana Symphony, and in Carmen and to the Lansing sang the First Jew in Salome with the Symphony for Beethoven’s ninth Mr. armstrong began the 2014-15 Philadelphia Orchestra and Opera Symphony. Last season, dominic season debuting the roles of haydn Philadelphia, conducted by yannick traveled to russia to perform Britten’s and the Bartender in the world nézet-Séguin, as well as the Third Jew War Requeim with the russian national premiere performances of The Classical in performances of the same opera Orchestra and subsequently Style at the Ojai Festival, cal with the Boston Symphony. performed in a series of concerts, Performances, and carnegie hall, and additionally, Mr. amstrong appeared collaborating with craig rutenberg. he debuted with both On Site Opera and in holiday concerts with the Oregon also made his company debut with The Phoenecia International Festival of Symphony; in recital with the Brooklyn 3 art Song Society; in Mozart’s Requiem Vieillard in L’enfant et les sortilèges , Mr. armstrong’s numerous prizes and with the Lansing Symphony; with both and Luigi in Il Tabarro . awards include being one of the Grand the Symphony in c and Princeton Finalists in the 2008 national council Symphony for Britten’s Serenade; and Previous seasons have found Mr. auditions with the Metropolitan Opera, in recital with christine Brewer and armstrong performing with companies a 2013 George London Foundation craig rutenberg, under the auspices of such as: Opera company of Winner, the SaI Vocal competition, the George London Foundation. Philadelphia as Flavio in Norma and Gold Medal aria competition (Truman Borsa in Rigoletto ; nycO as State university), The Sullivan awards, In the 2012-13 season, dominic François/Jazz Trio in A Quiet Place ; Lucrezia Bori Grant, Opera Index, armstrong returned to new york city chicago Opera Theatre in the title role Gerda Lissner award, The William Opera to sing Peter Quint in their in La Clemenza di Tito ; deutsche Oper Boldyga and Betty Myers Incentive production of The Turn of the Screw , Berlin as Parpignol in La Bohème ; award from annapolis Opera, naTS followed by his debuts with carnegie Opera regio Torino as the Gran State and regional winner, and he was hall and Lyric Opera of chicago, as Sacerdote in Idomeneo ; reverend the 2009 winner of the Liederkranz art Steve in andre Prévin’s A Streetcar adams in Peter Grimes ; and heinrich Song competition. he holds degrees Named Desire . he closed the season der Schreiber in Tannhaüser Wexford from Truman State university, The premiering two new operas: La Reina Festival Opera for count almaviva in Juilliard School, and The curtis Institute. with american Lyric Theater and The Ghosts of Versailles ; Wolf Trap Opera as Blind with american Opera Projects. candide alongside Jason alexander in David Shifrin, clarinet candide and as ulisse in Il ritorno One of only two wind players to have having been seen in chicago Opera d’Ulisse in patria ; and Musica Viva hong been awarded the avery Fisher Prize Theatre’s Moscow, Cheryomushki Kong for nemorino in L’Elisir d’amore . since the award’s inception in 1974, Mr. (Opera News called his performance Shifrin is in constant demand as an of Sergei a “honeyed account”), Mr. an avid recitalist, Mr. armstrong has orchestral soloist, recitalist and armstrong’s 2011-12 season also maintained frequent performances of chamber music collaborator. included his Memphis Opera debut recital repertoire as well. recent as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus and a recitals have included the collected Mr. Shifrin has appeared with the return to Lorin Maazel’s castleton songs of duparc with soprano Susanna Philadelphia and Minnesota Festival to cover don José and Phillips, as well as performances of Orchestras and the dallas, Seattle, perform the role of Le remendado Brahms’ Die Schöne Magelone , and the houston, Milwaukee, detroit and in Carme n. These assignments Twickenham Festival, in a program Phoenix symphonies among many marked the artist’s fourth season featuring On Wenlock Edge , and To others in the uS, and internationally with the festival, where he has also Julia . he has also been a participant of with orchestras in Italy, Switzerland, been seen as Macheath in Britten’s the Steans Institute at the ravinia Germany, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. In The Beggar’s Opera , Peter Quint in Festival in chicago. addition, he has served as principal The Turn of the Screw , Le Petit clarinetist with the cleveland 4 northwest in Portland, Oregon since 1981 and is also the artistic director of the Phoenix chamber Music Festival. david Shifrin joined the faculty at the yale School of Music in 1987 and was appointed artistic director of the chamber Music Society of yale and yale’s annual concert series at carnegie hall in September 2008. he has also served on the faculties of The Juilliard School, university of Southern california, university of Michigan, cleveland Institute of Music and the university of hawaii. In 2007 he was awarded an honorary professorship at china’s central conservatory in Beijing. Mr. Shifrin’s recordings on delos, dGG, angel/EMI, arabesque, BMG, SOny, and crI have consistently garnered praise Orchestra, american Symphony ensembles and artists as the Tokyo and awards. he has received three Orchestra (under Stokowski), the and Emerson String Quartets, Wynton Grammy nominations and his recording honolulu and dallas symphonies, the Marsalis, and pianists Emanuel ax and of the Mozart clarinet concerto with the Los angeles chamber Orchestra and andré Watts. Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, new york chamber Symphony. Mr. performed in its original version on a Shifrin has also received critical an artist member of the chamber specially built elongated clarinet, was acclaim as a recitalist, appearing at Music Society of Lincoln center since named record of the year by Stereo such venues as alice Tully hall, Weill 1989, david Shifrin served as its artistic review. Both his recording of the recital hall and Zankel hall at director from 1992 to 2004.