FACULTY RECITAL presented by THE SHEPHERD SOCIETY Sunday, September 29, 1996 3:00 p.m. Stude Concert Hall RICE UNNERSITY Scli>ol~ Of Music PROGRAM Two Songs, Op. 91 Johannes Brahms I. Gestillte Sehnsucht (1833-1897) II. Geistliches Wiegenlied Martha Strongin Katz, viola Joyce Farwell, mezzo-soprano Brian Connelly, piano Piano Trio, Op. 90 "Dumky'' Antonin Dvorak I. Lento maestoso. Allegro quasi (1841-1904) doppio movimento II. Poco adagio. Vivace III. Andante TV. Andante moderato V. Allegro VI. Lento maestoso. Vivace, quasi doppio movimento Kenneth Goldsmith, violin Paul Katz, cello Brian Connelly, piano String Sextet, Op.18 Johannes Brahms I. Allegro, ma non troppo II. Andante, ma moderato Kathleen Winkler, violin I Misha Galaganov, viola II William Fedkenheuer, violin II Paul Katz, cello I Martha Strongin Katz, viola I Jeffrey Zeigler, cello II BIOGRAPHIES BRIAN CONNELLY, Artist Teacher ofPiano at The Shepherd School of Music, is an unconventional artist ofexceptional range and accomplishment in both historical and modern repertoires. In recent seasons he has performed works as diverse as the entire Vingt Regards sur L'Enfant-Jesus for solo piano by Olivier Messiaen, the complete song cycles of Schubert, quintets of Brahms and Schumann, fortepiano works (on original instruments) of Mozart, and the Etudes of Debussy. He has shared solo recitals with jazz pianist Marcus Roberts and with Pulitzer Prize winning composer William Bolcom, and appears frequently with preeminent artists such as violinist Sergiu Luca, cellist Gary Hoffman, flutist Carol Wincenc, clarinetist Charles Neidich, and bass Michael Schopper. Mr. Connelly performed nearly 15 0 solo and chamber works for the acclaimed Da Camera during its first six seasons. His long association with renowned saxophonist Laura Hunter led to premieres of major works by William Albright, William Bolcom, Paul Cooper, Ross Lee Finney, Arthur Gottschalk, Laura Karpman, and Richard Lavenda, among many others. Last February, Mr. Connelly performed Schoenberg's complete Book of the Hanging Gardens with mezzo-soprano Katherine Ciesinski and the new chamber ensemble CONTEXT. JOYCE FARWELL , mezzo-soprano, is well known to many audiences throughout the country both as a performer and a pedagogue. Dr. Farwell is Professor of Voice at The Shepherd School ofMusic . She holds degrees from the University of Oklahoma at Norman and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in voice from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where she studied with Italo Tajo. She has been a soloist with university and professional orchestras around the country and has also participated in nu­ merous workshops and master classes in vocal and choral music. Dr. Farwell recently performed Ariadne of Strauss in Madison, Wisconsin, and Kramer­ spiegel of Strauss at the University of Southern California. WILLIAM FEDKENHEUER, originally from Calgary, Alberta, began playing the violin at age four. At age fourteen he was selected by the Canada Council to represent Canada on a concert tour to Japan. Mr. Fedkenheuer has performed throughout Canada, the US., Japan, Norway, Scotland, and England. He is currently working toward a Bachelor ofMusic degree at The Shepherd School ofMusic as a student ofKathleen Winkler. Born in Russia, MISHA GALAGANOVmoved to Israel in 1990, where he studied viola at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy ofMusic with Michael Kugel. During the years 1990-96, he performed in Israel, Germany, Italy, France, the Czech Republic, Mexico, and the US. as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra player. As principal violist of the Young Israel Philharmonic, the International Mediterranean Symphony Orchestra, and the "Tad Harif' Chamber Orchestra, he performed under the batons of Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, James De Priest, Yoel Levi, and Lorin Maazel. Mr.Galaganov is presently working toward his Master ofMusic degree at The Shepherd School ofMusic as a student ofMartha Strongin Katz. KENNETH GOLDSMITH is violinist ofthe Mirecourt Trio, an ensemble that enjoys international acclaim through tours, prize-winning recordings, and television and radio broadcasts. He is currently Professor of Music at The Shepherd School of Music. As a recitalist and soloist with orchestra, Mr. Goldsmith has toured the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Taiwan, and the People's Republic of China. His teachers include William Kroll, Mischa Mischakoff, and Nathan Milstein, and he holds degrees from George Peabody College and Stanford University. Mr. Goldsmith has given master classes throughout the United States, Europe, and the Orient, and appears frequently in recital with pianist Jo Anne Ritacca. His extensive recorded repertoire, both solo and with the Mirecourt Trio and Lyric Art String Quartet, appears on the following record labels: ABC, Genesis, CR/, Innova, Grand Prix, Audax, Gasparo, Bay Cities, and TR Records. With the Mirecourt Trio, he has embarked on a compact disc series for Music and Arts ofAmerica featuring new American music and the stan­ dard literature for piano trio. In 1962 Mr. Goldsmith won the Young Concert Artists Competition in New York City, and he received a special award at the Kennedy-Rockefeller Inter­ national Violin Competition in Washington, D. C. , in 1980. With the Mirecourt Trio, he was a finalist at the 1976 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition in New York. Mr. Goldsmith has been Concertmaster of several American sym­ phony orchestras and has performed with virtually every major conductor and soloist. His academic career includes posts at Stanford University, California State University at Fullerton, Grinnell College, University of Iowa, Pomona College, University of California at Irvine, and the University of Houston. Mr. Goldsmith performs this evening on a violin made by Vincenzo Panormo in 1776 and a bow made by Louis Tourte in 1780. The founding violist ofthe Cleveland Quartet, MARTHA STRONGIN KATZ, played in the quartet from its inception in 1969 until 1980. She performed in over 1, 000 concerts, including appearances at the White House, on television's Grammy Awards (the first classical musicians ever to appear on that show), on NBC's "Today Show," and in the major concert halls of Europe, North and South America, Israel, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. The thirty-six works recorded for RCA Red Seal during this time received six Grammy nominations and Best of the Year awards from Time and Stereo Review magazines. Other distinguished guest artists with which she and the Cleveland Quartet recorded during these years include Emanuel Ax, Richard Stolzman, Pinchas Zukerman, Bernard Greenhouse, and the Barry Tuckwell Wind Quintet. Martha Strongin Katz's solo appearances include a Carnegie Hall per­ formance of Berlioz's Harold in Italy with Michael Tilson Thomas, recital and concerto performances at The International Viola Congress (1989) and recital and concerto appearances in cities such as New York, Boston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Rochester, San Francisco, and St. Louis. Ms. Strongin Katz studied violin with Raphael Bronstein and Ivan Galamian and viola with Lillian Fuchs and William Primrose. Winner of the 1969 Geneva International Viola Competition, she received at the same time the Max Reger Awards and performed as soloist with L'Orchestra de la Suisse Romande. Presently Professor of Viola at The Shepherd School of Music, Ms. Strongin Katz was Professor of Viola at The Eastman School of Music until recently where she taught viola and chamber music since 1976. In addition to many summers spent at the Aspen Music Festival, she has also played and taught at the Interlochen Arts Academy, Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, Maine, the Marlboro Festival (and several Music from Marlboro tours), the Santa Fe Chamber Festival, Yale Summer School of Chamber Music, Musicorda, and The Ban.ff Center for The Arts. This past year she also served on the jury for the 1995 Ban.ff International String Quartet Competition. Her recent Euro­ pean activities include frequent chamber music master classes for ProQuartet of Paris, The Guild Hall in London, the Vivoin Academy, and the Festival de L'Epau in France. Martha Strongin Katz plays a viola made by Lorenzo Storioni of Cremona in 1800. PA UL KATZ is known to concertgoers around !he world as cellist of the Cleveland Quartet, which made more than 2, 500 appearances on four conti­ nents, in all of the music capitals, great concert halls, and music festivals of the world. As a member of this celebrated ensemble from 1969-1995, he also performed at the White House and on many television shows including "CBS Sunday Morning," NBC's "Today Show," and "The Grammy Awards" (the first classical musicians ever to appear on that show), and was seen in "In The Mainstream: The Cleveland Quartet," a one-hour documentary televised across the United States and Canada. Mr. Katz has appeared as soloist in New York, Cleveland, Toronto, Los Angeles, and other cities throughout North America. He was a student of Gregor Piatigorsky, Janos Starker, Bernard Greenhouse, Leonard Rose, and Gabor Rejto. In 1962 he was selected nationally to play in the historic Pablo Casals Master Class in Berkeley, California . While in his twenties he was a prize winner in the Munich and Geneva Competitions and for three summers a participant at Rudolf Serkin's Marlboro Music Festival. Of special interest to cellists are his recordings ofthe Cello Sonata of Ernst von Dohnanyi with pianist Barry Snyder for Pro Arte Records and the Cleveland Quartet's recordings for Columbia Records