Music At Manoa Logo Music Department College Of Arts Humanities Recital with pianist Andria Fennig. Program includes william bolcom's Three Rags;Paquito D'Rivera's Village Street Quartet; Daniel Kellog's New Work (untitled http://www.hawaii.edu/uhmmusic/visitors.htm
Extractions: and the Majikina Honryu Dance Company February 2002. Concert in Orvis Auditorium. Part of this program of Okinawan music and dance was devoted to an ancient court music style, called Uzagaku, which was recently reconstructed and revived. The ensemble's director, Etsuko Higa, is a UHM Music alumna. Fang-Tzu Liu January 2002. Recital in Orvis Auditorium. On the piano faculty at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Ms. Liu presented a program featuring Bach/Busoni Chaconne in D minor , a selection of Debussy Etudes, Cesar Franck's Prelude, Chorale and Fugue and works by Kevin Ernste and Gregory Mertl.
Extractions: FAX: 212-995-4043 Tenor Robert F. White maintains a long and highly successful singing and teaching career. He has been on the voice faculty of the Julliard School since 1991 and, for five years prior to that, taught voice at the Manhattan School of Music. He studied in Rome with both Heinz Kreuger and Deborah Fambri- a student of Toti dal Monte. Four years of study with Sergius Kagen in New York was followed by many years under the tutelage of Beverley Peck Johnson at the Julliard School where he received his Masters in Voice in 1968. Subsequent work with Fred Carama of Los Angeles rounded out his vocal studies. Due to his European studies, he is fluent in five languages. Robert Whites musical versatility is expressed in a vast range of song spanning all the decades of his life. He began his singing and acting career on New York radio and television with such luminaries of his childhood as Bing Crosby, Fred Allen, Frank Sinatra, Paul Whiteman, Beatrice Lillie and Arthur Godfrey. He has sung for six U.S. presidents most recently President Clinton at the March 17, 2000 White House Salute to Ireland. He sang for Britains Queen Mother and Prince Charles, Monacos Royal Family and Pope John Paul II. He studied with Nadia Boulanger at Fontainebleau and was soloist with Noah Greenbergs New York Pro Musica in Renaissance repertoire. He has sung with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, as well as with the Royal Philharmonic and many other major orchestras. He has performed in operas of Handel, Mozart, Smetana and Bizet with the Wexford Opera, the Monte Carlo Opera, and the Arizona Opera among others. He appeared in numerous concerts in England and the UK with flutist James Galway, and hosted his own BBC radio series with orchestra in music ranging from Beethoven and Verdi to Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim.
NPR Performance Today Pianist Jonathan Biss and technically secure (never ostentatious) makes him an exceptional pianist forany age of the Emerson Quartet to premiere a quintet by william bolcom; and a http://www.npr.org/programs/pt/4a/biss-bio.html
Extractions: PT Young Artist-in-Residence The young American pianist Jonathan Biss has already established an international reputation with performances in Canada, Finland, Germany, Israel and Italy, as well as throughout the United States. His exceptional promise was recognzed with an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1999. He has also received Wolf Trap's Shouse Debut Artist award, presented to him in 1997 by Isaac Stern, with whom he appeared in a recital program at Wolf Trap. Mr. Biss' summer schedule in 2001 features returns to the Bard and Bravo! Vail Valley music festival, as well as a series of chamber music performances in Vancouver. Highlights of his 2001-02 season include appearances with the San Francisco Symphony, the National Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra under James Levine. He will also give recitals in Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Toulouse, France, and will begin his second season as a member of Chamber Music Society Two, the pretigious emerging artists program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He made his subscription concert debut on the Society's main series in December 2000 and will embark on a national tour with the Society this season.
Piano Pedagogy Forum art of creatively choosing recital repertoire for the modern pianist seems at williamAlbright The Dream Rags (Hal Leonard) william bolcom Complete Rags for http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/keyboard/PPF/4.2/4.2.PPFp.html
Extractions: tocr@mail.rochester.edu by Tony Caramia The art of creatively choosing recital repertoire for the modern pianist seems at times a monumentally impossible task, a project and process taking on Herculean proportions. After all, if we really contemplate all the marvelous pieces written for the keyboard in the last three centuries, and then consider which small part of this literal "ton" of music might make for an interesting recital program, our mind goes numb (if not our fingers...). Too often we proceed only with the familiar; we take the safe route and avoid the mystery of the un-traveled, the undiscovered. We hear program after program that features a list of pieces that is seldom chronologically-challenged, as though it is written in some impresarioÕs code of conduct that " Since Bach lived before Beethoven and Bartok, we are obliged to perform them in the precise order of their birth " What this can lead to is an audience that is neither stimulated by creative programming nor challenged to listen with new ears, an audience immune to fresh ideas and exciting concepts. (I vividly and fondly remember an all-Russian recital I once heard performed impeccably by Vladimir Ashenazy. As I left the concert hall, I overheard someone remark... "I would have liked some Beethoven".)
ASCAP Concert Music: 2001 Young Composers a Master's degree from the University of Michigan under william bolcom, william Albrightand Bright An active performer, Mr. Zupko was a pianist in the Indiana http://www.ascap.com/concert/composer2001/composer1.html
Extractions: Carter Pann began studying piano at an early age with his grandmother. At fifteen he began lessons with Emilio Del Rosario at the North Shore School of Music in Winnetka, Illinois. With these lessons came an appreciation for performance technique and advanced musical thought. He was also studying composition with Howard Sandroff from the University of Chicago, Hyde Park. In 1994 Pann received his Bachelor's degree from the Eastman School of Music where he studied composition with Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson and David Liptak. He received a Master's degree from the University of Michigan under William Bolcom, William Albright and Bright Sheng. Honors in composition include the K.Serocki Competition for his Piano Concerto (premiered by the Polish Radio Symphony in Lutoslawski Hall, Warsaw), first prizes in the Zoltan Kodaly and FranÁois d'Albert Concours Internationales de Composition, a concerto commission for clarinetist Richard Stoltzman (premiered in Carnegie Hall), a Charles Ives Scholarship from the Academy of Arts and Letters and four ASCAP composer awards.
OperaLinks.com - Browse The Directory his UK debut performance, accompanied by the highly acclaimed pianist Vincenzo Scalera. McKaysformer student, Pulitzer Prize winner william bolcom will see http://www.operalinks.com/newsarchive.asp
HNH - Naxos Classical earliest published score. pianist william bolcom and his talented colleaguesare the perfect advocates for McKay. bolcom, who hails http://www.naxos.com/NewDesign/fopinions.files/bopinions.files/reviews106.htm
Extractions: "Both quartets are important contributions to the repertoire, something made abundantly clear by the Maggini Quartet's masterful, deeply felt, and finely executed readings. The ensemble's burning conviction will make you a believer too, especially in this beautifully engineered production from Naxos." - Victor Carr Jr., classicstoday.com - CANNES CLASSICAL AWARD Winner BEETHOVEN: Complete Works for Cello and Piano Vol.1 "These lively players are very positive and involved about the whole affair. These are fine performances of all of this music, recorded in bright and resonant sound. Even without considering Naxos's cut-rate prices, these are right up there with the best!" - Moore, Fanfare, January/February 2003 BRUSA: Firelights; Adagio; Wedding Song; Requiescat; Suite Grotesque; Favole
Arts In Action Performance Series Pulitzerprize winning composer and pianist, william bolcom, and mezzo-soprano,Joan Morris, have captivated audiences across the nation and abroad. http://www.uncwil.edu/stuaff/arts/2002.htm
Extractions: Ticket Booth Seating Chart Contact Us Home Arts in Action Performance Series The Arts in Action Performance Series offers an expansive array of professional performing arts programs designed to culturally enrich, educate, and entertain. Featuring an eclectic season of jazz, world music, modern dance, theater, and chamber music, there is something for everyone. Presented during the university's academic year, the series is available through subscription and individual tickets with special savings for children, students, seniors, and university faculty and staff. Chucho Valdés Quintet: RESCHEDULED Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 8 p.m., Kenan Auditorium Described by Time magazine as one of the greatest pianists in the world, Chucho Vald s is Cubas foremost musical ambassador. A recent Grammy winner, this world-renowned pianist, composer, bandleader and educator continues his ever-evolving explorations of the African, Spanish and American influences in Afro-Cuban Latin jazz. Keb Mo Monday, October 14, 2002
Previous William C. Byrd Young Artist Competition He was recently featured in the Carnegie Hall series Making Music in a tributeto composer william bolcom. He has performed works by many major composers. http://www.byrdartists.com/last.html
Extractions: 1st Place University of Maryland in College Park. He received his master's in piano performance at Moscow State Conservatory in 1998, and his bachelor's degree from a state music college in Ukraine. He has been a private teacher in both Russia and at the University of Kentucky. He has given recitals in Belgium, Italy, Portugal, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev and Kharov. He has performed as a soloist with the World Symphony in Cincinnati, the National Symphony of Kiev, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Kharov, the Academic Orchestra of Ukraine and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. 3rd Place Mr. Gledhill played the Concerto No. 1 by Tchaikovsky. He is from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He has performed nine works with orchestras, including the San Diego Symphony, Space Coast Philharmonic in Florida, Utah Nevada, Boca Pops, Hilton Head, San Angelo and Brigham Young. Ms. Zavislak played the Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2. She has earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Michigan, where she soon expects to complete her doctorate. She has given recitals in Japan, as well as UM, playing this same concerto. She also has played the Prokofiev Concerto No. 1 at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ms. Sun played the Prokofiev Concerto No. 2. After completing studies at Michigan State University, she went on to the Peabody Conservatory, where she is working on a master's degree. She has been soloist with two Korean Symphonies and the MSU Symphony Orchestra. She has awards in concerto competitions from Korea, Texas and Michigan.
Pianists Information Sites Grasso, Fabio (b.1969) Biography, artistic activity and other information aboutthe Italian pianist and composer. Kapell, william (1922-1953) - Brief http://songsorg.com/Instruments/Keyboard/Piano/Pianists/
Extractions: Harolyn Blackwell Vocal Arts Society Presents Harolyn Blackwell, Soprano, Florence Quivar, Mezzo Soprano J. J. Penna, Pianist 7:30, Tuesday, February 19, Terrace Theatre Florence Quivar Sung With Feeling Ronald Broun, Washington Post , February 21, 2002 A good song has an inevitable simplicity free of artifice, as though no one had to think it up. It seems not so much composed as discovered. Andre Previn's recent song cycle "Honey and Rue" is assembled with artful intelligence, a commanding knowledge of musical style, and a sensitivity to Toni Morrison's texts that snaps them into acute focus. "Clowns on wheels linger to steal foxes that click on the curb" is pretty good as it stands, but Previn adds neon color and makes it better. The songs themselves, however, lack distinction. You sense a composer tweezing, probing, contouring a procession of effects; the songs bounce off the ear and vanish. Soprano Harolyn Blackwell sang them Tuesday evening in the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater with such immaculate purity and emotional commitment that it took a while to realize the music wasn't quite responding; her excellent pianist, J.J. Penna, contributed to this illusion. William Bolcom's ambitious "From the Diary of Sally Hemings" was far better. Bolcom creates a complex, atmospheric musical biosphere for the turbulence of Hemings's alleged relationship with Thomas Jefferson. Playwright Sandra Seaton's text has subtle, penetrating power, and mezzo-soprano Florence Quivar's storytelling melded words and music with convincing, always graceful ease.
