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SEPTEMBER
14 Friday
MITHAS presents: VEENA SAHASRABUDDHE, Hindustani (khyal) Vocal. An evening of Hindustani khyal vocal music by award-winning Veena Sahasrabuddhe. A UP Sangeet Natak Akademi Award winner, Veena is recognized for her Gwalior Gharana style, while borrowing from Kirana and Jaipur Gharanas. 7 PM, Kirsch Auditorium, Stata Center. Adm: Members $18; Non-members $24; Non-MIT students and children, over 10 years $10 Contact: (617) 253-4705
28 Friday
MITHAS presents: BOMBAYJAYASHRI, Carnatic Vocal. Born into a family of musicians with rich lineage and steeped in pedigree music, Bombay Jayashri Ramnath represents the fourth generation of music practitioners in her family. Jayashri has been groomed under the guidance of the legend Shri Lalgudi G. Jayaraman and Smt. T. R. Balamani. 7 PM, Kirsch Auditorium, Stata Center. Adm: Members $18; Non-members $24; Non-MIT students and children, over 10 years $10. Contact: (617) 253-4705
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OCTOBER
4 Thursday
MIT Chapel Series. Elizabeth Reian Bennett, shakuhachi, (Japanese bamboo flute). Noon, Chapel. Free.
Elizabeth Reian Bennett is the first woman to be certified a Grand Master of the shakuhachi and one of only a handful of western players trained in traditional Japanese music. She has studied and performed with living National Treasure Aoki Reibo, recognized as Japan's foremost traditional shakuhachi instrumentalist, for 25 years.
4 Thursday
Michael Musillami Trio with Violinist Mark Feldman: Michael Musillami, Guitar; Joe Fonda, bass; George Schuller, drums. 8pm. Killian Hall. Suggested Donation, $10. Free with MIT I.D.
Michael Musillami Trio with Mark Feldman's performance is part of a Northeast tour in support of a new CD/DVD set, The Treatment (Playscape Recordings), which will be released on September 25th. This newly formed ensemble combines the well-documented chemistry of guitarist/composer Michael Musillami's longstanding trio with the distinctive voice of violinist Mark Feldman, a 25-year veteran of the creative music scene who has recorded with everyone from Muhal Richard Abrams to John Zorn.
Critics have called Musillami "a superior guitarist" (John McDonough, DownBeat) and "a protean player with a prolific output" (Bill Milkowski, JazzTimes), noting that his "intricate compositions are both thematically memorable and ear-grabbing due to their zealous playfulness" (Jay Collins, Signal to Noise). His flagship ensemble is his trio, which has performed in the U.S., Canada and Europe in addition to recording 2002's Beijing and 2005's Dachau, both on his acclaimed Playscape Recordings label. The Treatment, Musillami's 14th recording as a leader, follows 2006's Fragile Forms, the debut of his group Dialect featuring pianist Peter Madsen, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Matt Wilson. Learn more at http://www.michaelmusillami.com/.
7 Sunday
Guest Artist Series presents IIIZ+ Asian Zither Quartet. Yi-Chieh Lai, Zheng;Jocelyn Clark, Kayagûm; Ryuko Mizutani, Koto; Il-Ryun Chung, Changgu. 3pm, Killian Hall. Free.
7 Sunday
MITHAS presents: T. N. KRISHNAN, Carnatic Violin. N. Krishnan is from an illustrious family of musicians acclaimed in both the Carnatic and Hindustani traditions of Indian classical music. A recipient of multiple awards, including the Padmabhushan from the Indian Government, he is one of the elder statesmen of India’s classical music community. 4 PM, Wong Auditorium. Adm: Members $15; Non-members $20; Non-MIT students and children, over 10 years $10. Contact: (617) 253-4705
11 Thursday
MIT Chapel Series. Rosetta Trio: Abigail Karr, violin; Sarah Darling, viola; Kate Bennett, cello. MIT Chapel Series. Rosetta Trio: Abigail Karr, violin; Sarah Darling, viola; Kate Bennett, cello. Anon, Jay pryse amours; Matthew Locke, Little Consort; Gideon Klein, String Trio; Gyorgy Kurtag, Signs, Games, and Messages; Ludwig van Beethoven, String Trio op. 9 no. 1. Noon, Chapel. Free.
Abigail Karr received both Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, studying violin performance with Sergiu Luca. During summers, she participated in the Tanglewood Music Center, the Taos School of Music, the Colorado Music Festival, and the International Baroque Institute at Longy. Since completing her studies at Rice in 2003, she has performed with ensembles in and around her native Boston, including the Handel and Haydn Society, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Boston Ballet, and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. She has also performed with Ton Koopman at Carnegie Hall as part of that organization’s Professional Training Workshop series, and with Sergiu Luca as a guest of Houston’s Context Chamber Ensemble. She is a member of New Trinity Baroque of Atlanta, the Arcturus Chamber Ensemble, and Boston Hausmusik, and enjoys sharing her thoughts on music with her young students.
Violist Sarah Darling is always ready to explore new musical terrain. After a Bachelor's in music at Harvard and a year at the Juilliard School, she spent four years studying in Europe (Amsterdam and Freiburg) as a recipient of the Beebe, Paine, and DAAD grants. Her major teachers: Scott Woolweaver, James Dunham, Karen Tuttle, Nobuko Imai, Wolfram Christ, and Kim Kashkashian, with whom she is now completing a Master's degree at NEC. Sarah has toured extensively in Europe as a member of several chamber groups - in particular, the Amaryllis-Quartett and the Sweelinck Ensemble. She has performed in the Norfolk, Yellow Barn, Kronberg, Baden-Baden, Verbier, Holland, Sarasota, Lucerne, and Ravinia festivals. Currently based in Boston, she is a member of Boston Hausmusik and the founder and director of the Arcturus Chamber Ensemble.
Kate Bennett Haynes studied chamber music with Robert Levin and cello with Rhonda Rider while earning her Bachelor’s degree in Scandinavian Studies from Harvard College. In the summers, she attended such festivals as the Taos School of Music, Kneisel Hall, Sarasota, Norfolk, and Yellow Barn. She later studied modern cello with Laurence Lesser at the New England Conservatory and baroque cello with Jaap ter Linden at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague. Currently based in Toronto, she has performed with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, the Aradia Ensemble, and the New York based Clarion Music Society. Kate is a regular member of Boston Hausmusik and the Arcturus Chamber Ensemble.
12 Friday
Family Weekend Concert. MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, MIT Wind Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Music Director, Prof. Thomas Defrantz, guest dance artist.
"WIND DANCES "A special program of original dance music from around the globe composed for wind and jazz ensembles. The MIT Wind Ensembles' program includes Armenian Dances by Alfred Reed and Dance of the New World by Dana Wilson. The MIT Festival Jazz Ensembles' program includes music by Ellington, Basie and Mingus. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. Free.
14 Sunday
MITHAS presents: ALLYN MINER, Sitar & ANURADHA PAL, Tabla. East meets West. Allyn Miner is an acclaimed concert artist and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches South Asian music and performing arts. Allyn will be performing with Anuradha Pal, who is acclaimed as the premier female tabla player in the world. Co-sponsored by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. 4 PM, Peabody Essex Museum. Adm: Peabody Essex Museum
Members and students $20; Non-members $25; First row $50. Contact: (617) 253-4705
18 Thursday
MIT Chapel Series. Steven Lin, guitar. BARRIOS, Three Paraguayan Waltzes; J.S. BACH, Prelude, Fugue and Allegro BWV 998; LAURO, Two Venezuelan Waltzes); TEDESCO, Tonadilla on the Name of Andres Segovia, Capricho de Goya no.18: El Sueño de la Razon Produce Monstruos. Noon, MIT Chapel. Free.
Steve Lin has performed for audiences throughout the United States, Taiwan and Italy. He is a versatile musician in both solo and ensemble and maintains an extensive repertoire, spanning from the Renaissance to the Romantic. He is also an advocate of contemporary music, actively collaborating in new projects and commissioning new works for the guitar.
In 2007 Steve released his debut CD for VGo Recordings, Eliot Fisk Series Vol. 1, a joint effort with guitarist Joseph Williams II and La Bella Strings. His second CD will feature a program of the works of Agustín Barrios and Antonio Lauro.
Steve has received many prizes at major competitions, including Boston GuitarFest, East Carolina University Guitar Competition and Boston Classical Guitar Society Competition. He has appeared at many guitar festivals, including Yale Guitar Extravaganza, L'Accademia Musicale Chigiana, ChitarraImperia Festival, and Stetson Guitar Workshop. He has also premiered many new works including those of Nomi Epstein, Joseph Johnson, Matthew McConnell, and Colin Stack.
In 2005 Steve founded Boston Guitar Project and became the assistant director of Boston GuitarFest. The Project is deeply involved in community outreach and has been successful in creating new audiences for the guitar. Boston GuitarFest has become the flagship guitar even of Boston.
Steve is currently a doctoral candidate at New England Conservatory studying with Eliot Fisk. He earned his M.M. at Yale School of Music and his B.M. at NEC. His teachers have included Oscar Ghiglia, Lorenzo Micheli, Wei-Ren Chuang, Ronald Purcell, Ronald Borczon and Ben Verdery.
19 Friday
Vento Chiaro Woodwind Quintet. Joanna Goldstein, flute; Ana Sofia Campesino, oboe; Michelle Doyle, clarinet; Ellen Barnum, bassoon; Jason White, French horn. Bernstein Overture to Candide; Bach, Italian Concerto; Villa Lobos, Quintette (en forme de choros); Robert Dick, Startling Stories. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. Free.
20 Saturday
Seoul Yego Youth Chamber Orchestra w/ Borromeo String Quartet, Nanse Gum, Music Director. Shostakovich, Chamber Symphony in c; Elgar, Introduction and Allegro with the Borromeo String Quartet; Tchaikovsky, Serenade. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. Free.
25 Thursday
MIT Chapel Series. Miyuki Tsurutani, harpsichord. FRENCH SWEETS: French Suites for Harpsichord. Suite in C major by Louis Couperin; Partita in D major by J. S. Bach. Noon, Chapel. Free.
Miyuki Tsurutani Received her Master of Music Degree from Osaka College of Music where she studied Harpsichord with Hiroko Motooka, Recorder with Toru Kamiya, and piano with Toshiko Tamura. She has performed in Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Italy, France, and Gemany and in the U.S. at the University of Hawaii, the University of California, Tulane University (New Orleans), the Killington Vermont Shakespeare Festival, and the Boston Christmas Revels. She is a member of the improvisational Renaissance Music and Dance ensemble RENAISSONICS. Miyuki is on the faculty of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Project Step Program, where she teaches Recorder and Music Theory, the New England Conservatory of Music Preparatory School, and the Cambridge, Massachusetts Public Schools.
26 Friday
MIT Symphony Orchestra. Adam Boyles, Music Director. PUTS, Millennium Canons; BACH, Brandenburg Concerto No. 3; ELGAR, The Wand of Youth, Suite No. 1; RACHMANINOV, Symphonic Dances. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. $5 at the door.
27 Saturday
Faculty Concert featuring the New England Philharmonic. Richard Pittman, Music Director. John Harbison, Symphony No. 1; Gustav Mahler, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, David Kravitz, baritone; Jean Sibelius, Tapiola. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. Free w/MIT ID.
28 Sunday
MITHAS presents: T. N. SESHAGOPALAN, Carnatic Vocal. An accomplished Carnatic musician, a renowned composer and a recipient of multiple awards, T. N. Seshagopalan has been performing for more than 30 years. 4 PM, Wong Auditorium. Adm: Members $15; Non-members $20; Non-MIT students and children, over 10 years $10. Contact: (617) 253-4705
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NOVEMBER
8 Thursday
MIT Chapel Series. Leonora Quartet: Barbara Englesberg, violin; Elizabeth Abbate, violin; Kenneth Stalberg, viola; Joel Cohen, cello. Randall Thompson, Quartet No. 2, in G Major and Dmitry Shostakovich, Quartet No. 3, Op. 73. Noon, MIT Chapel. Free.
11 Sunday
MITHAS presents; SHUBHRAGUHA, Hindustani Vocal. Shubhra Guha is an eminent artist in khyal. She started learning in the Agra style from the veteran vocalist Sunil Bose. MITHAS invites you close out the Fall season by listening to an artist who is “extraordinary, out-standing, and an artist who exudes grandeur with grace” (The Hindu). 4 PM, Wong Auditorium. Adm: Members $15; Non-members $20; Non-MIT students and children, over 10 years $10. Contact: (617) 253-4705.
15 Thursday
MIT Chapel Series. Quilisma Consort, recorder trio. La Caccia, Canons, Fantasias, Fugues, and Other Musical Chases. Noon, MIT Chapel. Free.
16 Friday
Zehetmair String Quartet. Thomas Zehetmair, 1st Violin; Kuba Jakowicz, 2nd Violin; Ruth Killius, Viola; Ursula Smith, Cello. Mozart St. Qt. in G major K.156; Hindemith St. Qt no. 4 op. 22 (1921); Schumann St. Qt no. 1 in a minor op. 41. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. Free.
17 Saturday
Festival Jazz Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Music Director. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. $5 at the door.
18 Sunday
MIT Chamber Chorus, William Cutter, Music Director. Music of Henry Purcell. Come ye Sons of Art, Funeral Music of Queen Mary, Hear my prayer O Lord, solo songs, and others. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. Free.
29 Thursday
MIT Chapel Series. Emil Altschuler, violin. Noon, MIT Chapel. Free.
30 Friday
MIT Wind Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Music Director. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. $5 at the door. |
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DECEMBER
6 Thursday
Faculty Concert. Pianist Ivan Ilic presents the American premiere of Afterglow by MIT composer Keeril Makan. 8pm, Killian Hall. Free. www.ivancdg.com
7 Friday
MIT Symphony Orchestra, Adam Boyles, Music Director. BARBER, Essay No. 1; RESPIGHI: Gli Uccelli; Suite of three short American pieces: Air by Alec Wider, Soliloquy by Bernard Rogers, and Concertpiece (American Dance) by Burrill Phillips with John Miller '64, bassoon soloist; SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 5. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. $5 at the door.
8 Saturday
MIT Concert Choir, William Cutter, Music Director. Joseph Haydn; Theresienmesse Mass in B flat major. Benjamin Britten, Festival Te Deum. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. $5 at the door.
8 Saturday
RAMBAX Senegalese Drumming Ensemble. Lamine Toure and Patricia Tang, Directors. 8pm, Lobdell, MIT Student Center. Free.
9 Sunday
Gamelan Galak Tika. Evan Ziporyn, Director.
15 Saturday
Faculty Concert. GEORGE RUCKERT, Sarod Solo; and GRETCHEN HAYDEN, Kathak Dance (in partnership with Chhandika). RAMESH MISRA, sarangi and ADITYA KALYANPUR, tabla. George Ruckert is a long-term disciple of the great Ustad Ali Akbar Khan; in the second half of the program, MITHAS presents Kathak dancer Gretchen Hayden, founder of Chhandika Institute of Kathak dance and senior student of Chitresh Das. 7 PM, Kresge Little Theater. Adm: MIT
Members $18; Non-members $25. Contact: (617) 253-4705. |
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JANUARY
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FEBRUARY
7 Thursday
MIT Chapel Series. Jean Rife, harpsichord, J. S. Bach, Four Preludes and Fugues from the Well Tempered Clavier, Partita No. 1 in Bb Major, BWV 825. Noon, MIT Chapel. Free.
In 1996, Jean Rife, in the midst of a rich and satisfying career as a Baroque, classical, and modern horn player, found her early love for piano rekindling, and fed this love with eight years of study of the Taubman technique. A class in basso continuo playing in 2003 further stimulated her interest in harpsichord, and to develop this interest, she began formal studies with Peter Sykes in the following year. Each year since, under his guidance, she has performed at least one full recital on harpsichord, exploring music of England, France, Italy, and Germany.
The Amherst Early Music Festival offered an opportunity to work with Arthur Haas and Jacques Ogg. Ms. Rife has performed with Winsor Music's outreach series, and at MIT, she continues to give her services to students for their recitals, to the MIT Symphony Orchestra and MIT Chamber Orchestra for their concerts, and to classes. Jean Rife recorded Charles Shadle's music for the DVD of the film Ramona, curated by Martin Marks for the National Film Preservation Foundation, and she will appear in recital in April with Marcus Thompson.
14 Thursday
MIT Chapel Series. John Olson, guitar; Gloria De Cari, soprano Music by Argento, Bach, Britten, Domeniconi and Gershwin. Noon, Chapel. Free.
The Olson/De Cari Duo, has performed to enthusiastic audiences in New York, New Jersey, California, Texas and Hawaii. Their unique and intimate approach to song performance comes from soprano Gioia De Cari's background as both a film/theater actor and a classical singer, and guitarist John Olson's sensitive and intelligent approach to both new and traditional repertoire. NYlon Review described a recent performance as "superb . . . served up with style and elegance." The Duo has been coached by Benjamin Verdery, David Leisner and Richard Sabellico. Their debut CD, Quiet Songs, featuring the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos, J. S. Bach, John Duarte, David Leisner, Fred Hand and George Gershwin, was released in 2006. The Duo is actively involved in the commissioning of new music that explores science-based themes.
21 Thursday
MIT Chapel Series. La Donna Musicale: Daniela Tosic, voice; Na’ama Lion & Sang Joon Park, flutes; Ruth McKay, harpsichord; Laury Gutierrez, viola da gamba. Music by Baroque & Classical Women Composers: Antonia Bembo, Barbara Strozzi, Julie Pinel and Anna Bon. Noon, Chapel. Free.
La Donna Musicale is dedicated to the research and the historical performance of Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Contemporary music by women composers.
Since its inception, the researchers and performers of La Donna Musicale have studied more than 17 women composers, performed 100 pieces in 18 concerts, and gathered over 1,000 works. The ensemble has premiered the works of Milanese nun Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Venetian courtesan Barbara Strozzi and the mysterious Antonia Bembo.
22 Friday
Pro Arte Piano Trio (Taiwan). Juin-Ying Lee, violin; Chu-Chuan Liu, cello; Jen-Ling Huang, piano. Haydn: Piano Trio in G, Hob.XV:25; Tyzen Hsiao: The Formosa Trio, Op. 58; Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in a minor, Op. 50. 8pm, Killian Hall. Free.
Pro Arte Trio of Taiwan was established in 1997 and was honored with the Best Talent Potential Award by the China Development in 1999, the first prize for chamber music from the Residence Art Salon in 2001, and was invited by the Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra to perform the Triple Concerto of Beethoven at Chi Te Hall of National Chiang Kai Shek Cultural Center in 2004.
28 Thursday
MIT Chapel Series. Les Bostonades: Angus Lansing, viola da gamba and Akiko E. Sato, harpsichord. Marin Marais, Pieces de viole. Noon, MIT Chapel. Free.
Les Bostonades is an ensemble dedicated to the performance of 17th and 18th century music on period instruments.
Born in New York, Angus Lansing studied philosophy and economics at Yale and Columbia. Originally a rock musician, he studied viola da gamba with Grace Feldman, Catherina Meints (at Oberlin), Paolo Pandolfo and Lawrence Dreyfus, among others. A founding member of Saltarello and the trio La Sylva, he is a frequent performer with various ensembles, including the Marlboro College Music Faculty at Marlboro College. He recently gave the first North American performance of Johann Gottlied Graun's A minor Concerto for viola da gamba and orchestra. He has also appeared frequently on WGBH's Live at Noon radio program. As instructor of viola da gamba, Angus is currently a member of the faculty of New England Conservatory.
Akiko Enoki Sato received advanced training in harpsichord and figured bass with Hank Knox at McGill University's Early Music Program. While in Montreal, Akiko appeared regularly as soloist and continuo player with the McGill Baroque Orchestra and Opera McGill. Her performance in McGill University's production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress was given critical acclaim by the Montreal Gazette. Akiko has often performed at the Christ Church Cathedral concert series (Montreal), and has been featured in recital at the Quebec City Bach Festival. Akiko earned Master's Degrees in Organ Performance and Sacred Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Southern Methodist University, respectively. Akiko is a founder of Les Bostonades. |
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MARCH
6 Thursday
MIT Chapel Series. Paula Downs, soprano; Anna Downes, violin. Mass for Solo Voice, Mass for Solo Violin by Andrew Downes. Works by Hildegard von Bingen. Noon, MIT Chapel. Free.
Soprano Paula Downes has been praised for 'the cool beauty of her voice' (Birmingham Post, UK), and 'immaculate intonation' (Nordsee-Zeitung, Germany). As an oratorio soloist, Ms. Downes has sung with choral societies throughout the UK, most notably in King's Chapel, Cambridge, under Stephen Cleobury, and in the New England area, the Masterworks Chorale, Chorus Pro Musica, and others. She has performed as a recitalist for numerous music organizations in the UK and in the Boston area. After winning a Choral Scholarship to Trinity College Cambridge University, where she studied music, Ms. Downes went on to train for an Opera Diploma at London University. She has since coached with such eminent musicians as Robert Levin, Yehudi Wyner, Daniel Stepner, Stephen Stubbs, Michael Beattie, Emma Kirkby, Julianne Baird, Drew Minter, Nancy Zylstra and her voice teacher, Frank Kelley.
Having been born into a musical family, Anna Downes is a free-lance musician who started her studies at an early age. In 1998, she graduated from the University of Exeter with an honours degree in music and during this time she built up her career as a violinist. On numerous occasions she played with The English Mozart Players and also appeared as a soloist on BBC Radio 2.
7 Friday
Don Byron's Musical Worlds Part I. MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Music Director, with MIT MLK Visiting Professor and Grammy nominated composer/clarinetist Don Byron. Music of Horace Silver, Aseem Kishore, '08, Ellington, Strayhorn, Monk, and others. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. Admission $5 at the door.
12 Wednesday
AMP Student Recital. Jeffrey Easley ‘08, bassoon. Hsin-Bei Lee, piano; Jeanna Easle, oboe; Paul Ragaller, oboe; Hazel Briner, cello; Jean Rife, harpsichord. Works of Zelenka, Mignine, Etler, Shadle and Kalliwoda. 5pm, Killian Hall. Free.
13 Thursday
MIT Chapel Series. The Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble. Music for flute, strings and harpsichord. Quantz, Flute Quartet in G Minor; Telemann, Trio Sonate in G Major; Haydn, Flute Quartet in D major, op. 5, No. 3. Noon, Chapel. Free.
The members of the Amaryllis Chamber ensemble are professional musicians, graduates of The Boston Conservatory, Eastman School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory and Boston University.
14 Friday
MIT Symphony Orchestra. Adam Boyles, Music Director. Concerto performed by Winner of the Concerto Competition and Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. $5 at the door.
15 Saturday
Don Byron's Musical Worlds Part II. MIT Wind Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Music Director, with MIT MLK Visiting Professor and Grammy nominated composer/clarinetist Don Byron and MIT Professor Evan Ziporyn, clarinets. Mozart, Serenade in C minor, Weber Concertino for Clarinet, featuring Don Byron, Ferdinand David, Concertino for Trombone, featuring Philip Ilten ‘08, Ives, Variations on America, and music transcribed by Don Byron by Bach, Herb Alpert and others. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. Admission $5 at the door.
20 Thursday
MIT Chapel Series. Arioso: Baroque Cantatas, Arias, and Sonatas. Nancy Armstrong, soprano; John Tyson and Ching Wei Lin, recorders; Miyuki Tsurutani, harpsichord. works of Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Purcell, Pepusch, and others. Noon, MIT Chapel. Free.
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APRIL
4 Friday
Student Recital. Pavitra Kumar (G), piano, Works of Prokofiev and Barber. 5pm, Killian Hall. Free.
6 Sunday
Faculty Recital. Marcus Thompson, viola/viola d’amore; David Deveau, piano; Jean Rife, harpsichord; Robert Schulz and Joshua Jade, percussion. Schnittke, Suite in the Ancient Style; Colgrass, Variations for Four Drums and Viola; Carter, Pastoral; Schubert, Sonata in A minor, Arpeggione, and Enescu, Concertpiece. 3pm, Kresge Auditorium. Free.
Since his New York debut at Carnegie Hall in the Young Concert Artists Series, Marcus Thompson has been widely hailed as a master of his instruments. He has since presented recitals at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum and at Jordan Hall in Boston, Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, the Terrace Theater at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Herbst Theater in San Francisco, and at numerous colleges and universities. http://web.mit.edu/bratsche/www/
9 Wednesday
Student Recital. Sunny Wicks‘07, cello, and Vincent C. K. Cheung, Ph.D.‘07, piano. Works of Offenbach, Beethoven and de Falla. 5pm, Killian Hall. Free.
11 Friday
AMP Student Recital. Joey Zhou (G), piano. Music by Bach/Busoni, Brahms, and Strauss/Schulz-Evler. 5pm, Killian Hall. Free.
11 Friday
Student Recital. Sherman Jia (G), violin; Hsin-Bei Lee, piano; Albert Chow’08, viola, and Sunny Wicks’07, cello. Works by George Enescu, Handel-Havorsen, Nathan Milstein and Beethoven. 6:30pm, Killian Hall. Free.
11 Friday
Campus Preview Weekend Concert. MIT Chamber Wind Ensemble, MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Music Director. Q & A re: Music at MIT. Mozart, Serenade No. 12 and traditional and contemporary jazz ensemble compositions. 8pm, Killian Hall. Free.
13 Sunday
Affiliated Artist Chamber Music Concert. Lyubov Shlain, piano; Sophia Sogland, violin; Michael Bonner, cello. Debussy, En bateau from Petite Suite and Premier Trio in G Major; Tchaikovsky, Nocturne from Six Morceaux, Op. 19; Arensky, Piano Trio No.1 in D Minor, Op. 32. 3pm, Killian Hall. Free.
Born in Odessa, Ukraine, pianist Lyubov Shlain, has served as a faculty member of well-known schools in Odessa and performed with various chamber groups and singers throughout the former USSR. She studied with Thomas Stumpf at the New England Conservatory, where she received her MM degree in Piano Performance. Ms. Shlain has performed throughout New England and regularly performs in a piano duo with Maxim Lubarsky. She is a piano instructor in the Emerson Scholarship Program at MIT and on the faculty at Boston College and the Longy School of Music.
16 Wednesday
MIT Student Recital. Bogdan Fedeles (G), piano. Works of Mozart, Brahms and Chopin. 6pm, Killian Hall. Free.
18 Friday
AMP Student Recital. Elisabeth Hon Hunt (G), soprano; Karen Harvey, piano; Jean Rife, harpsichord; Sunny Wicks’07, cello. Works of Handel, Copland and Offenbach. 5pm, Killian Hall. Free.
18 Friday
MIT Guest Artist Series presents; Triton Brass Quintet. Shelagh Abate, French horn; Stephen Banzaert’98, trumpet; Wesley Hopper, trombone; Andrew Sorg, trumpet. Witold Lutoslawski, Mini Overture; Claudio Monteverdi, Madrigals; Victor Ewald, Brass Quintet No. 1, Op. 5; Giles Farnaby, Fancies, Toyes and Dreamies; Anthony Plog, Four Sketches for Brass Quintet; and the Green Hornet (Flight of the Bumble Bee as recorded by Al Hirt for the 1966 TV show). 8pm, Killian Hall. Free.
Based in Boston, Triton Brass was a prize-winner at the 2003 Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition and semi-finalist at the Concert Artists Guild Competition. Triton is ensemble-in-residence at Boston College and its members serve as chamber music faculty at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Fervent supporters of new music, the quintet has performed many world premieres in recitals throughout the U.S. and maintains an ongoing Call-for-scores. Triton’s members are freelance musicians who have performed with the Boston Pops, Boston Philharmonic, and with the Vermont, New Hampshire, Portland and Boston Symphony orchestras. http://www.tritonbrass.org.
19 Saturday
Faculty Concert. Mark Harvey and the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra. The concert features the release of Aardvark’s 10th CD recording American Agonistes: Music in Time of War on the Leo label. The program will include selections from the new CD as well as premieres of adventurous compositions by MIT Music Lecturer Mark Harvey. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. Free.
23 Wednesday
Student Recital. Cai GoGwilt ‘10, cello; Marc Ryser, piano. Works of Brahms and Prokofiev. 5pm, Killian Hall. Free.
24 Thursday
Sheila Jordan, renowned jazz vocal legend presents a one-hour masterclass with the Festival Jazz Ensemble at 6:15pm and an 8pm performance with the Harvey Diamond Trio. Killian Hall. Free.
25 Friday
AMP Student Recital. Yang Yang (G), piano. Works of Takemitsu, Schubert, and Franck. 5pm, Killian Hall. Free.
26 Saturday
MIT Balinese Gamelan Galak Tika, Evan Ziporyn, Director. Galak Tika brings the ancient beauty of Balinese gamelan together with electric guitars, basses and keyboards. Featuring master dancer I Made Bandem in traditional Balinese dances, and Ziporyn’s classic fusion rock gamelan piece Tire Fire! 8 pm, MIT Broad Institute Auditorium, 7 Cambridge Center. Tickets: $15 adults, $10 student and seniors, $5 for children under 12 and MIT & Harvard students. Order tickets with a $2 discount at http://www.galaktika.org.
27 Sunday
MIT Chamber Chorus, William Cutter, Music Director, present the Edward Cohen Memorial Concert featuring Edward Cohen’s 1995 MIT Council for the Arts commissioned work Invisible Cities with texts drawn from the novel by Italo Calvino. David Kravitz, baritone and Majie Zeller, mezzo-soprano, and the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble Combo, Frederick Harris, conductor. Also on the program, Irving Fine, Choral New Yorker and music by Thelonius Monk. 8:30pm, Kresge Auditorium. Free.
Edward Cohen (1940-2002) taught theory and composition at MIT for 24 years. He studied composition with Irving Fine, Seymour Shifrin, Luigi Dallapiccola, and Max Deutsch, and completed commissions from many organizations, including Tanglewood, The Fromm Foundation, the Boston League-ISCM, the Raphael Trio, Alea III, Brandeis University, and MIT. His work includes two operas, one of which, The Bridal Night, was premiered in Boston by Collage New Music in January 2002. Other recent large works include a cantata based on Italo Calvino’s prose poem Invisible Cities, a Piano Concerto, and a percussion ensemble piece, Acid Rain. His music is published by APNM and recorded on the CRI label.
29 Tuesday
MIT Student Jazz Combos concert. Keala Kaumeheiwa, coach. 8pm, Killian Hall. Free.
30 Wednesday
AMP Student Recital. Lindy Blackburn (G), piano. Music by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Ravel. 5pm, Killian. Free.
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MAY
2 Friday
MIT Wind Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Music Director, with composer-in-residence Gabriel Senanes; and the MIT Concert Choir and Chamber Chorus, William Cutter, conductor. World Premiere of Windborne by Senanes. A rare Boston-area performance of Berlioz’s Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale; Prokofiev, March, Op. 99; Mozart, Serenade No. 12; the Boston-area Premiere of Knomery for large percussion ensemble by Derick Hare. 7pm, Pre-concert talk by Gabriel Senanes. 8pm, Concert, Kresge Auditorium. $5 at the door.
CD release of MITWE’s second professional recording, Solo Eclipse on Albany Records, featuring premiere recordings of works commissioned by the MIT Wind Ensemble.
The music of Grammy-winning Argentinian composer, conductor, journalist and physician, Gabriel Senanes is recorded and performed around the world. Senanes has composed and conducted for feature films, theater and TV and has been commissioned by myriad organizations. Senanes has been Music Director of Buenos Aires City and General and Artistic Director of the Teatro Colón, one of most important opera houses in the world. He was also a judge for the National Music Award, Clarín Awards, and the 2000 Ginastera International Competition. With Paquito D’Rivera and the Buenos Aires String Quartet, he won the first classical Latin Grammy for an Argentine CD in 2005 for “Riberas” (Shores) containing his compositions and arrangements.
3 Saturday
MIT Concert Choir, William Cutter, Music Director. Maurice Durufle, Requiem, Op. 9; Ralph Vaughan Williams, Mass in g minor. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. $5 at the door.
4 Sunday
Emerson Fellowship Student Recital: Lindy Blackburn, piano. J. S. Bach, Prelude and Fugue in d# minor, Well Tempered Clavier Book I, no. VIII; Beethoven, Sonata Op 110 in A-flat Major; Chopin, Etudes Op 10 no 1 in C Major, no 4 in c# minor, Nocturne Op 48, no 1 in c minor; Ravel, Scarbo, from Gaspard de la Nuit. 3pm, Killian Hall. Free.
9 Friday
MIT Symphony Orchestra Concert, Adam Boyles, Music Director, with the MIT Concert Choir, William Cutter, Music Director. Mozart, Overture to The Magic Flute; Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue (MIT student Jennifer Lai, piano soloist); Ravel, Pavane pour une enfante défunte; Brahms, Naenie and Vaughan Williams, Five Mystical Songs, Sumner Thompson, baritone. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. $5 at the door.
10 Saturday
Herb Pomeroy Memorial Concert. MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Music Director, MIT Alumni Jazz Ensembles, with special guests Jamshied Sharifi, Greg Hopkins, Magali Souriau, Everett Longstreth and Mark Harvey. Featuring a world premiere by Sharifi for jazz orchestra and other works composed for Herb Pomeroy by Souriau and Hopkins. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. $5 at the door.
Described by Duke Ellington as “One of America’s Jazz Treasures,” Herb Pomeroy was among the most influential jazz performers and educators of the last 50 years. By the time he was 25, the trumpeter had performed and recorded with Charlie Parker, toured with Stan Kenton and Lionel Hampton, for whom he arranged and played in his band, and recorded with Serge Chaloff. He also performed with Duke Ellington and became a leading authority on his music. Herb was a celebrated big band leader from the 1950s through the early 1990s and is perhaps most remembered as a “musician’s musician,”a consummate music educator. He taught at the Berklee College of Music for 40 years and he founded and led the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble for 22 years (1963-1985). From 2000 to 2005, Pomeroy was a regular guest artist at MIT, where he conducted, performed and recorded. This concert will honor Herb’s immense legacy with music and musicians associated with him and new works conceived in his memory.
10 Saturday
RAMBAX, Senegalese drumming ensemble, Lamine Touré and Patricia Tang, Directors. 8pm, Broad Institute Auditorium, 7 Cambridge Center. Free.
11 Sunday
MIT Student Concert. Works for 2 pianos by Mozart, Stravinsky, Messiaen; Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition arranged for Brass Quintet; and a Concerto for double bass by Koussevitzky. 2pm, Kresge Auditorium. Free.
11 Sunday
MIT Chamber Music Society Student Concert. Works of Brahms, Shostakovich and Dvorak. 5pm, Killian Hall. Free.
11 Sunday
MIT Chamber Music Society Student Concert. Works of Haydn, Brahms and Dvorak. 7pm, Killian Hall. Free.
12 Monday
The Mathematics in Music, a reception, concert and presentation by MIT Alumna and Wiesner Award recipient Elaine Chew. Co-sponsored by Music and Theater Arts and the MIT Math Department’s Applied Mathematics Colloquium. 4:30pm, Killian Hall. Free. Funded in part by the Council for the Arts at MIT.
Pianist-engineer Elaine Chew will demonstrate mathematical principles in music through the performance of contemporary pieces, including the Boston premiere of Sudoku Variations by composer Tamar Diesendruck and other works by Ivan Tcherepnin and MIT Prof. Peter Child. The presentation will feature illustrations of the mathematical and computational analyses of the pieces and interactive discussion.
12 Monday
MIT Chamber Music Society Student Concert. Works of Boccherini, Hindemith, Gordon and Mendelssohn. 7pm, Killian Hall. Free.
13 Tuesday
MIT Chamber Music Society Student Concert. Works of Palestrina, Jongen and Brahms. 5pm, Killian Hall. Free.
13 Tuesday
MIT Chamber Music Society Student Concert. Works of Schoenfield and Schubert. 7pm, Killian Hall. Free.
13 Tuesday
Emerson Percussion Student Recital. Simone Ovsey ‘10, percussion, with MITWE percussion ensemble. Kresge Little Theater. 8pm. Free.
14 Wednesday
MIT Chamber Music Society Student Concert. Works fo Kuhlau, Telemann, Vivaldi and Hindemith. 7pm, Killian Hall. Free.
16 Friday
MIT Chamber Music Society Student Concert. windquintet@mit. Works of Jacob, Villa Lobos and Foerster. 5pm, Killian Hall. Free.
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GUEST ARTIST SERIES
Sunday, October 7, 2007, 3pm, Killian Hall. Free.
IIIZ+ , THREE ZEE PLUS, Asian Zither Quartet
Yi-Chieh Lai, Zheng;Jocelyn Clark, Kayagûm;
Ryuko Mizutani, Koto; Il-Ryun Chung, Changgu
IIIZ+: Officially formed in Darmstadt, Germany in 2001, IIIZ+ ("three –zee- plus,"), a quartet born out of musical interests and experiences of Jocelyn Clark, and nurtured with Il-Ryun Chung's artistic input, features a unique combination of the three bridged east Asian zithers: Korean kayagûm, Japanese koto, and Chinese zheng plus" Korean percussion.
Increasingly known for performances that defy the conventional boundaries of their instruments, IIIZ+ continues to break new ground, offering surprising insights into musical and cultural interactions between China, Korea, and Japan in the context of America and Europe (indeed each player —originally from Alaska, Japan, Taiwan, and Germany respectively — speaks with a different native tongue). IIIZ+'s focus on the large-bridged zither instrument family brings into sharp relief both the archetypical similarities and differences among East Asia's individual living music traditions.
More than an "East-meets-West" experiment, the ensemble's complex, organic sound flows together onto an estuarial musical floodplain -- like the Arctic Chukchi Borderland, or the dramatic Drake Passage, where the Atlantic and Pacific oceans flow into each other. In the marine world, the merging of the two oceans creates a ring of aquatic energy, which turns into the world's largest ocean current. Similarly, in IIIZ+ musical and cultural elements in Asian and Western musics and cultures embodied in each of the ensemble's players flow naturally into each other to create a potent, vivid, entirely new transnational sound -- a "sea change" in traditional notions of "chamber," "world," or "new" music that reverberates beyond any given performance.
IIIZ+ has been featured in festivals such as Musica Vitale in Berlin (Germany), Le Festival de l'Imaginaire at the Maison des Cultures du Monde in Paris (France), and at 38e Rugissants in Grenoble (France). The ensemble has toured Toulouse (France), Utrecht (The Netherlands), Antwerp (Belgium), Nürnberg (Germany), Darmstadt (Germany), New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Berea (KY), and Middletown (CT) in the US. Recent grants include a Commissioning Music/USA grant from Meet the Composer for a new work from Chinese-American composer Fred Ho, and a Chamber Music America Residency Grant to work at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA.
http://threezeeplus.com/iiizplus/iiizright.html
Friday, October 19, 2007, 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. Free.
VENTO CHIARO Woodwind Quintet
Joanna Goldstein, flute; Ana Sofia Campesino, oboe; Michelle Doyle, clarinet; Ellen Barnum, bassoon; Jason White, French horn.
Bach, Italian Concerto; Villa Lobos, Quintette (en forme de choros); Robert Dick, Startling Stories
Vento Chiaro has excited audiences nationally and internationally with its unique and captivating performances for a decade. Founded in 1997 at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, its members were immediately drawn to the creative potential and educational opportunities of the woodwind quintet.
Recognized nationally as an ensemble of artistic integrity, Vento Chiaro won the Silver Medal at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in 2000 and was a semifinalist at the Concert Artists Guild. After winning the Saunderson Award at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition The LA Times declared “…the day of the woodwind quintet may be dawning.” Their hometown newspaper, The Boston Globe said, Vento Chiaro “…exudes black magic”.
Vento Chiaro was the Ensemble-In-Residence at The Longy School of Music from 1999 to 2006, where it not only performed recitals but interacted closely with students sharing their experience and musicianship as well as offering advice to young ensembles launching a career in chamber music. While in residence at Longy, Vento Chiaro developed a strong tradition of collaborating with composers in the Boston area. These collaborations allow professional and up-and-coming composers the opportunity to broaden their understanding of wind instruments and experiment with the infinite sound possibilities of the wind quintet. Vento Chiaro also does mini-residencies across the country and has been the Artist-in-Residence at the Orange County School for the Arts. Vento Chiaro is in residence each summer at Boston University Tanglewood Institute. www.ventochiaro.org/
Saturday, October 20, 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. Free.
SEOUL YEGO YOUTH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA w/ Borromeo String Quartet, Nanse Gum, Music Director and conductor. Sponsored by the Korean Student Association and the Korean Graduate Student Association.
Music for Strings. Shostakovich, Chamber Symphony in c; Elgar, Introduction and Allegro with the Borromeo String Quartet; Tchaikovsky, Serenade
Established in 1953, the Seoul Arts High School (Seoul Yego) has been widely recognized as the foremost pre-professional school for young and specially gifted musicians, dancers, and visual artists in Korea, and has produced leading musicians and the finest performing artists for the last half century. The school is also renowned for its high quality of artistic and scholastic curriculum as well as the excellence of its faculties.
The Seoul Yego Youth Symphony Orchestra, which began its professional activities in 1972, has established itself as the official representative of the Seoul Arts High School. In addition to concerts in Korea, the Orchestra had numerous concerts throughout the world. In 1987, the orchestra won first prize for chamber music at the Aberdeen International Music Festival in Scotland, and was invited back to the Festival in 1994.
In 1992, the Orchestra performed for the opening concert at the Okayama Philharmonic Concert Hall in Japan. In January 1997, it performed in San Jose, California, and made their debut at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. The young artists have received an invitation to perform in New York Orchestra Festival, sponsored by World Project, to be held in the world famous Carnegie Hall in 2004. In 2006, they gave the 50th Annual Concert at the Seoul Arts Center in Seoul.
Saturday, October 27, 2007, 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. Free w/MIT ID.
NEW ENGLAND PHILHARMONIC; Richard Pittman, Music Director
Faculty Concert. John Harbison, Symphony No. 1; Gustav Mahler, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, David Kravitz, baritone; Jean Sibelius, Tapiola.
Committed to playing the best music of the past and the present, the New England Philharmonic thrives on the exhilarating moments when composer, performer, and audience share the same time and space.
The NEP received an ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming in 2006, marking the seventh time that the NEP has won this prestigious award. MIT Professor Peter Child is NEP’s composer in residence. http://www.nephilharmonic.org/
Friday, November 16, 2007, 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. Free.
ZEHETMAIR STRING QUARTET
Thomas Zehetmair, 1st Violin; Kuba Jakowicz, 2nd Violin; Ruth Killius, Viola; Ursula Smith, Cello
Mozart St. Qt. in G major K.156
Hindemith St. Qt no. 4 op. 22 (1921)
Schumann St. Qt no. 1 in a minor op. 41
Founded in autumn 1994, the Zehetmair Quartet embarked upon its first concert tour in spring 1998. Their success resulted in re-engagements by all the promoters, followed by invitations to the United States (2001 and 2003) and Japan (2002) to complement the Quartet’s annual European tours. In the summer of 2004 the Zehetmair Quartet was guest at the Edinburgh Festival, the Helsinki Festival, the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival and others. In 2005 the Zehetmair Quartet gave a master class in Bern for the first time and further master classes are planned for the following years. In spring 2006 a very successful concert tour led the Zehetmair Quartet throughout Europe with appearances in Vienna, Berlin, Cologne, Zurich, Madrid, Lisbon, and Manchester, among others.
Their first CD featuring Bartók’s 4th and Hartmann’s 1st quartet was released in 2000 on the ECM label and was awarded the Quarterly Prize by the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik. Their latest release, Schumann’s 1st and 3rd string quartets (also recorded on ECM), won the Gramophone Award (Record of the Year), the Diapason d’Or of the Year, the Dutch Edison Classical Music Award 2004, the Belgian Caecilia Award and the Klara Award for the best international production of the year. The release of their latest CD with Hindemith’s 4th and Bartók’s 5th string quartets on ECM was released this past spring.
The Zehetmair Quartet rehearses a new program each year, under a conception that generally envisages rarely-performed masterpieces (e.g. by K. A. Hartmann, S. Veress) in combination with the more standard repertoire. www.andersmanagement.com/ensembles/zehetmair.php
Friday, December 7, 2007, 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. $5 at the door.
JOHN MILLER ‘64, GUEST BASSOONIST w/ The MIT Symphony Orchestra, Adam Boyles, music director.
BARBER, Essay No. 1; RESPIGHI: Gli Uccelli; Suite of three short American pieces: Air by Alec Wider, Soliloquy by Bernard Rogers, and Concertpiece (American Dance) by Burrill Phillips. John Miller, bassoon; SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 5
John Miller ‘64 received his early musical training at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and the New England Conservatory in Boston. He also holds a BS degree in humanities and engineering from MIT and was awarded a Fulbright grant for music study in Amsterdam. While in Boston he founded the Bubonic Bassoon Quartet and made the premier recording of the Hummel Bassoon Concerto, released with the Weber Concerto on Cambridge Records. He assumed his present position as Principal Bassoon of the Minnesota Orchestra in 1971, when he also joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota. Since then he has continued his solo career, performing many times with the Minnesota Orchestra as well as numerous other orchestras, and has presented master classes and recitals at many of the world's major conservatories and music schools. For more than 20 years he was a member of the American Reed Trio. Among his solo recordings are four concertos by Vivaldi and the Mozart and Vanhal concertos, all conducted by Sir Neville Marriner on two Pro Arte CDs. His teachers have included Louis Skinner, Arthur Weisberg, Stanley Petrulis, Sherman Walt, Stephen Maxym, and Thom de Klerk. One of Mr. Miller's educational activities, the Nordic Bassoon Symposium, begun in 1984 as the John Miller Bassoon Symposium, has attracted an international mix of hundreds of professional, student, and amateur bassoonists. Another, the Minnesota Bassoon Association, formed in 1983, presents bassoon related events, and has brought most of the world's prominent bassoonists to the Twin Cities area. www.music.umn.edu/directory/facProfiles/MillerJohn.php
Friday, February 22, 2008, 8pm, Killian Hall. Free.
PRO ARTE PIANO TRIO, from China
Pianist: Jen-Ling Huang; Cellist: Chu-Chuan Liu; Violinist: Juin-Ying Lee
Pro Arte Trio was established on May 13 of 1997 and was honored with the Best Talent Potential Award by the China Development in 1999, the first prize for chamber music from the Residence Art Salon in 2001, and was invited by the Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra to perform the Triple Concerto of Beethoven at Chi Te Hall of National Chiang Kai Shek Cultural Center in 2004.
Friday, April 18, 2007, 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. Free.
TRITON BRASS QUINTET
Shelagh Abate, French horn; Stephen Banzaert, trumpet; Wesley Hopper, trombone; Andrew Sorg, trumpet.
Based in Boston, Triton Brass was a Prize winner at the 2003 Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition and semi-finalist at the Concert Artists Guild Competition, Triton is in its fourth year as ensemble-in-residence at Boston College, where the group performs and teaches. Triton Brass also serves as chamber music faculty at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Among its recent performances, TBQ was a headline performer at the WGBH annual fundraising celebration, with an audience of more than 30,000 listeners. Fervent supporters of new music, the quintet has performed multiple world premieres in recitals throughout the U.S. and maintains an ongoing "call-for-scores" open to all composers and collaborators.
Triton’s members are New England area freelance musicians, performing in a wide variety of settings in and around Boston. They have performed with the Boston Symphony, the Boston Pops, Boston Philharmonic, Vermont Symphony, New Hampshire Symphony, Portland Symphony and in orchestra pits for many of Boston's Broadway shows. www.tritonbrass.org
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