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July 25, 7:30pm

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Iowa, This is Houston, do you copy? (part 2) LOUISE FARRENC: PIANO QUINTET NO. 2 IN E MAJOR, OP. 31 (1840) ELLEN TAAFFE ZWILICH: PIANO QUINTET (2011) Two piano quintets in the manner of Schubert’s Trout (violin, viola, cello, double bass, and piano) are featured on our final concert of the 2020 season. Audiences from our 2019 season may remember our performance of Farrenc’s First Piano Quintet Op. 30 (composed during the same year) and the influences of Schubert and Mendelssohn on Farrenc’s musical style. One-hundred and seventy years later, the Piano Quintet of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich present a very different way of using this same combination of instruments. The first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music, this blues-tinged work goes so far as to not only utilize the same Schubertian instrumentation but also references Schubert with a movement titled “The moody Trout”.

The van Haydn Ensemble

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Ingrid Hunter, violin

Max Geissler, cello

Emily Madonia, violin Yvonne Smith, viola

Hunter Capoccioni, double bass Brian Suits, piano

July 24, 7:30pm

5 Beethoven at 250 Years and 9000 Miles

BEETHOVEN: SONATA IN A MAJOR, OP. 12 NO. 2 (1798) SONATA IN A MINOR, OP. 23 (1801) Some composers greatly benefit from the increased spotlight and celebration of a major anniversary milestone. Not so with Beethoven. A composer whose works surely echo through the concert halls and practice rooms of the world on a daily basis, Beethoven is synonymous with transcending music that speaks to something more. Probably one of the most viral videos of 2020 comes from a Danish Orchestra performing a socially distanced “Ode to Joy” from his Ninth Symphony. This concert presents two violin sonatas from early in Beethoven’s career coming to you from a violin/piano duo based in Kuala Lumpur. Timothy Peters is a native Iowan and performed with CVCM in 2011.

Growing up in Iowa City, Mr. Peters is now Principal Second Violin of the Hear it at A440.live/artists/iowa

Malaysia Philharmonic in Kuala Lumpur. Streaming from his studio across the Pacific, Mr. Peters is joined by his frequent collaborator Malaysian pianist Loo Bang Hean.

July 20, 7:30pm

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From Florida with Love RACHMANINOFF: TRIO ÉLÉGIAQUE NO. 1 IN G. MINOR (1892) SHOSTAKOVICH: PIANO TRIO NO. 2 IN E MINOR, OP. 67 (1944) Ross Monroe Winter, David Bjella, and Hannah Sun make up the Orlando Piano Trio. The program features two works from very different periods in Russian history and culture. Rachmaninoff ‘s first piano trio is a youthful and opulent one-movement work. A student’s homage with clear references to his teacher and mentor Tchaikovsky.

Conversely the second trio of Shostakovich comes during the prime of his life and is filled with what we often associate with the composer, namely with the. struggles of war, politics, and cultural oppression. Together, their two trios make a powerful pairing of masterworks that will leave you breathless .

Ross Monroe Winter, violin Hear it at A440.live/artists/iowa

David Bjella, cello Hannah Sun, piano

July 19, 3:00 Duo Pangelica JACQUES PRESS: POLKA IN C BERNARD ANDRES : LA RAGAZZA RUSSELL HOWLAND: CONTEMPLATING LOTUS BLOSSOMS MAURICE RAVEL: LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN ALAIN MARGONI: DANSE ANCIENS ET DANSE MODERN LUIGI BOCCHERINI: FANDANGO

Our afternoon matinee performance

Members of the American Harp

Jacquelyn Venter, harp

this season comes from a California

Quartet came from all corners of the

Ellie Choate, harp

based harp duo. Jacquelyn Venter,

United States, but as the two

(Cedar Falls native) is joined by her

resident members from California, it

This concert will be live-streamed at

friend and co-presenter Ellie Choate

felt only natural to also form a duo.

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for a program of original and

Part of Duo Pangelica’s mission is to

transcribed works for two harps. Duo

play works that are written

Pangelica was formed in 2014, after

specifically for harp or transcribed

Jacquelyn and Ellie were involved in

and unpublished by harpists.

founding and playing together in the American Harp Quartet.

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July 18, 7:30pm Iowa, This is Houston, do you copy? (part 1)

Our second program features

transatlantic radio transmission.

music from the first decades of the

The transmission was simple; only

20th century. The reason behind

the morse code for the letter “s”

the presentation of works from this

repeated over and over. However,

period is inspired by the idea of

over the coming decades radio

live-streaming and how it is

would forever alter the landscape

currently transforming our cultural

of how we communicate news and,

landscape. In 1901, the same year

in our case, music. From our perch

as the featured String Quintet of

in Houston vocalists Teresa Procter

Sergei Tanayev, the scientific

(Decorah native) and Kyle

partnership of Guglielmo Marconi

Albertson (Ankeny native) will

and George Kemp sat atop of a hill

communicate infinitely more

in Newfoundland, Canada and,

elaborate librettos and fill out the

with a telephone receiver and a

program with two intimate works

wire antenna that was kept aloof by

for solo voice and string quartet.

a kite, successfully heard the first

RESPIGHI: IL TRAMONTO (1914) BARBER: DOVER BEACH, OP. 3 (1931) TANAYEV: STRING QUINTET IN G MAJOR, OP. 14 (1901) KYLE ALBERTSON, BASS-BARITONE TERESA PROCTER, MEZZO-SOPRANO THE VAN HAYDN ENSEMBLE INGRID HUNTER, VIOLIN EMILY MADONIA, VIOLIN YVONNE SMITH, VIOLA MAX GEISSLER, CELLO HUNTER CAPOCCIONI, DOUBLE BASS Hear it at A440.live/artists/iowa

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July 17, 7:30pm Hammer + Bow ANDY AKIHO: KARAKURENAI (2007) SHAWN E. OKPEBHOLO: DISTANCE (2016) GABRIELA ORTIZ: ATLAS PUMAS (1995) ROBERT HONSTEIN: AN ECONOMY OF MEANS (2016) SHERIDAN SEYFRIED: BLUES TRAIN (2015)

TARA LYNN RAMSEY AND KYLE FLENS ARE BOTH MEMBERS OF THE CHICAGO BASED NEW MUSIC GROUP ‘ENSEMBLE DAL NIENTE’ AND

TARA LYNN RAMSEY, VIOLIN KYLE FLENS, PERCUSSION Hear it at A440.live/artists/iowa

COLLABORATE FREQUENTLY ON CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS. Our season opening program

Violinist Tara Lynn Ramsey (Cedar

features a diverse group of

Falls native) joins forces with

composers who are writing for

percussionist Kyle Flens to

today’s world. Many of them are

introduce us to this varied and

both performers and composers

exciting program of contemporary

who write concurrently for

repertoire for violin and percussion.

themselves while sharing and

Each work shows how today’s

selling their compositions to

composers are reacting to the world

others. While the program features

around them, mixing their cultural

primarily North American

background with modern

composers it also showcases

techniques to reflect their thoughts

composers of divergent

and feelings on contemporary

backgrounds in terms of race,

society.

gender, and geography.

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