MMF High Water Program Book May 20-22, 2022

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Inaugural Season May 20–22, 2022 Michael Barrett, Music Director • Leslie Tomkins, Artistic Director

MOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL® music in concert with the landscape

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Introducing MMF High Water Moab Music Festival’s inaugural MMF High Water event offers something for listeners of all ages. The series features stellar MMF Artists in our first-ever Family Music Hike, a free Community Concert at Old City Park, an evening Garden Concert and our brand new Colorado River Float & Concert. It’s all part of MMF’s year-long celebration of 30 years of music in concert with the landscape®. Welcome!

MMF High Water Events Colorado River Float & Concert Friday, May 20, 8 am Departs from Red Cliffs Lodge $175, Ages 16+

Garden Concert Saturday, May 21, 5:30 pm Sunflower Hill B & B $80, Ages 16+

Family Music Hike Saturday, May 21, 9 am Wilderness Area $20 Adult, $5 Child (Ages 5-18)

MMF High Water Community Concert Sunday, May 22, 3 pm Old City Park Free

Outdoor Concerts Tickets are available at moabmusicfest.org or at the MMF Box Office.

Covid protocols are in place, please see website for details.

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Staff Laura Brown, Executive Director Michael Barrett, Music Director Leslie Tomkins, Artistic Director Erin Groves, Development & Community Engagement Director

Board of Trustees Anne Wilson, President, UT Maggie Wyatt, Vice President, CO David Smith, Treasurer, UT Rhiana Medina, Secretary, UT Barbara Browning, UT Alice Corning, CA Steve Damron, FL Skip Daynes, UT Wes Howell, UT Robert Jensen, UT Marjorie Kim, CA William Petty, UT Andrea Ward, CO Katherine Williams, UT

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Colorado River Float & Concert Friday, May 20 at 8am • Red Cliffs Lodge

Artists Jon Paul Yerby, guitar; Francisco Fullana, violin; Mark Votapek, cello duoJalal: Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Yousif Sheronick, percussion

Program Agustin Barrios (1885–1944) Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Erik Satie (1884–1925) David Krakauer (b. 1956) Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967) Zhao Ji-Ping (b. 1945) Mauro Giuliani (1781–1829)

Kenji Bunch (b. 1973)

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La Catedral “The Swan” from Carnival of the Animals Gymnopédie No.1 Lent et douloureux Klezmer à la Bechet Duo for violin and cello, op.7 I. Allegro serioso, non troppo Summer in the High Grassland Serenade for violin, cello and guitar in A major, op.19 Serenata. Adagio Scherzo. Allegro assai Alla polacca Lost and Found I. Lost in Time II. Found Objects

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Family Music Hike Saturday, May 21 at 9am • Wilderness Area

Artists Jon Paul Yerby, guitar; Francisco Fullana, violin; Mark Votapek, cello duoJalal: Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Yousif Sheronick, percussion

Program Traditional Payton MacDonald (b. 1974) Paul Tortelier (1914–90) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) Bach (1882–1967) Inessa Zaretsky (b. 1964)

Wedding Tarantella for solo guitar Devil Dance Suite mon cirque I. En Piste (The Clown) III. L’Escamoteur (The Magician) Suite in C major, BWV 1009 VI. Gigue Partita No. 3 in E major BWV 1006 I. Prelude Dervishes - Five Pieces for Viola and Percussion I. Moderato III. Scherzo V. Vivace Drumming & Rhythm Games

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Moab Music Festival High Water Free Community Concert MAY 22, 2022 Old City Park | Moab, Utah

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Garden Concert Saturday, May 21 at 5:30pm • Sunflower Hill B&B

Artists Jon Paul Yerby, guitar; Francisco Fullana, violin; Mark Votapek, cello duoJalal: Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Yousif Sheronick, percussion

Program Anonymous

Yousif Sheronick (b. 1967) Carlo Demoniconi (b. 1947) Gaspar Cassadó (1897–1966)

Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909) Astor Piazzolla (1921–92)

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La Quinta Estampie English Dance La Seconde Estampie Royal Principio di Virtu (arr. Jacob Kerzner) Jubb Jannin Koyumbaba, op.19 Suite for Solo Violoncello in D minor Preludio-fantasia. Andante Sardana (danza). Allegro giusto Intermezzo e danza finale. Lento ma non troppo - Allegro marcato Lágrima Adelita Libertango

Moab Music Festival thanks Dominion Energy for their co-sponsorship of our MMF High Water Community Concert!

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MMF High Water Community Concert Sunday, May 22 at 3pm • Old City Park

Artists Jon Paul Yerby, guitar; Francisco Fullana, violin; Mark Votapek, cello; Michael Barrett, piano; duoJalal: Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Yousif Sheronick, percussion

Program Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909)

Capricho Arabe Recuerdos de la Alhambra

John T. La Barbera (b. 1950)

Danza del Fuego

Glen Velez (b. 1949)

Homage for Frame Drums and Viola I. Moderato

W.A. Mozart (1756–1791)

Piano Quartet in E-flat major, K. 493 I. Allegro III. Allegretto

Enzo Rao Camemi (b. 1957) Astor Piazzolla (1921–92) Ernesto Nazareth (1863–1934)

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A Different World Histoire du Tango I. Bordel 1900 II. Night Club 1960 Odeon

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Artist Biographies Michael Barrett, piano

Michael has distinguished himself as a conductor with major orchestras here and abroad in the symphonic and operatic world.

A protégé of Leonard Bernstein, he began his association with the renowned conductor and composer as a student in 1982, later serving as Maestro Bernstein’s assistant conductor from 1985–90. Co-founder of both the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) and the Moab Music Festival, Michael was previously Director of the Tisch Center for the Arts and the 92nd Street Y in New York, and Chief Executive and General Director of the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, NY. Michael worked on the Leonard Bernstein Centennial as a producer, conductor, and pianist.

A champion of new music, Michael has conducted and played premieres by nearly 100 composers and considers new music to be the lifeblood of American musical culture. He oversaw NYFOS Next, a series in New York City which examines the latest in songwriting by established and young composers. Dedicated to music education, he oversees the innovative education programs of the Moab Music Festival. He is also active in the creation of new educational programs for symphony orchestras in collaboration with Jamie Bernstein. Their programs have been performed throughout the US, Asia, Cuba, and Europe. Born in Guam and raised in California, Michael attended the University of California, Berkeley and is a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

duoJalal Kathryn Lockwood, Viola; Yousif Sheronick, Percussion DuoJalal “are fearless seekers and synthesizers of disparate instruments and cultures” (Toronto Star). The married couple’s music presents an organic amalgam of cultural traditions and musical styles. Inspired by their namesake, the 13th-century poet Jalal a din Rumi, whose visions and words brought together people of different religions, cultures, and races, duoJalal invites all communities to a diverse, stimulating inter-cultural experience.

They have performed throughout the United States, Australia, and Brazil for the past eleven years. The duo regularly presents world premieres of works composed or arranged for them by composers such as Philip Glass, Andrew Waggoner, Derek Bermel, Kenji Bunch, John Patitucci, Evan Ziporyn, and Giovanni Sollima. Their performance project “The Rumi Experience” blends poetry, multimedia, and music and premiered at the Williams Center in Easton, PA. DuoJalal’s first CD, “A Different World” (Innova Recordings), was hailed as an “exhilarating sonic and somewhat mystical experience” (Jordon Times). Of their second CD, “Shadow & Light” (Bridge Records), The Toronto Star exclaimed, “If this is what world music’s future holds, bring on the party.” In 2019, duoJalal became the ensemble in residence for the “Four Seasons@Sands Point” concert series in Long Island, NY. In addition to performing, the duo offers masterclasses and clinics for strings and world drumming to both children and adults. Recent masterclasses were at Manhattan School of Music, New York University, and the Percussive Arts Society’s International Convention.

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music in concert with the landscape ® Francisco Fullana, violin A native of Mallorca in the Balearic Islands of Spain, Francisco Fullana is making a name for himself as both a performer and a leader of innovative educational institutions. A recipient of the 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant, he has performed as soloist with orchestras such as the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Spanish Radio Television Orchestra, Argentina’s National Orchestra, Venezuela’s Teresa Carreño Orchestra, and numerous U.S. ensembles including the Saint Paul and Philadelphia Chamber Orchestras, the Buffalo Philharmonic, and the Vancouver, Pacific, Alabama, and Maryland Symphony Orchestras. He has worked with such noted conductors as the late Sir Colin Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Alondra de la Parra, Christoph Poppen, Jeannette Sorrell, and Joshua Weilerstein.

This past May, Orchid Classics released Francisco’s new album, Bach’s Long Shadow, an exploration of Bach’s Partitas and their influence over the solo violin genre for the past three centuries. Fullana’s love for the sound of gut strings has also blossomed into an artistic partnership with the Grammy Award winning baroque ensemble Apollo’s Fire, both in performance and in the recording of Spanish and Italian baroque music.

Active as a chamber musician, Francisco is a performing member of The Bowers Program at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln. Francisco is also a committed innovator, leading new institutions of musical education for young people. He is a co-founder of San Antonio’s Classical Music Summer Institute, where he currently serves as Chamber Music Director. He also created the Fortissimo Youth Initiative, a series of music seminars and performances with youth orchestras, which aims to explore and deepen young musicians’ understanding of 18th-century music.

Francisco performs on the 1735 “Mary Portman” ex-Kreisler Guarneri del Gesù violin, kindly on loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

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music in concert with the landscape ® Jon Paul Yerby, guitar Born in Celle, Germany, Jon has performed across four continents and has held faculty positions at major universities such as the University of Utah, Utah Valley University, and Westminster College. Regarded as an inspiring and energizing educator, Jon Paul prides himself on working with students with diverse backgrounds, experiences, cultures, and abilities.

His teachers and mentors include Eliot Fisk, Oscar Ghiglia, John Gibbons, Tom Johnson, Adam Holzman, and Bruce Holzman. Jon holds degrees in Classical Guitar Performance from The University of Texas at Austin (B.M.), New England Conservatory (M.M.), and Florida State University (D.M.A).

An acclaimed recitalist and chamber musician, Jon has performed with the Utah Opera, The Woodlands Symphony, Park City Chamber Music Festival and violinist Donna Fairbanks. He tours annually throughout the United States and Europe. Jon was a US representative at the ICPNA Guitar Festival in Lima, Peru. He served as a guest artist at the University of Wittenberg-Halle in Leipzig, Germany. Jon has taught workshops and masterclasses at Berklee College of Music, Bridgewater State College, Connecticut Guitar Society, Aguado Concert Series, Loudoun County Public Schools, Troy State University, Brigham Young University, University of Utah, and Utah Valley University.

From 2013 to 2017, Jon served as President of Utah Classical Guitar, which brings worldclass classical guitar concerts, outreach, and music education to the Utah community.

Jon and his wife, dance artist Alexandra Bradshaw Yerby are duo ‘7&1,’ and create original work featuring contemporary dance with live guitar.

Mark Votapek, cello Mark is based in San Francisco where performs with the San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Symphony, Musica Marin, and at UCSF. He was Principal Cello of the Hawaii Symphony beginning in 2015 and has been a member of the Maui-based Ebb and Flow Arts contemporary ensemble and Oahu’s Pacific Concert Artists International. He was Principal Cellist of the Oregon Symphony and Associate Principal Cello of the Saint Louis Symphony.

In 2017–2018 Mark’s chamber music collaborations included performances with Jon Nakamatsu, Corey Cerovsek, Anthone Arnone, Wu Han, the Galliard Quartet, Fabio Bidini, Sabrina Höpcker, Iggy Jang, and Joseph Swenson. His concerts have been aired on NPR stations across the US and his performance of Schelomo was featured on Performance Today. In 2018 he also appeared as cello soloist with the Hawaii Symphony in Dvorak’s famous cello concerto.

In 2013 Mark gained renown for combining music with the outdoors, giving a 27-performance recital tour from Mexico to Canada as he backpacked the 2700-mile Pacific Crest Trail. An avid outdoor adventurer, he continues to combine music and the outdoors.

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MMF is grateful to our housing donors for their generous support of MMF High Water.

Aarchway Inn Hyatt Place Moab Mike Duncan

Anne Clare Erickson & Family Kevin & Nancy Fitzgerald Dee Gulledge

MMF Benefactors ($5,000 and above) The Moab Music Festival thanks the following individuals and organizations for their generous financial support of MMF programs throughout the year: Alice Corning, The Springcreek Foundation, CA Gerald “Skip” & Susan Daynes, UT* Bruce Etkin & Laurel Gilbert, CO* George S. & Dolores Dore’ Eccles Foundation, UT Gina Giffin & Mike Bynum, UT* Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity, UT Sunny & Wes Howell, UT Janet Q. Lawson Foundation, UT Robert L. Jensen, UT Peter Lawson & Anne Wilson, UT Marriner S. Eccles Foundation, UT 14

National Endowment for the Arts, DC Red Cliffs Lodge, UT* Red Rock Brewing Co., UT Alicia Reyes & Rathin Datta, IL Hank Rutter & Susan Fralick, CO S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney Foundation, UT Sorrel River Ranch, UT* Jennifer Speers, UT Utah Division of Arts & Museums, UT Utah Office of Tourism, UT Val A. Browning Foundation, UT *Denotes In-Kind Donation

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Summer String Camp June 13–17, 2022

8:30 am–2:00 pm, Monday–Friday Recital 7:00 pm, Friday Sign-up & info: moabbeacon.net Registration fee offered on a sliding scale Beginner to advanced string students welcome, grades K-12 Presented by Moab Music Festival, BEACON Strings and Moab Folk Festival Students receive daily coaching on violin, viola, and introductory cello by local and visiting professional strings instructors, along with fun games, crafts, and listening activities. Camp takes place at Moab Charter School and concludes with a celebratory recital on Friday evening, June 17.

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Michael Barrett, Music Director • Leslie Tomkins, Artistic Director

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