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TABLE OF CONTENTS Program

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About the Artists Karl Pituch, Horn Marian Tﾄハﾄブ, violin Stephen Wogaman, piano

Sponsors

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CONCERT PROGRAM Friday, November 18, 2011 8:00 p.m.

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Lady Star of the Sea Church 467 Fairford, Grosse Pointe, MI $20 ADMISSION ARTISTS Karl Pituch, horn Marian Tﾄハﾄブ, violin Steve Wogaman, piano

Etude - Don't Make It Bad for Solo Horn

Ballade for Violin and Piano

Timothy Jackson

Ciprian Porumbescu (1853-1883)

Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano (2010) Gerard Schwarz Sonata (b.1947) Recitative and Aria Scherzo

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Trio for Piano, Violin, and Horn, Op. 40 (1865) Johannes Brahms Andante (1833-1897) Scherzo: Allegro Adagio mesto Finale: Allegro con brio

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ABOUT..THE. ARTIST..

Karl Pituch HORN Karl Pituch was named Principal Horn of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 2000.

Before joining the DSO, Pituch was Associate Principal Horn with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Principal Horn with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony and the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra. He served as a guest Principal Horn for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Chautauqua Festival Orchestra and the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra. Pituch can be heard on many recordings with the Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco and Honolulu Symphony Orchestras and as soloist in the John Williams horn concerto.

Pituch was the grand prize winner at the 1989 American Solo Horn Competition and has been a finalist at many other solo competitions. As a soloist, Pituch 4

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has performed with orchestras in Japan, Hawaii, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Ohio, Florida and Michigan. He has been a frequent guest artist at numerous horn conferences and serves as a board member and judge in the American Horn Competition. An active chamber musician, Pituch was a member of the Spring Wind Quintet for 11 years and participated in chamber music festivals in Marlboro, Vermont; Crested Butte, Colorado; Kapalua, Maui; Kazusa, Japan and Freden, Germany (with the American Horn Quartet).

Pituch is currently the horn instructor at Wayne State University. He has taught at the University of Hawaii and has given master classes across the U. S. He is a co-founder, along with Denise Tryon, of Audition Mode, an annual horn seminar specializing in audition preparation.

Pituch earned his degree from the University of Toledo where he studied with Mary Kihslinger. He also studied with Froydis Wekre and Dale Clevenger. â?–

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Stephen Wogaman PIANO Stephen Wogaman, pianist, has performed as a recitalist, chamber musician and teaching artist since the early 1980’s. He was the founding pianist of the Whitney Trio, which made its debut in a critically acclaimed live radio broadcast concert in 1989 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Other performances include the Phillips Collection in Washington, the Weis Center for the Arts at Bucknell University, the Vassar College Chamber Music Series, and residencies in Costa Rica and Spain.

Chamber colleagues have included members of the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Dallas Symphony, and the Orquestra Sinfonica de Gallicia.

He was trained at the Eastman School of Music and the Indiana University School of Music, where he completed a Doctor of Music degree under the legendary chamber pianist, Menahem Pressler.

In May 2011 Stephen Wogaman became the fourth president of the Chamber Music Society of Detroit. For seven years before that he served for seven years as the chief executive of two orchestras, establishing new chamber music series in both. He was Executive Director of the Allentown Symphony Orchestra, Allentown, Pennsylvania and its historic Symphony Hall. More recently, he was president and CEO of the Canton Symphony Orchestra in Canton, Ohio. In the 1990’s, Steve and his wife, Michele, developed New Performing Arts, a non-profit music outreach organization that has reached an audience of nearly two million Kentucky children with live performing arts programs in their schools. He also developed programmatic partnerships with the nation’s classical music training institutions, including the Eastman School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Indiana University Opera Theater, the New World Symphony and others.❖

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Marian Tănău VIOLIN Romanian-born violinist Marian Tănău first picked up the violin at age four and began his musical education in his hometown of Timisoara in Romania. He graduated from Liceul de Muzica “Ion Vidu” where he studied violin with Maria Cleşiu. He then left for the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca and the Conservatorul de Muzica “G. Dima,” where he earned an Artists Diploma. Later in the US, he earned a graduate degree from Bowling Green State University. Tănău joined the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 1995. Tănău has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Romania and the US and is an active chamber musician. Since 2004 Tănău joined the violin faculty at Wayne State

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University. In 2005 Tănău was awarded a sabbatical year and moved temporary to Romania where he joined the music faculty at the National College of Art “Ion Vidu” and the Music Conservatory of the West University from Timisoara.

His recording of the violin sonata by Paul Paray, recorded for Grotto Productions, got praised by critics in the prestigious Strad, Gramophone and Fanfare magazines.

Marian Tănău is the founder and president of the American Romanian Festival Inc., a nonprofit organization with the mission of promoting American and Romanian music and culture to audiences in the US and Europe.❖

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GOLD LEVEL NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS MICHIGAN COUNCIL FOR ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS ANONYMOUS ROMANIAN FRIEND MĂRĂŞEŞTI SOCIETY SCHOOLCRAFT COLLEGE WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC WALBRIDGE AND JOHN & TERRY RAKOLTA JR.

FRIENDS CIRCLE Center for Russian and East Eurpean Studies, U of M Iuliana Niculescu Cristina Muresan and Rabah Hadjit Dan and Laura Zetu Nadia Gamaneci Linda Joy and Brad Carol Barbara and Paul Burakoff Jennifer Jue Shoshana Mandel

SILVER LEVEL UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MUSEUM OF ART ROMANIAN FILM CENTER

SUPPORTER CIRCLE Cosmin Dascalu Vlad Tudorache Razvan Pala Octavian and Janice Arps Prundeanu Henry and Vicki Swain Ella Gheorghiu

BRONZE LEVEL SILVIU AND GELA PALA CHARLES AND CAROL SLATER LIANA TATOS JOYCE AND TED FLANAGAN WINE CASTLE AND NICK IOANNOU

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To make a tax-deductible contribution to the American Romanian Festival Inc., please make checks and mail to:

American Romanian Festival Inc. 1407 Ferdon Road Ann Arbor, MI 48104

www.americanromanianfestival.org

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