Resident Artist Series Recital, Igor Veligan and Natsuki Fukasawa, 11/10/21

R E SID EN T A R T I S T S E R I E S

Igor Veligan, violin and viola Natsuki Fukasawa, piano Wednesday, November 10, 2021 7:30 p.m.

Conservatory Recital Hall

13TH PERFORMANCE OF 2021-22 ACADEMIC YEAR

CON CER T P ROG R A M , N OV EM EBER 1 0 , 2 0 2 1 , 7 : 3 0 P M Chaccone (movement 5) (1720) from Partita #2 in D minor BWV for solo violin

Sonata for viola and piano (1919)

I. Impetuoso II. Vivace III. Adagio

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)

Rebecca Helferich Clarke (1886–1979)

Intermission Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47 in A major (1803)

I. Adagio sostenuto-Presto II. Andante con variazioni III. Presto

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Igor Veligan joined the faculty of the Conservatory of Music in the fall of 2006. He holds the Master of Arts in violin performance and chamber music from Odessa State Conservatory. His primary violin teachers include Zoja Istomina and Galina Gritzenko. Mr. Veligan has studied chamber music with Oleg Shkarpitnuy and Natalya Buzanova, and has had master classes with Zakhar Bron, Liana Isakadze, and Igor Frolov.

As a chamber musician, Professor Veligan is currently performing with the L’Estro Armonico String Quartet, the Arlekin String Quartet, and has been a guest violist with the Argenta Trio. He is also a violist with the Chamber Music Society of Sacramento. As an orchestra performer, he is concertmaster of the San Francisco Choral Society Orchestra, principal viola of the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, principal violist of the Lake Tahoe Summer Festival, and a member of the Monterey Symphony. Mr. Veligan recently performed as concertmaster of the Sacramento Philharmonic.

Professor Veligan has taught at the School for the Performing Arts in Ternopil, Ukraine and also currently teaches at American River College in Sacramento.

Steinway Artist Natsuki Fukasawa's music career has taken her throughout U.S. cities as well as to Europe, Scandinavia, Israel, Australia, Brazil, Japan and China, performing at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center and Copenhagen's Tivoli Concert Hall. Fukasawa has won Photo Credit to Nikki Ritcher Photography many accolades and international prizes, including rave reviews in Strad and Fanfare magazines and the Best Chamber Music Recording of the Year from the Danish Music Awards. In 2012, Ms. Fukasawa was added to the distinguished roster of International Steinway Artists.

Ms. Fukasawa serves on the artist faculty of the Talis Festival and Academy in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and the Orfeo Music Festival in the Italian Alps. She has taught at American River College, California State University Sacramento, Saint Mary's College of Moraga, and University of the Pacific. She also enjoys nurturing young talents in her own private studio, where her students are winners of state, national and international competitions including the invitation to appear in the NPR show From the Top, and go on to pursue music in college, to such places as the Manhattan School of Music and the Brigham Young University.

Ms. Fukasawa began studying piano early with her mother Takako Fukasawa and her main teachers were Fumiko Ishikawa, Mark Richman, Martin Canin, Jan Panenka, Anne Koscielny. She studied chamber music intensively as the member of Jalina Trio with Ferenc Rados in Budapest, and violist Tim Frederiksen in Copenhangen. She studied at the Czech Republic's Prague Academy of Music as a Fulbright Scholarship recipient and received a Performer's Certificate Degree. She also earned her Bachelor and Master's degrees from New York's Juilliard School and Doctorate from the University of Maryland.

Ms. Fukasawa has recorded for the Classico and Da Capo labels and her career is noted in the World of Women in Classical Musicand Who's Who in America.