5/8/2022 ECMSA Cherry Emerson Memorial Alumni Concert

2021–2022

MUSIC@ EMORY

This concert is presented by the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.

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Design and Photography Credits

Cover and Program Design: Lisa Baron | Cover Photo: Mark Teague

Acknowledgment

The Schwartz Center gratefully acknowledges the generous ongoing support of Donna and Marvin Schwartz.

ECMSA EMERSON SERIES Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta William Ransom, artistic director

2021 2022

Cherry Emerson Memorial Alumni Concert in Celebration of the Society of Corpus Cordis Aureum honoring the Golden Corps of the Heart, Emory alumni who graduated 50 or more years ago.

Sunday, May 8, 2022, 1:30 p.m.

Emerson Concert Hall Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

Program Two Fantasias Fantasia X in G Major Presto Largo Allegro

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)

Fantasia XII in D Minor Moderato Vivace Presto Mallory Carnes, viola

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)

Rhapsodie espagnole Jason Lin, piano

Sonata in C-sharp Très modéré, expressif Noel Fileuse Nocturne et Rondel

Fernande Decruck (1896–1954)

Leo Saguiguit, saxophone; Erika Tazawa, piano

The Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta is supported by the Cherry L. Emerson Endowment, the Rebecca Katz-Doft Chamber Music Endowment, the Ethel Orentlicher Gershon Fund, a generous gift from Dr. John and Linda Cooke, and by music lovers like you.

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Performer Biographies Mallory Carnes, viola, was a member of the Emory College of Arts and Sciences Class of 2018, graduating with dual bachelor’s degrees in Chinese language and literature and music. Following her graduation, she earned a master’s degree and performer diploma in viola and orchestral studies from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. Now, she is a violist and music teacher living in the Baltimore area. Carnes especially enjoys working with the students of the Baltimore Symphony’s OrchKids program, where she works in multiple schools of the Baltimore City Public School System. Outside of teaching, Carnes enjoys performing with orchestras around the DC/Baltimore area and spending time with her pet bunny.

Jason Lin, 21, is a senior at Emory studying chemistry and music. He is from Plano, Texas, and has been playing piano for 15 years. He currently studies under Elena Cholakova, director of piano studies. Since beginning his piano studies at age six with Melody Ouyang, Lin has gone on to receive top honors at state, regional, and national competitions including Arthur Fraser International Piano Competition, the Emory Concerto and Aria competition, GMTA, and MTNA. Lin debuted with the Plano Symphony Orchestra at age 10 and was invited back to perform for 8,000 students as part of its outreach program. At age 14, he performed with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra as a result of winning first prize at the Lynn Harrell Concerto Competition.

Outside of music, Lin serves as an organic chemistry teaching assistant; conducts research at the School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta; and volunteers at Re’Generation movement, a local non-profit organization, as a mentor and lead SAT math tutor. Lin is a member of the Mu Phi Epsilon fraternity as well as the Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa honor societies. He is also the recipient of the William B. Dickinson Music and Dr. Kevin C. Limp Memorial Scholarships. In his spare time, Lin likes to travel, cook, learn foreign languages, and explore new cultures.

Lin would like to thank his parents and grandparents for their unending love and support; his past and current teachers including Alex McDonald, Marcy McDonald, Melody Ouyang, and Patricia DinkinsMatthews; as well as his friends and mentors. Lin would also like to extend his immense gratitude and appreciation to his committee members, Elena Cholakova, Bradley Howard, and Matthew Weinschenk, for their guidance in preparation for his honors thesis in music.

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Leo Saguiguit, class of 1987, enjoys a busy schedule teaching and performing as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and abroad, including Cuba, France, Italy, Sweden, Greece, China, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines. He collaborates with numerous chamber ensembles and currently performs with the Athens (Greece) Saxophone Quartet, the Chicago Saxophone Quartet, the Missouri Saxophone Quartet, Trio Chymera, and the Odyssey Chamber Music Series of Columbia. Past memberships have included the Lithium, Impuls, and Enigma saxophone quartets. With the Enigma Quartet, Saguiguit earned a coveted prize in the prestigious Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Other collaborations include performances with the Basel Saxophone Quartet (Switzerland), Fulcrum Point New Music Project (Chicago), Thamyris Contemporary Music Ensemble (Atlanta), National Black Arts Festival (Atlanta), and the Sewanee Music Festival (Tennessee). In addition to recitals and festival performances, Saguiguit has performed at the China International Clarinet and Saxophone Music Festival in Nanning, the World Saxophone Congresses held in Minneapolis and Bangkok, and in numerous conferences of the North American Saxophone Alliance and United States Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium.

Saguiguit has appeared as concerto soloist with numerous orchestras and wind ensembles, including the St. Louis Civic Orchestra, Sewanee Festival Orchestra, Lakeshore Symphony of Chicago, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Band, University of Missouri Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, and a tour of France with the Northshore Concert Band. As an orchestral saxophonist, Saguiguit has performed regularly with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Milwaukee Symphony, Grant Park Music Festival Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Florida Orchestra, and Missouri Symphony. He has recorded six CDs with the professional wind ensemble Philharmonia à Vent and has also recorded solo and chamber music of Luc Marcel, John David Lamb, Michael Adamis, Athanasios Zervas, Dinos Constantanides, Dimitris Themelis, and others.

Saguiguit is an associate professor of saxophone at the University of Missouri, where his students have won numerous competitions at the state, regional, and national levels. He has also given master classes and lectures at the University of Macedonia-Greece, Philippos Nakas Conservatory of Athens (Greece), Orfeion Conservatory of Athens (Greece), University of the Philippines College of Music, California Institute of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Baylor University, Indiana State University, and numerous others. Prior to his appointment 6

at the University of Missouri he held faculty positions at Northwestern University, Emory University, University of the South, Truett-McConnell College, and the Merit School of Music of Chicago. He has degrees from Emory University as a student of Stutz Wimmer and Northwestern University, where he was a student of Frederick Hemke. Among his other teachers include are Paul Bro and Jonathan Helton.

Praised as “a superb collaborator, boldly undertaking the demanding keyboard parts with boundless technique, dynamic range, and expressive understanding” by American Record Guide, pianist Erika Tazawa has gained recognition as a versatile collaborative artist. Her performances have been featured in radio programs such as BBC London, National Public Radio’s Performance Today, and Tokyo FM. The winner of Beverly Hills National Auditions in 2013, Tazawa has appeared in chamber music series throughout the United States including Hot Springs Music Festival, Steinway at Spectrum, amd the Southern California Chamber Music Association, and she regularly collaborates with the members of Atlanta Symphony.

In the field of vocal accompanying, Tazawa has served as a repetitor for American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, and principal coach for Georgia State University Opera Theater. She has collaborated with the Atlanta Opera on contemporary opera projects and accompanied master classes with world-renowned opera singers across Europe and the United States. A former Stern Fellow, Tazawa concluded her residency at SongFest at Colburn School, Los Angeles, where she worked closely with the leading artists of the Art Song repertoire including Margo Garrett, Roger Vignoles, and Lucy Shelton, and composers Jake Heggie and Libby Larsen.

Tazawa’s recent solo album Rhythm of Silence, featuring 21st-century piano works, was released through Belarca Records, distributed internationally

by Naxos. The recording has been featured on Gramophone UK: Gramophone Awards 2016 as “such intelligent programme-building and committed performances warrant serious attention and exposure.”

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