2014 SSMF Concert Program

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Sewanee Summer Music Festival Season Program | Table of Contents

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Our History

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For your information

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Letter from the Director

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Concerts

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BĂŠla Fleck

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Musicians

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Artist-Faculty

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Conductors

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People

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Supporters

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ewanee Summer Music Festival is one of the venerable summer music institutes in the country. The immediate predecessor of SSMF was the remarkable, though short-lived, Cumberland Forest Festival of 1950-51. The Cumberland Festival was directed by the distinguished American composer Roy Harris, and was a joint venture with George Peabody College in Nashville (absorbed a quarter century later by Vanderbilt University).

The Festival was intimate in size, but was arguably the most exceptional gathering of musical talent the Mountain has ever seen: in addition to Harris, violinist Josef Gingold, violist Walter Trampler, and the old Viennese conductor Richard Lert (who as a child had met Brahms) were on hand, as well as — perhaps most notably — the brilliant young conductor Lorin Maazel.

The Festival seemed to have a bright future. A radio contract with CBS was in the offing. But Harris abruptly cancelled the Festival shortly before the 1952 season was to begin. According to Harris, he was unwilling to work under the auspices of what was then a segregated institution.

(Documents in the University’s Archives show that University officials at the time believed this was a pretext and that Harris had grown tired of the venture.)

Present at the creation was a young cellist of extraordinary capacities named Martha McCrory.

In the early years, McCrory filled many roles: faculty cellist, business manager, and recruiter, barnstorming her way across back roads in Alabama and Georgia in search of students.

McCrory became executive director of the Center in 1963, and remained at this post for a remarkable tenure, retiring in 1998. During the 1960s, the Center expanded dramatically under McCrory’s leadership; and by the end of that decade had more or less assumed its present structure: two student orchestras and a festival orchestra composed of faculty and advanced students.

The present Festival continues the vision of McCrory in its focus on student development and its unique devotion to chamber music performance. In 2000, McCrory was succeeded

by Steven Shrader, professor of music at the University, in the office of Artistic Director.

Pianist, conductor, and musicologist, Shrader dubbed the program the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, emphasizing the great breadth of performances and high musical standards he upheld for the institution. Following Shrader, two notable conductors held terms as Artistic Director: Victor Yampolsky, conductor at Northwestern University (2005), and James Paul, of the Oregon Festival of American Music and Oregon Coast Festival, (2006-09).

In 2010 the Festival structure changed, with Katherine Lehman, violinist and professor at the University, assuming the directorship. Emblematic of Sewanee’s distinctive collaborative spirit, an Artistic Advisory Committee of dedicated SSMF faculty was formed to provide artistic guidance for the program.

Our History

After a six-year stillness on the Mountain, University Vice-Chancellor Edward McCrady stepped forward to restore the program. Ned McCrady had a Jeffersonian range of interests.

He was a scientist, an architect of considerable skill, an administrator; and, like Jefferson, an amateur violinist. McCrady had visions of creating a musical utopia in Sewanee when he resurrected the idea of a summer festival in 1957, the first season of the present Sewanee Summer Music Festival. Known then as the Sewanee Summer Music Center, the institute was first closely allied with the Chattanooga Symphony. Julius Hegyi, then conductor of the Chattanooga Symphony, was the first director of SSMC.

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Welcome to Guerry Hall, Home of Sewanee Summer Music Festival!

We are delighted to have you with us and hope that you will enjoy the performance and return often. The information on these pages is intended to answer frequently asked questions. If you need assistance, please call on one of our friendly and helpful ushers.

Ticketing Information Advance tickets for all Sewanee Summer Music Festival performances are available through our ticketing partner, InTicketing at: ssmf.inticketing.com Tickets will also be available 30 minutes before each event (same day only) at the box office table in the lobby of Guerry Auditorium.

Season Tickets – $120.00 for all Season Events, including all Special Concerts Sunday Orchestra & Artist Faculty Series Concerts: Pricing does not include Special Concerts – $12.00 online – $15.00 at the door 4

Restrooms

Restrooms are located off the main lobby (men’s and women’s) and at the top of Guerry Hall east stairway (men’s only). Smoking is not permitted inside University of the South facilities.

Online Viewing

Late-Comer Seating

Late-comer seating will be allowed at an appropriate pause in the performance. Your usher will open the doors for enry at that time. Please take your seat as quickly as possible to minimize any delays in the concert.

Can’t make it to a concert? Watch most SSMF concerts in real time on our Recordings UStream Channel, or view them later Recording is not allowed during SSMF on our Vimeo archives. performances. Professional quality USTREAM: www.ustream.tv/channel/ recordings are made during student concerts, and most will be available sewanee-summer-music-festival online after the Festival is completed.

VIMEO: vimeo.com/ sewaneemusicfestival

Electronic Devices

We request that all electronic devices (pages, cell phones, PDAs, watch alarms, etc.) that could interrupt the performance be silenced. The performers and other patrons thank you!

Photography

Photography is limited to non-flash still photos of student performances only. Guest performers may NOT be photographed. We ask that photos be taken discreetly so that no other patrons are disturbed.

Time Zone

Special Concerts & Events:

Carillon Series Concerts

July 16, 2014 Documentary Showing • $7.00 at the door

Sunday, June 22 John Bordley, 4:45 p.m.

July 17, 2014 Jacqueline Avent Concerto Competition • $12.00 online • $15.00 at the door July 19, 2014 Artist Faculty Series • $12.00 online • $15.00 at the door July 20, 2014 SSMF Finale Orchestra Concert, featuring Béla Fleck, Banjo • $26.00 online • $30.00 at the door

(free, open to the public):

Sunday, June 29 Ray Gotko, 4:45 p.m.

Friday, July 04 Ray Gotko, 1:00 p.m.

Sunday, July 06 Ray Gotko, 4:45 p.m.

Sunday, July 13 Ray Gotko and John Bordley, 4:45 p.m.

Sunday, July 20 Richard Shadinger, 4:45 p.m.

Sunday, July 27 J. Samuel Hammond, 4:45 p.m.

For Your Information

Sewanee, Tennessee is located in the Central Standard time zone.

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THE UTC FINE ARTS CENTER 2014 - 2015 Patten Performances

Huntsville Symphony Orchestra Presents its 60th Season Season subscriptions go on sale July 1 Single tickets available August 15

256-539-4818 or www.hso.org

Mark your calendars — SSMF encourages you to support music year-round. Attend events with our friends at UTC Fine Arts Center (Chattanooga, TN), Huntsville Symphony Orchestra (Huntsville, AL), and Friday Nights in the Park (Sewanee, TN).

This booklet contains program information on concerts in BOLD.

June 21 | Festival Opening Concert • 7:30 p.m.

June 25 | Artist Faculty Series • 7:30 p.m.

June 28 | Student Chamber Concert • 4:00 p.m. FREE @ Guerry Garth

Schedule of Events • At a Glance

June 28 | Artist Faculty Series • 7:30 p.m.

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June 29 | Cumberland Orchestra • 2:30 p.m.

June 29 | Sewanee Symphony • 3:30 p.m.

July 01

| SSMF, 8:15 p.m. FREE @ Monteagle Sunday School Assembly

July 04

| SSMF Strolling Band • 2:00 p.m. FREE @ Fourth of July Parade

July 04

| Fourth of July Patriotic Celebration Concert FREE

July 05

| Student Chamber Concert • 4:00 p.m. FREE @ Guerry Garth

July 05 | Artist Faculty Series • 7:30 p.m.

July 06 | Cumberland Orchestra • 2:30 p.m.

July 06 | Sewanee Symphony • 3:30 p.m.

July 08

| SSMF, Warren Point Concert • 3:15 p.m. FREE @ Monteagle Sunday School Assembly

July 08

| SSMF • 7:00 p.m. FREE @ Cowan Center for the Arts

July 09 | Artist Faculty Series • 7:30 p.m.

July 10

| Cumberland Orchestra • 8:15 p.m. FREE @ Monteagle Sunday School Assembly

July 11 | Hike to a Concert • 6:00 p.m. FREE July 13 | Cumberland Orchestra • 2:30 p.m.

July 13 | Sewanee Symphony • 3:30 p.m.

July 15

| SSMF • 8:15 p.m. FREE @ Monteagle Sunday School Assembly

July 16

| Student Showcase • 7:00 p.m. FREE

July 16

| Documentary Showing: Bela Fleck: How to Write a Banjo Concert @ Student Union Theatre

July 17

| Jacqueline Avent Concerto Concert

July 18

| Bassoon Zoom VII • 4:00 p.m. FREE @ St. Luke’s Chapel

July 18

| Student Chamber Concert • 7:30 p.m. FREE

July 19

| Student Chamber Concert • 4:00 p.m. FREE @ Guerry Garth

July 19

| Festival Brass Concert • 10:00 p.m. FREE @ All Saints’ Chapel

July 20 | Cumberland Orchestra • 2:30 p.m.

July 20 | Sewanee Symphony • 3:30 p.m.

At a Glance

July 19 | Artist Faculty Series • 7:30 p.m.

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Dear Friends, On behalf of my colleagues and our students, I want to welcome you to the 58th annual Sewanee Summer Music Festival! One of the most exciting things any musician can do is to take part in the birth of a new work. We often think of music as timeless — Bach and Brahms are eternal, aren’t they? But music is also timely. Imagine attending the first summer of SSMF concerts back in 1956; we did not have Britten’s War Requiem. Bernstein was just writing West Side Story. Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass and John Adams were names yet to come.

Now it is 2014. What will we hear for the first time today that will become eternal?

This year we will birth two new pieces, one by 2013 SSMF alumnus Nic Bizub, the other by legendary banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck. It has been great fun to work with Béla, whose collaborative spirit gives all of us who play it a voice in its creation. We will host composer Kenneth Fuchs and play two of his works, now both reaching the ripe old age of six and already recorded by the London Symphony and JoAnn Falleta, our third week guest conductor.

Like any parent, we are proud to say we were there when it all began.

And as with our children, we never know where these pieces will go, but we can’t wait to see!

We invite you to let yourself be swept away by all the performances of the summer: new music, old music… great music. For all of us at Sewanee 2014, this is our year!

Yours,

A Letter from the Director

It has been the great privilege of the SSMF to be a musical “midwife” at several births lately. Last year it was our own Sidney King who gave us Entre dos Luces, performed by the Cumberland Orchestra under Resident Conductor Octavio Más-Arocas. A few months later the Louisville Orchestra performed it—away it goes!

Katherine Lehman, Festival Director

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June 21, 2014

Festival Opening Concert • 7:30 p.m.

Resident Conductor, Octavio Más-Arocas

Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990) Fanfare for the Common Man Kevin Puts (1972 – ) Millennium Canons Michael Daughtery (1954 – ) Raise the Roof John Kilkenny, timpani —INTERMISSION—

Antonín Dvořák (1841 – 1904) Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88 Allegro con brio Adagio Allegretto grazioso - Molto vivace Allegro ma non troppo

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June 25, 2014 Artist Faculty Series, 7:30 p.m.

Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976) Suite No. 1, Op. 72 Canto primo: Sostenuto e largamente I. Fuga: Andante moderato II. Lamento: Lento rubato Canto secondo: Sostenuto III. Serenata: Allegretto (pizzicato) IV. Marcia: Alla marcia moderato Canto terzo: Sostenuto V. Bordone: Moderato quasi recitativo VI. Moto perpetuo e Canto quarto: Presto Anthony Kitai, cello

Malcolm Arnold (1921 – 2006) Brass Quintet, No. 1, Op. 73 Allegro vivace Chaconne Con brio Peter Bond, trumpet Donald Creech, trumpet Ellen Dinwiddie Smith, horn Mark Babbitt, trombone Eric Bubacz, tuba —PAUSE—

W. A. Mozart (1756 – 1791) Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, K. 452 Largo – Allegro moderato Larghetto Rondo: Allegretto Robert Stephenson, oboe Chad Burrow, clarinet Hunter Thomas, bassoon Ellen Dinwiddie Smith, horn Amy I-Lin Cheng, piano

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June 28, 2014 Artist Faculty Series, 7:30 p.m.

Sidney King (1959 – ) Bailes Flamencos, for Double Bass and Harp Tangos de los Angeles Ramajes Otoños Sidney King, double bass Katherine Newman, harp

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano in E-flat Major, Op. 40 Andante - poco piu animato Scherzo: allegro - molto meno allegro - allegro Adagio mesto Finale: allegro cong Lin He, violin Ellen Dinwiddie Smith, horn Shannon Hesse, piano —INTERMISSION—

Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990) Appalachian Spring (version for 13 instruments) Patricia George, flute Chad Burrow, clarinet Hunter Thomas, bassoon Lin He, violin Brittany MacWilliams, violin 2 student violinists, TBA Katherine Lewis, viola Student violist, TBA Anthony Kitai, cello Student cellist, TBA Sidney King, double bass Amy I-Lin Cheng, piano Mark Babbitt, conductor

Photo courtesy of SSMF Alumnus Felipe Fernández

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June 29, 2014 Cumberland Orchestra • 2:30 p.m.

Octavio Más-Arocas, conductor Hector Berlioz (1803 – 1869) La damnation de Faust, Op. 24 Rákóczy March (Marche hongroise)

Georges Bizet (1838 – 1875) Carmen Suites Nos. 1 & 2 No. 1 Les Toreadors (Allegro giocoso) Prelude (Andante moderato) Aragonaise (Allegro vivo) Intermezzo (Andantino quasi Allegretto) Seguedille (Allegretto) No. 2 La garde montante (Allegro) Dance boheme (Andante quasi allegretto)

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Sewanee Symphony • 3:30 p.m.

Kenneth Kiesler, conductor Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) Tragic Overture, Op. 81 Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958) Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis Ottorino Respighi (1879 – 1936) Pines of Rome, P. 141 I. The Pines of the Villa Borghese II. Pines Near a Catacomb III. The Pines of the Janiculum IV. The Pines of the Appian Way

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July 05, 2014 Artist Faculty Series • 7:30 p.m.

Joan Tower (1938 – ) Copperwave, for Brass Quintet Peter Bond, trumpet Donald Creech, trumpet Ellen Dinwiddie Smith, horn Mark Babbitt, trombone Eric Bubacz, tuba

Eugène Louis-Marie Jancourt (1815 – 1901) Fantaisie sur la Norma Patricia George, flute Hunter Thomas, bassoon Amy I-Lin Cheng, piano —INTERMISSION—

Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70 Allegro con spirito Adagio cantabile Allegretto moderato Allegro vivace Jonathan Magness, violin Katherine Lehman, violin Daphne Gerling, viola Katherine Lewis, viola Anthony Kitai, cello Paul York, cello

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July 06, 2014 Cumberland Orchestra • 2:30 p.m.

Octavio Más-Arocas, conductor

Emmanuel Chabrier (1841 – 1994) España Óscar Navarro González (1981 – ) Libertadores

Sewanee Symphony • 3:30 p.m.

Mark Russell Smith, conductor W. A. Mozart (1756 – 1791) Overture to Le nozze de Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492 Sergey Prokofiev (1891 – 1953) Romeo and Juliet, selections from Suites 1-3 Suite No. 2, Op. 64ter

Montagues and Capulets The Child Juliet Friar Laurence Dance Romeo at Juliet’s Before Parting

Suite No. 1, Op. 64

The Death of Tybalt

Suites Nos. 2 and 3 (Op. 101)

Romeo at the Tomb of Juliet / The Death of Juliet

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July 09, 2014 Artist Faculty Series • 7:30 p.m.

Nic Bizub (1992 – ) The Legend of King Beetle King Beetle Prepares his Wings King Beetle Soars over Sewanee King Beetle displays his Greatness… but he flies a little too high… and falls to his death!

King Beetle’s Funeral March King Beetle Remembered Patricia George, flute Hunter Thomas, bassoon Marian Shaffer, harp

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837 – 1910) Suite for Piano 4 Hands Polonaise Chansonette sans paroles Scherzo: Allegro con fuoco Shannon Hesse and Radek Materka

Libby Larson (1950 – ) Corker Chad Burrow, clarinet John Kilkenny, percussion —PAUSE—

Antonín Dvořák (1841 – 1904) String Quintet in G Major, Op. 77, B. 49

Allegro con fuoco Scherzo: Allegro vivace Poco andante Finale: Allegro assai Jonathan Magness, violin Lin He, violin Daphne Gerling, viola Paul York, cello Sidney King, double bass

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Hike to a Concert July 11, 2014 • 6:00 p.m.

Sewanee Summer Music Festival’s famous “Hike to a Concert” is a unique and fascinating experience, fusing the acoustic wonders of great music with one of Sewanee’s many breathtaking mountainside settings.

Where will SSMF appear this year?! We have a surprise for you! “Hike to a Concert” location will be announced on our website and in local media the week of July 01.

Keep up to date with Hike to a Concert news on the SSMF website: sewaneemusicfestival.org.

Sponsored by Monteagle Inn & Retreat Center.

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July 12, 2014 Artist Faculty Series • 7:30 p.m.

Robert Kahn (1938 – ) Serenade, Op. 73 Andante sostenuto – Vivace Allegretto non troppo e grazioso Rebecca Van de Ven, oboe Katherine Lewis, viola Radek Materka, piano

Paul Schoenfield (1947 – ) Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano Freylakh March Nigun Koztzke Chad Burrow, clarinet Jonathan Magness, violin Amy I-Lin Cheng, piano —INTERMISSION—

Arnold Schoenberg (1874 – 1951) Verklärte nacht, Op. 4 Grave Poco adagio Adagio Adagio (molto tranquillo) Katherine Lehman, violin Lin He, violin Katherine Lewis, viola Daphne Gerling, viola Paul York, cello Anthony Kitai, cello

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Michael Ludwig, Violin Hailed by The Strad magazine for his “effortless, envy-provoking technique… sweet tone, brilliant expression, and grand style,” Michael Ludwig enjoys a multifaceted career as a soloist, recording artist and chamber musician. As a soloist, he has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Pops, KBS Symphony in Seoul, Korea, Beijing Symphony, and the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, collaborating with such conductors as JoAnn Falletta, Sir Georg Solti and John Williams. He has recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic and Virginia

Symphony. As a chamber musician, he has performed with Christoph Eschenbach, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Yefim Bronfman, Sarah Chang and Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

His chamber music performances include appearances at the Prague Spring Music Festival, New Hampshire Music Festival, and a benefit appearance for the Terezin Music Foundation at Symphony Hall in Boston. Michael Ludwig studied violin with his father, Irving Ludwig, who was a violinist in The Philadelphia Orchestra and music director of the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra.

For more information, please visit www.michaelludwig.com.

Kenneth Fuchs, Composer Kenneth Fuchs has composed music for orchestra, band, chorus, and various chamber ensembles. The London Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of JoAnn Falletta, has recorded three discs of Fuchs’s music for Naxos American Classics. The first, was nominated for two GRAMMY® Awards. About the second, Musicweb International s tated, ‘Fuchs’s distinctive voice is evident from the outset, and his flair for orchestral colours and sheer lyricism shine through’. Follow ing the release of the third, recorded at London’s historic Abbey Road Studios, BBC Music Magazine stated, ‘Kenneth Fuchs writes tonal orchestral music of great imagination. He’s a master of orchestral writing. On Naxos’s third Fuchs recording, everything gets five-star treatment. The LSO under JoAnn Falletta sounds brilliant in a spacious Abbey Road recording’. His String Quartets 2, 3, and 4 were recorded by the American String Quartet. Following its release, the American Record Guidestated quite simply, ‘String quartet recordings don’t get much better than this’. With Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, 24

Fuchs created three chamber musicals, The Great Nebula in Orion, A Betrothal, and Brontosaurus, which were originally presented by Circle Repertory Company in New York City. His music is regularly performed in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Fuchs serves as Professor of Composition at the University of Connecticut. He received his master’s and doctor of musical arts degrees in composition from The Juilliard School, where his teachers included Milton Babbitt, David Diamond, and Vincent Persichetti. His music is published by the Hal Leonard Corporation, Edward B. Marks Music Company, Theodore Presser Company, and Yelton Rhodes Music, and it has been recorded by Albany, Cala, and Naxos Records.

For more information about the music of Kenneth Fuchs, visit the following sites: www.kennethfuchs.com www.albanyrecords.com www.calarecords.com www.ebmarks.com www.yrmusic.com.

July 13, 2014 Cumberland Orchestra • 2:30 p.m.

Perry Holbrook, Conductor Repertoire to be announced.

Sewanee Symphony • 3:30 p.m.

JoAnn Falleta, Conductor

Kenneth Fuchs (1956 – ) American Riband Kenneth Fuchs (1956 – ) American Rhapsody Michael Ludwig, violin

Gustav Holst (1874 – 1934) The Planets, Op. 32 I. Mars, the Bringer of War II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace III. Mercury, the Winged Messenger IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity V. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age VI. Uranus, the Magician VII. Neptune, the Mystic

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Béla Fleck

A Week of Banjo

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July 16 | Documentary Showing • 8:30 p.m.

Béla Fleck: How to Write a Banjo Concerto

Béla Fleck: How to Write a Banjo Concerto follows banjo trailblazer Béla Fleck through one of his most challenging musical journeys so far, into the world of the Symphony Orchestra. Béla is commissioned to compose a major banjo concerto, possibly the first of its kind, for banjo and 80 piece symphony orchestra. It begins before he has written a note, and concludes a year later, with the sold out premiere concert with the Nashville Symphony. A very intimate look at the process of composition and collaboration, How to Write a Banjo Concerto features Earl Scruggs, Chick Corea, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile, Zakir Hussain, Abigail Washburn and other close musical friends of Béla’s. The film also digs into “father issues,” with Béla being named after classical composers by an absentee father.

Composing this piece forces Béla to confront these issues.

July 19 | Artist Faculty Series • 7:30 p.m.

World premiere performance of Béla Fleck’s newest piece, composed for banjo and chamber orchestra. Performed

by Béla Fleck with SSMF faculty and students.

July 20 | Sewanee Symphony • 3:30 p.m.

Béla performs his concerto The Imposter with the Sewanee Symphony at the SSMF Finale Orchestra Concert.

People | Béla Fleck

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Art Works

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July 19, 2014 Artist Faculty Series • 7:30 p.m.

David Lang (1957 – ) The Anvil Chorus John Kilkenny, percussion

Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856) Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47 Sostenuto assai – Allegro ma non troppo Scherzo Andante cantabile Finale: Vivace Jonathan Magness, violin Katherine Lewis, viola Paul York, cello Shannon Hesse, piano —INTERMISSION—

Béla Fleck (1958 –) World Premiere — Title to Be Announced Béla Fleck, banjo SSMF faculty and student ensemble

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Art Works

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July 20, 2014 Cumberland Orchestra • 2:30 p.m.

Soo Han, Conductor

Repertoire to be announced.

Sewanee Symphony • 3:30 p.m.

Rossen Milanov, Conductor Béla Fleck (1958 –) Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra, “The Imposter” Béla Fleck, banjo

Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

Non allegro Andante con moto (Tempo di valse) Lento assai - Allegro vivace - Lento assai Come prima - Allegro vivace

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SUPPORT SSMF HELP US TO CHANGE THE NATURE

OF MUSIC

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pending a summer in Sewanee is a life-changing experience.

For many talented students, it would not be possible without scholarship assistance. Every year SSMF provides over $100,000 in scholarship funding to support the development of young musicians.

How can you make a difference?

Donations, endowment gifts, and offerings of time and talent are all vital to the sustainability of our program. We are incredibly grateful to the supporters of Sewanee Summer Music Festival.

Learn what YOU can do: • Make a direct donation to Sewanee Summer Music Festival.

• Become a volunteer by offering your time and talent.

• Support a student through our Scholarship Fund or AdoptA-Student program.

• Grant a wish by helping us with an item on our wish list.

• Become a Community Partner or Corporate Sponsor.

Contact ssmf@sewanee.edu with questions, suggestions, or help with making a contribution.

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Musicians CELLO Michelle Cheng Gregory Evans Aidan Gettemy Susan King Ana Lei Harrison Marable Cayce McClenen Garrett Metz Jared Murray Leah Plave Aria Posner Clara Questad Harrison Reed Simon Reid Ian Schroeder Sloane Scott Lillian Woolf Katherine Zu

VIOLA Alexander Foote John Grigsby Anders Janson Sydney Johnson Sarah Katz Esteban Madriz Samuel Meade Gaven O’Connell Oscar Rendon Lilly Romond Akilah Scott Anna Taylor Regina Vendetti Valeria Osuna Yrizar

HARP Mary Duplantier Mayetta Im Abigail Kent Marti Moreland Colleen Murray Kai-Lan Olson Sara Grace Williams

DOUBLE BASS Nick Blackburn Caleb Edwards Ian Elmore Layne Hartman Kate Izvanariu Ben Krege Maggie Lin James Mahowald Jean Montes Santana Thomas Pratt Jacob Ray Anthony Rideout Matthew Tolbert

FLUTE Emma Anderson Sarah Besand Emily Duncan Michael Huerta Alisia Moore

Schuyler Thornton Joshua Weinberg Anna Welton-Arndt Christiana Wince CLARINET Rosemary Bullock Monte Coulter IV Jordan Kauffman Liang Hui Lim Danny Mui Allison O’Bryan Travis Roberts Rebecca Sowell Nicholas Thompson Theresa Zick OBOE Virginia Axline Honor Barrett Elise Favia Lucas Florin Paul Goeglein Brooke King Pablo O’Connell Mylie Payne Mina Shekarchi J.J. Silvey BASSOON Zachary Bohanan Ethan Lippert Connor McClain Hank Morris Natasha Pizarro Sarah Strasinger HORN Allison Alexander José Colón Jordan Dinkins Rachelle Huffman Zachary Nicely Aisling O’Sullivan Nicoletta Pignatello Andrew Sneed Tyler Taylor Margarite Waddell

TRUMPET David Deshler Diana Huerta Justin Humphrey Kevin Karabell Nathan Little Matthew Loggins Zachary Marino Rebecca Ortiz TROMBONE Andrew Braley Joey Forcherio Jordan Harvey Jonathan McNeer Stephen “Kyle” Moore Dylan Musso Ehren Valme Parker Boudreau TUBA James Hendricks Ryan Kirkconnell PERCUSSION Max Fahland John Ferguson Matthew Fernandez Luis Herrera Thomas Maistros Amanda Morrill Andrew Nowak Mari Takeda Jada Twitty Lindsay Vasko Kyle Wilcox PIANO Clifton Cooper Katherine Knocke José Antonio Camera Garía Edgar Aldebarán Castro Parraguirre Fiona Kent Ming Yuan Pai Axel Retif Velasquez

People | Musicians

VIOLIN Basil Alter Emily Cain Sarah Cole Eric Cullins Shelby Denney Christian Dik Jessie Garner Jose Esteban Gonzáles Vera Sarah Anne Goodwin Clare Grieve Mary Katharine Guthrie Timothy Hsu Martina Langdon Lizzy Lim Jenna Mangum Scarlett Martínez Jonathan Martínez Alayna Nicotera Paola Ortega Leonardo Perucci Evelyn Pieper Chris Robinson Kirstin Rouse Emilie Shor Duncan Shumate Sarah Smythe Elizabeth Sosnoff Gabriela Spampinato Kayla Thiemann Hannah-Phyllis Urdea-Marcus Andrei Valerin

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Artist-Faculty Lin He, Violin

Mr. He serves as the Associate Professor of Violin at the Louisiana State University School of Music, Violinist Lin He will make and the President of the American String Teachhis Rapides Symphony Or- ers Association Louisiana Chapter. During the chestra debut with the Ko- summer, he teaches at the Sewanee Summer Murngold Concerto and his sic Festival and the Alfredo De Saint Malo FestiLSU Symphony Orchestra val in Panama City, Panama. debut with the Beethoven Triple Concerto during His recent CD release from Centaur Records of the 2013-2014 season. At a French Sonatas for Violin and Piano with colrecent concert in Carnegie league Gregory Sioles received favorable reviews.

Hall for the Children of Syria, he shared stage His website is www.linheviolin.com. with principal players from the Metropolitan Brittany Opera, New York Philharmonic, and Philadelphia Orchestra. Solo and chamber recitals will MacWilliams, Violin take him from the states of Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee and mainland China to orchesViolinist Brittany Mactral leadership of the Baton Rouge Symphony, Williams has an active Lake Charles Symphony, and Rapides Symphony. career both as perIn April, 2014 he will appear as the soloist with former and educator. the Louisiana Sinfonietta, give series of solo and She made her profeschamber concerts and master classes in San Jose, sional violin debut at Costa Rica. age ten with the Louisville Orchestra and went on to win numerous competitions including As a soloist and chamber musician, violinist Lin the Music Teachers National Association comHe has performed concertos with the Drake petition. Since then, Ms. MacWilliams has perSymphony, the Houghton Philharmonia, the Ji- formed extensively as soloist and concertmasang Su Symphony, the Lake Charles Symphony, ter in such diverse locales as Istanbul, Beijing, the Louisiana Sinfonietta, the Southern Tier Salzburg, Munich, Lisbon, and New York. She Symphony, the Tuscarawas Philharmonic, and has had solo engagements with such orchestras the Wooster Symphony. He has also presented as the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Louisrecitals at universities across the United States as ville Orchestra, Munich Hochshule Orchestra, well as at the East China Normal University, the Kentucky Symphony, and Aspen Chamber SymNanjing School of the Arts, the Xi’an Conserva- phony. Ms. MacWilliams can be heard as solotory of Music and the Xinghai Conservatory of ist on two critically acclaimed compact discs of Music. Most recently, he performed solo recitals Giornovichi Violin Concerti for the Arte Nova and gave master classes at Arizona State Univer- Classics / BMG label. sity, Florida State University, Pennsylvania State University, SUNY Fredonia, Tulane University As a frequent recitalist and avid chamber musiand University of North Texas. cian, Ms. MacWilliams performs in duos, piano trios, and string quartets throughout the United As an orchestral player, Mr. He has performed States. She is a founding member of the Baur with the Shanghai Symphony, Rochester Phil- Quartet and the Xavier Trio and has recorded harmonic, Boston Symphony, and New World four compact discs for the Vital Sounds label, Symphony, and has worked under the direction including the Ten Celebrated String Quartets of of Marin Alsop, James Conlon, James DePreist, W.A. Mozart. She can also be heard on Passion Seiji Ozawa, Andre Previn, David Robertson, from the Romantic Era, a CD featuring Brahms Christopher Seaman, Leonard Slatkin, Robert Violin Sonata in D minor. She was chosen as resiSpano, Edo de Waart, and David Zinman. He is dent artist for the Next Generation Music Festival a regular addition to the Louisiana Philharmonic where she toured and performed with the Baur Orchestra.

Quartet and pianist Awadagin Pratt.

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Ms. MacWilliams was the first winner of the prestigious Dorothy Richard Starling Teaching Fellowship in 2001, and over the years her students have won national competitions, performed with major orchestras, and received music scholarships to many top universities and conservatories. Ms. MacWilliams received her B.M. and M.M. degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music as a student of Kurt Sassmannshaus and Dorothy DeLay.

Jonathan Magness, Violin Alabama native Jonathan Magness was appointed the Minnesota Orchestra’s associate principal second violin in September 2008, after performing as a regular substitute with the Orchestra’s first violin section for one full season. He has performed chamber works at several Orchestra concerts, including Schumann’s Piano Quartet at the 2009 Sommerfest. He was featured as soloist at Inside the Classics and Young People’s Concerts in 2010, performing music by Vivaldi and Piazzolla.

Magness has won prizes in numerous competitions. In 2004 he received the grand prize in the International Sparkasse Musikstipendium competition in Austria. In 2005, in the Luis Sigall Violin Competition in Chile, he was awarded the audience prize, prize for best interpretation of a commissioned work, and second prize overall; that same year he was a prizewinner in the Manchester International Competition in the United Kingdom, which brought him the opportunity to appear as soloist with the BBC Symphony under Vassily Sinaisky. He has also been soloist with the Israel Chamber Orchestra, Klagenfurt Musikverein, Regional Orchestra of Chile and additional orchestras in the U.S. and Austria, and has performed chamber music and solo recitals across the U.S., South America and Europe. Magness has been on the faculty at Bravo! Music Festival since 2006.

Katherine Lewis, Viola Violist Katherine Lewis enjoys a multi-faceted career as a teacher, chamber musician, solo performer, and orchestral musician.

She is Assistant Professor of Viola at Illinois State University and Master Teacher for the ISU String Project, and currently performs as principal viola in the Peoria Symphony, Heartland Festival Orchestra, and Peoria Bach Festival Orchestra. Her previous orchestral experience includes appointments in the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra in Houston, TX and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, as well as frequent work with the Houston and New World Symphonies.

An avid chamber musician, Dr. Lewis regularly performs with the ISU Faculty String Quartet, the MYA Chamber Players, and the Lewis Trio.

She recently premiered Libby Larsen’s viola duo “In Such a Night,” written for her and violist James Dunham for a performance at the 38th International Viola Congress. She has also recorded chamber music by composers Karim AlZand and John Allemeier for recordings on the Magness has been acquainted with the Twin Naxos Record Label.

Cities since his teenage years, when he studied at the University of Minnesota, working with A recipient of several awards and grants for her Sally O’Reilly. He has also earned a bachelor’s teaching and research, including the ISU College degree from the Juilliard School and a master’s, of Fine Arts Outstanding Teaching Award and with high distinction, from the University of the ISU College of Fine Arts Research Initiative Award, Dr. Lewis has given recitals, presentaGraz in Austria.

Artist-Faculty | Violin / Viola

Ms. MacWilliams is currently a member of the violin faculty at the University of Louisville School of Music. She is also the founder and director of the Oldham County Chamber Ensemble, where she conducts the Chamber Orchestra and teaches chamber music. She taught at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music as a member of the Violin faculty from 2001-2008. She was also a member of the violin faculty at Xavier University, where she taught violin, viola, and chamber music for six years. She was the Director and a member of the Violin faculty of the Starling Preparatory String Project at the University of Cincinnati for twelve years. During the summers, she has served on the faculties of the Aspen Music Festival and the Great Wall International Music Academy in Beijing.

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tions, and master classes at venues throughout the country. She has presented sessions at several conferences including the International Double Reed Society Conference, the American String Teachers Association National Conference, the College Music Society Great Lakes Conference, and the Chicago Viola Festival. Recent recital and master class highlights include appearances at the University of Tennessee Viola Celebration, Indiana University, Oberlin Conservatory, Kansas State University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lawrence University, and Valdosta State University.

Dr. Lewis earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where she was a Brown Foundation Scholar. She holds a Bachelor degree from Lawrence University and a Master’s degree from The Cleveland Institute of Music. Her principal teachers include Jeffrey Irvine, James Dunham, Karen Ritscher, and Matthew Michelic.

Cambridge Faculty of Music in England, and violist of the Anglian Ensemble.

She has recently been a guest artist or clinician at James Madison University, Rice University, Illinois State University, Florida State University, University of South Carolina, Sewanee, University of Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University, Texas Tech University, University of Virginia, and the Federal Universities of Rio Grande do Sul, BrasÌlia (UNB), Belo Horizonte (UFMG), Santa Catarina (UDESC), Rio de Janeiro (Uni-Rio) and Uberlandia, Brazil. From 2008-2010 she served as Lecturer in Viola at Valdosta State University (GA), Principal Violist of the Valdosta Symphony, violist of the Azalea String Quartet, and Director of the South Georgia String Project. In the 201011 season she was invited by the VSO to return as soloist in Mozartís Sinfonie Concertante. Every year since 2007 she has served as coordinator for viola and chamber music at the Festival de Cordas Nathan Schwartzman in Uberlandia Brazil, where she also made several concerto appearances.

Dr. Lewis is a native of Evanston, IL. In her free time she enjoys training for and running marathons and triathlons, gardening, and spending As an adjudicator she recently served on the panel for the 2013 Houston Symphony Orchestra league time with her dog, Charley. competition. In summers she is on the faculty at the Rafael Trio Chamber Music Workshops in New Daphne Gerling, Viola Hampshire and the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, with whom she has broadcast twice for Violist Daphne Gerling National Public Radio. She spent the 2010-11 year currently enjoys an active studying baroque performance practice in Amstercareer as a teacher, cham- dam and Cologne, and served as principal violist ber musician, recitalist and for the Karlsruhe International Handel Festspiele solo performer. Since the Opernwerkstatt at the Badische Stadtstheater. This fall of 2011 she has been on season she joins the roster of Dallas Chamber Music the faculty of the University International Series performing Brahms String Sexof North Texas College of tet Op. 18. Other solo and chamber performances Music, where she is Artist in recent years have revealed a wide-ranging repTeacher of viola and chamber music. Her perfor- ertoire including works by Durufle, Hahn, Schulmances have taken her to leading venues in the hoff, Kurtag, Larsen, Faure, Milhaud, Enesco, Bach, U.S., Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Italy, Austria, Eng- Gubaidulina, Debussy and others. Dr. Gerling is land, the Netherlands, and Germany, and to music married to Coulter George, a professor of classics festivals including Aspen, Bowdoin, Encore, NYU, at the University of Virginia, with whom she enjoys Sarasota, Bad Leonfelden, Norfolk (UK), Staunton traveling around the world.

(VA), Dusseldorf-Benrath, Internationale Handel Festspiele Karlsruhe, and Neuburg, Bavaria. Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, she is a graduate of the Anthony Kitai, Cello Walnut Hill School and New England Conservatory, and holds degrees from Oberlin ConservaAnthony Kitai joined the tory, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Rice Houston Symphony in University, where she studied primarily with Jef2001, serving as Acting frey Irvine, Lynne Ramsey, Karen Ritscher and Associate Principal Cellist James Dunham. She furthered her studies with from 2003-2005. Previously, Thomas Riebl, Simon Rowland-Jones and Heidi he was a member of the Castleman, among others. From 2005-2007 Dr. Memphis Symphony and Gerling was a visiting scholar at the University of the Iris Chamber Orchestra.

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An avid chamber musician, Mr. York is a member of the Louisville String Quartet and was a founding member of The Logsdon Chamber Ensemble, a Texas Commission of the Arts Touring ensemble as well as ensemble-in-residence at Hardin-Simmons University. In April of 2006, he performed recitals throughout Japan. As a champion of contemporary music, Mr. York has commissioned works for the cello by such composers as Stefan Freund, Marc Satterwhite, Steve Rouse, Paul Brink, and Fredrick Speck. He also premiered the work Ballad for Solo Cello and Seven Cellos by Grawemeyer and Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Aaron Jay Kernis as well as Alfred Bartleís’ new orchestration of Bartokís First Rhapsody for cello with the Sewanee Festival Orchestra.

As a chamber musician, Anthony Kitai has performed with Mercury Baroque, and on Aperio, Col Canto, Foundation for Modern Music and Woodlands Salon Series Concerts. He frequently collaborates with his wife, pianist Shannon Hesse, and has performed with her on the Galveston Island Arts Academy Concert Series, Greenbriar Consortium Concerts, Houston Community College Chamber Music Series, Imperial Performing Arts, and Westminster Mr. York has participated in numerous summer festivals. He is currently a member of the artist Summer Concerts. faculty at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Anthony Kitai enjoys teaching and maintains where he performs solo and chamber works, in an active private studio where his students addition to his teaching schedule. He has also regularly play in Texas All-Region and All-State performed at Strings in the Mountains in ColoOrchestras. During the summers, he is on the rado, the Abilene Chamber Music Series, and faculty at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. served as principal cello with the Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra. He has held principal Anthony Kitai received his BM and performer’s cello positions with numerous regional orchescertificate from the Eastman School of Music tras and performed as a member of the cello and his MM from the Shepherd School of Mu- section of the Saint Louis Symphony under the sic at Rice University. His major teachers have direction of Leonard Slatkin. included Desmond Hoebig, Steven Doane, Paul Katz, and Peter Spurbeck.

Paul York, Cello An accomplished soloist, chamber musician and teacher, Paul York has appeared in recital and with orchestras in the U.S. and abroad. Mr. York serves on the string faculty at the University of Louisville, where he maintains an active teaching and performing schedule. Recent solo appearances include a performance of Karel Husaís Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Colored Field for Cello and Orchestra by Aaron Jay Kerniswith the Louisville Orchestra and Vivaldiís Double Concerto in G Minor with internationally acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Of his performance at Carnegie Hall, New York Concert Reviews said “The fiendishly difficult solo part was brilliantly played by cellist Paul York; one had to be in awe of his playing.”

Sidney King, Double Bass

Sidney A. King is the instructor of double bass at the University of Louisville School of Music.

He has retired the position of assistant principal bassist of the Louisville Orchestra, having held it from 1984-2006. As an active soloist and chamber musician, Mr. King performs frequently throughout the Midwest in various recital settings, including service for fourteen years as a core member of the Kentucky Center Chamber Players. He has also held a position on the board of directors of the International Society of Bassists (2003-2006).

He has been a performer at the Grand Teton Music Festival since 1992, often serving in titled positions with that orchestra. Mr. King has also performed as principal bassist with the Houston

Artist-Faculty | Viola / Cello / Double Bass

As a soloist, Anthony Kitai has appeared with many orchestras including the Galveston Symphony, Houston Civic Symphony, Symphony North of Houston, Texas Medical Center Orchestra, Jonesboro Symphony, Fort Smith Symphony, and Pine Bluff Symphony. Music festival appearances include Grand Teton, SchleswigHolstein, AIMS, AFA, Texas, and Aspen.

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Grand Opera, the Texas Opera Theater, the SunPatricia George, flower Music Festival, and the Des Moines Metro Flute Opera. He has also performed with the Detroit Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the HousInternationally known ton Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the performer and teacher, Indianapolis Symphony, and the North Carolina flutist Patricia George Symphony. Mr. King also served as the double travels the world perbass instructor at Indiana University Southeast forming and teaching. and has long been involved in music education, She has presented her teaching and coaching many youth ensembles Famous Flute Spa masterclasses for more than as well as giving numerous solo performances in 300 universities, conservatories, public schools, public and private schools. and flute associations. In January 2011, George became Editor of Flute Talk Magazine and continues to write the monthly column ‘The TeachMarian Shaffer, Harp er’s Studio.” She has also written for the Idaho Music Educator’s Notes, the National Flute AsMarian Shaffer is Principal sociation’s Flutist Quarterly, Keynotes Magazine, Harpist with the Memphis and Chamber Music America.

Symphony Orchestra and the Iris Orchestra. She As a performer George has toured the United received her Bachelor of States, Europe, Russia and the Middle East. Her Arts degree from Stephens performances have been heard on National PubCollege, graduating lic Radio affiliates in Tennessee, Idaho and Utah. summa cum laude with With Trio Terra Nova (Flute, Bassoon, Piano), a concentration in both she has appeared at the International Double harp and piano. She studied both instruments Reed Conventions held in Arizona, Wisconsin for one year at the Vienna Academy for Music and at the Centre for the Arts in Banff, Canada, and the Performing Arts and then received a in addition to regularly scheduled performances Fulbright scholarship to Cologne, Germany for at Temple Square Assembly Hall in Salt Lake City, further study. Her principal teachers include UT, Brigham Young University – Provo; Brigham Mimi Allen, Marjorie Tyre, Lucile Lawrence, Young University – Idaho; and throughout the and Hans Joachim Zingel. In 1974 she graduated Intermountain West. With the Amadeus Trio from Memphis State University with an M.A. in (Flute, Cello, Piano) she presented over 90 conmusic and German. certs a year for several years throughout the Intermountain West. She has soloed with the AmaShe has performed with the Memphis Sympho- rillo Symphony, Eastman-Rochester Symphony, ny since that time, four seasons as pianist and 34 Quincy Symphony, Brigham Young University seasons as Principal Harpist. As a charter mem- – Idaho Symphony Orchestra, the Magic Valley ber of the Iris Orchestra, Mrs. Shaffer has held Symphony, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony, the principal harp position since the orchestra’s Elkhorn Music Festival Orchestra, the Sewanee formation in September of 2000. In 1995, Mrs. Summer Music Festival and Cumberland OrShaffer was awarded a Rockefeller cultural ex- chestras, the Idaho Symphony, the Idaho State change grant to collaborate on a harp method Civic Symphony, and Wisconsin Lutheran Colbook based on the traditional “Sones” of Mex- lege Orchestra. ico. In May of 2007 she toured China, giving master classes and performing at the Shanghai She has co-authored: Flute 101: Mastering the Conservatory and Shanghai Middle School. She Basics for the Beginning Flutist, Flute 102: also performed in the Festival Virtuosi in Recife, Mastering the Basics for the Intermediate FlutBrazil in 2007 and 2011. In the 2009-2010 Blair ist, and The Flute Scale Book, all published by Concert Series, Mrs. Shaffer was soloist with the Theodore Presser Company. Patricia George is Vanderbilt String Orchestra and performed on an active member of the 5,500 member National Nashville Public Television. She is on the faculty Flute Association. She has served as Secretary of of Vanderbilt University, University of Mem- the Board of Directors, a member of the Flutist phis, the Hutchison School, and the Sewanee Quarterly Review Board, and is currently a memSummer Music Festival since 1980. ber of the Advisory Board of Directors. She has performed or presented workshops at the NFA yearly conventions since 2001. She has also pre36

by Bach, Barlow, Barbirolli, Bellini, Telemann, Handel, Haydn, Cimarosa, Vivaldi, Albinoni, Mozart, Salieri, Corigliano, Strauss, Rimsky Korsakov and Vaughan Williams and in July, 2008, the new oboe concerto by Thom Ritter George at the International Double Reed Society Convention in Utah. Robert performs often with the woodwind quartet, Three Fish and a Scorpion.

He teaches privately and at the University of Utah, makes and sells a lot of high-altitude oboe and English horn reeds and enjoys being the father of three bright and beautiful future taxpayers. Robert also finished his second oboe etude Robert Stephenson, book, “Dance Etudes”. It is one of the only etude Oboe books available for all woodwinds. He is marRobert Stephenson ried to flutist Lisa Byrnes. He likes to spend time joined the Utah Sympho- exercising, making ceramics, watching PBS and ny Orchestra in 1980. He listening to NPR, cooking, going out to restauhas served as Principal rants, watching good movies, renovating an old Oboe under Music Di- house and traveling. rectors Varujan Kojian, Joseph Silverstein, Keith Lockhart and Thierry Rebecca Van de Ven, Fischer. He has twice been a member of the Oboe Utah Symphony Music Director Search Committee and the orchestra’s Artistic Committee.

Rebecca Van de Ven Prior to coming to Salt Lake City, Mr. Stephenplays principal oboe son played Principal Oboe for three years with with the Adrian Symthe Savannah Symphony and Georgia Chamber phony in Michigan and Orchestra under Christian Badea. He is a gradthe Sewanee Symphony uate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Orchestra. She has also Curtis Institute of Music. held the positions of second oboe in the Battle Originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Mr. Ste- Creek Symphony and assistant principal in the phenson has performed at the National Music Santa Cruz Symphony. She currently teaches at Camp (Interlochen, MI), the Academy of the Sewanee University of the South. She has had West with Maurice Abravanel, the Spoleto Festi- a private studio for many years and formerly val in Italy and Charleston, SC and Tanglewood. taught oboe at Albion College and Spring ArHe has also played at festivals across the nation bor University. She received a Master of Music such as the Blossom Music Festival, the Grand degree from the San Francisco Conservatory Teton Music Festival, the Elkhorn Music Festi- in oboe performance where she was a student val (Sun Valley, Idaho), the Temple University of Eugene Izotov, current Principal Oboe of Music Festival, The Park City Music Festival and the Chicago Symphony. At the University of the Deer Valley Music Festival. He has been on Wisconsin, Madison, she earned a Bachelor of the faculty at the Symphony School of America, Music degree where she was a student of Prothe University of Utah, the Aspen Music Festival fessor Marc Fink. Ms. Van de Ven attended the and the Sequoia Chamber Music Workshop.

Pierre Monteux Music Festival in Maine and was awarded a full scholarship to the Music The Southern Music Company publishes his Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, Califor“Twinkle Variations” for solo oboe and Jeanne, nia. Since 1994, Ms. Van de Ven has been freeInc. is the publisher for both his 40 New Me- lancing and has performed with the San Franlodic and Technical Etudes and Dance Etudes cisco Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Fort for oboe or saxophone. Versions of Dance Wayne Philharmonic, Kalamazoo Symphony, Etudes will also be made available for flute and Madison Symphony, Chattanooga Symphony for bassoon in 2011. Mr. Stephenson has often and Huntsville Symphony. She currently resides appeared as soloist, having performed concertos in Sewanee with her husband and two children.

Artist-Faculty | Harp / Flute, Oboe

sented workshops at the Western International Band Clinic (Seattle, WA) and the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic (Chicago, IL). Patricia George has been the flute professor at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival since 1998. Many of her SSMF students have continued their musical education at elite flute institutions such as Juilliard, University of Southern California, Rice, Ohio State University, University of Texas, Florida State University, Carnegie Mellon University, Rutgers, North Carolina School of the Arts, and Boston University.

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Chad Burrow, Clarinet Chad Burrow is recognized as one of the premiere clarinetists of his generation. In 2009, Chad was appointed to the clarinet faculty of the University of Michigan, where he teaches clarinet, chamber music and serves as the director for the Michigan Chamber Players.

Additionally, he serves as co-artistic director for the Brightmusic Society of Oklahoma, which includes regular performances throughout the year and an early summer music festival in Oklahoma City. Chad is the former principal clarinetist of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the New Haven Symphony, the Quartz Mountain Music Festival and the Arizona Musicfest Orchestra.

Hunter Thomas, Bassoon

Since 1996, Hunter Thomas has served as the Principal Bassoonist of the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra in Alabama, an orchestra with which he has performed since high school.

Following a recent performance, The Huntsville Times refers to his “hauntingly lovely first solo” in Tchaikovskyís Symphony No. 6. Hunter has made numerous solo appearances with the HSO, including his acclaimed performance in 2005 of Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto under the direction of Carlos Miguel Prieto. As an orchestral player, Hunter performs regularly with the Chattanooga Symphony, the Tuscaloosa Symphony, the Memphis Symphony, the Alabama Symphony and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, with which he has recorded for the Dorian CD label.

Chad’s recent concert engagements abroad From 1980-1985, Hunter was the Principal have included the Alpenkammermusik Festival Bassoon of the National Orchestra of Colombia, in Austria, Denmark’s Thy Chamber Music South America.

Festival, a recital in the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, concerts in Strasbourg, France Since 2007 Hunter has been artist faculty at the and Concerto appearances with the Taichung Sewanee Summer Music Festival in Sewanee, Philharmonic, and the Classic Orchestra of Tennessee. In March 2011, Hunter appeared as Taichung. Recent performances in the United Guest Artist Clinician at the Middle Tennessee States have included appearances with the State Bassoon Festival in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Alice Tully Hall, Chamber Music Northwest and In recent seasons he has performed the Weber performances on a series of Benny Goodman Concerto with the Huntsville Youth orchestra, centennial concerts in Carnegie Hall and Yale the Mignone Concertino with the Sewanee University. Other performances have included Philharmonia Orchestra, the Andriessen venues at Rice University, the Museum of Jewish Concertino with the Huntsville Chamber Winds, Heritage in New York, the University of Houston, and the Telemann Concerto for Flute and Bassoon three International Clarinet Association with the Huntsville Symphony. He currently conferences, Northwestern University, the Music serves as the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra’s Mansion in Providence (RI), University of North personnel manager and librarian, bringing a high Texas, University of, the University of Texas, degree of professionalism and efficiency to that Louisiana State University and the University of organization’s artistic operations.

Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium, among many others.

Hunter has inspired and mentored countless North Alabama music students. He maintains Chad has recordings released by Albany Records, an active private studio of bassoonists at all CD Baby and Wei Studios in Taiwan. The most playing abilities and serves on the faculty of the recent recording features works of Brahms and University of Alabama in Huntsville. Many of Schumann on CD Baby. Chad is also a member of his students have been accepted to prestigious Trio Solari (cl, vln, pno), which has had a regular schools and festivals nationwide. His students touring schedule around the world since 2006. have appeared on the radio show From the Trio Solari is anticipating the release of a new Top, and have been finalists in the Marine Band recording in the spring of 2014.

Concerto Competitions. Hunter is in demand throughout the region as a chamber music coach and festival teacher, and has spent numerous hours in public school band rooms and youth 38

Quintet, which won a top prize in the Fischoff Chamber Music competition. Prior to studies at Curtis, Smith attended the Juilliard School and the University of Texas at Austin. Her teachers included Wayne Barrington, Greg Hustis and Michael Hatfield. She was named third horn of the Charleston (South Carolina) Symphony Orchestra while still a student at Curtis and later Ellen Dinwiddie joined the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra as Smith, Horn co-principal horn. As a student she performed Ellen Dinwiddie Smith, at the Spoleto, Waterloo, Chautauqua, Keystone, Acting Associate Princi- Colorado Philharmonic and Aspen summer pal Horn with the Min- music festivals. nesota Orchestra, contributes to Minnesota’s Smith maintains an active teaching studio in the Twin Cities musical life Twin Cities and is adjunct professor of horn at as a chamber music se- Bethel and Augsburg Colleges. She serves on the ries creator, guest solo- board of the Twin Cities Horn Club. Smith has ist, chamber music performer and private in- been on the faculty of Kendall Betts Horn Camp structor. In demand as a clinician and soloist and has given masterclasses around the country throughout the United States, Smith will be a and world. featured artist in April at the MidSouth International Horn Society Workshop in Austin, Texas.

Peter Bond, Trumpet Smith is Artistic Director of the Colonial Chamber Series, which she developed and launched in 2006, and spearheaded the Musicians for Tsunami Relief benefit concert as well as a benefit for Emergency Family Service, with concerts held at Colonial Church in Edina. She has performed with the Lakes Chamber Music Society in Alexandria, Minnesota, and the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, among others. Smith has been privileged to collaborate with the world- renowned Dale Warland Singers, exploring repertoire for chorus and solo horn and appears on the Chorus’ Bernstein & Britten CD as featured soloist in Aharon Harlap’s Bat Yiftach (Jephthah’s Daughter).

At the International Horn Society Workshop in Bloomington, Indiana, Smith was a featured artist, performing in recital, orchestra, and as a competition judge. As a guest soloist, she has appeared with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Ft. Worth Symphony, the National Repertory Orchestra, Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra, Kenwood Symphony Orchestra and Linden Hills Chamber Orchestra. During the recent Minnesota Orchestra lockout, Smith performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Kennedy Center Orchestra, and as acting Principal Horn for the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, among others.

Peter Bond has played trumpet in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 1992. He studied with John Head of the Atlanta Symphony, Robert Nagel of the New York Brass Quintet and Yale School of Music, as well as Vincent Cichowicz, Arnold Jacobs, and Adolph Herseth; all renown teachers and members of the Chicago Symphony. While living in Atlanta in the 1980s he was a busy freelance musician, working frequently with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Ballet, and lead trumpet for most visiting musicals and entertainers including Evita, 42nd Street, Sugar Babies,Chorus Line, West Side Story, Ann Margaret, Mitzi Gaynor, Ben Vereen, Johnny Mathis, and Tony Bennett.

In 1987 Mr. Bond left Atlanta to become Principal Trumpet of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra where he remained until his appointment to the “Met.” He has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, the New York City Opera, the New York City Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre, the New Jersey Opera, and the Santa Fe Opera and Chamber Music Festival.

Mr. Bond taught for ten years an the Mason Gross School of Music of Rutgers University.

Smith is a 1987 graduate of the Curtis Institute His philosophy of teaching is using singing and of Music, where she was a student of Myron speech as models for easier, more natural, and Bloom and was a member of the Curtis Wind more musical brass performance.

Artist-Faculty | Clarinet / Basson / Horn / Trumpet

orchestra rehearsals, volunteering his time and expertise in support of music education. Hunter was named the 2003 Harold J. Wilson Music Educator of the Year and served on the Board of Trustees of the Huntsville Youth Orchestra.

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Mark Babbitt, Trombone In constant demand as soloist, orchestral musician and teacher, Mark Babbitt enjoys a high degree of success in all areas of trombone performance.

Mark has performed extensively with the Seattle Symphony and Opera. In 2009 he performed Wagner’s Ring Cycle with the Seattle Opera. With the Seattle Symphony he has recorded the music of Bodine, Borodin, Brahms/ Sheng, Dvorak, McKinley, Mahler, and Schuman.

He has performed as guest principal trombone with the Seattle Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Honolulu Symphony, Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Peoria Symphony Orchestra, and the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra. Additionally, he has worked with numerous orchestras throughout the country, including: Rochester Philharmonic, Chautauqua Symphony, Wheeling Symphony, Cincinnati Ballet Orchestra, and Erie Philharmonic.

Eric Bubacz, Tuba Eric Bubacz has an extensive career as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral performer. He studied for three years at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY before transferring to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he completed his Bachelor of Music. While in school, Eric was a member two different brass quintets, both of which competed and placed second at the New York Brass Conference Quintet Competition. During the summers, he attended several noted festivals including: The National Repertory Orchestra, Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, Sully Music Festival, Centre d’Arts Orford, Harmony Ridge Brass Seminar, Festival of Art and Musical Excellence and SchleswigHolstein Music Festival, where he was the first tubaist to win the Chamber Music Prize. Shortly after graduating from Curtis, he attended the Colonial Euphonium and Tuba Institute where he won second prize at the International Tuba Solo Competition. He also placed first on tuba in the International Women’s Brass Conference Solo Competition.

Mark has been active in the recording and film soundtrack industry, including: Valkyrie, The Incredible Hulk, Alpha and Omega, The Forbidden Kingdom, the video game Prince of Persia, and Trey Anastasio’s critically acclaimed album Time Turns As an orchestral player, Eric has been named Elastic. He can be heard on Naxos, Albany, MCC, Principal Tuba of the Haddonfield Symphony (1992-1997), the Canton Symphony (1998-2007) Mark, and R.E.D. Distribution record labels. and the Reading Symphony (1996-present). He Active as a soloist, Mark has performed with nu- has also performed as an extra musician with the merous ensembles throughout the country. He Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra and has won a number of competitions, including the the Cleveland Blossom Festival Band. In 1997, National Solo Competition in Washington, D.C. Eric began working as an extra with the Pittsand the Washington Awards Tour sponsored by burgh Symphony Orchestra. By 2000, Eric was also playing with the Pittsburgh Symphony Brass the Ladies Music Club of Seattle. and can be heard on several of their recordings, Dr. Babbitt is associate professor of trombone at Il- including Cantate Hodie, Sing Forth this Day linois State University. Prior to ISU, he was associ- and The Spirit of Christmas. From 2002-2005, ate professor of trombone for ten years at Central Eric regularly acted as Principal Tuba of the PittsWashington University. Since 2007 he has been on burgh Symphony Orchestra. Highlights of his the artist faculty at the Sewanee Summer Music work with them include four European Tours, Festival. He holds degrees in performance from the three performances at Carnegie Hall and a perEastman School of Music (B.M. and Performerís formance at the Vatican for Pope John Paul II. Certificate), Cleveland Institute of Music (M.M.), Since moving to Atlanta in the 2006, Eric has beand the University of Washington (D.M.A.).

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John Kilkenny, Percussion John Kilkenny is currently Director of Percussion Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He enjoys a multi faceted career that includes orchestral performances with the National Symphony, Washington National Opera and Ballet, Washington Concert Opera, Cathedral Choral Society, Washington Chorus, Choral Arts Society, the Master Choral of Washington, and virtually every other Washington DC area performing arts organization. Chamber music appearances include collaborations with flautist Karen Johnson, pianist Carlos Rodriguez, the Folger Consort, Verge Ensemble, Talujon Percussion, Chris Deviney, John Tafoya, Robert Van Sice, Gregory Zuber, and She e Wu. Michael Daughertyís UFO Percussion Concerto, and the Washington DC area premiere of the Philip Glass Concerto Fantasy for two Timpanists and Wind Symphony are included in his highlights of his recent concerto appearances.

John appeared as the solo percussionist for a 2008 award winning production of Macbeth at the Folger Shakespeare Theater and completed writing the solo percussion music for Don McCulloughís choral work in Let my People Go, a Musical Journey through the Underground Railroad, which premiered in April 2008 at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He has been a part of several recent and upcoming commissions, including works from Peter Erskine, Jonathan Newman, Jesse Gessford, Dennis Hoffmann, Peter Klatzow, and Alejandro Vinao and Don McCullough.

John was an Artist in Residence for the Indiana University Summer Percussion Workshop/ Academy from 2007-2010. From 2005-2007 John was the coordinator of the University of Maryland Summer Percussion Workshop.

Sought after as a clinician and guest conductor, he has appeared at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Juilliard Summer Percussion Academy ( summer 2011), John Philip Sousa Foundation National High School Honor Band, the Music for All Summer Symposium, Western International Band Conference, The Virginia Music Educators Conference, and at several universities throughout the country. John Kilkenny is a Yamaha Performing Artist and proud sponsor of Vic Firth mallets, Remo drumheads and Sabian cymbals.

Amy I-Lin Cheng, Piano Born in Taiwan, pianist Amy I-Lin Cheng has been described by the New York Concert Review as a pianist whose “control of the keyboard is complete, technique easy and relaxed, with a wide range of touch.” Pianist Claude Frank describes her as “a brilliant, sensitive, imaginative and most beguiling pianist.” Amy enjoys a career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher.

Amy has appeared in recitals at venues such as the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, and National Concert Hall in Taipei and has been invited to perform in concerts across the United States, in Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Taiwan, Brazil and Israel. Amy’s live performances have been heard on WGBH, KCSC, WHYY, La Radio Suisse Romande-Espace 2, and NPR in Houston.

Amy has won many awards including the Heida Hermanns International Young Artist Piano Competition, and the Rising Young Artist Series in Taipei. As a concerto soloist, she made her Boston concerto debut at the age of 17 at Jordan Hall playing Liszt Concerto No. 2 under the direction of Benjamin Zander, and has appeared with the ‘Musica Viva’ Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Recent concerto performances include concertos with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Oklahoma Community Orchestral, Taichung Philharmonic in Taiwan, Orchestra of the Pines in Texas, and Classic Orchestra in Taiwan.

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come an active teacher and performer throughout the Southeast. In 2007, he was appointed Principal Tuba of the La Grange Symphony. He has also substituted regularly with the Atlanta Symphony, Birmingham Symphony, Knoxville Symphony, Greenville Symphony, Columbus Symphony and Augusta Symphony. That year he was also invited to be the guest artist for Jacksonville State Universityís premier Octubafest in Jacksonville, Alabama. Most recently, he has been appointed adjunct professor of tuba at Georgia State University, in addition to his extensive studio of private students in the Atlanta metro area.

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An avid chamber musician, she is the coArtistic Director of the Brightmusic Society in Oklahoma City and is an artist member of the America’s Dream Chamber Artist. A sought after collaborator, Amy has performed with the Van Dingstee String Quartet from the Netherlands and the American Chamber Players on tours, and was invited to be a resident pianist for the International Double Reed Society (IDRS) 2010 and 2011 Conferences, as well as IWWF 2012, 2001 and 2002, directed by Jonathan Cohler.

As a founding member of the former Goffriller Trio, she performed in The Third Jerusalem International Chamber Music Encounters in Israel directed by Isaac Stern, and the 1999 La Jolla SummerFest. Amy has been on faculty for the 2009 Interharmony International Music Festival and Quartz Mountain Music Festival in the summer of 2010 and 2011.

Shannon Hesse, Piano Shannon Hesse, Assistant Professor and keyboard area coordinator at Houston Baptist University, has performed extensively both nationally and internationally as a soloist and collaborative pianist. Her concert schedule consists of recurring guest appearances in recitals sponsored by organizations such as the College Music Society, National Association of Teachers of Singing, Society of Composers, Inc., Tuesday Musical Club, Galveston Island Arts Academy Concert Series, Imperial Performing Arts series, Greenbriar Consortium, and the Houston Composers Alliance. She regularly performs with musicians from the Houston Symphony, including her husband, cellist Anthony Kitai. A devoted teacher, Dr. Hesse is a long-standing member of Music Teachers National Association, where she is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music. She is frequently in demand as an adjudicator and her students have been prizewinners in competitions at the local and state levels.

Dr. Hesse has served on the faculties of Texas Southern University and Valdosta State University, and spent many wonderful summers teaching at Westminster Choir College’s High School Piano Camp and at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, where she served as Coordinator of Collaborative Piano. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Dr. Hesse holds

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additional degrees from Catholic University and Westminster Choir College. She is a member of the honors societies Phi Kappa Lambda and Alpha Lambda Delta and has had the great honor of working with outstanding teachers and mentors, including Jean Barr, Ingrid Clarfield, Marilyn Neeley, and Rita Sloan.

Radek Materka, Piano The Polish-born pianist Radek Materka has appeared in solo recitals and with orchestras in Europe, North and Central America and Asia performing in concert venues such as the Carnegie Recital Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.

He has made recordings for Polish, British, American and Mexican radio and television and has won top prizes in piano competitions in Europe and the United States. He has been a frequent participant in master classes led by world-renowned pianists such as Duransky, Czerny-Stefanska and Alicia de Larrocha. In 1999, Materka was selected as one of the pianists-participants in the First International Piano Symposium under the Auspices of the Moscow Conservatory where he was mastering his pianistic development under the tutelage of some of the most renowned piano professors of the Conservatory: Voskressensky, Trull, and Petrov.

He has appeared as a guest pianist in concert series and international music events such as the 2003 International Paderewski Conference, and the Polish Music International Conference in Los Angeles, “Polish Birthdays” Gala Concert, commemorating birthdays of the Polish composers W. Lutoslawski, H.M. Gorecki and J. Bruzdowicz, Festival Internacional FAOT 2012 and 2013, Tamaulipas International Festival 2013, and, recently, joining a group of internationally recognized pianists, performed recitals during the International Piano Festival, En Blanco y Negro at the National Art Center in Mexico City, and an all-Liszt recital performed as a part of a highly-acclaimed music festival Liszt y Otros Mundos Sonoros at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City- one of the most important performing venues in the Latin America.

Octavio Más-Arocas

Chosen by Kurt Masur, Mr. Más-Arocas was awarded the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Scholarship in 2011. Consequently, he traveled to Europe and work as Maestro Masur’s assistant with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Helsinki Radio Orchestra and made his Leipziger Symphonieorchester conducting debut. The offer came after Mr. Más-Arocas New York debut concert sharing the podium with Maestro Masur and the Manhattan School of Music Symphony.

An alumnus of the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, Mr. Más-Arocas won the Robert J. Harth Conducting Prize awarded by David Zinman. He is the recipient of the Thelma A. Robinson Award from the Conductors Guild, a Prize Winner of the Third European Conductors Competition, and a winner of the National Youth Orchestra of Spain Conductors Competition.

Mr. Más-Arocas has conducted orchestra across North and South America and Europe including the Leipziger Symphonieorchester, the Orquestra Sinfônica da Unicamp in Brazil, the Spokane, Toledo, Phoenix, Memphis, Kansas City, and San Antonio symphonies, National Repertory Orchestra, Manhatan School of Music Symphony, Universidad Nacional de Mexico Philharmonic, Rosario Symphony in Argentina, Kharkov Symphony in Ukraine, National Youth Orchestras of Portugal and Spain, Pescara Symphony in Italy, Amsterdam Brass in Netherlands, and Ciudad Alcala de Henares Symphony.

In 2010 Mr. Más Arocas conducted the National Repertory Orchestra in several performances, and served as assistant conductor working closely with Leonard Slatkin. Other festival appearances include the Aspen Music Festival, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, the Sewanee Music Festival, the Campinas Music Festival in Brazil, and Interlochen, where he conducted both the World Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Interlochen Philharmonic. Mr. Más Arocas has also served as assistant conductor at the Madrid Royal Opera House and the Bowling Green State University Opera and leaded two national tours with the National Youth Orchestra of Portugal and served as member of the National Youth Orchestra of Spain conducting staff.

From 2008-2012 Mr. Más Arocas was Music Director and Conductor of the renowned Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestras. His performances with the IAA Orchestras have been featured on National Public Radio and streamed online. At Interlochen he collaborated with such outstanding and diverse musicians as Leonard Slatkin, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky, cellist Joshua Roman, Philadelphia Orchestra’s tubist Carol Jantsch, the trio Time for Three, and the Latin band Tiempo Libre. Last March Mr. Más-Arocas leaded the IAA Orchestra on a tour that included stops in New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Detroit and collaborations with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

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Octavio Más-Arocas was recently appointed Director of Orchestral Studies and Conductor of the Symphony and Opera Orchestras at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music. In addition, he has been appointed Resident Conductor at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. Previously, he served as Music Director and Conductor of the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra for four years.

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in China, Memphis, San Diego, Albany, Virginia, Omaha, Fresno, Long Beach, Long Island, Portland, and at the Aspen, Atlantic, Meadowbrook, Skaneateles, Sewanee and Breckenridge festivals.

A passionate advocate for new music and living composers, he has led premieres by Evan Chambers, Steven Stucky, Gunther Schuller, Leslie Bassett, Ben Johnston, Aharon Harlap, Gabriela Lena Frank, Kristin Kuster, Steven Rush, and Paul Brantley. He is also has performed several long lost pieces including a composer authorized first performance of Gershwin’s original jazzband score of Rhapsody in Blue since 1925.

Other landmark performances include the U.S. Premiere of Mendelssohn’s Third Piano Concerto, the world premiere of James P. Johnson’s The Dreamy Kid, and the first performance since 1940 of Johnson’s blues opera, De Organizer.

Kenneth Kiesler

Guest Conductor, Week One Born of French and Austrian descent in New York City, Maestro Kenneth Kiesler leads a highly successful international career as a professional symphony orchestra and opera conductor. Recent concert engagements include televised concerts in Mexico and Mahler’s Sixth Symphony in Brazil. Maestro Kiesler is also one of the world’s most sought after and highly regarded teachers and mentors of conductors.

Kenneth KieslerAs the award winning Music Director of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra from 1980 to 2000, Maestro Kiesler conducted concerts in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and was founder of both the Illinois Chamber Orchestra and Illinois Symphony Chorus.

The Illinois Symphony Orchestra named him Conductor Laureate for life, and from 2009 to 2011 he served as the orchestra’s Music Advisor. He was also Music Director of the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra and Principal Conductor of the Saint Cecilia Orchestra.

Maestro Kiesler has conducted orchestras on three continents, including the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, the Chicago Symphony at Orchestra Hall, the Chamber Orchestra of Paris, and the orchestras of Utah, Detroit, New Jersey, Florida, Indianapolis, São Paulo, Jerusalem, Sofia, Haifa, Osaka, Puerto Rico, Daejeon and Pusan in Korea, Hang Zhou 44

Maestro Kiesler’s recordings with the BBC, Third Angle and University of Michgan Symphony Orchestra are heard on the Naxos, Dorian, Pierian, and Equilibrium labels. Recent work includes Ginastera’s three piano concerti with acclaimed pianist, Barbara Nissman, and The Old Burying Ground, an orchestral song cycle

by Evan Chambers. His latest recording, a 3 CD set of Milhaud’s monumental work for expanded orchestra, chorus and soloists, L’Orestie, will be released by Naxos in April of 2014.

Winner of the 2011 American prize in conducting, Mr. Kiesler was the Silver Medal winner at the 1986 Stokowski Competition, and the 1988 recipient of the Helen M. Thompson Award, presented by the American Symphony Orchestra League to the outstanding American music director under the age of 35. His teachers and mentors include Carlo Maria Giulini, Fiora Contino, Julius Herford, Erich Leinsdorf, John Nelson, and James Wimer.

Mr. Kiesler has led conducting masterclasses in New York, Houston, Chicago, Paris, Moscow, Vilnius, Leipzig, Berlin, Mexico City, London and São Paulo, as well as at the Waterville Valley Music Center (New Hampshire) and the Conductors Retreat at Medomak (Maine), now in its 18th year.

Mr. Kiesler currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he is Director of Orchestras and leads the renowned orchestral conducting program at the University of Michigan. www.kennethkiesler.com

Whether conducting contemporary masterpieces or bringing fresh insights to the symphonies of Mozart, Beethoven or Brahms, Mark Russell Smith demonstrates consummate musicianship and enthusiastic commitment to the art of music-making – qualities that have endeared him to audiences and musicians alike. In June of 2007, Smith was appointed Director of New Music Projects of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Artistic Director of Orchestral Studies at the University of Minnesota, a combined post that enabled him to bring his commitment for excellence and passion for education to new audiences. In September of 2008, he became Music Director and Conductor of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, and has since presided while the orchestra has enjoyed five successive seasons of subscription ticket sales growth, and has brought a newly focused artistic vision to the organization. He was named Artistic Director of the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies in the fall of 2012. In the winter and spring of 2012, Smith was the instigating artistic force behind the University of Minnesota School of Music’s Britten Peace Project, which combined musical and historical study and community engagement, culminating in critically acclaimed performances of Britten’s War Requiem in Europe and America, collaborating with German and American music students, professional musicians and the Nobel Peace Prize Forum. Recent projects include appearances with the Joffrey Ballet, conducting Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, as part of a larger exploration of that work, commemorating its 100th anniversary. Formerly Music Director of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, a position he held from 1999 to 2009, Smith was praised for his innovative and approachable programming and is widely credited with fostering the orchestra’s unprecedented artistic growth.

As a guest conductor, Smith enjoys a burgeoning international reputation that has already brought him engagements and re-engagements with prestigious American orchestras, including the St. Louis Symphony, the Houston Symphony and the St. Paul Chamber Orches-

A champion of the music of our time, Smith led the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Engine 408 series, working closely with living composers and added his unique perspective to enhance that orchestra’s great tradition of fostering new works. He has collaborated with YoYo Ma and members of the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota in Hún Qiáo (Bridge of Souls), a concert of remembrance and reconciliation featuring world premieres by Korean, Japanese, Chinese and American composers. A firm believer in the use of technical innovation to reach world-wide audiences, he debuted in 2002 with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, conducting the final round of the first Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition, where he led six concerto performances that were streamed live over the Internet. He has led the Minnesota Orchestra in the Competition’s final round since 2004 and returns each summer.

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tra. With the Minnesota Orchestra, he made his critically acclaimed Sommerfest debut in 2006 and made his subscription series debut in March of 2009. In the fall of 2013, he debuted with the Virginia Opera, leading Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Other recent appearances include debut performances with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Costa Rica in 2013, and a return to Verizon Hall with the Curtis Orchestra in an all-Wagner program. He regularly returns to his alma mater to lead the Symphony Orchestra of The Curtis Institute of Music, and led the orchestra on tour in China and Korea in the fall of 2011. Smith’s debut at the Nomus Music Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia was met with critical and audience acclaim and led to immediate reengagement. Other recent and upcoming appearances include the Santa Barbara Symphony, Brazil’s Orquestra Sinfôniea da USP, the Hartford Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica de Xalapa, the Phoenix Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, the Eugene Symphony, the Curtis Opera Theatre, the Jacksonville Symphony, the Berkshire Choral Festival, the Eastern Music Festival, the Tulsa Philharmonic, Orchestra London (Ontario), and the European Center for Opera and Vocal Art in Ghent, Belgium.

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JoAnn Falleta

Guest Conductor, Week Three JoAnn Falletta is internationally celebrated as a vibrant ambassador for music and an inspiring artistic leader. An effervescent and exuberant figure on the podium, she has been praised by The Washington Post as having “Toscanini’s tight control over ensemble, Walter’s affectionate balancing of inner voices, Stokowski’s gutsy showmanship and a controlled frenzy worthy of Bernstein.” Acclaimed by The New York Times as “one of the finest conductors of her generation,” she serves as the Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina.

Ms. Falletta is invited to guest conduct many of the world’s finest symphony orchestras.

In 2012, she made return engagements with the Krakow Philharmonic in Poland and the Goettingen Symphony in Germany and debuted with the Czech Philharmonic and Croatia National Philharmonic.

Highlights of her international guest conducting appearances include her South American debut with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Chile in Santiago Chile, and performances with the London Symphony, Korean Broadcast Symphony, Beijing Symphony, a tour of Germany and Italy with the Sudwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Haifa Symphony (Israel), Goettingen Symphony (Germany), Netherlands Radio Orchestra, National Philharmonic of Lithuania, Orquestra de Extremadura (Spain), Warsaw National Philharmonic, Kraków Philharmonic, Orchestra National de Belgique, Seoul Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic in Manchester, Ensemble Kanazawa (Japan), Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, Orchestra of Asturias (Spain), Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestre National De Lyon, Northwest German Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Lisbon Metropolitan Symphony. She has guest conducted over 100 orchestras in North America, including the orchestras of Philadelphia, Detroit, Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Houston, Rochester, Utah, Edmonton, Quebec and the National Symphony.

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Ms. Falletta’s summer activities have taken her to numerous music festivals including the Brevard Festival, Aspen, Tanglewood, Hollywood Bowl, Grand Teton, Wolf Trap, Eastern Music, Cabrillo, OK Mozart International, Lanaudiere, Peter Britt, Breckenridge and Interlochen, among others. She is also Artistic Adviser to the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra, which was founded in 2011.

She is the recipient of many of the most prestigious conducting awards including the Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts Conductors Award, the coveted Stokowski Competition, and the Toscanini, Ditson and Bruno Walter Awards for conducting, as well as the American Symphony Orchestra League’s prestigious John S. Edwards Award. She is an ardent champion of music of our time, introducing over 400 works by American composers, including more than 100 world premieres. Hailing her as a “leading force for the music of our time,” she has been honored with eleven ASCAP awards. Ms. Falletta serves as a Member of the National Council on the Arts.

Under her direction, the Buffalo Philharmonic is continuing its trajectory as one of the most recorded orchestras in America with the release of two new Naxos CDs in the 2012-13 season, Tyberg’s Symphony No. 2 and Gershwin’s Catfish Row, Rhapsody in Blue, Strike up the Band, Promenade and the recording of its sixteenth disc, Gliere’s Symphony No 3. Performance highlights include a concert at Carnegie Hall in May 2013, as part of the Spring for Music Festival, and the Orchestra’s debut at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.

Since stepping up to the podium as Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in the fall of 1999, Maestro Falletta has been credited with bringing the Philharmonic to a new level of national and international prominence. Under her direction, the Buffalo Philharmonic has become one of the leading orchestras for the Naxos label, earning two Grammy Awards and five Grammy nominations.

This season, the BPO will once again be featured on national broadcasts of NPR’s Performance Today and SymphonyCast, and international broadcasts through the European Broadcasting Union.

For full biography and more information, please visit www.cami.com and www.joannfalletta.com.

Guest Conductor, Week Four Respected and admired by audiences and musicians alike, Princeton Symphony Orchestra Music Director Rossen Milanov is the Principal Conductor of Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias (OSPA) in Spain and also serves as Music Director of the nationally recognized training orchestra Symphony in C in New Jersey.

Mr. Milanov has established himself as a conductor with a considerable national and international presence. His recent conducting highlights include debuts at the Musikverein in Vienna, Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago, Zurich Opera, and a world premiere of Sergei Prokofiev’s incidental music to Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. This season, Mr. Milanov debuts with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic in South Africa, Sapporo Symphony and Tokyo City Philharmonic, and returns to the Milwaukee ,Vancouver, Columbus, Fort Worth, Aalborg, and Latvian National Symphony Orchestras; National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, Zurich Opera, Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra and his Link Up education projects with Carnegie Hall and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.

Mr. Milanov has collaborated with some of the world’s preeminent artists, including Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Midori, Christian Tetzlaff, and André Watts, as well as with such internationally esteemed vocalists as Nicolai Ghiaurov, Vesselina Kasarova, Angela Meade,

Internationally, he has collaborated with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Komische Oper Berlin, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Residentie Orkest, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Lucerne, Mexico, Colombia, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Auckland and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. On his regular tours to the Far East, he has appeared with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, China Philharmonic, and Singapore Symphony.

Noted for his versatility, Milanov is also a welcome presence in the worlds of opera and ballet. He has worked with opera companies including the Komische Oper Berlin (Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), the Philadelphia Orchestra (Puccini’s La bohème), and Curtis Opera Theatre (Dominick Argento’s Postcard from Morocco). In ballet, he has collaborated with leading choreographers Mats Ek (Zurich Opera), Sabrina Matthews and Nils Christe (Stockholm’s Royal Ballet), Benjamin Millepied and Andonis Foniadakis (Geneva Opera), and Jorma Elo (Pennsylvania Ballet).

Milanov’s passion for new music has resulted in numerous world premieres of works by composers including Richard Danielpour, Paul Moravec, Nicolas Maw, and Gabriel Prokofiev.

He also collaborates with emerging composers through Symphony in C’s annual Young Composer’s Competition.

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Rossen Milanov

A well-known figure in North America, Rossen Milanov has appeared with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Indianapolis, Calgary, Alabama, Florida, New Jersey, North Carolina, Seattle, and Oregon, among others. His festival appearances include Aspen, Chautauqua, the Bravo! Vail Valley Festival, Grand Teton, and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.

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Measha Brueggergosman, Anne Schwanewilms and Krassimira Stoyanova. During his eleven- year tenure with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Milanov conducted more than 200 performances, as Associate Conductor and as Artistic Director of the Orchestra’s summer home at The Mann Center for the Performing Arts. His passion for new music has resulted in numerous world premieres of works by composers such as Richard Danielpour, Nicolas Maw, and Gabriel Prokofiev; he also works with emerging composers through Symphony in C’s annual Young Composers’ Competition.

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Katherine Lehman, Festival Director Violinist Katherine Lehman has an extensive and versatile career as a performer and teacher. An accomplished soloist and chamber musician, she maintains an active performance schedule throughout the U.S. Since 2009 she has been Director of the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, an internationally renowned summer program for advanced music students.

Under her guidance it has emerged as one of the leading voices in music education in the U.S. Lehman has served as professor of violin at the University of the South (Sewanee) since 1995. She has been a core member of the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, performing and recording with such artists as Edgar Meyer, Alison Krauss, Bela Fleck, trey Anastasio, Turtle Island String Quartet, and countless others. Recent projects include collaborations with the St. Lawrence String Quartet and American fiddling legend Mark O’Connor. She chairs the Performing Arts Series at Sewanee, presenting a full concert series of international artists each season.

Ms. Lehman attended Eastman School of Music, the University of Kansas, and Northwestern University, where she earned the prestigious Performer’s Certificate. Her teachers have included Zvi Zeitlin, Gerardo Ribeiro, and Shmuel Ashkenasi, and she has performed in master classes by Dorothy Delay, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Guarneri Quartet and many others. Ms. Lehman currently plays on an 1874 violin by J. B. Vuillaume.

Stephanie N. Kelley, Director of Marketing & Admissions Evelyn Loehrlein, Director of Operations Manly Romero, Festival Librarian Cathy Humphrey, Director of Student Life Gustav Westin, Production Manager Chris Humphrey, Assistant Production Manager & Residential Supervisor Nikki Chavez, Piano Technician Susan Strasinger, Residential Supervisor Katherine Lewis, Student Chamber Music Coordinator

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Mark Babbitt Patricia George Octavio Mas-Arocas Paul York

FESTIVAL INTERNS

Donald Creech, Trumpet Intern Wesley McCall, Operations Assistant & Sewanee Symphony Manager Una Mladenovic, Office & Front-of-House Manager/Student Life Assistant Ashley Orage, Media Coordinator & Production Assistant Rachel Smalling, Library Assistant, Cumberland Orchestra Manager

Our thanks to the University of the South administrator and staff.

Your dedication and support make SSMF possible!

John McCardell, Vice-Chancellor John Swallow, Provost Nancy Berner, Associate Provost Music Department Faculty and Staff Chris Carlson & the Conference Services Team Sewanee Dining Tam Carlson & Ralston Listening Room Staff Marketing and Communications Information Technology Services Human Resources Physical Plant Services Treasurer’s Office University Advancement John Bordley, Carillon

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Endowed Funds

These endowed funds have been made available to the Sewanee Summer Music Festival through significant gifts by the donors. We are greatful for them each season.

Jacqueline Avent SSMF Scholarship Fund established by Walter E. and Mayna Nance.

Blaffer SSMF Endowement funded by the

Corporate Sponsors

Joseph’s Remodeling Groome Transportation Yamaha Corporation Monteagle Inn & Retreat Center Myers Point

Community Partners

Baggenstoss and friends.

Big A Designs & Printing Sewanee Business Alliance Dine Sewanee Crossroads Cafe Taylor’s Mercantile

Martha Clark Dugan SSMF Artist-inResidence Fund established by the family of

Donors

Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation.

Albert Bonholzer Endowment for the SSMF established by Herman and Mary

Martha Clark Dugan to bring world-class artists to the Sewanee Summer Music Festival.

Dudley Fort SSMF Scholarship Fund established by Dr. Dudly Ford Jr. Kathlyn B. Hays SSMF Scholarship Fund

established through a bequest by Kathlyn Hays.

Elmer and Katherine Ingram SSMF Scholarship Fund established by Holton C.

The Sewanee Summer Music Festival would like to thank all of its donors for their generous support. A summer in Sewanee is a life-changing experience. Their gifts make that experience psosible for our talented young musicians.

Donors to the 2014 Sewanee Summer Music Festival will be acknowledged in a special publication to be released in July.

David and Lorraine Schlatter SSMF Fund established by Mr. and Mrs. Schlatter.

Dortha Skelton SSMF Violin Scholarship Fund established by a bequest by Dortha

Skelton.

SSMF Tennessee Heritage of Music Festival established through a matching grant

from the Tennessee Arts Commission to help provide music education rich in Tennessee heritage.

George A. Tesar Fund established through a bequest from George Tesar.

Our Supporters

Rush in memory of George and Mamie Neville.

Linda Wheat SSMF Scholarship Fund

established through a bequest from Marjorie Warner Wheat.

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