Ong-Rose-Farny String Trio

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2023-24

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The University at Albany sits at the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk rivers on the traditional lands of the Kanien’keháka and Muh-he-con-neok people, who stewarded this land for generations before the arrival of European colonists. The Kanien’keháka (People of the Flint) and Muh-he-con-neok (People of the Waters that are Never Still) are more commonly known today as the Mohawk Haudenosaunee and StockbridgeMunsee Band of Mohicans. Despite the similarity of their westernized names, the Mohawk and Mohican were culturally and linguistically distinct.

The UAlbany community recognizes that we live and work on the homelands of sovereign Indigenous nations with rich histories and cultures that continue today – both within New York and beyond.

As an institution devoted to teaching, scholarship, and service, we strive to understand and learn from our history and to affirm Indigenous rights and issues. To this end, we are committed to cultivating reciprocal relationships with Indigenous communities focused on equity, social justice, and sustainability – and dismantling legacies of colonization.

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Program Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750)

I. Aria Variation 9 Canone alla Terza Variation 10 Fughetta Variation 16 Ouverture Variation 23 Variation 25 Adagio Variation 30 Quodlibet Aria da Capo è Fine

Divertimento for String Trio in E-flat Major, K. 563

W. A. Mozart (1756 - 1791)

I. Allegro IV. Andante V. Minuet and Trio VI. Allegro

PAUSE Clock it

Serenade for String Trio in C Major, op. 10

Caroline Mallonee

(1975 - )

Ernő Dohnányi

I. Marcia. Allegro II. Romanza. Adagio non troppo, quasi andante IV. Tema con variazioni. Andante con moto V. Rondo (Finale). Allegro vivace

(1877-1960)

The Performers Violinist Isabel Ong is an avid chamber musician with a passion for contemporary music. She has served as a Fellow at the Foulger International Music Festival in Kean University, as well as at the Cortona Sessions in Italy, where she premiered pieces by many of today's upcoming contemporary composers. In addition to serving as a member of the New Juilliard Ensemble led by Joel Sachs at the Juilliard School, she has performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, National Sawdust, and MOMA and at the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra in Switzerland. A strong advocate for using the power of music to serve a greater humanitarian purpose, Isabel performed at ASAP’s (Advocates for Southeast Asians and the Persecuted) fifteenth anniversary celebration honoring their non-profit service of spreading higher education and implementing healthier and cleaner living conditions for the people of Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. She has performed on the Taiwan Indigenous Television Channel 16, and at Aletheia University of Tamsui, Taiwan to perform in their 130th anniversary concert.

Isabel was an inaugural member of the Spark Collective, an ensemble designed to perform new works by current compositional students at the University of South Carolina.

An equally dedicated teacher, Isabel is on faculty at SUNY Fredonia, Mercyhurst University, and is a teaching artist at the Buffalo-based non-profit organization, Buffalo String Works. She also spends her summers on faculty at Point CounterPoint in Vermont. She holds degrees from Juilliard and University of South Carolina (BM, MM, and DMA).

David Rose has served as a titled player of numerous orchestras, including Associate Principal of the Vancouver Symphony, Principal Viola of the KitchenerWaterloo Symphony, and Acting Assistant Principal of the San Francisco Symphony. Mr. Rose is currently the principal violist of the G27 chamber orchestra in Toronto. Also active as a baroque performer, he was a member of the Pacific Baroque orchestra, and has toured and recorded with Toronto's Tafelmusik. Mr. Rose studied viola at the University of British Columbia, and also Indiana University (Bloomington).

His main teachers included Gerald Stanick, Atar Arad and Stanley Ritchie. He has served as head of strings at Fredonia, and teaches in the summer at the Rocky Ridge Young Artists Seminar in the Colorado Rockies, as well as the Fredonia Summer String Festival.

Acclaimed as a "terrific cello soloist" and as having a "big, generous tone," American cellist Natasha Farny performs as a soloist and chamber musician. She has recorded three solo CDs, “French Music for Cello and Piano,” on the Centaur label, “Women’s Voices,” and "From the Shadows." Recent concerts include Arizona's Del E. Webb Performing Arts Center, NYC's Merkin Hall, and Colorado's Strings Music Festival. She premiered Avner Dorman's new Double Con-certo for Cello, Piano, and Orchestra last year. Upcoming concerts in 2024 include appearances at Florida State Uni-versity, Saugerties ProMusica, and a concerto performance with JoAnn Falletta at the Sewanee Music Center. Ms. Farny made her concerto debut at age 17 with the Boston

Symphony Orchestra and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and Yale College. After completing higher degrees at the Eastman School of Music and at the Juilliard School, she received a fellowship for study in Leipzig, Germany.

While at Juilliard, Ms. Farny performed Dutilleux’s Tout un Monde Lointain with conductor Robert Spano.

Recent research interests entail music by women for cello.

Ms. Farny published an article and has presented her work on female composers nationally and internationally. Ms. Farny is Professor of Cello at the School of Music at the State University of New York in Fredonia and in the summer, teaches at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival and the Fredonia String Camp.

Sponsors Today’s performance is presented through an artist-in-residence exchange program with the School of Music at SUNY Fredonia.

Funding support provided by University at Albany Foundation and University Auxiliary Services.

UALBANY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER PAC, 266 518-442-3995 www.albany.edu/pac SCHOOL OF MUSIC SUNY Fredonia 716-673-3151 www.fredonia.edu/academics/collegesschools/school-music UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION University Administration Building, 226 518-437-5090 www.albany.edu/uafoundation UNIVERSITY AUXILIARY SERVICES University Administration Building, 232 518-442-5950 www.albany.edu/uas

History of Exchange Program Over a decade ago, the staff of the UAlbany Performing Arts Center initiated an exchange program with other colleges and universities utilizing the Capital Trio, the ensemble-in-residence here at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center. Our goal with this program is to partner with other educational institutions that have artists-in-residence to provide performance opportunities for those artists and to supplement the performance offerings at each institution as well as to provide outreach to students in the form of lectures, master classes, workshops and clinics.

2009-10 Artists: The Pierrot Consort Partner: CW Post/Long Island University 2010-11 Artists: QX String Quartet Partner: Clark University 2011-12 Artists: Oswego Jazz Project Partner: SUNY Oswego 2012-13 Artists: Williams Chamber Players Partner: Williams College 2013-14 Artist: Frank Glazer Partner: Bates College 2014-15 Artists: Quartet Anagram Partner: Hobart & William Smith Colleges 2015-16 Artists: Potsdam Brass Quintet Partner: Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam 2016-17 Artists: Dobbs-Dikener-Botes Trio Partner: Marshall University 2017-18 Artists: The Big Galut(e) Partner: Hartwick College 2018-19 Artists: Klugherz/Heyman Duo Partner: Colgate University 2019-20 Artists: AkaBlas Orchestra Partner: Technische Universität Braunschweig 2021-22 Artists: The Copland Ensemble Partner: Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College 2022-23 Artists: Stockton Chamber Players Partner: Stockton University

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Dance Albany 2023-24

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See all of these performances for only $110!

Dayton Contemporary Dance Co October 20 Passion Fruit Dance Co November 4

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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Co December 2 Photo: Dayton Contemporary Dance Company

Mark Morris Dance Group January 25 Ellen Sinopoli Dance Co with Capital Trio - January 27 * Monica Bill Barnes & Co February 3 No Gravity Theatre February 9 Savion Glover April 13 Ellen Sinopoli Dance Co May 18 Packages also available for choice of five or three at 25% or 10% discounts, respectively.

Executive Park

* This show is free and does not factor into package pricing.

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