Youth Movements Festival

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2023-24

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Department of Music and Theatre University at Albany presents:

Youth Movements Festival XVI

Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 6pm Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 3pm UAlbany Performing Arts Center

Youth Movements Festival

Dedication

by Duncan Cumming

The Youth Movements Festival would like to thank Kim Engel for her brilliant programs, posters, publicity, creativity, kindness, and incredible generosity for the past sixteen festivals. Kim was one of the first people I met when I agreed to come to the University at Albany and she immediately made me feel I had made the right decision.

She created and sustained the Ensemble-in-Residence exchange program, now over a decade in existence, and she was a yearly favorite guest speaker in my “The Performer’s World” class. A former performer herself, she is a genuine lifeline and helps performers through the entire process. She is a true gem and we will miss her terribly.

The Festival also wishes to acknowledge Bryan Robinson for his many years of service. One of the earliest festivals in the Recital Hall required a piano, a screen, projection, dancers, and specific lights. Bryan calmly asked for the tallest dancer to stand under the screen and figured out how we could make it all work, although as usual I hadn’t planned the details very far in advance. No matter how many forms were filled out wrong, or late, or how many last-minute changes were made, Bryan always put the performance first and explaining to us how we did it wrong could always wait.

This year’s Youth Movements Festival is dedicated to Kim and Bryan, who are both retiring at the end of this year.

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Program Passe Pied……………………………………………….Gillet arr. Forest R. Etling Jiayi Wang, violin Melinda Cestaro, piano

The Two Grenadiers……………………………..Schumann arr. Shinichi Suzuki Chika Ndukwe Estelle Song, piano

Concerto in E minor, Op. 64………………….Mendelssohn Andante

Magdalena Calabria, violin Melinda Cestaro, piano

Sonata for One or Two Pianos 4 Hands…………..Poulenc I. Modere II. Rustique III. Tres vite

Angella Chen & Mary Moran, piano

Sonata in C K.545…………………………………….Mozart I. Allegro arr. for Two Pianos Grieg Justin Huang & Mary Moran, piano

Sonatina in C Major Op.36 No.3…………………..Clementi I. Spiritoso arr. for two pianos by Timm Caleb Cho & Mary Moran, piano Tango in D minor……………………………...Carolyn Miller Lindsey Pillai & Anny Yin, piano Solfeggio in C minor………………………………CPE Bach arr. by Lancaster & Renfrow Kevin Guo & Anny Yin, piano Dance of the Candy Fairy……………………...Tchaikovsky arr. by Langer Cindy Hu & Anny Yin, piano Grassland Sisters……………………………………Feilan Li Cindy & Rachel Hu, piano Minuet in G Major Anh. 114………………………..JS Bach arr. by Lancaster & Renfrow Theodore Ashby & Michael A. Barren Menuetto (from Symphony No. 3)………………...Schubert arr. by Olson Rochelle Mayzus & Jacob Mayzus Fanfare Toccata-Rondo…………………………..Alexander Vinay & Kavya Kondreddy

Over the Rainbow……………………………………….Arlen arr. Bober Aarav Sudhaher, Primo Piano 1 Vinay Kondreddy, Secondo Piano 1 Emma Padula, Primo Piano 2 Andrew Padula, Secondo Piano 2

Four Piece Suite for Two Pianos…...Richard Rodney Bennett No 1 Samba triste & No 4 Finale

Talia Gordon, Piano 1 Young Kim, Piano 2

Champagne Toccata for Two Pianos 8 Hands………..……………….William Gillock Defragment for Two Pianos 8 Hands (2024)………………………….... Evan Mack Young Kim, Primo Piano 1 Michael Lowry, Secondo Piano 1 Xinyuan Xu, Primo Piano 2 Daniel Huh, Secondo Piano 2

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2…………………………...Liszt arr. for Two Pianos, 8 Hands by Kleinmichel Mary Moran, Primo Piano 1 Noel Liberty, Secondo Piano 1 Anny Yin, Primo Piano 2 Michael A. Barren, Secondo Piano 2

Sunday, April 14, 2024

The School of the Albany Berkshire Ballet Madeline Cantarella Culpo, Founder Lisa McBride, Director Choreography by Deidre Duffin Swindlehurst Alicia Hornicek Lisa McBride Kerry Piaggione Hilary Cumming, violin Duncan Cumming, piano Program Sonata in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2………………………...Ludwig van Beethoven Allegretto

(1770-1827)

Choreography by Alicia Hornicek Performed by Academy 1: Maple Bee, Mabel Hoffman, Ryhan Hotaling, Kinsey Marshall, Millie Matthews, Karina Mustac, Lukas Sokaris, Madeline Sorensen

Sonata in C minor, Op. 45……………………Edvard Grieg Allegretto espressivo alla Romanza

(1843-1907)

Choreography by Kerry Piaggione Performed by Junior/Senior Academy: Addison Dinkels, Adrianna Iannacito, Emilia Medhus, Alexandra Mustac, Nesrin Tabora

Papillons, Op. 2…………………………..Robert Schumann

(1810-1856)

Choreography by Deidre Duffin Swindlehurst & Lisa McBride Performed by Junior Company: Fiona Allen, Fiona Gokey, Ryleigh Hotaling, Caroline Maloney, Emily Murray, Laura Stampalia, Grace Tavani, Cenzia Zhang

Sonata in G major, Op. 78………………Johannes Brahms Vivace ma non troppo

(1833-1897)

Twelve Variations on “Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman,” K. 265…………..W. A. Mozart

(1756-1791)

School of the Albany Berkshire Ballet Academies and Junior Company

About the Musicians Violinist Hilary Walther Cumming teaches at the University at Albany and performs as the violinist of the Capital Trio with American pianist Duncan Cumming and Turkish cellist Sölen Dikener. Before moving to New York, she served as concertmaster of the Cape Cod Sinfonietta and the Andover Chamber Orchestra; she has been heard as soloist with these ensembles as well as with the Reading Symphony Orchestra, Concord Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Principal influences for her style and discipline are Joseph Silverstein, Franco Gulli and Shmuel Ashkenasi on modern violin, Stanley

Ritchie on Baroque violin, and Seamus Connolly on Irish traditional fiddle. These outstanding artists continue to guide her and inspire her every moment she spends with her violin.

She has performed most extensively with the Capital Trio, ATHELAS (Denmark), Boston-based Sarasa, the Abbott Trio, and the Coleridge Ensemble. Her recordings can be found on Albany Records, Meridien and AFKA Records. As an orchestra musician, she has played in major halls on four continents; as a chamber musician she has recently toured Denmark, France and Switzerland with the Capital Trio. Her first love and passion remains the study and performance of chamber music.

Duncan J. Cumming, now in his eighteenth year on the faculty of the University at Albany, has performed concertos, recitals, and chamber music concerts in North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. He has recorded three albums for the Centaur label. The first is a solo recording (CRC 3125) including music of Brahms, Debussy, Satie, and Chopin and the second is a historical instrument recording with Christopher Hogwood (CRC 3231) of the music of Carl Maria von Weber on Weber’s own 1815 Brodmann fortepiano. His most recent CD for Centaur (CRC 3834) came out in June of 2021, called From Bangkok to Bangor, and it is a story and music for children with narrator Lucy Cumming and illustrations by Hilary Cumming.

He also has three chamber music recordings with Albany Records including A Book of Hours (TROY 1239), Threads of the Heart (TROY 1428) and Distance (TROY 1864). He is the pianist of the Capital Trio, ensemble-in-residence at the University at Albany, and the trio has performed, lectured, and taught master classes in residencies at Williams College in Massachusetts and Cambridge University in England among other places. He lives in New York with his wife, the violinist Hilary Walther Cumming, and his children Lucy, Mairi, and William Bear.

Many thanks to Madeline Cantarella Culpo, Lisa McBride, Kerry Piaggione, Alicia Hornicek, and Deidre Duffin Swindlehurst.

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