ARCO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA & UGA DANCE REPERTORY PROJECT
Music Dance and
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
HODGSON CONCERT HALL
Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Hodgson Concert Hall
UGA Performing Arts Center
ARCO Chamber Orchestra
Levon Ambartsumian, Artistic Director and conductor
Angela Jones-Reus, flute
UGA Dance Repertory Project
Lisa Fusillo, Artistic Director and choreographer
PROGRAM
Ouverture for Flute and Orchestra TWV 55:a2
Ouverture
Caroline Hawes, Grace Healy, Naomi Kleber, Nika Shlomi, Hannah Smith,
Mary Peyton Tanner, Laura Towner
Les Plaisirs I & II
Caroline Hawes, Grace Healy, Naomi Kleber, Laura Towner
Air a L’Italien
Caroline Hawes, Grace Healy, Naomi Kleber, Bailey Orr, Nika Shlomi, Hannah Smith,
Mary Peyton Tanner, Laura Towner
Menuet I
Menuet II
Passepied I & II
Caroline Hawes, Nika Shlomi, Hannah Smith, Mary Peyton Tanner
Polonaise
Ensemble
Rejouissance
Two Nordic Melodies
I. In Folk Style
II. Cow-call and Peasant Dance
Valse
Three Tangoes
Calambre
Fuga y misterio
E. Greig (1843-1907)
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
G. P. Telemann (1681 - 1767)
ARCO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Levon Ambartsumian, Director
Violin
Shakhida Azimkhodjaeva
Lyu Lian
Sarah Nienhiser
Carlos Brena
Alexis Boylan
Andre Araujo
Clarissa Tamara
Jhonni Campos
Zeyu Yuan
Sarah Ling
Chelsea Afful
Violas
Rogelio Bonilla
Wing Chin Liu
Bryan Johnson
Cello
Thomas LaMon
Gabriela McClellan
Zach Helms
Ian Koontz
Bass
Wueliton Zanelatto Dal Pont
Harpsichord
Elena Minko
UGA DANCE REPERTORY PROJECT
Lisa Fusillo, Director
Dancers
Caroline Hawes
Grace Healy
Naomi Kleber
Bailey Orr
Nika Shlomi
Hannah Smith
Mary Peyton Tanner
Laura Towner
Understudy
Bethany Barner
Levon Ambartsumian is Regent’s and Franklin Professor of Violin at the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music. Prior to coming to UGA in 1995, he was a Visiting Professor at Indiana University School of Music, replacing legendary American Violin Teacher Joseph Gingold. He also taught at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1978 where he taught for 15 years.
Ambartsumian is an alumnus of the Moscow Central Music School and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where his teachers were Felix Andrievski, Yury Yankelevitch, Leonid Kogan and Igor Bezrodny. In 1977 he became the First Prize winner of Zagreb International Violin Competition headed by Henryk Szeryng. Two years later he was a prize-winner of the Montreal International Competition, and in 1981 he won the AllUnion Violin Competition in Riga.
In 1988 Amartsumian was distinguished as “Honored Artist of Armenia,” and was named “Honored Artist of Russia” in 1997. He has performed in the major cities of the United States of America, Russia, Eastern Europe, Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, China, Japan, and South Korea, having collaborated as a soloist with conductors and composers such as Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Fedoseev, Maxim Shostakovich, Aram Khachaturian, Alfred Schnittke, Karen Khachaturian, and many others.
In 1990 Ambartsumian founded the Moscow Chamber Orchestra ARCO which regularly performed in Russia and abroad and now resides in Athens, Georgia. Since its creation, Ambartsumian has led UGA’s ARCO Chamber Orchestra, commercially releasing 15 CDs and has performing four times in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. In 2011, ARCO was invited to perform at La Fenice, the world famous Opera House in Venice, Italy.
Angela Jones-Reus is currently Professor of Flute at the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music and Principal Flutist of the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra. She is active as a soloist, chamber artist, orchestral player and teacher with appearances throughout the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, Asia and South America.
Among Jones-Reus’ performances are a concert in Carnegie Hall with Jean Pierre Rampal and Julius Baker, a London Debut Recital at St John’s Smith Square, a Japan tour as soloist with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and five performances—stepping in with one day’s notice—of the Jacques Ibert Flute Concerto with the San Remo Symphony Orchestra, Italy.
In 1991 Jones-Reus won the Principal Flute position of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, Germany, where she played until 2000. She performed with this orchestra
extensively throughout Europe, the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States and South America and can be heard on recordings on over 12 labels including EMI Classics, ECM Records, Koch International and Naxos. Her solo compact disc entitled Mostly French was recorded in Prague with I Virtuosi di Praga for the Koch International label.
Ms. Jones-Reus has been performing as a regular guest with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since 1999 including seven Carnegie Hall performances, a three week concert tour of Asia (China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan) and concerts in some of the world’s most prestigious venues, including the London Royal Albert Hall, Salzburg Festspielhaus, Berlin Philharmonie, Chicago Symphony Hall, Lucerne Konzerthaus and Tokyo Suntory Hall. Jones-Reus performed on the Berlin Philharmonie’s latest recording of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, with conductor Sir Simon Rattle for EMI Classics, recorded in Berlin, Germany.
Lisa A. Fusillo is the UGA Foundation Professor of the Arts in the Department of Dance and began her professional ballet training in Washington, DC and later studied in New York, London, St. Peterburg (Russia), and Copenhagen (Denmark). She holds the Professional Diploma from the Royal Ballet School in London and certifications from American Ballet Theatre®National Training Curriculum and the New York City Ballet Education Department.
An artist, educator and scholar, Dr. Fusillo specializes in choreography, ballet training and dance history, with a focus on Léonide Massine and the Ballets Russes and dance in American musical theatre. She has presented choreography, scholarly research and taught in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. Her choreography has been presented in Belgium, France, Germany, England, the Netherlands, Cyprus, Thailand, Taiwan, at the International Ballet Competition (Jackson, MS), the Barcelona Dance Festival in Spain and the Prague International Dance Festival.
Early career awards include a Gulbenkian/Cecchetti Award for performance and the Léonide Massine Award for choreography. Dr. Fusillo was a Fulbright Scholar to Taiwan and a visiting ballet mistress for Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (Taiwan). She is a fourtime recipient of prestigious National Endowment for the Arts awards in dance and has received several research awards including an Earthwatch Research Fellowship, a Willson Center for Humanities & Arts Research Fellowship and M. G. Michael Award. Professor Fusillo’s teaching awards include the Franklin College Outstanding Teaching Award, General Sandy Beaver Teaching Professorship, First Year Odyssey Teaching Award, and selection into the UGA Teaching Academy. She served as department head for the UGA Department of Dance from 2006-2018 and is the founder/ artistic director of Dance Repertory Project at UGA.
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MON 4/21
7:30 p.m.
Edge Concert Hall FREE CONCERT
MON 4/21
7:30 p.m.
Hodgson Concert Hall FREE CONCERT
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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA HORN STUDIO RECITAL
Edge is located in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, 250 River Road, Athens GA
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA AFRICAN AMERICAN CHORAL ENSEMBLE
The spring concert for the African American Choral ensemble gives many of our ensemble members an opportunity to express themselves in other ways than just singing. Some may conduct, some may create original arrangements or brand new pieces. Join us as we also celebrate our graduating singers. Concert underwritten by Rhonda Lucile Hicks.
TUES 4/22
7:30 p.m.
Ramsey Concert Hall FREE CONCERT
THURS 4/24
7:30 p.m.
Edge Concert Hall FREE CONCERT
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA MIDDLE EAST MUSIC ENSEMBLE
Directed by Assistant Professor Jared Holton this ensemble, which features music, rhythm, and dance from the Middle East and instruments such as the Arabic lute, reed flute, riqq, daff, and tabla. These concerts often include a special guest artist with expertise in Middle Eastern Music.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA STRING AREA CHAMBER RECITAL
Edge is located in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, 250 River Road, Athens GA
TUES 4/1
THURS 4/24
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
Hodgson Concert Hall
Hodgson Concert Hall
$15 - Adult
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA WIND ENSEMBLE - “SHAPESHIFTER”
Thursday Scholarship Series Performance
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND COMBINED CHOIRS - GUSTAV MAHLER’S SYMPHONY No. 2
THURS 4/24
$3 - Child/Student
$15 - Adult
7:30 p.m.
$3 - Child/Student
Hodgson Concert Hall
$20 - Adult
$3 - Child/Student
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND COMBINED CHOIRS
Don’t miss the biggest concert of the year, featuring over 300 student musicians. The University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra, Hodgson Singers, University Chorus, and Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs will perform Symphony No. 2 in C minor by Gustav Mahler. UGA Voice Faculty Elizabeth Johnson Knight, mezzo-soprano, and Amy Petrongelli, soprano, will be the featured soloists for the evening.
There is nothing quite like the power of more than three hundred student musicians collaborating on a single concert. The University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra is joined by the UGA Hodgson Singers, University Chorus, UGA Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs, as well as talented student and faculty soloists. This concert has sold out the past two years, so be sure you get your tickets to this special concert now.
Known as the Resurrection Symphony, it was written between 1888 and 1894, and first performed in 1895. This symphony was one of Mahler’s most popular and successful works during his lifetime.