Romantic Mostly
TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
RAMSEY CONCERT HALL
Music By Brahms, Rachmaninoff & Piazzolla
Romantic Mostly
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Ramsey Concert Hall
UGA Performing Arts Center
PROGRAM
Trio Elegiaque N 1 in G Minor
Lento lugubre
The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (Estaciones Porteñas)
I. Verano Porteño (Buenos Aires Summer)
Allegro moderato
II. Otoño Porteño (Buenos Aires Autumn)
Allegro
III. Invierno Porteño (Buenos Aires Winter)
Lento. Allegro
IV. Primavera Porteña (Buenos Aires Spring)
Allergro
Quartet N3 op 60 in C Minor
Allegro non troppo
Scherzo: Allegro
Andante
Finale: Allegro comodo
INTERMISSION
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Levon Ambartsumian, violin
Shakhida Azimkhodjaeva, viola
James Kim, cello
Anatoly Sheludyakov, piano
Levon Ambartsumian, Franklin and Regent’s Professor of Violin at the University of Georgia, and formerly professor at the Moscow Conservatory (1978-1993) and Indiana University (1993-1995), is an internationally acclaimed violinist, winner of the 1977 International Violin Competition in Zagreb, the 1979 Montreal International Competition, and of the Soviet Violin Competition in 1981. Ambartsumian is a Merited Artist of Armenia and of the Russian Federation. He is the founder, conductor, and artistic director of the ARCO Chamber Orchestra, now based at the University of Georgia in Athens, USA. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he continues to perform and present master classes around the world. More than fifty compact discs have been released under different recording labels in the USA and Russia.
Native of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Shakhida Azimkhodjaeva graduated from Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. She gave her debut with the Uzbekistan Symphony Orchestra when she was eleven and won the National Violin Competition. She performed with Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory Symphony Orchestra under direction of such conductors as Zubin Metha, Pierre Boulez, Valery Gergiev, and many others. As a soloist and chamber musician, she performed in all the major cities of the former Soviet Union in the most prestigious halls such as Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and St. Petersburg Philharmonic concert halls
Ms.Azimkhodjaeva was one of the founders of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra “ARCO”. Since 1989, she has been concertmaster and soloist with the orchestra and has performed extensively in Europe, South Korea, USA, Canada, Brazil, and Kenya. Her performances include numerous appearances at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Italy and Teatro Sao Pedro in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Ms.Azimkhodjaeva joined the violin faculty of the University of Georgia School of Music in 1995.
James Kim has appeared as soloist with orchestras such as Boston Symphony and Royal Philharmonic, working with conductors David Zinman, Michael Sanderling, Alexander Shelley, Keith Lockhart, onstage at Carnegie Stern Auditorium, Zankel Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has given solo recitals at Carnegie Weill Hall, Greene Space, Seoul Arts Center IBK Hall, and Kumho Art Hall. His performances have been broadcasted on radio stations NPR and WQXR.
He has also collaborated with numerous orchestras in his native Korea, concertizing at Lotte Concert Hall—where he is the first soloist in its history—Tongyeong Concert Hall,
Daegu Concert House, Seoul Arts Center, and DITTO Festival. In 2021, Sony Classical released his album Death and Offering presenting works dedicated to him by Korean composer Shinuh Lee.
He is a recipient of Salon de Virtuosi’s Sony Career Grant and a top prizewinner of Isang Yun and David Popper International Cello Competitions. From 2016 to 2021, he performed on a Matteo Goffriller cello from Venice ca. 1715, generously loaned by Samsung Cultural Foundation and Stradivari Society® of Chicago, Illinois.
A native of Moscow, Anatoly Sheludyakov graduated from the Gnesin’s Musical Academy and completed doctoral studies there under professor Anatoly Vedernikov. He also graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in the composition class of Tikhon Khrennikov. His compositions include Variations for Orchestra, Ostinato for Orchestra, Suite for Oboe and Piano, Suite for Violin and Piano, the cantata Brotherhood Songs, Trombone Quartet, six vocal suites, and many other compositions.
Sheludyakov was winner of the 1977 Russian National Piano Competition and, in 1999, was awarded the name “Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.” He has performed solo concerts with orchestras, solo recitals, and chamber music in the most prestigious concert halls in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other major cities throughout Russia, Germany, France, Italy, China, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Australia and the USA. He has recorded twenty-five CDs of piano solo and chamber music and has performed on Russian Television and Radio. His repertoire includes the major works for piano, piano and orchestra, and piano chamber music of the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary periods.
Prior to his UGA appointment, Sheludyakov was assistant professor of piano at the Gnesin Institute of Moscow and maintained a private piano studio. A vocalist as well as a pianist, Sheludyakov was active as a church musician, and performed authentic folk music as a soloist with the Pokrovsky Ensemble.
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GUEST ARTIST: CAROLINE HALLECK, saxophone
Caroline is an alum of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and is currently based in Italy as a free-lance saxophonist and teacher.
FACULTY RECITAL: LEAH PARTRIDGE, soprano
Celebrated for her “full, rich voice, captivating in its beauty and grace” (Opera Now) and her “clear, agile soprano” (Chicago Sun Times), Leah Partridge has garnered worldwide critical acclaim for her compelling interpretations of over forty of opera’s leading ladies.
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Ramsey Concert Hall FREE CONCERT
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Ramsey Concert Hall FREE CONCERT TUES 1/28 WED 1/29
GUEST ARTIST: MEGUMI KANDA, trombone
Megumi Kanda, Principal Trombone of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra since 2002, is an internationally acclaimed performer, teacher, and author.
GUEST ARTIST: CAVATINA DUO
RESCHEDULED FROM 1/13
Eugenia Moliner, flute (Spain) Denis Azabagic, guitar (Bosnia)
THURS 1/30
7:30 p.m.
Hodgson Concert Hall
THURSDAY SCHOLARSHIP SERIES: CONCERTO COMPETITION WINNERS WITH UGA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The soloists performing in this concert are selected after advancing through a competition process judged by UGA music faculty.
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