Women's Works for Viola: Past, Present, and Future

WOMEN’S WORKS FOR VIOLA PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

MAGGIE SNYDER

VIOLA

WITH

TIMOTHY LOVELACE PIANO

Special thanks to the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts for the support through the awarding of the Faculty Research Grant 2023 supporting the commission of the Kouyoumdjian piece. Support for the entire project, including recording and the commission of Tessa Lark and the Call for Scores comes from the Nora Redman Fund of Louisville, Kentucky.

TUESDAY, MARCH 19 at 7:30 P.M.

RAMSEY CONCERT HALL

UGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 230 RIVER RD, ATHENS, GA

WOMEN’S WORKS FOR VIOLA PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

Maggie Snyder, viola

Timothy Lovelace, piano

Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.

Ramsey Concert Hall UGA Performing Arts Center

PROGRAM

Lyric Fantasy for Viola and Piano, Op. 4 Ruth Gipps (1921-1999)

American Premiere

And a Cry Came From the People for viola and piano (2024)

World Premiere

Sonata in C Minor Op. 7 for viola and piano

I. Molto moderato

II. Allego molto

III. Allegro moderato

Variations on a Moment, Chaconne, for solo viola (2024)

World Premiere

INTERMISSION

Bagatelles for Strings I: “prelude” for solo viola, 2024 (Originally for solo violoncello, 2021)

World Premiere for Viola

Mary Kouyoumdjian (b. 1983)

K. Dorothy Fox (1894-1934)

Tessa Lark (b. 1989)

Sakari Dixon Vanderveer (b. 1992)

Winner of Snyder’s 2024 Call for Scores by Women

Sonata for Viola and Piano, 1919

I. Impetuoso

II. Vivace

III. Adagio-Allegro

Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)

All pieces will be recorded in May 2024 for the project titled “Women’s Works for Viola: Past Present and Future.”

Out of courtesy to the performer and fellow audience members, please silence all mobile devices before the concerts begin. Flash photography is strictly prohibited.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Violist Maggie Snyder is Professor of Viola at the University of Georgia, Principal Violist of the Chamber Orchestra of New York, with whom she records for Naxos, and is on the Artist-Faculty of the Brevard Music Festival. She has performed solo recitals, chamber music, concertos and as an orchestral musician throughout the United States and abroad in such halls as the Kennedy and Kauffman Centers, all three halls at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Spivey Hall, and the Seoul Arts Center, and in England, Korea, Greece, and Russia. She has performed under the batons of Yuri Temirkanov, David Zinman, Robert Spano, Leonard Slatkin, James de Priest, Julius Rudel, James Conlon, Keith Lockhart, and Michael Tilson Thomas, and at such festivals as the Brevard Music Festival, the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival where she was a Time Warner Fellow. In 2001, Ms. Snyder was a semi-finalist at the 8th Primrose International Viola Competition, and made her recital debut in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall with her sister duo, Allemagnetti in 2009. The group was called a “winning pair” with a “highly promising debut” by the New York Concert Review. She has performed chamber music with members of the Parker, Jupiter, Cleveland and Tokyo Quartets, Jonathan Carney, the Aspen String Trio, Jon Manassee, Ivo Van der Werff, Itamar Zorman, Orli Shaham, and Peter Frankl, among others.

Ms. Snyder has released four solo recordings: Womens Works for Solo Viola (2023), Viola Alone: Old New and Borrowed (2018), Modern American Viola Music (2015), and Allemagnetti– Music for Viola and Harpsichord (2013) are represented exclusively through Arabesque Recordings and available through iTunes and amazon.com. Her recordings feature new commissions by Libby Larsen, Gabriela Lena Frank, Gity Razaz, Kirsten Volness, Virginia Samuel, Garrett Byrnes, Kamran Ince, and Thomas Pasatieri. She was the 2018 recipient of the University of Georgia’s Creative Research Medal in the Arts and Humanities for her project commissioning and recording new works for viola. In 2019, she released a collaborative recording featuring the works written for her by Leonard “Chic” Ball titled “Worlds Translucent” with Tim Lovelace and Michael Heald, on PARMA. She has an upcoming recording scheduled in 2024 titled Women’s Works Past Present and Future, featuring new commissions by Mary Kouyoumdjian and Tessa Lark and the winner of an international call for scores by women.

Ms. Snyder received the 2023 University of Georgia Sandy Beaver Teaching Award. Ms. Snyder has given master classes, clinics, and recitals at universities and music schools throughout the country, including The Universities of Michigan, Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan State, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, Interlochen, Hartt, and Converse College, among others. Ms. Snyder earned graduate degrees from The Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she was the teaching assistant for Victoria Chiang. Her Bachelor’s degree is from the University of Memphis, where not only she was born and raised, but where she was a Pressar Scholar.

Pianist and conductor Timothy Lovelace heads the Collaborative Piano program at the University of Minnesota and is an active recitalist, having been featured at Rio de Janeiro’s Sala Cecilia Meireles, Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Center, New York’s Merkin Concert Hall, Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts and on chamber music series sponsored by the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Minnesota and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. As a soloist, Lovelace has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vänskä.

The roster of internationally-known artists with whom Lovelace has appeared includes Miriam Fried, Nobuko Imai, Robert Mann, Charles Neidich, Paquito D’Rivera, and Dawn Upshaw. For thirteen years, he was a staff pianist at the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Institute, where he played in the classes of Barbara Bonney, Christoph Eschenbach, Thomas Hampson, Christa Ludwig and Yo-Yo Ma, among others.

Lovelace has conducted the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Virginia Beach Symphony (now Symphonicity), and the symphony orchestras of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory and the University of Minnesota. A proponent of new music, he has performed the works of many living composers and has presented premieres of works by John Harbison, Osvaldo Golijov, and Libby Larsen. He has recorded for the Albany, Arabesque, Blue Griffin, Boston Records, MSR and Naxos labels. His principal teachers were Harold Evans, Clifford Herzer, Gilbert Kalish, Donna Loewy, and Frank Weinstock.

EXPERIENCE MUSIC

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

THURS 3/21 & FRI 3/22

7:30 p.m. Hodgson Hall

THE TRAGEDY OF

CARMEN

$3 - students w/valid UGA ID

$20 - adults

MON 3/25

7:30 p.m. Hodgson Hall

$3 - students with a valid UGA ID

$15 - adults

Adapted from Georges Bizet’s opera by Marius Constant, Jean-Claude Carriére, and Peter Brook. This version draws on the original novella for dramatic inspiration to create a more intimate and emotionally raw exploration of these familiar characters.

ARCO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

MOSTLY ROMANTIC

The program includes the beloved Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence” in orchestral version and USA premiere of “The Brazilian Four Season” by Dimitri Cervo. In this context, romantic doesn’t just refer to the Romantic period, but to the depth of dramatic character of any music, person, or story.