02.27.2022 FAC Dali Quartet

DALÍ QUARTET, QUARTET-IN-RESIDENCE Guest Artist: Ovidiu Marinescu, cello

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2022 MADELEINE WING ADLER THEATRE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 7:00 PM

PROGRAM STRING QUARTET IN F MINOR, OP. 20 NO. 5 (1772)........................................ Joseph Haydn Allegro moderato (1732 - 1809) Minuetto Adagio Finale: Fuga a 2 soggetti

STRING QUARTET NO. 1 IN D MINOR ................................................................... Andy Lenko Moderato WCU composition student

TANGO BALLET (1956) ........................................................................................ Astor Piazzolla Titulos (Argentina, 1921-1992) La Calle Encuentro – Olvido Cabaret Soledad Retorno a Calle

Intermission STRING QUINTET IN C MAJOR, D. 956, OP. POSTH. 163................................ Franz Schubert Allegro ma non troppo (1797-1828) Adagio Scherzo Allegretto Guest Artist: Ovidiu Marinescu, cello

Dalí Quartet Ari Isaacman-Beck, first violin Carlos Rubio, second violin Adriana Linares, viola Jesús Morales, cello Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices.

ARTIST PROFILE The Dalí Quartet is acclaimed for bringing Latin American quartet repertoire to an equal standing alongside the Classical and Romantic canon. Tours of this award-winning ensemble's Classical Roots, Latin Soul programming have reached enthusiastic audiences across the U.S., Canada, and South America. The Dalí Quartet is the 2021 recipient of the Guarneri String Quartet Residency, funded by the Sewell Family Foundation, and the 2021 Silver Medal at the inaugural Piazzolla Music Competition. The quartet is also the 2019 recipient of the Atlanta Symphony’s esteemed Aspire Award for accomplished African American and Latino Musicians. They founded the much-admired Dalí Quartet International Music Festival in 2004 which develops the performance skills of musicians through semi-professional level.

Currently Quartet in Residence at West Chester University, the quartet is an Iris Orchestra Resident Ensemble, has served as a resident ensemble at Lehigh University, and given mini residencies at countless colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada. Members of the Dalí Quartet are from Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and the US. Based in Philadelphia, the Dalí Quartet proudly uses Pirastro Strings and WMutes.

Ovidiu Marinescu is internationally recognized as a cellist, composer, conductor, and educator. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Weill Hall, Merkin Hall (New York), the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Holywell Room in Oxford, Oriental Art Center in Shanghai, and has appeared as soloist with the New York Chamber Symphony, the National Radio Orchestra of Romania, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Helena, Great Falls, Portsmouth, and Newark Symphonies, Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Philharmonic, Limeira Symphony in Brazil, Orquesta de Extremadura in Spain, and most of the professional orchestras in his native Romania.

Marinescu’s compositions have been performed in Romania, China, Brazil, Bulgaria, Russia, Guatemala, Montenegro, and across the United States. Parma Recordings included “I’m All Ears” for solo cello on the album Moto Celeste and “Rorrim no. 1. A Sort Essay” on the album Through Glass, and his piano trio “The Journey” for the album A Grand Journey. He has been composer-in-residence for the International Chamber Music Festival in Guatemala City and the 7th edition of the International String Encounters in Limeira, Brazil.

Marinescu’s ongoing MOTO series, developed with Parma Recordings, has been praised as “bold and expressive” (Gramophone Magazine) and “tight, musical, technically virtuosic” (The Whole Note).

Since its launch in 2012, the MOTO series has premiered works by nearly three dozen composers in both recordings and performance at Carnegie Hall.

Marinescu has more than 15 album releases for Parma Recordings and Cambria as a cellist, conductor, or chamber musician, and several recordings released independently. The recording of the Arthur Gottschalk Sonata for Cello and Piano has received the Gold Medal at the Global Music Awards for 2014 and the recording of “The Sea Knows” by Michael Kurek made its debut as no. 1 on the Classical Billboard list in July 2017. Upcoming projects for 2022 include the recording for 8 new cello concerti with London Symphony.

Equally successful as a conductor, Marinescu has worked with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra in Moscow, the Chamber Orchestra of the Romanian Radio, “New Russia” State Orchestra, the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, the Bacau, Craiova, Ploiesti, Botosani, Targu Mures, and Brasov Philharmonics in Romania, Filarmonica de Gaia in Portugal, Orquesta de Extremadura in Spain, the Helena, Newark, and Southeastern PA Symphony Orchestras, as well as Vidin Sinfonietta in Bulgaria.

Marinescu is cello professor at West Chester University in Pennsylvania as well as founder and Artistic Director of the International Musicians Academy.

More information can be found at www.marinescu.com

UPCOMING WELLS SCHOOL OF MUSIC EVENTS For full event details visit wcupa.edu/music or call (610) 436-2739 Monday, February 28, 2022, 8:00 PM Faculty Recital: Henry Grabb, oboe & Jonathan Gaarder, bassoon Philips Autograph Library Philips Memorial Building

Thursday, March 3, 2022, 12:00 PM Madeleine Wing Adler Concert Series: Sophomore Instrumental Scholarship Competition Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Grand Foyer Performing Arts Center

Thursday, March 3, 2022, 8:15 PM Winter Choral Festival David P. Devenney & Ryan Kelly, directors Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Performing Arts Center

Saturday, March 5, 2022, 8:00 AM *Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia's 8th Flute Fair Kimberly Reighley, faculty liaison Swope Music Building & Performing Arts Center

Monday, March 7, 2022, 8:00 PM Faculty Recital: Ovidiu Marinescu, cello Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Performing Arts Center

Monday, March 21, 2022, 8:00 PM Faculty Recital: Stephen Ng, tenor Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Performing Arts Center

Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 8:15 PM Guest Artist Recital: Eric Rieger, tenor and JJ Penna, piano Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Performing Arts Center

Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 32nd Annual WCU Jazz Festival www.wcupa.edu/music/jazzfest.aspx Jonathan Ragonese, director Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Performing Arts Center

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