04.01.2019

Faculty Recital Ovidiu Marinescu, cello Carl Cranmer, piano

Monday, April 1, 2019 Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Performing Arts Center 7:30 PM

ARTISTS PROFILES Ovidiu Marinescu has played at Carnegie Hall, Weill Hall, Merkin Hall (New York), the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Oriental Arts Center in Shanghai, Holywell Room in Oxford, and many other prestigious places. He has appeared with the New York Chamber Symphony, the National Radio Orchestra of Romania, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Helena, Newark and Great Falls Symphonies, Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Philharmonic, Limeira Symphony in Brazil, Orquesta de Extremadura in Spain, and most professional orchestras in his native Romania. After his acclaimed first recording "Fiesta Latina," Marinescu recorded the complete Miaskovsky cello works with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra. He has nice album releases for Parma Recordings as a cellist, conductor, or chamber musician, including the complete Bach Cello Suites. His recording of the Arthur Gottschalk Sonata for Cello and Piano has received the Gold Medal at the Global Music Awards for 2014.

Marinescu has performed at festivals in Luzerne, Bayreuth, Chautauqua, South Bohemia, Orlando and Brasov, the New Hampshire Music Festival, Magie Barocche in Italy, and Parma Festival.

Mr. Marinescu has premiered dozens of new works for cello, among those "Anecdote" by Hilary Tann with Newark Symphony, recorded with Targu-Mures Philharmonic in Romania, “Ostinato” by Liviu Marinescu with “Orchestra 2001” in Philadelphia, “And Seeing the Multitudes” by Kile Smith with Helena Symphony, and “The Sea Knows” by Michael Kurek in Brazil.

Equally outstanding as a conductor, Marinescu has conducted the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the Romanian National Radio, the Bacau, Craiova, Ploiesti, Botosani, TarguMures, and Brasov Philharmonics in Romania, “New Russia” State Orchestra, Sinfonietta Vidin (Bulgaria), Filarmonica de Gaia in Portugal, the Orquesta de Extremadura in Spain, and the Helena, Newark, and Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestras in the US. He works with youth orchestras and teaches masterclasses across the globe.

Pianist Carl Cranmer made his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age nine, playing Mozart's Concerto in A Major, K. 488. In addition to solo recitals in Europe, Asia, and North America, he has performed with the Royal Philharmonic of England, the Gulbenkian Orquesta of Portugal, the Juilliard Orchestra and several other orchestras in the U.S. and Asia. Cranmer's performances have been televised in Madrid, Tokyo, Montreal, Washington D.C. and Philadelphia, and have been aired on American National Public Radio, and radio stations in Tokyo, New York, Montreal, Boston, and Atlanta. He performed two solo concert tours of Spain in 1997-98. He has recorded several CD's, including a solo album titled "Soirée", of the music of Poulenc, Fauré, Liszt, Granados, Chopin and Samuel Barber. With the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, he recorded Samuel Barber's Piano Concerto in 2008, and in 2015 he released a CD of Barber's complete published solo piano music. In 2018 he plans to record an all-Fauré CD of his solo piano music, and Rachmaninov's Suite No. 1 and 2 and other pieces for two pianos with pianist Young-Ah Tak. Cranmer has performed in Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie Weill Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Merkin Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and Academy of Music, Verizon Hall and the Perelman Theater in Philadelphia.

Dr. Cranmer was the Grand Prize winner of the 1994 Missouri Southern Piano Competition, and also won the Spanish Music Prize and Finalist Prize in the 1995 Santander Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition in Santander, Spain. Dr. Cranmer received his Doctoral and Masters degrees at the Juilliard School, and his undergraduate degree from Oberlin Conservatory. He is an Associate Professor at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, where he is also Artistic Director of the American Piano Forum and Samuel Barber International Piano Institute in summer.

PROGRAM

Fantasy Pieces, op 73 .............................................................................................. R. Schumann (1810-1856) I.Zart und mit Ausdruck II.Lebhaft, leicht III. Rasch und mit Feuer

Imagined/Remembered, a sonata for cello and piano .................................... Bruce Babcock I. Allegro II. Lento III. Presto

Intermission

Sonata for piano and cello op. 102, no 2 ............................................. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) I. Allegro con brio II. Adagio con molto sentimento d’affetto III. Allegro

Ovidiu Marinescu, cello Carl Cranmer, piano

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UPCOMING WELLS SCHOOL OF MUSIC EVENTS For full event details visit www.wcupa.edu/music or call (610) 436-2739 Thursday, April 4, 2019, 12:00 PM Madeleine Wing Adler Concert Series - Freshman Scholarship Competition Ralph Sorrentino, director Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Grand Foyer Performing Arts Center Friday, April 5, 2019, 7:30 PM Latin Jazz & Jazz Combos Marc Jacoby, director Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Performing Arts Center Saturday, April 6, 2019, 10:00 AM Graduate Recital: Elizabeth Ando, horn Elizabeth Pfaffle, director Ware Family Recital Hall Swope Music Building Saturday, April 6, 2019, 12:00 PM Senior Recital: David Lewis, trombone Daniel Cherry, director Ware Family Recital Hall Swope Music Building Saturday, April 6, 2019, 2:00 PM Senior Recital: Noel Ha, piano Carl Cranmer, director Ware Family Recital Hall Swope Music Building *Tickets required for this event.

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