Yale Brass Trio

Yale Brass Trio faculty artist series February 2, 2010 featuring Allan Dean, trumpet William Purvis, horn Scott Hartman, trombone with Mike Roylance, tuba Douglas Lindsey, trumpet Mihae Lee, piano music of Arnold Bach Nagel Piazzolla Schumann Wilder

Robert Blocker, Dean

february 2, 2010 · 8 pm Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall

Yale Brass Trio Allan Dean, trumpet · William Purvis, horn · Scott Harman, trombone with Mike Roylance, tuba · Douglas Lindsey, trumpet · Mihae Lee, piano

johann sebastian bach Contrapunctus 1 from The Art of Fugue (1685-1750) arr. Robert King for brass quintet

guillaume de machaut (ca. 1300-1377)

Four Ballades for brass quartet arr. William Purvis I. Sanzcuer m’en vois II. Doulz viaire gracious III. Hélas! Tant ay dolour IV. Se quanque amours

alec wilder (1907-1980)

Suite Nº 1 for horn, tuba, and piano I. Maestoso II. In a jazz manner III. Berceuse IV. Alla caccia

robert nagel (b. 1924)

Suite for brass and piano I. March for Trombone II. Adagio for Horn III. Scherzo for Tuba IV. Allegro for Trumpet V. Finale intermission

robert schumann (1810-1856)

Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70 for horn and piano

astor piazzolla (1921-1992)

Three Tangos for tuba and piano arr. Niklas Sivelöv and Oystein Baadsvik I. Milonga del Angel II. Invierno Porteño III. Adiós Nonino

malcolm arnold (1921-2006)

Quintet I. Allegro vivace II. Chaconne III. Con brio

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allan dean Trumpet

scott hartman Trombone

Allan Dean, trumpet, is a member of the Summit Brass and the St. Louis Brass Quintet and was a member of the New York Brass Quintet for eighteen years and the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble for ten years.

Scott Hartman, trombone, received his B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Eastman School of Music and began his career by joining the Empire Brass Quintet and the Boston University faculty in 1984.

Involved in Baroque and Renaissance music performed on original instruments, Mr. Dean is a founding member of Calliope: A Renaissance Band as well as the New York Cornet and Sacbut Ensemble. Mr. Dean performs and teaches each summer at the Mendez Brass Institute and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.

As a trombone soloist and with his various chamber groups, Mr. Hartman has taught and played concerts throughout the world and in all fifty states. He has been featured with the Boston Esplanade Pops, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, BBC Radio Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, and National Symphony.

He has appeared at the Casals and Spoleto (usa) Festivals, the Banff Centre and the Orford Arts Mr. Hartman now performs and records with Centre in Canada, Musike Belinge in Sweden, Proteus 7, the Millennium Brass, the Brass Band and the Puebla Instrumenta in Mexico. of Battle Creek, the Hollywood Brass, and the trombone quartet Four of a Kind. He has recorHe can be heard playing both modern trumpet ded for the Angel EMI, Sony, Telarc, Summit, and early brass on over eighty recordings on ma- and Dorian labels. jor labels including RCA, Columbia, Nonesuch, Pro Arte, CRI, Musical Heritage, and Summit He is a clinician for the Bach musical instrument labels. He joined the Yale faculty in 1988. company and has served as a member of the faculties of Indiana University and the New England Conservatory. He joined the Yale faculty in 2001.

william purvis Horn

A native of Western Pennsylvania, William Purvis pursues a multifaceted career in the U.S. and abroad as horn soloist, chamber musician, conductor, and educator. A passionate advocate of new music, Mr. Purvis has participated in numerous premieres as hornist and conductor.

Mr. Purvis is a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Yale Brass Trio, Triton Horn Trio, and is an emeritus member of Orpheus. A frequent guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, he has also has collaborated with the Tokyo, Juilliard, Orion, Brentano, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, and Fine Arts string quartets.

His unusually broad range of recordings includes the Horn Concerto of Peter Lieberson on Bridge (Grammy and WQXR Gramophone Awards); Paul Lansky’s Etudes and Parodies; Schoenberg’s Wind Quintet with the New York Woodwind Quintet; and Richard Wernick’s Quintet for Horn and Strings with the Juilliard Quartet. Mr. Purvis is a faculty member at Juilliard and the Yale School of Music. At Yale, he is coordinator of winds and brass and interim director of the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments.

michael roylance tuba

Michael Roylance, tuba, has been tubist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2003. He attended the University of Miami and received a B.A. degree from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. He studied with Chester Schmitz, Connie Weldon, James Jenkins, Bob Tucci, Gene Pokorny, and Floyd Cooley. At Rollins College, he served on the faculty conducting the brass ensemble and later was appointed professor of tuba and euphonium at the University of Central Florida. He has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and Seattle Symphony Orchestra and served as principal tubist with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. As a freelance musician and teacher in Orlando, Fla., he performed on tuba and electric bass in a wide variety of ensembles. He was a member of Walt Disney World’s “Future Corps” and principal tubist with the Walt Disney World Orchestra.

His career also includes performances and master classes in Europe and Japan. Mr. Roylance joined the Yale faculty in 2008.

douglas lindsey trumpet

Douglas Lindsey received his BM magna cum laude in music education and performance at the University of Arkansas. As an undergraduate, he was second trumpet in the North Arkansas Symphony and held the principal chair in the Civic Symphony of Northwest Arkansas. In 2008 he won an invitation to the final round of the International Trumpet Guild solo competition in Banff, Canada. He won scholarships from the same organization in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, Mr. Lindsey began his graduate studies with Allan Dean at the Yale School of Music. At Yale, he was a founding member of the Atticus Brass Quintet, which attended the Aspen Music Festival last summer and performed at the Kennedy Center. While in Aspen, Mr. Lindsey took lessons from Ray Mase, Kevin Cobb and Louis Ranger. The quintet performed throughout the Rocky Mountains and collaborated with the American Brass Quintet for a concert series and the world premiere of a brass dectet by David Sampson. This year Mr. Lindsey won the quintet fellowship with the Wisconsin Brass Quintet at the University of WisconinMadison, where he will pursue his DMA in trumpet performance beginning this fall.

mihae lee piano

Praised by Boston Globe for her “simply dazzling” playing, pianist Mihae Lee has been captivating audiences throughout North America, Europe, and Asia with her poetic lyricism and scintillating virtuosity. She has performed in such venues as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Jordan Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Academia Nationale de Santa Cecilia (Rome), Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall, and Taipei National Hall. Ms. Lee is an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and a founding member of the Triton Horn Trio. Her recordings of Brahms, Shostakovich, Bartók, and Stravinsky with members of BCMS were acclaimed by High Fidelity, CD Review, and Fanfare magazines. She performs at festivals including Dubrovnik, Amsterdam, Groningen, Seattle, OK Mozart, Mainly Mozart, Angel Fire, Chamber Music Northwest, Bard, Norfolk, Music Mountain, and Chestnut Hill. She has been a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Speculum Musicae; collaborated with the Muir, Cassatt, and Manhattan quartets; and premiered and recorded works by Gunther Schuller, Ned Rorem, Paul Lansky, Henri Lazarof, Michael Daugherty, and Ezra Laderman. She has recorded for Bridge, Etcetera, EDI, Northeastern, and BCM, and is the artistic director of the Essex (ct) Winter Series.

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February 4 new music new haven 8 pm, Thu, Sprague Hall, Free Featuring the Piano Trio of faculty composer Martin Bresnick, as well as music by Omar Surillo, Richard Harrold, and Jordan Kuspa.

box office 203 432-4158 concerts & media Vincent Oneppo Dana Astmann Monica Ong Reed Danielle Heller Elizabeth Martignetti operations Tara Deming Christopher Melillo piano curators Brian Daley William Harold recording studio Eugene Kimball Jason Robins

February 6 tribute to george enescu 8 pm, Sat, Sprague Hall, Free A rediscovered work for violin, as well as music for piano, voice, and chamber ensembles. Ilya Poletaev, piano, and James Taylor, tenor, with Jennifer Curtis, violin; and Mihai Marica, cello.

February 8 prokofiev rediscovered 8 pm, Mon, Sprague Hall, Free Premieres and rarities. Fragment from the opera Distant Seas (world premiere); Music for Athletic Exercises, choreographed by Adam Hendrickson; music for the ballet Trapeze; and Schubert waltzes arranged for two pianos by Prokofiev.

February 12-14 the marriage of figaro 8 pm, Fri & Sat | 2 pm, Sunday | Shubert Theater Yale Opera presents Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), directed by Vera Lúcia Calábria. Christoph Campestrini conducts the Yale Philharmonia. Tickets $19-$41 / Students $13, at www.shubert.com.

Robert Blocker, Dean