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FOR ORCHESTRA sprague hall December 9, 2010 new music new haven Christopher Theofanidis, artistic director yale philharmonia Shinik Hahm, conductor martin bresnick Featured composer music of Bresnick Akiho Esmail Knight Surillo

Robert Blocker, Dean

December 9, 2010 路 Thursday at 8 pm 路 Sprague Hall

REENA ESMAIL

Aria Yang Jiao, conductor Meena Shivaram, vocal soloist

ADRIAN KNIGHT

combl茅 Adrian Slywotzky, conductor

ANDY AKIHO

Concerto for Steel Pans and Orchestra Andy Akiho, steel pans Intermission

OMAR SURILLO

partner in crime

MARTIN BRESNICK

Pan Penseroso Ransom Wilson, flute Dariya Nikolenko, flute Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale Shinik Hahm, conductor

As a courtesy to others, please silence all cell phones and devices. Photography of any kind is strictly prohibited. Please do not leave the hall during musical selections. Thank you.

PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA OF YALE

SHINIK HAHM Conductor

KRISTA JOHNSON Managing Director

YANG JIAO Assistant Conductor

RENATA STEVE Librarian

ROBERTA SENATORE Production Assistant

ADRIAN SLYWOTZKY Assistant Conductor

Violin 1

Oboe

Percussion

Domenic Salerni, concertmaster Jiwon Kwark Liesl Schoenberger Xi Chen Igor Pikayzen Tao Zhang Piotr Filochowski

Rebecca Kim, English horn Jeffrey Reinhardt*

Michael Compitello John Corkill Leonardo Gorosito

Wai Lau* Sara Wollmacher, bass clarinet

Harp

Violin 2

Bassoon

Piano

Alexander Read, principal Sung Mao Liang Naria Kim Hyerin Kim Ju Hyung Shin

Jennifer Hostler* SaMona Bryant, contrabassoon

Larry Weng Wayne Weng

Horn

* Principal player

Jessica Lascoe* Andrew Mee Jamin Morden Ian Petruzzi*

Winds, brass, and percussion are listed in alphabetical order.

Viola Colin Meinecke, principal Min Jung Chun Eren Tuncer Timothy Lacrosse

Cello Ying Zhang, principal Yoon Hee Ko Jinhee Park Weipeng Liu

Double Bass Aleksey Klyushnik, principal Mark Wallace

Flute & Piccolo Cho-Long Kang*, piccolo Anouvong Liensavanh, piccolo

Clarinet & Bass Clarinet

Kristan Toczko

Assistants Trumpet Kyle Sherman Andreas Stoltzfus*

Trombone Benjamin Firer Brittany Lasch* Matthew Russo*

Joseph Peters

Music Librarians Holly Piccoli Liesl Schoenberger Elizabeth Upton Sara Wollmacher

Stage Crew Bass Trombone Benjamin Firer Craig Watson

Timpani Yun-Chu Candy Chiu

Landres Bryant Paul Futer Brian Reese Ruben Rodriguez Andreas Stoltzfus Craig Watson David Wharton

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REENA ESMAIL composer Reena Esmail’s compositions have been heard in performances and festivals in the United States, Canada and Europe. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Juilliard and has studied composition with Susan Botti, Christopher Rouse, and Samuel Adler. She has won two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards and was the inaugural recipient of the Milton and Sylvia Babbitt Scholarship for Women Composers at Juilliard. Esmail is currently pursuing a master’s degree in composition at the Yale School of Music, where she is a student of Christopher Theofanidis. As a pianist, Esmail was a winner in the mtac-wla Chamber Music Competition. She collaborates with Indian Carnatic singer Shobana Raghavan.

Esmail is currently on the composition faculty at Manhattan School of Music.

ARIA notes Even though my heritage is Indian, my musical training has been solely in Western classical music. It is only recently that I have begun to learn about Hindustani (North Indian) classical music and incorporate its elements into my work. Though the combination of the unique sounds of these two types of music are interesting to explore, it is the differences between the cultures and traditions from which these sounds emerge that interest me the most. My aim is not to create music that sounds “fused” as much as music that builds on the values and principles from both cultures and musical traditions, and that can function in both.

Aria is my third and largest piece in this style (preceded by a piano quintet and a bassoon solo) and is my first attempt to incorporate a Hindustani classical musician. An aria is a form in Western classical opera, in which a solo singer, accompanied by an orchestra, expresses a sentiment while demonstrating vocal virtuosity. Here, I use the setting of an aria to create a window into the world of Hindustani vocal music. The orchestra follows the singer through the beginning of a Hindustani aalap (vocalise) section in Raag Todi, which falls away to an orchestral tutti on the themes of her phrases. She returns for a series of taans (fast virtuosic passages using sargam, or solfège) in Raag Yaman, and eventually begins to sing the antara (B section) of the traditional Hindustani bandish (composition) “Sakhi Eri Aali Piya Bina.” She then has a Western-style cadenza, and returns to sing the sthaayi (A section) of the same composition. As she sings in Yaman, bits of Todi seep through in a duet between the oboe and english horn. I would like to thank Meena Shivaram for her collaboration on Aria from its very beginning. Without her musical input, this piece could never have been written.

MEENA SHIVARAM soloist Meenakshi Shivaram has been trained in classical Indian vocal music from a young age. She received her Carnatic vocal training from C.S. Lakshmi and M.S. Sheela in India.

Recently, she began studying Hindustani vocal under Pt. Nagaraj Rao Havaldar. She is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is currently a senior at Yale College, majoring in the Neuroscience track in Psychology.

ADRIAN KNIGHT composer Adrian Knight is a composer of electronic, orchestral, vocal and chamber music currently living and working in New Haven. He was born and raised in Uppsala, Sweden. His music draws inspiration from a wide variety of sources, including free improvisation, electroacoustic music, early music, and experimental electronic musics such as drone, microsound, and noise.

In 2009 he collaborated with artist Laura Grey to create the audiovisual installation/performance piece The Dividing Line for four large video screens and four-channel soundtrack;

in 2010 he worked with architect Seoyoung Shin on The Interiors of Me, an installation involving textiles, prints, and a live soundtrack.

Recent performances include The Dividing Line at the Norberg Festival and Yale University Art Gallery, concerts of electronic music in New York City (Robert Goff Gallery), New Haven, and Hartford, and the hour-long string quartet Livet Innanför Väggarna at Fylkingen in Stockholm. His works have been commissioned and performed in Europe and the US by Stefan Lindgren, the Swedish Wind Ensemble, the Wind-Up Bird Cabaret, harmonica virtuoso Filip Jers, Jan Risberg, Loadbang, Alexander Zethson, Red Light New Music, and KMH Symphony Orchestra.

He has received grants from the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and a 2010 Morton Gould Young Composer Award from ASCAP for his orchestral work Manchester (2008).

Manchester was also selected by the Swedish section of ISCM for the World New Music Days 2011 in Zagreb.

Adrian received his undergraduate degree in composition in 2009 from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where he studied with Pär Lindgren and Jesper Nordin. He is current-

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ly pursuing a master’s degree in composition at Yale School of Music, studying with David Lang, Ezra Laderman, and Martin Bresnick.

He also teaches electronic music at Yale College.

Since 2008, he operates “the smallest record label in the world,” Pink Pamphlet, and has released six albums so far, with, in addition to his own works, music by Magnus Bunnskog, Christopher Cerrone, Sebastian Lakatos, and Victor Lisinski. His works are published by the Swedish Music Information Center (SMIC).

He is a member of Fylkingen in Stockholm. » adrian-knight.com » pinkpamphlet.net

COMBLÉ notes “…de la plaisible nuit, nous rompons le silence…”

– Jean Racine comblé was written July through October, 2010 in Stockholm, New Haven, and New York. It was written for the Yale Philharmonia.

It is dedicated to the memory of Arman Esmailzadeh Anari.

ANDY AKIHO composer // steel pans Andy Akiho is an eclectic composer whose interests run from steel pan to traditional classical music. His compositions have won prestigious awards including a 2010 Horatio Parker Award at the Yale School of Music, a 2009 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers

Award, and a 2008 Brian M. Israel Prize.

Akiho’s works have been featured on PBS’s News Hour with Jim Lehrer and by organizations such as Meet the Composer, Bang on a Can, American Composers Forum, and the Syracuse Society for New Music. He has composed for the Bang on a Can Marathon, Red Line Saxophone Quartet, and the Playground Ensemble. Akiho’s compositions have been heard in venues such as John Zorn’s The Stone, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Mass MOCA, the Tank (NYC), and the St. James Theater (Port of Spain, Trinidad). A graduate of the University of South Carolina (BM, performance) and the Manhattan School of Music (MM, contemporary performance), Akiho is currently a master’s degree student in composition at the Yale School of Music.

He has recently studied composition with Julia Wolfe and percussion with John Ferrari and Jeffrey Milarsky. At Yale, he has studied composition with Christopher Theofanidis and Ezra Laderman, and is currently studying with Martin Bresnick.

As a percussionist Akiho has performed with numerous professional ensembles, and his immersion in various genres has given him a unique approach to his primary instrument,

the steel pan. Recent engagements include the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra, Ethos Percussion Group, Djoliba Don West African Drum and Dance Ensemble, Gamelan Lila Muni, and Island Close By Steel Band.

He has participated in the world’s premier steel pan event, Panorama, and won Second Prize in the 2002 World Steelband Music Festival solo competition, where he premiered his own composition, Macqueripe. Since 2003, he has performed and taught steel pan extensively in New York City. As an educator, he serves as a lead teaching artist for ArtsConnection in New York. Akiho plans to continue his career as a performer while placing an emphasis on his chamber and orchestral compositions.

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STEEL PAN CONCERTO notes The steel pan was the catalyst that led me to become a composer. I was first introduced to the instrument at the University of South Carolina in 1997, where I studied percussion under Jim Hall. After I finished my studies, I made four extensive visits to Trinidad to immerse myself in the culture of the music. I returned several times in subsequent years to study and perform with two of the greatest pioneers of the instrument—Len “Boogsie” Sharpe and

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Ray Holman. Encouraged by my experiences in Trinidad, I moved to the Caribbean community in Brooklyn, NY, in 2003. While in New York City, I had the opportunity to perform and learn from some of the greatest pan innovators including Scipio Sargeant, Eddie Quarless, Clive Bradley, and Freddy Harris III. Their positive influences ultimately led me to the Manhattan School of Music, where I began to compose new art music that often integrated the steel pan in combination with traditional classical instruments.

My goal with this piece, and with my other pieces involving the steel pan in combination with traditional classical instruments, is to create sonorous textures that explore the frontiers of the instrument. I often find that compositions incorporating the steel pan outside of the pure Calypso and Soca genres use the instrument as a novelty gimmick without realizing the instrument’s full potential. I believe that the steel pan is an extremely versatile instrument capable of producing both an extraordinarily unique timbre and contributing to a homogenous orchestral texture.

The configuration of the steel pans in this concerto consists of a “tenor pan” (soprano range: one instrument = one pan) centered between a set of “double seconds” (alto range: one instrument = two pans). These three pans are combined to create an extended range of three fully chromatic octaves from the E below middle C to the E above the treble staff; please see the diagram for a visual representation of this particular setup. There is also an optional fourth pan that is used only for percussive effects: rim clicks and “skirt” (side of the pan) hits.

OMAR SURILLO composer Omar Surillo (b. 1979, San Juan, PR) is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from the Orlando area. His talents made it possible to participate in various ensembles, both nationally and internationally, ranging from classical and jazz to rock music.

Omar began taking piano lessons at the age of five. Soon after, he learned to play the guitar, followed by alto/baritone saxophone and drumset. He went on to pursue his undergraduate degree from Stetson University (2006), where he studied composition with Sydney Hodkinson and Manuel DeMurga. While at Stetson, Omar was awarded the title of Stetson Piano Scholar (2006), selected as an associate artist for the Atlantic Center for the Arts (2007), and inducted into the music honor society, Pi Kappa Lambda (2007).

After graduating magna cum laude in December, 2008, Omar went on to teach music theory fundamentals at Stetson University, along with a composition and songwriting course at Valencia College. Currently, he is a student at the Yale School of Music, where he studies

with Ingram Marshall, Aaron Jay Kernis, and Christopher Theofnidis.

PARTNER IN CRIME notes “Enjoy the simple things in life,” we are told.

Indeed, “guilty pleasures” are one of the simple things in life I enjoy from time to time. partner in crime, in a way, encapsulates some of my very own self-indulgent moments in music.

Throughout its course, this single-movement work channels different aspects, or “guilty pleasures,” I have wanted to expose for a while now. The work fabricates itself as a narrative of two entities living together, who despite their habitual differences are able to survive.

A fascination with the macabre drives the first section of the work, followed by a contrasting adulatory segment. Finalizing the piece are blocks of pulsations intertwined with sustained melodic blankets of sound, in short: Dark – Serene – Industrious.

MARTIN BRESNICK composer Composer Martin Bresnick was born in New York City in 1946 and he is presently Professor of Composition and Coordinator of the Composition Department at the Yale School of Music. He was educated at the High School of Music and Art, the University of Hartford (ba ’67), Stanford University (ma ’68, dma ’72), and the Akademie für Musik, Vienna (’69-’70). His principal teachers of composition

include György Ligeti, John Chowning, and Gottfried von Einem. Mr. Bresnick has taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (1971-72), Eastman School of Music (20022003), New College in Oxford (2004), and the Royal Academy of Music in London (2005), among others. In 2006, Mr. Bresnick was elected to membership of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Mr. Bresnick’s orchestral music has been performed around the world by the San Francisco Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Münster Philharmonic, Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Sao Paulo, and Izumi Sinfonietta Osaka. His chamber music has been performed by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Da Capo Chamber Players, Bang on A Can All Stars, and MusicWorks!, among others. His music has been heard at festivals including Prague Spring, Tanglewood, Banff, New Music America, and New Horizons. He has also received commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fromm Foundation, Lincoln Center Chamber Players, Meet-the-Composer, and Chamber Music America. His many prizes include the Elise L. Stoeger Prize for Chamber Music, Charles Ives Living Award, the Aaron Copland Prize

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for teaching, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Mr. Bresnick has written music for films, two of which, Arthur & Lillie and The Day After Trinity, were nominated for Academy Awards in the documentary category. Mr. Bresnick’s music has been recorded by Cantaloupe Records, CRI, Centaur, New World Records, Artifact Music, and Albany Records and is published by Carl Fischer Music, New York; Bote and Bock, Berlin; and CommonMuse Music Publishers, New Haven.

PAN PENSEROSO notes Pan Penseroso and the titles of its three movements are taken from John Milton’s great poem Il Peneseroso (The Contemplative Man). The music aligns itself with this response to the poet’s earlier L’Allegro (the Cheerful Man). In my concerto the flutist Pan, like the mature Milton, casts a reflective musical eye on the world, renouncing all “vain deluding joyes,” so as to better hear the “Sweet Bird that shunn’st the noise of folly…”

Written for the master flutist Robert Dick, Pan Penseroso includes a number of procedures explored in his pioneering book The Other Flute: A performance Manual of Contemporary Techniques.

RANSOM WILSON flute Ransom Wilson, flute, was educated at the North Carolina School of the Arts and the

Juilliard School, and continued his postgraduate studies as an Atlantique Scholar with JeanPierre Rampal. As flute soloist he has appeared with the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, I Solisti Veneti, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the chamber orchestras of Nice, Stuttgart, Cologne, and the Netherlands. He is an artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. As a conductor, Mr. Wilson currently serves on the music staff of the Metropolitan Opera. He is the director of orchestras at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and is the music director and principal conductor of Solisti New York, which he founded in 1981. He is former music director of Opera Omaha, the San Francisco Chamber Symphony, and the OK Mozart Festival. He was honored by the Austrian government with the Award of Merit in Gold in recognition of his efforts on behalf of Mozart’s music in America. A strong supporter of contemporary music, Mr. Wilson has had works composed for him by Steve Reich, Aaron Jay Kernis, Joseph Schwantner, John Harbison, Peter Schickele, Jean Francaix, Jean-Michel Damase, George Tsontakis, Tania

she studied with Uriy N. Dolzhikov, and graduated from the Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Marina Piccinini. Dariya is currently a student at the Yale School of Music under the guidance of Ransom Wilson.

Léon, and Randall Woolf. He joined the Yale faculty in 1991.

DARIYA NIKOLENKO flute A native of Russia, Dariya Nikolenko began her musical studies at age seven and made her first concerto appearance at nine. Dariya has won First prize and the Grand Prize in the USA International Music Competition in Boston in 2010, and first prizes in the Baltimore Music Club Winds and Brass Competition in 2008 and 2010, New Names International Competition (Moscow), and International Competition for Flutists (Yalgava, Latvia). She has won additional prizes at the Beethoven Competition in Moscow and the International Competition of Novosibirsk, and was a semifinalist of the Frank Bowen Young Artist Competition in New Mexico. Dariya has taken part in the Internationale Meisterkurse with Marina Piccinini in Zürich and the Moritzburg Festival Academy in Germany, and appeared at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage and at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall. She graduated with honors from the Moscow Academic College of the Moscow Conservatory, where

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The Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale is one of America’s foremost music school ensembles.

The largest performing group at the Yale School of Music, the Philharmonia offers superb training in orchestral playing and repertoire. Performances include an annual series of concerts in Woolsey Hall, as well as Yale Opera productions in the Schubert Performing Arts Center. In addition to its New Haven appearances, the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale has performed on numerous occasions in Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York City and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The Philharmonia recently undertook its first tour of Asia, with acclaimed performances in the Seoul Arts Center, the Forbidden City Concert Hall and National Center for the Performing Arts (Beijing), and the Shanghai Grand Theatre.

The beginnings of the Yale Philharmonia can be traced to 1894, when an orchestra was organized under the leadership of the School’s first dean, Horatio Parker. The orchestra became known as the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale in 1973, with the appointment of OttoWerner Mueller as resident conductor and William Steinberg, then music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony, as Sanford Professor of Music. Brazilian conductor Eleazar di Carvalho became music director in 1987, and Gunther Herbig joined the conducting staff as guest conductor and director of the Affiliate Artists Conductors program in 1990. Lawrence Leighton Smith, music director of The Louisville Symphony Orchestra, conducted the Philharmonia for a decade, and upon his retirement in 2004, Shinik Hahm was appointed music director.

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SHINIK HAHM conductor Shinik Hahm, resident conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale, has been professor of conducting at the Yale School of Music since 2004. He served as artistic director and principal conductor of the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra in Korea until 2006 and was music director of the Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra (1993–2003) and the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra (1995–2000). Previous to his appointment at the School of Music, Professor Hahm served as music director of the Yale Symphony Orchestra from 1995 to 2004.

As a guest conductor, he has led the orchestras of Atlanta, Los Angeles, Warsaw, Prague, Bilbao, New York, Bangkok, Fort Worth, Louisville, Toronto, Omaha, Hartford, Alabama, Boulder, and Colorado Springs and other orchestras in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The Korean National Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra has engaged him every year since 1992, and he directed its 1995 North American tour. An active opera conductor, he has led numerous productions with the Silesian National Opera in Poland.

He has collaborated with prominent musicians including Salvatore Accardo, Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Yefim Bronfman, and Sarah Chang, and has recorded with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra for Vision and Britstar. Hahm studied conducting at Rice University and the Eastman School of Music. His honors include the Fourth Gregor Fitelberg International Competition, the Walter Hagen Conducting Prize (Eastman School of Music), and the Shepherd Society Award

(Rice University). In 1995 he was decorated by the Korean government with the Arts and Culture Medal.

ADRIAN SLYWOTZKY assistant conductor Conductor Adrian Slywotzky has been active as a musician in the New Haven area since 1998. For the last three years he has been the director of the New Haven Chamber Orchestra, and he is the founding conductor of the Yale Medical Symphony Orchestra. Following his passion for teaching, Adrian has worked as an educator throughout New England. Since 2005 he has been on the conducting staff of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, and he is serving as interim conductor of the Greater New Haven Youth Orchestra for the 2008-2010 seasons. For five years he was the director of instrumental music at Hopkins School in New Haven, and he has taught at Neighborhood Music School, Elm City ChamberFest, and the Southern Maine String Camp. As a violinist, Adrian has participated in festivals including Tanglewood Music Center, California Summer Music, and the Norfolk Contemporary Music Festival. Adrian

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holds a BA in architecture from Yale College, where he studied violin with Kyung Yu, and an MM in violin performance from the Yale School of Music, where he studied with Wendy Sharp. He is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting at the Yale School of Music, where he studies with Shinik Hahm.

YANG JIAO assistant conductor Yang Jiao graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing) department of conducting, studying with Xin Xu and Yi Zhang and working as an assistant conductor to Maestro Yongyan Hu. He is currently a Master of Music degree student at the Yale School of Music, where he studies orchestral conducting with Shinik Hahm.

Since 2008, Jiao has been the resident guest conductor of Lanzhou Symphony Orchestra, the resident conductor of Beijing Institute of Technology University Symphony Orchestra, and conductor of Beijing’s No. 22 Middle School Symphony Orchestra and the EOS Orchestra Academy. In early 2010, The Golden

Tail Symphony Orchestra of Beijing’s No. 22 Middle School toured France successfully under Jiao’s conducting.

Since 2006,Yang Jiao has been invited annually to perform in the Beijing Modern Music Festival. He won third prize at the Shenzhen National Conducting Competition of China at the age of 21. In 2007, he took part in the London Symphony Orchestra 2007 Asia Tour, attending its master class organized by Maestro Daniel Harding.

Yang Jiao has conducted many orchestras, including the China Youth Symphony Orchestra, Chorus of China Youth Symphony Orchestra, Chorus of China Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, China Opera and Dance Symphony Orchestra, China Central Opera Symphony Orchestra, China Youth Chinese Orchestra, China Central Chinese Orchestra, Chorus of Shanghai Opera, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Jiangsu Symphony Orchestra, Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra, Kunming Symphony orchestra, Lanzhou Symphony Orchestra, and Macau Youth Symphony Orchestra.

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