Akahoshi-Parisot

FACULTY ARTIST SERIES

OLE AKAHOSHI CELLO ELIZABETH PARISOT PIANO + DAVID SHIFRIN CLARINET JAN 31 2011 Sprague Memorial Hall Monday at 8 pm

MUSIC BY Beethoven Brahms Schubert

Robert Blocker, Dean

FACULTY ARTIST SERIES

David Shifrin, clarinet Ole Akahoshi, cello Elizabeth Parisot, piano

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 1770–1827

FRANZ SCHUBERT 1797–1828

Sonata for Cello and Piano in A major, Op. 69 Allegro ma non troppo Scherzo Adagio cantabile – Allegro vivace

Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A minor, D. 821 Allegro moderato Adagio Allegretto

Intermission

JOHANNES BRAHMS 1833–1897

Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano in A minor, Op. 114 Allegro Adagio Andantino grazioso Allegro

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ELIZABETH PARISOT PIANO

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Elizabeth Parisot, pianist, received her DMA from the Yale School of Music in 1973, and has served on the faculty of the School since 1977.

She has appeared in solo and chamber music concerts throughout the world, performing at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center and the National Gallery in Washington, DC, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the Hispanic Institute in Madrid, and the Jerusalem Music Center in Israel.

With her husband, Brazilian cellist Aldo Parisot, she has toured extensively, joining him in sonata performances as well as in chamber music with other renowned artists. She served as coordinator and performing artist at the Aldo Parisot International Competitions and Courses in Brazil for several years and has also been a guest artist at the International Music Institute (Santander, Spain), the Banff Festival of the Arts (Alberta, Canada), and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Recent tours have included concerts in Korea and Italy with

violinist Kyung Hak Yu and performances with faculty colleagues Erick Friedman and Aldo Parisot in Taiwan. She has also performed recently with Yo-Yo Ma, Janos Starker, and Ralph Kirshbaum. A collabarative artist with cellists for many years in concerts, master classes, and competitions worldwide, Ms. Parisot was awarded the title “Grande Dame du Violoncelle” in 2007 by the Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center at Indiana University “in recognition of her universal contributions to the art of cello playing and cellists.”

Elizabeth Parisot has numerous recordings to her credit, including the two Brahms Sonatas for Cello and Piano with her husband Aldo Parisot (Musical Heritage Society); music by Leo Ornstein and Alexei Haieff for cello and piano with Italo Babini (Serenus); Cellists from Yale, issued in Brazil (Phonodisc); The Yale Cellos of Aldo Parisot and The Yale Cellos Play Favorites (Delos); three CDs with Queen Elizabeth Competition winner Nai-Yuan Hu; a disc with cellist Carol Ou; music by Ezra Laderman with violinists Erick Friedman and Kyung Hak Yu and cellist Pansy Chang (Albany Records); and works by Strauss and Prokofiev with violinist Kyung-Hak Yu.

OLE AKAHOSHI CELLO

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Hailed by the Los Angeles Times for his “technical solidity, perfect intonation, and large edgeless tone of buttered-rum quality,” German cellist Ole Akahoshi has concertized on four continents in recitals and as soloist with orchestras, such as the Orchestra of St. Luke’s under Yehudi Menuhin and Symphonisches Orchester Berlin. He has won numerous competitions, including Concertino Praga and Jugend Musiziert, and is a recipient of the fellowship award from Charlotte White’s Salon de Virtuosi. Mr. Akahoshi has performed in such venues as Avery Fisher Hall, Benaroya Hall, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Seoul Arts Center, National Center for Performing Arts (Beijing), Shanghai Concert Hall, Wigmore Hall (London), Wiener Musikverein, and Berliner Philharmonie. His performances have been featured on CNN, NPR, WQXR, Korean Broadcasting, and numerous German stations. He has recorded for the Albany, New World, CRI, Calliope, Bridge, Sanga, and Naxos labels.

Ole Akahoshi has collaborated with the Tokyo, Michelangelo, and Keller quartets and with Shmuel Ashkenasy, Sarah Chang, Cho-Liang Lin, Gil Shaham, Chee-Yun, Lawrence Dutton, Nobuko Imai, Myung Wha Chung, Jian Wang, Edgar Meyer, Leon Fleisher, Garrick Ohlsson, Naoko Yoshino, and Hyunah Yu, among many others. He has performed and served as faculty at the Banff Centre, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Appalachian Summer Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Festival des Artes Brazil, and the Great Mountains Music Festival in Korea.

He has been a guest artist with the Seattle Chamber Music Society and the Ensemble for the Romantic Century. He has given numerous master classes, most recently at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Mr. Akahoshi has served as a judge for the Juilliard Concerto Competition and the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Competition, among others.

At age eleven, Ole Akahoshi was the youngest student to be accepted by Pierre Fournier. He received a bachelor’s degree from Juilliard and a master’s degree from Yale, where he studied with Aldo Parisot, as well as an artist diploma from Indiana University under János Starker.

Ole Akahoshi is the principal cellist of the Sejong Soloists and a member of the Saito Kinen Orchestra. He teaches at the Manhattan School of Music and is an assistant professor of cello at the Yale School of Music.

DAVID SHIFRIN CLARINET

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Library of Congress in Washington DC; and throughout Germany. His recordings (on Delos, DGG, Angel/EMI, Arabesque, BMG, SONY and CRI) continue to garner praise as well as awards, and he has received three Grammy nominations. Sought after as a chamber musician, he appears frequently with such distinguished artists as the Guarneri, Tokyo and Emerson String Quartets and Wynton Marsalis.

One of only two wind players to have been awarded the Avery Fisher Prize since the award’s inception in 1974, clarinetist David Shifrin is in constant demand as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber music collaborator.

Mr. Shifrin continues to broaden the repertoire for clarinet and orchestra by championing the works of 20th and 21st century American composers including John Adams, Joan Tower, Bruce Adolphe, Ezra Laderman, Lalo Schifrin, David Schiff, John Corigliano, Bright Sheng, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, among others.

He has performed with numerous major orchestras, including the Dallas, Seattle, Houston, Milwaukee, Detroit, Denver, Memphis symphonies, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the Philadelphia and Minnesota orchestras.

Internationally, he has performed with orchestras in Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Taiwan.

In addition, he has served as principal clarinetist with the American Symphony Orchestra (under Stokowski), with the Cleveland Orchestra, Honolulu and Dallas symphonies, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the New York Chamber Symphony.

Mr. Shifrin has appeared in critically acclaimed recitals around the world, including at Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and the 92nd Street Y in New York City; the

An artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1989, Mr. Shifrin served as its artistic director from 1992 to 2004. Along with his work at CMSLC, Mr. Shifrin is also the artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon. David Shifrin has been a professor of music at the Yale School of Music since 1987. He has also served on the faculties of the Juilliard School, the University of Southern California, the University of Michigan, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the University of Hawaii.

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FACULTY ARTIST SERIES

All concerts in this series are free of admission.

A doi tenori: music for two tenors February 4 | 8 pm | Fri | Sprague Hall James Taylor and Thomas Cooley, tenors; Robert Mealy, violin; and Avi Stein, continuo. Music of Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Sch端tz, Christoph Bernhard, Dario Castello, Johann Kaspar Kerll, and Johann Krieger.

Boris Berman & Ettore Causa February 15 | 8 pm | Tue | Sprague Hall The Faculty Artist Series presents Ettore Causa, viola, and Boris Berman, piano. Schumann: Three Romances, Op. 94; Brahms: Sonata in F minor, Op. 120, no. 1; Schumann: Drei Phantasiest端cke, Op. 73; Brahms: Sonata in E-flat major, Op.120, no. 2.

Yale Brass Trio February 22 | 8 pm | Tue | Sprague Hall Allan Dean, trumpet; William Purvis, horn; and Scott Hartman, trombone. With Mihae Lee, piano.

Kyung Hak Yu & Elizabeth Parisot March 25 | 8 pm | Fri | Sprague Hall Faculty artists Kyung Hak Yu, violin, and Elizabeth Parisot, piano.

Sarita Kwok, violin March 31 | 8 pm | Thu | Sprague Hall With Jian Liu, piano. Music by Beethoven, Bresnick, Messiaen, and Prokofiev.

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Peter Frankl, piano February 2 | 8 pm | Wed | Sprague Hall Horowitz Piano Series Peter Frankl continues his 75th birthday celebration. Bartók: Allegro barbaro; Three Burlesques; Three Rondos. Beethoven: Sonata No. 13 in E-flat major, “Quasi una Fantasia,” Op. 27, no. 1; Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, no. 2, “Moonlight”; Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111.

Tickets $12-22 / Students $6 A doi tenori: music for two tenors February 4 | 8 pm | Fri | Sprague Hall James Taylor and Thomas Cooley, tenors; Robert Mealy, violin; and Avi Stein, continuo.

Music of Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz, Christoph Bernhard, Dario Castello, Johann Kaspar Kerll, and Johann Krieger.

Free admission.

Tokyo String Quartet February 8 | 8 pm | Tue | Sprague Hall Chamber Music Society at Yale

peter frankl

Celebrating 75 Years

Mozart: “Hunt” Quartet in B-flat major, K. 458; Szymanowski: Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 37; Mendelssohn: String Quintet in B-flat major, Op. 87, with violist Ettore Causa.

Tickets $25–$35 / Students $15

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