Conducting Fellows' Concert

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TWO BEETHOVEN SYMPHONIES Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor • Symphony No. 6 in F major, “Pastoral”

Adrian Slywotzky

Yang Jiao

april 15 , 2011 · friday, 5 pm · morse recital hall

with members of the

Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale

Robert Blocker, Dean

CONDUCTING FELLOWS RECITAL with members of the

Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale

ludwig van beethoven 1770–1827 Yang Jiao conductor

Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 Allegro con brio Andante con moto Scherzo: Allegro Allegro Intermission

Adrian Slywotzky conductor

Symphony No. 6 in F major, “Pastoral,” Op. 68 Allegro ma non troppo Andante molto mosso Allegro Allegro Allegretto

This performance is in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music degree.

As a courtesy to the performers and audience members, turn off cell phones and pagers. Please do not leave the theater during selections. Photography or recording of any kind is not permitted.

ya l e ph ilh armo nia The Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale is one of America’s fore- shinik hahm most music school ensembles. The largest performing group Conductor at the Yale School of Music, the Philharmonia offers superb krista johnson training in orchestral playing and repertoire.

Managing Director Performances include an annual series of concerts in Woolsey Hall, as well as Yale Opera productions in the Shubert Theater. roberta senatore The Yale Philharmonia has also performed on numerous Librarian and occasions in Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and the Kennedy Production Assistant Center. The orchestra undertook its first tour of Asia in 2008, 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 Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale VIOLIN 1 Domenic Salerni, concertmaster Edson Scheid Tammy Wang Edward Tan Igor Pikayzen Ka Chun Gary Ngan Youngsun Kim Nayeon Kim Piotr Filochowski

FLUTE Cho-Long Kang 1 (piccolo) Anouvong Liensavanh 1, 2* Peng Zhou 1*, 2

VIOLIN 2 Soo Ryun Baek, principal Hyewon Kim David Radzynski Naria Kim Jiwon Kwark Jiin Yang Tao Zhang Liesl Schoenberger

CLARINET Soo Jin Huh 1*, 2 Sara Wollmacher 1, 2*

VIOLA Edwin Kaplan, principal Eve Tang Hyun Jung Lee Janice Lamarre Eren Tuncer Min Jung Chun CELLO Jinhee Park, principal Ying Zhang Alvin Yan Ming Wong Philo Lee Jung min Han BASS Aleksey Klyushnik, principal Eric Fischer NaHee Song Nicholas Jones

OBOE Alexandra Detyniecki 1 Emily Holum 1* Joseph Peters 2* Jeffrey Reinhardt 2

BASSOON Thomas Fleming 1* Helena Kranjc 1, 2 Scott Switzer 1 (contrabassoon), 2*

HORN Andrew Mee Jamin Morden Elizabeth Upton TRUMPET Paul Florek 1*, 2* David Wharton 2 Andreas Stoltzfus 1 TROMBONE Ruben Rodriguez 1*, 2* Matthew Russo 1, 2 Benjamin Firer 1 TIMPANI Adam Rosenblatt

ASSISTANTS Joseph Peters MUSIC LIBRARIANS Yeseul Ann Wai Lau Holly Piccoli Liesl Schoenberger Kaitlin Taylor Elizabeth Upton Sara Wollmacher STAGE CREW Landres Bryant Paul Futer Michael Levin Cameron McPhail Brian Reese Ruben Rodriguez Hermelindo Ruiz Andreas Stoltzfus Jerome Stover Craig Watson David Wharton 1 - Performer in Symphony No. 5 2 - Performer in Symphony No. 6 * - Principal Player

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Yang Jiao is currently a conducting fellow at the Yale School of Music, where he studies with Professor Shinik Hahm. He also serves as assistant conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale and ensembles for New Music New Haven concerts. Yang graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where he studied conducting with Xin Xu and Yi Zhang and was assistant conductor to Professor Yongyan Hu. In 2006, Yang was awarded a prize at the Shenzhen National Conducting Competition in China. He has been invited annually to conduct at the Beijing Modern Music Festival. Yang has participated in conducting master classes with Daniel Harding and Peter Oundjian. He was the resident guest conductor of the Lanzhou Symphony Orchestra in China from 2008 to 2010.

As a pianist, Yang was awarded a silver medal in the First National Piano Competition for the German Beethoven Festival at 2004.

adrian slywotzky 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 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 holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in architecture from Yale College, where he studied violin with Kyung Yu, and a Master of Music degree 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.

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