Yale Brass Trio

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Yale Brass Trio with

Mihae Lee piano

morse recital hall November 14, 2012 • Wednesday at 8 pm

Robert Blocker, Dean

ya l e brass trio William Purvis, horn • Allan Dean, trumpet • Scott Hartman, trombone with Mihae Lee, piano

{ Music from the Early Italian Renaissance Magister Ser Ghriandelus de Florentinia

Ivo Bene

Nicola Vicentino

Solo e Pensoso

Bartolomeo Brolo fl. 1430–1440

O, Celestial Lume

Cesaro Todino ca. 1530–1590

Menando gli anni/Tristo che gionge

Anonymous

Ogn’ Hor Diro

Joseph Jongen 1873–1953

Aria et Polonaise, Op. 128

Pierre Gabaye b. 1930

Recréation I. Allegretto II. Largo III. Presto

As a courtesy to the performers and audience, turn off cell phones and pagers.

Faculty Artist Series

November 14, 2012 • Sprague Memorial Hall

intermission Anthony Plog b. 1941

Nocturne

Jean Françaix 1912–1997

Divertimento Allegro Andantino Allegro gusto

Anthony Plog

Music for Brass Octet with John Allen, John Ehrenburg, and Jay Villella, trumpets Hana Belgolavec, Timothy Hilgert, and Christopher Brown, trombones

Please do not leave the hall during selections. Photography or recording of any kind is prohibited.

About the Artists

Allan Dean is Professor of Trumpet (Adjunct) at the Yale University School of Music and is currently performing with Summit Brass, St. Louis Brass and the Yale Brass Trio. In the early music field he was a founding member of Calliope: A Renaissance Band and the New York Cornet and Sacbut Ensemble. Dean was a member of the New York Brass Quintet for eighteen years and freelanced in the New York City concert and recording field for over twenty years before joining the faculty of Indiana University in 1982. Upon retirement of the New York Brass Quintet in 1984, Dean joined the St. Louis Brass. In 1989 he moved back to the Northeast to join the Yale faculty. At Yale, Dean coaches brass chamber music and directs the Yale Cornet and Sacbut Ensemble in addition to teaching trumpet.

Dean performs and teaches each summer at the Mendez Brass Institute and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Norfolk, Connecticut. He is a frequent soloist with Keith Brion’s New Sousa Band. Dean has also appeared at the Speleto and Casals Festivals, the Banff Centre (Canada), the Orford Arts Centre (Canada), Musiki Blekinge (Sweden), the Curitiba Music Festival (Brazil) and the Morella Festival (Spain). He can be heard playing both modern trumpet and early brass on over 80 recordings on most major labels including RCA, Columbia, Nonesuch, Summit and others. On early instruments he has recorded with Calliope, The New York Cornets and Sacbuts, The Waverly Consort, The Ensemble for Early Music, and The Smithsonian Chamber Players.

Dean joined the Yale faculty in 1988. He previously served on the faculties of Indiana University, the Manhattan School of Music, the Hartt School, and the Eastman School.

About the Artists

Mr. Hartman now performs and records with Proteus 7, the Millennium Brass, the Brass Band of Battle Creek, the Hollywood Brass, and the trombone quartet Four of a Kind. He has recorded for the Angel EMI, Sony, Telarc, Summit, and Dorian labels.

He has served as a member of the faculties of Indiana University and the New England Conservatory. He joined the Yale faculty in 2001.

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.

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 the National Symphony.

About the Artists

Mr. Purvis is a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Yale Brass Trio, and the 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 collaborated with the Tokyo, Juilliard, Orion, Brentano, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, Daedalus, and Fine Arts string quartets.

A native of Western Pennsylvania, William Purvis pursues a multifaceted career both 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, including horn concerti by Peter Lieberson, Bayan Northcott, and Penderecki (New York premiere); trios for violin, horn, and piano by Poul Ruders and Paul Lansky; and Steven Stucky’s Sonate en Forme de Préludes with Emanuel Ax in Carnegie Hall.

Recent world premieres include Paul Lansky’s Day Trips for horn and wind ensemble in Carnegie Hall, Elliott Carter’s Retracing II for solo horn, and Carter’s Nine for Five with the New York Woodwind Quintet.

His extensive list of recordings spans an unusually broad range from original instrument performance to standard solo and chamber music repertoire to contemporary solo and chamber music works as well as numerous recordings of contemporary music as conductor. Recent recordings include the Horn Concerto of Peter Lieberson on Bridge (which received a Grammy and a WQXR Gramophone Award), works of Schumann, Paul Lansky, and Schoenberg with the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Quintet for Horn and Strings by Richard Wernick with the Juilliard Quartet, and Retracing II for Solo Horn by Elliott Carter.

Most recently he recorded the quintets for piano and winds of Mozart and Beethoven on historical instruments with the Smithsonian Chamber Players.

Mr. Purvis is Professor in the Practice of Horn at the Yale School of Music, where he is also coordinator of winds and brasses and director of the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments.

About the Artists

appears frequently at numerous festivals including Dubrovnik, Amsterdam, Groningen, Seattle, OK Mozart, Music from Angel Fire, Bard, Chamber Music Northwest, Norfolk, and Music Mountain.

A regular performer at Bargemusic, she has also been a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Speculum Musicae; has collaborated with the Tokyo, Muir, Cassatt, and Manhattan string quartets; and has premiered and recorded works by such composers as Gunther Schuller, Ned Rorem, Paul Lansky, Henri Lazarof, Michael Daugherty, and Ezra Laderman.

Praised by the Boston Globe as “simply dazzling,” pianist Mihae Lee captivates audiences throughout North America, Europe, and Asia in solo recitals and chamber music concerts with her lyricism and virtuosity. She has performed in such venues as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Jordan Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Academia Nationale de Santa Cecilia, Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall, and Taipei National Hall.

An active chamber musician, Ms. Lee is an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and is a founding member of the Triton Horn Trio. Her recordings of Brahms, Bartók, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky with members of BCMS were critically acclaimed by High Fidelity, CD Review, and Fanfare magazines. Ms. Lee

Born in Seoul, Korea, Ms. Lee made her professional debut at the age of fourteen with the Korean National Orchestra after becoming the youngest grand prizewinner at the prestigious National Competition.

The same year, she came to the United States on a scholarship from the Juilliard School pre-college division, and subsequently won awards including first prize at the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition and the Juilliard and New England Conservatory concerto competitions.

Ms. Lee received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Juilliard and her artist diploma from the New England Conservatory. She has released compact discs on the Bridge, Etcetera, EDI, Northeastern, and BCM labels and is the artistic director of the Essex (Conn.) Winter Series.

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Morse Recital Hall | Thursday | 8 pm New Music New Haven George Crumb, guest composer: Vox Balaenae; selections from American Songbook III, with Janna Baty, soprano. Plus new music by graduate composers.

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Liederabend

Morse Recital Hall | Wednesday | 8 pm Horowitz Piano Series Music by Mozart and Brahms, plus Schumann’s Fantasie in C major and Stravinsky’s Three Movements from Petrushka.

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december 4 Morse Recital Hall | Tuesday | 8 pm Yale Opera An evening of Russian songs.

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Robert Blocker, Dean

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