YALE BAROQUE ENSEMBLE november 30, 2012 Friday at 8 pm robert mealy Director music of Castello Corelli Gabrielli Merula Purcell Vivaldi
Robert Blocker, Dean
november 30, 2012 · 8 pm Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall
YALE BAROQUE ENSEMBLE Dario Castello fl. early 17th century
Sonata undecima à 3 from Sonata concertate in stile moderno, vol. II tutti ensemble
Dario Castello
Tarquinio Merula ca. 1595–1665
Sonata prima à soprano solo from Sonata concertate in stile moderno, vol. II Mr. Scheid, Mr. Fung Ballo detto Pollicio Ballo detto Gennaro Ballo detto Eccardo from Canzoni overo Sonate concertate, Libro Terzo, Op.12 tutti ensemble
Domenico Scarlatti 1685–1757
Sonata in D minor, K. 1 Sonata in D minor, K. 34/32 Sonata in D minor, K. 141 Mr. Fung
Tarquinio Merula
Ciaccona from Canzoni overo Sonate concertate, Libro Terzo, Op.12 tutti ensemble
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Robert Mealy, director Holly Piccoli & Edson Scheid, baroque violins Soo Jin Chung, baroque cello David Fung, harpsichord
intermission Arcangelo Corelli 1653–1713
Sonata in D major, Op. 3, No. 2 Grave Allegro Adagio Allegro tutti ensemble
Domenico Gabrielli 1651–1690
Ricercare No. 7 in D minor Ms. Chung
Dario Castello
Sonata seconda à soprano solo from Sonata concertate in stile moderno, vol. II Ms. Piccoli, Mr. Fung
Dario Castello
Sonata duodecima à 3 from Sonata concertate in stile moderno, vol. II tutti ensemble
Antonio Vivaldi 1678–1741
Sonata in D minor, Op. 1, No. 12, “La Folia” tutti ensemble
yale baroque ensemble Robert Mealy, director
One of America’s leading historical string players, Robert Mealy has been praised for his “imagination, taste, subtlety, and daring” (Boston Globe); the New Yorker described him as “New York’s world-class early music violinist.” He has recorded over 50 cds on most major labels, ranging from Hildegard of Bingen with Sequentia, to Renaissance consorts with the Boston Camerata, to Rameau operas with Les Arts Florissants. Mr. Mealy has appeared at music festivals from Berkeley to Belgrade, and from Melbourne to Versailles; he has also performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group and accompanied Renée Fleming on the David Letterman Show. In New York he is a frequent leader and soloist with the New York Collegium, ARTEK, the Clarion Society, and Early Music New York. Since 2004, he has been concert-master for the distinguished Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, leading them in their Grammy-nominated recordings of Lully’s Thésée and Psyché and Conradi’s Ariadne. A devoted chamber musician, he is a member of the medieval ensemble Fortune’s Wheel, the Renaissance violin band the King’s Noyse, and the 17 th-century ensemble Quicksilver. Mr. Mealy is Professor of Music (adjunct) at Yale University, where he directs the Yale Collegium and teaches courses on rhetoric and performance; for a decade previously, he directed the Harvard Baroque Orchestra. Currently, he is the director of the historical performance program at Juilliard. In 2004 he received Early Music America’s Binkley Award for outstanding teaching at both Harvard and Yale.
The Yale Baroque Ensemble, directed by Prof. Robert Mealy, is a postgraduate trio sonata ensemble of two violins, cello, and keyboard dedicated to the highest level of study and performance of the Baroque repertoire. String players in the Ensemble go through an intensive one-year program of study, immersing themselves in the chamber and solo repertoire from 1600 to 1785. The program is designed for modern players to develop virtuosity and fluency in various historical styles, and to allow the participants to find their own eloquent voice on baroque instruments. Through coachings and individual lessons, the participants learn to read early notation, develop a familiarity with primary source material and treatises, and become fluent with improvisation in various styles. The ensemble prepares and performs a series of concerts together during the year.
artist profiles
Violinist Holly Piccoli is an alumna of the Yale School of Music, graduating from the Certificate in Performance program and as a Student Marshall, having studied with Professor Syoko Aki. Holly began violin in 1994, gaining a scholarship in 1999 to the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School. She graduated in 2004 as valedictorian of the school, achieving perfect scores in Music Solo Performance and Group Performance. She was awarded the Lenton Parr Academic Award, three Premier’s Awards, and the 2004 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra String Award. Holly studied at the Australian National Academy of Music from 2005 to 2008 in the Advanced Performance Program with principal teacher Mark Mogilevski. As a soloist, she performed regularly in the Young Virtuoso Series and Lunch Hour Concerts, as well as giving annual recitals.
to the U.S. and Europe in 2010, and this year joined them for their Beethoven 9 tour and their September Europe tour. In January 2011 Holly was invited by ACO2 to perform in Niseko, Japan, in a quartet of Emerging Artists and with ACO artistic director Richard Tognetti and principal flautist of the Berlin Philharmonic Emannuel Pahud. In her first year at the Yale School of Music, Holly performed at Carnegie Hall with the Yale Philharmonia, under the direction of composer Krystoff Penderecki conducting his own works. Holly was concertmaster of the Yale Opera Orchestra in 2011, performing Don Giovanni. In April 2011, as part of their winning performance in the Woolsey Concerto Competition, Holly and Metropolitan Opera baritone Tyler Simpson performed Strauss’s Notturno for voice and solo violin, with the Yale Philharmonia.
Edson Scheid earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, Austria (2009) where he studied with Igor Ozim, and received his Master of Music degree (2011) and Artist Diploma (2012) at the Yale School of Music, studying under Hyo Kang. He is currently a member of the Yale Baroque Ensemble. At the age of 18, Scheid was the first Brazilian violinist ever to record Paganini’s 24 Caprices for Solo Violin. Born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, he has given concerts in Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, the United States, and South Korea. Recent performances In 2009 Holly was an Australian Chamber Orchestra Emerging Artist. Since then she has include concerts at the Norfolk Chamber Music worked in the Australian Chamber Orchestra Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Zankel Hall at on many of their National Subscription Tours, Carnegie Hall, and the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea (as a member of the Sejong toured with them on their Transatlantic Tour In July 2006, Holly received the Australian fellowship to the National Symphony Summer Music Institute (SMI). She successfully auditioned for the role of concertmaster of the National Symphony SMI Orchestra, performing the violin solo in Stravinsky’s La Pulcinella Suite in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Holly returned to Washington, D.C. in 2007, having been invited to perform the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Virginia Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Luis Haza.
artist profiles
Soloists). In May 2011, he received the Broadus Erle Prize, awarded to outstanding violinists at the Yale School of Music. Described as “stylish and articulate” in The New York Times and praised as having “undoubted talent” by the Los Angeles Times, Australian pianist David Fung has performed as soloist with orchestras such as the Canberra Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Israel Camerata, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa of Japan, Queensland, San Diego Symphony, Sydney Symphony, and the Xiamen Philharmonic, among numerous others. Festival highlights include recital invitations at the Aspen Music Festival (Colorado), Goslar Festival (Germany), Der Internationaler Klaviersommer (Germany), Music at Menlo (California), Sarasota Festival (Florida), and the Edinburgh International Festival Queen’s Hall Series, where Fung was acclaimed as being “prodigiously talented... probably [doing] ten more impossible things daily before breakfast,” by Jonas Green in the Edinburgh Guide. Mr. Fung was a top prizewinner at the 12 th Arthur Rubinstein Piano International Masters Competition in Tel Aviv, where he was also distinguished by prizes for Best Classical Concerto and Best Performance of Chamber Music. In addition, he won the Grand Prize at the 2002 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Award, Second Prize and the Audience Prize at the Third Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition, and the J. Wight Henderson Prize at the 2004 Scottish International Piano Competition. Mr. Fung has recorded albums for NAXOS, Yarlung
Records, Linn Records, and ABC Classics/ Symphony Australia. He is the artistic director of the Bari International Music Festival (Italy) and is a Steinway Artist. Cellist Soo Jin Chung began studying cello at age eleven in South Korea. In 2001 she gave her first concert performance with orchestra, performing Haydn’s Concerto in D major with the Prime Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2004, she gave a solo recital and performed with the Ewha University Symphony Orchestra. She was a prizewinner in the Strad Competition, Ewha-Kyunghyang Competition, and Eumyoun Competition. She was invited to participate in the Tong-Yeoung International Music Festival and performed as a member of a string quartet. She received a full scholarship from Ewha Womans University, where she studied with Hyungwon Chang and Il-hwan Bae and earned her Bachelor of Music degree summa cum laude. As a winner of the Chamber Music Competition at the Yale School of Music, she performed in the Competition Winners Concert in Sprague Hall as part of the Oneppo Chamber Music Series. In 2011 and 2012, respectively, she earned her master’s degree and Artist Diploma at the Yale School of Music under the tutelage of Aldo Parisot. She is currently a member of the Yale Baroque Ensemble and the Sejong Soloists.
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