Wendy Sharp, violin with Joel Wizansky, piano

wendy sharp, violin with joel wizansky, piano Faculty Artist Series

Music of Mozart, Ives, Ingram Marshall, Kreisler, and de Falla Morse Recital Hall • Sunday, October 20, 2013 at 4 pm

Robert Blocker, Dean

Faculty Artist Series

wendy sharp, violin with joel wizansky, piano October 20, 2013 • Morse Recital Hall

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756—1791

Sonata for violin and piano in A major, K. 526 I. Molto allegro II. Andante III. Presto

Charles Ives 1874—1954

Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano, S. 61 Autumn In the Barn The Revival

intermission

Ingram Marshall b. 1942

September Canons for violin and electronic processing

Fritz Kreisler 1875—1962

Aubade Provençale (in the style of Couperin) Caprice Viennois, Op. 2

Manuel de Falla 1876—1946

Danse Espagnole arr. Fritz Kreisler

As a courtesy to the performers and audience, silence all electronic devices.

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

Wendy Sharp • violin

Wendy Sharp, award-winning violinist, performs frequently as a recitalist and a chamber musician. In demand as a teacher and chamber music coach, she is on the faculties of the Yale School of Music and California Summer Music, and maintains a private studio. For nearly a decade, Ms. Sharp was the first violinist and a founding member of the highly acclaimed Franciscan String Quartet. As a member of the quartet she toured the USA, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and was honored with many awards including first prize in the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Press and City of Evian prizes at the Evian International String Quartet Competition. A native of the San Francisco Bay area, she attended Yale University, graduating summa cum laude with distinction in music, and received her Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Ms. Sharp has served on the faculties of the Mannes College of Music, Dartmouth College, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Choate Rosemary Hall. She has also participated in the Aspen, Tanglewood, Chamber Music West, Norfolk, Britten-Pears, and Music Academy of the West festivals. Ms. Sharp is currently the director of chamber music at the Yale School of Music, where she has also served on the violin faculty since 1997. Ms. Sharp and her husband have two children, both undergraduates at Yale.

Joel Wizansky • piano

Joel Wizansky is acclaimed by audiences and musicians alike for his combination of fiery intensity and probing musicianship. The Washington Post wrote of his “emotional and rich performance, sparkling runs, beautiful phrasing, and dramatic interpretation.” After his debut with the San Francisco Symphony at age 17, he went on to win numerous awards, including first prize in the Helen Hart International Piano Competition and the Yale Gordon Competition and fifth prize in the Marguerite Long International Competition. He has performed frequently in recital and with orchestras in the United States, Europe, Taiwan, and Korea and has been heard in broadcast performances in New York, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Chicago. His first solo compact disc, “A Brahms Recital,” was released in 2001 on the MRC label. He is also a noted chamber musician and collaborator, and has performed in duo recitals at Carnegie Hall, the National Concert Hall in Taipei, and many other venues. He has served on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory and is currently a staff pianist at the Yale School of Music.

Ingram Marshall · composer

September Canons for violin and electronic processing “le canon sur lequel je dois m’abattre à travers la mêlée des arbres et de l’air léger!”

— Arthur Rimbaud, from Being Beauteous September Canons was written in 2002 for the violinist Todd Reynolds, whose mastery of electronics as an enhancement to his brilliant violin playing had deeply impressed me.

That the music is a kind of memory piece for the events of September 11 is no secret, but it was not meant to be only about that; it has many layers of “meaning.”

Ingram Marshall, composer, studied at Columbia University and California Institute of the Arts, where he received an M.F.A., and has been a student of Indonesian gamelan music, the influence of which may be heard in the sloweddown sense of time and use of melodic repetition found in many of his pieces. In recent years he has concentrated on music combining tape and electronic processing with ensembles and soloists.

His music has been performed by ensembles and orchestras such as the Theater of Voices, Kronos Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, and American Composers Orchestra. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Fromm Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

» ingrammarshall.com

It has connections to other musics (the Bach Chaconne for solo violin, for example and Charles Ives’s From Hanover Square North) as well as my own (Gradual Requiem), but mostly it is about the canonic interplay of the violin lines that the player sets into motion and then “processes” through various digital effects.

The line from Rimbaud did not inspire the piece, but it seemed to me to have something to do with it as an afterthought.

— Ingram Marshall

Special thanks to Cory Lee’13mm for his invaluable help with the electronics for Ingram Marshall’s piece.

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Robert Blocker, Dean