Kyung Yu, violin and Elizabeth Parisot, piano

fa culty a rtis t s eri es

Kyung Yu violin

Elizabeth Parisot piano

morse recital hall

November 2, 2011 • Wednesday at 8 pm Music of Mozart, Respighi, Ravel, and Kreisler

Robert Blocker, Dean

k yu ng yu & el iza beth par i sot November 2, 2011 • Sprague Memorial Hall • Faculty Artist Series

Elizabeth Parisot, piano Kyung Yu, violin

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791

Sonata for violin and piano in B-flat Major, K. 378 Allegro moderato Andantino sostenuto e cantabile Rondeau – Allegro

Ottorino Respighi 1879–1936

Sonata for violin and piano in B minor (1917) Moderato Andante espressivo Passacaglia – Allegro moderato ma energico intermission

Maurice Ravel 1875–1937

Sonate pour violon et piano Allegretto Blues – Moderato Perpetuum mobile – Allegro

Friedrich Kreisler 1875–1962

Praeludium and Allegro Caprice Viennois Danse Espagnole, from Manuel de Falla’s La Vida Breve

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

About the Artists

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, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, the National Gallery (Washington, D.C.), Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), the Hispanic Institute (Madrid), and the Jerusalem Music Center.

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 in Santander, Spain, the Banff Festival of the Arts (Alberta, Canada), and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Past 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 NaiYuan Hu; a disc with cellist Carol Ou; music by Ezra Laderman with violinists Erick Friedman and Kyung Yu and cellist Pansy Chang (Albany Records); and works

by Strauss and Prokofiev with violinist Kyung Yu.

About the Artists

Ms. Yu has taught at the Aspen Music Festival and was an assistant to Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard pre-college division. She served on the Fulbright Scholarship Screening Committee for Strings from 1999 to 2002.

Ms. Yu has taught violin students at Lehigh University and Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. She has served on the faculty at Yale since 1988.

Violinist Kyung Yu holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School and a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music. She has studied with Dorothy DeLay, Paul Kantor, and the late Emanuel Zetlin.

Ms. Yu was concertmaster of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 1999. She has appeared as a soloist with the Seattle Symphony, New Haven Symphony, and Yale Philharmonia orchestras, and has performed numerous recitals in New York City, Seattle, Aspen, and throughout Korea. She gave her New York debut concert in Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall as a winner of the Artists International Competition.

Ms. Yu performs extensively with pianist Elizabeth Sawyer Parisot, with whom she has recorded the Strauss and Prokofiev sonatas, and appeared on Albany Records in The Music of Ezra Laderman. She performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto with Elizabeth Parisot and cellist Ole Akahoshi with the Yale Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Shinik Hahm. With Elizabeth Parisot, Ms. Yu has played numerous recitals throughout Connecticut and Pennsylvania, and has performed to acclaim in concert tours of Korea and Italy.

Faculty Artist Series

Featuring performances

by Yale School of Music faculty Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall Free Admission

Wendy Sharp, violin

Benjamin Verdery, guitar

november 6

november 29

Sunday at 4 pm With Joel Wizansky, piano. Music of Beethoven and Brahms, plus Korngold’s Much Ado about Nothing Suite and Lisa Bielewa’s Meditations from The Lay of the Love and Death.

Tuesday at 8 pm Music by Yale composers: Martin Bresnick, Chris Theofanidis, Ezra Laderman, David Lang, Jack Vees, and Benjamin Verdery.

David Shifrin, clarinet

Ettore Causa & Boris Berman

november 15

november 30

Tuesday at 8 pm Clarinetist David Shifrin performs with faculty, student, and alumni guests.

Featuring music of Mozart, Brahms, Schumann, Debussy, Joan Panetti, and more.

Wednesday at 8 pm Ettore Causa, viola, and Boris Berman, piano, perform sonatas of Franck and Shostakovich.

Upcoming Events

Willie Ruff + Whole Drum Truth november 4 Morse Recital Hall | Fri | 8 pm Ellington Jazz Series The Whole Drum Truth, a quartet of modern jazz drummers led by Albert “Tootie” Heath, performs with French horn player Willie Ruff and multistyle violinist Mari Black.

Tickets $20–$30, Students $10 november 5

Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio november 8 Morse Recital Hall | Tue | 8 pm Oneppo Chamber Music Series “One of the best-blended, most sensitive, and intelligent piano trios in the world today” (New York Times) performs trios of Beethoven, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and Tchaikovsky.

Tickets $25–$35, Students $15

Boston Museum Trio

Yale Art Gallery | Sat | 10:30 am The members of The Whole Drum Truth mentor local young jazz drummers in an open workshop. Free admission.

november 13 Collection | Sun | 3 pm Collection of Musical Instruments

Master Class with Alan Held november 8 Morse Recital Hall | Mon | 7 pm Yale Opera Bass-baritone Alan Held works with singers from Yale Opera in an open master class.

Free admission.

French and German baroque music, including works by Rameau, Marais, Leclair, Buxtehude, and Bach. Featuring the Collection’s two-manual harpsichord by Blanchet the Elder (Paris, ca. 1740).

Tickets $20, Seniors $15, Students $10

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