Faculty Artists: Wilson, Causa, Han

Ransom Wilson flute

Ettore Causa viola

June Han harp

faculty artist series October 1, 2015 • Morse Recital Hall

Robert Blocker, Dean

Faculty Artist Series

Ransom Wilson, flute Ettore Causa, viola • June Han, harp with Sun-A Park, piano Thursday, October 1, 2015 • 7:30 pm • Morse Recital Hall Jean Cras 1879—1932

Suite en duo (1927) I. Préambule II. Modéré III. Assez lent IV. Danse à onze temps

Jean Françaix 1912­ –1997

Suite pour flûte seule (1962) I. Caprice II. Pavane III. Saltarelle IV. Allemande V. Menuet VI. Marche

Maurice Duruflé 1902­ –1986

Prélude, Récitatif, et Variations, Op. 3 (1928) Sun-A Park, piano

intermission

Faculty Artist Series

Arnold Bax 1883—1953

Elegiac Trio, GP 178 (1916)

César Franck 1822—1890

Mélancolie pour violon et piano, FWV 10 Arr. Ettore Causa Sun-A Park, piano

Claude Debussy 1862–1918

Sonate pour flûte, alto, et harpe, L. 137 I. Pastorale II. Interlude III. Finale

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Artist Profiles

Ransom Wilson · flute Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Ransom Wilson graduated from the Juilliard School in 1973, and spent a year in Paris as a private student of Jean-Pierre Rampal. An exclusive recording contract with Angel/ EMI followed soon thereafter, along with extensive performances all over the world. As flute soloist, he has appeared in concert with some of the greatest orchestras of our time, including the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and London Symphony.

As a conductor, in recent seasons he has led opera performances at the New York City Opera and was an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera. He was recently named Music Director of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. This season he continues as a member of the conducting staff of the Metropolitan Opera. Founder and Artistic Director of Le Train Bleu ensemble, he has been a guest conductor of the Houston, KBS, Kraków, Denver, New Jersey, Hartford, and Berkeley symphonies; the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra; the Hallé Orchestra; and the chamber orchestras of St. Paul and Los Angeles.

He has also appeared with the Glimmerglass Opera, Minnesota Opera, and the Opera of La Quinzena Musical in Spain.

As an educator, Ransom Wilson regularly leads master classes at the Paris Conservatory, Juilliard School, Moscow Conservatory, Cambridge University, and others. His recording career, which includes three Grammy Award nominations, began in 1973 with Jean-Pierre Rampal and I Solisti Veneti. Since then he has recorded over 30 albums as flutist and/or conductor.

Mr. Wilson is Professor of Flute at the Yale University School of Music, Principal Conductor at the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music, and has been an Artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1991.

Artist Profiles

Ettore Causa · viola Italian-born violist Ettore Causa is praised for his exceptional artistry, passionate intelligence, and complete musicianship. He was awarded both the P. Schidlof Prize and the J. Barbirolli Prize for the most beautiful sound at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition.

Causa has made solo and recital appearances in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Zurich Tonhalle, Madrid National Auditorium, Salle Cortot (Paris), Tokyo Symphony Hall, and Teatro Colón, and has performed at festivals such as the Menuhin (Gstaad), Salzburg, Tivoli (Copenhagen), Prussia Cove (England), Savonlinna (Finland), Launadire (Canada), and Norfolk (CT) Festivals.

Mr. Causa is a former member of the Aria Quartet and a current member of the Poseidon Quartet, and has collaborated with such renowned musicians as the Tokyo, Artis, and Elias String Quartets, Pascal Rogé, Boris Berman, Peter Frankl, Thomas Adès, Natalie Clein, Ana Chumachenco, Ani Kavafian, Alberto and Antonio Lysy, Liviu Prunaru, Thomas Demenga, Anthony Marwood, Ulf Wallin, William Bennett, and others.

Ettore Causa studied at the International Menuhin Music Academy with Alberto Lysy and Johannes Eskar, and later at the Manhattan School of Music with Michael Tree. After teaching for many years at the International Menuhin Music Academy, Mr. Causa joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music in 2009. His recordings include two Claves CDs: one of the Brahms viola sonata and the other his transcription of Romantic pieces, which was awarded 5 Diapasons.

Mr. Causa performs on a viola made for him by Frederic Chaudière in 2003.

Artist Profiles

June Han · harp Born to diplomat parents, June Han lived in Belgium, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, The Netherlands, and France prior to her arrival in the United States in 1994. She has been hailed as a “true and tasteful harpist... [with] exceptionally varied phrasing and a surprising yet innate sense of timing” (Concert Review Magazine).

Dr. Han is a member of Sequitur Ensemble, Ensemble 21, and Manhattan Sinfonietta and has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Speculum Musicae, Music from Japan, the Group for Contemporary Music, Jupiter Chamber Players, and Bronx Art Ensemble. An active orchestral player, she has collaborated with Orchestre de Paris, Kirov Opera Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra, Boston Symphony and New York City Opera, to name a few, and frequently appears with the New York Philharmonic. Her summer music festivals as a student include Aspen and Tanglewood in the U.S. and Villecroze, Nice, and Gargilesse in France. In recent summers, she was a guest artist at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Skaneateles festival, Moab music festival, and OK Mozart Festival. She was a featured soloist with the Young Artists Orchestra in Aspen, Colonial Symphony Orchestra in Morristown, NJ, Durham-Oshawa Symphony Orchestra in Canada, and OK Mozart Festival.

Dr. Han has recorded for various labels and, as an avid proponent of the music of living and modern composers, has premiered works by numerous composers including Charles Wuorinen, Samuel Adler, Lei Liang, and her mother, Young-Ja Lee. In 2009, she and Bridget Kibbey gave the U.S. premiere performance of Stockhausen’s Freude, the second hour of Klang, for two harps at the Guggenheim Museum.

The performance was reviewed as “mesmerizing” and “brilliantly executed.”

Dr. Han holds a Premier Prix for harp and chamber music from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, the Master of Music degree and Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Juilliard School. In addition to serving as a member of the Yale School of Music faculty, she also serves on the faculties of Columbia University, Pre-College Division at The Juilliard School, and Bowdoin International Music Festival.

Artist Profiles

Sun-A Park · piano Pianist Sun-A Park has received international recognition as a prizewinner at the Fifth International Sendai Music Competition (Sendai, Japan, 2013), 58 th Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition (Bolzano, Italy, 2011), and the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition (Salt Lake City). Most recently, Sun-A was a winner of the 2015 Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition and will perform Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Yale Philharmonia this season.

As an active performer, Sun-A made her European debut at the Holland Music Sessions “Young Masters on Tour” Series, with recitals in major venues of the Netherlands and Slovakia. Additional concerto engagements include the Houston Symphony Orchestra, San Marino Republic Orchestra, Orchester Haydn, Hannover Hochschulorchester, New Jersey Symphony, Albany Symphony, and the Symphonic Orchestra of Castilla y León under the direction of such conductors as Eiji Oue, Arthur Hagen, Krzysztof Urbanski, Alastair Willis, and Pascal Verrot.

Highlights in the 2015–2016 season include recitals and concerto appearances with the Sendai Symphony Orchestra in Japan.

Sun-A received her undergraduate and graduate studies at the Juilliard School, studying with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Matti Raekallio. In 2014, Sun-A completed the prestigious Soloklasse Programm in the Hochschule für Musik Theater und Medien (Hannover, Germany) with Bernd Goetzke. She is currently under the tutelage of Professor Boris Berman at the Yale School of Music.

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