Yale Brass Trio, Nov 10

Yale Brass Trio with

Mihae Lee, piano

faculty artist series November 10, 2015 • Morse Recital Hall

Robert Blocker, Dean

Faculty Artist Series

Yale Brass Trio with

mihae lee• piano

Tuesday, November 10, 2015 • 7:30 pm • Morse Recital Hall

Music from the Early Italian Renaissance Arranged by Allan Dean

Magister Ser Ghirandellus de Florentia c. 1340

Ivo Bene

Vincenco Ruffo c. 1508–1587

La Disperata (1564) La Gamba (1564)

Pietro Vinci c. 1535–1591

Ricercar Quinto (1591)

Ruffo

La Piva (1564)

Ezra Laderman 1924–2015

Brass Trio (2005) Quite fast, electric Aria I. Andante Aria II. Allegro Aria III. Languorous, sultry Allegro con brio Dedicated to the memory of Ezra Laderman intermission

Faculty Artist Series

Clara Schumann 1819–1896

Three Romances, Op. 22 I. Andante molto II. Allegretto mit zartem vortrage III. Leidenschaftlich schnell

Richard Peaslee b. 1930

Arrows of Time (1994–1996) I. Up II. Slow—Freely III. Fast

Ástor Piazzolla 1921–1992

Two Tangos (1965) Arranged by Allan Dean

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Artist Profiles

Allan Dean · trumpet 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 18 years and freelanced in the New York City concert and recording field for over 20 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 (Conn.) Chamber Music Festival.

He is a frequent soloist with Keith Brion’s New Sousa Band. Dean has also appeared at the Spoleto and Casals Festivals, the Banff Centre (Canada), the Orford Arts Centre (Canada), Musiki Blekinge (Sweden), 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, and Summit. On early instruments he has recorded with Calliope, the New York Cornets and Sacbuts, Waverly Consort, Ensemble for Early Music, and Smithsonian Chamber Players.

He has previously served on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, the Hartt School, and the Eastman School.

Artist Profiles

Scott Hartman · trombone Scott began his chamber music career as a member of the famed Empire Brass and with that group alone he performed in all 50 states. In addition to his role as trombonist with the Yale Brass Trio, Scott presently is a member of Proteus7, Summit Brass, the Brass Band of Battle Creek, the Millennium Brass and Four of a Kind. Scott has been a featured performer with many major United States symphony orchestras — including the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Symphony, Detroit Symphony, San Francisco Symphony and National Symphony — and abroad, Mr. Hartman has been a soloist with orchestras such as the BBC Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Caracas Symphony, the Simone Bolivar Symphony, the National Symphony of Taiwan and the Korean Orchestra in Seoul, Korea. Mr. Hartman heads the trombone department at Yale University and each summer, he performs and coaches brass chamber music at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Chautauqua Music Festival and the Raphael Mendez Institute.

Artist Profiles

William Purvis · horn William Purvis has pursued a multifaceted career both in the U.S. and abroad as horn soloist, chamber musician, conductor and educator. A passionate advocate of new music, he has participated in numerous world premieres and New York premieres including horn concerti by Peter Lieberson, Bayan Northcott, Krzysztof Penderecki and Paul Lansky; as well as horn trios by Poul Ruders, Paul Lansky and Györgi Ligeti. He is a founding member of the Triton Horn Trio with Ani Kavafian and Mihae Lee, the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Yale Brass Trio, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and is an emeritus member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He has been a frequent guest of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has collaborated with many of the world’s most esteemed string quartets, including the Brentano, Juilliard, Tokyo, Orion, Daedalus, Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Fine Arts quartets. Mr. Purvis has recorded extensively on numerous labels, including Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, Naxos, Koch and Bridge. A member of the Yale School of Music faculty since 1999, he is currently Professor in the Practice of Horn and Chamber Music, serves as Coordinator of Winds and Brass, and is director of the Collection of Musical Instruments.

Artist Profiles

Mihae Lee · piano Praised by the Boston Globe as “simply dazzling,” Korean-born pianist Mihae Lee has captivated audiences throughout North America, Europe, and Asia in solo recitals and chamber music concerts, in such venues as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Jordan Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Academia Nationale de Santa Cecilia in Rome, Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall, and Taipei National Hall. An active chamber musician, she is a founding member of the Triton Horn Trio with violinist Ani Kavafian and hornist William Purvis and was an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society for three decades. Ms. Lee has appeared frequently at numerous international chamber music festivals including Dubrovnik, Amsterdam, Groningen, Festicamara (Colombia), Seattle, OK Mozart, Mainly Mozart, Music from Angel Fire, Chamber Music Northwest, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, Rockport, Bard, Norfolk, Music Mountain, Monadnock, and Chestnut Hill Concerts. She has been a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Bargemusic, 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. A graduate of The Juilliard School and the New England Conservatory under the tutelage of Martin Canin and Russell Sherman respectively, she has released compact discs on the Bridge, Etcetera, EDI, Northeastern, and BCMS labels. Ms. Lee is the Artistic Director of the Essex Winter Series in Connecticut, and most recently she was appointed as the Music Director of the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival in Maine.

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