Frank Morelli, Ettore Causa, Boris Berman, Jan 29, 2017

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faculty artist series

Frank Morelli bassoon Ettore Causa viola Boris Berman piano

Morse Recital Hall January 29, 2017 • Sunday at 3 pm

Faculty Artist Series

Frank Morelli, bassoon Ettore Causa, viola Boris Berman, piano January 29, 2017 • Morse Recital Hall

César Franck 1822–1890

Mass, Op. 12 V. Panis Angelicus

Johannes Brahms 1833–1897

Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 I. Allegro non troppo II. Allegro quasi Menuetto – Trio III. Allegro intermission

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827

Duet mit zwei obligaten Augengläsern, WoO 32 I. Allegro II. Minuetto

Ricardo Drigo 1846–1930

Meditazione (ca. 1900)

Mikhail Glinka 1804–1857

Trio pathétique (ca. 1827) I. Allegro moderato II. Scherzo – Vivacissimo III. Largo IV. Allegro con spirito

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Artist Profiles

Frank Morelli, bassoon Frank Morelli, the first bassoonist to receive a doctorate from the Juilliard School, has been soloist at Carnegie Hall on nine occasions and performed at the White House for the final state dinner of the Clinton presidency.

Principal bassoonist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra and the Westchester Philharmonic, he was principal bassoon of the New York City Opera for 27 years. He teaches at the Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, SUNY Stony Brook, and the Glenn Gould School in Toronto.

His more than 160 recordings include MSR Classics solo CDs From the Heart, Romance and Caprice, Bassoon Brasileiro, and Baroque Fireworks. The magazine Gramophone proclaimed: “Morelli’s playing is a joy to behold.” The American Record Guide stated: “the bassoon playing on this recording is as good as it gets.” Of his Deutsche Grammophon recording of the Mozart Bassoon Concerto with Orpheus, Fanfare Magazine said the recording “reset a reviewer’s standards at too high a level for comfort in a world more productive of ordinary music making.” The Orpheus CD Shadow Dances, which features Mr. Morelli, won a 2001 Grammy Award.

A prolific chamber musician, he has appeared at the most prestigious national and international festivals.

He is a member of the woodwind quintet Windscape, ensemble in residence at the Manhattan School of Music and Festival Chamber Music.

He compiled the landmark excerpt book Stravinsky: Difficult Passages for

Bassoon for Boosey and Hawkes and has numerous transcriptions in print.

His revision of the widely used Weissenborn Bassoon Method Book and Studies will soon be in print, commissioned by Carl Fischer Publishers. » morellibassoon.com 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 at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Zurich Tonhalle, Madrid National Auditorium, Salle Cortot (Paris), Tokyo Symphony Hall, and Teatro Colon, and has performed at the Menuhin (Gstaad), Salzburg, Tivoli (Copenhagen), Prussia Cove (England), Savonlinna (Finland), Launadire (Canada), and Norfolk (Connecticut) 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

Artist Profiles

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 transcriptions of Romantic pieces, which was awarded five Diapasons. Mr. Causa performs on a viola made for him by Frederic Chaudière in 2003.

Boris Berman, piano Well known to the audiences in more than fifty countries on six continents, Professor Berman regularly appears with leading orchestras, on major recital series, and at important festivals. He studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with the distinguished pianist Lev Oborin.

An active recording artist and a Grammy Award nominee, he was the first pianist to record the complete solo works of Prokofiev. Other acclaimed releases include all of Alexander Scriabin’s piano sonatas and a recital of Shostakovich’s piano works, for which he received the Edison Classic Award (the Dutch equivalent of the Grammy Award). He has also recorded three Prokofiev concertos with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with Neeme Järvi conducting, as well as works by Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Schumann, Brahms, Franck, Debussy, Stravinsky, Janáček, Schnittke, Shostakovich, Joplin, and Cage.

In 1984, Professor Berman joined the Yale School of Music faculty, where he is Professor in the Practice of Piano, coordinator of the piano department, and artistic director of the Horowitz Piano Series. He was the founding director of the Yale Summer Piano Institute and the International Summer Piano Institute in Hong Kong. He also gives master classes throughout the world and frequently serves as a juror at international competitions. In 2005, he was given the title of Honorary Professor of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and in 2013 was named an Honorary Professor at the Royal Danish Conservatory in Copenhagen.

In 2000, the Yale University Press published Professor Berman’s Notes from the Pianist’s Bench, which has been translated into several languages. In 2008, the same publisher released his book Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer. He is the editor of the new critical edition of Piano Sonatas by Prokofiev (Shanghai Music Publishing House). In 2016–17, Boris Berman is performing and teaching in Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Holland, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Russia, and the United States.

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