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faculty artist series
Ransom Wilson Ole Akahoshi Peter Frankl
October 2, 2017 • Monday at 7:30 pm Morse Recital Hall
Faculty Artist Series
Ransom Wilson, flute Ole Akahoshi, cello Peter Frankl, piano October 2, 2017 • Morse Recital Hall
Joseph Haydn 1732–1809
Piano Trio in G major, Hob. XV:15 I. Allegro II. Andante III. Finale. Allegro moderato
Felix Mendelssohn 1809–1847
Cello Sonata No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 45 I. Allegro vivace II. Andante III. Allegro assai
Francis Poulenc 1899–1963
Flute Sonata, FP 164 I. Allegro malinconico II. Cantilena III. Presto giocoso intermission
Franz Schubert 1797–1828
Introduction and Variations on “Trockne Blumen” from Die Schöne Müllerin, D. 802
Haydn
Piano Trio in D major, Hob. XV:16 I. Allegro II. Andantino più tosto allegretto III. Vivace assai
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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 a flute soloist, he has appeared in concert with some of the greatest orchestras of our time, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and London Symphony Orchestra.
and I Solisti Veneti. Since then he has recorded more than thirty albums as flutist and/or conductor. Mr. Wilson is the professor of flute at the Yale School of Music, music director of the Redlands Symphony, and has been an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1991. Ole Akahoshi, cello
Cellist Ole Akahoshi from Germany enjoys a concert career before audiences in North and South America, Asia, and Europe in As a conductor, in recent seasons he has led recitals, chamber music concerts, and as opera performances at the New York City soloist with orchestras such as the Orchestra Opera and was an assistant conductor at of St. Luke’s and Symphonisches Orchester the Metropolitan Opera. He was recently Berlin. He has won numerous competitions, named music director of the Redlands including Concertino Praga and Jugend Symphony in California. The founder and Musiziert, and is a recipient of the Salon de artistic director of Le Train Bleu ensemble, Virtuosi fellowship award. Mr. Akahoshi he has been a guest conductor of the has performed in Avery Fisher Hall, London, Houston, KBS, Kraków, Denver, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Suntory New Jersey, Hartford, and Berkeley symph- Hall, Seoul Arts Center, Beijing, Shanghai onies; the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; the and Taipei Concert Halls, Wigmore Hall, Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra; the Hallé Wiener Musikverein, and Berliner Orchestra; and the chamber orchestras of Philharmonie. His performances have St. Paul and Los Angeles. He has also ap- been featured on CNN, NPR, WQXR, peared with the Glimmerglass Opera, Korean Broadcasting, and the major Minnesota Opera, and the Opera of La German stations. He has recorded for the Quinzena Musical in Spain. Albany, New World, Calliope, Bridge, and Naxos labels. His most recent releases As an educator, Ransom Wilson regularly include the String Quartet by Behzad leads master classes at The Juilliard School, Ranjbaran, and the Mendelssohn Octet Moscow Conservatory, Cambridge with Gil Shaham. Ole Akahoshi has colUniversity, the Paris Conservatory, and laborated with the Tokyo, Michelangelo, others. His recording career, which includes and Keller quartets and with Sarah Chang, three Grammy Award nominations, Cho-Liang Lin, Elmar Oliveira, Leon began in 1973 with Jean-Pierre Rampal Fleisher, Garrick Ohlsson, and Elizabeth
Artist Profiles
Parisot, among many others. He has served as faculty at the festivals in Banff, Norfolk, Brazil, and the GMMFS in Korea. He has given numerous classes, most recently at the conservatories in Beijing and Sichuan. At age 11, Ole Akahoshi was the youngest student to be accepted by Pierre Fournier. He studied with Aldo Parisot at the Yale School of Music and The Juilliard School, and with Janos Starker at Indiana University. Mr. Akahoshi has served as teaching assistant for both Aldo Parisot and Janos Starker. Ole Akahoshi is the principal cellist of the Sejong Soloists. In 1997 he joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music, where he is the assistant professor of cello. Peter Frankl, piano Pianist Peter Frankl made his London debut in 1962 and his New York debut with the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell in 1967. Since that time he has performed with many of the world’s finest orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, all the London orchestras, and the major American orchestras. He has collaborated with such eminent conductors as Abbado, Boulez, Davis, Haitink, Maazel, Masur, Muti, Salonen, and Solti, and his world tours have taken him to Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. He has appeared more than 20 times at London’s BBC Promenade Concerts and has been a regular participant at the Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Aldeburgh, Verbier, Kumho, and Casals festivals.
In the United States, Peter Frankl has been a regular guest artist at festivals including Aspen, Chautauqua, Marlboro, Norfolk, Ravinia, Santa Fe, and Yellow Barn. For many years the Frankl-Pauk-Kirshbaum Trio traveled the world. His many chamber music partners have included Kyung Wha Chung, Peter Csaba, Ralph Kirshbaum, and the Tokyo, Takács, Guarneri, Bartók, Fine Arts, and Lindsay quartets. He has given master classes all over the world, at such institutions as the Royal Academy and Royal College in London, the Liszt Academy in Budapest, the Van Cliburn Institute in Texas, and in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Seoul. Among his recordings are the complete works for piano by Schumann and Debussy, Bartók and Chopin solo albums, a Hungarian anthology, concertos and fourhand works by Mozart, the two Brahms piano concertos, the Brahms violin and clarinet sonatas, the Brahms trios, Bartók pieces for violin and piano, and the piano quintets by Brahms, Schumann, Dvorák, Martinu, and both Dohnányis. In recognition of his artistic achievements, Mr. Frankl was awarded the Officer’s Cross by the Hungarian Republic and on his 70th birthday he was given one of the highest civilian awards in Hungary for his lifetime artistic achievement in the world of music. He is an honorary professor of the Liszt Academy and has been on the Yale School of Music faculty since 1987.
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