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Yale Brass Trio Mihae Lee, piano
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 • 7:30 pm Morse Recital Hall
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Yale Brass Trio william purvis, horn · allan dean, trumpet scott hartman, trombone with mihae lee, piano
Heinrich Isaac 1450–1517 arr. Allan Dean
Three Pieces for Brass Trio Si dormiero Jay pris amour Der Hund. Part 1
Richard Peaslee 1930–2016
Arrows of Time for trombone and piano (1993) I. Up II. Slowly — Freely III. Fast
Robert Nagel 1924–2016
Brass Trio No. 2 (1966) I. Slow — Moderate II. Slow III. Allegro IV. Slow — Allegro intermission
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Robert Schumann 1810–1856
Adagio and Allegro for horn and piano, Op. 70
Manuel de Falla 1876–1946
Popular Spanish Songs for trumpet and piano (1926) El Paño moruno Asturiana Canción Nana Polo
Astor Piazzolla 1921–1992 arr. Allan Dean
Three Tangos for brass trio and piano Adios nonino (1959) Oblivion (1982) Libertango (1974)
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Artist Profiles
William Purvis, horn
Allan Dean, trumpet
William Purvis pursues a multifaceted career both in the United States and abroad as horn soloist, chamber musician, conductor, and educator. A passionate advocate of new music, he has participated in numerous premieres including horn concerti by Peter Lieberson, Bayan Northcott, Krzysztof Penderecki (New York premiere), and Paul Lansky; horn trios by Poul Ruders and Paul Lansky; Sonate en Forme de Préludes by Steven Stucky; and recent premieres of Elliott Carter’s Retracing II for solo horn and Nine by Five with the New York Woodwind Quintet. He is a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Yale Brass Trio, and the Triton Horn Trio and is an emeritus member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Purvis has been a frequent guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Boston Chamber Music Society, and has collaborated with many of the world’s most esteemed string quartets, including the Juilliard, Tokyo, Orion, Brentano, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, Daedalus, and Fine Arts string quartets. He has recorded extensively on numerous labels including Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, Naxos, Koch, and Bridge. Mr. Purvis is currently the Professor in the Practice of Horn and Chamber Music at the Yale School of Music, where he is also the coordinator of winds and brasses and serves as Director of the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments.
Allan Dean is the Professor of Trumpet (adjunct) at the Yale School of Music and is currently performing with Summit Brass, St. Louis Brass. In the early music field he was a founding member of Calliope: A Renaissance Band and the New York Cornet and Sacbut Ensemble. Mr. Dean was a member of the New York Brass Quintet for eighteen years and freelanced in the New York City concert and recording field for more than twenty years before joining the faculty of Indiana University in 1982. Upon retirement from the New York Brass Quintet in 1984, Mr. Dean joined the St. Louis Brass. In 1989 he moved back to the northeast to join the Yale faculty. At Yale, Mr. Dean coaches brass chamber music and directs the Yale Cornet and Sacbut Ensemble in addition to teaching trumpet. Mr. Dean performs and teaches each summer at the Yale Summer School of Music/Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Connecticut. He is a frequent soloist with Keith Brion’s New Sousa Band. Mr. Dean has also appeared at the Spoleto and Casals festivals, the Banff Centre (Canada), the Orford Arts Centre (Canada), Musiki Blekinge (Sweden), the Curitiba Music Festival (Brazil), and the Morella Festival (Spain). He can be heard playing both modern trumpet and early brass on over eighty recordings on most major labels including RCA, Columbia, Nonesuch, Summit, and others. On early instruments he has recorded with Calliope, The New York Cornets and Sacbuts, The Waverly Consort, The Ensemble for Early Music, and the Smithsonian Chamber Players.
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He previously served on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, the Hartt School, and the Eastman School. Scott Harman, trombone Scott Hartman began his chamber music career as a member of the famed Empire Brass and with that group alone performed in all fifty states. In addition to his role as the trombonist with the Yale Brass Trio, Mr. Hartman is a member of Proteus 7, Summit Brass, the Brass Band of Battle Creek, the Millennium Brass, and Four of a Kind.
Mihae Lee, piano For more than two decades, pianist Mihae Lee has been captivating audiences throughout North America, Europe, and Asia in solo recitals and chamber music concerts, appearing at such venues as Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Jordan Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Academia Nationale de Santa Cecilia in Rome, Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall, and Taipei National Hall.
Praised by The Boston Globe for her “simply dazzling� playing, she has been an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Mr. Hartman has been a featured perfor- Society since 1987, and a member of the mer with many major U.S. symphony Triton Horn Trio with violinist Ani orchestras including the Chicago Symphony, Kavafian and hornist William Purvis. Boston Symphony, Philadelphia She has premiered and recorded works Symphony, Detroit Symphony, San by such composers as Gunther Schuller, Francisco Symphony, and National Paul Lansky, Henri Lazarof, Michael Symphony. Abroad, Mr. Hartman has Daugherty, and Ned Rorem. In addition, been a soloist with such orchestras as the she has been a guest artist with the BBC Orchestra, the New Japan Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Philharmonic, the Caracas Symphony, the and Speculum Musicae; has performed Simone Bolivar Symphony, the National regularly at Bargemusic in New York; and Symphony of Taiwan, and the Korean has collaborated with the Muir, Cassatt, Orchestra in Seoul, Korea. and Manhattan string quartets. Ms. Lee appears frequently at numerous interMr. Hartman heads the trombone depart- national festivals, including the Dubrovnik, ment at the Yale School of Music and each Groningen, Great Woods, Amsterdam, summer performs and coaches brass Chestnut Hill Concerts, Rockport, Music chamber music at the Yale Summer School from Angel Fire, Sebago-Long Lake, Bard, of Music/Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Mainly Mozart, OK Mozart, and Seattle the Chautauqua Music Festival, and the chamber music festivals, as well as the Raphael Mendez Institute. Yale Summer School of Music/Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Born in Seoul, Korea, Ms. Lee made her professional debut at age fourteen with
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the Korean National Orchestra after becoming the youngest grand-prize winner at the prestigious National Competition held by the President of Korea. After coming to the United States on a scholar-ship from the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division in 1972, she continued to win awards, including first prize in the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition and the Juilliard Concerto Competition. Ms. Lee holds bachelor of music and master of music degrees from the Juilliard School and an artist diploma from the New England Conservatory, studying with Martin Canin and Russell Sherman, respectively. She has released compact discs on the Bridge, Etcetera, EDI, Northeastern, and BCMS labels.
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