Yale Brass Trio, February 17, 2019

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Yale Brass Trio Allan Dean, trumpet, William Purvis, horn, and Scott Hartman, trombone with Mihae Lee, piano Sunday, February 17, 2019 | 7:30 pm | Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall

Michael Praetorius 1571–1621 ed. & arr. Allan Dean

Dance Suite from Terpsichore (1612) I. Ballet de Grenoville II. Two Courantes III. Pavane de Spaigne IV. La BourĂŠe V. Three Bransles VI. Volte Allan Dean, trumpet William Purvis, horn Scott Hartman, trombone Eric Rizzo, trumpet Carol Jantsch, tuba

Bert Appermont b. 1973

Colors for trombone and piano (1998) I. Yellow II. Red III. Blue IV. Green Scott Hartman, trombone Daniel Overly, piano

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Program, cont.

Anthony Plog b. 1947

Trio for Brass (1996) Part 1 I. Allegro vivace II. Andante III. Allegro moderato Part 2 IV. Adagio V. Allegro vivace Allan Dean, flugelhorn William Purvis, horn Scott Hartman, trombone

intermission

Joseph Ott 1929–1990

Chroma IV for trumpet and tape (1977) Allan Dean, trumpet

Peter Maxwell Davies 1934–2016

Sea Eagle for solo horn (1982) I. Adagio II. Lento III. Presto molto William Purvis, horn

Pierre Gabaye 1930–2000

Récréation for trumpet, horn, trombone, and piano (1958) I. Allegretto II. Largo III. Presto Allan Dean, trumpet William Purvis, horn Scott Hartman, trombone Mihae Lee, piano

Artist Profiles Allan Dean, trumpet

William Purvis, horn

Allan Dean, Professor of Trumpet (adjunct) at the Yale School of Music, is a member of the St. Louis Brass and the Yale Brass Trio. He performed with the New York Brass Quintet for eighteen years and the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble for ten years while active in the New York concert and recordings fields. Dean was a founding member of the Summit Brass and played with the ensemble for thirty-one years. In 1982 he joined the faculty at Indiana University and moved back east in 1988 to join the Yale School of Music faculty. Involved in Baroque and Renaissance music performed on original instruments, Dean is a founding member of Calliope: A Renaissance Band, as well as the New York Cornet and Sacbut Ensemble. He performs and teaches each summer at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. He can be heard playing both modern trumpet and early brass on more than eighty recordings for major labels including RCA, Columbia, Nonesuch, and Summit.

Dean lives in Monterey, Mass., with his wife Julie Shapiro, an artist, and his daughter Essy, a writer and recent graduate of Susquehanna University.

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 works

by Peter Lieberson, Bayan Northcott, Krzysztof Penderecki, Paul Lansky, Poul Ruders, Steven Stucky, and Elliott Carter.

He is a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Yale Brass Trio, and the Triton Horn Trio, and is an emeritus member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. A frequent guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Boston Chamber Music Society, Purvis 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.

A Grammy Award winner, Purvis has recorded extensively on numerous labels including Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, Naxos, Koch and Bridge. He is currently Professor in the Practice of Horn and Chamber Music at the Yale School of Music, where he is also Coordinator of Winds and Brasses, and serves as Director of the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments.

Artist Profiles, cont.

Scott Hartman, trombone

Mihae Lee, piano

Scott Hartman heads the trombone department at the Yale School of Music. He is a founding member of the Yale Brass Trio, Proteus 7, and Four of a Kind and is also a member of the Summit Brass, the Brass Band of Battle Creek, and the Millennium Brass. He began his chamber music career as a member of the famed Empire Brass.

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 Philharmonic, Academia Nationale de Santa Cecilia in Rome, Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall, and Taipei National Hall. An active chamber musician, Ms. Lee is a founding member of the Triton Horn Trio and was an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society for three decades. She has appeared frequently at numerous international music festivals including Dubrovnik, Amsterdam, Groningen, Medellin Festicamara, Great Woods, Seattle, OK Mozart, Mainly Mozart, Music from Angel Fire, El Paso, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, Chamber Music Northwest, Rockport, Sebago-Long Lake, Bard, Norfolk, Mostly Music, Music Mountain, and Chestnut Hill Concerts. In addition, 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 Juilliard, 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. Ms. Lee is often heard over the airwaves on National Public Radio’s Performance Today, and on other stations around the country. First prizewinner at the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition, Ms. Lee received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The

As a chamber musician and soloist, Hartman has been a featured performer with many major orchestras in the United States, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra and many others.

Abroad, Hartman has been a soloist with such orchestras as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, Caracas Symphony Orchestra, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, and the Korean Symphony Orchestra in Seoul.

Each summer, Hartman performs and coaches brass chamber music at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Chautauqua Music Festival, and Raphael Mendez Institute.

In addition to teaching and performing, Hartman runs a publishing company for brass music, Firebird Editions, and has developed and produces his own line of Hartman mouthpieces. >> slushpump.com

Juilliard School and her artist diploma from the New England Conservatory, studying with Martin Canin and Russell Sherman. Currently Artistic Director of the Essex Winter Series in Connecticut and Music Director of the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival in Maine, she has released recordings on the Bridge, Etcetera, EDI, Northeastern, and BCMS labels.

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