Sunday, September 13, 2009, 3:00
p.m.
The
Forum, Decker College Center at McDaniel College
SEPTEMBER SONATA
with David Kreider, piano
and Nicholas Currie, violin
David Kreider's performances have frequently graced
Chamber Music on the Hill. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts
from The Catholic University of America, studied piano in
Vienna, and presented debut recitals in London, Vienna, and
Carnegie Recital Hall. He teaches at McDaniel College, where
he is a senior lecturer in piano.
Nicholas
Currie is Principal Second
of Concert Artists of Baltimore, and Concertmaster of the
Mid-Atlantic Symphony. Soloist, chamber musician, and a
member of the Azimuth Quartet, he is a graduate of the
Peabody Conservatory of Music and has studied at the
American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France.
They will perform César Franck's Sonata for Violin and Piano in A
Major, Claude Debussy's
last work, his Sonata for
Violin and Piano, and
Phanos Dymiotis' Elegie for
Violin and Piano.
Born in Cyprus in 1965 and an honor graduate of Cambridge
University, Dymiotis was Principal Violinist and Composer in
Residence for the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra. A member
of the Mariner String Quartet, and adjunct Music Professor
at McDaniel College, his life and brilliant career
tragically ended in 2007. This concert carries the fond
memories of all who knew this talented, creative and gentle
man and his beautiful Elegie honors him beyond words.
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Sunday, November 8, 2009, 3:00
p.m.
The
Forum, Decker College Center at McDaniel College
ANDREA CASARRUBIOS,
CELLO
and ANDREI LICARET, PIANO
Chamber Music on the Hill presents
Andrea Casarrubios, cello and Andrei Licaret, piano in a
program featuring the music of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert,
Rachmaninoff and others
Recently announced winner of the Yamaha Young Performing
Artists Competition 2009, Andrea Casarrubios has been awared in several competitions
like the First Prize "SOR Solo String Competition" (USA,
2009), First Prize "Baltimore Music Club String Competition"
(USA, 2008), First Prize "Castilla y León Piano
Competition Rio Orbigo"(Spain, 2004), First Prize National
Piano Competition "Rio del Oro" (Spain, 2005). She has won
the cello scholarship of Juventudes Musicales of Spain 2009
and since 2007 she is a recipient of the "Beatrice Feldman
Kahn and Raymond S. Kahn Endowed Cello Scholarship" to study
for a Bachelor's degree in cello performance at the Peabody
Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore,
USA) with Professor Amit Peled.
Andrea was born in Spain, in 1988. She began her piano
studies at the age of two with composer and pianist
María Escribano and studied with her untill 2001.
From 2001- 2007 she studied with Bulgarian pianist Ludmil
Angelov in Toledo (Spain). When she was six Andrea started
to take cello lessons and from 2000 until 2007 she was a
student of Maria de Macedo in Madrid (Spain). During the
year 2007 she also studied with cellist Lluis Claret in
Barcelona (Spain). Andrea is currently on a full
scholarship at the Peabody Conservatory of the John Hopkins
University studying cello with Prof. Amit Peled and piano
with Prof. Seth Knopp.
Andrea has performed in many summer festivals and played in
masterclasess for acclaimed piano and cello teachers like
Leon Fleisher (Peabody Conservatory), Frans Helmerson
("Sion Academy Tibor Varga", Switzerland, 2007 and "Pablo
Casals Festival" , France, 2008), Ralph Kirshbaum, Steven
Doane, Paul Katz (Heifetz Festival 2009), Lluís
Claret, Amit Peled, Asier Polo, Christope Coin, Paulo Gaio
Lima, Daniel Grosgurin ("Spain Violoncello Forum", summers
2000-08). As a winner of the "SOR Solo Competition" she
has been the guest artist invited to perform Schubert's
Arpeggione Sonata (arrangement for cello and orchestra) with
the String Orchestra of the Rockies in Montana in May 2009
and during this past summer she was on a full scholarship at
the Heifetz Institute 2009. Born on 11th September in
Bucharest, Andrei
Licaret was five years old
when he started to learn the piano with his father. He made
his orchestral debut when aged eleven, playing a Mozart
concerto and since then, he has given concerts throughout
Europe (Paris, Enghien, Santander, Alicante, Berlin,
Wurzburg ,Rome, Thessaloniki, Copenhagen, Istanbul, Prague,
St.Gallen, Tel-Aviv) and the USA (New York, Washington,
Boston, Houston, Iowa, New Jersey, Northhampton).
Andrei Licaret has been invited by all the important
romanian orchestras and played under the baton of conductors
such as Cristian Mandeal, Horia Andreescu, Jin Wang, Arnold
Ostman, Arie Vardi, Ilarion Ionescu-Galati , Florentin
Mihaescu. He is a prize winner of several competitions,
among them Jeuness Musicales 1st Prize (1996), Bucharest
Yamaha 1st Prize (2002), Lorry Wallfish Prize (2003), 2nd
Prize in Tel-Hai Competition (2007) and 2nd Prize in
Shreveport Concerto Competition (2008).
His teachers have included Gabriela Enasescu at the George
Enescu Music High-school in Bucharest, Viniciu Moroianu,
Dana Borsan, Dan Dediu(with whom he studied composition) at
Bucharest Conservatory and Jacques Rouvier(in Paris). He has
also been a regular student of Dmitri Baskirov's Mozarteum
master-classes in Salzburg.
Andrei Licaret is a member of the "Henri Coanda" Foundation
and has recorded for the Romanian Radio and the National
Romanian Television.
He is currently studying with Leon Fleisher in Peabody
Conservatory
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Sunday, February 14, 2010, 3:00
p.m.
Scott
Center for the Arts at Carroll Community
College
(Inclement weather date: Sunday, February 21,
3:00p.m, Scott Center)
ROMANCE IN WINTER:
200 YEARS OF ROBERT SCHUMANN
with The Westminster Trio
(David Kreider, Melissa Zaraya, and Esther Mellon)
with: Donald Horneff, piano
Renate Falkner, viola,
Steven Thomas, cello,
Lynn Griffith, French horn,
Evan Walker, tenor
A mainstay of Chamber Music on the
Hill, the Westminster Trio performs extensively in Maryland,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Violinist Melissa Zaraya, long-time member of the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra, is well-known to the Baltimore-Washington area.
She also has performed chamber music extensively in South
America, Spain, and the Far East. Cellist Esther Mellon joined the Buffalo Philharmonic before
coming to the Baltimore Symphony. She has performed at the
Spoleto and Eastern Music Festivals and was recipient of a
grant from the Kennedy Center Committee for Cultural
Diversity in the Arts. David
Kreider is the third member
of the trio.
Pianist Donald
Horneff is a member of the
McDaniel College music faculty teaching piano lab,
harpsichord and electronic music and serves as piano
technician. He has performed extensively throughout the
mid-Atlantic region and is organist at Westminster United
Methodist Church.
Renate Falkner has performed extensively as a chamber and
orchestral musician throughout the US and Europe. She is a
member of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Boston Baroque,
and the Handel & Haydn Society. On faculty at the
Connecticut School of Music, she also teaches and performs
internationally during the summer at music festivals, most
recently in Brazil.
Steven
Thomas, internationally
known as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher, was the
winner of many national competitions in the US and his
native England. Mr. Thomas has performed throughout Europe
and North and South America and returns to Chamber Music on
the Hill after a brilliant performance last season.
Lynn
Griffith has performed with
the Singapore Symphony, the Dallas Chamber Orchestra, the
Irving (Texas) Symphony, and the American Wind Symphony's
Winds on the Moon Quintet. She has been a featured
recitalist at Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA.
Tenor Evan
Walker's performances
include Vaughan Williams' Hodie, solo recitals, and
performances for the Friday Morning Music Club in
Washington, D.C. His studies include the Vienna-based 2006
National Endowment for the Humanities "Mozart's Worlds"
Institute. He is Chair of the Music Department and full-time
singing teacher at Carver Center in Towson.
This commemoration of Robert Schumann will include his
Piano Quartet in E Flat, Op.
47; Andante and Variations for Two
Pianos, Two Cellos, and French Horn, Op.
46; Adagio and Allegro for Piano and French
Horn, Op. 70; and excerpts
from Dichter Liebe,
Op.48.
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Sunday, April 11, 2010, 7:00
p.m.
Little
Baker Chapel at McDaniel College
STRINGS IN SPRING
with The Azimuth String Quartet
Nicholas Currie, violin
James Tung, violin
Alice Tung, viola
Adam Gonzalez, cello
The Azimuth
Quartet recently joined
Carroll Community College as quartet in residence. The
ensemble's vibrant style and musical precision emergeno
matter the genre.
James Tung is the concertmaster for both the Frederick
and the Westminster Symphony Orchestras and is on the music
faculty of Carroll and Frederick Community Colleges.
Alice Tung performs with the Maryland and Frederick
Symphony Orchestras and is Principal Violist of the
Westminster Symphony. She is a member of the music faculty
at McDaniel College.
Adam
Gonzalez is Principal
Cellist of the Mid-Atlantic Symphony. He has taught at
Georgetown University and Montgomery College and was
Director of Instrumental Music at the Waldorf School in
Baltimore.
Included in this concert will be Beethoven's String Quartet, Op. 59; Mozart's String Quartet, K. 465 ("Dissonant"); and Puccini's
Chrysanthemum.
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