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Concerts in March 2011

An Evening of Music by Karén Hakobyan at Carnegie Hall

Tuesday, March 1 2011 at 8:00 PM | Weill Recital
Hall at Carnegie Hall (
154 West 57th Street)

Presented by The Charles & Agnes Kazarian Foundation

Tickets from $22 - $42. Tickets can be purchased at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, CarnegieCharge (212) 247-7800 or online at www.carnegiehall.org

Performers:

Karén Hakobyan, piano and composition

Christine Carter, clarinet/bass clarinet

Emi Ferguson, flute/alto flute

Katharine Dain, soprano

Guillaume Molko, violin

Gabriel Escudero, piano

Stani Dimitrova, violin I

Clara Lyon, violin II

Kim Mai Nguyen, viola

Amber Docters Van Leeuwen, cello

Program:

Chamber and Instrumental Works by Karén Hakobyan (including World, US, and NY Premieres)                            

visit www.karenhakobyan.com or http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_17251.html?selecteddate=03012011 for additional information about the concert

154 West 57th Street, New York

Suite Populaire Espagnole   Manuel de Falla

Six Icelandic Folk Tunes, Op. 6   Helgi Palsson (1899 – 1964)

Sonata for violin and piano in G Major   Maurice Ravel

Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets

Our first collaboration with a cappella choir Bella Voce was a huge success, not to mention Chicago's only performance of Monteverdi's Vespers in their 400th anniversary year. This season we will team up again to perform some fantastic works by Handel and Vivaldi. Each composer wrote a setting of Dixit Dominus and we will perform them both, along with concertos by Vivaldi and Corelli. This is some of the most exciting choral music ever written and the Callipygian Players will add to the fireworks.

1000 Elm St, Glenview

Our first collaboration with a cappella choir Bella Voce was a huge
success, not to mention Chicago's only performance of Monteverdi's
Vespers in their 400th anniversary year. This season we will team up
again to perform some fantastic works by Handel and Vivaldi. Each
composer wrote a setting of Dixit Dominus and we will perform them both,
along with concertos by Vivaldi and Corelli. This is some of the most
exciting choral music ever written and the Callipygian Players will add
to the fireworks.

205 E. Randolph Dr., Chicago

Elena Urioste, one of the most
sought-after young violinists in the country, will join the University of
Chicago Symphony Orchestra on its upcoming program in partnership with The
Soviet Arts Experience, "The Decade of The Great Patriotic War," for one night
only:  Saturday, March 5 at 8 p.m.
in Mandel Hall.  Urioste, who will
perform Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, replaces Hahn-Bin, who
canceled his performance due to tendonitis.  Myaskovsky's Symphony No. 22 in B minor, "Symphonic Ballad", opens
the program.  This concert
concludes a weeklong residency during which Urioste will engage with the campus
and surrounding community in outreach endeavors.

Urioste made her Chicago debut with
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in April 2010 with a performance of Vaughan
Williams' The Lark Ascending, which
earned her praise from John von Rhein, Chicago
Tribute
, ("The gifted young violinist, Elena
Urioste, in her Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut, charmed the audience with her
lyrical sensitivity."), Andrew Patner, Chicago
Sun-Times
, (
"If
anyone has played solo pianissimos at Orchestra Hall with the hypnotic delicacy
that Urioste offered, I must have been away. Let's hear her again soon."), and
Lawrence A. Johnson, Chicago Classical
Review,
("From
the hushed rustle of her opening bars, the 23-year old violinist played with
inward delicacy and expressive poise, her communicative performance aided by
the sweet, penetrating sound of the $18 million "Vieuxtemps" Guarneri, on loan
from the Stradivari Society for these concerts.").

 

Elena Urioste, featured on the
cover of Symphony magazine as an
emerging artist to watch, has been hailed by critics and audiences alike for
her lush tone, the nuanced lyricism of her playing, and her commanding stage
presence.  Since first appearing
with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age thirteen, she has made acclaimed debuts
with major orchestras throughout the United States, including the Cleveland
Orchestra, the Boston Pops, the Buffalo Philharmonic, and the Atlanta,
Baltimore, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Richmond, San Antonio, and Sarasota symphony
orchestras.  In Europe, she has
appeared with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Hungary's Orchestra
Dohnányi Budafok.  Urioste is a
graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Joseph
Silverstein, Pamela Frank, and Ida Kavafian.  She completed graduate studies with Joel Smirnoff at The
Juilliard School.


Admission to "The Decade of The
Great Patriotic War" will be collected at the door ($10 adults/$5 students and
children under 12).  For more
information, call 773.702.8069 or visit music.uchicago.edu/events. Mandel Hall
is located at 1131 E. 57th Street in Hyde Park, Chicago.  

Elena Urioste's appearance with the
University Symphony Orchestra is sponsored in part by the Center for the Study
of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago.

The 100-member University Symphony
Orchestra presents an ambitious season of six major concerts per year. The
Department of Music's thirteen performance program ensembles present over a
hundred stimulating and varied concerts each year.

1131 E. 57th Street Hyde Park, Chicago Martigny, Switzerland
March 06, 2011 19:30
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

Dixit Dominus

Our first collaboration with a cappella choir Bella Voce was a huge success, not to mention Chicago's only performance of Monteverdi's Vespers in their 400th anniversary year. This season we will team up again to perform some fantastic works by Handel and Vivaldi. Each composer wrote a setting of Dixit Dominus and we will perform them both, along with concertos by Vivaldi and Corelli. This is some of the most exciting choral music ever written and the Callipygian Players will add to the fireworks.

5850 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago

Peregi Verbunk, Op. 40   Leó Weiner (1885 – 1960)

Arlequin for solo clarinet   Louis Cahuzac (1880 – 1960)

Sonata No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 120   Johannes Brahms

Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets

with Ann Arbor Symphony, conductor Arie Lipsky

Irving Fine's "Partita for Winds" (Amilee Watkins, flute; Amy Wierenga, oboe; Grover Edwards, clarinet; Michael Sayre, horn; and Nisreen Nor, bassoon)Eric Ewazen's "Ballade, Pastorale and Dance" (Barbara Lakota, flute; Dan Schulze, horn; and Robelyn Schrade-James, piano) Piano works by Manuel DeFallas'("Fantasia Baetica") Komitas Vadapet ("Garun A" ), and Igor Stravinsky ("Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka") (Karine Poghosyan, piano)Suggested contribution of $10 at the door.

230 East 60th Street New York, NY
March 13, 2011 20:00
Festival Solistes de demain, Moulin, France

Chamber music Recital

Moulin, France

Toccata in B-flat Major, Op. 11   Muzio Clementi

Moment musicaux, D. 780 No. 2   Franz Schubert

Sonata No. 11 in B-flat Major, Op. 22   Ludwig van Beethoven

Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets

Lucy Crowe - Soprano
Harry Bicket - Guest Director

You won't want to miss one of Britain's most exciting young sopranos, the heavenly Lucy Crowe, who will join Baroque band between her performances in Hercules at Lyric Opera.

"Lucy Crowe dazzles with her every appearance, a young singer extravagantly blessed with look-at-me-and-listen charisma..." Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times

Harry Bicket, Artistic Director of the world-renowned period-instrument orchestra The English Concert, will join the Band as Guest Director. The program will feature all-time favorite baroque opera arias, including Cleopatra's great lament, Se pieta (If you feel no pity), and the dazzling Da tempeste (Ravaged by storms), from Handel's Giulio Cesare.

Lucy Crowe - Soprano
Harry Bicket - Guest Director


You won't want to miss one of Britain's most exciting young sopranos, the heavenly Lucy Crowe, who will join Baroque band between her performances in Hercules at Lyric Opera.


"Lucy Crowe dazzles with her every appearance, a young singer extravagantly blessed with look-at-me-and-listen charisma..." Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times
Harry Bicket, Artistic Director of the world-renowned period-instrument orchestra The English Concert, will join the Band as Guest Director. The program will feature all-time favorite baroque opera arias, including Cleopatra's great lament, Se pieta (If you feel no pity), and the dazzling Da tempeste (Ravaged by storms), from Handel's Giulio Cesare.

Cellist Iris van Eck & pianist Kemal Gekic play Beethoven, Bridge, Villa Lobos and Dohnányi

contact www.chameleonmusicians.org

221 S.W. 3rd Avenue Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312 (Valet parking available for a small fee)
March 20, 2011 19:30
Symphony Center, Grainger Ballroom, Chicago

Heavenly Angel

Lucy Crowe - Soprano

Harry Bicket - Guest Director

You won't want to miss one of Britain's most exciting young sopranos, the heavenly Lucy Crowe, who will join Baroque band between her performances in Hercules at Lyric Opera.

"Lucy Crowe dazzles with her every appearance, a young singer extravagantly blessed with look-at-me-and-listen charisma..." Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times
Harry Bicket, Artistic Director of the world-renowned period-instrument orchestra The English Concert, will join the Band as Guest Director. The program will feature all-time favorite baroque opera arias, including Cleopatra's great lament, Se pieta (If you feel no pity), and the dazzling Da tempeste (Ravaged by storms), from Handel's Giulio Cesare.

English Suite No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807   Johann Sebastian Bach

Fantasy in C Major, Op. 15, "The Wanderer Fantasy"   Franz Schubert

Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets Via Roma, Verona, Italia

Stephen Cook will perform an eclectic program of French, Russian and American music at the Knights of Pythias Hall as a preview to his final Doctoral recital at ASU.

The program will include Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit and Stravinsky's Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka. These epic works are monuments of the piano literature and legendary among pianists for their extreme technical difficulty.
In addition, Stephen will perform a recent ...work by Emmy Award winning Los Angeles composer Stephen Cohn entitled Seven Dances. Mr. Cohn was recently praised in the Huffington Post for his new Quartet entitled Winter Soul. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rodney-punt/the-eclipse-quartet-and-i_b_815966.html
Cook has also worked closely with Stephen Cohn on two of his other visionary piano works: A Warrior's Paradox and Moods of A Goddess.


Program:

Maurice Ravel-
Sonatine
Gaspard de la Nuit

Stephen Cohn-
Seven Dances

Igor Stravinsky-
Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka

Reception will follow!
admission is free

For more information, please visit:
www.stephenbcook.com
www.youtube.com/sbcpianist

to find out more about composer Stephen Cohn, please visit:
www.stephencohn.com

1606 E. Apache Bldv. Tempe, AZ 85281

Monday, Mar. 28,  2pm
and 7:30pm

Roman Rabinovich piano
Dmitri Berlinsky
violin    

HAYDN  Divertimento a tré in Eb Major Hob. IV:5 • 1767
  • musicologist Karl Geiringer noted of this trio that "the horn has some
really interesting technical problems to master, and occasionally the
instrument's role as the ardent singer of Romanticism is foreshadowed" ~
written for Printser, a horn virtuoso in the court orchestra at Esterházy

Georg-Friedrich FUCHS  Duo for clarinet and horn Op. 5 • 1793
  • Haydn and Christian Cannabich taught composition to the German-born French clarinettist, who became the highest-ranking musician in the Garde
Nationale the year he wrote this duo

MOZART  Piano Trio in C Major K. 548 • 1788
  • composed in the same period as his last 3 symphonies at the peak of his creativity, it anticipates the "Jupiter" Symphony

Robert KAHN  Serenade in F Minor Op. 72 • 1923
  • radiates with the influence of Brahms whom he met in 1887 ~ for piano,
clarinet and cello

Arnold SCHOENBERG  Verklärte Nacht "Transfigured Night" Op. 4
1899
  • dense, lush Romanticism from the Modernist composer before he abandoned tonality, in a superb transcription for piano trio done in 1932 by his pupil Edward Steuermann ~ based on a poem of Richard Dehmel, the programmatic music captures the despair, angst, love, nobility and radiance of the story of a couple in love walking through the woods on a moonlit night, the woman's confession that she is bearing the child of another man she never loved, and the man's acceptance of both woman and unborn child as his own, transforming all from darkness to light

152 W 66th st , NYC

Seven Variations on the Theme, "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen" WoO 46   Ludwig van Beethoven

5 Stücke im Volkston for Cello and Piano, Op. 102   Robert Schumann

Polonaise for Cello and Piano, in A Major B. 94   Antonín Dvořák

Chicago Cultural Center Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets

Claude Debussy Petite Suite (1889); Jules Godefroid Grand Fantaisie for two harps; Carlos Salzedo Pentacle Suite (1928) for two harps; harp solos by Marcel Grandjany and Carlos Salzedo.

5339 Chamblee Dunwoody Road Dunwoody, Georgia 30338-4148