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Back to Event + Attraction - Press Releases CIM OPERA THEATER PRESENTS DIE FLEDERMAUS FEBRUARY 28-MARCH 3February 12, 2007 The most popular – and zany – of Viennese operettas, Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus, arrives at CIM in a fully staged production, complete with its irresistible mixture of comedy and champagne, Wednesday, February 28 through Saturday, March 3 at 8:00 p.m. David Bamberger directs the CIM Opera Theater, and guest conductor Harry Davidson will lead the CIM Orchestra.Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students and seniors, and can be purchased online at cim.edu or by calling (216) 791-5000, ext. 411, Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Patrons who present their opera tickets upon ordering at That Place on Bellflower or Sergio’s in University Circle will receive a ten percent discount on their entire order. David Bamberger, artistic director of CIM Opera Theater, has staged more than 150 productions on three continents in styles from grand opera to musicals. A founder of Cleveland Opera, he was the company’s General Director from 1976 to 2004, building it into one of America’s major regional opera companies. He secured The Three Tenors in Concert to celebrate its 25th Anniversary. At the insistence of Jerome Robbins, Mr. Bamberger staged the dialogue scenes for West Side Story, thus gaining permission for Cleveland Opera to be the only opera company in the Western hemisphere permitted to re-create Robbins’ original choreography. Mr. Bamberger’s work from coast to coast ranges from The Barber of Seville at Lincoln Center (New York City Opera) to The Ballad of Baby Doe (Los Angeles Music Center), with such stars as Roberta Peters, Beverly Sills and Sherrill Milnes. For Santiago, Chile, he staged Rigoletto and Lucia di Lammermoor and, for the Israel Vocal Arts Institute, La Bohème and La Cenerentola. In 1990, he represented the opera industry before Congress, testifying in a successful effort to garner support for the National Endowment for the Arts. He has served on the Board of Directors of OPERA America and of the National Alliance for Musical Theater, of which he was a founder. Harry Davidson is Music Director and Conductor of the Duke Symphony Orchestra and Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He made his major orchestra conducting debut in July 2000, leading the National Symphony Orchestra in concert at the Kennedy Center. He has guest-conducted orchestras in Finland and the U.S., including serving as a cover conductor for The Cleveland Orchestra. He has appeared as a guest conductor with the Akron Symphony, Lawton Philharmonic, and Newton Mid-Kansas Symphony Orchestras. In his capacity as Principal Guest Conductor for Opera for the University of Akron, he premiered three new American operas by David Bernstein and led productions of two Puccini operas. Renowned for his work as an educator in connection with youth orchestras and university Orchestral Studies, Mr. Davidson served as Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, leading the ensemble in its participation at the National Festival of Youth Orchestras at Interlochen, Michigan, in June 1998. For more information, call CIM at (216) 791-5000 or visit cim.edu. Wednesday, February 28 at 8:00 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, March 1-3 at 8:00 p.m. Kulas Hall CIM OPERA THEATER Die Fledermaus DAVID BAMBERGER, director THE CIM ORCHESTRA HARRY DAVIDSON, guest conductor The most popular – and zany – of Viennese operettas arrives at CIM in a fully staged production, complete with its irresistible mixture of comedy and champagne. Tickets: $15 adults; $10 students/seniors. For tickets, call (216) 791-5000, ext. 411, Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. or purchase online at cim.edu. CASE SYMPHONIC WINDS, UNIVERSITY CIRCLE WIND ENSEMBLE AND CLEVELAND YOUTH WIND SYMPHONY II TO PERFORM AT SEVERANCE HALL MARCH 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Case Symphonic Winds, the University Circle Wind Ensemble and the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony II, directed by Dr. Gary M. Ciepluch, will present a concert at Severance Hall on Monday, March 5 at 7:30 p.m. The groups will perform works by John Mackey, Ronald A. Nelson, Bernard Gilmore, James Barnes, Steve Reineke, Christopher Tucker, Percy Grainger, John Harbison and Philip Sparke. Tickets are $10 for general admission; $15 for box seats; and $5 for CIM/Case students with ID, and can be obtained by calling the Severance Hall Box Office at 216-231-1111. Dr. Gary M. Ciepluch is director of bands and associate professor at Case Western Reserve University (Case), conductor of the University Circle Wind Ensemble, and founder/music director of the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphonies. To his current positions in the joint music program at Case and CIM, he brings a broad knowledge and background in contemporary wind music and music education. He appears frequently as a clinician and guest conductor in the U.S. and abroad. As a member of the National Band Association, Dr. Ciepluch has served as chairman of the distinguished selection committee for the annual National Band Association Composition Contest. In addition, he is an active member of the College Band Directors National Association and past president of the Ohio Private College Instrumental Conductors Association. For more information, call CIM at (216) 791-5000 or visit cim.edu. Monday, March 5 at 7:30 p.m. Severance Hall 11001 Euclid Avenue CASE SYMPHONIC WINDS, UNIVERSITY CIRCLE WIND ENSEMBLE, CLEVELAND YOUTH WIND SYMPHONY II GARY M. CIEPLUCH, music director JOHN MACKEY Red Line Tango RONALD A. NELSON Aspen Jubilee BERNARD GILMORE Five Folk Songs JAMES BARNES Jubilation Overture STEVE REINEKE Casey at the Bat CHRISTOPHER TUCKER Americans Lost PERCY GRAINGER The Lads of Wamphrey JOHN HARBISON Olympic Dances PHILIP SPARKE Fiesta! Tickets: $10 general admission; $15 box seats; $5 CIM/Case students with ID Call the Severance Hall Box Office at (216) 231-1111. CIM NEW MUSIC SERIES FEATURES VERDEHR TRIO -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Directed by Margaret Brouwer, CIM’s 2006-07 New Music Series brings renowned composers to CIM throughout the year for free performances of their works and interactive discussions of their musical styles and philosophies. The New Music Series is supported in part by The Bascom Little Fund. On Tuesday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m., the renowned Verdehr Trio will coach members of the CIM New Music Ensemble in works commissioned by the Trio. On Wednesday, March 7 at 8:00 p.m., the Trio will perform with the New Music Ensemble. Works include the world premiere of a work by a CIM student composer Michael Bratt, winner of the Verdehr Trio/CIM Composition Competition, and music by Margaret Brouwer, Donald Erb and others. Margaret Brouwer is head of the composition department at CIM and the Vincent K. and Edith H. Smith Chair in Composition. She has received a 2006 Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; a 2005 Ohio Arts Council Individual Fellowship; a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship; the 2003 Ohioana Music Citation; the 1999 Cleveland Arts Prize in composition; and grants from the NEA, Ford Foundation, Knight Foundation, Meet the Composer, Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Indiana Arts Commission. Dr. Brouwer was selected to compose the Ohio Bicentennial commissioned work, premiered by the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in February 2003. Other recent premieres include her percussion concerto, Aurolucent Circles, by Evelyn Glennie and Gerard Schwarz with the Seattle Symphony in 2002 and Pulse by the Roanoke Symphony in 2003. Her Light was performed at the Tanglewood Music Festival in August 2005 and Skyriding at the Contemporary Music Forum in Washington, D.C. in February 2005. An acknowledged leader in the field of new music, the Verdehr Trio for over thirty years has concentrated on molding and defining the personality of the violin-clarinet-piano trio. The Trio includes Walter Verdehr, violin; Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, clarinet; and Silvia Roederer, piano. Over the years, the Trio has created a large repertoire by commissioning more than 170 new works from some of the world’s most prominent and exciting composers - known and unknown, young and old, from this country and abroad. The Verdehr Trio has performed throughout the world: in seventeen European countries, the former Soviet Union, in South and Central America as well as in Asia, Australia and in all but two of the United States. Among major concert halls where the Trio has appeared are Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Library of Congress, Vienna’s Brahmssaal, Sydney Opera House, London’s Wigmore Hall, Auditorio de Madrid, Dvorak Hall in Prague, IRCAM Centre in Paris and Leningrad’s Philharmonic Chamber Hall. The Trio has also played at various international festivals - the Spoleto Festival, Prague Spring Festival, the Vienna Spring Festival, Warsaw Autumn, the Grand Teton Music Festival and at numerous international clarinet festivals. The Trio received a Creative Programming Award from Chamber Music America. The Verdehr Trio is in residence at Michigan State University. An article about the Trio appears in the new Groves Dictionary of Music and the Trio won an Adventuresome Programming Award from ASCAP and Chamber Music America. For more information, call CIM at (216) 791-5000 or visit cim.edu. Tuesday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m. FREE Studio 113 CIM NEW MUSIC SERIES THE VERDEHR TRIO, guest artists WALTER VERDEHR, violin ELSA LUDEWIG-VERDEHR, clarinet SILVIA ROEDERER, piano The renowned Verdehr Trio will coach members of the CIM New Music Ensemble in works commissioned by the Trio. Wednesday, March 7 at 8:00 p.m. FREE Kulas Hall CIM NEW MUSIC SERIES CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT CIM NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE THE VERDEHR TRIO, guest artists World premiere by a CIM student composer, winner of The Verdehr Trio/CIM Composition Competition, and music by Margaret Brouwer, Donald Erb and others. VIEAUX PERFORMS IN GUITARS INTERNATIONAL GUITAR WEEKEND -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guitars International, in cooperation with CIM, presents a concentrated series of outstanding artists in performances and master classes Friday, March 9 through Sunday, March 11. Guitar Weekend includes several concerts and master classes. The full schedule is available at cim.edu or by contacting Guitars International at 216-752-7502 or www.guitarsint.com. On Saturday, March 10 at 1:00 p.m., CIM guitar department Head Jason Vieaux will present a free master class to CIM students and non-students. Mr. Vieaux will present a free recital on Sunday, March 11 at 4:00 p.m., featuring works by Orbon, J.S. Bach, Leo Brouwer and Albeniz. Jason Vieaux received a Bachelor of Music degree from CIM as a student of John Holmquist. Mr. Vieaux already has eight recordings to his credit; Vieaux CDs have been given high praise by Gramophone, American Record Guide and Penguin Guide. His latest Azica Records release, Sevilla: The Music of Isaac Albeniz, reached #2 on the Amazon.com Classical Bestseller List, and was rated one of the Top Ten Classical CDs of 2003 by The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Plain Dealer. Since National Public Radio’s Performance Today program selected him as a 2002 Young Artist-in-Residence, Mr. Vieaux has been regularly aired on the top-rated show. He has also been featured on other NPR programs. Mr. Vieaux began guitar studies at age eight in Buffalo, New York. In 1992 he became the youngest first-prize winner in the history of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America International Competition. He is a Naumburg International Guitar Competition prize winner and a recipient of CIM’s Alumni Achievement Award. In 1995, Mr. Vieaux was honored as an Artistic Ambassador of the U.S. to Southeast Asia. He has also toured Spain, France, Mexico, Canada and New Zealand. He is regularly featured with orchestras across the U.S., and has performed concertos with orchestras including The Cleveland Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Santa Fe Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Iris Chamber Orchestra and Auckland Philharmonia. An active performer of new music, he has premièred works by José Luis Merlin, Eric Sessler, Arthur Hernandez and Fazil Say. Saturday, March 10 at 1:00 p.m. FREE Studio 113 GUITAR WEEKEND MASTER CLASS JASON VIEAUX, guitar Sunday, March 11 at 4:00 p.m. FREE Kulas Hall GUITAR WEEKEND FACULTY RECITAL JASON VIEAUX, guitar ORBON Preludio y Danza J.S. BACH Prelude, Fugue and Allegro, BWV 998 LEO BROUWER El Decameron Negro J.S. BACH Lute Suite No. 2, BWV 997 ALBENIZ Cuba ALBENIZ Asturias A full schedule of Guitar Weekend events is available at www.guitarsint.com or by calling 216-752-7502. SCHULZE AND NISHIMURA PERFORM DUO-PIANO RECITAL MARCH 18 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sunday, March 18 at 4:00 p.m., CIM Preparatory piano faculty members Sean Schulze and Derek Nishimura will perform a duo-piano recital that is free and open to the public. Works by Bach/Babin, Franck/Gruen, Borodin/Babin, Debussy and Rachmaninov are scheduled to be performed. Sean Schulze is chairman of Preparatory piano department at CIM. He received a Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum laude, and Master of Music degree, cum laude, from the University of Natal (South Africa), and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Arizona. He studied piano with Moira Birks and Isabella Stengel, two of the foremost pedagogues in South Africa; Nicholas Zumbro and Paula Fan. Additional studies were undertaken with Caio Pagano and Martin Canin at the Bowdoin Summer Festival. Dr. Schulze was the winner of the Oude Meester Music Prize, the University of Natal Performer’s Competition, and the University of Arizona Concerto Competition. He was also a prize winner in the Green Valley Piano Competition. He has performed as a soloist with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Eastern Arizona Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed solo and chamber recitals in the U.S., South Africa, Mexico, Ecuador and Brazil. Dr. Schulze was awarded a Rural Residency Award by Chamber Music America, resulting in performance and outreach work throughout the Southwestern U.S., was invited to perform at the Alamos Arts Festival and toured Mexico with violinist Luca Ciarla through an outreach initiative sponsored by the Arizona Commission on the Arts. In 2003, he was invited to perform and teach at the University of Rio de Janeiro and the University of Natal. His students have received numerous scholarships and awards through competition. Dr. Schulze has served as adjudicator for contests at the state and local levels. A research paper by Dr. Schulze was published in the Beethoven Journal in 2004. He is a member of the College Music Society and the Music Teachers National Association. Derek Nishimura received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from CIM, studying piano with Vitya Vronsky, Paul Schenly and Olga Radosavljevich. Upon graduation, he was awarded the William Kurzban Award for Outstanding Achievement and Excellence in Piano. Mr. Nishimura began serious piano studies at the age of fourteen. Three years later, he won the Hawaii Young Artist Competition, which resulted in his debut with the Honolulu Symphony playing Chopin’s First Piano Concerto in E Minor. In 1991 Mr. Nishimura studied at the Vienna Hochschule für Musik. He also attended the Royal College of Music in London, England, The Juilliard School and Mannes College in New York, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and the Paris Conservatoire. He has performed with members of The Cleveland Orchestra, the Ohio Chamber Orchestra and the Kamaaina Chamber Players, comprised of members of the Honolulu Symphony. His solo concerts have taken him to Austria, England, Italy, Japan, and throughout the United States. For more information, call CIM at (216) 791-5000 or visit cim.edu. Sunday, March 18 at 4:00 p.m. FREE Kulas Hall FACULTY DUO-PIANO RECITAL SEAN SCHULZE, piano DEREK NISHIMURA, piano BACH/BABIN Trio Sonata in E-flat Major, BWV 525 FRANCK/GRUEN Prelude, Fugue and Variations BORODIN/BABIN Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor DEBUSSY Petite Suite RACHMANINOV Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17 MARCH 21 RECITAL FEATURES ANGELL, DeMIO, JACKOBS, KANTOR, PONTREMOLI AND CURRY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wednesday, March 21 at 8:00 p.m., CIM faculty members, along with guest cellist Ralph Curry, will present a recital that is free and open to the public. Faculty members include double bassist Lawrence Angell; pianist Elizabeth DeMio; violist Mark Jackobs; violinist Paul Kantor; and pianist Anita Pontremoli. Works by J.C. Bach, Bloch, Schubert and J.S. Bach will be performed. Lawrence Angell received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Eastman School of Music with special honors in performance. He was principal double bass of The Cleveland Orchestra (retired) and served as head of CIM’s double bass department from 1969 until 1999. He was also head of the double bass department at Oberlin Conservatory from 1975 until 1990. A student of Oscar Zimmerman, he served as a faculty and artist member and music director of the Scotia Chamber Players in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and as a faculty member and chamber music coach at ENCORE School for Strings, the Florida Music Festival in Sarasota and the Kent/Blossom School of Music. Former students are members of major orchestras, including Los Angeles, Metropolitan Opera and Philadelphia. Collaborations include Lynn Harrell, James Levine, Sacha Schneider, Walter Trampler, Arnold Steinhardt, and the Cleveland Quartet. He often performs new music, including Bass Piece, composed for him by Donald Erb. Mr. Angell has served as contest adjudicator for ASTA and ISB. He has conducted master classes and coached chamber music ensembles throughout the U.S. and abroad. Elizabeth DeMio is a member of the collaborative piano faculty at CIM. She received a Bachelor of Music degree from CIM and a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan. Teachers have included Vitya Vronsky and Theodore Lettvin. She is well-known as a collaborative pianist, recitalist and soloist in the Cleveland area, and has appeared in more than 100 concerts annually with local aspiring musicians. She appears frequently with soloists such as Randolph Kelly, John Mack, John Clouser, Sungzhin Lee and has appeared in tours and given master classes in several cities in the U.S., Korea and Mexico. She performs often as a soloist with the Trinity Cathedral Chamber Orchestra, a group in Cleveland following the tradition of daytime concerts in the great cathedrals of London. She has performed 20 Mozart concerti and the five Beethoven concerti as well as Schumann, Mendelssohn, Ravel and others with the Trinity Cathedral Chamber Orchestra. She has appeared as soloist for the Orquesta Sinfonica de Veracruz and the Orquesta de la UNAM in Mexico, and can be heard as a recording artist on the Crystal and Azica labels, most recently with works by Samuel Adler and soon-to-be released CD with works by Bernard Garfield with John Clouser as soloist. She also serves on the staff of the ENCORE School for Strings. Mark Jackobs is a member of the viola faculty at CIM. He is fourth chair viola of The Cleveland Orchestra. Mr. Jackobs joined the Orchestra in 1993 and holds the Jean Wall Bennett Chair. Previously, he served for three years as fourth chair in the Pittsburgh Symphony, under Lorin Maazel. Mr. Jackobs also serves on the faculty of the ENCORE School for Strings. He has given recital and chamber music performances in the Reinberger Chamber Music Series at Severance Hall; with the Myriad Ensemble; and at the summer festivals of Aspen, Edinburgh, Mainly Mozart, American, Heidelberg Schlosspeile, Interlochen and Kent/Blossom. Mr. Jackobs has been an adjunct faculty member of the Peabody Conservatory of Music and the Oberlin Conservatory. He has given master classes at CIM, the Peabody Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, University of Colorado at Boulder, The Music Institute of Chicago, Ohio Viola Society, Rocky Mountain Viola Society and the Interlochen Arts Camp. Mr. Jackobs received a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and an Artist Diploma from CIM. He is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy. Teachers include Rosemary Malocsay at the Interlochen Arts Academy, William Preucil, Sr. at the University of Iowa, Heidi Castleman at the Eastman School of Music and Robert Vernon at CIM. Paul Kantor is the Eleanor H. Biggs Memorial Distinguished Professor of Violin at CIM. He received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School. Mr. Kantor’s principal teachers include Margaret Graves, Dorothy DeLay and Robert Mann. He served as chair of the string department at the University of Michigan for 13 years and has served on the faculties of The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory and Yale University. For the past 25 years, he has been an artist/faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival and School, where he was concertmaster of both the Festival Orchestra and Chamber Symphony. Mr. Kantor has performed with the New York String Quartet, the Berkshire Chamber Players, the Lenox Quartet and the National Musical Arts Chamber Ensemble. He served as concertmaster of the New Haven Symphony, Aspen Chamber Symphony, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, and Great Lakes Festival Orchestra and as guest concertmaster of the New Japan Philharmonic and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. He has performed the world premieres of Dan Welcher’s Violin Concerto and John Corigliano’s Red Violin Caprices. His recordings are on the Equilibrium, CRI, Delos and Mark Records. Anita Pontremoli is head of the collaborative piano department at CIM. Ms. Pontremoli received a Bachelor of Music degree in piano from CIM and completed special studies in piano literature and chamber music at Yale University College of Music and the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milano, Italy. She has performed with internationally renowned artists including Lynn Harrell, Arnold Steinhardt, Aaron Rosand and Dale Clevenger, as well as Cleveland Orchestra artists and gifted younger musicians entering outstanding careers. She is also the head of collaborative piano for the ENCORE School for Strings and the Scotia Festival of Music in Halifax, Canada. She employs results-oriented teaching methods, including collaborative and solo piano, as well as intensive coaching in chamber music and special studies in contemporary music and the works of women composers. She has had many successful students who have gone on to active careers in the U.S. and abroad. Her recordings include Impresiones Intimas, the first of a projected five CDs of the complete piano music of Federico Mompou (Centaur Records) and the Duo Pontremoli Sonatas by Amy Beach and Grazyna Bacewicz. Cellist Ralph Curry joined The Cleveland Orchestra in 1978, following positions with the New York Philharmonic and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. A native of Pittsburgh, Mr. Curry studied with Stephen Geber and Ralph Newkirk at CIM, and later participated in the Music Assistance Fund’s fellowship program. His career has included solo appearances, master class performances for Mstislav Rostopovich, Janos Starker and Zara Nelsova, and chamber music performances with the Severance Trio and the Amici String Quartet. For more information, call CIM at (216) 791-5000 or visit cim.edu. Wednesday, March 21 at 8:00 p.m. FREE Kulas Hall FACULTY RECITAL LAWRENCE ANGELL, double bass ELIZABETH DeMIO, piano MARK JACKOBS, viola PAUL KANTOR, violin ANITA PONTREMOLI, piano RALPH CURRY, cello, guest artist J.C. BACH Adagio BLOCH Schelomo SCHUBERT Quintet For Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass In A Major, D. 667 “The Trout” J.S. BACH Sarabande from Suite No. 5 for Cello Solo CAROLYN GADIEL WARNER AND FRIENDS PERFORM AT CIM MARCH 23 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carolyn Gadiel Warner, member of the violin and keyboard sections of The Cleveland Orchestra and of the CIM chamber music faculty, will collaborate with CIM faculty, students and guest artists in a free concert on Friday, March 23 at 8:00 p.m. The program, “Carolyn Warner and Friends IV,” will be presented in honor of Lamson & Sessions. Works by Ravel/Warner, Hindemith and Dvořák will be performed. Ms. Warner will appear with her husband, guest violinist Stephen Warner, as The Cleveland Duo. Both are members of The Cleveland Orchestra. They will be joined by guest saxophonist James Umble. Additional performers include Peter Salaff, director of string chamber music at CIM; Joanna Patterson, guest violinist and member of The Cleveland Orchestra; and guest cellist Adi Tal. Carolyn Gadiel Warner is a member of the chamber music faculty at CIM. A native of Canada, she began her musical studies at the piano at age 3. Later taking up the violin, she graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto in both instruments and earned Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in piano and violin, respectively, from the University of Toronto. Her postgraduate education includes three years at the Paris Conservatory of Music under Canada Council and French Government scholarships from which she graduated with a first prize in 1975. Before joining the violin and keyboard sections of The Cleveland Orchestra in 1979, where she now holds the Marc Swartzbaugh Endowed Assistant Keyboard Chair, she served for four years in both capacities with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. She has performed on numerous occasions as piano soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra, and as a member of the keyboard section is called upon to perform on the piano, celesta, harpsichord, organ, harmonium and synthesizer. During her years abroad, Ms. Warner performed over Radio-France in both Paris and Lyons and spent two summers as a performing member (in both instruments) of an international festival in Grasse, France. She is a founding member, with her husband, violinist Stephen Warner, of The Cleveland Duo and of The Cleveland Duo and James Umble, noted classical saxophonist, both of which groups perform actively throughout North America. She has transcribed numerous musical scores of Ravel, Bartók, Piazzolla, Gershwin, Satie, and John Adams, among others, for the trio and has secured exclusive performance and recording rights to these adaptations. She can be heard with both ensembles on the Cappella, Dana and Klavier labels. For more information, call CIM at (216) 791-5000 or visit cim.edu. Friday, March 23 at 8:00 p.m. FREE Kulas Hall FACULTY RECITAL CAROLYN WARNER AND FRIENDS IV THE CLEVELAND DUO CAROLYN GADIEL WARNER, piano STEPHEN WARNER, violin, guest artist JAMES UMBLE, saxophone, guest artist PETER SALAFF, violin JOANNA PATTERSON, viola, guest artist ADI TAL, cello, guest artist RAVEL/WARNER Tombeau de Couperin for Violin, Soprano Saxophone and Piano HINDEMITH Trio for Tenor Saxophone, Viola and Piano, Op. 47 DVOŘÁK Quintet for Two Violins, Viola, Cello and Piano in A Major, Op. 81 Presented in honor of Lamson & Sessions KARL LO PRESENTS ALL-SCHUBERT PROGRAM AT CIM MARCH 25 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sunday, March 25 at 4:00 p.m., CIM theory and piano faculty member Karl Lo will present a free recital featuring works by Schubert. Included in the program will be Sonata in G Major, D. 894; Sonata in A Major, D. 664; and Fantasy in C Major, D. 760, “Wanderer Fantasie.” Karl Lo is a member of the theory faculty at CIM, as well as a Preparatory Division piano instructor. Dr. Lo received a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from CIM. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and the Academy for Performing Arts in Hong Kong. Teachers have included Paul Schenly, Daniel Shapiro, Monique Duphil, Boris Lysenko and John Winther. He was grand-prize winner in the Canadian Music Competition; he also received second prize in the Chopin Competition (New York) and Kosciuszko Competition. He was named a Liberace Scholar for three consecutive years, and received college prizes including the Dean’s Talent Award, William Kurzban Prize in Piano, Arthur Loesser Prize in Piano, Louis Kaufman Prize in Chamber Music and the Piano Faculty Prize in Accompanying. He has performed solo and collaborative recitals across the U.S., Canada, Venezuela and China, and as soloist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Lo has performed the complete cycle of Beethoven’s piano sonatas in Cleveland and Toronto, and has recently released a two-CD set featuring his late sonatas (on the Brioso label). In the spring, he will present the complete Schubert piano sonatas in a series of four recitals. Dr. Lo served as a juror at the Music Ohio Piano Competition and has taught preparatory and continuing education students since 1996. For more information, call CIM at (216) 791-5000 or visit cim.edu. Sunday, March 25 at 4:00 p.m. FREE Kulas Hall FACULTY RECITAL ALL-SCHUBERT PROGRAM KARL LO, piano Sonata in G Major, D. 894 Sonata in A Major, D. 664 Fantasy in C Major, D. 760, “Wanderer Fantasie” CIM ORCHESTRA PERFORMS DVOŘÁK AND STRAVINSKY MARCH 28 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wednesday, March 28 at 8:00 p.m., the CIM Orchestra will perform under Carl Topilow. The concert, with cellist Chia-Ling Chien, will include Dvořák’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B Minor, Op. 104 and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Presented in honor of STERIS Corporation, the event is free (though seating passes will be distributed 30 minutes prior to the concert and are not available in advance). Conductor Carl Topilow is the director of the orchestral program at CIM and the primary instructor for the masters program in orchestral conducting. In addition, he is music director and conductor of the Cleveland Pops Orchestra and the National Repertory Orchestra, a summer music festival based in Breckenridge, Colorado. Founding conductor of the Summit Brass, Mr. Topilow has also served as Principal Pops Conductor of the Toledo and Southwest Florida Symphonies. He received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, and began his career as Exxon/Arts endowment conductor with the Denver Symphony Orchestra. He served as a conducting fellow of the National Orchestral Association from 1972 until 1976, with Leon Barzin; he was also a conducting fellow at Aspen School of Music in 1976, with Jorge Mester and John Nelson. He was first-place winner of the Baltimore Symphony Young Conductor’s Competition in 1976. A frequent guest conductor both in the U.S. and abroad, Mr. Topilow appears this season with the Boca Sinfonia (FL), Calgary Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra (Ostrava, Czech Republic), Midland-Odessa Symphony, Erie Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, South Bend Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony and Youngstown Symphony. He has conducted orchestras in 30 states and 10 foreign countries. Mr. Topilow’s newest CD, Music of America, features him as clarinetist performing with his brother, pianist Arthur Topilow. Chia-Ling Chien is a cello student of Stephen Geber at CIM. Her performance in this concert is a result of being named a winner of the CIM Concerto Competition. For more information, call CIM at (216) 791-5000 or visit cim.edu. Wednesday, March 28 at 8:00 p.m. FREE Kulas Hall THE CIM ORCHESTRA CARL TOPILOW, conductor CHIA-LING CHIEN, cello DVOŘÁK Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B Minor, Op. 104 STRAVINSKY Rite of Spring Presented in honor of STERIS Corporation Seating passes will be distributed 30 minutes prior to the concert, and are not available in advance. BERG AND JONES TO PRESENT FREE RECITAL MARCH 30 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Friday, March 30 at 8:00 p.m., CIM faculty members Marla Berg and Linda Jones will present a recital that is free and open to the public. Barber’s Hermit Songs and Libby Larsen’s My Antonia will be performed. Marla Berg is a member of the adjunct faculty in voice at CIM. She is a versatile performer, appearing in recital, concert, opera and musical theater. She has sung with Cleveland, Glimmerglass, Central City, Anchorage, Fort Worth and Kansas City Operas. Her roles include: Violetta in La Traviata, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Constanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor and Hanna in The Merry Widow. In concert, she has appeared with The Cleveland Orchestra, the American Composer’s Orchestra, the Denver Chamber Symphony, the Rockford Symphony and the Ohio Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Berg made her Carnegie Hall debut with the American Composers Orchestra, singing Ned Rorem’s Sun, a song cycle for soprano and orchestra. Her musical theater appearances have included Maria in West Side Story, Julie in Carousel and Fiona in Brigadoon. Ms. Berg holds a Bachelor of Music degree from St. Olaf College and a Master of Music degree and Artist Diploma from CIM. Linda Jones is a vocal coach and a member of the accompanying faculty at CIM, in addition to teaching diction classes. She was previously the senior vocal coach for the opera department at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. A graduate of the University of Iowa, she has studied piano with John Simms, David Saperton and Martin Canin, as well as accompanying/ coaching with Dalton Baldwin, Marin Isepp and Louise Sherman. Ms. Jones has extensive experience as coach, rehearsal pianist and assistant conductor with opera companies including Opera Theater of St. Louis, Santa Fe Opera, Dallas Civic Opera, Washington Opera Society, and The Juilliard School. She has been heard in recital with Simon Estes, Lenus Carlson, Judith Christin, Jon Garrison, Dina Kuznetsova and Nicole Heaston. Her recordings include Ivana Themmen’s Ode to Akhmatova with Jean Kraft. She has served as music director of the La Mama ETC Company in New York City. In Cleveland, Ms. Jones has worked with the Lyric Opera Cleveland Apprentice Program as coach, and with the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus as pianist for master classes, mini-recitals and auditions. For more information, call CIM at (216) 791-5000 or visit cim.edu. Friday, March 30 at 8:00 p.m. FREE Kulas Hall FACULTY RECITAL MARLA BERG, soprano LINDA JONES, piano BARBER Hermit Songs LIBBY LARSEN My Antonia 14th-ANNUAL DARIUS MILHAUD PERFORMANCE PRIZE COMPETITION TAKES PLACE AT CIM MARCH 31 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since 1994, a yearly competition has been held at the CIM honoring the works of Darius Milhaud, the prolific 20th century French-Jewish composer and teacher. This year’s Performance Prize Competition will be held at CIM on Saturday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m. A professional jury will hear performances of Milhaud’s music by CIM conservatory students. The students will compete for cash prizes, and the winner will be announced immediately after the competition, during a reception to which the audience is invited. Sponsored by the Darius Milhaud Society and CIM, the event is free and open to the public. For more information, call CIM at (216) 791-5000 or visit cim.edu. Saturday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m. FREE Kulas Hall 14th-ANNUAL DARIUS MILHAUD PERFORMANCE PRIZE COMPETITION CIM students compete for cash prizes awarded for the best performance of a work by Darius Milhaud. The winner is announced immediately after the competition, during a post-concert reception to which the audience is invited. Elizabeth Mull Publicity Manager Cleveland Institute of Music 11021 East Blvd. Cleveland, OH 44106 216.795.3125 |
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