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CSUF Chamber Winds
Divan Consort
Dzovig Markarian, piano and electronics
Earle Voorhies Memorial Piano Concert
French Soiree Evening (Advanced Vocal Workshop)
Fullerton Jazz Orchestra & Big Band
H?kan Rosengren Chamber Music Series at Meng Concert Hall
Hasse Borup, violin
Kathleen Supove & Neil Rolnick: Music for Piano & Computer
Lloyd Rodgers Group
Mirror Visions Ensemble
Symphonic Winds
The Art of the Jazz Trio
University Symphony Orchestra
University Wind Symphony
William Kanengiser, guitar
University Wind Symphony
Mitchell J. Fennell, conductor
Sunday, October 5, 2014 at 4PM
Meng Concert Hall
$10 / $8 ()
Timothy Mahr: Fantasia in G
JS Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
Zdnek Lukas: Musica Boema
Dan Wen Welcher: Minstrels of the Kells
Mirror Visions Ensemble
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at 8PM
Recital Hall
$15 / $13 ()
A program of American music about the pleasures of dining, featuring songs by Barber, Berg, Bernstein, Bolcom, Porter and Schwartz, as well as Mirror Visions commission Clean Plates Don’t Lie, a cantata by Richard Pearson Thomas inspired by the menus and philosophy of renowned chef Dan Barber. The Mirror Visions Ensemble will be joined by guests Richard Pearson Thomas (piano), Naho Parrini (violin) and Alberto Parrini (cello).
As The New York Times aptly stated, “Unlike most chamber music enterprises, the Mirror Visions Ensemble is run by singers rather than instrumentalists, and its programs are shaped with an ear to the poetry of song texts rather than to overarching notions of musical style.”
Since its inception, Mirror Visions Ensemble’s work has figured prominently around performing and commissioning musical ‘mirror visions’ – multiple settings of the same text by one or more composers.
What began as an idea built around programs of poets such as Dickinson, Heine, Shakespeare and Verlaine has since expanded to include the commissioning of over 80 works from 24 composers.
Mirror Visions’ performances often recreate the salon or soiree musical settings made popular during the 19th century.
Rooted in commissioned works for vocal chamber music ensemble, founder and artistic director Tobé Malawista, along with the musicians, curate each concert to introduce composers, poets and historical figures not only through their published works, but also through correspondence and other anecdotes woven throughout each performance.
Hasse Borup, violin
Thursday, October 9, 2014 at 8PM
Meng Concert Hall
$15 / $13 ()
Dr. Kasia Sokol-Borup, a native of Poland, came to the U.S. at seventeen to study at the Interlochen Arts Academy. Dr. Sokol-Borup holds a Bachelor’s degree from Western Michigan University, a Masters degree from Northwestern University, and a Doctorate from Indiana University.
Dr. Sokol-Borup is a professor of violin and viola at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. She has directed the Durango Youth Symphony and was a concertmaster of San Juan Symphony. At the University of Utah, where she is adjunct faculty, she has been instrumental in building the pre-college string program (UofU Preparatory Division) for teaching young musicians.
Kasia Sokol-Borup is an active solo and chamber musician in Salt Lake City, as well as nationally, and has performed with the Utah Symphony. She lives in Salt Lake City with her husband-violinist, Hasse Borup and their daughter.
Hasse Borup is an Associate Professor of Violin and head of String and Chamber Music Studies the University of Utah, School of Music. He has earned degrees in violin performance from the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music, the Hartt School of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the University of Maryland. Dr. Borup has released acclaimed recordings on Centaur, Naxos and Innova Labels. His solo appearances include national and international performances in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
He is a founding member of the award-winning Coolidge Quartet and has performed live on air in Europe, Asia and Australia, and has been featured on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today.” Dr. Borup was the director of the Chamber Music Institute at the Music@Menlo Festival in California from
and has, since 2009, directed the University of Utah Chamber Music Workshop. His teachers include Arnold Steinhardt, Philip Setzer, and David Takeno, among others. He has also worked extensively with the Guarneri, Emerson and Juilliard Quartets, Isaac Stern, Bill Preucil and Hatto Beyerle. For more information, please visit .
Divan Consort
Friday, October 10, 2014 at 8PM
Meng Concert Hall
$15 / $13 ()
Ravel: Sonata for violin and cello
Walicki: Milli Piyango for flute, cello and piano
Muczynski: Sonata for flute and piano
Shostakovich: Trio in e minor for violin, cello and piano
Performers:
Füreya ?nal - piano
Rachel Mellis - flute
Mira Khomik - violin
Charlie Tyler - cello
Divan Consort is a Los Angeles based ensemble founded by the Turkish pianist Füreya ?nal.
The ensemble performs the most recent works reflecting the highest artistic expressions as well as the landmark compositions of the twentieth century. Having performed individually in many countries, Divan Consort's members are devoted to offer gripping, world-class performances that entertain the audience. They have given many world premiers of recently composed pieces and have recorded the music for the theatre play, BAAL by Bertold Brecht for The Sacred Fools Theater Company.
Within the first two of years of its existence, Divan Consort has been chosen to perform at a variety of prestigious music series and venues. As a winner of the Beverly Hills Auditions, they were invited to perform at the Previews Concert Series at Manhattan Beach, The Nixon Library, and Live at the Lounge in Hermosa Beach. The group has given numerous concerts in the Los Angeles and Orange County area as well as successful concert tours of Portugal and Turkey. They performed at the 36th International Estoril Music Festival as well as giving master classes in Portugal. While touring Turkey, Divan Consort performed at the festivities in Bursa celebrating the 100th birth year of Turkey's first ceramics artist, Fureya Koral. The group also gave a concert as a part of
Istanbul 2010, Cultural Capital of Europe.
H&kan Rosengren Chamber Music Series at Meng Concert Hall
H&kan Rosengren, clarinet
Brent McMunn, piano
Saturday, October 11, 2014 at 8PM
Meng Concert Hall
$15 / $13 ()
Robert Schumann: Romances for clarinet and piano
Igor Stravinsky: Three Pieces for clarinet solo
Leonard Bernstein: Sonata for clarinet and piano
Otto Olsson: Suite for clarinet and piano
Bela Kovacs: Hommage a Manuel de Falla for clarinet solo
Francis Poulenc: Sonata for clarinet and piano
Internationally acclaimed clarinetist H?kan Rosengren has performed as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician all over Europe, the United States, Israel, Brazil and Asia—from Berlin, Beijing and Bratislava, to Tel Aviv, Vilnius and Warsaw.
In his native Sweden and other Nordic countries Rosengren has repeatedly performed as soloist with nearly every major orchestra, including the Helsinki Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Odense Symphony, Nordic Chamber Orchestra, Helsingborg Symphony, Royal Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Norrk?ping Symphony, Southern Jutland Symphony, J?nk?ping Symphony Orchestra, Ume? Sinfonietta and Malm? Symphony, among others.
Rosengren’s concerto solo performances in Europe have taken him to the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony, Prague Philharmonic, Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, Porto Chamber Orchestra, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Slovakia Radio Symphony, Aukso Chamber Orchestra, Poznan Philharmonic, Polish Chamber Philharmonic, among others. Elsewhere he has appeared with the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra, Minas Gerais Symphony (Brazil), Savannah Symphony, Akron Symphony, Asheville Symphony, Texas Festival Orchestra, Midland-Odessa Symphony, New West Symphony, Israeli Chamber Orchestra and Taegu Symphony Orchestra.
Pianist Brent McMunn came to opera after an established career as a pianist, known especially for his collaborations with a number of eminent string players, including Lynn Harrell, Cynthia Phelps, and Ronald Copes, now of the Juilliard Quartet, appearing at the major Southern California venues as well as the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Carnegie Hall. His work in and love for opera began when he joined Grant Gershon as one of two pianists at the Los Angeles Opera in its early days. Concurrently, he was made director of opera at California State University, Long Beach, where he began conducting and produced a wide repertory of operas.
After his New York conducting success, he went on to guest conduct at a number of North American companies, such as Arizona Opera, Calgary Opera, Lake George Opera, Kentucky Opera, Opera New Jersey and Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, and spent several years as co-artistic director of the Ridgefield Opera Company in Connecticut. In addition to his conducting, his work as assistant and cover conductor at LA Opera, New York City Opera, and six seasons at the Santa Fe Opera, has given him a repertoire of over 70 operas, including those by Handel, Mozart, Puccini, the major Strauss operas, and a number of new works and premieres, with a special emphasis on the Bel Canto repertoire. He has continuously enjoyed working with young singers in the young artist programs of the major companies, as a coach at the Juilliard School, and as a faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival.
University Symphony Orchestra
Kimo Furumoto, conductor
Sunday, October 12, 2014 at 4PM
Meng Concert Hall
$15 / $13 ()
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Saint-Sa?ns: &Bacchanale& from Samson and Delilah
Dvo?ák: Symphony No. 9 &From the New World&
French Soiree Evening
Advanced Vocal Workshop
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at 8PM
Recital Hall
$10 / $8 ()
Fullerton Jazz Orchestra &
Music of the Yellowjackets
Bill Cunliffe, director
Friday, October 17, 2014 at 8PM
Meng Concert Hall
$10 / $8 ()
featuring Pianist
and saxophonist
Neil Rolnick & Kathleen Supove: Music for Piano & Computer
Saturday, October 18, 2014 at 8PM
Meng Concert Hall
$15 / $13 ()
Kathleen Supové is one of America's most acclaimed and versatile contemporary music pianists, known for continually redefining what it means to be a pianist/keyboardist/performance artist in today's world. In addition to her compelling virtuosity, she is also known for her boundary-breaking ways of breaking the wall between performer and audience. After winning top prizes in the Gaudeamus International Competition for Interpretation of Contemporary Music, she began her career as a guest artist at the prestigious Darmstadt Festival in Germany. Since then, Ms. Supové has presented solo concerts entitled The Exploding Piano, in which she has championed the music of countless contemporary composers—minimalists, postminimalists, and experimentalists. The most notable are Frederic Rzewski, Louis Andriessen, Terry Riley, Chinary Ung, Giacinto Scelsi, Iannis Xenakis, John Adams, and Alvin Curran, as well as younger composers including Randall Woolf, David Lang, Nick Didkovsky, Eve Beglarian, Daniel Bernard Roumain, John Zorn, Carolyn Yarnell, Phil Kline, Lukas Ligeti, Kitty Brazelton, Aaron Jay Kernis, Mary Ellen Childs, Michael Daugherty, Marti Epstein, Patrick Grant, Eleanor Sandresky, Dan Becker, Elaine Kaplinsky, Dafna Naphtali, Jed Distler, Nicholas Brooke, Lois V Vierk, Marita Bolles, Gene Pritsker, Robert Carl, Rob Zuidam, Belinda Reynolds and many others. She is also involved in commissioning projects with even younger, emerging composers such as the iconoclastic Michael Gatonska, singer/performance artist Corey Dargel, composer/video v.j. Peter Kirn, and Gameboy composer Bubblyfish.
Composer Neil Rolnick pioneered in the use of computers in musical performance, beginning in the late 1970s. Rolnick has often included unexpected and unusual combinations of materials and media in his music. He has performed his music around the world, exploring forms as diverse as digital sampling, interactive multimedia, and acoustic vocal, chamber and orchestral works. Throughout the 1980s and &90s he was responsible for the development of the first integrated electronic arts graduate and undergraduate programs in the US, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute&s iEAR Studios, in Troy, NY.
Though much of Rolnick&s work connects music and technology, and is therefore considered in the realm of &experimental& music, his music has always been highly melodic and accessible. Whether working with electronic sounds, improvisation, or multimedia, his music has been characterized by critics as &sophisticated,& &hummable and engaging,& and as having &good senses of showmanship and humor.&
Symphonic Winds
Dr. Patricia Cornett, director
Sunday, October 19, 2014 at 4PM
Meng Concert Hall
$10 / $8 ()
Brian Balmages: Fanfare Canzonique
Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasia in G Major, BWV 572
Vincent Persichetti: Divertimento, op. 42
Percy Aldridge Grainger: Children's March
John Barnes Chance: Elegy
Frank Ticheli: Blue Shades
CSUF Chamber Winds
Mitchell J. Fennell, conductor
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at 8PM
Meng Concert Hall
All tickets $5
Toru Takemitsu: Day Music
Francis Poulenc: Aubade, Concerto choréographique for Piano and 18 Instruments
Rob Watson,
Daniel Kallman: An American Tapestry
Timothy Broege: Sinfonia III
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Lloyd Rodgers Group:
Musica Povera trio – Deja Deja Vu Vu
Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 8PM
Recital Hall
$10 / $8 ()
Arkansas Gothic (Nancy Dances)
The Swing (after Satie)
Urban Toys and Mannequin (for Karen G.)
The ensemble is John Glenn, Bruno Cilloniz, Lloyd Rodgers, keyboard
Dzovig Markarian, piano and electronics
Friday, October 24, 2014 at 8PM
Meng Concert Hall
$15 / $13 ()
Chris Cerrone: Hoyt-Shermerhorn for piano and live electronics
Adam Borecki: One Hundred and Ten Moments of Grandeur for piano and electronics
James Gardner: Displacement Activities for speaking pianist and electronics
Saad Haddad: New Work
- world premiere for piano and electronics
Ken Walicki: Cyberistan for piano, computer and video
Liviu Marinescu: Shadows for piano and electronics
Dzovig Markarian – piano o Liviu Marinescu - electronics
Dzovig Markarian is a contemporary classical pianist, whose performances have been described in the press as &brilliant& (M. Swed, LA Times), and &deeply moving, technically accomplished, spiritually uplifting& (B. Adams, Dilijan Blog).
An active soloist as well as a collaborative artist, Dzovig is a frequent guest with various ensembles and organizations such as the Dilijan Chamber Music Series, Jacaranda Music at the Edge, International Clarinet Conference, Festival of Microtonal Music, CalArts Chamber Orchestra, inauthentica ensemble, ensemble Green, Xtet New Music Group, USC Contemporary Music Ensemble, REDCAT Festivals of Contemporary Music, as well as with members of the LA PHIL, LACO, Southwest Chamber Music, and others. Most recently, Dzovig has worked with and premiered works by various composers such as Sofia Gubaidulina, Chinary Ung, Iannis Xenakis, James Gardner, Victoria Bond, Tigran Mansurian, Artur Avanesov, Jeffrey Holmes, Alan Shockley, Adrian Pertout, Laura Kramer and Juan Pablo Contreras.
Earle Voorhies Memorial Piano Concert
Saturday, October 25, 2014 at 8PM
Meng Concert Hall
$15 / $13 ()
In celebration of the teaching legacy of Earle Voorhies, who was a member of the piano faculty at CSUF for more than two decades during the 1970's through the 1990's, several of his students will present an impressive concert of great piano works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Ravel, Ives, Babjanian and Steinberg.
Many of these former students and CSUF alumni will be traveling from out of state to pe all of these concert artists enjoy successful careers in music today. The performers will include alumni, Carol Leone, Regan Smith, Alison Edwards and Nelson Ojeda, along with New York-based pianist, Michael Fennelly and Curtis Institute Music Faculty member, Keiko Sato. Los Angeles-based pianists, Susan Svrcek, Paul Romero, Vatche Mankerian, Edith Orloff and Russel Steinberg, composer-pianist, will also be performing.
Earle Voorhies had a professional career spanning more than 70 years as pianist, teacher and lecturer. He represented the highest artistic standards in piano performance and had a significant connection with the early 20th-century piano pedagogues in the United States, having been a student of such legendary pianistic giants as Alexander Siloti (student of Franz Liszt), Olga Samaroff-Stokowski, Rosina Lhevinne, Egon Petri and Abby De Avirett. His gift for teaching and his ability to shape young artists made him one of the most respected piano teachers of his time. Since his passing in 2006 at the age of 93, his teaching legacy lives on through his students.
This concert promises to be not only an exciting musical event, but an opportunity to meet and mix with other lovers of piano music and performance. Also, as part of this concert, the CSUF Keyboard Area will be inaugurating the Earle Voorhies Memorial Scholarship.
This scholarship will benefit future talented students who plan to study piano at Cal State Fullerton.
A Pre-Concert Wine and Cheese Reception will be offered at 6:30 pm in the McCarty Grand Foyer on the second floor (just outside of Meng Hall). Join alumni and friends of the Keyboard Area for this special event!
Ticket Cost: $50.00 per person (Includes wine reception, concert ticket and a tax-deductable donation to the Earle Voorhies Memorial Scholarship). For ticket purchase, please contact Renee Gillespie at 657-278-8683.
The Art of the Jazz Trio
Sunday, October 26, 2014 at 4PM
Meng Concert Hall
$10 / $8 ()
featuring CSUF faculty members Bill Cunliffe, Chuck Tumlinson, Luther Hughes, Paul Kreibich, Jeff Ellwood, Ryan Pryor, and student groups.
Trios featuring piano, guitar, trumpet, saxophone, voice, and percussion.
Original music, and music of Gershwin, Ellington, Pat Metheny and Jobim.
William Kanengiser, guitar
Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 8PM
Meng Concert Hall
All tickets $5
Recognized as one of America’s finest classical guitarists, William Kanengiser won First Prize in the 1987 Concert Artists Guild International Competition as well as major guitar competitions in Toronto (1981) and Paris (1983).
He has recorded four solo CD’s for the GSP label, ranging from classical to jazz to Caribbean to Near Eastern styles, and he recently recorded two CD’s for the Suzuki Guitar Advanced Repertoire Series. In 2005 he released a live concert DVD, “Classical Guitar and Beyond”, for Mel Bay Recordings, which also features Mr. Kanengiser’s talents as a comedian/mimic in his infamous “GFA Imitation Show”. A member of the guitar faculty at the USC Thornton School of Music since 1983, he was a recipient of the “2011 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching”. He has given master classes around the world and produced two instructional videos, “Effortless Classical Guitar” and “Classical Guitar Mastery” for Hot Licks Video. The 2010-11 season was marked by special performances of Shingo Fujii’s “Concerto de Los Angeles” for solo guitar and guitar orchestra, which was written for Mr. Kanengiser and recorded in Kyoto in 2008. This piece was played with guitar students in seven US cities, as well as in Osaka and Shanghai. Featured recitals in 2012-13 include Spivey Hall near Atlanta and appearances with the Long Island, Philadelphia, Sacramento, Calgary and Indianapolis Guitar Socities.
As a founding member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Mr. Kanengiser has toured extensively throughout Asia, Europe and North America and recorded over a dozen CD’s.
LAGQ was awarded a GRAMMY(R) for Best Classical Crossover Recording in 2004. Their newest recording project “Interchange”, features concertos by Joaquin Rodrigo and Sergio A it was released in March 2010 and received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Classical Composition. In addition to three European tours this season, they recently completed their Australian debut tour, including three sold-out shows at the Sydney Opera House.
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