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GREAT PERFORMANCES MUSIC OF THE AMERICAS JAZZ AND BEYOND CREATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC 305.284.4940
festivalmiami.com
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FLORIDA’S PREMIER LIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL The World’s Largest Underwear Store Shelton G. Berg
‘AH-A’ For The Music Proud Sponsor of Festival Miami
WELCOME TO THE 29TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL MIAMI!
The Frost School of Music uplifts our community each year with the presentation of Festival Miami—Florida’s Premier Live Music Festival. Each year we surpass ourselves with the variety of brilliant artists and composers who grace our stages. Now in its 29th season, Festival Miami presents highly creative programming that brings thousands of new music lovers to our beautiful concert halls and continues to delight our long-time supporters. We offer diverse styles and genres of music and feature the extraordinary student musicians and faculty artists of the Frost School. The result is an exciting festival that remains unparalleled by any other music school in the country. Festival Miami delivers a full month of concerts programmed under four distinct themes—Great Performances, Creative American Music, Jazz and Beyond, and Music of the Americas. I encourage you to sample music from all four categories!
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Festival Miami also provides an opportunity for friends and families to bond by sharing the universal human emotions that music can evoke. Whether you are a seasoned concertgoer or this is your first musical concert, Festival Miami has something wonderful for you to experience. Festival Miami truly has it all! We welcome you to a great musical adventure.
Enjoy!
Shelton G. Berg Dean, Frost School of Music Patricia L. Frost Professor of Music
13449 NW 42 Ave, Opa Locka, FL 33054 | 305.428.111
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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FLORIDA’S PREMIER LIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL
Shelton G. Berg
¡BIENVENIDOS AL 29a FESTIVAL ANUAL MIAMI!
Todos los años, la Escuela de Música Frost eleva la comunidad con la presentación del Festival Miami, el festival de música en vivo más importante de Florida. Cada año, nos superamos con la variedad de brillantes artistas y compositores que adornan nuestros escenarios con su presencia. Hoy, en su 29a temporada, Festival Miami presenta una programación altamente creativa que convocará a nuestras salas de concierto a miles de amantes de la música nuevos y continuará deleitando a quienes ya nos apoyan desde hace tiempo. Ofrecemos música de estilos y géneros variados. Destacamos a los extraordinarios estudiantes de música y artistas docentes de la Escuela de Música Frost. El resultado es un emocionante festival sin igual entre las demás escuelas de música del país. Festival Miami ofrece un mes entero de conciertos, organizados en cuatro temas bien definidos: Grandes recitales, Música creativa estadounidense, Jazz y más allá y Música de las Américas, lo que representa una selección increíble de música para que usted la disfrute en vivo. ¡Los aliento a que se animen a probar la música de todas estas categorías! Festival Miami también brinda la oportunidad para que amigos y familiares vivan juntos las emociones humanas universales que puede inspirar la música. Ya sea usted un asiduo asistente a conciertos o esta sea su primera experiencia musical, Festival Miami tiene algo maravilloso para que usted disfrute.
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Festival Miami Staff/Ticket Information
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Letter from UM President Donna E. Shalala
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Letter from Florida Governor, Rick Scott
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Letter from Miami-Dade County Mayor, Carlos Gimenez
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Letter from City of Miami Mayor, Tomás Regalado
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Letter from Coral Gables Mayor, Jim Cason
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Calendar of Events
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Concert Programs
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Artist Biographies
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Community Outreach
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Grant Sponsors
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Contributor Photos
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¡Realmente, Festival Miami lo tiene todo! Le damos la bienvenida a una gran aventura musical.
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Support Festival Miami
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On Scene: Festival Miami 2011
¡Disfrute!
Shelton G. Berg Decano, Escuela Frost de Música Catedrático Patricia L. Frost de Música
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Frost School of Music Dean, Festival Miami Executive Director . . . Shelton Berg Director of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marianne Mijares Events Planner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christine Mounger Director of Operations and Concert Halls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . William Dillon Director of Recording Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul Griffith Director of Keyboard Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul Bruno Director of Marketing and Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Julia Berg Communications Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kimberly Engelhardt University Communications & Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Todd Ellenberg, Meredith Camel, Scott Fricker, Kristian Rodriguez, Angie Villanueva University Media Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexandra Bassil Artistic Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shelton Berg, Scott Flavin, Gary Green, Stephen Guerra, Larry Lapin, Dante Luciani, Charles Mason, Rey Sanchez, Santiago Rodriguez, Thomas Sleeper, and Richard Todd
TO PURCHASE TICKETS Online: festivalmiami.com Phone: 305.284.4940 Phone lines open Monday through Friday 9 a.m. – 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Forms of Payment Accepted: Cash, Debit, and Credit Cards (Visa, Master Card, Discover, American Express)
Mail: Festival Miami Attn: Box Office Manager 1320 South Dixie Highway, Suite 901 Coral Gables, FL 33146-2975 Box Office: UM Gusman Hall Tuesday through Thursday 5–7 p.m.
Please indicate special seating requirements when purchasing your tickets. Tickets can also be purchased in person at the Maurice Gusman Concert Hall one hour prior to each performance. Ticket fees apply to online, mail, and phone orders. Free events require tickets. NO REFUNDS/ NO EXCHANGES. For more information, please visit our website at festivalmiami.com The taking of photographs and use of audio or video recorders during a performance is strictly prohibited. Please turn off phones and any other electronic devices before entering the hall. Latecomers will be seated at the first break in the performance. Festival Miami is a member of:
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OFFICE OF THE MAYOR MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA CARLOS A. GIMENEZ MAYOR
October 1, 2011
Greetings! As Mayor of Miami-Dade County and on behalf of our 2.5 million residents, I would like to extend a warm welcome to all those gathered for the University of Miamiʼs Frost School of Music 28th Annual Festival Miami. I am grateful to the University of Miami for providing this opportunity for musical enjoyment and personal enrichment to South Florida residents and visitors, alike. The University of Miami is a vital part of the Miami-Dade tradition and, as our County continues to grow its involvement in cultural events, we look to institutions such as the Frost School of Music to provide innovative programming that celebrates our communityʼs diversity. If you are visiting, I encourage you to take advantage of our world-class beaches, hotels, restaurants, shopping, attractions, arts and culture, sports, and recreation. I wish all of the participants and attendees every success and an enjoyable experience. Sincerely,
Carlos A. Gimenez Mayor
STEPHEN P. CLARK CENTER, 111 N.W. FIRST STREET, SUITE 2910, MIAMI, FLORIDA 33128-1994 • (305) 375-5071 • FAX (305) 375-3618
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ORDER TODAY!
CALENDAR OF EVENTS 10 | FESTIVAL MIAMI 2012
OCTOBER 2 – NOVEMBER 4
GREAT PERFORMANCES MUSIC OF THE AMERICAS JAZZ AND BEYOND CREATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC 7 |
Sunday
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FROST WIND ENSEMBLE Powerful Premieres 4 p.m. at UM Gusman (3:15 p.m. Q&A) $15-$20
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3 p.m. at UM Gusman $10-$12
4 | CLOSING NIGHT CARMINA BURANA Conducted by Karen Kennedy Master Chorale of South Florida, Frost Chorale, Frost Symphony Orchestra
4 p.m. at Arsht Center
LEON FLEISHER Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
DAVE LIEBMAN Tenor Titan Takes Flight with the Frost Concert Jazz Band
DAVE LIEBMAN Jazz Master Class
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3:30 p.m. at Clarke FREE Q&A
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30 SONGWRITERS SHOWCASE 8 p.m. at UM Gusman FREE
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FROST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
NUEVO TANGO IN MIAMI, PART 1 Music of Ástor Piazzolla
Leon Fleisher Conducts Beethoven and Rachmaninoff 8 p.m. at UM Gusman $25-$65
7 p.m. at UM Gusman FREE Lecture
JASON MORAN Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series
8 p.m. at UM Gusman $10-$20
FLORIDA’S SINGING SONS BOYCHOIR Children’s Concert
Wednesday
9:30 a.m. at Clarke FREE
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Thursday
EMERGINGCOMPOSERS New Music Concert featuring Contest Winners 8 p.m. at Clarke FREE
Friday
8 p.m. at UM Gusman (7:15 p.m. Q&A) $15-$30
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Friday
SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ Solo Piano Recital
8 p.m. at UM Gusman $20-$40
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8 p.m. at UM Gusman (7:15 p.m. Q&A) $15-$30
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ANA MARÍA MARTÍNEZ Soprano Recital 8 p.m. at UM Gusman $30-$50
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JASON MORAN & THE BANDWAGON Cross-Genre Jazz at Its Best
ROSEANNA VITRO Free-Spirited Spontaneity
8 p.m. at UM Gusman $20-$50
8 p.m. at UM Gusman $20-$40
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Featuring Valerie Perri and Michael Maguire 8 p.m. at UM Gusman $20-$50
Saturday
Judy Drucker's Great Artists Series Presents
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7:30 p.m. Parade 8:30 p.m. Boat Burning 10 p.m. Concert at BankUnited Center FREE
CARLOS OLIVA Y LOS SOBRINOS DEL JUEZ Latin Fusion Artists Keep on Grooving
Plus JV1 Ensemble
8 p.m. at UM Gusman $20-$50
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UNFORGETTABLE A Tribute to Nat King Cole George Benson, Freddy Cole, and the Mancini Institute Orchestra
8 p.m. at Arsht Center
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Saturday
NUEVO TANGO IN MIAMI, PART 2 Jazz Homage to Piazzolla
BEST OF BROADWAY
8 p.m. at UM Gusman $20-$40
CREATIVE SPARK Youth Orchestra Flashpoint
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TRIO DA PAZ Brazilian Jazz Masters
4 p.m. at UM Gusman $15-$20
Sunday Afternoons of Music Presents
Tuesday
8 p.m. at UM Gusman $20-$50
FROST CHAMBER PLAYERS Luciano and Friends
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305.284.4940 • www.festivalmiami.com
3 JON SECADA A Cabaret Night to Remember
8 p.m. at UM Gusman $25-$65
Maurice Gusman Concert Hall is located at 1314 Miller Drive on the University of Miami Coral Gables campus. Victor E. Clarke Recital Hall in the L. Austin Weeks Center for Recording and Performance is located at 5501 San Amaro Drive on the University of Miami Coral Gables campus. The BankUnited Center is located at 1245 Dauer Drive on the University of Miami Coral Gables campus. Adrienne Arsht Center is located at 1300 N. Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, Florida. Programs, artists, and dates subject to change without notice. All master classes and lectures are free and open to the public on a firstcome, first-served basis.
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STAMPS AD
GREAT PERFORMANCES
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8 p.m
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OPENING NIGHT
BEETHOVEN AND RACHMANINOFF
Leon Fleisher Conducts the Frost Symphony Orchestra LEON FLEISHER, guest conductor THOMAS SLEEPER, music director FROST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)
ANASTASIYA NAPLEKOVA, soloist — INTERMISSION — Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 Largo – Allegro moderato Allegro molto Adagio Allegro vivace
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Presented in collaboration with Stamps Family Charitable Foundation Distinguished Visitors Series UM Citizens Board Night Miami Civic Music Association Night Sponsored in part by
(1873-1943)
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NUEVO TANGO IN MIAMI, PART I Music of Ástor Piazzolla
FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ, pre-concert host DEBORAH SCHWARTZ-KATES, pre-concert host Histoire
du Tango Bordel 1900 Cafe 1930 Nightclub 1960 Concert d’aujourd’hui TRUDY KANE, flute RAFAEL PADRON, guitar
Milonga sin Palabras
CRAIG MORRIS, trumpet PAUL SCHWARTZ, piano
Tres Piezas Breves, Op. 4 Pastoral Serenade Siciliana CRAIG MORRIS, electronic wind instrument PAUL SCHWARTZ, piano Le Grand Tango
— INTERMISSION — Music from Henry IV (1984) Oblivion- Ave Maria ROBERT WEINER, oboe BERGONZI STRING QUARTET Glenn Basham, Scott Flavin, violin; Pamela McConnell, viola; Ross Harbaugh, cello Four for Tango BERGONZI STRING QUARTET Glenn Basham, Scott Flavin, violin; Pamela McConnell, viola; Ross Harbaugh, cello Four Tangos for Quintet Primavera Portena Milonga del Angel Invierno Porteno Verano Porteno TOMAS COTIK, violin FEDERICO MUSGOVE STETSON, guitar JP JOFRE, bandonéon JEFF KIPPERMAN, bass NAOKO TAKAO, piano
ROSS HARBAUGH, cello SHELTON BERG, piano
Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
GREAT PERFORMANCES
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 4 p.m.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 8 p.m.
NUEVO TANGO IN MIAMI, PART II
POWERFUL PREMIERES
Jazz Homage to Ástor Piazzolla
Presented by the Frost Wind Ensemble
STEPHEN GUERRA, director FRED STURM, guest conductor JP JOFRE, bandonéon FROST STUDIO JAZZ BAND Manny Echazabal, Sam Priven, alto sax; A.J. Bihn, Matt Burchard, tenor sax; David Leon, bari sax; Derek Ganong, Paul Equihua, Billy Vallano, Aquiles Navarr; trumpet; Eric Bowman, Javier Nero, Andrew Hamilton, Chris Palowitch; trombone; Jake Shapiro, piano; Matt Flynn, guitar; James Suter, bass; Ben Falle, drums; Maria Chlebus, percussion
GARY GREEN, conductor FROST WIND ENSEMBLE Symphony in B-flat
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Paul Dooley
Point Blank
(b. 1983)
Featuring works by Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
World Premiere Percussion Concerto
Selections to be chosen from: Michelangelo
arr. Fred Sturm
Milonga del Angel
arr. Fred Sturm
Tres Minutos con la Realidad
arr. Fred Sturm
La Camorra
arr. Fred Sturm
Resurreción del Angel
arr. Fred Sturm
Milonga Loca
arr. Fred Sturm
Mumuki
arr. Fred Sturm
Libertango
arr. Fred Sturm
Verano Porteno
arr. Jeremy Fox
La Muerte del Angel
arr. Gary Lindsay
Oblivion
Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962) SVET STOYANOV, soloist
City of Coral Gables Night
arr. Stephen Guerra, Jr.
Escualo
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arr. Stephen Guerra, Jr.
Sponsored by
Sponsored by
LOUIS LEIBOWITZ CHARITABLE TRUST
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 8 p.m.
TENOR TITAN DAVE LIEBMAN
CREATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 8 p.m.
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EMERGING COMPOSERS
Takes Flight with the Frost Concert Jazz Band
New Music Concert featuring Contest Winners
DAVE LIEBMAN, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, flute DANTE LUCIANO, director FROST CONCERT JAZZ BAND Dan Andrews, Kevin McKeown, Mark Small, Alex Weitz, Derek Smith; saxes Ryan Chapman, Chris Burbank, Gilbert Paz, Jared Hall; trumpets Chris Gagne, Kendall Moore, Stephen Szabadi, Major Bailey; trombones Angelo Versace, piano; Tim Jago, guitar; Geoffrey Saunders, bass; Daniel Susnjar, drums; Mike Barroso, percussion
Selections will be announced from the stage.
Featuring compositions by Dave Liebman New Mambo
arr. Bill Warfield
Beyond the Line
arr. Vince Mendoza
Negative Space Imaginations
arr. Joachim Junghanss
Done with Restraint
arr. Jim McNeely
Gazelle
arr. George Gruntz
Pablo’s Story
arr. Bill Warfield
Sing, Sing, Sing
Louis Prima, arr. Jim McNeely
Sponsored in part by Sponsored by
Location: Victor E. Clarke Recital Hall in the L. Austin Weeks Center for Recording and Performance
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GREAT PERFORMANCES
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 8 p.m.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 8 p.m.
JUDY DRUCKER’S GREAT ARTISTS SERIES PRESENTS
SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ
ANA MARÍA MARTÍNEZ
Performs Solo Piano Favorites from Chopin to Lecuona Prelude in D-flat major, Op. 28, No. 15 “Raindrop” Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35 Grave-Doppio movimento Scherzo Marche funèbre Finale: Presto In memory of Harold Sackstein
Frédéric Chopin
Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2 “Bells of Moscow”
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
(1810-1849)
Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36 (version 1931) Allegro agitato – Non allegro – Allegro molto
Sings Celebrated Songs and Arias ANA MARÍA MARTÍNEZ, soprano THOMAS JABER, piano Tres Estrofas de Amor Pau Casals (1876-1973) Text by Tomás Blanco Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios ¿Con qué la lavaré? Vos me matásteis ¿De dónde venís, amore? De los álamos vengo, madre
Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999)
Romance del Comendador de Ocaña
Joaquín Rodrigo Text by Lope de Vega
Improvisation on a Catalonian Carol
— INTERMISSION — Variations (1979)
J.B. Floyd
Fandango Padre
Antonio Soler
“Andalucia” Suite Cordoba
Ernesto Lecuona
(1729-1783)
(1895-1963)
Andalucia Alhambra Gitanerías Guadalquivir Malagueña
Thomas Jaber
Siete Canciones Populares Españolas Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) El Paño Moruno Seguidilla Murciana Asturiana Jota Nana Canción — INTERMISSION — Poema en Forma de Canciones Dedicatoria Nunca olvida Cantares Los dos miedos Las locas por amor
Joaquín Turina (1882-1949)
Canción Española, from El Niño Judío In memory of Rodolfo Brito
Sponsored in part by
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La Petenera, from La Marchenera
Pablo Luna (1879-1942) Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982)
Lamento de María, from María La O
Ernesto Lecuona (1895-1963)
Sponsored by
Ana María Martínez appears by arrangement with IMG Artists New York, New York
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 4 p.m.
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LUCIANO AND FRIENDS
Featuring the Frost Chamber Players Sonata for Bassoon and Piano, Op. 168 Allegretto moderato Allegro Scherzando Adagio Allegro moderato
— INTERMISSION —
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
(b. 1944)
Tango for Flute, Bassoon and Piano Primavera portena - Allegro
Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
TRUDY KANE, flute LUCIANO MAGNANINI, bassoon TIAN YING, piano
ROBERT WEINER, oboe MARGARET DONAGHUE, clarinet LUCIANO MAGNANINI, bassoon RICHARD TODD, horn TIAN YING, piano Sextet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn and Piano Allegro vivace Divertissement Finale TRUDY KANE, flute ROBERT WEINER, oboe MARGARET DONAGHUE, clarinet LUCIANO MAGNANINI, bassoon RICHARD TODD, horn J.B. FLOYD, piano
Bill Douglas
ROBERT WEINER, oboe LUCIANO MAGNANINI, bassoon SHELTON BERG, piano
LUCIANO MAGNANINI, bassoon PAUL POSNAK, piano Quintet for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn and Piano in E-flat Major, Op. 16 Grave–Allegro ma non troppo Andante cantabile Rondo allegro ma non troppo
Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano (2006) Bebop cantabile Lament Rondo con brio
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Sights and Sounds (2012) Stephen Guerra, Jr. (b. 1973) Abstract Speed + Sound (Balla) The City Rises (Boccioni) The Wait (Carra) TRUDY KANE, flute ROBERT WEINER, oboe MARGARET DONAGHUE, clarinet LUCIANO MAGNANINI, bassoon RICK TODD, horn DALE UNDERWOOD, saxophone SHELTON BERG, piano
Sponsored in part by
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 8 p.m.
TRIO DA PAZ
FEATURING VALERIE PERRI AND MICHAEL MAGUIRE
ROMERO LUBAMBO, guitar NILSON MATTA, bass DUDUKA DA FONSECA, drums
VALERIE PERRI, vocals MICHAEL MAGUIRE, vocals SHELTON BERG, piano Nilson Matta
Bachião
Romero Lubambo
Alana
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 8 p.m.
BEST OF BROADWAY
Brazilian Jazz Masters
Baden
CREATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC
Featuring selections from Chicago, Funny Girl, Phantom of the Opera, Evita, Guys and Dolls, Peter Pan and more!
Duduka Da Fonseca
P’ro Flavio
Romero Lubambo
Copacabana
Nilson Matta
Wave
Tom Jobim
One Note Samba
Tom Jobim
Humpty Dumpty
Chick Corea
Manhã de Carnaval
Luiz Bonfá
Paraty
Nilson Matta
Sponsored by
Sponsored in part by
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 8 p.m.
CREATIVE SPARK
JAZZ AND BEYOND
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 8 p.m.
JASON MORAN & THE BANDWAGON
Youth Orchestra Flashpoint
Cross-Genre Jazz at Its Best JASON MORAN, piano TARUS MATEEN, bass NASHEET WAITS, drums
DENNIS KAM, guest conductor GREATER MIAMI YOUTH SYMPHONY HUIFANG CHEN, conductor SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY MARJORIE HAHN, conductor RICHARD YACKLICH, conductor
Selections will be announced from the stage.
Dorothy Hindman
Urban Myths Hana’s Day Out
Thomas Sleeper HUIFANG CHEN, conductor GREATER MIAMI YOUTH SYMPHONY
Charles Mason
Beautiful City! SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY THIS Goes to THAT . . . and THAT Goes to THIS DENNIS KAM, guest conductor GREATER MIAMI YOUTH SYMPHONY SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY
Sponsored by Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council
Dennis Kam
Presented in collabortation with Stamps Family Charitable Foundation Distinguished Visitors Series Sponsored by
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 8 p.m.
MUSIC OF THE AMERICAS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 8 p.m.
JAZZ VOCALIST ROSEANNA VITRO AND JV1
CARLOS OLIVA Y LOS SOBRINOS DEL JUEZ
ROSEANNA VITRO, vocals LARRY LAPIN, director THE FROST JAZZ VOCAL ENSEMBLE 1
Featuring hit songs:
Free-Spirited Spontaneity
Selections to be chosen from: Memorandum Let Your Love Rain Down on Me Your Mind Is on Vacation Route 66 Yours Is My Heart Alone
Larry Lapin Gary Eckert, arr. Michele Weir Mose Allison, arr. Larry Lapin Bobby Troup, arr. Jeremy Fox Franz Lehar, arr. Larry Lapin
Latin Fusion Artists Keep on Grooving Glorioso San Antonio Dime si te Gustó Pelotero ‘la bola Yayabo Vehicle/Tu Carrito Con el Bolsillo Pelao’
A Tribute to Gene Puerling Music arranged by Gene Puerling for the Hi-Lo’s and the Singers Unlimited
and many others from the following hit albums:
All The Things You Are Music: Jerome Kern/Words: Oscar Hammerstein II Small Fry Music: Hoagy Carmichael/Words: Frank Loesser Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries Lew Brown & Ray Henderson On a Clear Day Music: Burton Lane/Words: Alan Jay Lerner Rockin’ Chair Hoagy Carmichael Button Up Your Overcoat DeSylva, Brown & Henderson
...y Seguimos Guarachando
THE FROST JAZZ VOCAL ENSEMBLE 1 My Bells Yesterdays You Are There One Mint Julep
Music: Bill Evans/Words: Gene Lees Jerome Kern Johnny Mandell & Dave Frishberg Rudolph Toombs ROSEANNE VITRO, vocals
Sponsored in part by
I’m a Believer Tres Décadas de Éxitos Crossing Over Yayabo Radio Activo
Sponsored by
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CREATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 8 p.m.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 3 p.m.
SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT
SONGWRITERS SHOWCASE
Florida’s Singing Sons Boychoir
New Songs, New Voices
CRAIG DENISON, conductor Jerusalem
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918)
The Cremation of Sam McGee
Ken Berg (b. 1955)
Past Life Melodies
Sarah Hopkins (b. 1958)
Jazz Songs of Innocence Piping Down the Valleys Wild The Lamb The Little Boy Lost/The Little Boy Found The Echoing Green The Divine Image Ballgames Take Me Out to the Ballgame “The Baseball Game” from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
A Frost School of Music favorite returns! Notable music industry leaders judge the performances of the Frost School of Music student songwriters. The University of Miami’s own student-run Cat 5 Publishing and ‘Cane Records present this fun and unique concert where student songwriters compete for a chance to win.
Selections will be announced from the stage.
Bob Chilcott (b. 1955)
Albert von Tilzer (1878-1956)
Clark Gesner (1938-2002)
Sicut cervus
Giovanni Palestrina
The Road Home
Stephen Paulus
(ca. 1525-1594)
(b. 1949)
Presented in collaboration with Sunday Afternoons of Music for Children Sponsored in part by
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 8 p.m.
UNFORGETTABLE
MUSIC OF THE AMERICAS
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 8 p.m.
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JON SECADA
A TRIBUTE TO NAT KING COLE
A Cabaret Night to Remember
GEORGE BENSON, vocals and guitar FREDDY COLE, vocals and piano HENRY MANCINI INSTITUTE ORCHESTRA SCOTT FLAVIN, conductor TERRANCE BLANCHARD, artistic director
JON SECADA, vocals, CAMILO VELANDIA, guitars DAVID CHIVERTON, drums ERIC ENGLAND, bass LEONARD WHITE, house engineer ADY ORDIALES, tour manager
Selections will be announced from the stage.
Two-time Grammy Award winner Jon Secada will perform songs from his Greatest Hits and Classics albums, including Just Another Day Angel Besame Mucho My Way and many more!
Sponsored by Presented in collaboration with Jazz Roots and the Adrienne Arsht Center Sponsored by Adam R. Rose and Peter R. McQuillan
Location: Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center
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CLOSING NIGHT
CARMINA BURANA
Conducted by Karen Kennedy FROST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MASTER CHORALE OF SOUTH FLORIDA FLORIDA SINGING SONS BOYCHOIR FROST CHORALE AH YOUNG HONG, soprano JAMES HALL, tenor DAVID NEWMAN, baritone Don Juan, Op. 20
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
THOMAS SLEEPER, conductor Carl Orff
Carmina Burana
(1895-1982)
KAREN KENNEDY, conductor
Presented in collaboration with the Master Chorale of South Florida Sponsored by
Location: Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center
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BIOGRAPHIES GLENN BASHAM
SHELTON G. BERG
Glenn Basham (violin) has been a member of the Frost artist faculty since 1992 and the concertmaster of the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra since 1994. He is also the first violinist in the Bergonzi String Quartet, the quartet-in-residence at the Frost School of Music. Basham has a B.M. degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts and an M.M. degree from Indiana University.
Shelton G. Berg is dean and Patricia L. Frost Professor of Music at the University of Miami Frost School of Music. He was previously the McCoy/Sample Professor of Jazz Studies at USC Thornton School of Music and is a past president of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE).
Previously, Basham played with the Detroit Symphony under Antal Dorati and was a member of the Chester String Quartet. He has served as concertmaster at music festivals nationwide, including the Grand Teton Music Festival, the Colorado Music Festival, the Hot Springs Music Festival, and the Pine Mountain Music Festival. He has appeared as a soloist with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Lansing Symphony, Plymouth Symphony, Oak Park Symphony, North Carolina School of the Arts Festival Orchestra, Blue Lake Festival Orchestra, Manchester Symphony, Marion Philharmonic, Palm Beach Symphony, Miami City Ballet, Pine Mountain Music Festival Symphony Orchestra, and Naples Philharmonic Orchestra. As a jazz musician, Basham has performed with Ira Sullivan, Simon Salz, and John Blake, and he is featured on recordings with the Miami Saxophone Quartet and Skitch Henderson.
GEORGE BENSON
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Ten-time Grammy winner and NEA Jazz Master George Benson is heralded as a jazz guitarist of unparalleled chops and a vocalist with great emotional range and sophistication. Benson’s musical passion began early. At age 8 he was singing and playing the ukulele in local nightclubs in Pittsburgh. By his teenage years, he had switched to guitar, and his musical sensibilities shifted toward jazz and the music of Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, and Charlie Parker. Benson launched his solo career in 1964 with The New Boss Guitar, which got the attention of Columbia Records. Benson recorded two solo albums for Columbia, playing session dates for others, including Miles Davis’s 1968 opus, Miles in the Sky. He left Columbia in the late 1960s, recording on several labels before meeting producer Tommy LiPuma, who encouraged Benson to sing. The result was Breezin’, the 1976 blockbuster album that began a long association with Warner Brothers. Breezin’ was the first jazz record to achieve platinum sales, and the hits included the title track, an update of Leon Russell’s “This Masquerade,” and “Give Me the Night.” In the mid-1990s, Benson followed LiPuma to the GRP label, releasing That’s Right (1996) and Standing Together (1998). His recent recordings include Absolute Benson (2000), Irreplaceable (2004), Givin’ It Up (2006), a duet recording with Al Jarreau that earned two Grammy Awards, and Songs and Stories (2009) on Concord Records/ Monster Music.
In 2000 the Los Angeles Times named Berg one of three “Educators for the Millennium.” He is widely acclaimed for his energetic and innovative approaches to performance, composition, and pedagogy. He has performed and recorded with top music industry professionals and has orchestrated music for television, motion pictures, and major orchestras. Berg has performed and lectured throughout the world and has numerous arrangements, compositions, and texts in publication. All Music Guide calls Berg “one of the finest pianists around in the early 21st century playing modern mainstream jazz.” Berg’s CD Blackbird (Concord) reached No. 1 in U.S. jazz radio (JazzWeek, 2005). Recent recording and arranging projects include a solo CD, The Nearness of You (Arbors), Arturo Sandoval’s A Time for Love (Concord), and several NPR radio broadcasts for Jim Cullum’s Riverwalk Jazz series.
HUIFANG CHEN Conductor Huifang Chen enjoys a dual career as a performer and an educator. In addition to serving as the music director of the Greater Miami Youth Symphony, she is a frequent guest conductor for Alhambra Orchestra and Broward Symphony Orchestra. She was interim director of orchestra at Florida International University from 2009 to 2010 and has led orchestras in major venues, including Carnegie Hall. As violinist, Chen was the winner of the 1999 Young Concert Artist of the Year, awarded by the National Concert Hall of Taipei, Taiwan, and a Concerto Competition Winner at the University of Miami in 2003. She has been concertmaster for Boca Raton Philharmonic Symphonia, Orchestra Miami, Miami Bach Society, Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra, and the Florida Grand Opera. She performed with the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra from 1994 until 2003. Sony, EMI, and Warner Brothers issue her recordings. Chen is on the faculty at Lynn University in Boca Raton, and she has taught violin and chamber music at the Frost School of Music. She also teaches at the Rocky Mountain Summer Conservatory in Colorado and at the Philadelphia International Music Festival Winter Solo Performance Program. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and her Master of Music degree from the University of Miami in violin performance.
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FREDDY COLE
TOMAS COTIK
Lionel Frederick Cole plays piano, sings, and performs live with guitar and upright bass, just like his brother, Nat “King” Cole. But with his raspier, smokier voice, he has distinguished himself from his older sibling. His vocals—suave, elegant, formidable, and articulate—are among the most respected in jazz. He lives in Atlanta, where he leads a trio that includes guitarist Randy Napoleon, drummer Curtis Boyd, and bassist Elias Bailey.
Violinist Tomas Cotik, currently pursuing his doctorate in violin performance at the Frost School of Music, is an internationally recognized chamber musician, soloist, and orchestra musician. First-prize winner of the National Broadcast Music Competition in his native Argentina in 1997, Cotik has concertized in Germany, Holland, Canada, Argentina, Japan, and throughout the U.S., participating in more than 15 international festivals. He appeared recently in Amarillo, Miami, and Toronto, performing the Tchaikovsky and Bruch Violin Concertos, Schubert’s Rondo for violin and strings, and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. After a New York audition, he was invited to perform as concertmaster of Minas Gerais Philarmonic in Brazil under Fabio Mechetti.
Early influences in Cole’s youth include Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, and Billy Eckstine. He began performing in Chicago clubs as a teenager, continuing his musical education at the Roosevelt Institute in Chicago. Cole moved to New York in 1951 and studied at the Juilliard School of Music. He found himself profoundly influenced by John Lewis, Oscar Peterson, and Teddy Wilson. Cole’s first single, “The Joke’s on Me,” was released in 1952 on an obscure Chicago-based label. After earning his master’s degree at the New England Conservatory of Music, Cole spent time in an Earl Bostic band that included Johnny Coles and Benny Golson. Performing in Manhattan bistros, he developed a vast repertoire of songs, supplementing his live performances with television and radio commercial jingle work. During the 1970s, Cole recorded numerous albums for European and English companies that developed a loyal overseas following. With his trio, he continues to regularly tour the U.S., Europe, the Far East, and South America.
FRANK COOPER Frank Cooper is a research professor in the Department of Musicology at the Frost School of Music, where he lectures and teaches harpsichord. Truly a Renaissance scholar, he has devoted his life to studying the arts while simultaneously pursuing careers as a teacher, writer, lecturer, and performer. An expert on keyboard performance practices, he recently performed the Bach Double Keyboard Concerto with Dean Shelton Berg and a chamber orchestra at St. Martha’s Church in Miami. A highlight of his career was receiving the Liszt Centennial Medal from the Hungarian Ministry of Culture along with Vladimir Horowitz and Leonard Bernstein during the same ceremony. Reviews of his research have been published simultaneously in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Time magazine. Cooper has been the subject of international radio broadcasts, is widely commissioned to write program notes and record annotations, and has served as artistic director for 35 years of the Indianapolis Early Music Festival. In 2007 he was presented by the National Federation of Music Clubs with its centennial citation for his “indelible and remarkable impact on the artistic life and culture of the United States and the world at large.” The Miami Herald has referred to him as “South Florida’s cultural maven.” He is a former member of the faculties of Butler University in Indianapolis and the New World School of the Arts in Miami. As part of the Frost School’s community outreach commitment, Cooper also offers a noncredit music history lecture series.
A former member of the New World Symphony, Cotik has performed with prominent conductors such as Michael Tilson Thomas, Valery Gergiev, Roberto Abbado, Yakov Kreizberg, Marin Alsop, Stephan Deneve, Roger Norrington, and Robert Spano. He has worked under the guidance of the Vermeer, Tokyo, and Endellion String Quartets and notable solo artists including Midori, Christian Tetzlaff, Ana Chumachenko, Heinz Holliger, Leon Fleisher, and the leaders of the Vienna, Berlin, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras. Cotik’s recording projects include Mendelssohn’s Viola Quintets for Dorian Sono Luminus and the world premiere and recording of Kenneth Fuchs’s String Quartet No. 5 for Naxos. He holds a Bachelor and Master in Music from the Freiburg University of Music in Germany and an Artist Diploma from the Glenn Gould School in Toronto, studying with Nicolas Chumachenco and Lorand Fenyves.
MARGARET DONAGHUE FLAVIN Margaret Donaghue Flavin (clarinet) is associate professor of instrumental performance and program director of Woodwinds at the Frost School of Music. She has performed in some of the world’s major concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, the Zurich Tonhalle, La Scala, and for the Maggio Musicale in Florence. She has performed at international conferences in Oslo, Norway, Manchester, England, Chicago, and New Orleans, among others. Chamber music recitals include Honolulu, Grand Cayman, London, and Paris, as well other venues across Europe and Japan. She has appeared as soloist with the Shanghai Broadcast Symphony and the Shen Zhen Symphony in China, as well as the Russe State Philharmonic in Bulgaria. Donaghue gives master classes and recitals across the United States and performs with her trio, Miami Chamber Ensemble, and newly formed ensemble, MiamiClarinet. She performed the sextet L’Heure du Berger in London and Paris with composer Jean Françaix at the piano. She recently served a three-year term as a member of the Fulbright National Screening Committee and appears frequently as clinician and adjudicator. Donaghue can be heard frequently on public radio across the country. She received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Illinois, a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of New Hampshire. Prior to coming to Miami she served on the faculties of Central Michigan University and the University of Connecticut. She can be heard on Centaur, Albany, and Altarus labels.
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PAUL DOOLEY
SCOTT FLAVIN
Composer Paul Dooley’s music embraces a cross-cultural range of contemporary music, dance, art, technology, and the interactions between the human and natural worlds. He has composed for solo instruments, orchestras, bands, electronics, and chamber ensembles. He has received 2010 BMI composer award, a 2008 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, a fellowship to the 2008 Aspen Music Festival Composition Masterclass, and a fellowship from the 2011 Cabrillo New Music Festival Composers Lab.
Scott Flavin (violin and conductor) is a lecturer in the Department of Instrumental Performance and artistic coordinator and resident conductor for the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra at the Frost School of Music. Flavin also is a member of the Bergonzi String Quartet and a director of the Frost Chamber Orchestra. He is concertmaster of the Florida Grand Opera and Miami Bach Society and founder and music director of the Miami Mozarteum. He regularly performs across the globe, and is a member of the newly formed chamber ensemble Pulse.
Dooley’s Point Blank (2012) was commissioned by a consortium organized by Gary Green of the University of Miami Frost Wind Ensemble. In 2010 Dooley was commissioned by San Francisco Ballet’s Principal Dancers to create a project for Marina Abramovic Institute West. Other commissioners include Scordatura Music Society, the Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble, and the Michigan Music Teachers Association and National Music Teachers Association. Dooley’s music has been performed by Alarm Will Sound, the Charlotte Symphony, the American Philharmonic, the Atlantic Classical Orchestra, and the Omaha Symphony. He is the 2011-2012 composer-in-residence with the Detroit Chamber Winds. Dooley earned his degree at the University of Southern California under Frank Ticheli, Stephen Hartke, and Frederick Lesemann. He is completing doctoral studies at the University of Michigan with composers Michael Daugherty, Bright Sheng, and Evan Chambers. Additional teachers include Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, Christopher Rouse, Martin Bresnick, Derek Bermel, Louis Andriessen, and others.
JUDY DRUCKER Judith Drucker is internationally beloved for making the Concert Association of Florida one of Florida’s most formidable artistic presenting organizations since 1967. Thereafter, she formed the Great Artists Series. Drucker has presented world-renowned classical musicians to South Florida, including Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Zubin Mehta, Beverly Sills, Cecilia Bartoli, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, and more. She has also brought in orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, and Israel Philharmonic. Drucker is a pioneer in bringing world-class dance companies to South Florida, including the American Ballet Theatre, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Bolshoi Ballet, The Royal Ballet of Covent Garden, the Joffrey Ballet, and many more. She frequently arranges master classes and performances for young people in the community. Artists who have worked with her include Twyla Tharp, James Galway, Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, André Watts, and many others. A musician herself, Drucker studied piano at the New York College of Music and voice at The Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music. She performed on Broadway, in Miami at the Palm Island Latin Quarter, and with the Greater Miami-Dade Opera (now the Florida Grand Opera). Among her many honors are a Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, from International Fine Arts College, and Doctor of Music, honoris causa, from Florida International University.
As a composer and arranger, Flavin’s works have been heard on American Public Media’s radio program “Performance Today” and have been recorded by the Bergonzi Quartet. His recordings include chamber music on the Naxos, M&W, and Centaur labels and commercial recordings on Sony, EMI, and Warner Brothers, including appearances on over a dozen Grammy Award-winning albums. He has recorded two solo CDs, Great Violin Solos of the Opera and Ballet and The Complete Brahms Violin Sonatas. Flavin performs on a rare Italian violin made in 1780 by Tomaso Eberle.
LEON FLEISHER At 83 years young, 2012 Stamps Distinguished Visitor Leon Fleisher continues to thrive as a conductor and pianist. The youngest-ever student of Artur Schnabel, Fleisher debuted with the New York Philharmonic in 1944. In 1952 he became the first American to win the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium competition, establishing him as one of the world’s premier classical pianists. At age 36, a neurological affliction left two fingers on Fleisher’s right hand immobile. He began focusing on repertoire for the left hand only, forging new ground as a soloist, conductor, and teacher. Experimental treatments finally restored the mobility in Fleisher’s hand, and in 2004 he won enormous acclaim for his recording Two Hands. Among other honors and awards, Fleisher received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007 for his contribution to U.S. culture. As a pianist, Fleisher returns this season to some of Europe’s most prestigious musical capitals—London, Paris, and Brussels—performing as soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, and in recital at Belgium’s Palais des Beaux-Arts. Chamber music appearances include New York’s Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and the historic Town Hall. As a conductor, Fleisher will make his UK debut this season with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He will also tour the U.S. with the Irish Chamber Orchestra and North America as conductor and soloist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
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FLORIDA’S SINGING SONS BOYCHOIR
FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ
(ABOVE)
Writer and editor Fernando González regularly contributes to The Miami Herald, Jazz Times, The International Review of Music, Latingrammy.com, and other publications. As a music journalist, González has been managing editor of Jazziz, correspondent for The Washington Post, and staff music critic for The Miami Herald and The Boston Globe. He was managing editor of El Sitio.com United States and has contributed to National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, Downbeat, Sí, Variety, Rhythm Music, CD Review, New York Latino, Request, Pulse and eritmo.com.
Founded in Fort Lauderdale in 1975, the internationally award-winning Florida’s Singing Sons Boychoir consists of boys age 8 through 14 who are selected from the South Florida community by audition. Those selected are rigorously prepared through a multilevel music education program for participation in one of the three choirs: Training Choir, Residence Choir, and Concert Choir. The Boychoir performs a wide variety of choral literature, from Gregorian chant to Broadway favorites. Concerts typically include secular and sacred choral classics as well as selections from opera, operetta, folk music, and musical theater. Members of the choir have appeared with the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, the New World Symphony, the Sinfonia Virtuosi of Florida, the Gold Coast Opera, and the Imperial Symphony, as well as with stage luminaries Liza Minnelli, Judy Collins, Lee Greenwood, and the late Audrey Hepburn and Bob Hope. Other choral activities include international and national concert tours, arts in education concerts for Broward County public schools through the SEAS Program (Student Enrichment in the Arts and Sciences), community outreach concerts, performances for local and national conventions, commercials for radio and television, radio broadcasts on WTMI, and television broadcasts on WPBT, South Florida’s Public television station.
González won an Emmy and a Gabriel Award as senior editor and writer for the special “Notes from The Mambo Inn: The Story of Mario Bauzá,” and also received an Emmy nomination and a Gold Award as associate producer and writer for “En Clave,” hosted by singer Rubén Blades. In 2001 González translated and expanded Ástor Piazzolla: A Memoir, the autobiography of the late Argentine composer. From 2005 to 2007 González was curator of jazz programming for the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. In 2007 he accepted a position with Spain’s Fundación Autor to develop a cultural network in Latin America and was project manager in collaboration with Berklee College in launching an international music school in Valencia, Spain. In 2011 he co-created and lectured for a course at the Global Jazz Institute at Berklee College of Music. González is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and a charter member of the Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
J.B. FLOYD J.B. Floyd is professor of keyboard performance at the Frost School of Music, where he served as department chair for many years. Floyd’s musical interests are diverse. As a pianist, composer, and improviser, his music-making includes classical piano recitals and solo appearances with orchestra, new music performances as a soloist and collaborator, and jazz concerts. His compositions include solo piano pieces, works for piano/Disklavier and computer-assisted electronic instruments, and works for chorus, orchestra, jazz ensembles, and chamber music combinations. Floyd received B.M. and M.M. degrees from the University of North Texas and a D.M. in Performance from Indiana University. He was awarded a Town Hall (NYC) debut recital by the National Guild of Piano Teachers competition and a Fulbright scholarship for study in Vienna. He also received an artist-in-residence appointment to Hawaii by the Ford Foundation and numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Floyd has collaborated on many occasions with David Rosenboom in concerts of two-piano improvisations; they have also performed simultaneously on Yamaha Disklaviers from “virtual stages” in Santa Monica, California and New York City over Internet Electric Cafe International, a network of sites around the world linked by teleconferencing systems, videophones, and computers.
GARY GREEN Gary Green, professor of music and director of bands at the Frost School of Music, teaches conducting and serves as the conductor of the Frost Wind Ensemble. Formerly the chair of the Department of Instrumental Performance, Green holds a B.M. degree from Boise State University and an M.M. degree from the University of Idaho. He formerly conducted the University of Connecticut’s Symphony Band, Wind Ensemble, and Marching Band. Green also was director of bands at University High School in Spokane, Washington, one of the most widely respected band programs in the nation. Throughout his career, he has received numerous honors and awards. His recent conducting activities include events in Florida, Texas, Connecticut, Kansas, Maryland, Georgia, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and others. In addition, he has conducted all state, regional, national, and international honor bands.
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STEPHEN GUERRA, JR.
ROSS HARBAUGH
Stephen Guerra, Jr., is a jazz composition lecturer in the Department of Studio Music and Jazz at the Frost School of Music. He is also the conductor of the Frost Studio Jazz Band, winning DownBeat student awards in both 2010 and 2011, as well as director of community outreach for the Frost School and coordinator of the Henry Mancini Institute. Guerra earned a B.A. from the University of New Hampshire in Saxophone Performance, an M.M. from the Eastman School of Music, and is currently pursuing a D.M.A in Jazz Composition from Frost School of Music.
Ross Harbaugh (violincello) is professor of instrumental performance and program director, Strings, at the Frost School of Music, where, in addition to teaching cello, he is the faculty mentor for the undergraduate Stamps String Quartet and works with graduate string quartets. He is cellist of the well-known Bergonzi String Quartet. His distinguished teachers include Janos Starker, Leonard Rose, and Peter Howard in the United States, Andre Navarra at the Paris Conservatory, and chamber music study with the Juilliard Quartet.
In high demand as a composer and arranger, Guerra was commissioned to write music for Dave Koz, Jorge Villamizar, Carmen Bradford, the Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra, the Greater Manchester Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra, and the Air Force Band of the West. He served as a composer‐in‐residence throughout the U.S. through the Commission Project and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has performed alongside many jazz greats, including Phil Woods, Al Grey, Snooky Young, Marshall Royal, John Faddis, and Jeff “Tain” Watts. He was a featured soloist on the Clark Terry and the Young Titans of Jazz 2003 release Live at Marihan’s and the Louie Bellson Big Band release Louie and Clark Expedition 2. The Stephen Guerra Big Band released a critically acclaimed first album in 2009, Namesake.
As a founding member of the New World Quartet, Harbaugh won the Naumburg Prize and a Prix du Disque. He has recorded 14 records and CDs for Vox, MCI Classic and IMP Masters, CRI, Centaur, Fleur de Son, and Musical Heritage labels. Performing throughout Europe and the United States, he has appeared in concerts at the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, and Wigmore Hall in London and has concertized with such artists as Leonard Rose, Bill Preucil, Richard Goode, Jeffrey Kahane, Raphael Hillyer, Joel Krosnick, Jerome Rose, Gil Kalish, and the Guarneri Quartet. Harbaugh served as a judge for the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, the Stulberg Competition, and the Fulbright Competition for Graduate Music Study Abroad.
MARJORIE HAHN Marjorie Gould Hahn is in her 40th year as conductor and teacher for the South Florida Youth Symphony. She became the executive director ten years ago and has guided the organization to a superb level of programming, teaching, touring, and ensemble development. She also secured and appointed a musical staff dedicated to the development of South Florida’s young talent. Hahn was the private conducting pupil and stepdaughter of Carmen Nappo, the late founder of the South Florida Youth Symphony. She is currently serving a six-year term on the Board of the Youth Orchestra Division of the League of American Orchestras. Hahn is an active teacher and performer, serving as adjunct French horn instructor for Miami Dade College, Kendall for 11 years, continuing education trumpet instructor, and private studio teacher of both instruments. She performs regularly with the quintet Miami’s Top Brass and is the French hornist for the Miami Dade College, Kendall Woodwind Quintet.
JENNIFER HIGDON Composer Jennifer Higdon, a major figure in contemporary classical music, is one of America’s most frequently performed composers. Her works represent a range of genres, including orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and wind ensemble music. She received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto and has received awards from the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Meet the Composer, National Endowment for the Arts, and ASCAP. Higdon’s commissioners include The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Chicago Symphony, The Atlanta Symphony, The Baltimore Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Minnesota Orchestra, The Pittsburgh Symphony, The Indianapolis Symphony, The Dallas Symphony, the Tokyo String Quartet, and the President’s Own Marine Band. She has been a Featured Composer at festivals including Tanglewood, Vail, Cabrillo, Grand Teton, Norfolk, and Winnipeg. She has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Fort Worth Symphony. In 2012-13, she will be creative director for the Cincinnati Symphony’s Boundless Series and Composer-in-Residence with the Arkansas Symphony. Higdon’s works have been recorded extensively, and her Percussion Concerto won a Grammy in January 2010 for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Her CDs Higdon: Concerto for Orchestra/City Scape, Strange Imaginary Animals, and Transmigration also received Grammys. She currently holds the Milton L. Rock Chair in Composition Studies at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Her music is published by Lawdon Press.
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DOROTHY HINDMAN
DENNIS KAM
Dorothy Hindman’s work is performed extensively in the U.S. and throughout Europe. Critics have called her music “intense, gripping, and frenetic,” “sonorous and affirmative,” and “music of terrific romantic gesture.” Awards and recognition include the 2005 Almquist Choral Composition Award, a 2004 Nancy Van de Vate International Composition Prize for Opera, a 2004 winner of the International Society of Bassists Solo Composition Competition, an Alabama State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, and the NACUSA Young Composers Competition. Commissions for 2010 include Prothalamia for the Empire City Men’s Chorus (NYC) and The Road to Damascus for the Caraval Quartet (NYC).
Dennis Kam is a professor in the Department of Music Theory and Composition at the Frost School of Music, where he served as department chair for several decades. He conducts the Other Music Ensemble (for the performance of new music). He is also composer-in-residence for the South Florida Youth Symphony. Recent recordings of his music include Miami Mix II, performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony (TNC label), as well as two works performed by the Ibis Camerata, Trio and Sonata Ibis (Albany). He is a national board member for Composition for the Southern Chapter of the College Music Society and a former president. He has also served as a member of both Executive and National Councils for the Society of Composers, Inc.
Other recent commissions include Sursum Corda for the a cappella choir of the same name; The Wall Calls to Me, to accompany a visual installation by artist Sally Johnson; Nine Churches for the Corona Guitar Kvartet and Lithuanian Sinfonia; Tapping the Furnace for Evelyn Glennie, Stuart Gerber, and Scott Deal; and The Pillow Book for the Goliard Ensemble (NYC). Hindman’s residencies include a Seaside Escape to Create Residency in 2009; Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, Italy in Fall 2005; resident composer at the Visby International Centre for Composers, Sweden in 2005; and composer-in-residence for the Goliard Ensemble in 2009. A native of Miami, she is part of the adjunct faculty at Florida International University and the University of Miami, a freelance composer, and a writer for The Miami Herald.
Kam has received many commissions, grants, and awards, including BMI and the Ford Foundation, enabling him to serve as professional (composer)-in-residence for Honolulu and the State of Hawaii under the auspices of the Ford Foundation/ MENC Contemporary Music Project from 1970 to 1972. He was music director/conductor of the Greater Miami Youth Symphony from 1982 to 1987, and his works since the 1980s have represented a variety of interests, including new tonal or post-atonal possibilities, contextual novelty, varieties of focus and perceptibility, time and continuity, meaning, implication, and representation in music.
TRUDY KANE JP JOFRE
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Bandoneonist Juan Pablo Jofre has brought his form of contemporary tango to some of the most important venues in Asia, Europe, America, and the Caribbean as soloist, composer, and arranger. As a performer, he earned Argentina’s highly competitive National Arts Grant to study with legendary Ástor Piazzolla’s Sextet bandoneón player, Julio Pane, in Buenos Aires. Jofre has collaborated with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Paquito D’ Rivera Sextet, Nina Beilina, Dartmouth Wind Symphony Orchestra, Westchester Jazz Orchestra, San Juan National Symphony Orchestra, and i Solisti di Perugia, among many others. Jofre has also received commissions from festivals and orchestras, including the Heineken Jazz Festival, the Umbria Jazz Festival, American Virtuosi, and Bacchanalia Taiwan. Other major performances include the International Tango Festival of Granada and the International Tango Festival of Alméria, the inauguration ceremony for the Granada School for the Bandoneón, the 2011 Latin Grammy Ceremony, and The Rosie O’Donnell Show. Jofre began studies at the National University of San Juan School of Music in San Juan, Argentina, and has studied with Martin Ferres, Daniel Binelli, and Julio Pane. His debut CD features Grammy winner Paquito D’ Rivera performing Jofre’s “Primavera.”
Trudy Kane, associate professor of flute, joined the faculty of the Frost School of Music in 2008 after 32 seasons as principal flutist of the Metropolitan Opera. She received both a B.M. and M.M. from The Juilliard School of Music. Upon graduation she freelanced and spent two years as a regular extra with the New York Philharmonic. She is active in the commercial recording field and can be heard on the soundtracks of many film scores (trudykane.com). She can be heard and seen on many Met videos including Il Trittico, Manon Lescaut, Peter Grimes, and three different La Bohe´ mes. Kane has given master classes at noted universities, including Manhattan and Mannes Schools of Music, Penn State University, and University of North Texas. Her CD, In the French Style, includes works by Fauré, Frank, and Gieseking. A number of her transcriptions for Flute Quartet have been published, as well as her transcription of the Fauré Sonata and cadenzas for Mozart’s Concerto in D Major. She has been privileged to work with many great conductors, including Carlos Kleiber, Karl B¨ohm, Erich Leinsdorf, James Levine, Pierre Boulez, and Valery Gergiev and great singers such as Leontyne Price, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Renee Fleming, and Joan Sutherland.
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KAREN KENNEDY
DAVE LIEBMAN
Karen Kennedy is associate professor and director of choral studies at the Frost School of Music, where she conducts the Frost Chorale and other choral ensembles. She is also artistic director of the Master Chorale of South Florida. She previously held the positions of chorus director for the Honolulu Symphony, director of choral activities at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa, and director of choral activities at Towson University. She earned a D.M.A. in choral music from Arizona State University, an M.M. in choral conducting from Butler University, and a B.M. in music education from DePauw University.
David Liebman’s four-decade career as a saxophonist/flautist began in the 1970s with the Elvin Jones and Miles Davis Groups. Since then he has led his own groups, including Lookout Farm, Quest, and The Dave Liebman Group, featuring John Scofield, Richie Beirach, Billy Hart, Adam Nussbaum, Al Foster, John Abercrombie, and Vic Juris. His eclectic repertoire ranges from original adaptations of standards to 20th-century-inspired classical music, from fusion to his own big band and free jazz ensembles. Notable performances with contemporary classical groups include Klangforum of Vienna and the Ensemble Intercontemporain of Paris.
Kennedy regularly conducts choral festivals featuring major works, such as Orff’s Carmina Burana, Durufle’s Requiem, Fauré’s Requiem, Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, and Rutter’s Gloria, and presented concerts in such venues as the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, Sweden. She has received numerous awards for teaching, including awards from the University of Hawaii, Arizona State University, and Butler University. She is well known as a choral clinician and adjudicator, regularly working with Gateway Music Festivals, Music in the Parks, and Heritage Music Tours, as well as all-state and festival honor choirs. Her workshops have been a part of recent ACDA and MENC regional and state conventions, and she has served as the ACDA Eastern Division Collegiate Repertoire and Standards Chair and as a founding member of the National Collegiate Choral Organization.
JEFFREY KIPPERMAN Jeff Kipperman, from Yorktown Heights, New York, is a doctoral student in jazz bass and teaching assistant at the University of Miami. He has been playing bass for 25 years and has a great deal of professional experience playing jazz, classical, and world music. In Miami, he has performed with the Miami Ballet, Florida Grand Opera, and New World Symphony and has led his own jazz ensembles. This is his fifth year performing with the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra.
LARRY LAPIN Larry Lapin is professor and program director of Jazz Vocal Performance at the Frost School of Music. A pianist, composer, arranger, and educator, Larry Lapin’s career is vast, including performances with jazz greats such as Gerry Mulligan, Bobby Shew, Johnny Smith, George Duvivier, and Sarah Vaughn. In addition, he has appeared with such show business personalities as Rich Little, Phyllis Diller, Cab Calloway, and Tony Bennett. His arrangements and orchestrations are constantly performed by professional and school groups all over the country, most recently by Peter Nero and the Philly Pops Orchestra. Lapin’s students have garnered 26 awards in 22 years in DownBeat magazine’s annual student music award competition. He is a member of the American Federation of Musicians; American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP); Music Educators National Conference; International Association of Jazz Educators; American Choral Directors Association; and Florida Vocal Association. A popular conductor and clinician, Lapin is in-demand at all-state festivals and music conferences.
Liebman has played on nearly 300 recordings, and his numerous awards include the 2011 National Endowment of the Arts Masters of Jazz Award; the Order of Arts and Letters, France; the 2007 Jazz Journalist’s award for Soprano Saxophone; a 1998 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Solo; and an honorary doctorate from the Sibelius Academy, Finland. He consistently places in the top three positions for soprano saxophone in the DownBeat Critic’s Poll since 1973, winning first place in both the 2011 DownBeat and 2011 and 2012 Jazz Times Critic’s Poll. Leibman is a renowned lecturer and author of several books, including: Self Portrait of a Jazz Artist and A Chromatic Approach to Jazz Harmony and Melody. He is Artist in Residence at the Manhattan School of Music and the Founder and Artistic Director of the International Association of Schools of Jazz.
DANTE LUCIANI Dante Luciani is a lecturer in jazz trombone in the Department of Studio Music and Jazz at the Frost School of Music, where he is coordinator of the Jazz Brass program and conducts the award-winning Frost Concert Jazz Band. Formerly the lead trombonist and soloist with the Woody Herman and Maynard Ferguson Orchestras, Luciani has performed with various artists, including Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Ben Vereen, Burt Bacharach, Natalie Cole, Anthony Newley, Bob Mintzer, Randy Brecker, and Paquito D’Rivera. Under Luciani’s leadership, the Frost Concert Jazz Band won the DownBeat magazine 2010 award for “Large Jazz Ensemble, Graduate College Winner.” As a trombone soloist, he toured Eastern Europe with his Jazz Quintet and also performed in Istanbul, Turkey at the Nardis Jazz Club for the Istanbul Jazz Festival. He was twice featured as a soloist for the “Salsa Meets Jazz” series at the Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club and in 2005 was featured as an All-Star on The Jazz Cruise. He holds B.M. and M.M. degrees from the University of Miami.
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LUCIANO MAGNANINI
ANA MARÍA MARTÍNEZ
Luciano Magnanini, professor of bassoon at the Frost School of Music, began his musical studies in Italy at the Conservatory Nicolo Paganini in Genoa and continued his musical training in the city of Milan. His recordings include: Twentieth-Century Music for Bassoon and Piano: Poulenc, Saint-Saens, Elliot and A Tour d’Anches, French Music for Winds on Altarus Records, Inc., and Gordon Jacob, Concerto for Bassoon on Albany Records. He has also recorded for RCA, CBS, and Harmonia Mundi.
Grammy-winning soprano Ana María Martínez’s career spans the world’s greatest opera houses and concert halls. Martínez has sung every major lyric role, including: Mimi in La Bohéme; Violetta in La Traviata; Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni; and the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro at such venerable houses as the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Vienna Staatsoper, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, and others. She has sung with today’s top conductors—Alan Gilbert, James Conlon, Massimo Zanetti, and Gustavo Dudamel—and orchestras such as the BBC Symphony at Barbican Hall, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra in Moscow, Filharmonica della Scala, New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Boston Symphony, and more.
Magnanini has been principal bassoonist with the Orchestra Comunale della Opera in Genoa, Mexico City Philharmonic, Miami Philharmonic, World Symphony Orchestra, Festival Casals Orchestra, and Eastern Music Festival Orchestra in North Carolina. He has played under the baton of renowned conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Meta, Carlo Maria Giuliani, Alain Lombard, Eduardo Mata, and James Conlon. He has an active performing career playing solo concerts and chamber music in the United States, South America, China, and Europe.
MICHAEL MAGUIRE Michael Maguire’s portrayal of Enjolras in the original Broadway company of Les Misérables garnered a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Theater World Award and a feature on the cover of Newsweek. He was a member of the “Dream Cast” celebrating the tenth anniversary of Les Miz at the Royal Albert Hall, broadcast on PBS and around the world. Maguire starred as Count Carl Magnus in A Little Night Music at the New York City Opera and in Strike Up the Band opposite Charles Nelson Reilly for L.A.’s Reprise series. Other national starring roles include Carousel, Brigadoon, Kismet, Annie Get Your Gun, Side by Side, 110 in the Shade, and Showboat. At the Cinegrill in Los Angeles, “Michael Maguire in Concert” scored rave reviews, and his collaboration with Tony Award winner Debbie Gravitte in Direct from Broadway debuted at the Kennedy Center in Washington and has toured the U.S. As a concert soloist and big band singer, Maguire has appeared with more than 250 symphony orchestras, including the Cleveland, Minnesota, Kansas City, St. Louis, Buffalo, San Diego, Columbus, Seattle, Utah, and National Symphonies. His solo CD with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops has sold over 300,000 copies, and he recently recorded three CDs of Jerome Kern’s music at the Abbey Road Studio. Film credits include Go Fish, Where the Day Takes You, Cadillac, and Deep End of the Ocean, and television guest appearances include Quantum Leap, Nowhere Man, Hearts Afire, and Star Trek-Voyager.
Martínez regularly performs on tour nationally and internationally with Placido Domingo and Andrea Bocelli and has appeared at the White House, the Casals Festival, and the Glyndebourne Festival. Her DVD performances include: Cosi Fan Tutte at the Salzburg Festival; Spanish Night with Placido Domingo conducting the Berlin Philharmonic; Amor, Vida de Mi Vida with Domingo and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg; Concerto, One Night in Central Park, with Andrea Bocelli; and Rusalka with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Her recordings include Ana María Martínez - Soprano Songs and Arias (Naxos), the Latin Grammy Award-winning Merlin with Plácido Domingo, Glass’s La Belle et la Bête (Nonesuch), and Castelnuovo Tedesco’s Naomi & Ruth with Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Naxos).
CHARLES MASON Charles Mason is associate professor and chair of the Department of Theory and Composition at the Frost School of Music. He has received many awards for his compositions, including the American Composers Orchestra “Playing It Unsafe” prize, the 2005 Rome Prize, the Premi Internacional de Composició Musical Ciutat de Tarragona Orchestra Music prize, and a National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Award. He was named the 2009 Distinguished Alumnus by the Frost School of Music. His music has been performed worldwide, including the Foro Internacional de Música Nueva in Mexico City, the Quirinale in Rome, the Aspen Summer Music Festival, and the Nuova Musica Consonante in Romani and broadcast over RAI radio throughout Italy and on NPR’s “Performance Today.” Mason has received commissions from many top-ranked ensembles, including American Composers Orchestra, DUO 46, Miami String Quartet, Gregg Smith Singers, Dale Warland Singers, Corona Guitar Kvartet, ONIX (Mexico), Luna Nova, bassist Robert Black, violinist Karen Bentley Pollick, New York Golliard Ensemble, and cellists Madeleine Shapiro, Craig Hultgren, and Jeffrey Solow, to name a few. He completed his B.M. with honors at the University of Miami and his M.M. and D.M.A. in composition at the University of Illinois. In 2005 he was a composer-in-residence at the International Centre for Composers in Visby, Sweden and twice sponsored by the Seaside Institute as an “Escape to Create” composer-in-residence.
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PAMELA MCCONNELL
LAWRENCE MOORE
Pamela McConnell (viola) is professor of instrumental performance at the Frost School of Music, where she is also coordinator of string chamber music and artistic director of the Frost Chamber Players. She is highly regarded as a concert violist, adjudicator, and master teacher. Her recent string quartet arrangements of the beloved orchestral works Saint-Seans’s Carnival of the Animals and Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf are highly popular in concert. She has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout the world and at such prestigious venues as the Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and Gardner Museum of Boston. She was previously on the faculties of University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and State University of New York at Buffalo, where, as a member of the Rowe Quartet, she shared a Peabody Award.
Lawrence W. Moore is a lecturer teaching electronic music courses in the Department of Music Theory and Composition at the Frost School of Music. These courses include MIDI Control Systems, Multimedia for Musicians, Introduction to the Electronic Music Studio, Digital Synthesis, and more. An art music composer who specializes in the production of electro-acoustic music, he also generates sounds and program software components for the production of music. He has an eclectic background in music, ranging from saxophone performance to studio engineering and production.
McConnell is the founding violist in the Bergonzi String Quartet, the quartet in residence at the Frost School of Music, as well as the Pine Mountain Music Festival in Upper Peninsula Michigan, Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Connecticut, and Rocky Mountain Music Conservatory in Colorado. She has also been a resident faculty performer at Sewanee Summer Music Center in Tennessee and Bowdoin Music Festival in Maine. She is founder and director of the University of Miami String Academy, a preparatory program. She received a B.M. degree from Northwestern University and an M.M. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, studying with such luminaries as Walter Trampler, Leonard Shure, George Neikrug, and Andor Toth.
LANSING MCLOSKEY Lansing McLoskey is associate professor in the Department of Music Theory and Composition at the Frost School of Music. Described as “one of the best composers of [his] generation,” His music has been performed across the United States and in 11 other countries on five continents. He has received dozens of commissions and grants, including the National Endowment of the Arts, Meet the Composer, ASCAP, and Barlow Endowment, to name a few. McLoskey has been awarded “first prize” in numerous composition competitions, including Omaha Symphony Orchestra International New Music Competition, Kenneth Davenport National Competition for Orchestral Works and a Meet the Composer commission for Triton Brass, which was premiered at Tanglewood. He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University, and he holds degrees with honors from the University of California Santa Barbara and the USC Thornton School of Music, with additional studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
Moore earned a D.M.A. in composition and an M.M. in media writing and production from the University of Miami, an M.M. in composition and theory and an M.M. in saxophone performance from The Pennsylvania State University, and a B.A. in music from Lebanon Valley College. He produces electronic music through his independent label, Wayfarer Music. His music is performed at electronic music festivals, and he composed the soundtrack for Cruel and Usual, which was awarded honorable mention in several independent art film festivals. His music has also been featured on “First Ladies,” the History Channel’s museum documentary about U.S. presidential first ladies.
JASON MORAN 2010 Macarthur Foundation Recipient Jason Moran has established himself as a risktaking pianist and innovator of new directions in jazz. His awards include Jazz Artist, Jazz Album and Pianist of the Year in the 59th Annual DownBeat Critics Poll; Rising Star Jazz Artist, Rising Star Pianist, Rising Star Composer in the 2003-04 DownBeat Critics Polls; and the first Playboy Jazz Artist of the Year award. Moran’s Soundtrack to Human Motion on Blue Note earned “Best Debut Recording” by the Jazz Journalists Association. Facing Left established The Bandwagon with bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits, and Moran added avant-garde icon Sam Rivers for Black Stars. Moran followed with the acclaimed recordings Modernistic, The Bandwagon: Live at the Village Vanguard, Same Mother, Artist in Residence, and TEN. Inspired by contemporary art, Moran’s music is in the collections of the MoMA and Whitney Museum of American Art. Commissions include The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Dia Art Foundation, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and IN MY MIND: Monk at Town Hall, 1959, a multimedia performance and documentary on Monk at Town Hall. He has written for LINES Ballet, scored video works for contemporary artists Glenn Ligon and Kara Walker, and collaborated with neo-soul artist Meshell Ndegeocello. Moran is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music and Manhattan School of Music, and he has been a lecturer/instructor at Yale University, Dartmouth University, University of Pennsylvania, Eastman School of Music, The Kennedy Center, The New School, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and numerous others.
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CRAIG MORRIS
ANASTASIYA NAPLEKOVA
Craig Morris is associate professor of trumpet at the Frost School of Music, where he devotes himself to his teaching and his career as a soloist and chamber musician. He emerged onto the international orchestra scene by winning the prestigious position of principal trumpet in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, assuming that post from the legendary Adolph “Bud” Herseth. Morris was previously the associate principal trumpet of the San Francisco Symphony under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas. He recorded extensively as principal trumpet with both orchestras, including the Grammy-nominated recording of Furtwangler’s Symphony No. 2 with the CSO and Daniel Barenboim.
Winner of the Rudolf Firkusny International Piano Competition in Prague, Anastasiya Naplekova was born in Kharkov, Ukraine. There she received her B.M. and M.M. in piano performance from Kharkov State University of Arts studying under Professor Nataliya Melnikova. Naplekova is currently a doctoral student at the Frost School of Music, studying piano performance under distinguished artist Professor Santiago Rodriguez.
In 2003 Morris left his position in the CSO to pursue a burgeoning solo career. With the Chicago Symphony he was featured as soloist on Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 and Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat with Pinchas Zukerman in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall. In 2009, Morris gave the U.S. premiere of Desolation Wilderness, a trumpet concerto by British composer Joby Talbot, at the Cabrillo Festival for Contemporary Music under the baton of Marin Alsop. His debut solo CD, Permit Me Voyage, features the music of Debussy, Schumann, Brahms, and Barber, following the acclaimed Naxos release Reflections, where Morris was soloist on Thomas Sleeper’s Concerto for Trumpet. A Texas native, Morris grew up in a musical family. He attended the University of Texas and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
FEDERICO MUSGROVE STETSON Guitarist Federico Musgrove Stetson started playing his instrument at the age of 12. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he moved to Miami, Florida in 2001 to pursue a career in music. Although initially trained as an electric guitarist, his focus moved to classical guitar, and he graduated from the University of Miami in 2007 with his bachelor’s degree in music performance. In 2011, Musgrove Stetson became the first person to earn a master’s degree in classical guitar performance from Florida International University, where he studied with Rafael Padrón. He has performed for many notable artists, including Denis Azabagic, Manuel Barrueco, Margarita Escarpa, Máximo Diego Pujol, Berta Rojas, and Hopkinson Smith. He is currently president and executive director of the Florida Guitar Foundation and head guitar instructor at Music Instruction Specialists in Miami. He continues to study jazz guitar and regularly performs with the Gold Coast Opera. He holds an additional diploma in Audio Technology from the SAE Institute.
Naplekova has won prizes in numerous international piano competitions, including fourth prize at the Fourth International Adilia Alieva Piano Competition in France, honorary mention at the Sixth International Ignace Paderewski Piano Competition in Poland, sixth prize at the International Piano Competition in memory of Vladimir Horowitz in Ukraine, and Dr. and Mrs. Fred Payne Honorable Mention at the Wideman Piano Competition in Louisiana. She participated in international music festivals, such as the Paris International Summer Sessions organized under the Foundation Bell’Arte, Beethoven Master Classes with Menahem Pressler in Boston, and CCM Prague International Piano Institute. Naplekova has performed in master classes with Ian Hobson, Robert Roux, Phillip Entremont, and Eugene and Elizabeth Pridonoff. She has appeared in solo recitals in Ukraine, Russia, Czech Republic, France, and the United States and has performed concerti with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, the University of Florida Symphony Orchestra, and the Crimea State Symphony Orchestra. She has received special grants from the Kharkiv Fund Supporting Young Talents, Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, as well as the president of Ukraine.
CARLOS OLIVA Cuban-born vocalist and percussionist Carlos Oliva arrived in Miami in 1961, where he formed Los Sobrinos del Juez (The Judge’s Nephews), specializing in a new, intercultural sound. This fusion of Cuban music, salsa, afro beats, samba, jazz and rock became known as “The Miami Sound.” Oliva has produced and directed many other musical groups, including Miami Sound Machine. A prolific commercial composer, Oliva earned an Emmy Award for music for a promotional Univision campaign. He has written many television theme songs, including Cristina and Ocurrio Asi, both winners of BMI Latin TV Theme Awards, and La Feria de la Alegria. He has written for other international artists and for more than 100 radio and television commercials. Los Sobrinos del Juez’s numerous hits have led to successful tours in Latin America, Europe, and especially Brazil, where their album Caribbean Dance won a Gold Record Award for sales over 250,000 copies. They continue to release new recordings, including Crossing Over in 2004, I’m a Believer in 2007 on the Talent Beach Music label, and …Y Seguimos Guarachando in 2011, including a DVD with a collection of video clips produced throughout the years.
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RAFAEL PADRÓN
PAUL POSNAK
Rafael Padrón began studying the guitar at the age of 11. He attended the National School of Art in Havana, Cuba, Peabody Conservatory of Music of The Johns Hopkins University, and University of Miami Frost School of Music. Padrón has won top prizes in many national and international competitions. He has been featured in many of the most important international guitar festivals. He has performed both solo and with orchestras in South, Central, and North America, Asia, and Europe.
Paul Posnak’s international career as a concert pianist, recording artist, transcriber and teacher began as a child prodigy with a full scholarship to the Juilliard Preparatory School at age 8. He won first prizes in the International J.S. Bach Competition as well as the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York. Now professor and program director in accompanying and chamber music for the Frost School of Music, he has performed to critical acclaim at such venues as the White House, the Supreme Court, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Carnegie Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall in New York, and throughout Europe, South America, and Asia.
Padrón has taught classical guitar at the Pedagogical Institute of Pinar del Rio, Cuba; National University of Heredia, Costa Rica; the Costa Rica University of San José, Costa Rica; and The Levine School in Washington, D.C. Currently, he is chairman of the guitar department at the Miami Conservatory of Music, founder of the Guitar Program at the Florida Gulf Coast University, and part of the faculty at the Frost School of Music.
VALERIE PERRI Valerie Perri is best known for her award-winning performance in the role of Eva Peron in the national touring production of the Tony Award-winning musical Evita, directed by the legendary Harold Prince. Her other Broadway shows include starring roles in: West Side Story; Gypsy; Jesus Christ Superstar; I Do, I Do; The World Goes Round; Man of La Mancha; Annie Warbucks; City of Angels; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway. Perri is a recipient of a Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for her performance in Harry Chapin: Lies and Legends and a nominee for the Sarah Siddons Award for her role as Eva Peron. Her television and film credits include: E.R.; Another World; Brooklyn Bridge; Who’s the Boss; Geppetto with Drew Carey, The Out of Towners with Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin; George of the Jungle with Brendan Frasier; Grease with John Travolta; and Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star with David Spade. She has performed with orchestras at Wolftrap, Copley Symphony Hall in San Diego, the Frankfurt Opera House, The London Palladium, and Walt Disney Concert Hall. She also sang in the world premiere concert of Masada at the Shubert Theater in Los Angeles. Perri’s Sweet Conversation CD of standards and Broadway hits is available through her website. Joining Perri onstage is her son, Benny Lipson, a Los Angeles native studying studio music and jazz voice at the Frost School. Lipson has shared stages with Herbie Hancock, Ben Folds, Barry Manilow, and Wynton Marsalis at such venues as the Hollywood Bowl, Disney Concert Hall, and Lincoln Center. He has performed in and around Miami as a proud member of the Frost School’s JV1 Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Larry Lapin and has played at the prestigious Monterey Jazz Festival as a vocalist and bassist.
A highly regarded collaborative artist, Posnak has worked with many world-renowned vocalists, including Luciano Pavarotti and Jennie Tourel, and performed and recorded with many of the world’s leading chamber ensembles. He has 14 recordings of solo and chamber works for labels such as EMI, Naxos, Vox, Arabesque, Centaur, Yamaha Disklavier Artist Series, and Cambria, including his latest CD recording, The Tangos of Ernesto Nazareth, released in 2006. His reconstructions of the brilliant solo improvisations of George Gershwin and Thomas “Fats” Waller from the old recordings and radio broadcasts have established him as a world authority, and his recent film on Chopin, directed by documentary film maker Anthony Allegro, has attracted international attention.
SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ Santiago Rodriguez is professor of keyboard performance and chair of the piano department at the Frost School of Music. He made his Carnegie Hall debut under the baton of Dennis Russell Davis, and his international career was launched in 1981 when he won the Silver Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Rodriguez also received a special prize for the best performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Touches, a work commissioned for the competition. His unique life and artistry were profiled on CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Kurault in 1993. One of today’s foremost interpreters of the music of Sergei Rachmaninov, Rodriguez has performed all of the composer’s major piano works in concert. He is currently recording The Rachmaninov Edition, which, when completed, will encompass the entire catalog of Rachmaninov’s original solo piano compositions. Rodriguez has recorded numerous world premieres, including Piano Concerto No. 1 by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco; the Concertino for piano, strings, and cymbals of Carlos Surinach; and the Piano Sonata No. 2 of Alberto Ginastera, which he premiered at Alice Tully Hall in New York. Rodriguez also enjoys a distinguished reputation as a teacher and master-clinician. Since 1980, he was a member of the Piano Division at the University of Maryland, where he held the rank of professor and artist-in-residence. He holds a master’s degree from The Juilliard School, where he studied on full scholarship as a pupil of Adele Marcus, and he completed his undergraduate studies magna cum laude with William Race at the University of Texas.
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JON SECADA
SVET STOYANOV
Three-time Grammy winner Jon Secada is an international superstar. With sales of more than 20 million albums worldwide, Secada is also a veteran of Broadway and television, and is an accomplished producer.
Svet Stoyanov (percussion) is assistant professor of instrumental performance and program director of percussion at the Frost School of Music. Praised by The New York Times for his “understated but unmistakable virtuosity” and a “winning combination of gentleness and fluidity,” Bulgarian-born Stoyanov is a winner of the 2003 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. He made his New York City debut at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall as a co-soloist, premiering the Phillip Glass “Concerto Fantasy” for Two Timpanists and Orchestra. Stoyanov has performed as a soloist with the Chicago, Seattle, and American Symphony Orchestras and The New York Pops, to name a few, and at prominent festivals worldwide.
After earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in jazz vocal performance at the University of Miami, Secada joined Gloria Estefan’s band as a background singer. He composed several ballads for Estefan, including the number one hit “Coming Out of the Dark.” His debut album, Jon Secada, went triple platinum, and the Spanish-language version was the No. 1 Latin album of 1992, earning him a Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album. Secada’s second album, Heart, Soul & Voice, went platinum, and his third album, Amor, earned a Grammy for Best Latin Pop Performance. In 2006 Secada shared a Grammy for Songs from the Neighborhood: The Music of Mister Rogers. Secada has released numerous top-30 hits and albums throughout his career, and in 2010 he released his first concert DVD, Stage Rio, from his 2009 Brazil tour. Secada has co-written and co-produced songs for Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez, and Mandy Moore for their multi-platinum albums. He has starred on Broadway as Danny Zuko in Grease, the emcee in Sam Mendes’s Cabaret, and Joseph in Lloyd Webber’s and Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He was a longtime celebrity judge on Latin American Idol. Through Jon Secada Charities, Secada supports charitable initiatives worldwide, including the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans and Keeping Music in Schools.
THOMAS SLEEPER Thomas Sleeper is professor of instrumental performance and program director of orchestral activities at the Frost School of Music, where he also teaches instrumental conducting. He began his professional career as a member of Fermata, a group of composer-performers who presented an annual series of concerts throughout Texas. At age 22, he was appointed associate conductor of the Dallas Civic Symphony and the Southern Methodist University Chamber Orchestra and Opera Theatre. Today Sleeper resides in Miami, Florida, where he enjoys a busy dual career as a composer and conductor. He is the conductor of the Frost Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theater and music director for the Florida Youth Orchestra. A strong advocate for new music, he has conducted the premieres of numerous works by American composers, including Henry Brant, Carlos Surinach, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, and Roberto Sierra. Sleeper’s original compositions have received excellent reviews in Fanfare, Gramophone, and The American Record Guide. His Concerto for French Horn and Symphony No. 1 were recently premiered.
An active and passionate chamber musician, Stoyanov works with violinist Moni Simeonov (The SemiDuo project), a 2Piano/2Percussion ensemble (Hammer/Klavier), and a contemporary music collaborative with flutist Claire Chaise. Stoyanov’s CD Percussive Counterpoint was released in 2009 to a great acclaim and features a transcription of Steve Reich’s “Electric Counterpoint” for marimba and vibes and a video performance of Thierry de Mey’s “Musique de Tables” — a theatrical “ballet” for 3 sets of hands. In addition to his diverse performance career, Svet Stoyanov is actively involved with educational outreach and presents numerous clinics and workshops.
FRED STURM Jazz composer and conductor Fred Sturm has appeared with professional jazz ensembles and radio orchestras in Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Scotland, and Norway, and his works have been performed by ensembles, orchestras, wind ensembles, and chamber groups worldwide, featuring renowned artists Bobby McFerrin, Wynton Marsalis, Bob Brookmeyer, Clark Terry, Phil Woods, Gary Burton, Arild Andersen, and John Scofield. In 2003 Sturm received the ASCAP/IAJE Commission In Honor of Quincy Jones, granted annually to a jazz composer of international prominence. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and the Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fund, among others. His works are published by eight international houses, and have been recorded on four different labels, including Concord Jazz, RCA, and Warner Brothers, and he received a Grammy nomination in 1997. As an educator, Sturm’s ensembles have been cited by DownBeat nine times as the finest in the United States, and in 2010 he received the DownBeat Jazz Education Achievement Award. He is currently director of jazz and improvisational music at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Wisconsin. From 1991 to 2002, he served as professor and chair of jazz studies and contemporary media at the Eastman School of Music, directing the Jazz Ensemble, conducting the Studio Orchestra, and coordinating Eastman’s jazz composition and arranging program.
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Naoko Takao is assistant professor of keyboard pedagogy at the Frost School of Music and is on the summer faculty of the Rocky Ridge Music Center in Colorado. Prior to joining Frost, she was a long-time faculty member at the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C. She enjoys a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician, ardent educator, master class clinician, adjudicator, and pedagogue. Winner of numerous soloist awards, including the gold medal at the 2000 San Antonio International Piano Competition and the most recent award from the S&R Foundation, she has performed concerti with the Alexandria Symphony (VA), Laredo Philharmonic (TX), and Ohio Valley Symphony and chamber music concerts at the Smithsonian, Strathmore, Library of Congress, and Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
With three of Brazil’s most in-demand musicians, Trio da Paz updates and redefines Brazilian jazz with its harmonically adventurous interactions, daring improvisations, and dazzling rhythms. The group was formed in 1990 by guitarist Romero Lubambo, bassist Nilson Matta, and drummer Duduka da Fonseca, all seasoned masters of both jazz and Brazilian music. The members of Trio da Paz have recorded and performed with an extensive list of legendary musicians, including Lubambo’s work with Dianne Reeves, Michael Brecker, Grover Washington, Jr., and Kathleen Battle; Matta’s work with Joe Henderson, Don Pullen, Yo-Yo Ma, and Paul Winter; and Grammy nominee da Fonseca’s work with Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, John Scofield, and Tom Harrell. As Trio da Paz, they have recorded and performed with Charlie Byrd, Herbie Mann, Lee Konitz, Kenny Barron, and Nana Vasconcelos, among others.
Highly versatile, Takao is an enthusiastic advocate of newly composed music, often premiering new works and performing for such notable organizations as the Rose International Cello Competition. She has coached chamber music extensively with the members of the Guarneri Quartet, is a founding member of the Post Classical Ensemble, and performs a wide range of works by Copland, Schoenberg, and other modern luminaries. Her solo piano recitals often feature works by Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel, and Rachmaninoff. Originally from Japan, Takao studied at the Preparatory Program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, earned a B.M. from the Hartt School of Music and an M.M. and D.M.A. from University of Maryland, College Park.
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The trio’s critically acclaimed debut recording, Brazil from the Inside, received the “Indie” award for best album of the year. They followed that success with an ambitious concept album exploring themes from Black Orpheus. Their third release, Partido Out, won the 2002 Jazz Journalists Association award for “The best Brazilian jazz album of the year.” Their latest release, CAFE, includes special performances by Cesar Camargo Mariano and Grammy Award winners Dianne Reeves and Joe Lovano.
DALE UNDERWOOD RICHARD TODD Richard Todd is associate professor of French horn at the Frost School of Music. From Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl, he has earned international acclaim as one of the finest horn soloists today. Gold medal winner of the 1980 Concours Internationale Toulon, he is a Pro Musicis International Foundation Award winner and is continually expanding the boundaries of the horn world. Renowned for his performances that “are simply startling in their dexterity” with “a heart-clutching sound,” he breaks down the barriers of music, being equally at home in all areas, including classical and jazz. Now residing in Miami, he maintains a rigorous coast-to-coast concert schedule, including performances as principal horn with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Todd has recorded on more than 1,000 motion picture soundtracks, appeared and recorded with such great performers as Sinatra, Streisand, and Madonna, and performed as a jazz artist with Clark Terry, Ray Brown, and Woody Herman. He recorded two CDs with Andre Previn—one jazz: What Headphones, the other classical: French Chamber Music—and was personally selected by Gunther Schuller to record his Concerto No. 1. He has also recorded solo albums. Previously on the faculty at USC Thornton School of Music and the Henry Mancini Institute, Richard Todd is in constant demand as a lecturer, clinician, and festival artist. He also is a consultant for Hans Hoyer Horns, where he assists in the development of horn and mouthpiece designs.
Dale Underwood (saxophone) is a lecturer in the Department of Instrumental Performance at the Frost School of Music. Acclaimed by The Washington Post as “the Heifetz of the alto saxophone,” Underwood is internationally recognized as one of the today’s foremost classical saxophonists. He has toured extensively throughout the world as a featured soloist, performing in every state in the continental United States and Alaska, as well as in England, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Italy, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, and Canada. A frequent guest soloist with leading orchestras, Underwood has performed with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, Australian Wind Orchestra, and the National Conservatory Orchestra in São Paolo, Brazil, among others. In 1993 he made his Carnegie Hall debut in a program featuring Claude T. Smith’s Fantasy (written especially for Underwood) and A Gershwin Fantasy.
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RICHARD YAKLICH
Singer Roseanna Vitro has toured the world as a performer, clinician, recording artist, vocal instructor, and official Jazz Ambassador, sponsored in 2009 by Jazz at Lincoln Center and the U.S. State Department, and in 2004 by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the U.S. State Department. In 2011 she earned a Vocal Jazz Grammy Nomination for The Music of Randy Newman on Motéma Music, featuring pianist Mark Soskin, violinist Sara Caswell, bassist Dean Johnson, and drummer Tim Horner. Her signature style can be heard on numerous other recordings, including Passion Dance on Telarc with Elvin Jones, Christian McBride, and longtime musical partner Kenny Werner and The Delirium Blues Project: Serve or Suffer on Half Note Records with Kenny Werner, James Carter, Randy Brecker, Ray Anderson, Adam Rogers, John Patitucci, Rocky Bryant, and Geoff Countryman.
In addition to conducting the South Florida Youth Symphony, Richard Yaklich has conducted orchestras throughout the United States and Eastern Europe, including the Maikop Philharmonic and the Socchie Symphony Orchestra. He attended the Tanglewood Music Center, where he studied conducting with Gustav Meier, Charles Dutoit, Leon Fleisher, Maurice Abravanel, and Seiji Ozawa. A former director of the Jubilate Chamber Orchestra, Yaklich was a winner of the Walter Charles Conducting Fellowship. In addition to conducting, Yaklich is an active cellist and composer, with works performed by the Colorado Symphony and the Filharmonica de Stat Satu Mare in Romania. His Theme and Variations for Orchestra was performed by the South Florida Youth Orchestra in January of 2003, and his In Memorium was given its world premiere at the University of Miami in 2007.
In addition to the above, Vitro has performed with such notable musicians as Fred Hersch, George Coleman, Fathead Newman, Eddie Gomez, Arnett Cobb, Kenny Barron, Joe Lovano, Eddie Daniels, Joey Baron, Al Foster, Rufus Reid, Buster Williams, Ben Riley, and Allen Farnham. Her performance in the Jazzaar 2010 in Aarau, Switzerland aired on the Swiss PBS Concert Series in 2011. Her studies of Indian vocal technique are documented in “From Bebop to Bombay” in the International Association for Jazz Education magazine.
Yaklich is associate professor of music at Florida Memorial University. He has received a Colorado Arts and Humanities Grant and an Allied Arts, Inc. grant, and he is listed in Who’s Who among American Colleges and Universities. His publications include The Struggle for Life in the Middle Ages and the Chaos of the Renaissance and books on orchestra repertoire and musical form and analysis. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Colorado, his master’s degree in music from Colorado State University, and his doctorate from the University of South Carolina.
ROBERT WEINER
TIAN YING
Robert Weiner (oboe) is a lecturer in the Department of Instrumental Performance at the Frost School of Music and principal oboist with the Florida Grand Opera. He has also served as principal oboist with the Miami Symphony Orchestra, Mexico City Philharmonic, Miami City Ballet Orchestra, Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra, and others, and he has been guest principal oboist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Florida Philharmonic. He was also director and oboist of the Oklahoma City Chamber Players and has performed with New York City area orchestras, including the American Symphony Orchestra, New York City Ballet, and Long Island Philharmonic. Weiner has recorded on major labels and is active in the recording studios of Miami. He previously taught oboe at Conjunto Cultural Ollin Yoliztli in Mexico, Oklahoma City University, University of Oklahoma, and Cornell University. Acknowledged for his work on gouging machines and reed making, he is in demand by professionals for advice and work in those areas. He has a B.M. degree from Eastman School of Music and an M.M. degree from State University of New York at Stony Brook. He studied oboe with Robert Sprenkle, Ronald Roseman, Harold Gomberg, John Mack, and Joseph Robinson.
Tian Ying is associate professor of keyboard performance at the Frost School of Music, where he has also served as department chair. Winner of many prestigious awards, including high honors at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1989, Ying enjoys a worldwide reputation as a pianist of taste, dexterity, and artistry. Ying has performed in many prestigious concert halls, including Jordan Hall in Boston, Mondavi Center in Davis, California, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Woodruff Art Center in Atlanta, and Shanghai Grand Opera Theater in Shanghai. His 1993 Bank of Boston Celebrity Series concert was chosen as one of the top-ten classical music events by The Boston Globe. In addition, Ying has been profiled in such publications as The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and People magazine. He has also appeared with numerous renowned orchestras all over the world and records for Centaur Records.
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ommunity outreach is an important facet of Festival Miami’s educational and cultural mission. As part of its objective to make the arts and culture accessible to everyone, Festival Miami presents select concerts free of charge and offers free admission to several local school music groups, social service organizations, and senior citizen centers. Master classes with visiting artists are also free and open to the public. This season, conductor Leon Fleisher, pianist Jason Moran, and saxophonist Dave Liebman will hold master classes and speak to audiences. Each year, Festival Miami invites local high school music directors to bring their students to various concerts and master classes. Community service hours are available to students interested in volunteering as ushers for Festival Miami concerts. Festival Miami also offers free and discounted tickets to University of Miami students for many concerts and permits Frost School of Music students to attend most concerts free of charge. To encourage low-income young adults and senior citizens to attend more cultural events, Festival Miami participates in two highly regarded programs of the Miami-Dade County Cultural Exchange. Through Culture Shock Miami, $5 Festival Miami concert tickets are available to students between 13 and 22 years of age. Through the Golden Ticket program, seniors can attend select Festival Miami concerts free of charge. For more information visit www.cultureshockmiami. com or www.miamidadearts.org/goldenticket.aspx.
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Festival Miami 2012 is made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, the MiamiDade County Tourist Development Council, and the City of Coral Gables. Festival Miami is also sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Additional support is provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Louis Leibowitz Charitable Trust, Citizens Interested in Arts, Funding Arts Network, William and Tina Rosenberg Foundation, Lady Suzanna P. Tweed and Carlton Tweed Foundation, and United Way, as well as corporate and individual contributors.
Last year, the Miami Jewish Health System and a group of low-income seniors attended concerts at reduced rates. Festival Miami also gave free tickets to City Year Miami, Heroes Unite, Hialeah Gardens Preparatory School, Doral Academy Preparatory School, Miami Arts Charter School, Killian High School, Miami Christian School, South Dade High School, Miami Beach Senior High, and Mays Conservatory of the Arts. Festival Miami hopes to make a dent in each student’s life by presenting this unique opportunity to not only view the concert but also meet and greet the artists behind the music. In addition, Festival Miami donates tickets to raise money for charitable organizations, including the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Miami, School of Nursing and Health Studies, Lowe Art Museum, Citizens Interested in Arts, Save the Children Foundation, Miami Children’s Chorus, and The Beacon Council. The combination of a diverse concert lineup and educational opportunities scheduled throughout each season allows Festival Miami to engage community members across age and economic spectrums. Nonprofit groups are invited to become part of Festival Miami’s outreach program. For more information, please call 305-284-4940.
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The following listing recognizes individuals, associations, corporations, foundations, and granting institutions that have made gifts to Festival Miami 2012. It is through their generosity that Festival Miami is able to continue presenting South Florida community and visitors with an annual international celebration of music. Gifts to Festival Miami continue to inspire University of Miami students through culturally enriching and inspiring performances. For more information on giving to Festival Miami, please call 305-284-4940. Lina Santiago
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Division of Cultural Affairs
Funding Arts Network
Saun Lightbourne
Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council
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Community Newspapers
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UM Citizens Board
Louis Leibowitz Charitable Trust
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MADE POSSIBLE ONLY WITH YOUR HELP! Festival Miami relies primarily on donations to underwrite its world-class concerts, master classes, and lectures. With your help, we can increase our outreach efforts by bringing music to at-risk youth, low-income seniors, and the South Florida community at large. Take advantage of the opportunity to inspire students and music-lovers alike. To make a tax-deductible donation to Festival Miami: Send checks and money orders to: UM Frost School of Music Festival Miami P.O. Box 248165 Coral Gables, Florida 33124-2975 Please make your check or money order payable to University of Miami and write Festival Miami on the memo section.
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at the University of Miami 2012–13 Season Super Natural Scenes On Stage Music by Gounod, Humperdinck, Ravel, Stravinsky, and others November 15 and 17, 2012, 7:30 pm Clarke Recital Hall
The Magic Flute By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart With the Frost Symphony Orchestra February 28, 7:30 pm March 2, 7:30 pm March 3, 3:00 pm, Gusman Hall
Wall To Wall Opera For All Festival Entanglements Arias on the Hour, Performances, By Charles Mason Film, and more … November 17, 2012, 11 – 5 pm A Frost Opera Theater Premiere April 18 and 20, 2013, 7:30 pm April 21, 3:00 pm The Lowe Art Museum Tickets 305-284-2400 music.miami.edu/concerts Information 305-284-4162
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ALON GOLDSTEIN, piano • SOOVIN KIM, violin January 26, 2013 AMIT PELED, cello KIM CHEE YUN, violin • ALESSIO BAX, piano February 17, 2013 LARA ST. JOHN, violin • MARTIN KENNEDY, piano March 10. 2013 SATURDAY EVENING CONCERT
ALAN GAMPEL, piano
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PULSE CHAMBER MUSIC • MARGARET FLAVIN, clarinet SCOTT FLAVIN, violin • MARINA RADIUSHINA, piano
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CYPRESS STRING QUARTET • CECILY WARD, TOM STONE, violin May 5, 2013 ETHAN FILNER, viola • JENNIFER KLOETZEL, cello
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