July 16

Rocky Ridge Schumann Festival

Première of Matthew Barnson’s Tyger, Tyger (2010)
and Music by Jacob Ter Veldhuis and Robert Schumann

David Shea, Daniel Sweaney and Eli Kalman

Friday, July 16 at 8 PM
Rocky Ridge Music Center, 465 Longs Peak Rd. Estes Park, CO
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Program

Artists

David Shea currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Texas Tech University, and is also principal clarinet in the Abilene Philharmonic and Lubbock Symphony Orchestras. He has earned degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory (BM), the University of Illinois (MM) and Indiana University (DM). His teachers have been Howard Klug, Lawrence McDonald, Eli Eban, James Campbell and Ronald Phillips.

Shea has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Brazil and Chile. As a member of Trio Montecino, he recently toured in Belgium, Germany, and the United States to promote the release of their second CD, Nuevo Sonido: Latin- American Trios, which is available on the Eroica Classical Recordings label. More information…

Daniel Sweaney made his New York debut in Avery Fisher Hall at the 1999 Mostly Mozart Festival performing with world renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman. “..extremely talented and highly trained…poised and accomplished…” said Strings Magazine. Mr. Sweaney began his musical studies at age eleven and has since had a diverse education in the United States and Europe. He has won many prizes and performed across the globe. More information…

Pianist Eli Kalman has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in Romania, Israel, Germany, Hungary, United States and Canada. Hailing from Israel, he was the recipient of the Paul Collins Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship for Excellence at UW-Madison. He was an enthusiastic artist-in-residence at the Chamber Music Festival at Banff, Canada where he has performed for three consecutive years in the Art of the Ensemble concert series. More information…

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June 13

ACJW Gets Extreme

Première of Matthew Barnson’s Streams (Prèlude) (2010)
and Music by Bach, Stravinsky, Ted Hearne, Timothy Andres, Lembit Beecher, Marcos Balter and Sam Adams

Ensemble ACJW

Sunday, June 13 at 7:30 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleeker Street, New York, NY
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Program

Artists

The Academy—a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education—is a two-year fellowship program for the finest young professional musicians designed to develop the artistic values and skills necessary for careers that combine musical excellence with education, community engagement, advocacy, and leadership. The program provides ongoing professional development and opportunities to perform and teach in concert halls, public schools, college campuses, and throughout local communities. The program reflects the belief that today’s artists require both the ability to perform at the highest level and the capacity to give back to the community, inspiring the next generation of quality musicians and music lovers. Ensemble ACJW—the performing arm of The Academy—comes together in different sizes, having the opportunity to play intimate chamber music as well as larger, conducted chamber orchestra works. A partnership with Skidmore College that began in the 2007–2008 season also brings performances and educational events to the Saratoga Springs community.

The Academy was launched in January 2007, initiated by Carnegie Hall’s Executive and Artistic Director Clive Gillinson in partnership with Joseph W. Polisi, President of The Juilliard School. The fellows in the program were selected because of their extraordinary level of musicianship, deep commitment to education and community engagement, and leadership qualities. Fellows are graduates of leading music schools, including The Curtis Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music, The Juilliard School, Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, Mannes College The New School for Music, New England Conservatory, and Yale School of Music. Please visit acjw.org for more information about the program.

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May 21

World Premièr of Matthew Barnson’s Wind Quintet (2007/08)
and other works

Sospiro

Friday, May 21 at 7:15 PM
Christ and St. Stephen’s Church, 120 West 69th Street, New York, NY

Artists

Hailed a “superb ensemble” by New Music Connoisseur, New York-based Sospiro Winds has established itself as an exciting new force on the chamber music scene. Originally formed in 2004, the ensemble began performing while at the Yale School of Music. Since then, Sospiro has continued its efforts to bring the wind quintet repertoire to many varied audiences throughout the United States. This season, Sospiro joins the roster of Musical Connections, a pilot program of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Institute of Music. The ensemble won the Silver Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in 2007 and was a finalist in the 2008 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition. Announced as winners of the Yale Chamber Music Competion in 2006, Sospiro performed on the Chamber Music Society at Yale Concert Series. Sospiro has been heard on WSHU performing new music by Nicholas Skedgell; the group has also worked with members of the Moran Wind Quintet and the Chiara String Quartet and performed at the Chamber Music Institute in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Interested in promoting new repertoire for the wind quintet, the ensemble has premiered new works by Lembit Beecher, James Borchers, and Donald Hagar. Sospiro will be premiering a commission work by Matthew Barnson with the aid of a grant by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition. In 2008, Sospiro celebrated its Carnegie Hall debut in Zankel Hall presented by the Yale at Carnegie Series. Other projects in recent seasons have include performances presented by Music Mondays, Bedford Chamber Concerts, Wintergreen Performing Arts (Virginia), Eupraxia Arts & Music Collective, Elderconcerts at Evergreen Woods, the Second Instrumental Unit and Trinity Church Wall Street on its Concerts-at-One series. Sospiro Winds consists of wind soloists Kelli Kathman (flute), James Austin Smith (oboe), Romie de Guise-Langlois (clarinet), Adrian Morejon (bassoon) and Alana Vegter (horn).

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