DEWBERRY FACULTY ARTIST SERIES Glenn Smith, composition With guest artists: Linda Apple Monson, Anna Balakerskaia, Emily Foster, Christopher Jewell, Kathleen Mulcahy, Claire Eichhorn, Ricardo Cyncynatis, Tim Evans, & Sean Dodson
Sunday, March 6, 2022 3:00 pm Harris Theatre
PROGRAM
All Works by Glenn Smith, composition
Lullaby for Peace and Joy (2005) for Piano Number 5 from Waltzes Book 3 Dhirling Wervish Fantasy (2009) (composed for L. Monson) Linda Apple Monson, Piano
Three Places You’ve Never Been (1982) for Bassoon and Piano 1. Labradorica 2. Mangeau Tangeau 3. Frantasia Minor Christopher Jewell, bassoon Linda Apple Monson, piano
Love Theme from “The Enchanted Shadows” (2013) for Clarinet, Violin, & Piano (composed for Ensemble da Camera of Washington) Ensemble da Camera of Washington Claire Eichhorn, clarinet Ricardo Cyncynatis, violin Anna Balakerskaia, piano
Intermission
Fuzzy Math (1978) for Oboe, Clarinet & Bassoon [Formerly titled 4 for 2 doubles and a single totalling 3] 1. Lullaby 2. Outrageous Fugue 3. Mezzointermezzo 4. Variations x 12 Music Depreciation Quodlibet (1978) [“Not the original Arundo Donax Trio”] Emily Foster, oboe Kathleen Mulcahy, clarinet Christopher Jewell, bassoon
Fugalunacy (2012) for Two Pianos (composed for A. Balakerskaia & L. Monson) 1. Prelude (Intro) 2. Triple Fugue 3. Prelude (Outro) Anna Balakerskaia, piano Linda Apple Monson, piano
Zapata Rides Again for Two Guitars (1997) Lullaby for Peace and Joy for Two Guitars (arr. 2019-22) (Arr. Snitzler, Evans, Dodson) Tim Evans, guitar Sean Dodson, guitar
PROGRAM NOTES Written by Dr. Glenn Smith
Lullaby for Peace and Joy is the fifth movement from the solo piano collection Waltzes Book 3 (2005). Its peaceful outward demeanor is decorated with quietly joyful energies and ideas. Classical guitarist Larry Snitzler was moved to transcribe the piano work for the guitar so that those peaceful energies could express themselves in another vibrational context. The recital begins in peace and ends in peace. Dhirling Wervish Fantasy (2009) for solo piano was composed for my colleague and friend, Linda Apple Monson. The Fantasy of the “dhirling wervish” has to do with a dervish who whirls so fast that he/she “Spoonerizes.” Dr. Monson has literally performed this piece all over the world! Three Places You’ve Never Been (1982), for Bassoon and Piano, has three movements representing places you’ve never been. Labradorica is an isolated spot somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere that is inhabited exclusively by large, docile, black dogs. Mangeau Tangeau is a tropical island where exotic fruit dancing is the national pastime. Frantasia Minor is a place inhabited by millions of crazed elves who busily scurry around all day carrying live ant farms. Love Theme from “The Enchanted Shadows” (2013), the chamber work for clarinet, violin, and piano is written for and dedicated to the Ensemble da Camera of Washington. Love Theme from The Enchanted Shadows was the working title I chose for music I intended to compose for a non-existent prize-winning movie (first prize in the inter- dimensional Zen film festival). Over the years I have accumulated a significant backlog of sketches, songs, and ideas that never found their way into my formal works. And so one morning, I awakened from a dream with the strong feeling that a certain “unused” sketch would be suitable for the project. It’s almost as if it came out of an “enchanted shadow” to manifest as this music. It didn’t seem to take any time at all for me to place the sounds into this new context. And, I find myself liking the irony of the bogus enchanted shadows actually manifesting out of the enchanted shadows ... How enchanting. The Arundo Donax Reed Trio was the first George Mason Faculty Ensemble-in-Residence, made up of Dr. Joseph M. Kanyan (clarinet), Dr. Thomas H. Hill (oboe), and Dr. Glenn E. Smith (bassoon). Arundo Donax is the plant from which woodwind reeds are made. The group toured extensively playing to audiences of all ages in Fairfax, Manassas, Oakton, Springfield, and Alexandria.
The major venues included public concerts, recitals, day-care centers, elementary schools, music appreciation classes, and assisted living centers, and at the White House in Washington, D.C. for which they received a certificate of appreciation signed by President Jimmy Carter. The trio’s repertory consisted of a standard selection of French salon music and a significant number of personalized arrangements from Bach to Joplin as well as a fascinating quodlibet consisting of classical, folk and pop quotations in juxtaposition contrapuntally intermingled by Dr. Smith. The group premiered a four movement work titled Four for Two Doubles and a Single Totaling Three (1978). At the time, the group had no idea the piece would be retitled FUZZY MATH some 36 years later. During children’s concerts and music appreciation classes the trio gave frequent demonstrations of the woodwind instruments. A typical demo would find Dr. Kanyan completely disassembling a clarinet before their very eyes and copiously identifying and naming each of its constituent parts. At this point Dr. Hill would enlighten the group with a passionate discourse on the hazards of double reeds. Then Dr. Smith, using the bilabial fricative, would render a hauntingly close imitation of the sound of a contrabassoon, thus signaling the conclusion of the presentation. The trio, functioning as a synchronized musical unit, was the paragon of collegiality, and minor disagreements were always skillfully mediated by Dr. Hill. The group’s rock-solid rhythmic sense was facilitated by the unerring beat of Dr. Kanyan’s wingtip shoes. Dr. Smith’s exclusive use of plastic bassoon reeds was a portent of the coming 21st century technology revolution. Written for two pianos in 2012 and dedicated to Drs. Linda Monson and Anna Balakerskaia, Fugalunacy and its accompanying Prelude aspires to emulate both Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and Hindemith’s Ludus Tonalis by traversing all the major and minor keys in the order of Hindemith’s Series 1*, culminating with the ultimate sonority, a C and F# polychord (Stravinsky’s so-called “Petrushka chord”). Sandwiched between the “intro” and “outro” preludes is the ultimate in fugalunacy, a triple fugue whose subjects travel through a myriad of tonal centers forwards, backwards, upside down and in combinations thereof. *Series 1 is a set of pitches arranged according to tonal distance from the first pitch
MEET THE FACULTY ARTISTS Glenn Smith is a composer, teacher, performance-artist, and sound healer. He has written more than 500 pieces, including choral, chamber and orchestral works, as well as jazz and electronic music for concert, dance, video, film and television. He has taught at the college level for the past 40 years and has given numerous recitals and public performances as a composer and multi-instrumentalist. His music has been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia and includes commissions from ensembles, institutions, and individual artists. Major performances include Carnegie Recital Hall, Wolf Trap Farm Park, National Gallery of Art, Library of Congress, CBC Television, local public and cable television and National Public Radio. He was the first composer-in-residence of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra and several of his works are available on compact disc. His composition teachers were Fred Fox and Bernhard Heiden. He earned his BA in bassoon performance and an MA in Theory and Composition at California State University, Hayward, and received his doctoral degree in composition with distinction from Indiana University. He is a recipient of numerous composition awards from ASCAP, and has more than 40 chamber works published by Seesaw Music Corporation, NY, and MMB Music, St. Louis, MO. In recent years, Dr. Smith has been composing music for healing and therapeutic applications. He is a certified Reiki Master Practitioner and has a limited therapeutic healing practice employing healing modalities that include Reiki, crystals, tuning forks, and overtone singing as well as theta-state meditational therapies using crystal singing bowls. His music has been used therapeutically in hospital intensive care units, with challenged children, and in a published music education study involving mood problems in elementary school children. He frequently gives lectures, seminars, and workshops on music and healing, and has performed regularly for the elderly at several assisted living centers in the area. He directs a new University Minor in Music and Well-Being, teaches its core courses, Music as a Healing Art, Music and Consciousness, and directs GMU’s Healing Arts Ensemble, where students learn to apply music healing principles in performance. A more extensive Graduate Certificate in Music and Well-Being is is newly in place for Fall 2016. Dr. Smith has been a professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia since 1976. As Director of Composition, he currently teaches graduate and doctoral level theory courses and maintains a private composition studio. Several of his private students have won prestigious composition awards and have had their works performed throughout the metropolitan DC area. He holds active memberships in ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), CMS (College Music Society), and ACEP (Association for
Comprehensive Energy Psychology). He is affiliated with the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being – originally called the Center for Consciousness and Transformation. Linda Apple Monson, International Steinway Artist, serves as the Director of the School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason University. A Distinguished Service Professor, Monson was awarded The John Toups Presidential Medal for Excellence in Teaching at George Mason University’s 2018 Spring Commencement Ceremony. The Toups Presidential Medal is presented to “a faculty member whose teaching exemplifies Mason’s commitment to ongoing innovation and excellence in delivering a transformative learning experience to our students.” Named the George Mason University Distinguished Faculty Member of the Year (2012), Monson also received the Influential Women of Virginia award (2014). Monson delivered two TED-X talks and received the Toastmaster’s International Communication and Leadership Award (2014)“in recognition of outstanding dedication, leadership, and contributions in the areas of education and international understanding.” Monson is the recipient of the George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award (2009) “for exemplary dedication to student learning and commitment to educational excellence.” In honor of the extraordinary impact of Monson’s teaching and music leadership at George Mason University, multiple donors established in 2011 the Dr. Linda Apple Monson Music Endowment Fund. A professor at Mason since 1999, Monson has also served as Director of Music at Springfield United Methodist Church for many years. A recent $1 million scholarship commitment from Sid and Reva Dewberry to Mason’s School of Music established the Linda Apple Monson Scholars Fund to support talented artist-scholars. Monson was recognized in September 2017 through the renaming of the Grand Tier III of Mason’s Center for the Arts in her honor to the Dr. Linda Apple Monson Grand Tier. A nationally recognized arts leader, Monson was elected to the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) Commission on Accreditation, the board granting accreditation for music programs at universities and conservatories across the nation. She was selected for the Fulbright Senior Specialist Roster, in collaboration with the U.S. State Department and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars. Monson served as an International Juror of the Washington Piano Invitational Competition (2013) at the Kennedy Center and was named a Visiting Guest Professor at Nanjing Normal University, China (2010). An active performerscholar and an internationally recognized master teacher, Monson has given lecture-recitals, solo piano recitals, and piano master classes throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. An advocate of new music, Monson has presented numerous world premieres of solo piano works. Her
research has been featured in lecture-recitals at the College Music Society International Conferences in Brussels, Sydney, Stockholm, Helsinki, Buenos Aires, Dubrovnik, Bangkok, Madrid, and San Jose. Monson has also given lecturerecitals and piano masterclasses internationally in Seoul, Oxford, Dublin, Nanjing, Kuala Lumpur, San Jose, and San Juan. Monson delivered an interdisciplinary lecture-recital at the Oxford Round Table in England and was a featured lecturerecitalist for the Alban Berg International Festival in Hannover, Germany. She was an invited concert artist, lecturer, and piano master class clinician at Nanjing Normal University, China where she has been appointed a visiting guest professor. Monson has presented her research and delivered lecture-recitals at National Conferences of the College Music Society held in Minneapolis, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, and Miami. In addition, Monson has also presented solo piano recitals and piano master classes at countless universities throughout the United States and abroad. Monson served as President of Mason’s chapter of Phi Beta Delta, a national honor society dedicated to recognizing scholarly achievement and excellence in international education. She also served five terms as a Faculty Senator at George Mason University and was elected by the university faculty to serve on the Mason Presidential Search Committee (2011-12). Additionally, she served on the University Provost Review Committee (2018). Serving on the Friends of Music at Mason Board and the Faculty Arts Club, Monson is also a presenter for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of George Mason University. In addition, Monson is a frequent performer at Mason as a solo and collaborative piano artist. An active adjudicator in piano competitions and festivals, Monson served as a juror for the 2019 International Young Artist Piano Competition. Additionally she served as a juror for the 2018 Concerto Competition for the Sewanee Summer Music Festival and the 2016 National Symphony Orchestra piano concerto auditions for young artists. She also presented a piano master for the 2016 –17 International Piano Competition (I Institute–Beijing). Monson also served as an American Juror for the 2009 Washington International Piano Competition. She was invited as a panelist and concert commentator for the Virginia Chamber Orchestra satellite broadcasts, Music of the Romantic Era and Music by Modern Masters, which were sent to all community colleges in the United States. A native of central Pennsylvania, Monson earned three degrees from the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore: the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance, the Master of Music degree in Piano, and the Bachelor of Music Education Degree with a double-major in Piano and Bassoon. She also received a Diploma in Piano from Musica en Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. In addition, she studied chamber music at the Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, California. Monson previously served on the music faculties of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore School for the Arts, and Northern Virginia Community
College. She is married to Dr. Keith L. Monson, a forensic scientist. The Monsons are blessed with two children, Kristofer and Linnea. Christopher Jewell is the Assistant Principal Bassoonist of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra. An active performer in the Washington, DC area, Mr. Jewell also regularly performs with the Wolf Trap Opera Company, Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, Post Classical Ensemble, and the Annapolis Symphony. He has previously served as Principal Bassoonist of the Missouri Chamber Orchestra and has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, New World Symphony, and Aspen Festival and Chamber Orchestras. Mr. Jewell has appeared as a soloist with the American Youth Symphonic Orchestra and at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago and at the Missouri Music Educators Association Convention. As a clinician and adjudicator, he has served as a judge for the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Woodwinds Competition and has presented masterclasses for the DC Youth Orchestra and at schools throughout the Washington, DC metropolitan area. He has additionally taught masterclasses at James Madison University and the University of Missouri, and was honored to coach students at the Simon Bolivar Youth Symphony in Caracas, Venezuela, under Gustavo Dudamel. Mr. Jewell coaches woodwinds for the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras and also maintains a vibrant private studio in Northern Virginia. An avid chamber musician, he has performed at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Georgetown University’s Friday Music Series, and the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, and has been featured on WETA’s Front Row Washington. He has also performed with bassoon ensembles at the International Double Reed Society and Texas Music Educators Association Conventions. Mr. Jewell earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia where he studied with Barbara Wood. He continued his studies at the Manhattan School of Music with Patricia Rogers, Principal Bassoonist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Anna Balakerskaia is a “consistently thrilling pianist” (Judy Gruber, Washington Post) whose expression “wells with a delightful freedom,” (Robert Dumm, Clavier) and whose sound “is warm and deep.” (Elaine Fine, American Record Guide) Indeed, the legendary Russian violinist and conductor, Viktor Tretyakov, writes this about Dr. Balakerskaia: “A unique, almost extrasensory feeling of ensemble, excellent pianism, a radiant personality – that is [Anna] Balakerskaia!” As the three-time prizewinner of the Best Accompanist Diploma at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, her career has brought her to some of
today’s greatest concert halls, including Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Teatro Colon in Buenos-Aires, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, among many others. Dr. Balakerskaia has also had the pleasure of making music with a number of internationally renowned artists, including Leonid Kogan, Mikhail Gantvarg, Ilya Kaler, Kirill Kondrashin, Daniel Shafran, Valery Gergiev, and Yuri Temirkanov. She also played with Jacqueline du Pre for Mstislav Rostrapovich. Dr. Balakerskaia is a founding member of the “Ensemble da Camera of Washington”, a trio of musicians from Brazil, Germany and Russia, based in Washington, D.C., and renowned internationally for their “extraordinary technical skill and musical perception.” (Joseph McLellan, Washington Post) The Ensemble has produced several well-praised recordings, while also acting as Artists-in-Residence of the American Youth Philharmonic. They created the Chamber Music Program of the AYPO, where they hold monthly masterclasses and perform a series of concerts. This program is supported by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additionally, Dr. Balakerskaia is the founder of her own concert series, “Anna and Friends”, regularly held at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Besides featuring the “Ensemble da Camera”, Dr. Balakerskaia has also had the distinct pleasure of featuring world-renowned violinist and conductor Zino Bogachek, with whom she has recorded several CDs, and great pianist Darya Gabay, Dr. Balakerskaia’s daughter-in-law. Dr. Balakerskaia has had a distinct teaching career, serving on the faculties of the St. Petersburg and Moscow conservatories. She currently is in her eighteenth-year teaching at George Mason University, where she is Term Professor of Piano and Chamber Music. She also serves on the faculty of several summer music festivals in Italy, Germany, Russia, and the Netherlands. and is Artist-in-Residence at the Orfeo International Music Festival. Her students have won prizes at many international competitions, including the Rubinstein International Piano Competition and the Thomas and Evan Cooper International Competition, and currently perform and teach across the globe. Dr. Balakerskaia received her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance, Pedagogy and Chamber Music from St. Petersburg State Conservatory, where she studied piano with Elena Gugel, Nadejda Golubovskaia, chamber music with Tamara Fidler, and accompanying with Sofia Vakman.
Originally from Newark, Delaware, Prof. Emily Foster joined The United States Air Force Band in Washington, DC in 2013 and was appointed as Adjunct Oboe Faculty at George Mason University in 2019. In 2007, Emily joined the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra and studied at the prestigious Settlement Music School. She performed as principal oboist with the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and during their tour of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2007. In 2008, she was the winner of two concerto competitions and was featured as a soloist performing Marcello’s Oboe Concerto in C Minor with the Kennett Symphony and Newark Symphony Orchestra. In addition to solo performances, Emily has participated in the Banff Music Festival, Texas Music Festival, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and the National Repertory Orchestra. In 2013, Emily received her Bachelor of Music degree in Oboe Performance from Rice University studying under Houston Symphony principal oboist, Robert Atherholt. Prior to college, she studied with Jonathan Blumenfeld and Lloyd Shorter. An active freelancer, Emily has frequently performed as a guest artist with the Washington Concert Opera, Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, Tyson’s McLean Orchestra, and Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra. Also an avid chamber musician, Emily is the oboist in a reed quintet, the Atlantic Reed Consort, and made her Carnegie Hall debut with them in January 2017. Kathleen Mulcahy was appointed as Director of Woodwinds and Assistant Professor of Clarinet at George Mason University in August 2018, after serving as Adjunct Professor of Clarinet since in 2012. She performs frequently with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra and the National Symphony. Dr. Mulcahy has held tenured positions with the Annapolis Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Grant Park Orchestra, and ProMusica Chamber Orchestra. She is currently principal clarinetist with the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra. An active chamber musician and recitalist, Dr. Mulcahy performs regularly on the Faculty Artist Series at George Mason University and has been a featured soloist with the Mason Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band. She has performed on chamber series in venues such as the Kennedy Center, the National Gallery of Art, the German Embassy, and the National Cathedral. Dr. Mulcahy is also an RYT 200 certified yoga instructor, and has created several workshops focused on yoga for the performing artist. In the summer, Dr. Mulcahy serves as Coordinator of Summer Music Intensives for the Mason Community Arts Academy, and is also the co-director of the Mason Summer Clarinet Academy. She can also be seen with the Wolf Trap Orchestra in the pit for Wolf Trap Opera productions, or on stage at the Filene Center accompanying a wide variety of acts. Previously, Dr. Mulcahy served as a
clarinet instructor at the State University of New York at Fredonia. She holds the DMA and BM degrees from The Ohio State University and the MM degree and Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Kathleen Mulcahy is a Buffet Group USA performing artist and a member of the Health and Wellness Committee for the International Clarinet Association.
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MEET THE GUEST ARTISTS Clarinetist Claire Eichhorn, Artistic Director of the Ensemble da Camera of Washington, was born in Stuttgart. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center Orchestra, Baltimore Opera, Virginia Chamber Orchestra, Washington Concert Opera, National Gallery Orchestra and for ten years was a member of the Washington Chamber Symphony. She has been heard in many venues throughout the area including at the Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery, French and German Embassies, The Highlands Chamber Music Festival in Highlands, N.C. among many others. She has been a frequent guest artist at the annual Brahms Festival at Florida Atlantic University and among the artists with whom she has collaborated are members of the NSO, the Shanghai String Quartet, the Sistrum New Music Ensemble, cellist Tsuyoshi Tsusumi, pianist Judith Burganger (Claire's Mom!), and the Stratford Chamber Players. Ms Eichhorn recorded for the Vernissage Records Label. Her most recent CD, released Spring 2003, is dedicated to the composer Johannes Brahms. She and members of the National Symphony Orchestra - violinist Ricardo Cyncynates, violinist Jane Stewart, violist Nancy Weller and cellist Steven Honigsberg - perform the Brahms Clarinet Quintet. Ms. Eichhorn is a sought after teacher, both at The Eichhorn Clarinet Studio in Fairfax County and as a faculty member of the Levine School of Music, where she spearheaded the Clarinet Workshop for high school students, an intensive one-week camp which ran for 10 years. She also led the development of the clarinet curriculum for Levine. Her students regularly place in the top chairs at District and State auditions. She is a sought after adjudicator, judging the Inaugural Sound Espressivo Competition , the NVMTA Concerto Competition and Woodwind Achievement Awards and the SidneyForrest Competition. Claire was instrumental in developing the Chamber Ensemble Program at the American
Youth Philharmonic Orchestras. Now in its 9th year, the program is highly successful and continues to receive support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Students receive coaching from the acclaimed Ensemble da Camera of Washington, have public master classes and are given performance opportunities throughout the year. On March 10, 2016, a quartet from the AYPO Chamber Ensemble Program performed in the East Landing of the White House for guests entering the Canada State Dinner, which was hosted by The President and the First Lady. Ms. Eichhorn is a graduate of the University of Michigan having also attended Indiana University. Among her teachers were Alfred Zetzer, Fred Ormand, Sidney Forrest and Bernard Portnoy. She also worked with Menachem Pressler, Rostislav Dubinsky, and James Buswell in Chamber Music. In 1983 she was the recipient of the Alfonso D’Emilia Award given by the School of Music at Indiana University. Violinist Ricardo Cyncynates has performed extensively as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe, and South America. Mr. Cyncynates is Assistant Concertmaster of the National Symphony Orchestra and was appointed to this position by Mstislav Rostropovich following Mr. Cyncynates's tenure with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Since then he has appeared as soloist with the orchestra in concertos by Mozart and Vivaldi as well as in Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy, Saint-Saëns's Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Sibelius's Six Humoresques and Paganini's 24th Caprice for solo violin on a program led by Music Director Leonard Slatkin for the League of American Orchestras’ National Conference Concert. Mr. Cyncynates has performed as soloist with a number of other Washington area orchestras in concertos by Bach, Brahms, Busoni, Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Paganini, Saint-Saëns, Sibelius, as well as in Bernstein's Serenade. An active chamber musician, Mr. Cyncynates frequently performs in Washington's most prestigious venues including the Library of Congress, Corcoran Gallery, National Gallery of Arts, Smithsonian Institution and the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy Center. In 1990, together with clarinetist Claire Eichhorn and pianist Anna Balakerskaia, he founded The Ensemble da Camera of Washington, today widely considered one of the premier ensembles in their instrument combination. Their national concert tours, radio broadcasts and several recordings for the Vernissage Records label have met with unanimous acclaim by audiences and critics alike. Their annual concerts at the Lyceum of Old Town Alexandria are all fundraisers for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Among their many educational activities, they are the In-Residence Ensemble of the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. The ensemble has developed an innovative and intensive program of chamber music instruction for the AYPO. This program, which has received generous grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts, includes intensive coaching, public masterclasses, and concerts. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Cyncynates started violin studies with his father and made his debut at age 11 as the winner of Brazil's National Young Soloists' Competition. By age 19 he had an extensive solo career to his credit and was appointed First Concertmaster of the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra. He completed his studies at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, Accademia Chigiana in Siena, and at Indiana University, studying under Arrigo Pelliccia, Salvatore Accardo, and Franco Gulli. He is recipient of awards given by the Brazilian National Research Council, Schering Corporation and Encyclopædia Britannica. Mr. Cyncynates is a renowned teacher with students receiving prizes in national and international competitions. Several of his former students are also members of major orchestras in the US, Europe and Asia. He has given master classes throughout the United States, Asia and South America. His violin is the 1873, ”The David” Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume. Mr. Cyncynates is a Larsen Strings Performing Artist. Tim Evans and Sean Dodson studied guitar with Jeff Meyerriecks at George Mason University, and were two of the founding members of The Alexandria Guitar Quartet in 1992. With The Alexandria Guitar Quartet, they performed in South America, and performed as Local Artists in Residence with the Kennedy Center Grand Foyer Series in November 1997. The Alexandria Guitar Quartet has commissioned works as part of its mission, including compositions by Dr. Glenn Smith, to expand guitar quartet repertoire. Evans and Dodson remain active members of The Alexandria Guitar Quartet. Evans received a Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts in guitar performance from George Mason University. In 1993 he was a finalist in the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society Solo Competition. He taught Classical Guitar at the Sterling Academy of Music for many years. Dodson also earned a Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts in guitar performance at George Mason University. He taught Classical Guitar at Columbia Institute of Fine Arts and Performing Arts Ministries for many years.
DEWBERRY SCHOOL OF MUSIC SPRING 2022 FACULTY ARTIST SERIES Sunday, February 13 3:00 PM Christopher Jewell, bassoon Emily Foster, oboe
Sunday, February 27 3:00 PM Julianna Nickel, flute Eunae Ko Han, piano
Sunday, February 20 3:00 PM Kathleen Mulcahy, clarinet Sophia Kim Cook, piano
Sunday, March 6 3:00 PM Glenn Smith, composition
Sunday, February 20 7:00 PM Brass Faculty
Sunday, March 6 7:00 PM Anna Balakerskaia, piano & Friends
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