Frankly Music-Chopin and Schumann

Monday, March 21, 2011 – 7 p.m.

Schwan Hall Wisconsin Lutheran College

Chopin and Schumann Adam Golka, piano Frank Almond, violin Anthony Ross, cello Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102.............................................Robert Schumann Mit humor (1810-1856) Langsam Nicht schnell Lebhaft Stark und markirt Anthony Ross, cello Adam Golka, piano 12 Etudes, Op. 10.......................................................................... Frédéric Chopin

(1810-1849) Adam Golka, piano Intermission Trio No. 1 in d, Op. 63................................................................Robert Schumann Mit Energie und Leidenschaft (1810-1856) Lebhaft, Langsam Mit Feuer Adam Golka, piano Frank Almond, violin Anthony Ross, cello

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FR ANK ALMOND Violinist Frank Almond holds the Charles and Marie Caestecker Concertmaster Chair at the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

He returned to the MSO after holding positions as Concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic with Valery Gergiev, and Guest Concertmaster of the London Philharmonic with Kurt Masur. He has also appeared as a guest concertmaster for the Seattle Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, and the Grand Tetons Music Festival. He continues an active schedule of solo and chamber music performances in the US and abroad including appearances with the Ojai Festival, the American String Project in Seattle, Frankly Music, the Nara Academy in Nara, Japan, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Music in the Vineyards, and various solo appearances with orchestras. He has been a member of the chamber group An die Musik in New York City since 1997, and also directs the highly successful Frankly Music Chamber Series based in Milwaukee. At 17, he was one of the youngest prizewinners in the history of the Nicolo Paganini Competition in Genoa, Italy, and five years later was one of two American prizewinners at the Eighth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, which was documented in an award-winning PBS film. Since then he has kept up an eclectic mix of activities in addition to his Concertmaster duties, appearing both as a soloist and chamber musician.

In addition to his work with An die Musik, Mr. Almond’s talent as a chamber musician has generated collaborations over the years with many of today’s well-known institutions, including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Hal Leonard Corporation,

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the Ravinia Festival, La Jolla Summerfest, Music in the Vineyards, and numerous other summer festivals.

He has recorded for Summit, Albany, Boolean (his own label), Innova, Newport Classic, Wergo and New Albion and has appeared numerous times on NPR’s Performance Today.

In both 2002 and 2004 An die Musik received Grammy nominations for its “Timeless Tales” series. The re-release of Mr. Almond’s recording of the complete Brahms Sonatas, performed in collaboration with pianist William Wolfram, brought extraordinary critical acclaim, and was listed in the American Record Guide top recordings of 2001.

Frank’s most recent CD with William Wolfram was released on the AVIE label to much acclaim, and was named a “Best of 2007″ by the American Record Guide. His new CD of American violin and piano music was released in 2010 on Innova Recordings with pianist Brian Zeger, and has also received outstanding press response. A CD of selected works of Samuel Barber was recently released, in cooperation with the Hal Leonard Corporation.

Mr. Almond holds two degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Dorothy DeLay. Other important teachers included Michael Tseitlin, Felix Galimir, and Joseph Silverstein.

In Fall 2010 he joined the faculty at Northwestern University.

When he’s not traveling around playing the violin he lives in Milwaukee with his wife and two young daughters. He plays on a violin

by Antonio Stradivari from 1715, the “ex-Lipinski”. In 2008 he started writing an online column called nondivisi. www.frankalmond.com

A DA M G O L K A 23-year-old pianist Adam Golka is the winner of two of America’s most prestigious pianistic awards: the 2008 Gilmore Young Artist Award, and most recently the 2009 Max I. Allen Classical Fellowship Award of the American Pianists Association.

Golka has maintained a highlyactive performing schedule in consistently growing career, ever since he won the first prize in the 2nd China Shanghai International Piano Competition in 2003. His extensive concerto appearances have included engagements with the Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Phoenix, San Diego, Fort Worth, Syracuse, Lansing, Knoxville, Albany, Ann Arbor, Wichita, South Dakota, Pensacola, Mobile, Silicon Valley, West Virginia, Erie, and Grand Rapids symphonies, the Grand Teton and Colorado music festival orchestras, and outside the US with the BBC Scottish Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa), Warsaw Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, Shanghai Philharmonic, Orchestre Poitou-Charentes, and Orquesta Filarmonica de Jalisco (Guadalajara).

He has collaborated with such eminent conductors as Donald Runnicles, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Pinchas Zukerman, Mark Wigglesworth, Michael Christie, Andreas Delfs, Edwin Outwater, David Lockington, Daniel Hege, Julian Kuerti, Michael Morgan, Timothy Muffitt, Ryan McAdams, as well as his brother, conductor Tomasz Golka.

In March 2010, Adam made his Isaac Stern Auditorium debut at Carnegie Hall, playing Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto with the New York Youth

Symphony. Golka’s solo and chamber music appearances have taken him to famous venues such as the Concertgebouw (Kleine Zaal) in Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall) in New York, Musashino Hall in Tokyo, Nakanoshima Hall in Osaka, the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, and prestigious festivals such as the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, the Ravinia Festival, Music@Menlo, the New York City International Keyboard Festival at Mannes, the Newport Music Festival, and the Duszniki Chopin festival.

Adam has amassed a broad performing repertoire in his young career; he has performed more than twenty piano concertos and enough solo works to fill at least twenty recital programs, among others the thirty-two sonatas of Beethoven. In his current recital appearances, Adam can be heard performing esteemed American composer Richard Danielpour’s “Piano Fantasy” (2008), which he premiered in 2009, thanks to a commission by the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival for Adam. He is also a dedicated chamber music and lieder collaborator.

A 1st generation American, Golka comes from an immigrant family of Polish musicians. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Golka moved to Fort Worth, Texas, when he was 15 years-old, in order to pursue studies with Jose Feghali at Texas Christian University. Currently, Adam is studying with the legendary Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, but his primary residence is in New York City. Adam’s earlier teachers were Dariusz Pawlas, in Houston, as well as his mother, Anna Golka. www.adamgolka.com

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ANTHONY ROSS Dynamic leader of the Minnesota Orchestra cello section since 1991, prize-winning cellist Anthony Ross has appeared as soloist many times with the Minnesota Orchestra, performing all the standard cello concertos under Osmo Vanska, Edo de Warart and Eiji Oue. Equally passionate about new music, he has given powerful performances of James MacMillan’s cello Concerto, Paul Moravec’s Montserrat, and he and his wife, Beth Rapier, have championed David Ott’s Concerto for Two Cellos since 1993. Prior to assuming the principal role in Minnesota, Tony performed for four years as principal cello of the Rochester Philharmonic under David Zinman.

Anthony Ross’ compelling interpretations have won wide acclaim from Moscow to Kalamazoo, from Dallas to Duluth. As concerto soloist, he has played with the Moscow State Orchestra, the Louisville Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, the South Dakota Symphony, and many other Midwest regional orchestras.

A cellist of many facets and talents, Ross engages with equal passion as he plays tennis, teaches young cellists, shares the festival stage as a chamber musician or records sonatas. Ross has taught at the Eastman School of Music and on the faculties of the Aspen and Grand Tetons Music Festivals, and at the

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Interlochen and Madeline Island Music Camps. His many festival appearances include performances at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Music in the Vineyards, the Colorado Music Festival, the Rhodes Music Festival in Greece, the Cactus Pear Music Festival in San Antonio and the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society in Madison.

Winner of the prestigious bronze medal at the 1982 Tschaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Ross went on to gain the Stulgerg Award, the G.B. Dealy Award, and a prize in the Parisot International Cello Competition. Tony was awarded a McKnight Artist Fellowship, once as soloist, and again in 2005 as part of the Ross Rapier Cello Duo. A graduate of Indiana University, where he studied with Fritz Magg, he earned another degree at the State University of New York, studying with Bernard Greenhouse and Timothy Eddy.

Ross’ recordings include Bernstein’s “Three Meditations from the Mass” with the Minnesota Orchestra under Eiji Oue on Reference Recordings, the George Lloyd Cello Concerto with the Albany Symphony under David Alan Miller on Albany Records, and the Sonatas of Rachmaninoff and Elliott Carter for Boston Records.

Anthony Ross is a proud parent of an aspiring ballerina and a trumpetplaying son, and is also an avid sailor, tennis player, and cook. His Basset Hound and Newfoundland dog oversee his homelife.

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