Monday, September 27 2010 – 7 p.m. Tuesday, September 28 2010 – 7 p.m.
Bader Recital Hall Wisconsin Conservatory of Music
Strings, Strauss and Tchaikovsky Frank Almond, violin Ilana Setapen, violin Toby Appel, viola Anthony Devroye, viola Edward Arron, cello Peter Thomas, cello Zachary Cohen, bass Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Metamorphosen, Op. 142 (septet realization by Rudolf Leopold) Intermission Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70 Allegro con spirito Adagio cantabile e con moto Allegretto moderato Allegro vivace
This concert is dedicated to Christel Mildenberg and Dr. David A. Newman. Frankly Music is extremely grateful for all their effort and continuing support. Frankly Music 1
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 continues an active schedule of solo and chamber music performances in the US and abroad including recent 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, 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 2 Frankly Music
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 recently released on Innova Recordings with pianist Brian Zeger. A CD of selected works of Samuel Barber will be released in 2011, 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.
COV E R S P OT L I G H T Cover photo by Mark Frohna, Fro Photo. In Tandem Theatre’s SCROOGE IN ROUGE set. Set design by Linda Freund, December 2009.
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BIOGR APHIES lana Setapen is the newly appointed Associate Concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Assistant Concertmaster of the Grant Park Festival Orchestra in Chicago. Ms. Setapen made her solo debut at the age of 15 with the Amarillo Symphony. She has won top prizes in many competitions, such as the Irving M. Klein International String Competition, the Pasadena Showcase Competition, the Kingsville International Competition and the Amarillo Young Performers Competition. At the age of 21, she became concertmaster of the Riverside County Philharmonic in Los Angeles. She has also been concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra, the Colburn Orchestra, the American Youth Symphony, the National Repertory Orchestra, and the USC Thornton Symphony. Solo appearances have been with the Milwaukee Symphony, the Riverside Philharmonic, the Pasadena Pops, the American Youth Symphony, the Idaho Falls Symphony, the National Repertory Orchestra, and the Amarillo Symphony, among others. She has participated in numerous festivals such as the New York String Seminar, Aspen Music Festival, ENCORE School for Strings, and the National Repertory Orchestra. She is a frequent soloist on WFMT-Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Series. Also an avid chamber musician, she was for two years the first violinist of the award-winning Calla Quartet in New York. Solo and chamber music performances have brought her abroad to France, Brazil, Holland, England, Monaco, and Italy. Ms. Setapen grew up in Amarillo, Texas. She studied with Robert Lipsett both at the University of Southern California and at the Colburn Conservatory. She 4 Frankly Music
received her Master of Music Degree from the Juilliard School as a student of Donald Weilerstein and Ronald Copes. She performs on a 1624 Antonio and Hieronymous Amati violin on loan from Frank Almond. Violinist/Violist/ Narrator Toby Appel has appeared in recital and concerto performances throughout North and South America, Europe, and the Far East. He has been a member of such renowned ensembles as TASHI, and the Lenox and Audubon Quartets. Mr. Appel has been a guest artist with the Vermeer, Manhattan, and Alexander Quartets as well as a frequent guest with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society and with jazz artists Chick Corea and Gary Burton. Festival performances include those with Mostly Mozart (NY), Santa Fe (NM), Angel Fire (NM), Seattle (Wa), Bravo! Vail Valley (Co), Chamber Music Northwest (Or), and Marlboro (Vt), as well as festivals in England, France, Korea, Germany, Italy, Finland, and Greece. In 1975, Mr. Appel was featured in a CBS television special performing works commissioned by him for three violas, all played by Toby Appel. In 1980, Mr. Appel was the winner of Young Concert Artists International. A most versatile artist, Mr. Appel has narrated performances including: A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, by Benjamin Britten, Ferdinand, by Alan Ridout and Munro Leaf, Ode to Napoleon, by Arnold Schoenberg, Histoire du Soldat, by Igor Stravinsky, Masque of the Red Death, by Andre Caplet and Edgar Allan Poe, and Facade, by William Walton and Edith Sitwell. Mr. Appel is a frequent commentator for National Public Radio’s Performance Today. Toby Appel entered the Curtis Institute at age 13 under the guidance of Max
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B I O G R A P H I E S ( c o n t .) Aronoff. He is currently on the viola and chamber music faculties at the Juilliard School in New York City. Other teaching has included professorships at the State University of New York, Carnegie Mellon University, and The Yale School of Music. He has toured for the United States State Department and performed at the United Nations and at the White House. Mr. Appel’s chamber music and recital recordings can be heard on the Columbia, Delos, Desto, Koch International, Opus 1, and Musical Heritage Society labels. Toby Appel lives in New York City with his wife, Carolyn and their 15 year old son, Jordan. Anthony Devroye has been violist of the Avalon String Quartet since 2004. The Avalon Quartet was selected in 2007 to succeed the world-renowned Vermeer Quartet as quartet-in-residence at the Northern Illinois University School of Music. Mr. Devroye has performed with the quartet in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Paris and Seoul, and has taught at the Interlochen Advanced String Quartet Program and the Icicle Creek Music Center. Mr. Devroye regularly performs with other leading ensembles, including the Chicago Symphony, Grant Park Symphony, the Chicago Chamber Musicians and the newly-formed Lyrica Trio. Previously he played with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach; in addition to frequently leading the viola section under Michael Tilson Thomas, he also appeared as soloist with the orchestra in 2004. Additional orchestral appearances include the New York Philharmonic. As a chamber musician Mr. Devroye has performed at the Ravinia, 8 Frankly Music
Norfolk and Angel Fire festivals, and internationally at the Verbier Festival (Switzerland), Rencontres Musicales d’Enghien (Belgium), and in Gothenborg, Sweden. In 2005 he won First Prize at the Julio Cardona International String Competition in Portugal. Mr. Devroye holds a BA in Biological Science from Columbia University, where he was awarded a Starr Foundation Scholarship while pursuing concurrent viola studies at the Juilliard School. He received a Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music as a Bok Foundation Fellowship recipient. His viola teachers have included Michael Tree, Roberto Diaz, Toby Appel and Heidi Castleman. Cellist Edward Arron is rapidly gaining recognition worldwide for his elegant musicianship, impassioned performances, and creative programming. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Arron made his New York recital debut in 2000 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Earlier that year, he performed Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Cellos with Yo-Yo Ma and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at the Opening Night Gala of the Caramoor International Festival. Since that time, Mr. Arron has appeared in recital, as a soloist with orchestra, and as a chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. The 2010-2011 season marks Mr. Arron’s eighth season as the artistic coordinator of the Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert, a chamber music series created in 2003 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Museum’s prestigious Concerts and Lectures series. In the fall of 2009, Mr. Arron succeeded Charles Wadsworth as the artistic director, host, and resident performer of the Musical Masterworks concert series in Old Lyme, Connecticut, as well as concert series in Beaufort and Columbia, South
B I O G R A P H I E S ( c o n t .) Carolina. He is also the artistic director of the Caramoor Virtuosi and of the Alpenglow Chamber Music Festival in Summit County, Colorado.
degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music under the guidance of Stephen Geber, Principal Cello (retired) of the Cleveland Orchestra.
Mr. Arron has performed numerous times at Carnegie’s Weill and Zankel Halls, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully and Avery Fisher Halls, New York’s Town Hall, and the 92nd Street Y, and is a frequent performer at Bargemusic. Past summer festival appearances include Ravinia, Salzburg, Mostly Mozart, BRAVO! Colorado, Tanglewood, Bridgehampton, Spoleto USA, Santa Fe, Seattle Chamber Music, the Chamber Music Conference of the East, and Isaac Stern’s Jerusalem Chamber Music Encounters. Mr. Arron has participated in the Silk Road Project and has toured and recorded as a member of MOSAIC, an ensemble dedicated to contemporary music.
Mr. Thomas was appointed to the cello section of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra in May 2005, and won the position of Assistant Principal Cello of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra in March 2006. In October 2007, Thomas moved to Miami Beach and joined the New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy, where he performed Elgar’s Cello Concerto as the NWS 2008 Concerto Competition winner.
Edward Arron began his studies on the cello at age seven in Cincinnati and, at age ten, moved to New York, where he continued his studies with Peter Wiley. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where he was a student of Harvey Shapiro. Currently, Mr. Arron serves on the faculty of New York University. Originally from Stevens Point, Wisconsin, where he started to play the cello in 1986 at age five, Peter Thomas was born into a family of musicians. He graduated from the ASTEC Suzuki Education Program in 1999 studying under Dr. Lawrence Leviton and went on to win numerous scholarships and competitions as an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Mr. Thomas received his bachelor of music degree in 2003, having studied with Tanya Remenikova and Joseph Johnson, Principal Cello of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. In 2005 he earned a master of music
As of November 2008, Mr. Thomas resides in Milwaukee after winning a section cello position in the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. An active chamber musician and experimental collaborator, Thomas can be heard with his string quartet, the Arcas Quartet, and his classically infused indie-rock band, I’m Not A Pilot, in the Milwaukee area and on many local radio stations. Thomas is also a dedicated teacher and his students have won competitions and scholarships in Ohio, Florida, Oregon, and Wisconsin. During the summer, Thomas performs with the Sun Valley Symphony in Idaho and he will be performing Saint-Saens’s Cello Concerto No.1 with the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra in April 2011. Zachary Cohen, a native of the New York, won the position of Principal Bass of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in his senior year of Juilliard at the age of 22. Mr. Cohen received his Bachelor of Music from Juilliard where he studied with legendary bassist Homer Mensch. He has performed at Marlboro, the Grand Teton Music Festival, and the Dresden Musikfestspiele. As an active chamber musician he has Frankly Music 9
PROGR A M collaborated with a wide range of artists such as Ithzak Perlman, Richard Goode, Mitsuko Uchida, Midori, Mark O’Connor and members of the Guarneri, Cleveland, and Mendelssohn Quartets. While attending Juilliard, Mr. Cohen became a member of the chamber group ‘The Knights.’ He has recently recorded two albums with them on Sony Classical. Zachary has also worked closely with some of today’s most respected composers such as Henri Dutilleux, Osvaldo Golijov
and Mario Davidovsky. Believing in music’s ability to transcend political barriers through interactions on a person-to-person basis, Mr. Cohen had the opportunity to teach at the Gitameit Music School in Yangon, Myanmar in 2009. He hopes to continue such collaborations in the future. In the 2010-11 season Mr. Cohen will perform Bottesini’s ‘Double Concerto’ for two basses with Edgar Meyer, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
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Please join us for our next concerts! November, 29 and 30, 7pm Bader Hall, Wisconsin Conservatory
Frank Almond, violin William Wolfram, piano Max Mandel, viola Stephen Balderston, cello Music of Robert Schumann and Frederic Chopin Buy tickets at www.franklymusic.org