Saturday I September 10, 2022 I 7:30 pm Faye Spanos Concert Hall Faculty Recital 1st Performance I 2022-2023 Academic Year I Conservatory of Music I University of the Pacific Faculty Recital Igor Veligan, violin and viola Patricia M. Shands, clarinet Natsuki Fukasawa, piano
Professor Veligan has taught at the School for the Performing Arts in Ternopil, Ukraine. Being a native of Ukraine, he promotes Ukrainian music. Along with Dr. Natsuki Fukasawa, he released a CD titled Voices of Eastern Europe featuring Images for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano (1981)
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the concertmaster of the Pacific Chamber Orchestra. Besides performing a vast classical repertoire, this group is a proponent of new music and works closely with young local emerging composers. Professor Veligan is also an assistant director of SDfestival.org and a faculty member of the Pacific Music Institute. These organizations work on chamber music collaboration among young artists, college level students, and professional musicians.
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Violinist/violist Igor Veligan performs extensively in many concert halls both in the United States and Europe. He joined the faculty of the Conservatory of Music in the fall of 2006. He holds a Master of Arts degree in violin performance and chamber music from Odessa State Conservatory. His primary violin teachers included Zoja Istomina and Galina Gritzenko and he studied chamber music with Oleg Shkarpitnuy and Natalya ProfessorBuzanova.Veliganis
As a chamber musician, Professor Veligan performs extensively with Dr. Natsuki Fukasawa. As an educator, he is the cofounder of Young Talents Music School, which functions in the Sacramento area. As a soloist with orchestra, he has per formed both Prokofiev Violin Concertos, Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante, Seyfried’s Concerto for two violins, Bartók’s Viola Concerto, and others.
Beginning in March 2022, as a result of the war in his native country, he has been performing in numerous benefit concerts to raise funds to help Ukraine in such a difficult time while it fights a battle against Russian tyranny for freedom and Indemocracy.addition to his passion for music, Professor Veligan enjoys spending time with family, playing chess, building and piloting RC airplane models, and working with electronics.ClarinetistPatricia
Shands has appeared to popular and critical acclaim throughout the United States, South America, and Europe. Her performances have been applauded by the critics of such publications as the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, Il Giornale (Milan), Fanfare, and the American Record Guide.
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In 1994 Dr. Shands was a featured soloist for composer Luciano Berio’s presentation of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University. She has appeared at the music festivals of Interharmony and Spoleto (Italy), the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, Música no Museu (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Round Top, Chautauqua, Bear Valley, Bellingham, and the National Repertory Orches tra as well as the Wellesley Composers Conference, the New Hampshire Music Festival, the Festival of New American Music in Sacramento, and the April in Santa Cruz New Music Festival. A prizewinner in the 1987 Concert Artists Guild Competition, Dr. Shands has collaborated in chamber music performances with many of the finest musicians of today. She currently is a member of the Trois Bois Wind Trio and the Pacific Arts Woodwind Quintet, and she was a founding member of the award-winning Block Ensemble. With these groups she has toured throughout the United States. Her vast orchestral experience has included serving as principal clarinet of the Sacramento Philharmonic, Modesto Symphony, Stockton Symphony, Portland Symphony, YMF Orchestra, and National Repertory Orchestra, along with substitute work with the Houston Symphony and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Her frequent appearances at the Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival have led to critically acclaimed recordings of works by Bartók, Dahl, and Guastavino. In addition, Dr. Shands has been featured on NBC’s Today Show, National Public
PERFORMER BIOS Radio’s Performance Today, and regional live broadcasts by WGBH (Boston), KXPR (Sacramento), and WVPR (Vermont Public Radio). Her recorded works are featured on the Naxos, Centaur, Albany, Onossa, and Round Top labels. Most recently Dr. Shands has premiered works by Ileana Perez Velazquez and Gabriela Ortiz and toured Cuba, Brazil, and the northeast U.S. performing recitals and giving master classes. Her recently released recordings include an album by Trois Bois After the War: French Wind Trios 1945–1947, a recording with guitarist David Tanenbaum Double Echo: New Guitar Concertos of the Americas, and a recording of Dancing at the Pink House by Howard Hersh, who dedicated the work to her. A native of Auburn, Alabama, Dr. Shands received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music where she was a student of Sidney Forrest and studied chamber music with Berl Senofsky, Karen Tuttle, and Leon Fleisher. At the completion of her studies, she was invited to serve as principal clarinetist of the Orquesta Filarmonica de Bogotá. Following a residency at the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, she attended the University of Southern California, studying clarinet with Mitchell Lurie and David Shifrin and earning her Master of Music degree. She spent several years in New England performing as a member of the Block Ensemble and the symphonies of Portland and Vermont as well as teaching at Dartmouth College, the Concord Community Music School, and the Universi ty of New Hampshire. After returning for doctoral studies at Rice University, In 1995 Dr. Shands joined the faculty of the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music, where she is professor of clarinet and served as program director of chamber music for twenty-two years. In 2009 the University of the Pacific awarded her the Eberhardt Teacher/Scholar award, and in 2013 she was awarded the Hoefer Prize for Outstanding Faculty/Student Research. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Kappa Lambda, and Mu Phi Epsilon.
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Artist Natsuki Fukasawa has performed in Australia, Bosnia, Brazil, China, Denmark, England, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.S. She is a recipient of the Best Chamber Music Recording of the Year from the Danish Music Awards.
Dr. Fukasawa’s performance highlights include a tour of Italy performing Gershwin’s Concerto in F. She is the pianist for the soundtrack of recently released film We Had to Go—Remembering Internment and many compact discs, including a live solo CD, Year in Prague; one with violinist Igor Veligan titled Voices from Eastern Europe; and another with bassoonist Scott Pool titled Vocalise. She was featured in the documentary film by La Casa Films & Arts titled 36 Views of Mount Fuji. In 2019 Dr. Fukasawa spearheaded a consortium that commissioned Miguel del Águila’s Invisibles for piano, after a poem by Antonio Machado, for the inaugural Talis Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia. In the spring of 2022, Dr. Fukasawa performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall for the concert commemorating the record album Song of the Redwood-Tree by composer Sunny Knable, released by MSR
Dr. Fukasawa is a lecturer at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music and serves on the artist faculty for the Talis Festival and Academy and the Orfeo Music Festival. She also enjoys nurturing young talents in her own private studio, where her students’ accomplishments include appearances on the NPR show From the Top and winning top prizes in the Chopin National Competition, MTAC Young Artist Guild, and Philadelphia International Competition.
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