Ann Miller violin
Sonia Leong piano
Friday,October 18, 2024
7:30 pm
Recital Hall
18, 2024, 7:30 PM
Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, op. 100 (1886)
Allegro amabile
Andante tranquillo
Allegretto grazioso (quasi Andante)
Birdsong (2012)
Violin Sonata No. 2 (1927)
Allegretto
Blues: Moderato
Perpetuum mobile: Allegro
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Vivian Fung (b. 1975)
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Ann Miller is a professor of violin at University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music. Celebrated violinist Miller has appeared in concert halls throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. At home performing music spanning the Baroque era to the present day, Miller enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician, soloist, and educator.
A proponent of new music, Miller made her New York debut as a soloist with the New Juilliard Ensemble in Alice Tully Hall in the North American premiere of David Matthews's Concerto No. 2. An avid chamber musician, she is a member of Trio 180, the piano trio-in-residence at the University of the Pacific. In addition to performing in Canada, Mexico, and many venues throughout the U.S., the trio continued to perform online concerts during the pandemic. As part of its 20th anniversary in 2022, the trio commissioned and premiered works by DorothyChang, Cindy Cox, Andrew Conklin, Richard Einhorn, and Reinaldo Moya.
Recent solo appearances include performances of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Zion Chamber Orchestra, the Barber Violin Concerto with the Dinu Lipatti Philharmonic Orchestra in Satu Mare, Romania, and the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Mariposa Symphony in Yosemite National Park. As a recitalist, Miller frequently collaborates with pianist Sonia Leongand has appeared on Old First Concerts in San Francisco and the University of the Pacific'sResident Artist Series. Their debut album, Perspectives on Light and Shadow, features sonatasby Ysaÿe and Bartók.
Miller holds her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Juilliard School,and she received her Bachelor of Music, summa cum laude, from Rice University. Her teachershave included Ronald Copes and Kathleen Winkler, and her chamber music coaches have included Jerome Lowenthal, Seymour Lipkin, Robert McDonald, Norman Fischer, James Dunham, Paul Katz, and members of the Juilliard and Tokyo string quartets. In addition to her passion for music, she enjoys hiking and reading.
Sonia Leong, a founding member of Pacific’s Trio 180, is an associate professor of practice in piano at University of the Pacific. She has performed as both a soloist and chamber musician throughout the U.S., and in Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong, Switzerland, England, and Romania. She has appeared with the Filarmonica de Stat Dinu Lipatti in Satu Mare, Romania, the St. John and Zion Chamber Orchestras in Stockton, the Banff Festival Orchestra, and the Stockton Symphony; and performed live on Radio Suisse Romande in Geneva, Switzerland.
As a member of Trio 180 since 2002, Leong has given concerts and worked with young musicians throughout the Americas. The trio has commissioned works by many composers, including Chen Yi, Robert Greenberg, Cindy Cox, Reinaldo Moya, Richard Einhorn, Dorothy Chang, and Andrew Conklin. The trio’s first album, featuring works by Dvořák, Suk, and Schumann, was released in 2015.
Leong also collaborates frequently with violinist Ann Miller, with whom she released the album Perspectives on Light and Shadow in December of 2015. The album Metamorphosis, with bassoonist Nicolasa Kuster, was released in 2013.
The St. Galler Tagblatt (Switzerland) wrote of Leong’s “richly colorful and tender playing,”saying “she balances intelligence and sensitivity, revealing the depths of each score.” The San Francisco Classical Voice described her “sensitive and accomplished touch” and wrote, “Leong...played the brilliant piano part effortlessly and with a great deal of flair.”
Leong studied at the University of British Columbia, the Peabody Conservatory, and the Université de Montréal, as well as at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) on a Commonwealth Scholarship, where she received a Concert Recital Diploma. Her principal teachers include Robert Silverman, Julian Martin, Alexander Volkov, and Marc Durand. She has participated in festivals at the Banff Centre; Orford, Quebec; Scotia Festival; Ladevie, France; and Ernen, Switzerland (with György Sebök).
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