Faculty Recital, Ann Miller & Sonia Leong

FACULTY RECITAL

Ann Miller, violin

Sonia Leong, piano

Friday, September 29, 2023

7:30 pm

Recital Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023, 7:30 PM

Violin Sonata No. 2 in G minor, op. 13 (1867)

Lento doloroso—Allegro vivace

Allegretto tranquillo

Allegro animato

Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin No. 6 in Emajor (1923)

Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)

Violin Sonata (1917)

Allegro vivo

Intermède: Fantasque et léger

Finale: Très animé

String Poetic (2006)

Jagged Climb

Nocturne

Blue Hills of Mist

Maze Mechanical

Climb Jagged

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Celebrated violinist Ann 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, Ann Miller is a member of Trio180, the piano trio-in-residence at University of the Pacific. In addition to performing in Canada, Mexico, and many venues throughout the US, the Trio has also presented online concerts during the pandemic.

Miller’s recent solo appearances include performances of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Zion Chamber Orchestra, the Barber Violin Concerto

Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931)

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)

Intermission

Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962)

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

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 Leong. Their debut album, Perspectives on Light and Shadow:Sonatas by Beaser, Ysaÿe, and Bartók was released in December of 2015.

Miller is an associate professor of violin at the Conservatory of Music of University of the Pacific. She holds her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Juilliard School, and she received her Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum laude, from Rice University. Her teachers have included Ronald Copes and Kathleen Winkler.

Sonia Leong, a founding member of Pacific’s Trio 180, has performed as both a soloist and chamber musician throughout the US, 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. She has also 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.

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 Institute, 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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