Ann
Faculty Recital Miller, violin Sonia Leong, piano
Friday I September 23, 2022 I 7:30 pm Recital Hall
Faculty Recital
6th Performance I 2022–23 Academic Year I Conservatory of Music I University of the Pacific
Recent solo appearances include performances of Tartini’s Devil’s Trill with the Zion Chamber Orchestra, the Brahms Violin Concerto with the University of the Pacific’s Symphony Orchestra, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons with the St. John’s Chamber Orchestra, and Brahms’s Double Concerto with cellist Ira Lehn and the Mariposa Symphony in Yosemite National Park. As a recitalist, Ms. Miller frequently collaborates with pianist Sonia Leong and has appeared on Old First Concerts in San Francisco and the University of the Pacific’s Faculty Recital Series.
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A proponent of new music, Ms. 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 Violin Concerto No. 2. She has performed with the ensemble Continuum in Mongolia and Ukraine as well as New York City. In addition, Ms. Miller participated in an exchange program between the Juilliard School and the Lucerne Festival Academy that culminated in performances in Switzerland and New York under the direction of Pierre Boulez.
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Violin Sonata
AllegroLentoAndantinoAllegro(1964)
Violin Sonata in C minor, op. 30, no. 2 (1802) Allegro con brio Adagio Finale:Scherzo:cantabileAllegroAllegro
Violin Sonata No. 1 (1958)
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, she enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician, soloist, and educator.
CONCERT PROGRAM I SEPTEMBER 23, 2022 I 7:30 PM
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Sonia Leong, a founding member of Pacific’s Trio 180, 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, AsSwitzerland.amember of Trio 180 since 2002, Sonia 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. Ms. Leong also collaborates frequently with violinist Ann Miller, with whom she
PERFORMER BIOS
An avid chamber musician, Ann Miller is a member of Trio 180, the piano trioin-residence at the University of the Pacific. In addition to performing in Canada, Mexico, Maryland, Oregon, and Nevada, the Trio has concertized throughout California in such venues as the Mondavi Center, Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University, and the Center for New Music in San Francisco. Trio 180 has also performed Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the St. John’s Chamber Orchestra. The Trio released its first album, featuring trios by Dvořák, Suk, and Schumann, in Ms.2015.Miller
is an associate professor of violin at the Conservatory of Music of the 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. 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. Ms. Miller has participated in the New York String Orchestra Seminar and has spent summers at Kneisel Hall, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and Yale School of Music’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.
Their debut album, Perspectives on Light and Shadow: Sonatas by Beaser, Ysaÿe, and Bartók, was released in December of 2015.
PERFORMER BIOS
released the album Perspectives on Light and Shadow in December of 2015. She also performed on the 2013 album Metamorphosis with bassoonist Nicolasa Kuster.
Ms. Leong studied at the University of British Columbia, the Peabody Conservatory, the Université de Montréal, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London), where she received a Concert Recital Diploma on a Commonwealth Scholarship. Her principal teachers included Robert Silverman, Julian Martin, Alexander Volkov, and Marc Durand. She has participated in festivals at the Banff Centre (Orford, Quebec), in Ladevie (France), in Ernen (Switzerland) with György Sebök, and at the Scotia Festival.
The St. Galler Tagblatt (Switzerland) wrote of Ms. 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.”
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