Faculty Recital
Violin Sonata (1914) Con moto Ballada Allegretto Adagio
Today’s Verse - Milonga (2022)
Leoš Janáček (1854–1928)
Richard Cionco ( b. 1964)
Invisibles, after a Poem by Antonio Machado, op. 124 The plaza has a tower . . . The balcony has lady . . . There passed a man . . .
When Dark Clouds Linger (2022)
Miguel del Águila (b. 1957)
Chanell Crichlow (b. 1986)
Intermission
Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, op. 108 (1886–88)
Allegro Adagio
Un poco presto e con sentimento Presto agitato
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
PROGRAM NOTES
Miguel del Águila drew inspiration for Invisibles from Anthony Machado’s poem La plaza tierne una torre. (Spacing shows Águila’s division into three movements.)
La plaza tierne una torre, la torre un balcón . . .
el balcón tiene una dama, la dama una blanca flor . . .
Ha pasado un caballero —¡quién sabe por qué pasó!— y se ha llevado la plaza, con su torre y su dama su dama y su blanca flor. —Anthony Machado (1875–1939)
The plaza has a tower, the tower has a balcony . . .
the balcony has a lady, the lady, a white flower . . .
There passed a man nobody knows why, and he took away the plaza, with its balcony and its lady, its lady and her white flower.
Igor Veligan joined the faculty of the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music in the fall of 2006. He holds the Master of Arts degree in violin performance and chamber music from the Odessa State Conservatory. His primary violin teachers included Zoja Istomina and Galina Gritzenko. He studied chamber music with Oleg Shkarpitnuy and Natalya Buzanova, and he has participated in masterclasses with Zakhar Bron, Liana Isakadze, and Igor Frolov.
As a chamber musician, Veligan performs with the L’Estro Armonico String Quartet and the Arlekin String Quartet. He has also been a guest violist with the Argenta Trio and a violist with the Chamber Music Society of Sacramento. As an orchestral performer, he is concertmaster of the San Francisco Choral Society Orchestra, principal viola of the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, principal violist of the Lake Tahoe Summer Festival, and a member of the Monterey Symphony. He recently performed as concertmaster of the Sacramento Philharmonic.
At Pacific’s Conservatory, Veligan he teaches violin, viola, and chamber music, and he also teaches at American River College in Sacramento. He previously taught at the School for the Performing Arts in Ternopil, Ukraine.
The stellar music career of Steinway Artist Natsuki Fukasawa has taken her throughout U.S. cities as well as to Europe, Scandinavia, Israel, Australia, Brazil, Japan and China, performing at such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Copenhagen’s Tivoli Concert Hall. Fukasawa has won many accolades and international prizes, including rave reviews in Strad and Fanfare magazines and the Best Chamber Music Recording of the Year from the Danish Music Awards. She has recorded for the Classico and Da Capo labels, and her career is noted in the World of Women in Classical Music and Who’s Who in America. In 2012 she was added to the distinguished roster of International Steinway Artists.
Fukasawa serves on the artist faculty of the Talis Festival and Academy in SaasFee, Switzerland, and the Orfeo Music Festival in the Italian Alps. She has taught at American River College, California State University Sacramento, Saint Mary’s College of Moraga, and the University of the Pacific. She also enjoys nurturing young talents in her private studio. Her students are winners of state, national and international competitions—and honored with the invitation to appear on NPR’s From the Top—and they go on to pursue music in college at such places as the Manhattan School of Music and Brigham Young University.
After early piano studies with her mother Takako Fukasawa, Natsuki Fukasawa’s main teachers were Fumiko Ishikawa, Mark Richman, Martin Canin, Jan Panenka, and Anne Koscielny. As a member of the Jalina Trio, she studied chamber music intensively in Budapest with Ferenc Rados and in Copenhagen with violist Tim Frederiksen. She studied at the Czech Republic’s Prague Academy of Music as a Fulbright Scholarship recipient and received a performer’s certificate degree. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School and her doc torate from the University of Maryland.
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