PACIFIC ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET Saturday I January 25, 2020 I 4 pm Conservatory Recital Hall MATHEW KREJCI flute KYLE BRUCKMANN oboe PATRICIA SHANDS clarinet SADIE GLASS horn NICOLASA KUSTER bassoon RICARDO MARTINEZ saxophone Also featuring select conservatory students
64th Performance I 2019–20 Academic Year I Conservatory of Music I University of the Pacific
CONCERT PROGRAM I JANUARY 25, 2020 I 4 PM Scaramouche Suite, Op. 165c Darius Milhaud I Vif (1982-1974) II. ModĂŠrĂŠ Arr. Don Stewart III. Brazileira Pacific Arts Woodwind Quintet; Ricardo Martinez, saxophone Sonata for Two Flutes in B Minor Georg Phillip Telemann Largo (1681-1767) Vivace Grazioso Allegro Mathew Krejci, flute; Charlotte Han, violin Twelve Duets for Horn and Bassoon I III V VI VIII XI Reese Romero, horn; Nicolasa Kuster, bassoon
Alec Wilder (1907-1980)
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Alice Samter (1908-2004) Kyle Bruckmann, oboe; Ealaph Taabaa, bassoon
Six Duets for Horn and Cello I III IV V VI Sadie Glass, horn; Amy Wheeler, cello
Alec Wilder (1907-1980)
Duos for Flute and Clarinet Robert Muczynski Andante sostenuto (1929-2010) Allegro risoluto Moderato Allegro ma non troppo Andante molto Allegro Natalie Kowalski, flute; Patricia Shands, clarinet
Ricardo Martinez is Assistant Professor of Practice in Saxophone at the Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific. A highly evolved saxophone player, American saxophonist Ricardo Martinez has performed concerts internationally in France, Scotland, and Japan. Most recently in 2019, Martinez toured Japan giving concerts in Tokyo, Nagoya, and Shizuoka. Martinez was featured soloist with the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Cergy-Pontoise Wind Ensemble performing Deux Mouvements by André Waignein. He has performed frequently at major conferences including the International Saxophone Symposium, North American Saxophone Alliance, American Single Reed Summit, and World Saxophone Congress and has been broadcasted several times on WFIU Public Radio. An avid chamber musician, Martinez was Grand Prize Winner in the 9th Plowman Chamber Music Competition 2019. While in France, Martinez performed frequent chamber concerts in Paris at the Korean Cultural Center, Maison de la Culture du Japon, Maison Heinrich Heine, and Temple du Saint Esprit. As an orchestral musician, Martinez has performed with several symphonies, including the California Symphony, Evansville Philharmonic, Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, and University Orchestra at Jacobs, as well as the San Jose Wind Symphony. Martinez has been invited to teach and perform at San José State University, Stanford University, and the Indiana University Summer Saxophone Academy. He has served as a clinician in the California Bay Area and to members of the California Youth Symphony Wind Ensemble. Martinez studied under acclaimed saxophone virtuoso Eugene Rousseau at the University of Minnesota, as well as Jean-Yves Fourmeau, and Philippe Braquart in France, where he obtained the Medaille d’Or in saxophone and chamber music with honors at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Cergy-Pontoise. Additional teachers include David Henderson and William Trimble. Martinez earned a Master of Music and is completing a Doctor of Music with minors in Music Education and Wind Conducting at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music under the guidance of Otis Murphy, where he held the position of associate instructor in saxophone from 2016-2019. In his spare time, Martinez enjoys traveling and learning languages. He is a polyglot speaking fluent English, Spanish and French.
PACIFIC ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET The Pacific Arts Woodwind Quintet (PAWQ), artists-in-residence at the Conservatory of Music, carries on a long tradition of outstanding woodwind quintet performance at the Conservatory beginning in 1970. The ensemble has performed for school groups, community concert organizations, professional musician associations, teacher conventions, and music festivals including two recent tours to Panama. PAWQ members include: Mathew Krejci, flute Jesse Barrett and Kyle Bruckmann, oboes Patricia Shands, clarinet Nicolasa Kuster, bassoon Sadie Glass, horn To address the historical trend that music composed by women accounts for only a small percentage of pieces performed by most professional ensembles, PAWQ is committed to exploring and performing such works at every concert. Some of the composers included so far are: Claude Arrieu (1903-1990), GraĹźyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Elsa Barraine (1910-1999), Ruth Crawford-Seeger (1901-1953), Yvonne Desportes (1907-1993), Barbara Harbach (b. 1946), Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962), HyeKyung Lee (b. 1959), Xinyan Li (b. 1978), Amy Riebs Mills (b. 1955), Geraldine Mucha (1917-2012), and Katherine Ann Murdock (b. 1949).
PACIFIC ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET Mathew Krejci is Associate Professor of Practice in Flute and Chamber Music at the Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific. Krejci is Principal Flute of the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra. For thirty four years, he has been Principal Flute of the Bear Valley Music Festival. He has appeared there as soloist on Bach’s Suite in B Minor, Mozart’s The Concerto for Flute and Harp, Ibert’s Concerto for Flute, and Honegger’s Concerto da Camera. He was invited to join the Wild Basin Woodwind Quintet based in Austin, Texas, in 2002. Mr. Krejci was an invited soloist with the National Orchestra of Ecuador at the Center of the World Flute Festival in June, 2012, playing Mercadante’s Concerto in E Minor. His recent international performances have been in Paris, Madrid, Panama City, Panama, Venice and Siena, Italy. In November 2014, Mr. Krejci performed CPE Bach’s Concerto in D Minor for Flute with the Orqestra Tocando e Vida in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. In July, Mr. Krejci will perform at the Texas Bach Festival. Kyle Bruckmann is Assistant Professor of Practice in Oboe and Contemporary Music at the Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific. Shortly after moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2003, he joined forces with the Stockton Symphony, acclaimed new music collective sfSound, and Quinteto Latino (a woodwind quintet specializing in Latin American composers). He is now also a member of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Eco Ensemble, and Splinter Reeds. He has worked as a substitute with the San Francisco Symphony and most of the area’s regional orchestras while remaining active in an international community of improvisers and sound artists. From 1996 until his westward relocation, he was a fixture in Chicago’s experimental music underground; long term affiliations from that era include Wrack (recipient of a 2012 Chamber Music America New Jazz Works award). the electro-acoustic duo EKG, and the “rock” monstrosity Lozenge. Bruckmann earned undergraduate degrees in music and psychology at Rice University in Houston, studying oboe with Robert Atherholt, serving as music director of campus radio station KTRU, and achieving academic distinction as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He completed his master’s degree in 1996 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he studied oboe performance with Harry Sargous and contemporary improvisation with Ed Sarath.
PACIFIC ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET Patricia Shands is Professor of Clarinet and Program Director for Chamber Music at the Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific. As a clarinetist, 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. She was a featured soloist for composer Luciano Berio’s presentation of the Norton Lectures at Harvard University. 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, Ms. Shands has been featured on NBC’s Today Show, National Public 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 Centaur, Albany, Onossa, and Round Top labels. Dr. Shands joined the faculty of University of the Pacific in 1995. In 2009, 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 currently is a member of the Trois Bois Wind Trio and the Pacific Arts Woodwind Quintet. Sadie Glass is Assistant Professor of Practice in Horn at the Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific. As a hornist, Glass has been recognized for her “polished tone.” She is also an active educator and performer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a tenured member of the Monterey Symphony and has performed with many orchestras throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Santa Rosa Symphony, Symphony Silicon Valley, and Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera. Sadie also performs as a soloist and orchestral hornist with period-instrument ensembles throughout the country. She performs regularly on the baroque and natural horn with ensembles including American Bach Soloists, Portland Baroque Orchestra, and Pacific MusicWorks. Beyond teaching at Pacific, Sadie has also held positions at Pacific Union College, Las Positas College, and El Sistema music programs. During the summer, she is on faculty at the Kendall Betts Horn Camp as the natural horn specialist. Sadie completed a master’s degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studying with Bernhard Scully and earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, studying with Dr. Patrick Miles.
PACIFIC ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET Nicolasa Kuster is Program Director for Woodwinds, Associate Professor of Bassoon and Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at the Conservatory of Music, Univesrsity of the Pacific. As a bassoonist, she balances her full-time teaching position with a rich orchestral, chamber, and solo performing life around northern California and beyond. She also launched and continues to lead the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition, a biennial competition for young women bassoonists from the Americas. This competition awards $20,500 in prizes at the exciting three day MQVC Bassoon Symposium open to all. Kuster is Principal Bassoon of the Stockton Symphony and New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestras, Second Bassoon of the Monterey Symphony, and performs on occasion with the San Francisco and San Diego Symphonies. Previous positions include the Wichita Symphony (also serving on the faculty of Wichita State University), the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and the Virginia Symphony. She spent six summer seasons performing and recording with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in Italy and can be heard on the Chandos Label playing Principal Bassoon on Gian Carlo Menotti’s operas and other works. She has enjoyed teaching and performing at many summer festivals and camps, including Anchorage Music Festival; Ameropa Chamber Music Festival in Prague, Czech Republic; Sequoia Chamber Music Workshop in Arcata, CA; the Marrowstone Festival in Bellingham, WA; Bocal Majority and Operation O.B.O.E. as well as Pacific Music Camp in Stockton. Her solo appearances with orchestra include performing Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Bassoon Concerto in the opening Gala performance of the International Double Reed Society in 2013, Peter Schickele’s Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra with the Stockton Symphony in 2015, multiple-city tours of Kazakhstan, as well as televised performances in Italy and Panama. She is the winner of the 1995 Chicago Musicians Club of Women’s Solo Competition Farwell Award, which she won while a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago studying with the late Bruce Grainger, Assistant Principal Bassoon of the Chicago Symphony. She is a double degree graduate from Oberlin College and Conservatory with a Bachelor of Music in Bassoon Performance and a Bachelor of Arts in Religion. Her solo album, Metamorphosis, can be found online.
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UPCOMING CONSERVATORY EVENTS Jan. 26 I 3 pm Pacific Youth Symphony Faye Spanos Concert Hall
Feb. 6 I 7:30 pm Peter Steiner, trombone Recital Hall
Jan. 28 I 3 pm Tuesday Jazz Jam Take 5 Jazz Club
Feb. 7 I 3:30 pm Master Class with William Buchman, bassoon Recital Hall
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Feb. 7 I 7:30 pm Frank Wiens, piano Faye Spanos Concert Hall
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