Belmont University School of Music
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2024 7:30 P.M.
MCAFEE CONCERT HALL
Belmont University School of Music presents
Belmont Camerata
I Could Have Danced All Night Frederick Loewe from My Fair Lady (1901-1988)
All the Thing You Are Jerome Kern from Very Warm for May (1885-1945)
I Love a Piano Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
Angela Yoon, soprano Jason Terry, piano
David Economy Band David Van Vactor Entrata (1906-1994) Dirge Fanfare Intermezzo Gallop
Joel Treybig, trumpet Jeffrey Phillips, trombone Christopher Norton, percussion
Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen Johann Sebastian Bach from Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (BWV 51) (1685-1750)
Let the Bright Seraphim George Frideric Handel from Samson (1685-1759)
Angela Yoon, soprano Joel Treybig, trumpet Andrew Risinger, organ
Sonata for Violin and Piano César Franck
Allegretto ben moderato (1822-1890)
Allegro
Ben moderato: Recitativo-Fantasia
Allegretto poco mosso
Boris Abramov, violin
Robert Marler, piano
Texts & Translations
Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen!
Was der Himmel und die Welt
An Geschöpfen in sich hält, Müssen dessen Ruhm erhöhen, Und wir wollen unserm Gott Gleichfalls itzt ein Opfer bringen, Dass er uns in Kreuz und Not Allezeit hat beigestanden.
Let the Bright Seraphim
Let the bright seraphim in burning row, Their loud, uplifted angel trumpets blow. Let the cherubic host in tuneful choirs, Touch their immortal harps with golden wires.
Shout for joy to God in every land
Shout for joy to God in every land! what the heaven and the world for creatures in themselves contain, must exalt his glory, and to our God we would now likewise bring an offering, since in affliction and distress at all times he has stood by us.
About the Performers
Boris Abramov, adjunct instructor of violin at the Belmont University School of Music, has been hailed as “a violinist of outstanding technical accomplishment and exceptional musical talent” (Fanfare Magazine), violinist Boris Abramov has established himself as a young promising artist, performing across the world as a soloist as well as a chamber and orchestral musician.
Abramov began studying the violin at the age of six, and continued his studies at the Schwob School of Music, Columbus State University in the United States with the renowned violinist and pedagogue Sergiu Schwartz. During his studies, Abramov won awards at the national and international levels including the MTNA (Music Teachers National Association) Competition for strings in 2008 in Denver, Colorado, and a special prize at the 2009 Pablo de Sarasate International
Competition in Pamplona, Spain. In 2021, Abramov received the Young Alumni Award from Columbus State University "in recognition of a commitment to excellence in post-collegiate life and a significant or ongoing commitment to extraordinary work, research, volunteerism or service to Columbus State University."
Abramov’s international performing career included appearances as a soloist with the Jerusalem Festival, Columbus, Lagrange, Brevard, Auburn, and Verde Valley Sinfonietta Orchestras as well as recitals in France, Belgium, Estonia, Switzerland, Norway, Russia and across the United States. Recent chamber music engagements include performances with the American Chamber Players as well as performances at the Killington and Montecito Music Festivals in Vermont and California, as well as the XX and XXI Homecoming Chamber Music Festival in Moscow, Russia. Abramov recent chamber music collaborations include world-renowned performers such as Carmine Miranda, Alexander Kobrin, Esther Park, Chad Ibison, Anton Dresller, Maxim Rysanov, and Roman Mintz.
Boris Abramov's debut album, Mozart-Beethoven Violin and Cello Duets with renowned cellist Carmine Miranda was released to critical acclaim by Navona Records. It was awarded the Silver Medal at the 2017 Global Music Awards and nominated for a Hollywood Music in Media Award.
An avid orchestral musician, Abramov has served as principal second violinist of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra (2014-2023), and regularly performs with symphony orchestras across the United States including the Charleston, Albany, Columbus, Hilton Head, and Paducah symphonies.
As an educator, Abramov serves as Vice-President of the Samuel Vargas International Music Foundation and conducts seminars and masterclasses in some of the finest music festivals and institutions across the world, including the Killington and Montecito Music Festivals, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, University of North Carolina Greensboro, and The Samuel Vargas International Music Foundation. Abramov's students have continued their studies in some of the world's finest universities and hold prestigious positions in leading orchestras and music institutions.
Abramov performs on a Sergio Peresson violin, made in 1982 in Haddonfield, New Jersey.
Dr. Jeffrey T. Phillips has been the adjunct instructor of trombone and commercial brass at Belmont University since 2004 and also performs with the Belmont Faculty Brass Quintet. He retired from secondary school teaching after thirty-four years, which include twenty-nine as the Director of Bands at Hendersonville High School where he coordinated all facets of the program there including AP Music Theory, marching band, two concert bands, and two jazz bands in addition to founding the school string orchestra. Under his direction the bands performed at five state and two national conventions, and numerous other festivals and events throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. In addition, he taught at Pope John Paul II High School, was adjunct trombone instructor at Western Kentucky University, and served as the conductor of the Trevecca Nazarene University-Community Wind Ensemble.
He has earned degrees from Middle Tennessee State University, Western Kentucky University, Austin Peay State University, and California Coast University with his dissertation on
“Implementing Standards in the Band and Orchestra Rehearsal” (which was published in part by the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors). Phillips also holds a Diploma in Trombone Performance from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.
As a performer, he remains active as a freelance trombonist in the Nashville area. In addition to various recitals and clinics, he is a charter member of the Tri-Star Brass Ensemble (which is a collaboration between Belmont, Vanderbilt, and MTSU Brass faculty members).
Phillips has conducted clinics in Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, Missouri, Georgia, and Mississippi for students in middle school through college and is active as an adjudicator for music groups of all genres throughout the Southeast. He has published a variety of articles in the Bandworld, School Band and Orchestra, and Tennessee Musician magazines. He was a coauthor of the MENC’s Strategies for Teaching series and has published numerous music reviews for the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors’ Journal.
He has served as President of the Middle Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association, the Tennessee Chapter of the International Association for Jazz Education and the Tennessee Music Education Association. Phillips served two years as the National Treasurer for the American School Band Directors Association and was elected to the position of President-elect for the ASBDA and served in the office of President of this organization for the 2008-2009 year. He currently serves ASBDA as the Chair of the Goldman-Harding Awards Committee.
Robert Marler is Principal keyboardist for the Nashville Symphony and Professor of Music at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.
He is a frequent soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician and accompanist throughout the Midwest and South and has performed with numerous orchestras and musicians from renowned orchestras worldwide, including the London Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, and others. Concertos performed include the Rachmaninoff second concerto, Chopin F minor, Liszt E-flat, Tchaikovsky Third, Shostakovich first, Martinů Double Concerto for two string orchestras, piano and timpani, Mozart A-major, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, Concerto in F and others.
As the symphony principal keyboardist, Marler performs on piano, celesta, harpsichord, and synthesizer on a regular basis with the Nashville Symphony and has worked with the NSO since 1986. He is represented on seven Grammy wins out of fourteen Grammy nominations and has recorded more than thirty projects on the Naxos label. He has also recorded and performed with the Buffalo Philharmonic. The Chicago Tribune recently rated one of these recordings as one of the best recordings of the year. As a chamber musician, Marler has performed with the Nashville Chamber orchestra, Alias, many piano trio and quartet ensembles and solo instrumentalists.
In 2015 Marler performed in major concert halls in eight Chinese cities. In 2023, he performed in Lisbon, Portugal with the famous Gulbenkian Orchestra. In May of 2024, he performed with the ROCO orchestra in Houston and premiered two newly commissioned works.
As a ballet musician he has performed in more than one hundred productions with Nashville Ballet, either as a soloist, chamber musician or orchestral player. Solo piano ballets have included Sewell’s
“Chopin Tributes,” a choreographed Chopin recital, “Yes Virginia another Piano Ballet,” a Chopin solo recital and “Clowns” featuring Prokofiev’s Vision Fugitives for solo piano. Other solo piano ballets include music of Philip Glass, music of Fauré, and music of Tchaikovsky.
Marler has also recorded with Nashville sessions players and has recorded music for video games, the Sony PlayStation 4, movies, and national television shows. He has also coached famous movie stars in a lengthy piano duet scene for a major motion picture.
Robert Marler and Belmont School of Music Colleague Carmine Miranda recently released a new recording on Parma Records, Cello Sonatas by Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich which received many fine reviews internationally and won the Global Music Awards Gold Medal as best Classical chamber music recording in 2023.
Christopher Norton is Professor of Music and Director of Percussion Studies at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to joining the Belmont faculty in 2001, he taught at Western Kentucky University for fourteen years. His bachelor's and master's degrees are from the Eastman School of Music, and his doctorate is from Louisiana State University. Norton performs regularly as a percussionist with Nashville Symphony, Alias Chamber Ensemble, Sympatico Percussion Group, and the Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra. Formerly, he performed, recorded, and toured with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Bob Becker Ensemble, and the Jack Daniel’s Silver Cornet Band. He has held core and auxiliary positions with the Rochester Philharmonic, Virginia Symphony, Baton Rouge Symphony, Alabama Symphony, and Eastern Philharmonic.
Norton’s solo marimba CD Christopher Norton: Creston Concertino for Marimba features several first edition recordings of twentieth-century American works. In 2011, Alias Chamber Ensemble released a Grammy-nominated recording on the Naxos label that featured music of Gabriela Frank and included the premier recording of Danza de los Saqsampillos for two marimbas. Norton played percussion with the Nashville Symphony on the Grammy award-winning recording of the music of Michael Daugherty. In 2012, Norton and his wife Leslie, Principal Horn of the Nashville Symphony, released a CD of horn-percussion duos they have commissioned over the past twentyfive years.
Norton has given clinics and recitals in Europe and across the United States, most notably as a featured artist at Percussive Arts Society International Conventions and Days of Percussion. A past state chapter president of PAS, Norton also served as Chairman of the International Keyboard Percussion Committee for several years. His compositions have been listed on required repertoire lists for international marimba competitions and are published by Alabaster Music, Innovative Percussion, and Pioneer Percussion. He is a Malletech artist.
Also an active orchestral conductor, Norton is Music Director of the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra. He held a similar post with the Bowling Green Western Symphony Orchestra and has guest conducted the Nashville Symphony, Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Nashville Ballet, Alabama Symphony, and several university orchestras. He was one of five conductors participating in the Nashville Symphony’s performance of Charles Ives’s Universe Symphony in Carnegie Hall.
Andrew Risinger, adjunct instructor of organ at Belmont, is a native of Texas and has been making music in Nashville since 1991. Having played with the Nashville Symphony at various times over many years, Risinger now holds the position of Organist for the Nashville Symphony. Risinger is a
graduate of Baylor University where he studied organ with renowned performer Joyce Jones. Further studies took Risinger to the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa where he earned a double Master's Degree in Organ Performance and Choral Conducting, studying organ with the late J. Warren Hutton and conducting with Sandra Willetts. Risinger is Organist and Associate Director of Music of West End United Methodist Church in Nashville and serves on the adjunct faculty of Belmont University.
In 1994, Risinger was awarded second prize in the American Guild of Organists' National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance, and he is a past winner of the William C. Hall Organ Competition in San Antonio. As a concert artist he has performed throughout the United States including performances at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, and Trinity Church, Copley Square in Boston. Risinger has also performed as a soloist with the Illinois Symphony as well as the Nashville Symphony.
Pianist and keyboardist Dr. Jason Terry has given performances throughout North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe as a soloist, band member, and collaborative pianist. His performances have been heard on multiple NPR stations, K-Pop recordings, and pop-culture videos. Recent performances include Carnegie Hall (New York), Théâtre de Nesle (Paris), and Steigenberger Hall (Alexandria).
As a recent Fulbright Scholar he served as artist-in-residence for the Cairo Conservatoire, part of the Egyptian National Academy of the Arts. During his time there, he led piano courses, applied studies, and performed throughout the region, especially showcasing American music while learning and engaging with Arabic idioms as well.
Beginning in Fall 2024, Terry, a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music, joined the music faculty of Belmont University (Nashville, TN) where he splits his duties between teaching music courses and collaborating on innovative educational ideas for collegiate instruction.
Dr. Joel Treybig is Professor of Trumpet in the Belmont University School of Music where he works with undergraduate and graduate trumpet students, performs with the Belmont Brass Quintet, and directs brass ensembles. Treybig serves as Associate Director of the School of Music and oversees the graduate music program. He has performed with symphony orchestras in Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas and has performed as principal trumpet with Nashville Opera and Nashville Ballet, with the Nashville Symphony, and with numerous pit orchestras and chamber groups. He is an active solo recitalist and clinician and has performed as a guest artist throughout the United States, including diverse venues such as CBDNA and TMEA conferences, International Trumpet Guild conferences, the Midwest Trumpet Festival, Spivey Hall, Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts, and the Trumpet Festival of the Southeast. He performs frequently in and around Nashville as a freelance performer and is an active studio musician for film and video game soundtracks.
His performances of contemporary music have earned the praise of such American composers as John Cheetham, Eric Ewazen, Stanley Friedman, Stephen Michael Gryc, Karel Husa, Anthony Plog, and Joan Tower. Kent Kennan, upon hearing Treybig play his sonata, wrote "A first-rate trumpet player! I wish all performances of this piece sounded as good!" and Anthony Plog wrote of Treybig "A great player, and great interpretation of Four Themes..." after hearing his performance of
Plog's 4 Themes on Paintings of Edvard Munch. Treybig's doctoral treatise, An Investigation and Analysis of Karel Husa's Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Orchestra, was praised by Dr. Husa as being exceptional and wrote that he considered the treatise to be "one of the most conscientious research documents on any of my compositions."
Treybig received the Doctor of Musical Arts in performance from the University of Texas at Austin, Master of Music in performance from the University of Akron and Bachelor of Music Education from Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music. He has also completed postgraduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music. His primary teachers include Mary Squire, James Darling, David Duro, Scott Johnston, Murray Greig, and Raymond Crisara. His articles and music reviews have been published in the International Trumpet Guild Journal and he has published multiple compositions and arrangements that are published by Eighth Note Publications. His biography has been listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who Among American Teachers and was selected for inclusion in David Hickman’s Trumpet Greats: A Biographical Dictionary. Treybig’s solo, chamber, and orchestral performances have been broadcast on public radio throughout the southeast, and he has recorded two CDs, entitled Lux et Lapis – Music for Two Trumpets and Organ, and Awakenings, with Adam Hayes, trumpet, and Andrew Risinger, organ. He has also recorded a CD of music for solo trumpet and organ with Andrew Risinger entitled Rhapsodia Sacra. Treybig is a Yamaha Performing Artist and performs exclusively on Yamaha instruments.
Coloratura soprano Angela Yoon has been known for her delightful and beautifully expansive voice and her ability to deliver texts through music. As a soprano soloist, she has been named as a winner and finalist in various competitions and has performed solos, recitals, and concerts as a guest artist throughout the United States, Egypt, South Korea, Germany, Canada, and France. She has been featured on radio broadcasts and recordings and appeared as the soloist and principal artist in oratorios, cantatas, and operas. In addition to standard recitals and concerts, she is interested in creating interdisciplinary musical experiences for the audience through collaborating with other fields such as visual art, science, social justice, history, and even political science. Her current concert programs include WWI program, Broken Harmony: Reconstructing Art, diversity concert program, Colorful Harmony: Melodies from Near and Far, and social justice concert program on refugee, human trafficking, marginalized youth, and undocumented immigrants called Songs of Hope: Unveiling Darkness which was performed at Carnegie Hall.
She serves on the voice faculty at Belmont University as the Coordinator of Vocal Pedagogy program, and on the voice faculty at Interlochen Center for the Arts where she continues to return as a summer faculty member.
Upcoming Concerts and Events
Wellness for Instrumentalists
Wednesday, September 18, 10:00 a.m. Harton Recital Hall
Belmont University String Chamber Orchestra Friday, September 27, 12:00 p.m. Wilson/MPAC Atrium
Classical Singers Recital with reception to follow Sunday, September 29, 2:00 p.m. McAfee Concert Hall
Music and Discourse: Dr. Nichole Richard Williams
Instruments of Movement: How Rhythm Can Support Motor Skills in Autistic Individuals Monday, September 30, 10:00 a.m.
Hitch 130
Faculty Woodwind Quintet Monday, September 30, 7:30 p.m. McAfee Concert Hall
Music and Discourse: Dr. Lesley Mann
An Expressive SPIRIT: 6 Decisions for Illustrating Musicality Wednesday, October 2, 10:00 a.m.
Hitch 130
Composition Honors Recital Wednesday, October 2, 7:30 p.m. McAfee Concert Hall
Concert Band & Wind Ensemble Friday, October 4, 7:30 p.m. McAfee Concert Hall
For more information on upcoming concerts and events, please visit www.belmont.edu/cmpa or “like” Belmont University School of Music on Facebook.
