Symphony of Northwest Arkansas Paul Haas, Music Director
Masterworks III: Bach & Beethoven MARCH 9, 2019
Masterworks III: Bach & Beethoven Saturday, March 9, 2019 — 7:30PM Walton Arts Center Paul Haas, conductor Zsolt Eder & Miho Oda Sakon, violins
Christopher Cerrone High Windows Bach
Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043
Vivace Largo Allegro
Zsolt Eder & Miho Oda Sakon, violins
Intermission Beethoven
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36
Adagio molto – Allegro con brio
Larghetto Scherzo: Allegro Allegro molto
This concert is sponsored by
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Soloists are underwritten by Mary Ann & Reed Greenwood.
SoNA Board and Staff Board of Directors Mary Benjamin, Chair Julianne Brown, Ph.D., Vice Chair Laura Wilkins, Secretary Malcolm Hayward, M.D., Treasurer Jack A. Cleghorn Carl Frazier-Sparks Drew Hutchison Mike Russell Dan Sanker Cynthia Benward Smith Marti Sudduth Anthony Sumlin Kirk Thompson Tod Yeslow Board of Advisors Ed Clifford Cynthia Coughlin Mary Ann Greenwood, Ph.D. Reed Greenwood, Ed.D. Michele Harrington, Esq. Susan Hui Jill King Tom King, Ph.D. Peter B. Lane Bill Mitchell Frank Sharp Sara Sharp Dick Trammel Staff Matthew Herren, Executive Director Paul Haas, Music Director Terry Hicks, SoNA Singers Director Sarah Pearson, Assistant Conductor Maura Caldwell & Jessica Dutton, Teaching Artists Ben Harris, Director of Operations & Annual Giving Jarrett Bastow, Orchestra Personnel Manager David Ewing, Music Librarian Marti and Kelly Sudduth Chair Contact PO Box 1243 / Fayetteville, AR 72702 479.521.4166 info@sonamusic.org Connect www.sonamusic.org facebook.com/sonafan twitter.com/SoNAinfo
The Symphony of Northwest Arkansas
VIOLA Alyssa Bell, Acting Principal
Paul Haas Music Director & Conductor
Kirk Thompson and
Brett Burch Chair
Bob and Marilyn Bogle Chair
FIRST VIOLIN Winona Fifield, Concertmaster Maestro’s Circle Chair
Zsolt Eder, Associate Concertmaster Johann Acuña, Assistant Concertmaster Will Bush Matthew Bennett Andrew Chu Rebecca Cutler-Metzger Paulo Eskitch Mary Haley Elaine Ng Christy Paxton Allison Steiner
Rosemarie Barney, Acting Associate Principal Babette Allen Gloria Britez-Scolari Grace Clark Rachel Daniels Laura Hahn Anne Wenzel
OBOE Theresa Delaplain, Principal Kristin Weber CLARINET Trevor Stewart, Principal Jasper Hensley BASSOON Lia Uribe, Principal
Wm. Bruce and Joan
Johnson Chair
Leigh Muñoz CELLO Kari Caldwell, Principal
Starr Foundation Chair
Eman Chalshotori, Associate Principal Ashley Allison Diane Bucchianeri Ezgi Karakus You Pan
HORN Bruce Schultz, Principal Michael Gale TRUMPET Richard Rulli, Principal Ryan Gardner TROMBONE
SECOND VIOLIN Miho Oda Sakon, Principal
BASS Jarrett Bastow, Principal
Mt. Sequoyah Women of
Music Chair*
Christine Craddock, Associate Principal Marc Facci Riley Robison
TIMPANI Steve Craft, Principal
Geronimo Oyenard, Associate Principal Miranda Baker Burns Jana Burton Diane Halliburton Samuel Huang Martha Mattes Raul Munguia Evgeny Zvonnikov
Marybeth and Rick Hays Chair
FLUTE Virginia Broffitt Kunzer, Principal
Hollomon Wailes Chair
KEYBOARD Tomoko Kashiwagi, Acting Principal Garrison Financial Chair
Greenwood Gearhart Chair
Kristen Salinas, Associate Principal
Mt. Sequoyah Women
*Mt. Sequoyah Women of Music:
of Music Chair*
Liz Allen, Carol Barnett, Jenny Coogan, Karolyn Farrell, Jill King, Melinda Nickle, Natalie Olsen, Lynn Rogers, Jane Scroggs, Jackie Telfair, Laura Wilkins and Ann Marie Ziegler
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Paul Haas Music Director & Conductor SoNA Music Director Paul Haas enjoys a distinctive career as conductor, composer and installation artist. His guest conducting engagements have included performances with Orchestra of St. Luke’s, San Antonio Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and the New World Symphony, among others, as well as festival appearances.
the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Over the last decade, he has written commissions for a wide variety of iconic venues, including the Park Avenue Armory and Rubin Museum of Art in New York, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, the Anchorage Museum of Art in Alaska, and
Haas is a graduate of Yale University and The Juilliard School. He resides in Germantown, New York, with his wife and three children. Find out more at paulhaas.com.
Zsolt Eder Violin
Miho Oda Sakon Violin
Zsolt Eder, SoNA Associate Concertmaster, is Professor of Violin and Viola at Washburn University (KS) and concertmaster of the Topeka Symphony Orchestra (TSO), where he is a frequent soloist and will be featured in May in Brahms’ Double Concerto with SoNA Associate Principal Cellist Eman Chalshotori. Eder has been guest Concertmaster of the National Symphony of Colombia and soloist with the Washburn University Orchestra. In 2016 he premiered a violin concerto by Joseph Kern, written for him and the Midwest Chamber Ensemble, and performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Medical Arts Symphony of Kansas City. He enjoys a number of collaborations and performs frequently as part of the Kansas City Symphony. Born in Budapest, Eder spent his childhood in Perth, Australia. In college, he studied with Lorand Fenyves in Toronto, and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Cleveland Institute with Paul Kantor. He studied baroque violin with Jeanne Lamon, and earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the UMKC Conservatory studying with Benny Kim and Noah Geller. Eder has performed extensively in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. He is a Sunflower Festival Artist and presents a chamber music series in Topeka called Zsolt Eder and Friends, and has worked for CityMusic Cleveland, Harmony Project KS and UMKC’s Musical Bridges. 4
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In addition to his positions as Music Director of SoNA and the Thunder Bay Symphony in Ontario, Canada, Haas is the founder and Artistic Director of Sympho, a trailblazing concert production company that creates powerful and emotional musical experiences, collaborating with leading artists and using unexpected performance methods and unorthodox venues.
Miho Oda Sakon, SoNA Principal Second Violin, is a member of the Artosphere Festival Orchestra, and Artist-inResidence at the Suzuki Music School of Arkansas (SMSA). She frequently performs with the Tulsa Symphony and the Arkansas Philharmonic, and participates in SoNA’s ImagiMusic program. She has also performed with the Japan Philharmonic and the Tokyo City Philharmonic. As soloist, Sakon has performed with the Ensemble Endless (Tokyo) and the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra (Czech Republic). She has performed more than 500 educational outreach concerts in Japan, and performed in both Japan and the U.S. for the Ozark Literacy Council, the SMSA scholarship fund, and for children affected by the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in 2011. Currently, she and SoNA pianist Tomoko Kashiwagi are performing the complete Beethoven violin sonatas at Butterfield Trail Village. Sakon grew up in Japan and moved to the U.S. in 2008. She holds both a bachelor’s degree and a Master of Arts degree in Violin Performance from the Tokyo College of Music, under master teacher Yoko Kubo. At Indiana University, she pursued additional study with Yuval Yaron. Sakon’s students have been awarded first chair at All Region and All State Orchestra auditions, and many have received music scholarships for advanced study at various universities.
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