New Music for Orchestra

NEW MUSIC NEW HAVEN Christopher Theofanidis, artistic director

YALE PHILHARMONIA Shinik Hahm, conductor

DECEMBER 11 2009

MUSIC OF David Lang Samuel Adams Richard Harrold Robert Honstein Jordan Kuspa Polina Nazaykinskya Feinan Wang

Robert Blocker, Dean

NEW MUSIC FOR ORCHESTRA Woolsey Hall 路 Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale 路 Shinik Hahm, conductor Farkhad Khudyev and Adrian Slywotzky, assistant conductors

ROBERT HONSTEIN

200 OK Farkhad Khudyev, conductor

POLINA NAZAYKINSKAYA

Winter Bells Farkhad Khudyev, conductor

JORDAN KUSPA

Iterations Adrian Slywotzky, conductor

RICHARD HARROLD

Monks! Monks! Monks!

I. Branle/March IV. Serenade II. Canario/Tourdion

Adrian Slywotzky, conductor Steven Feis, tenor Nathaniel Calixto, tenor Kyle Sherman, tenor INTERMISSION

DAVID LANG

International Business Machine Shinik Hahm, conductor

SAMUEL ADAMS

Pare Shinik Hahm, conductor

FEINAN WANG

Red Cheongsam @ Midnight Shinik Hahm, conductor

DAVID LANG

grind to a halt Shinik Hahm, conductor

As a courtesy to the performers and to other audience members, turn off cell phones and pagers. Please do not leave the theater during selections. Photography or recording of any kind is not permitted.

PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA OF YALE

SHINIK HAHM Music Director

KRISTA JOHNSON Managing Director

RENATA STEVE Librarian

ROBERTA SENTORE Production Assistant

Violin 1

Double Bass

Bass Trombone

Alexander Read, concertmaster Yu-Ting Huang Hyerin Kim David Southorn Marjolaine Lambert Marc Daniel van Biemen Igor Pikayzen Soo Ryun Baek Naria Kim Youngsun Kim Hana Hlozkova Qi Cao

Michael Levin, principal Alexander Smith Nathaniel Chase Aleksey Klyushnik

Jay Roberts Craig Watson

Violin 2 Domenic Salerni, principal Sun Min Hwang Jae-in Shin Xi Chen Edson Scheid de Andrade Yeseul Ann Evan Schallcross Jiyun Han Ruby Chen Ka Chun Gary Ngan

Viola Amina Myriam Tebini, principal Colin Meinecke Raul Garcia Eve Tang Mathilde Geismar Roussel Eren Tuncer Kristin Chai Edwin Kaplan

Cello Soo Jin Chung, principal Mo Mo Jung Min Han Sunhee Jeon Jee Eun Song Wonsun Keem Sifei Wen Alvin Yan Ming Wong

Flute & Piccolo Mindy Heinsohn Itay Lantner Christopher Matthews Dariya Nikolenko

Oboe Carl Oswald Andrew Parker, English horn Joseph Peters

Clarinet & Bass Clarinet Soo Jin Huh In Hyung Hwang Sara Wollmacher

FARKHAD KHUDYEV ADRIAN SLYWOTZKY Assistant Conductors

Tuba Bethany Wiese

Percussion Yun-Chu Chiu John Corkill Leonardo Gorosito Ian Rosenbaum Michael Zell

Harp Keturah Bixby Maura Valenti

Piano Stephen Whale Lu Yang

Bassoon SaMona Bryant Jennifer Hostler Scott Switzer, contrabassoon

Winds, brass, and percussion are listed in alphabetical order

Horn

Assistants

Katherine Herman Scott Holben Christopher Jackson Elizabeth Upton

Music Librarians

Andrew Parker Christopher Matthews

Paul Florek Ryan Olsen Kyle Sherman Andreas Stoltzfus David Wharton

Scott Holben Holly Piccoli Kathryn Salfelder Liesl Schoenberger Elizabeth Upton Christopher Williams Sara Wollmacher

Trombone

Stage Crew

Trumpet

Brian Reese Ruben Rodriguez Ted Sonnier

Nathaniel Chase Joseph Peters Mark Wallace Craig Watson

ROBERT HONSTEIN 200 OK

: Notes

: Biography

Servers are the twenty-first century utility. Hidden in warehouses, underground, and in other discreet locations around the world, countless computers hold the physical record of our data.

The Internet behemoths – Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook – rely on these machines to power their information empires. The rest of us rely on these servers to preserve our collective digital memories. I began this piece out of a specific interest in how my computer talks to the body of computers storing what we call the Internet. I quickly learned there is a precise set of rules and procedures governing this type of user/server communication. This is called the Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP), otherwise known as the “http” that precedes many web addresses. According to HTTP, whenever we open a web browser our computer communicates with a server through a series of simple messages. Upon receiving our request, the server acknowledges the query with the message “200 OK.” The connection has been established and data will be transmitted.

Robert came to music via the piano, the voice, and the bass guitar. He sang in choirs, played in rock bands, and tinkled the ivories throughout his youth. Robert received a BA in music from Yale University and an MM in composition from UT Austin. He is currently enrolled at the Yale School of Music, working towards the MMA degree in composition. Robert’s works have been performed around the country and have received numerous awards and honors. Recent projects include a commission from the Norfolk Summer Music Festival for his chorus and chamber orchestra piece Hello World, I Love You. Over the coming year he hopes to finish a video musicdrama about voyeurism, the law, and internet dating. When not at school Robert plays piano for dance classes at the Educational Center for the Arts and is a teaching fellow in the Yale College Department of Music, where he has taught courses on electronic music and composition.

POLINA NAZAYKINSKAYA Winter Bells

: Notes Each piece of music that I write comes from the depths of my heart, from the inner ocean of emotions and possibilities that are carried by the waves of memories. Just as a sculptor frees the elusive figures from marble by cutting away all that is unnecessary, I find myself carving out the musical notes from the block of inspiration that calls me to compose. Perhaps, for the composer, the writing of music is a divine act, a meditative experience that opens the gates to the paradise lost and brings out the nostalgia for the infinite.

This is what I felt while writing the symphonic poem Winter Bells. Last summer, in search of material or ideas for an orchestra piece, I went back to Russia and visited an Old Russian village.

There I connected with my roots and rekindled my imagination by visiting a sacred place in the wilderness: three mountain peaks that, when seen from above, appear to form a giant goblet.

I was all alone, with the vastness of space and rocks stretching in all directions. And then it came to me, a choral, religious motif. I sat on a fallen tree and wrote it in my scratch book.

After multiple starts, I finally found the right path, and it felt like the symphony wrote itself.

Inspiration was unleashed as I worked non-stop for several days. When I started the piece, I found myself reaching for that place within where everything surrenders to the whispers of nature and divine harmony. This symphonic poem is one of my most cherished compositions.

Creating it has been both a challenge and an enchanting delight.

The symphony begins with a fleeting image. A Russian winter filled with void, bleakness and an eerie feeling. A traveler on a long journey and on

the brink of madness and desperation, fighting his way through the deadly blizzard.

A vision from the past, joyous and wondrous, materializes and disappears, as a mirage in the middle of a snowy dessert. Will the traveler survive? For whom shall the bells toll, when their ringing resonates at a distance? Will he be spared or will he perish before completing his journey?

: Biography Polina Nazaykinskaya was born in Togliatti, Russia, in 1987, and has been studying music from the age of four. She graduated with honors from the Music Academic Gymnasium in Togliatti in 2004. In 2008 she graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory Music College as a violinist and composer. Currently she is a graduate student at the Yale School of Music, studying composition with Ezra Laderman and Christopher Theofanidis and violin with Kyung Hak Yu. She is the winner of several composers’ competitions such as the Dmitriy Kabalevskiy Competition and the International Composers Competition named for Vyacheslav Zolotarev.

Her music had been performed at the Music Academy of the West, Classic Music Festival on the Volga River, Cadiza Festival, and throughout Europe. Polina was included in the 2008 Golden Book of the Samara Region as an outstanding violinist and composer. In 2009 she was among the finalists of ASCAP’s young composers’ competition and the Missouri New Music Festival.

As a participant in the New Music Workshop at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, she had a premiere of a new cycle of songs.

JORDAN KUSPA Iterations

: Notes

: Biography

Iterations opens with a blast from the four horns, sounding a jagged, syncopated motive that will become the basis of much of the musical material.

Soon, however, a more fluid, lyrical idea comes into focus, heard first in the muted trumpets and piano. As the jagged syncopations spin themselves into an energetic counterpoint, the lyrical material is recast as a triumphant chorale in the full brass section. After a series of episodes in which the angular motive saturates the texture further and further, the chorale returns, more restrained this time, as the solo clarinet plays a leaping melody around it. Again the jagged motive froths up, this time into an ebullient canon in which three tempi occur at the same time. But something goes wrong — the joyous canon devolves into a frenzied clash of competing rhythms, timbres, and incredibly dissonant sounds. The music has no choice but to cease immediately and fall into . . . silence? Not quite, as the cellos, basses, and xylophone hold a chord over from the edge of disaster. Gradually, the musical ideas seem to take stock of themselves, before building up to a final triumphant return of both the brass chorale and the angular syncopations. A final sounding of the opening idea in the full orchestra leads to an exuberant ending, with some instruments perhaps more exuberant than others....

Jordan Kuspa’s compositions have been performed and workshopped by the New York New Music Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, California E.A.R. Unit, Third Wheel Trio, Gang of Two, Duo Scordatura, organist Chelsea Chen, violist Brett Deubner, the Enso and Kailas String Quartets, the Kensington Sinfonia (Canada), the Young Artists Chamber Players (Utah), and the Woodlands Symphony (Texas), among others.

His music has been performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall, and his works have been commissioned by the Greater Bridgeport Symphony, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the American Festival for the Arts Summer Conservatory.

At age 16, Jordan founded the Houston Young Musicians, a group that sought to broaden interest in classical music among new listeners as well as promote the works of American and other contemporary composers. Jordan was also co-founder and artistic director of the Sonus Chamber Music Society, an organization that presented an interactive concert series in the Houston museum district. Educational and community engagement, in schools, churches, and hospitals, was a central component of each of these programs.

Jordan was homeschooled his entire life before entering Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. Currently, he is a graduate student in composition at the Yale School of Music, studying with Martin Bresnick, Ingram Marshall, and Christopher Theofanidis.

RICHARD HARROLD Monks! Monks! Monks!

: Notes Over the last year, as I have become more interested in music of the Renaissance, I have experimented with incorporating rhythmic, harmonic, and stylistic traits idiomatic of the Renaissance into my own writing, to differing extents. July 18, 2009 marked the 500th anniversary of the coronation of King Henry VIII of England, and I was drawn to the idea of using the opportunity of writing for the Yale Philharmonia to create a piece which, through integrating dance forms popular in Henry’s court with my own contemporary musical language, would try to capture in an abstract way something of the dark ironies of the King’s character. 72,000 people are estimated to have been executed during Henry VIII’s reign. His legendary struggle with the Pope and ultimate founding of the Church of England, during which thousands of Roman Catholics were martyred, was a brutal attempt to seize land, wealth and power, and was in no small part motivated by the temptation of trading in an aging wife for a more exotic younger model.

Yet Henry was an accomplished author, poet and musician, and a firm supporter of the arts.

: Text Without discord And both accord, Now let us be.

Both harts alone To set in one, Best seems me.

For when one sole Is in the dole Of love's pain, Then help must have Himself to save And love to obtain.

Where for now we That lovers be, Let us now pray: Once love sure For to procure Without denial.

Where love so sues There no heart rues, But condescend.

If contrary, What remedy?

God it amend.

: Biography

Richard Harrold was born in 1984 and was brought up in Manchester, England. He graduated with First Class Honours from the Royal Academy of Music in 2007, where he studied composition with Philip Cashian and jazz piano with Tom Cawley. Upon graduating he was awarded the Monks! Monks! Monks! (alleged to be the last Evan Senior Scholarship. Since graduation he words of Henry VIII) is a five-movement suite; has been commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia, due to time constraints, three movements will be the Catch ensemble, and Keynote+, and has been presented tonight. The first combines a French broadcast on BBC Radio. branle with a march, the second (performed last tonight) combines a canario – a dance from the Richard is currently in his second year at the Yale Canary Islands – with a French tourdion, and the School of Music, studying composition with fourth movement (performed second tonight), Martin Bresnick. a serenade, sets one of Henry’s poems, Without Discord, sung by three tenors.

SAMUEL ADAMS Pare (2009)

: Notes If I could control the contrast, saturation, and brightness of an orchestra, I would gradually turn all its ‘knobs’ clockwise so as to push the music—lurid and brilliant and glowing like a radioactive beast—off the stage and into the hall, and it would dance, and it would dance, and it would dance...

: Biography Samuel Carl Adams (b. 1985) is a composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist from the San Francisco Bay Area. His music is an outgrowth of his experiences as a jazz bassist in and around San Francisco and as a student of experimental and non-vernacular musicians.

He received a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, where he studied primarily with Mark Applebaum and Erik Ulman. His works have been performed by the Paul Dresher Electroacoustic Band, Beta Collide, The Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Lisa Moore, and Karen Bentley-Pollick. He is currently a student at the Yale School of Music, where he studies with Martin Bresnick. He also teaches electronic music at Yale College and assists the Yale Jazz Ensemble.

FEINAN WANG Red Cheongsam @ Midnight

: Notes

: Biography

After passing through the crowd and into the subway, I walked across several lanes and came to a big hotel. I put on the dress, sat down, and had a dream. I dreamed I was a singer in old Shanghai, wearing a gorgeous cheongsam and singing old songs. I saw the stories of the people in the audience on their faces: the skater boy playing in the alley, the rich man who likes eating at roadside stands, the old lady living in the central courtyard who likes playing mahjong, the chef of the imperial kitchen, the punk girl smoking on the Bell and Drum Tower, the beautiful Beijing Opera actress dancing with an attractive jazz player. Then I woke up: I saw the cocktails held in the hands of the audience. The city's color was blurred by the great change of times and the blended culture that was like the colors of the cocktails. Walking in the midnight city, I felt the eternal spirit and strong passion buried underground. This feeling flowed through my body and infected my life. Those ancient red city walls and modern skyscrapers were running in the opposite direction, and there was only red in front of my eyes.

Born into a musical family in Beijing, Feinan (Fay) Wang began to learn piano at the age of four. She debuted at age five and won first prize in the Hope Cup Piano Competition for Children. In 2008 Fay graduated from Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music, where she studied composition with Professor Xiaogang Ye. She is currently studying at the Yale School of Music with Martin Bresnick, Ezra Laderman, and Christopher Theofanidis.

Fay’s numerous prizes include the Bronze Prize in the China National Music Competition (Golden Bell Award), Best Composition Award in the China National Competition for Art Song (New Century Cup), Governmental Award for Music Composition, and third prize in the Palatino Cup. Fay was commissioned by the Austrian new music ensemble Die Reihe to compose Drunk Cat in the Ancient City Wall, which was performed at the Arnold Schoenberg Center and broadcast in Australia. Other commissions include Fei Bu for the Cantonese Song and Dance Troupe, and Hou Yi Shoots down the Suns and Taichi Dance in Space from the Art Red Cheongsam @ Midnight uses timbres that Center of the National Defense Commission of reflect the quality of the cheongsam: gorgeous Science, Technology, and Industry. Her works and elegant, neither flirtatious nor conservative. were selected by the Beijing Modern Music Various instruments depict the colorful patterns Festival for three consecutive years. on the red background of the cheongsam. The cheongsam is both a fashion of old Shanghai Fay’s interests incorporate jazz, electronic music, and a symbol of Chinese urban culture: it re- and world music. She was awarded Best Female presents traditional Chinese culture but has Singer in a contest at CCOM and won the Silver absorbed some western elements. I’ve chosen Prize in the Chinese National Campus Singer my theme from fragments of Beijing Opera and Contest. She sang jazz in the Sino-Russia the harmonies and rhythms from jazz and funk. University Students Art Festival at Beijing In this way I portray the clash between Eastern University and was the lead singer in an indieand Western cultures which is often experienced pop band whose EP recording was distributed in Beijing and Sydney. by the people in modern society.

DAVID LANG International Business Machine grind to a halt

: Notes International Business Machine was commissioned by the Boston Symphony and was premiered by them at Tanglewood, in the summer of 1990, conducted by Leonard Slatkin. In 1990 I had just gotten my first personal computer – one of those Apples that had a screen about the size of a postage stamp. I was amazed and terrified by my new computer. What was most amazing was that each of the keys did something, but I didn’t necessarily know what. It seemed that you could press one key down and the letter “j” would appear on the screen, or you could press another key down and erase your entire hard drive. The same motion, the same action could have drastically different results.Needless to say, I lived in fear. When I started my piece for the BSO I wondered if I could use this as a model. What if I made a series of hits and pops and accents and then went back and filled them in, making some of those accents start things and some end them?

Some of these things would be tiny and some would be loud. But they would all be made the same way – a key pressed down to start them and another pressed down to turn them off.

In the spring of 1996 I was working on a piece for the San Francisco Symphony. I had decided to call it grind to a halt and it would be a kind of relentless machine that eventually ran itself into the ground. I didn’t intend it to be a serious piece, but something happened that changed it completely. While working on the piece I got a call from my teacher Jacob Druckman, with whom I had studied composition at Yale from 1981-1983.

Jacob told me that he was very ill and needed to go into the hospital so that the doctors could take better care of him, and that it was impossible for him to finish out the semester. Would I take over his classes, so that he could concentrate on getting better? Of course I said yes, and I came

up to Yale to teach, and I continued to work on my piece. And then, Jacob died. I didn’t realize that when he asked me to take over his classes that that would be the last time I would ever speak to him. And so a very strange thing happened to me. I got very sad, and then I got very angry – angry at myself, for not recognizing how sick he was; angry at God, for messing with us all; and, I am ashamed to say it, angry at Jacob, for not giving me the chance to say a proper goodbye. I had no place for this anger to go, and so it went into the piece. What had been a lightweight study now became a grief object of rage and despair, a piece that shakes its fist at fate. A musician’s relationship with his or her teacher may not always be smooth, but it can be powerful and very deep. Now that I am teaching at Yale for real, I think of Jacob all the time, and I would like to dedicate this performance to his memory.

: Biography The music of David Lang has been performed by major musical, dance, and theatrical organizations throughout the world, including the Santa Fe Opera, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, Nederlands Dans Theater, and the Royal Ballet, to name a few, and has been performed in the most renowned concert halls and festivals in the United States and Europe. Lang is well known as co-founder and co-artistic director of New York’s legendary music festival, Bang on a Can. In 2008, Lang was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for The Little Match Girl Passion, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for Paul Hillier’s vocal ensemble, Theater of Voices. He has also has been honored with the Rome Prize, the BMW Music-Theater Prize (Munich), a Kennedy Center/ Friedheim Award, the Revson Fellowship with

the New York Philharmonic, a Bessie Award, a Village Voice OBIE Award, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work is recorded on the Sony Classical, Teldec, BMG, Point, Chandos, Argo/ Decca, Caprice, Koch, Albany, CRI and Cantaloupe labels. Born in Los Angeles in 1957, David Lang holds degrees from Stanford University and the University of Iowa, and received the DMA degree from the Yale School of Music in 1989. He has studied with Jacob Druckman, Hans Werner Henze, and Martin Bresnick. His music is published by Red Poppy (ASCAP) and is distributed worldwide by G. Schirmer, Inc. David Lang joined the Yale faculty in 2008.

PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA OF YALE

The Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale is one of America’s foremost music school ensembles.

The largest performing group at the Yale School of Music, the Philharmonia offers superb training in orchestral playing and repertoire. Performances include an annual series of concerts in Woolsey Hall, as well as Yale Opera productions in the Schubert Performing Arts Center. In addition to its New Haven appearances, the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale has performed on numerous occasions in Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York City and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The Philharmonia recently undertook its first tour of Asia, with acclaimed performances in the Seoul Arts Center, the Forbidden City Concert Hall and National Center for the Performing Arts (Beijing), and the Shanghai Grand Theatre.

The beginnings of the Yale Philharmonia can be traced to 1894, when an orchestra was organized under the leadership of the School’s first dean, Horatio Parker. The orchestra became known as the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale in 1973, with the appointment of OttoWerner Mueller as resident conductor and William Steinberg, then music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony, as Sanford Professor of Music. Brazilian conductor Eleazar di

Carvalho became music director in 1987, and Gunther Herbig joined the conducting staff as guest conductor and director of the Affiliate Artists Conductors program in 1990. Lawrence Leighton Smith, music director of The Louisville Symphony Orchestra, conducted the Philharmonia for a decade, and upon his retirement in 2004, Shinik Hahm was appointed music director.

SHINIK HAHM : conductor

Geneva, Seoul, Beijing, Besancon, Warsaw, Prague, Bilbao, New York, Bangkok, Fort Worth, Louisville, Toronto, Mexico City, Omaha, Hartford, Alabama, Lincoln, Erie, Memphis, Boulder, and Colorado Springs. The Korean National Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra have engaged Maestro Hahm annually since 1992. He directed the orchestra’s 1995 North America tour in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Korean independence.

Hahm is also an active opera conductor and : Biography has performed in numerous productions with A dynamic and innovative conductor, Shinik the Silesian National Opera in Poland.

Hahm is sought after among the top North American, South American, European, and Far Maestro Hahm has collaborated with some of Eastern orchestras. Recent seasons include debuts the world’s great musicians and soloists in Amsterdam, Geneva, Besançon, and Bolshoi including Salvatore Accardo, Emanuel Ax, Hall, and with the China Philharmonic, Guang- Joshua Bell, Yefim Bronfman, Sarah Chang, zhou Symphony Orchestra, Mexican National Stephen Hough, Krzysztof Penderecki, Pascal Symphony, and Xalapa Symphony Orchestra. Roge, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, the Tokyo String In 2009 he conducted a European tour with Quartet, Peter Wispelwey, among others. In Germany’s Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, addition, he has made recordings with the including concerts in Detmold, Herford, Bad Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra for the Vision and Britstar labels. Hahm has Salzuflen, Amsterdam, and Minden. completed or is underway in conducting the Maestro Hahm was the Artistic Director and cycles of Mahler, Stravinsky, Debussy, Berlioz, Principal Conductor of the Daejeon Philharmonic Brahms, R. Strauss, and Beethoven’s complete Orchestra (Korea), with which he toured the symphonic works and major choral-orchestral United States in 2004 and Japan in 2005. He compositions. also served as Music Director of the Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra from 1993 to 2003. Hahm Maestro Hahm has received several honors and is currently Music Director of the Philharmonia awards, including the Fourth Gregor Fitelberg Orchestra of Yale, which he has led to Carnegie International Competition for Conductors, Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, Seoul Arts Center, the Walter Hagen Conducting Prize from the Shanghai Grand Theatre, and the Forbidden City Eastman School of Music, and the Shepherd Concert Hall (Beijing). He is also Professor of Society Award from Rice University. In 1995 Conducting at Yale, where he is director of the Maestro Hahm was decorated by the Korean Government with the Arts & Culture Medal. orchestral conducting program.

He studied conducting at Rice University and A popular guest conductor, Hahm has led the the Eastman School of Music. He enjoys orchestras of Atlanta, Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, gardening, cooking, and playing soccer.

FARKHAD KHUDYEV : assistant conductor

ADRIAN SLYWOTZKY : assistant conductor

Farkhad Khudyev is originally from Ashgabad, Turkmenistan, where he studied violin and composition with Zinaida Ahmedzhanova and Vera Abaeva at the Special Music School. At 10, he became the youngest performer ever selected to play with the National Violin Ensemble of Turkmenistan, and at 12 he won a scholarship to the New Names Festival (Suzdal, Russia), where he was named the most promising young musician and earned the top award. Mr. Khudyev has performed in Ashgabad, Suzdal, Moscow, and Odessa as both a soloist and a member of the Violin Ensemble of Turkmenistan. He came to the U.S. in 2001 on a scholarship to the Interlochen Arts Academy, where he studied with Paul Sonner and Michael Albaugh, and then completed his B.M. at the Oberlin Conservatory with Milan Vitek. Currently a second-year M.M. student at Yale, he is studying with Shinik Hahm. Mr. Khudyev won the Grand Prize and the Gold Medal at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in 2007 as a member of the Prima Trio. He also received an honorable mention in the 2004 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer awards for his symphonic work Turkmenistan.

His other awards include a prize at the 30th Annual Glenn Miller Competition and the Neil Rabaut Composition Prize from the Interlochen Arts Academy. He has served as the assistant conductor of the NOYO Orchestra and has conducted the Chamber Orchestra of Ashgabad.

Conductor Adrian Slywotzky has been active as a musician in the New Haven area since 1998. For the last three years he has been the director of the New Haven Chamber Orchestra, and he is the founding conductor of the Yale Medical Symphony Orchestra. Following his passion for teaching, Adrian has worked as an educator throughout New England. Since 2005 he has been on the conducting staff of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, and he is serving as interim conductor of the Greater New Haven Youth Orchestra for the 2008-2010 seasons. For five years he was Director of Instrumental Music at Hopkins School in New Haven, and he has taught at Neighborhood Music School, Elm City ChamberFest, and the Southern Maine String Camp. As a violinist, Adrian has participated in festivals including Tanglewood Music Center, California Summer Music, and the Norfolk Contemporary Music Festival. Adrian holds a BA in Architecture from Yale College, where he studied violin with Kyung Hak Yu, and an MM in violin performance from the Yale School of Music, where he studied with Wendy Sharp. He is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting at the Yale School of Music, where he studies with Shinik Hahm.

YALE PHILHARMONIA PATRONS 2009-10 Season

Charles Ives Circle $600 or above Richard H. Dumas Susan & Ronald Netter Thomas G. Masse & Dr. James M. Perlotto in honor of Dorothy A. Hayes

Paul Hindemith Circle $250 to $599 Serena & Robert Blocker William Curran Mrs. Lory French-Mullen Judith P. Fisher John & Evelyn Kossak Foundation Dr. & Mrs. James Kupiec Carleton & Barbara Loucks Susan E. Thompson

Horatio Parker Circle $125 to $249 Brenda & Sheldon Baker Ann Bliss Joan K. Dreyfus Edwin M. & Karen C. Duval Paul Gacek Winifred & Shinik Hahm June & George Higgins Francesco Iachello Robert & Mary Keane Dr. David Lobdell Judy Long Helen & Doug MacRae Susan B. Matheson & Jerome J. Pollitt Patty & Tom Pollard Mrs. Jane Roche Martha Stephens & Judith Stelboum David & Lisa Totman

Sally & John Cooney Leo Cristofar & Bernadette DiGiulian Prof. & Mrs. Donald R. Currier Barbara & Frank Dahm R. R. D'Ambruoso Nigel W. Daw Anthony P. DeLio Bernardine & Richard Di Vecchio Elizabeth M. Dock Martin & Katie Gehner Saul & Sonya Goldberg Marbelia Gonzalez Rosamond & Cyrus Hamlin Dr. Victoria Hoffer Margaret Lord & A.J. Kover Lori & Sean LeBas Agnieszka Libin Nancy C. & William R. Liedlich Rev. Hugh MacDonald James Mansfield Jon & Donna Meinecke Thomas J. Opladen Irving H. Perlmutter Dr. E. Anthony Petrelli James M. Phillips James V. Pocock Rocco & Velma Pugliese David & Mary Ellen Roach Fred & Helen Robinson Arthur Rosenfield Anne Schenck Dennis Shrock Suzanne Solensky & Jay Rozgonyi Mr. & Mrs. Gregory D. Tumminio Roger & Beth Wardwell Emily Aber & Robert Wechsler Mr. & Mrs. Robert Wheeler Ransom Wilson & Walter Foery Mr. & Mrs. Werner P. Wolf

Samuel Simons Sanford Circle $50 to $124 Nancy Ahlstrom L. S. Auth Dwight & Lois Baker Myrna F. Baskin Blake & Helen Bidwell Nina Binin & Greg Berg Peter & Nancy Blomstrom Muriel & Ernest Bodenweber Prof. Michael B. Bracken Derek & Jenny Briggs Mindy & Stan Brownstein Joyce & Jim Chase Joel Cogen & Beth Gilson Mimi & John Cole

Gustave Jacob Stoeckel Circle $25 to $49 Anonymous (3) Antje Arndt Edward & Joanne Blair Mrs. Dorothy Blaustein Jennifer Bonito Rose & Frank Bonito William Bowie Anna Broell Bresnick Antonio Cavaliere Rosemarie S. Chaves Beatriz Cordova Louis & Beatrice Dalsass

Bruce Dana Eugene J. Delgrosso Bill & Barbara Dickerson Jack Evans Kathryn Feidelson Thomas & Judith Foley Mr. & Mrs. Charles Forman Dolores M. Gall Richard & Evelyn Gard Mrs. Ken L. Grubbs Mary Ann Harback Joyce Hirschhorn Susan Holahan Lynette Jordan Jennifer L. Julier Mrs. Bruno Jurgot Jeffrey Kent Tom & Fran King Peter & Suzanna Lengyel Joel Marks Melachrina D. May Betty Mettler Elizabeth S. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Walter R. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Seif Mozayeni Allan R. Silverstein Joseph C. Stevens The Rev. Dr. Michael Tessman James N. Trimble David Vecchia Edward Weis Deborah Weiss & Zvi Goldman

UPCOMING For a complete listing of all our concerts: http://music.yale.edu

LIEDERABEND Dec 14 / Mon / 8pm

VISTA Dec 15 / Tues / 8pm

PETER FRANKL & WEI-YI YANG Dec 16 / Wed / 8pm

YALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC Robert Blocker, Dean

Yale Opera Free admission / Sprague Hall An evening of German song featuring the singers of Yale Opera. With Timothy Shaindlin and Kyle Swann, piano.

Music by Brahms, Mahler, Mendelssohn, J. Marx, Schubert, Schumann, R. Strauss, and Wolff.

Vista Series Free admission / Sprague Hall A fresh look at chamber music. Selected students from the Yale School of Music will discuss and perform Kodaly's Duo for Violin and Cello, Haas's Wind Quintet, and Schubert's “Trout” Quintet. Wendy Sharp, director.

Horowitz Piano Series Tickets $12-20 / Students $6 / Sprague Hall Music for two pianos and piano four-hands by Schumann and Debussy, performed by renowned faculty pianists Peter Frankl and Wei-Yi Yang.

CONCERTS & MEDIA

OPERATIONS

Vincent Oneppo Director

Tara Deming Operations Manager

Dana Astmann Assistant Director

Christopher Melillo Operations Coordinator

Monica Ong Design Manager

Brian Daley William Harold Piano Curators

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Danielle Heller Box Office Coordinator

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Elizabeth Fleming Martignetti Production Assistant

RECORDING STUDIO Eugene Kimball Director / Recording Engineer Jason Robins Assistant Recording Engineer