Ole Akahoshi, cello & Elizabeth Parisot, piano

Ole Akahoshi cello

Elizabeth Parisot piano faculty artist series · february 1, 2010 · sprague memorial hall

johann sebastian bach Sonata No. 2 in D major, BWV 1028 1685-1750 Adagio Allegro Andante Allegro johannes brahms 1833-1897

Sonata in D major, Op. 78 Transcription of the Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major

Vivace ma non troppo Adagio Allegro molto moderato intermission alfred schnittke 1934-1998

Sonata No. 1 (1978) Largo Presto Largo

samuel barber 1910-1981

Sonata in C minor, Op. 6 Allegro ma non troppo Adagio – Presto – Adagio Allegro appassionato

Robert Blocker, Dean

elizabeth parisot piano

Elizabeth Parisot, pianist, received her DMA from the Yale School of Music in 1973, and has served on the faculty of the School since 1977.

She has appeared in solo and chamber music concerts throughout the world, performing at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center and the National Gallery in Washington, DC, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the Hispanic Institute in Madrid, and the Jerusalem Music Center.

in concerts, master classes, and competitions worldwide, Ms. Parisot was awarded the title Grande Dame du Violoncelle in 2007 by the Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center at Indiana University “in recognition of her universal contributions to the art of cello playing and cellists.�

Elizabeth Parisot has numerous recordings to her credit, including the two Brahms Sonatas for Cello and Piano with her husband Aldo Parisot (Musical Heritage Society); music by Leo Ornstein and Alexei Haieff for cello and With her husband, Brazilian cellist Aldo Parisot, piano with Italo Babini (Serenus); Cellists from she has toured extensively, joining him in sonata Yale issued in Brazil (Phonodisc); The Yale Cellos performances as well as in chamber music with of Aldo Parisot and The Yale Cellos Play Favorites other renowned artists. She served as coordi- (Delos); three CDs with Queen Elizabeth nator and performing artist at the Aldo Parisot Competition winner Nai-Yuan Hu; a disc with International Competitions and Courses in cellist Carol Ou; music by Ezra Laderman with Brazil for several years and has also been a guest violinists Erick Friedman and Kyung Hak Yu artist at the International Music Institute in and cellist Pansy Chang (Albany Records); Santander, Spain, the Banff Festival of the Arts and works by Strauss and Prokofiev with in Alberta, Canada, and the Norfolk Chamber violinist Kyung-Hak Yu. Music Festival. Recent tours have included concerts in Korea and Italy with violinist Kyung Hak Yu and performances with faculty colleagues Erick Friedman and Aldo Parisot in Taiwan.

She has also performed recently with Yo-Yo Ma, Janos Starker, and Ralph Kirshbaum. A collabarative artist with cellists for many years

ole akahoshi cello

Recently hailed by the Los Angeles Times for his “technical solidity, perfect intonation, and large edgeless tone of buttered-rum quality”, cellist Ole Akahoshi from Germany has concertized on four continents in recitals as well as soloist with orchestras, such as the Orchestra of St. Luke’s under the direction of Yehudi Menuhin, Symphonisches Orchester Berlin, and the Czechoslovakian Radio Orchestra. Winner of numerous competitions including the Concertino Praga and Jugend Musiziert, Mr. Akahoshi’s performances have been featured on cnn, npr, Sender-Freies-Berlin, RIAS-Berlin, Hessischer Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Korean Broadcasting Station, and WQXR. He is also recipient of the fellowship award from Charlotte White’s Salon de Virtuosi. Mr. Akahoshi has performed in Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Kennedy Center, Suntory Hall and Tsuda Hall (Tokyo), Seoul Arts Center (Korea), Wigmore Hall (London), and Berliner Philharmonie.

He has made recordings for the Albany, New World Records, Composers Recording Inc., Calliope, Bridge, and Naxos labels.

Mr. Akahoshi has collaborated with the Tokyo String Quartet, Sarah Chang, Erick Friedman, Syoko Aki, Ani Kavafian, Cho-Liang Lin, Gil Shaham, Joel Smirnoff, Chee-Yun, Toby Appel, Jesse Levine, Edgar Meyer, Boris Berman, Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Garrick Ohlsson, Elizabeth Sawyer Parisot, Frank

Morelli, David Shifrin, Ransom Wilson, Myung Wha Chung, Aldo Parisot, and Janos Starker, among others. He has served as faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Camp Encore/Coda, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Festival des Artes de Itu Brazil, and at the Great Mountains Music Festival in Korea, where he gives classes every summer. He has served as a judge of numerous competitions including the Juilliard Concerto Competition, the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Competition, and the William Waite Concerto Competition.

At age eleven Mr. Akahoshi was the youngest student to be accepted by Pierre Fournier. He earned the bachelor’s degree from Juilliard and master’s degree from Yale, where he studied with Aldo Parisot. He received the Artist Diploma from Indiana University, where he studied with Janos Starker. Mr. Akahoshi has served as teaching assistant for both Aldo Parisot and Janos Starker. His other mentors were Wolfgang Boettcher and Georg Donderer.

Mr. Akahoshi is the principal cellist of the Sejong Soloists in New York. He has been a member of Seiji Ozawa’s Saito Kinen Orchestra since 1998 and the Tokyo Nomori Opera. Mr. Akahoshi is on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and he has been on the faculty of the Yale University School of Music since 1997.

upcoming events

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music.yale.edu/media box office 203 432-4158 concerts & media Vincent Oneppo Dana Astmann Monica Ong Reed Danielle Heller Elizabeth Fleming Martignetti operations Tara Deming Christopher Melillo piano curators Brian Daley William Harold recording studio Eugene Kimball Jason Robins

February 2 yale brass trio 8 pm, Sprague Hall, Free Allan Dean, trumpet; William Purvis, horn; and Scott Hartman, trombone, with Mike Roylance, tuba, and Mihae Lee, piano. Music by Machaut, Bach, Schumann, Arnold, Piazzola, and others.

February 6 tribute to george enescu 8 pm, Sprague Hall, Free A rediscovered work for violin, and music for voice, piano, and chamber ensembles. Ilya Poletaev, piano, and James Taylor, tenor, with Jennifer Curtis, violin, and Mihai Marica, cello.

February 8 & 9 prokofiev rediscovered Mon, 8 pm, Sprague Hall, Free Tue, 7:30 pm, Carnegie Hall, $15-$25 Premieres and rarities. Fragment from the opera Distant Seas (world premiere); Music for Athletic Exercises, choreographed by Adam Hendrickson; Music for the ballet Trapeze; and more.

February 12-14 the marriage of figaro Fri & Sat, 8 pm, and Sun, 2 pm, Shubert Theater Tickets $19-$41, students $13, at shubert.com Vera LĂşcia CalĂĄbria, stage director. Christoph Campestrini conducts the Yale Philharmonia.

Sung in Italian with projected English translations.

Robert Blocker, Dean