Yale Brass Trio

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Yale Brass Trio with

Mihae Lee piano

morse recital hall November 1, 2011 • Tuesday at 8 pm Music by Dufay, Laderman, Morley, Piazzolla, Rachmaninoff, Schumann, and Wilbye

Robert Blocker, Dean

ya l e brass trio November 1, 2011 • Sprague Memorial Hall • Faculty Artists Series

allan dean, trumpet scott hartman, trombone william purvis, horn mihae lee, piano Guillaume Dufay c. 1400—1474 arr. Allan Dean

Ce jour de l’an voudray joye mener Malheureulx cueur, qui vieulx tu faire?

Mon cher amy, qui’aves vous empense Par le regard de vos beaux yeux

Ezra Laderman b. 1924

Brass Trio (2005) Quite fast, electric Aria I. Andante Aria II. Allegro Aria III. Languorous, sultry Allegro con brio

intermission

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

Thomas Morley 1558–1603

Sweet nimphe, come to thy lover

John Wilbye 1574–1638

Weep, o mine eyes As fair as morn

Morley arr. Allan Dean

Hard by a crystal fountain Paul Futer, trumpet Lauren Hunt, horn Timothy Hilgert, trombone

Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873–1943

Elegy in E-flat minor, Op. 3, No. 1 transcribed by Victor Venglovsky

Robert Schumann 1810–1856

Phantasiestücke for horn and piano, Op. 73 I. Zart und mit Ausdruck II. Lebhaft, leicht III. Rasch und mit Feuer

Astor Piazzolla 1921–1992 arr. Allan Dean

Two Tangos for Brass Trio and Piano I. Oblivion (from the film Henry IV) II. Libertango

About the Artists

Allan Dean, trumpet, is a member of Summit Brass and the St. Louis Brass Quintet. He was a member of the New York Brass Quintet for eighteen years and the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble for ten years.

Involved in Baroque and Renaissance music performed on original instruments, Mr. Dean is a founding member of Calliope: A Renaissance Band as well as the New York Cornet and Sacbut Ensemble. He performs and teaches each summer at the Mendez Brass Institute and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.

Allan Dean has appeared at the Casals and Spoleto (USA) festivals, the Banff Centre and Orford Arts Centre in Canada, Musike Belinge in Sweden, and Puebla Instrumenta in Mexico.

He can be heard playing both modern trumpet and early brass on over eighty recordings on major labels including RCA, Columbia, CRI, Nonesuch, Pro Arte, Musical Heritage, and Summit. He joined the Yale faculty in 1988.

Photo by Bob Handelman

About the Artists

Scott Hartman, trombone, received his B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Eastman School of Music and began his career by joining the Empire Brass Quintet and the Boston University faculty in 1984.

As a trombone soloist and with his various chamber groups, Mr. Hartman has taught and played concerts throughout the world and in all fifty states. He has been featured with the Boston Esplanade Pops, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, BBC Radio Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, and the National Symphony.

Mr. Hartman now performs and records with Proteus 7, the Millennium Brass, the Brass Band of Battle Creek, the Hollywood Brass, and the trombone quartet Four of a Kind. He has recorded for the Angel EMI, Sony, Telarc, Summit, and Dorian labels.

He is a clinician for the Bach musical instrument company and has served as a member of the faculties of Indiana University and the New England Conservatory. He joined the Yale faculty in 2001.

Photo by Bob Handelman

About the Artists

Mr. Purvis is a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Yale Brass Trio, and the Triton Horn Trio, and is an emeritus member of Orpheus. A frequent guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, he has also collaborated with the Tokyo, Juilliard, Orion, Brentano, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, Daedalus, and Fine Arts string quartets.

A native of Western Pennsylvania, William Purvis pursues a multifaceted career both in the U.S. and abroad as horn soloist, chamber musician, conductor, and educator. A passionate advocate of new music, Mr. Purvis has participated in numerous premieres as hornist and conductor, including horn concerti

by Peter Lieberson, Bayan Northcott, and Penderecki (New York premiere); trios for violin, horn, and piano by Poul Ruders and Paul Lansky; and Steven Stucky’s Sonate en Forme de Préludes with Emanuel Ax in Carnegie Hall. Recent world premieres include Paul Lansky’s Day Trips for horn and wind ensemble in Carnegie Hall, Elliott Carter’s Retracing II for solo horn, and Carter’s Nine for Five with the New York Woodwind Quintet.

His extensive list of recordings spans an unusually broad range from original instrument performance to standard solo and chamber music repertoire to contemporary solo and chamber music works as well as numerous recordings of contemporary music as conductor. Recent recordings include the Horn Concerto of Peter Lieberson on Bridge (which received a Grammy and a WQXR Gramophone Award), works of Schumann, Paul Lansky, and Schoenberg with the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Quintet for Horn and Strings by Richard Wernick with the Juilliard Quartet, and Retracing II for Solo Horn by Elliott Carter. Most recently he recorded the quintets for piano and winds of Mozart and Beethoven on historical instruments with the Smithsonian Chamber Players.

Mr. Purvis is Professor in the Practice of Horn at the Yale School of Music, where he is also coordinator of winds and brasses and director of the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments.

Photo by Bob Handelman

About the Artists

Amsterdam, Groningen, Seattle, OK Mozart, Music from Angel Fire, Bard, Chamber Music Northwest, Norfolk, and Music Mountain.

A regular performer at Bargemusic, she has also been a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Speculum Musicae; has collaborated with the Tokyo, Muir, Cassatt, and Manhattan string quartets; and has premiered and recorded works by such composers as Gunther Schuller, Ned Rorem, Paul Lansky, Henri Lazarof, Michael Daugherty, and Ezra Laderman.

Praised by the Boston Globe as “simply dazzling,” pianist Mihae Lee has been captivating audiences throughout North America, Europe, and Asia in solo recitals and chamber music concerts with her lyricism and virtuosity. She has performed in such venues as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Jordan Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Academia Nationale de Santa Cecilia, Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall, and Taipei National Hall.

An active chamber musician, Ms. Lee is an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and is a founding member of the Triton Horn Trio. Her recordings of Brahms, Bartók, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky with members of BCMS were critically acclaimed

by High Fidelity, CD Review, and Fanfare magazines. Ms. Lee appears frequently at numerous festivals including Dubrovnik,

Born in Seoul, Korea, Ms. Lee made her professional debut at the age of fourteen with the Korean National Orchestra after becoming the youngest grand prizewinner at the prestigious National Competition. The same year, she came to the United States on a scholarship from the Juilliard School precollege division, and subsequently won further awards including first prize at the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition and the Juilliard and New England Conservatory concerto competitions. Ms. Lee received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Juilliard and her artist diploma from the New England Conservatory. She has released compact discs on the Bridge, Etcetera, EDI, Northeastern, and BCM labels and was recently appointed as the artistic director of the Essex (Conn.) Winter Series.

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