Robert Blocker, Dean
faculty artist series
Robert van Sice & Friends with students and alumni of the Yale School of Music percussion studio
Saturday, March 3, 2018 • 7:30 pm Morse Recital Hall
Faculty Artist Series
Robert van Sice & Friends March 3, 2018 • Morse Recital Hall Thierry De May b. 1956
Musique de Tables (1998)
Garth Neustadter ’12 mm b. 1986
Seaborne World premiere Kjell van Sice, video artist Intermission
John Cage 1912–1992
“Story,” from Living Room Music (1940)
Steve Reich b. 1936
Sextet (1985)
Jonathan Allen ’13MM ’14AD Garrett Arney ’14AD Victor Caccese ’13MM Michael Compitello ’09MM ’12MMA ’16DMA Gwendolyn Dease ’05MM Jisu Jung ’19MM Ayano Katayoka ’05AD Matthew Keown ’16MM, ’22 dma YoungKyoung Lee ’18MM
Kramer Milan ’16MM ’17MMA Dmitrii Nilov ’18MM Ian David Rosenbaum ’10MM ’11AD Jeffrey Stern ’16AD Svetoslav Stoyanov ’07MM Terrence Sweeney ’15MM Sam Um ’17MM, ’18 mma Georgi Videnov ’15MM ’17MMA Mari Yoshinaga ’14MM Shiqi Zhong ’19MM
This program is dedicated to my extraordinary students – past, present, and future. Your talent, enthusiasm, and creativity inspire me every day. As a courtesy to the performers and audience, silence electronic devices. Please do not leave the hall during selections. Photography or recording of any kind is prohibited.
Artist Profile
Robert van Sice, percussion Robert van Sice is considered one of the world’s foremost performers of contemporary music for marimba. In an effort to establish the instrument as a serious artistic vehicle, he has premiered over 100 works throughout the world. Four of the seminal works in the marimba repertoire were written for him: Peter Klatzow’s Dances of Earth and Fire, Alejandro Viñao’s Estudios de Frontera, Martin Bresnick’s double marimba concerto, Grace, and James Wood’s Spirit Festival with Lamentations. In his varied performing career, van Sice has appeared as a soloist with symphony orchestras and given recitals in more than 30 countries throughout Europe, North America, Africa, and the Far East. The Journal de Geneve describes his interpretation of Toru Takemitsu’s concerto Gitimalya as “marvelous. In his hands, the marimba becomes a voice with richness of sound and expression that one would never expect from a percussion instrument. A well-deserved triumph.” He is frequently invited to appear as a soloist with Europe’s leading contemporary music ensembles, including the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva, and L’Itineraire in Paris. In 1989, van Sice gave the first solo marimba recital at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He has since appeared in many of world’s major concert halls in London, Paris, Vienna, Madrid, Milan, Stockholm, Oslo, Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul, Toronto, Mexico City, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. His concerts have frequently been broadcast by the BBC, Swedish Radio, Norwegian Radio,
Radio France, WDR, and NPR, among many others. He is a frequent guest at major music festivals throughout the world, such as Ars Musica, Blossom, Darmstadt Course for New Music, Archipel, London Meltdown, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Bela Bartok Festival in Hungary, North American New Music Festival, and the Ultima Festival in Oslo. Long a champion of the music of Olivier Messiaen, van Sice has performed on numerous occasions as a soloist alongside the composer’s wife, pianist Yvonne Loriod. Van Sice is also one of the world’s most respected percussion teachers. His former students play in symphony orchestras, contemporary chamber ensembles, and maintain solo careers in more than twenty countries. His students have won prizes the world over in both chamber music and solo competitions. In 1997, he was appointed director of percussion studies at the Yale School of Music. He subsequently joined the faculties of the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University and the Curtis Institute of Music. From 1988 to 1997, he headed Europe’s first diploma program for solo marimbists at the Rotterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands. Van Sice has given over 400 master classes in 25 countries. He often serves on juries of international competitions and has released six CDs on the Etcetera, Mode and New World labels. For the last 15 years, van Sice has collaborated with the Adams Corporation in the Netherlands in the design of a series of marimbas bearing his name.
Upcoming Events Kyung Yu, violin march 4 Faculty Artist Series Faculty violinist Kyung Yu performs a recital with pianist Melissa Rose. Morse Recital Hall | Sunday | 3 pm free admission Vista: Chamber Music march 6 YSM Ensembles Student chamber ensembles perform and provide insight into the repertoire. Morse Recital Hall | Tuesday | 7:30 pm free admission Robert Blocker, piano march 7 Horowitz Piano Series Faculty pianist and School of Music Dean Robert Blocker is joined by piano faculty colleagues and members of the Yale Philharmonia for an all-Mozart program. Morse Recital Hall | Wednesday | 7:30 pm Tickets start at $13 • Students free
Stephen Hartke, guest composer march 8 New Music New Haven A program of works by the School’s graduatestudent composers and music by Grammy Award-winning composer Stephen Hartke including The Fifth Book, performed by the Brentano String Quartet, YSM’s ensemble-in-residence. Morse Recital Hall | Thursday | 7:30 pm free admission An Evening with Peter Schickele march 27 Oneppo Chamber Music Series Peter Schickele, the famed composer, performer, and raconteur whose alter ego, P.D.Q. Bach, has entertained and enriched audiences for more than 50 years, shares stories of his uniquely compelling and multifaceted career, no doubt with inimitable humor. Don’t miss “An Evening with Peter Schickele,” a celebration of an extraordinary life in music. Morse Recital Hall | Tuesday | 7:30 pm Tickets from $10 • Students from $5 free for current OCMS subscribers
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