Sunday, October 20, 2024 - Frank Morelli, bassoon

José García-León, Dean

faculty artist series

Frank Morelli, bassoon

with Janna Baty, mezzo-soprano & Wei-Yi Yang, piano

Sunday, October 20, 2024 | 3:00 p.m. | Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750

transcr. William Waterhouse

Ezra Laderman

1924–2015

Lori Laitman

b. 1955

Partita for solo flute, BWV 1013

I. Allemand

II. Corrente

III. Sarabande

IV. Bourée Anglaise

Elegy (for Stephen) for Solo Bassoon

I Never Saw Another Butterfly for voice and bassoon

I. The Butterfly

II. Yes, That’s The Way Things Are

III. Birdsong

IV. The Garden

V. Man Proposes, God Disposes

VI. The Old House intermission

Francisco Mignone 1897–1986

Luboš Sluka

b. 1928 transcr. Karel Pivoˇ nka & Jir ˇ í Formáček rev. Frank Morelli

Carl Maria von Weber 1786–1826

Selections from Sixteen Waltzes for Solo Bassoon

I. 6a valsa brasileira

II. Pattapiada

III. Aquela modinha que o Villa não escreveu

Sonata for Cello

I. Andante sostenuto

II. Allegro energico

Andante e Rondo Ungarese, Op. 36

I. Andante

II. Allegretto ungarese

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Artist Profiles

Frank Morelli, bassoon

Described by the American Record Guide as “as good as it gets,” bassoonist Frank Morelli enjoys a prolific career as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician, recording artist, and educator. He is an emeritus member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and a bassoonist of the woodwind quintet Windscape, an ensemble-in-residence at the Manhattan School of Music. Morelli has made nine appearances at Carnegie Hall performing concertos, sinfonias concertante, and even a solo with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band.

At the Yale School of Music, Morelli teaches a studio of graduate-level bassoon students. He has been featured several times on Yale’s Faculty Artist Series and performs and teaches in the summers at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and Yale Summer School of Music.

Morelli has recorded four solo CDs on the MSR Classics label: From the Heart: 20th Century Music for Bassoon and Piano and Romance and Caprice with pianist Gilbert Kalish, Bassoon Brasileiro with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Yale School of Music faculty guitarist Benjamin Verdery, and Baroque Fireworks with harpsichordist Kenneth Cooper and Yale School of Music faculty oboist Stephen Taylor and faculty bassist Donald Palma. He is featured on the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra CD Shadow Dances, which won a 2001 Grammy Award.

He recently released a new album on the Music Solis Label with Yale School of Music faculty pianist Wei-Yi Yang: An die Music. His next Musica Solis release will be Music from the Soul, with Yale School of Music faculty members Janna Baty and Wei-Yi Yang, as well as the Callisto Quartet, Yale School of Music’s 2022–2024 String Quartet in Residence.

Morelli studied with Stephen Maxym at the Manhattan School of Music and later became the first bassoonist to be awarded a doctorate by the Juilliard School. He is the editor of The First Complete Weissenborn Bassoon Method and Studies, Op. 8, Vols. 1 & 2 and Ludwig Milde’s Scale and Chord Studies, Op. 24 (Carl Fischer), and Stravinsky: Difficult Passages for Bassoon and Contra Bassoon (Boosey & Hawkes), and has had several transcriptions for bassoon and woodwind quintet published by TrevCo Music.

Upcoming Events at YSM

oct 23

Lunchtime Chamber Music

12:30 p.m. | Morse Recital Hall

Free admission

oct 25 Rune Bergmann, guest conductor

Yale Philharmonia

7:30 p.m. | Woolsey Hall

Single tickets start at $13, Yale faculty/staff start at $9, students free

oct 26 Jeremy Denk, piano

7:30 p.m. | Battell Chapel

Free admission, registration required

nov 2 Fall Opera Scenes

Yale Opera performs scenes from Der Rosenkavalier, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Le nozze di Figaro

7:30 p.m. | Morse Recital Hall

Tickets start at $13, Yale faculty/staff start at $10, Students start at $6

nov 3 Fall Opera Scenes

Yale Opera performs scenes from Florencia en el Amazonas, La bohème, and Iolanta

2:00 p.m. | Morse Recital Hall

Tickets start at $13, Yale faculty/staff start at $10, Students start at $6

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