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1 GARY KULESHA composer/conductor (Canada) Gary Kulesha is one of Canada s most active and visible musicians. Although principally a composer, he is active as both a pianist and a conductor, and as a teacher. Mr. Kulesha s music has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by musicians and ensembles all over the world. Kulesha s compositions including Angels for Marimba and Tape; Mysterium Coniunctionis for Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, and Piano; Four Fantastic Landscapes and the Sonata for Horn, Tuba and Piano have become standard repertoire and are often heard in performance. In 1995 he was appointed Composer-Advisor to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, where his duties included composing, conducting, and advising on repertoire. Since then he has composed numerous orchestral pieces including Celebration Overture, Symphony for Two Conductors and Orchestra, The Gates of Time and True Colour of the Sky. In March, 2002, Mr. Kulesha was awarded the first National Arts Centre Orchestra Composer Award, along with Alexina Louie and Denys Bouliane. This begins a four year relationship with the NACO and its Artistic Director, Pinchas Zuckerman. Mr. Kulesha s conducting activities are extensive, and he has premiered literally hundreds of works. He has guest conducted frequently with several major orchestras throughout Canada, and has recorded for radio and CD. Although he is well-known as a specialist in 20th Century music, his repertoire is extensive, ranging from little-known Baroque music through to the music of our time. In the 2000/2001 season, he guest conducted CBC Vancouver, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the Thirteen Strings of Ottawa, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Victoria Symphony, in repertoire ranging from Bach and Beethoven to Kulesha. Mr. Kulesha currently teaches composition and theory at the University of Toronto, where he is also the Director of the Contemporary Music Ensemble. In addition, he teaches conducting at the Royal Conservatory of Music. Gary Kulesha lives in Toronto with his wife, composer Larysa Kuzmenko. SATURDAY, 8:00 PM, ERIC HARVIE THEATRE JEAN LANDA oboe (Canada) Jean Landa received his bachelor of music degree from Indiana University School of Music under oboe professor Jerry Sirucek, and his master s degree from Cleveland Institute of Music under John Mack. Jean is currently on faculty as instructor of oboe at Mt. Royal College and the University of Calgary, and has been principal oboe with the Calgary Philharmonic (CPO) since He was soloist on a number of occasions with the CPO, and has performed on numerous CD s with the CPO. He is former co-owner of Landwell Reed Knives, Inc, and Adam Shaper Tips, Ltd., two companies making products for oboe players. In addition to music, Jean has been studying Islamic art for many years, and has a small business (The Arts of Islam) dealing in oriental carpets, textiles, ceramics, metalwork and miniature painting. WEDNESDAY, 9:45 AM, ROLSTON RECITAL HALL 51 DANIEL LAU piano (USA) As a soloist, Dr. Lau has appeared in recitals and with orchestras throughout the United States and Europe, and is in constant demand by singers and instrumentalists and balances a heavy teaching schedule with an extensive performing career. In addition to the traditional classical repertoire, Dr. Lau is committed to the performance of living composers. He has premiered a number of solo and chamber music works, and most recently received a Peabody Development Grant to record the piano works of ASCAP awardwinning composer Dr. Daniel Crozier. He also has a special interest in Asian American and African American composers. He is a founding member of the Morpheus Trio and the Tempest Piano Trio. Dr. Lau began his musical training as a violinist and subsequently added piano lessons. He won numerous competitions on both instruments in his home state of California before deciding to major in piano upon entering college. As a

2 violinist, he won the position of concertmaster of the Loma Linda University Symphony Orchestra, was a founding member of the Loma Linda University String Quartet, and won the university s concerto competition as a junior. Now residing in Baltimore, MD, Dr. Lau received his bachelor of music degree from Loma Linda University, magna cum laude, where he won the coveted Dean s Award. He received master of music and doctor of musical arts degrees from the Peabody Conservatory of Music while becoming a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda honorary society. He has studied with Lillian Freundlich, Anita Norskov Olsen, Samuel Sanders, and Jerome Lowenthal. He has taught at Columbia Union College and is now a performing faculty member at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music. FRIDAY, 9:45 AM, ROLSTON RECITAL HALL 52 LAURENT LEFÈVRE bassoon (France) Laurent Lefèvre received the first prize in bassoon chamber music from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. He has participated in many international competition, and received first prize at the IDRS Manchester conference, and first prize at the International Competition in Toulon. Since 1992, he has been first bassoon with the orchestera of the Paris Opera. Laurent is currently professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. He has performed internationally with the wind ensemble Paris-Bastille, which won first prize in 1992 at the international competition in Paris. With the Claude Debussy Quintet, Laurent received the special jury prize at the international competition in Tokyo, as well as he second prize at the ARD International competition in Munich. Laurent also performs as soloist with the orchestras of the Radio of Stuttgart, of la Suisee Romande, with Paris Opera, l Orchestre Philharmonique de St Pétersbourg, and with Symfonieta d Amiens. Laurent also performs with Michel Dalberto, Roland Pidoux, Bruno Pasquier, Myung-Whun Chung, Xavier Gagnepain, Maurice Bourgues, Michel Portal, and Emmanuel Strosser. THURSDAY, 8:00 PM, ERIC HARVIE THEATRE FRANÇOIS LELEUX oboe (France) Born in 1971, François Leleux was seven years old when he began studying the oboe with Professor Pierron at the Roubaix Conservatoire. He entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris when he was fourteen, initially in Pierre Pierlot s class, and then with Maurice Bourgue, where he won First Prizes for the Oboe and Chamber Music. Leleux won successively the International Competition of Toulon and Munich, and has also won Second Prize in the International Competition of Manchester as well as Prague, and the Special Prize at the International Competition of Trieste. He has been awarded the European Juventus Prize. Following his enriching experiences with the European Community Youth Orchestra, then with conductor Claudio Abbado, and also with the French National Opera, Leleux became the first oboe soloist at the Paris Opera when he was still only 18. Leleux regularly performs in chamber music events all over the world, particularly in sonatas with Emmanuel Strosser, the Mullova Ensemble, and the Paris Bastille Wind Octet. The City of Paris awarded the First International Prize to Leleux for Chamber Music just one month after its formation. Leleux also pursues a solo career in Europe, Asia and the United States. Leleux has played at the Berlin Philharmonic with the Deutsches Symphonieorchester, at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées with the French National Orchestra, and at Bunkamara with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. Leleux performed at the Lincoln Center as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival, and for the Halle orchestra in Manchester, but he also plays in the company of such prestigious soloists as Chung, Oïstrach, Zukerman, Sawallisch, Bronfmann, Vladkovic, Thuneman, Mullova, Gallois, and Pahud. TUESDAY, 8:00 PM, ERIC HARVIE THEATRE

3 STÉPHANE LÉVESQUE bassoon (Canada) Born in Montréal in 1972, Stéphane Lévesque has held the position of principal bassoon with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra since September He has appeared as soloist with the Montréal and Québec Symphony Orchestras, the New World Symphony, the Violons du Roy chamber orchestra in Québec City, the U.S. Army Orchestra, the Yale Philharmonia, and The Banff Festival Strings. Mr. Lévesque has performed solo and chamber music recitals in Canada, the U.S., Europe and Argentina, and he is often heard on English and French CBC concert broadcasts. Member of the Faculties of Music at McGill University and at the Université de Montréal since September 1998, Mr. Lévesque has also been on the faculty at the Orford Arts Centre since the summer of He has given master classes at the Oberlin Conservatory, the Manhattan School of Music, the Crane School of Music (SUNY Potsdam), the Glickman-Popkin Bassoon Camp in North Carolina, and at the 2001 conference of the Bassons association in Paris. A graduate of the Yale School of Music and of the Montréal Conservatory of Music, Stéphane Lévesque studied with Stephen Maxym, Frank Morelli, and Rodolfo Masella. A participant in Music & Sound summer programs at The Banff Centre from 1992 to Mr. Lévesque has appeared as guest artist during the Music & Sound long-term residency programs in 1996 and Mr. Lévesque is visiting The Banff Centre as co-host of the 2002 conference of the International Double Reed Society. THURSDAY, 1:00 PM, ROLSTON RECITAL HALL SATURDAY, 11:00 AM, MAX BELL AUDITORIUM SATURDAY, 8:00 PM, ERIC HARVIE THEATRE LUXEMBOURG DOUBLE REED QUARTET (Luxembourg) Jean-Paul Hansen, oboe; Tom Brink, oboe; Robert Stoos, English horn; Robert Lohr, bassoon Jean-Paul Hansen oboe Jean-Paul Hansen was born in 1960 in Luxembourg. Hansen first began studying music at the Conservatoire in Esch/Luxembourg and began playing the oboe at the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg. He received his teaching certification for oboe in 1983 and then completed his degree with honours from the Mozarteum, Hansen has studied ancient music with Nikolaus Harnoncourt as well as baroque music with H.P. Westermann (Vienna) and Katharina Arfken (Trossingen). Hansen is a former member of Camerata Academica Salzburg and is now a professor of oboe and chamber music at the Conservatoire in Esch/Luxembourg (since 1993). 53 Tom Brink oboe Tom Brink was born in Luxembourg and studies at the Consrevatoire de Luxembourg. Brink has studied oboe with his teacher Robert Stoos and received his final certification and his diploma in Chamber music. Brink continues to study oboe with professor Nobert Mattern at the Conservatoire in Metz (France) and Mons (Belgium). Presently he plays oboe in several chamber orchestras and chamber music ensembles. Robert Stoos English horn Robert Stoos was born in Luxembourg and began his musical studies at the Conservatoire of Luxembourg. He studied oboe with professor Nobert Mattern, and after receiving his final diploma in Luxembourg he continued his studies at the Conservatoire in Metz (France) and Mons (Belgium). Robert currently plays oboe in several chamber orchestras and chamber music ensembles. He has taught oboe at the Conservatoire of Luxembourg since Robert Lohr bassoon Robert Lohr was born in 1953 in Luxembourg and began his studies at the Conservatory of Luxembourg. Lohr began playing bassoon with professor Aloyse Reiter and studied chamber music with professor Aubert Stradaroli. Lohr also studies bassoon with Saarbrucken (Germany) as well as Alfred Rinderspacher and Jürgen Gode. Lohr received his teachers certificate for bassoon and chamber music in Maastricht (Netherland) with Prof.Adrie Bisschop. Lohr plays bassoon for many orchestras and ensembles. Presently Lohr teaches bassoon and chamber music at the Conservatory of Music in Luxembourg City and Esch/Altette. FRIDAY, 9:45 AM, MARGARET GREENHAM THEATRE

4 JEFFREY LYMAN bassoon (USA) Jeffrey Lyman, Associate Professor of Bassoon at Arizona State University, is known throughout the double reed world for his unique programming and dynamic recitals. As a soloist and orchestral player, he has appeared in many international venues, most notably the Moscow Autumn Festival, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Moscow), Le Festival d Ainay-le-Vieil (Berry, France), the Festival dei Due Mondi (Spoleto, Italy), the Academie Européene d Été de Musique (Tournon-sur-Rhone, France), the Colorado Music Festival, Vermont Mozart Festival and the Saint Bart s Music Festival (French West Indies). He has held positions with several orchestras across the US, including Savannah, Grand Rapids, the Opera Company of Philadelphia and the Michigan Opera Theater. Lyman is well known as an advocate and sponsor of new music. His commissions include a chamber concerto by the Russian Yuri Kasparov, settings of cowboy tunes by John Steinmetz and John Allemeier, and Kuta Muela, a work for bassoon, ensemble, electronics and video based upon Yaqui pascola music by David Gompper. With oboist Martin Schuring he co-hosted the 1998 conference of the International Double Reed Society, and was associate editor for the IDRS publications. Lyman appears on Summit, Le Chant du Monde, New World, Brasswell and Koch International recordings. FRIDAY, 3:00 PM, MARGARET GREENHAM THEATRE SATURDAY, 11:00 AM MAX BELL AUDITORIUM THE LYRIQUE QUINTETTE (USA) Ronda Mains,flute;Theresa Delaplain, oboe; Nophachai Cholthitchanta, clarinet; Richard Ramey, bassoon; Dr. Timothy F. Thompson, horn 54 The Lyrique Quintette was founded in 1990 as the faculty woodwind quintet in residence at the University of Arkansas, and since then has established itself as an outstanding ensemble, which maintains an active performance schedule. The quintet has been on the touring roster of the Arkansas Arts Council since 1992, and tours regularly, appearing at performing arts centers, universities, schools, and other venues across the region. The quintet has performed at several national and international conferences, including International Double Reed Society conferences in Frankfurt and the Montana-Idaho Clarinet Festival in Missoula. Recently, the quintet was invited by Chulalongkorn University in Thailand to spend 10 days as ensemble-in-residence there in All the members of the quintet are on the faculty at the University of Arkansas and are members of several orchestras and other chamber ensembles. The quintet is a versatile ensemble; besides giving regular formal concerts, the group excels at school concerts, lectureconcert format, clinics, and master classes. Dedicated to promoting new music for woodwind quintet, the Lyrique Quintette has commissioned and premiered many works, and has had several compositions dedicated to them. Several grants have been awarded to the quintet, including Research Incentive Grants from the University of Arkansas and grants from the Arkansas Arts Council. The quintet recently recorded four works for a new CD which will be released this year, entitled Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue. FRIDAY, 11:30 AM, MARGARET GREENHAM THEATRE Ronda Mains flute Ronda Mains is Professor of Flute and Associate Chair of the University of Arkansas Department of Music. In 2000, she was the recipient of the Fulbright College Master Teacher Award. She is Principal Flute of the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and performer with the Lyrique Quintette, Novaria, Spectrum Trio, Zephyr Trio, and the Boston Mountain Chamber Players. An advocate of contemporary music, Dr. Mains has been actively involved in commissioning and recording new works with her chamber groups. She can be heard with Novaria on a CD featuring new music for flute and guitar. Dr. Mains is the author of several articles, including a recent one published by the Flutist Quarterly. She is currently pursuing an interest in the performance techniques of ethnic flute.

5 Theresa Delaplain oboe Theresa Delaplain has taught oboe at the University of Arkansas since 1990, and is manager of the Lyrique Quintette, and performs as oboist with the Boston Mountain Chamber Players, and with Spectrum Trio. Dr. Delaplain started the Boston Mountain Woodwind and Horn Seminar, which is a one-week intensive summer workshop for high school students at the beautiful Mt. Sequoyah Retreat in Fayetteville. She is also the author of a reedmaking book for beginning and intermediate reedmakers entitled My Kingdom for a Reed! She has commissioned and premiered several new works involving oboe, and has performed concertos with the North Arkansas Symphony, the University Symphony Orchestra at the University of Arkansas, the St. Croix Valley (WI) Symphony, and the University of Michigan Sinfonietta at Interlochen. Nophachai Cholthitchanta clarinet Nophachai Cholthitchanta is Assistant Professor of clarinet at the University of Arkansas, and is clarinetist with the North Arkansas Symphony. Previously he served as an Adjunct Professor at Graceland University in Iowa and was on the faculty at Continuing Education, The University of Missouri-Kansas City. A native of Thailand, Mr. Cholthitchanta is a graduate of Chulalongkorn University (B.A.), Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (Professional Diploma), Indiana University (Performer Diploma), and the University of Northern Colorado (M.M.). He is currently a D.M.A. candidate at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Conservatory of Music, where he was selected to be the Liberace Scholar. He has performed as a concerto soloist with the Hong Kong Academy Orchestra, the University of Northern Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and the University of Arkansas Wind Symphony. In the season, he will be performing Lutoslawski s Dance Preludes for Clarinet and Orchestra with the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. Richard Ramey bassoon Richard Ramey, a musician versed in classical, jazz, and Latin American music, draws upon his varied musical background in his work as a performer and teacher. Currently the Professor of Bassoon at the University of Arkansas, he holds degrees in Bassoon Performance and Musicology from the University of Southern California. He also holds a masters degree in Bassoon Performance from Arizona State University and is a DMA candidate at Michigan State University. His teachers included Willard Elliot, former Principal Bassoonist of the Chicago Symphony, Manuel Zegler, former Principal Bassoonist of the New York Philharmonic, Baroque bassoon expert Michael O Donovan, and the internationally acclaimed bassoonist, Norman Herzberg. Mr. Ramey is the Artistic Director of the Boston Mountain Chamber Players, a group that presents a full season of works for the chamber music setting. He is also known as an arranger of music for bassoon quartet with many of his arrangements performed by various groups throughout the U.S. He is the author of several articles appearing in the International Double Reed Society Journal, and The Instrumentalist, and his book, Secondary Orchestra Excerpts for the Bassoon, has recently been published. Mr. Ramey performs on a late-12,000 series Heckel bassoon. 55 Dr. Timothy F. Thompson horn Dr. Timothy F. Thompson is Professor of Music at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where he has served on the faculty since In addition to being hornist with the Lyrique Quintette, he also serves as principal horn of the North Arkansas Symphony and the Boston Mountain Chamber Players. He has performed as hornist with numerous orchestras around the world including the Aspen Chamber Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Bolivia, the Seminar für Klassische Musik (Austria), the Wichita Symphony (as principal hornist during their 1987 European tour), the Music Festival of Arkansas, the North Carolina Symphony, the Arkansas Symphony and the Tulsa Philharmonic. As a composer, Thompson s works for horn solo, horn choir and horn in chamber music have been performed throughout the United States and in Australia.

6 NADINA MACKIE JACKSON bassoon (Canada) Nadina Mackie Jackson has an extensive orchestral, chamber music and teaching career. She is an informed performer of baroque music, having studied the historical bassoons for ten years. Nadina is also an active champion of new music, regularly commissioning, performing and recording new music by both emerging and established composers. Nadina spent her early years on a remote mountain ranch and heard the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra at the age of 4. Twenty-eight years later, she became the principal bassoonist of that orchestra for 2 years after first serving for over a decade as the second bassoonist of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. When 16, she began her studies with Christopher Millard and continued with Bernard Garfield and Sol Schoenbach at the Curtis Institute of Music Nadina now teaches at the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto. Along with her husband Fraser Jackson, Nadina is a founding member of the Caliban Quartet of Bassoonists. She recently started her own recording label, Odd Bird Studios, to produce her solo CD, Twelve Fantasias by Georg Philipp Telemann. As an artist, she holds regular solo exhibitions and has provided the art for five CD covers. She has created large original installations for several Toronto stores, including HMV and Sam the Record Man. TUESDAY, 8:00 PM, ROLSTON RECITAL HALL THURSDAY, 3:00 PM, ROLSTON RECITAL HALL 56 COLIN MAIER oboe (Canada) Colin holds a bachelor of music degree in oboe performance from the University of Calgary. He has performed as a featured jazz oboist at many venues including the Calgary International Jazz Festival, Calgary International Organ Festival, Beat Night Jazz Club, and many private functions. He has performed on recordings with The Plaid Tongued Devils and The Jive Mommas. Colin has taught master classes at the Calgary Oboe Festival, University of Calgary summer band workshop, and clinics in Canada and the U.S. He has also performed with the Calgary Philharmonic, National Ballet Orchestra and twice as a soloist with the Mountain View Chamber music concert series. WEDNESDAY, LATE NIGHT JAZZ, THE CLUB THURSDAY, 3:15 PM, MAX BELL AUDITORIUM THURSDAY, LATE NIGHT JAZZ, THE CLUB MICHAEL MASSEY piano (Canada) Michael Massey was born in England and immigrated to Canada in His early piano studies with Jean-Pierre Vetter in Edmonton were the prime influence in his development as a musician. Later studies were at the University of Alberta and the Geneva Conservatory. Mr. Massey has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout Canada, England and Scotland, and as accompanist, is particularly renowned for having worked with many of Canada s major performing artists. He has appeared frequently as soloist with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, and has also been its orchestral pianist for over 20 years. As a conductor, Mr. Massey has been deeply influenced by his studies in England with George Hurst. Since 1977, he has been music director of the Edmonton Youth Orchestra. He has appeared as guest conductor locally and abroad, including with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Scottish National Orchestra. VARIOUS CONCERTS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK