Sunday, November 20, 2011-7:30 p.m. Mixon Hall FRANKLIN COHEN, clarinet RICHARD KING, horn PAUL KANTOR, violin DOROTHY RO, violin, student artist LYNNE RAMSEY, viola JEFFREY IRVINE, viola STEPHEN GEBER, cello VIRGINIA WECKSTROM, piano Piano Quintet EDWARD ELGAR in A minor, Op. 84 (1918-19) (1857-1934) I. Moderato Allegro II. Adagio III. Andante Allegro Paul Kantor, violin Dorothy Ro, violin, student artist Lynne Ramsey, viola Stephen Geber, cello Virginia Weckstrom, piano ~ I N T E R M I S S I O N ~ Sextet in C Major, Op. 37 (1935) ERNST VON DOHNÁNYI For piano, clarinet, horn and string trio (1877 1960) I. Allegro appassionato II. Intermezzo: Adagio III. Allegro con sentiment Poco adagio, andante tranquillo IV. Finale: Allegro vivace, giocoso Franklin Cohen, clarinet Richard King, horn Paul Kantor, violin Lynne Ramsey, viola Stephen Geber, cello Virginia Weckstrom, piano
2 Principal clarinet of The Cleveland Orchestra since 1976, Franklin Cohen has distinguished himself as one of the most outstanding clarinetists of his generation. He first gained international recognition and acclaim when, at the age of 22, became the first clarinetist awarded first prize at the International Munich competition. Mr. Cohen has appeared as soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra in almost 200 performances at Severance Hall, the Blossom Music Center and on tour with The Cleveland Orchestra in the U.S, the Far East and in Europe, appearing with Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnányi, Franz Welser-Möst, Christoph Eschenbach, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Leonard Slatkin and countless others. He recorded Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with the Orchestra and Christoph von Dohnányi for Decca/London Records, and is also the soloist in Debussy's First Rhapsody on a Deutsche Grammophon recording with the Orchestra and Pierre Boulez that won two GRAMMY awards in 1996. Mr. Cohen has recorded the Brahms clarinet sonatas with Vladimir Ashkenazy for the London/Decca label. A native New Yorker, Mr. Cohen studied at the Juilliard School. He began his professional career when Leopold Stokowski chose him as principal clarinet for the American Symphony. He subsequently held that position with the Baltimore Symphony and the Casals Festival Orchestra. As a recitalist and chamber music performer, Mr. Cohen has participated in the Marlboro, Aspen, Casals and Santa Fe Music Festivals. He has been a featured artist with many well-known string quartets including the Emerson, Guarneri, Takács, Miró, Orion, Miami, Tokyo, Ysaÿe, Cavani and others. In addition, Mr. Cohen has collaborated as a chamber musician with leading artists including Emanuel Ax, Pinchas Zukerman, Mitsuko Uchida, Richard Goode, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Jessye Norman. Mr.Cohen has been the chairman of the Cleveland Institute of Music clarinet department since 1976, and many of his former students hold important positions throughout the musical world. Richard King is a member of the CIM horn faculty. He began serving as principal horn of The Cleveland Orchestra in 1997, having joined the ensemble in 1988 as associate principal at the age of 20. An active chamber musician and recitalist, Mr. King performs frequently as a guest at summer festivals and as a member of the Center City Brass Quintet since 1985. Their five recordings on the Chandos label have been met with wide critical acclaim. In addition, he released an album of Schubert Lieder transcribed for horn and piano on Albany Records. Mr. King is also on the
3 faculty of the Kent/Blossom Music Professional training program. He previously served on the faculties of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Carnegie Mellon University. Paul Kantor is currently the Eleanor H. Biggs Distinguished Professor of Violin at CIM. A graduate of The Juilliard School, he studied violin with Dorothy DeLay and chamber music with Robert Mann. Mr. Kantor has performed as soloist with numerous symphony orchestras and was a member of the Berkshire Chamber Players and the New York, Lenox and New Haven string quartets. He has served as concertmaster of six ensembles, including the Aspen Chamber Symphony, New Haven Symphony and Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. In 1994 Mr. Kantor gave the world premiere of Dan Welcher s Violin Concerto, commissioned by the Aspen Music Festival in honor of Dorothy DeLay. Mr. Kantor has presented master classes at the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University and the New World Symphony, among others. For several years he held concurrent appointments at the Yale University School of Music, New England Conservatory, Juilliard and the University of Michigan School of Music. Since 2008, Mr. Kantor has served as Artist-in-Residence at the Glenn Gould School. He has recorded for CRI, Mark Records, Delos and Equilibrium. Mr. Kantor has been an artist-faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival since 1980. Canadian violinist Dorothy Ro is currently studying at CIM with Paul Kantor as a Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Scholarship recipient. She began the violin at the age of five in Nova Scotia with former teachers Myung-Hae Yoon and Philippe Djokic. Major accomplishments include receiving the Raymond Simpson Award from the Nova Scotia Talent Trust, winning top prizes at the Canadian National Music Competition and receiving the Debut Atlantic RBC Award for Musical Excellence. Dorothy was also the 2008 recipient of the Dr. Jerome Gross Prize in Violin, awarded by the CIM violin faculty demonstrating the greatest instrumental progress during the past school year. Starting from a young age, Ms. Ro has taken part in orchestral playing and was concertmaster of the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra for several years. She was also among ten other violinists chosen to participate in a concert at the Kimmel Center with Philadelphia Orchestra concertmaster, David Kim. As a fellowship student of the Aspen Music Festival and School, Dorothy has played in the Aspen Chamber Symphony under conductors such as Nicholas
4 McGegan, Hugh Wolff, and Robert Spano. Dorothy is currently principal 2 nd violin in the Citymusic Cleveland Orchestra and will be attending the New York String Orchestra Seminar under Jaime Laredo this coming winter. Solo performances have included those with the Kenneth Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra, and the CIM orchestra. In 2010, Dorothy performed the Vivaldi Four Seasons with three other violinists with the Banff Chamber Orchestra and also performed John Adams, Shaker Loops with Adams conducting. She has appeared on the Mahone Bay and St. Bernard Concert Series as well. As an avid chamber musician, Ms. Ro has spent summers at the Perlman Music Program, collaborating with distinguished artists Itzhak Perlman, Donald Weilerstein, Merry Peckham and others. She also took part in the Perlman Sarasota Winter Residency in 2008. Past summers have also included attending the Banff Chamber Music Residency with her former string trio, being one of nine ensembles selected to participate in the program. Dorothy has played in master classes for the Takacs Quartet, Tokyo Quartet, Colorado Quartet, and Julliard Quartet. She is currently in the Intensive Quartet Seminar at CIM working with mentors Peter Salaff and the Cavani Quartet. Lynne Ramsey is a member of the viola faculty at CIM and has been first assistant principal violist of The Cleveland Orchestra since 1989. She received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School of Music. Teachers included Karen Tuttle, Ramon Scavelli and David Dawson. She has also been principal violist of the Saint Paul and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestras. She has appeared as soloist with the Cleveland, Saint Paul Chamber and Air Force String Orchestras, as well as the North Carolina, Baltimore and Arlington Symphonies. Ms. Ramsey was invited to perform the Walton Viola Concerto with the Beijing Philharmonic in China in December 1985, and was the first foreigner to perform in Beijing s new concert hall. She has performed chamber music concerts throughout the U.S. and previously taught at Oberlin Conservatory and the Aspen Music Festival. Jeffrey Irvine joined the faculty of CIM as the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Viola in September of 1999. He was Professor of Viola at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music from 1983 to 1999 and was also chair of the string division there from 1992 to 1999. His students have gone on to major orchestral, teaching and chamber music posts across the country and around the world. His students have often been First Prize Winners in
5 major viola competitions, including the Primrose Competition, the ASTA National Solo Competition and the Washington International Competition. Mr. Irvine has given master classes at major music schools in the United States and in 1985 gave master classes in Beijing and Shanghai in the People s Republic of China. Mr. Irvine will join the faculty of the Perlman Music Program in the summer of 2012. He was previously on the faculty of the Heifetz International Music Festival and the Aspen Music Festival. He was formerly a member of the New World String Quartet. His teachers have included Heidi Castleman, Martha Katz, William Primrose and Karen Tuttle. He is married to violist Lynne Ramsey with whom he has two children, Hannah and Christopher. He plays a 1993 viola by Hiroshi Iizuka. Stephen Geber, head of CIM s cello department, was principal cello and held the Louis D. Beaumont Chair for The Cleveland Orchestra from 1973 until 2003. He is also head of the cello department at the Kent/ Blossom School. He is a faculty member of the New World Symphony (Miami, FL), the National Orchestral Institute of the University of Maryland the Round Top International Festival of Texas and the Aspen Music Festival and School. He was previously a faculty member at the ENCORE School for Strings. Mr. Geber heads an annual cello festival in Carmel, California for gifted and advanced cellists. He graduated from the Eastman School of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree and a Performers Certificate. Prior to The Cleveland Orchestra, he was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1965 to 1973, and a faculty member of the New England Conservatory of Music. Mr. Geber has been a soloist with leading orchestras, and has performed throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe with The Cleveland Orchestra. He has appeared extensively with the Emerson, American and Cavani String Quartets. In addition, he has recorded chamber music with Vladimir Ashkenazy and Franklin Cohen, as a member of The Cleveland Orchestra String Quartet for London/Decca Records. In August 2003, Shar Music Company released his CD recording of 18 prominent orchestral cello solos. Former students are members of nearly all major orchestras throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. In 2007, Stephen Geber was appointed to the advisory council of Chamber Music Two at Lincoln Center. In 2008, he received the prestigious Eva Janzer Award from Indiana University. This is given in recognition for lifetime contributions to cello performance and teaching. He was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1974.
6 Virginia Weckstrom is a member of the collaborative piano and chamber music faculties at CIM and teaches a sonata class. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from the Western College for Women and a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music. Her teachers have included Ruby Hamlin, Eleanore Vail, John Kirkpatrick, John Perry, Jacqueline Marcault and Lilian Kallir. She was director of chamber music and taught piano at the Residential College of the University of Michigan, and has been on the artist faculty for the Aspen Music School and Festival for 27 summers. Active in both solo and chamber music performances, Ms. Weckstrom has been heard on National Public Radio with the Wall Street Chamber Players. She was pianist/harpsichordist with the New Haven Symphony and has performed with the Ann Arbor and Flint Symphony Orchestras in Michigan. Chamber music collaborations include many performances along the East Coast, in the Midwest and Colorado. Deeply committed to arts education, she served as chair of the piano department at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, Connecticut, and was a founder of the School for Performing Arts in Ann Arbor, creating successful educational programs and concert series at both institutions. A frequent adjudicator, she has presented lecture recitals and master classes throughout the Midwest, in Texas and Australia. Because Once Isn t Enough. Relive Tonight s Concert! Visit www.instantencore.com/cim. Enter the code from the attached card (CIMFall2011) in the upper right hand corner of the computer screen where it says Search or Redeem Follow the instructions, click continue to download the music. Enjoy your FREE download of tonight s performance!
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