Sunday, January 21, 2018 8:00 p.m. Alexander Hanna Faculty Recital DePaul 800 West Belden Avenue Chicago
Sunday, January 21, 2018 8:00 p.m. DePaul Alexander Hanna, double bass Faculty Recital Mio Nakamura, piano Program Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889) Gavotta Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750); trans. Alexander Hanna Suite No. 3 for solo cello, BWV 1009 (1720) Intermission Giachino Rossini (1792-1868) Duetto per Violoncello e Contrabbasso (1824) Brant Taylor, cello Giovanni Bottesini Elegia e Tarantella
Biographies Alexander Hanna has been featured as performer and teacher throughout Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. He was appointed Principal Bass of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra by Riccardo Muti in the Spring of 2012. Prior to Chicago, he served as Principal Bass of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for four seasons. Hanna grew up in Bowling Green, Ohio before moving to Cleveland to study at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He then moved on to Philadelphia where he graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2008. Outside of his orchestral engagements Hanna has been featured as concerto soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and also the Bellingham Festival Orchestra. As a chamber musician he has collaborated with Jeremy Denk, Yo-Yo Ma, Mitsuko Uchida and Dawn Upshaw among others. In the spring of 2016 Hanna and Ma gave the world premiere of Matthew Aucoin s Dual for cello and bass. He has also performed at the Bellingham Festival, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, the Pacific Music Festival and the Ravinia Festival. Hanna is on faculty at DePaul University. He is also the bass coach for the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and spends summers coaching the National Youth Orchestra of Carnegie Hall and the Pacific Music Festival. He has given lectures and masterclasses throughout the world at many of the finest Conservatories and Universities. He is and editor and contributor to the International Society of Bassists journal and has presented at many international conventions. Alexander is grateful for his teachers who have included Kay Moore, Virginia Marks, Scott Haigh, Hal Robinson and Edgar Meyer. Mio Nakamura is a native of Kyoto, Japan. She has established herself as a much-in-demand soloist, collaborative artist, and chamber musician in the Chicago area and abroad. As a scholarship student of Ludmila Lazar, Ms. Nakamura received a Performance Diploma at Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University where she also earned bachelor s and master s degrees in piano performance with honors. She currently studies piano with Mary Sauer, Steinway Artist and the celebrated former principal pianist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In addition, she studies organ with John W. W. Sherer, organist and director of music at the Fourth Presbyterian Church.
Biographies Ms. Nakamura s solo appearances include recitals on WFMT as well as the Musicians Club of Women Artists in Recital series, the Fourth Presbyterian Church Noon Concert series, concerto performances with the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, the Evanston Symphony Orchestra, and most recently with the Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest performing the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. She is currently on the piano faculty at New Music School and the musicianship faculty at Music Institute of Chicago. Ms. Nakamura also holds the position of church organist at St. John s Episcopal Church in Old Irving Park. An avid orchestral and chamber musician, Ms. Nakamura served as principal pianist of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago from 2011 to 2013. Through the CSO s Negaunee Music Institute, she has been a regular guest collaborative pianist for the University of Chicago Woodlawn Charter School. Ms. Nakamura frequently appears as a supplementary keyboardist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and has performed in prestigious venues including the Symphony Center, Ravinia, Millenium Park, Harris Theater, and Carnegie Hall under the direction of Riccardo Muti. Ms. Nakamura has also worked for CSO as rehearsal pianist under the baton of Muti, Michael Tilson Thomas, and James Conlon. She regularly collaborates with symphony musicians in chamber music concerts and recitals at the CSO All-Access Chamber series, the MusicNOW series, the Chamber Music with Robert Chen and His Family series, the St. John s Concert series, and the music803 Concert series. Born in New York, Brant Taylor began cello studies at the age of 8. His varied career includes solo appearances and collaborations with leading chamber musicians throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, as well as orchestral, pedagogical, and popular music activities. After one year as a member of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Taylor was appointed to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra by Daniel Barenboim in 1998. In Chicago, Mr. Taylor s recital appearances include the Dame Myra Hess Concerts, First Monday Concerts, Rush Hour Concerts at St. James Cathedral, the Ravinia Festival s Rising Stars recital series, and regular live radio broadcasts from the studios of WFMT. He has appeared regularly with the Chicago Chamber Musicians and on the contemporary chamber music series MusicNow. Mr. Taylor made his solo debut with the San Antonio Symphony at the age of 14 after winning a concerto competition, and has since been soloist with numerous orchestras, performing the works of Dvorak, Haydn, Elgar, Shostakovich, Lalo, Boccherini, Saint-Saens, and Brahms, among others.
Biographies From 1992-97, Mr. Taylor was cellist of the award-winning Everest Quartet, prizewinners at the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. The Quartet performed and taught extensively in North America and the Caribbean, and gave the world premiere performance of a work by Israeli-American composer Paul Schoenfield. In 1997, Mr. Taylor was a member of the New World Symphony. He has returned to appear as soloist with that orchestra under the batons of Michael Tilson-Thomas and Nicholas McGegan, as well as to teach and participate in audition training seminars. In 2002, Mr. Taylor began a seven-year association with the band Pink Martini. With this eclectic ensemble, he has appeared on Late Night with Conan O Brien, The Late Show with David Letterman, at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and in venues ranging from nightclubs to concert halls across North America. He can be heard on Pink Martini s 2006 release, Hey Eugene. Mr. Taylor is a frequent performer and teacher at music festivals, including the Festival der Zukunft in Ernen, Switzerland, the Portland Chamber Music Festival, the Shanghai International Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Mimir Chamber Music Festival, the Mammoth Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Music Festival Santo Domingo, Michigan s Village Bach Festival, and Music at Gretna in Pennsylvania, where he has made repeated appearances as a concerto soloist. Mr. Taylor has also served as Principal Cello of the Arizona Musicfest Orchestra since 2006. Active as a teacher of both cello and chamber music, Mr. Taylor serves on the faculty of the DePaul University School of Music. He has also been a faculty member at Roosevelt University s Chicago College of Performing Arts and Northwestern University s National High School Music Institute, and has led classes on pedagogy and orchestral repertoire at the University of Michigan. Mr. Taylor holds a Bachelor of Music degree and a Performer s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, where he won the school s Concerto Competition and performed as soloist with the Eastman Philharmonia. His Master of Music degree is from Indiana University. Mr. Taylor s primary teachers have been Janos Starker and Paul Katz.
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