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Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday, May 28, 8:00 pm Eighth Annual National Wind Ensemble H. Robert Reynolds, Conductor Bach/Cailliet: Little Fugue in G Minor Gould: American Salute H. Owen Reed: La Fiesta Mexicana And the winning composition from the Sixth Annual H. Robert Reynolds Composer's Competition Daniel R. Mitchell: The Dawning of a Soul Ensemble Spotlight Series Metropolitan Atlanta Youth Wind Ensemble, Atlanta, GA Peter Witte, Conductor Robert J. Ambrose, Conductor Atlanta Wind Symphony, Atlanta, GA Peter Witte, Conductor Randall Coleman, Associate Conductor Memorial Day Weekend, Sunday, May 29, 8:30 pm New England Symphonic Ensemble David Brunner, Conductor David Brunner: Cantate Domino, Painted Memories, O Music, Simple Boat and A Divine Voice Sings Through All Creation Participating choruses from Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania Joanna Medawar Nachef, Conductor Schubert: Mass in G Major Participating choruses from California and Ohio Soloists: Haewon Moon, soprano, Scott Williamson, tenor, Frederick Frey, bass-baritone Ensemble Spotlight Series Tacoma Youth Symphony, Tacoma, WA Paul-Elliott Cobbs, Conductor Dale Johnson, Conductor Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 8:00 pm New England Symphonic Ensemble John Rutter, Conductor Brahms: Requiem Participating choruses from Alabama, California, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas John Rutter: Requiem Participating choruses from Alabama, California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, and Washington Soloists: Amy Van Roekel, soprano, Jason Hardy, bass Prelude Concert, 7:00 pm Gwen Wyatt Chorale, Los Angeles, CA Gwendolyn Wyatt, Conductor "Remembering Jester Hairston" *** For the past seven years, renowned conductor and music educator H. Robert Reynolds has lead the National Wind Ensemble. A nationally auditioned wind ensemble made up of the most talented high school and college musicians found in the United States in Carnegie Hall. Selected performers take part in a New York residency of intensive rehearsals culminating in the final concert at Carnegie Hall. Several hundred applications for the first six National Wind Ensembles have been processed by MidAmerica Productions for performances since 1998, all at Carnegie Hall; the final rosters encompassing 75 of the top high school and college players from across the country. H. Robert Reynolds is the Principal Conductor of the Wind Ensemble at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. This appointment followed his retirement, after 26 years, from the School of Music of the University of Michigan where he served as the Henry F. Thurnau Professor of Music, Director of University Bands and Director of the Division of Instrumental Studies. In addition to these responsibilities, he has also been, for over 20 years, the conductor of a professional ensemble, The Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, which is made up primarily from members of the Detroit Symphony. In the United States, he has conducted at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center (New York), Orchestra Hall (Chicago), Kennedy Center (Washington, D. C.), Powell Symphony Hall (St. Louis), and the Academy of Music (Philadelphia). In Europe, he conducted the premiere of an opera for La Scala Opera (Milan, Italy), and concerts at the Maggio Musicale (Florence, Italy), the Tonhalle (Zurich, Switzerland), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam, Holland) as part of the Holland Festival, and at the 750th Anniversary of the City of Berlin. He has conducted numerous premiere performances and has won the praise of composers: Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, Aaron Copland, Michael Daugherty, Henryk Gorecki, Karel Husa, Gyorgy Ligeti, Darius Milhaud, Bernard Rands, Gunther Schuller, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and many others for his interpretive conducting of their compositions. David L. Brunner is acclaimed as a dynamic conductor, inspired teacher and imaginative composer. His wide and varied expertise embraces all ages in professional, university, public school, community, church and children's choir. Mr. Brunner is professor of music and director of choral activities at the University of Central Florida in Orlando and is well-known for his imaginative and compelling work with singers of all ages, conducting All-State and regional honor choirs throughout the United States at the elementary, middle and high school levels. He is also a popular clinician at choral festivals and educational workshops throughout North America and Europe. He has received numerous ASCAP awards for composition and in 2000, joined a prestigious group of America composers when the American Choral Directors Association named him the Raymond W. Brook Commissioned Composer. The New York Times has noted him as a "prolific choral writer whose name figures prominently on national repertory lists," his works being performed worldwide by children's choirs, middle and high school singers, university, community and professional choirs. He served on the editorial board for the Choral Journal and is the author of articles in both the Choral Journal and Music Educators Journal. Mr. Brunner is a past president of the Florida chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. Joanna Medawar Nachef, is director of choral activities at El Camino College and a native of Beirut, Lebanon. She earned her B.M. in piano performance from California State University, Dominguez Hills, received her doctor of musical arts degree and master of music degree in choral music from the University of Southern California, and studied with Francis Steiner, Rodney Eichenberger, James Vail, David Wilson, and Hans Beer. As a full-time professor of music at El Camino College, her responsibilities include conducting the college chorale, concert choir, women's chorus, teaching sight singing and voice, lecturing on the Joy of Music series, and she has been the vocal director for the summer musicals Oklahoma, Fiddler on the Roof, The Sound of Music and Guys and Dolls. Ms. Nachef is on the faculty of California State University- Dominguez Hills, the Academy of Mathematics and Science, and the artistic director for Los Cancioñeros Master Chorale. As a church musician, she served as minister of music at Peninsula Community Church from 1980 to 1997, and she is their choir director at the present time. John Rutter, conductor, a native of London, is well known on both sides of the Atlantic as a composer, conductor, and recording artist. His compositions span choral and orchestral works, carols, school operas, popular music, and music for television. He was director of music at England's Clare College from 1975-79, later forming the Cambridge Singers, a mixed-voice choir that has recorded over two dozen albums, many for his own label, Collegium. In the last few years, several of his recordings have reached Billboard magazine's Classical Top 25 chart. Recently, he initiated the Collegium Choral Series, a music publishing project aimed at making available to choral groups works performed by the Cambridge Singers. Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse, artistic director and principal conductor of the New England Symphonic Ensemble, is a violinist, pianist, composer, and conductor. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Boston University, and the Peabody Conservatory, Dr. Rittenhouse has performed as recitalist and soloist with orchestras throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, South Africa, and the West Indies. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the London Associate Board Overseas Award, the New York Concert Artists Guild Award, the International Music Guild Award, and the New York Madrigal Society Award. New England Symphonic Ensemble was organized more than two decades ago by Dr. Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse. Since 1982 the ensemble has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Africa, Russia, and Israel, and has performed frequently at Carnegie Hall under the auspices of MidAmerica Productions. Over the past 20 years, MidAmerica Productions has brought together conductors, choruses, soloists, and orchestral musicians for performances at some of the world's greatest venues, especially at New York's Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall. Under the guidance of MidAmerica's founder, Peter Tiboris, the company has presented over 730 concerts worldwide and more than 600 in New York at Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, and Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. More than 2115 American ensembles, representing each of the 50 states, have appeared with MidAmerica in New York, as have 75 symphonic and choral ensembles from Europe, the Far East, South America, and Canada. There have more than 300 guest conductors, 620 solo artists, and 88,000 performers who have appeared on MidAmerica's series in Carnegie Hall. In addition to presenting classic choral and instrumental works, MidAmerica Productions has championed the works of contemporary composers. On MidAmerica's series in Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, there have been approximately 31 World Premieres, 16 United States Premieres, and 50 New York Premieres. For more information about MidAmerica Productions, please contact Kathleen Drohan at 212-239-0205 or kdrohan@midamerica-music.com For Immediate Release April 18, 2005 New York, NY - MidAmerica Productions presents the New England Symphonic Ensemble, led by conductors Candace Wicke and Janet Harms, May 22, 2005 May 22, 2PM New England Symphonic Ensemble Soloists: Donna Zapola, soprano, Rosalie Sullivan, mezzo-soprano, Paul Harms, tenor Candace Wicke, Conductor Stephen Edwards: Ave Maria Mass (New York Premiere) Stephen Edwards: Revelation: Battle, Peace in Heaven, and Warning on Earth (World Premiere) Participating choruses: St. John the Evangelist Church Choir, Boca Raton, FL; Revelation Chorale of St. Thomas the Apostle, Miami, FL; The St. Richard Parish Choir, Miami, FL; Indian River Charter High School, Vero Beach, FL; Vero Beach Choral Society, Vero Beach, FL; St. Thomas Aquinas Church Choir, Madison, WI; St. Bernard's Choir, Middletown, WI; St. John the Baptist Adult and Youth Choirs, Waunakee, WI Janet Harms, Conductor Rene Clausen: Memorial Participating choruses: Windsong Southland Chorale, Pomona, CA; Warwick Valley Chorale, Warwick, NY Ensemble Spotlight Series Skyline String Symphony Orchestra, Sammamish, WA Marianna Vail, Conductor Holst: Brook Green Suite Hovhaness: Alleluia and Fugue for String Orchestra Bottesini: Concerto No. 2 for Double Bass (moderato) Derek Zadinsky, double bass Fletcher: Folk Tune and Fiddle Dance Tickets, at $85, 50, 35, may be obtained by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, going online at www.carnegiehall.org, or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at West 57th Street and Seventh Avenue in NYC. For more information, call our Box Office at (212) 239-4699 or visit our web site at www.midamerica-music.com. *** Candace Wicke, conductor-in-residence for MidAmerica Productions, made her Carnegie Hall conducting debut in 2002, premiering the Symphony of Psalms by Imant Raminsh. Ensembles under her baton have received national and international acclaim, performing for the Global International Women's Summit, Musica Mundi International, Legatus International and the Miami Civic Associations Young Artist Debut. In 2004, Dr. Wicke conducted the world premiere of Bernadette, a one-act opera by Ramon Dominguez, at the Roca Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida. She has also appeared as conductor in Notre Dame Cathedral, Sacre Coeur, Massabielle and the Théatre Fountaine in France. Dr. Wicke's international experience also includes conducting the United States representative Wind Ensemble at the Taipei Presidential Inauguration. Prior to MidAmerica Productions, she served as fine arts chair, director of choral and instrumental studies at Lourdes Academy, and director of music at Central Presbyterian Church in Miami, Florida. Her discography includes Raminsh's Symphony of Psalms, Dominguez's Bernadette, Live from St. Mary's Cathedral, What a Wonderful World and A Lourdes Christmas. Janet Harms, conductor, hails from New Jersey and received her early musical training at The Juilliard School. She went on to receive advanced degrees from the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago and her doctorate from Columbia University. Prior to moving to California in 1981, Ms. Harms taught for nine years at Nyack College in New York. At present she is on the faculty of three major universities: Azusa Pacific University, California Institute of Technology at Pomona, and Biola University, La Mirada. In 1995 she founded the Windsong Southland Chorale, a community chorus based in California. In addition to her work as a conductor, she has pursued a dual career as a concert organist. She has presented over 100 recitals in Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, and Switzerland. Ms. Harms was recently appointed as organist at St. James Episcopal Church in Newport Beach, where she plays the new John-Paul Buzard pipe organ. Marianna J. Vail, conductor, began teaching in 1983. She holds a bachelor's degree from Western Washington University and a master's degree from the University of Washington. Ms. Vail has been concertmaster of Philharmonia NW, and the Sammamish Symphony. Mrs. Vail joined the Issaquah School District in 1988 and was the third orchestra teacher hired after restarting the orchestra program when it had died away. She is a recipient of the Unsung Hero Award, Chain of Achievement Award and is in Who's Who among American Teachers. Ms. Vail is a frequent clinician for large group and solo/ensemble festivals. She has been a clinician for WMENC conference in 2004. Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse, artistic director and principal conductor of the New England Symphonic Ensemble, is a violinist, pianist, composer, and conductor. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Boston University, and the Peabody Conservatory, Dr. Rittenhouse has performed as recitalist and soloist with orchestras throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, South Africa, and the West Indies. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the London Associate Board Overseas Award, the New York Concert Artists Guild Award, the International Music Guild Award, and the New York Madrigal Society Award. New England Symphonic Ensemble was organized more than two decades ago by Dr. Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse. Since 1982 the ensemble has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Africa, Russia, and Israel, and has performed frequently at Carnegie Hall under the auspices of MidAmerica Productions. Over the past 20 years, MidAmerica Productions has brought together conductors, choruses, soloists, and orchestral musicians for performances at some of the world's greatest venues, especially at New York's Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall. Under the guidance of MidAmerica's founder, Peter Tiboris, the company has presented over 750 concerts worldwide and more than 625 in New York at Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, and Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. More than 2115 American ensembles, representing each of the 50 states, have appeared with MidAmerica in New York, as have 75 symphonic and choral ensembles from Europe, the Far East, South America, and Canada. There have more than 300 guest conductors, 620 solo artists, and 88,000 performers who have appeared on MidAmerica's series in Carnegie Hall. In addition to presenting classic choral and instrumental works, MidAmerica Productions has championed the works of contemporary composers. On MidAmerica's series in Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, there have been approximately 31 World Premieres, 16 United States Premieres, and 50 New York Premieres. For more information about MidAmerica Productions, please contact Kathleen Drohan at 212-239-0205 or kdrohan@midamerica-music.com For Immediate Release April 6, 2005 New York, NY - MidAmerica Productions presents Armstrong Chamber Concerts on May 7th and The Waterville Trio on May 8th at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Saturday, May 7, 2:00 p.m. Armstrong Chamber Concerts Helen Armstrong, violin Louise Schulman, viola Wolfram Koessel, cello Carol Wincenc, flute Gerard Reuter, oboe Gerald Robbins, piano J.C. Bach: Quintet in D Major, Op. 11, No. 6 Bruce Adolphe: The Tiger's Ear (World Premiere) Brahms: Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 26 Sunday, May 8, 8:30 p.m. The Waterville Trio Hanna Lachert, violin Qiang Tu, cello Helene Jeanney, piano An All-Beethoven Program: Sonata in G Major for violin and piano, Op. 30, No. 2 Sonata in D Major for cello and piano, Op. 102, No. 2 Trio in E-flat Major for piano, violin and cello, Op. 70, No. 2 General admission tickets to Weill Recital Hall concerts are $35. Tickets may be obtained by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, by going online at www.carnegiehall.org, or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue. $15 tickets for students and seniors (with proper ID) are available at the Carnegie Box Office. Weill Recital Hall is located at 154 West 57th Street. For more information, call MidAmerica Productions at (212) 239-4699 or visit our web site at www.midamerica-music.com. Armstrong Chamber Concerts (ACC), a not-for-profit organization, founded in 1982 by Artistic Director Helen Armstrong, presents chamber music of the highest quality, featuring world-renowned artists. The aim of the organization is to broaden the public's interest in and knowledge of chamber music through performance and education. ACC presents a concert series from October through May in Greenwich and Washington, Connecticut, as well as performances for corporations and major clubs. ACC conducts its Music Enrichment Programs in schools throughout the state where these intensive programs are designed to enhance the present music curriculum and to create a deeper appreciation for music. Moreover, the organization participates in community events and benefits and also tours nationally and internationally. Helen Armstrong, violin, founder and artistic director of Armstrong Chamber Concerts, Inc., which includes concert series in Greenwich and Washington, Connecticut, and in New York City, is an international recitalist, soloist and chamber musician. Ms. Armstrong made her Lincoln Center debut in 1976 and was praised by a New York critic as a "total virtuoso, a true aristocrat of the violin." An active concert performer, she has appeared with such orchestras as the Boston Pops, Indianapolis Symphony, New Polish Philharmonic, and with the Martha Graham Dance Company. She has been a featured soloist with Skitch Henderson and toured North America, Europe, and Asia as a recitalist. Meyer Kupferman and Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Wernick have written works specifically for her. Ms. Armstrong continues an active concert career both here and abroad. She has recorded on the Musical Heritage, Elysium and CRS labels. Reflections, on Elysium label and the newest CD, Illusions, on CRS, which has just been released, are now available. Louise Schulman, viola, is a founding member and principal violist of St. Luke's Ensemble. She has also served as the Ensemble's associate music director for nearly 20 years. She performs on a variety of historical stringed instruments, including viol, lute, cittern, viola d'amore, vielle, and baroque-classical violin and viola. Ms. Schulman's recent solo recordings include Telemann concertos with St. Luke's on MusicMasters and the Vivaldi Concerto for viola d'amore and lute with Philharmonia Virtuosi on Essay. She can also be heard as a feature artist on chamber music recordings with St. Luke's for MusicMasters and with other ensembles and recording labels, including the Waverly Consort for CBS Masterworks, Folger Consort for Delos, with Anthony Newman for Columbia, Long Island Chamber Ensemble for Grenadilla, and as concertmaster on the baroque violin for Newport Classic and MMG. This past summer she served as principal violist of the Berkshire Opera. Wolfram Koessel, cello, has performed as soloist and chamber musician in concert halls throughout the world since his critically acclaimed Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 1994. Based in New York City, he appears with a number of ensembles, including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He performs onstage with the Mark Morris Dance Group and is its music coordinator. He has appeared with the Paul Taylor Dance Company. As a soloist, Mr. Koessel has performed with the Jupiter Symphony; New York Metamorphoses Orchestra, which he co-founded in 1994; the Mannes Orchestra; and the symphony orchestras of Cordoba, Mendoza, Costa Rica and Stuttgart. Mr. Koessel is on the faculty of the New York Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program and served until recently as cellist with the award-winning Meridian String Quartet. His performance of Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations was featured on WQXR's Young Artists Showcase. He also runs a weekly chamber music series on City Island called "Sundays on the Island." Carol Wincenc, one of today's international stars of the flute, has appeared as soloist with major orchestras around the world and has premiered works written for her by many of today's prominent composers. Ms. Wincenc has appeared with the St. Louis, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Houston and Seattle symphonies, among others, and the Mostly Mozart, Santa Fe, Spoleto, Caramoor and Marlboro music festivals. Equally in demand abroad, Ms. Wincenc has given acclaimed performances with the London Symphony, the English and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras and at numerous international music festivals. In great demand as a chamber musician, Ms. Wincenc has collaborated with the Guarneri, Emerson, Tokyo and Cleveland String Quartets and performed with such distinguished colleagues as Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Jessye Norman and Bella Davidovich. She has premiered and recorded Rouse's flute concerto with the Detroit Symphony and Henryk Gorecki's concerto cantata with the Chicago Symphony among many other works. Gerard Reuter, oboe, is a founding member of An Die Musik, of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and of Chelsea Chamber Ensemble, as well as being a member of the Dorian Wind Quintet. Mr. Reuter's has appeared at music festivals in the U.S. including Caramoor, Marlboro, LaJolla, Round Top, and the Chamber Music Festival of the Library of Congress; in Europe, at the Flanders and Dartington Festivals, as well as the International Musicians' Seminar at Prussia Cove. As a soloist, he has appeared in New York with the Jupiter Symphony, Soviet Emigre Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Virtuosi, and with the National Chamber Orchestra in Washington D.C. Mr. Reuter has been heard on major radio stations throughout the U.S. and Europe. He has recorded in concert for Sony, New World, Summit, Telarc, Columbia, Musical Heritage Society, and the Voice of America. Gerald Robbins, piano, has distinguished himself internationally as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician of poetic sensitivity and virtuosic technique. As a soloist with orchestra, he has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony and its affiliates, and the Royal Liverpool Symphony. In addition, Mr. Robbins' chamber music activities include collaborations with noted violinists Nathan Milstein, Pinchas Zukerman, Kyung-Wha Chung, Glenn Dicterow, and Ruggiero Ricci. Featured on numerous radio and television broadcasts, Robbins performed Rhapsody in Blue on the Emmy-winning Gershwin TV special starring Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme and was the featured pianist on the sound track for the Academy Award-winning British film, A Shocking Accident. He is co-founder of the Lyric Piano Quartet and is a member of the chamber music faculty of the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. The Waterville Trio is a part of the Waterville Valley Music Center (WVMC). The WVMC, founded in 1996 by David Segal, presents chamber music concerts and master classes of the highest quality in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire. Its members, with artistic co-directors Hanna Lachert and Yuval Waldman, are seasoned professionals with years of chamber music experience. The Waterville Trio has performed in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, with the Kosciuszko Foundation, and on radio broadcasts for WQXR. Hanna Lachert, violin, longtime player with the New York Philharmonic, member and artistic co-director of the Waterville Valley Music Center, has performed extensively throughout the world as an orchestral, chamber and solo musician. Since her enthusiastically received New York debut in 1972, Ms. Lachert has given concerts throughout Europe and the United States, including a nationally broadcast recital in Carnegie Hall and solo appearances with the NYP orchestra under Zubin Mehta. In her native Poland she has played with leading Polish orchestras in Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk, and Wroclaw. She has appeared on television and radio, including a feature in Roman Lasocki's television series Mistrzowie Wiolonistyki Polskiej ("Master Polish Violinists"); performed chamber music and conducted master classes throughout Asia, South America, and Europe; and judged international violin competitions. As a soloist, Ms. Lachert has recorded for Muza, Telarc, Spectrum, Arston, and Musika. Qiang Tu, cello, since immigrating to the United States from China in 1987, has established himself as a multi-faceted artist. In that year, he won the San Angelo, Texas, Symphony Young Artist Competition, and subsequently, the grand prize in the Downey Symphony Young Artist Competition of Los Angeles. In 1994, he served as principal cellist of the Princeton Chamber Symphony, and in 1995 joined the New York Philharmonic. Mr. Tu has toured the U.S. and Europe, and has performed annually with the Philharmonic Ensembles in New York's Merkin Concert Hall. In 1998, he gave a solo recital to benefit the Princeton Chamber Symphony, and also performed the Dvorák Cello Concerto with the Greater Princeton Symphony. Mr. Tu has performed in recital with pianist Helen Huang to benefit the New Jersey Chinese community. He has given master classes and a solo recital at National Sun Yat-sen University, and last year presented a solo recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Helene D. Jeanney, piano, a native of Paris, France, has performed throughout Europe, Russia, Australia, and the U.S. In France she has appeared at the Chopin Festival, Paris Summer Festival, International Festival of Radio France and Montpellier, International Festival of Young Soloists in Bordeaux, and in recitals sponsored by the Phillip Morris Association in Salle Gaveau, Opera Comique, Bosendorfer Center, and UNESCO. She has been a soloist with the Paris National Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, New World Symphony, and Indianapolis Symphony. Ms. Jeanney's partnership with cellist Hai Ye Ni has led to a number of recitals in London, Boston, and Washington, D.C. In New York, she has performed as a soloist and as a chamber musician at the Alliance Française in F. Gould Theatre, the United Nations Auditorium, Rockefeller University, and in Alice Tully, Merkin, and Weill Recital halls. Ms. Jeanney has received several top awards, including prizes in the Alfred Cortot Competition, Thomas Richner Competition, Chopin National Competition, New York Chopin Association, and first prize in the East and West Artists Audition for a New York debut recital in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Since 1989, MidAmerica Productions has produced over 200 chamber concerts in Weill Recital Hall, presenting some of the most exciting chamber musicians working today. For more information about this concert or MidAmerica Productions contact Kathleen Drohan at 212-239-0205 or visit www.midamerica-music.com. For Immediate Release April 4, 2005 New York, NY - MidAmerica Productions presents Michael Parloff and special guest artists at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Sunday, May 1, 8:30 PM. May 1, 8:30 PM Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall Michael Parloff & Friends Michael Parloff, flute Lawrence Dutton, viola Jerry Grossman, cello Timothy Cobb, bass Greg Zuber, marimba Warren Jones, piano Haydn: Trio in D Major for flute, cello, and piano, H. XV:16 Gareth Farr: Kembang Suling for flute and marimba Carl Vine: Sonata for flute and piano Schulhoff: Concertino for flute, viola, and bass Reinecke: Sonata for flute and piano ("Undine") Michael Parloff has been principal flutist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 1977 and is also heard regularly as recitalist and concerto soloist throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. His New York City appearances have included solo recitals at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, concerto appearances at Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and chamber music performances at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Morgan Library and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Mr. Parloff opened the MET Orchestra's Carnegie Hall concert season in October 2002 with a performance of Carl Nielsen's Concerto for Flute and Orchestra under the direction of James Levine. He has collaborated in New York City chamber music concerts with such noted artists as James Levine, Jessye Norman, James Galway, Peter Serkin, Dawn Upshaw, Thomas Hampson, Jaime Laredo, and the Emerson String Quartet. Mr. Parloff has recorded extensively with the Metropolitan Opera for Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, London, and Philips. He has recorded 20th-century chamber music for Gunmar, CRI, and Koch. His solo CD The Flute Album (ESS.A.Y CD1027) surveys 200 years of classic repertoire for the instrument. Lawrence Dutton, violist of the Emerson String Quartet, has collaborated with many of the world's great performing artists, including Isaac Stern, Mstislav Rostropovich, Oscar Shumsky, Walter Trampler, Menahem Pressler, Lynn Harrell, Yefim Bronfman, Joseph Kalichstein, Misha Dichter, Jan DeGaetani and Edgar Meyer among others. He has also performed as guest artist with numerous chamber music ensembles such as the Juilliard and Guarneri Quartets, the Beaux Arts Trio and the Kalichstein-Laredo- Robinson Trio. With the Beaux Arts Trio he recorded the Shostakovich Piano Quintet, Op. 57, and the Fauré G minor Piano Quartet, Op. 45, on the Philips label. His Aspen Music Festival recording with Jan DeGaetani for Bridge records was nominated for a 1992 Grammy Award. Mr. Dutton has appeared as soloist with many American and European orchestras including those of Germany, Belgium, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Colorado, and Virginia, among others. He has also appeared as guest artist at the music festivals of Aspen, Santa Fe, Ravinia and Chamber Music Northwest, and has collaborated with the late Isaac Stern in the International Chamber Music Encounters both at Carnegie Hall and in Jerusalem. Jerry Grossman has been the principal cellist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 1986. He has appeared in recital and with symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the United States. In 1979 he made his New York debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the following year performed the American premiere of Kurt Weill's 1920 Cello Sonata, which led to the recording of that work, as well as works by Dohnányi, Prokofiev, Bartók, and Kodály for Nonesuch Records. A long association with the Marlboro Music Festival, including numerous "Music from Marlboro" tours and recordings, figures prominently in Mr. Grossman's chamber music experience. He was founding cellist of both the Chicago String Quartet and the Chicago Chamber Musicians. Before assuming his position at the Metropolitan Opera, Mr. Grossman was a member of the Chicago Symphony for two seasons (1984-86) and the New York Philharmonic for two seasons (1974-76). Mr. Grossman is on the faculty of The Juilliard School and the Kneisel Hall summer chamber music school and festival in Blue Hill, Maine. Timothy Cobb, principal bass of the Met Orchestra, has collaborated with the Emerson Quartet, the Guarneri Quartet, the Leipzig Quartet, the Moscow and St. Lawrence Quartets, as well as the Eroica Trio. Other collaborations include: James Levine, Pinchas Zukerman, Yefim Bronfman, and numerous other artists from the chamber and solo stage. He appears on stages such as Bargemusic, the Bridgehampton Festival, Caramoor, Carnegie Hall, the Boston Chamber Music Society, the Lyric Chamber Music Society, the New Jersey Chamber Music Society, Mostly Mozart Festival, La Musica Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival, the 92nd Street Y, and the Great Performers at Lincoln Center as well as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He was for three consecutive summers the solo bassist for the Marlboro Music Festival and has appeared on tour with Musicians from Marlboro. He has also enjoyed frequent collaborations with Maestro Levine in the chamber setting, appearing regularly on the Met chamber series in Weill and Zankel Hall, including a 2003 performance of Schubert's "Trout" Quintet, rated one of the top ten musical events of the season by the New York Times. Greg Zuber is principal percussionist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and with its alter identities, the MET Orchestra and MET Chamber Ensemble. Prior to that he was principal percussionist with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. He can be heard on weekly international radio broadcasts, "Live From the Metropolitan Opera," as well as television broadcasts, and on many CD recordings and DVD and laser discs with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and MET Orchestra on the Sony, Deutsche Grammophon, and EMI recording labels. With the orchestra, he has toured throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. Mr. Zuber is an active soloist, recitalist, composer, and clinician, and performs regularly with Percussionists of the Met and his wife, flutist Patricia Zuber. He is a faculty member of The Juilliard School and the UBS Verbier Music Festival in Switzerland. In October of 2002 he premiered Legend composed for him by Hsueh-Yung Shen, for solo percussionist and orchestra at Carnegie Hall with James Levine and the MET Orchestra. Pianist Warren Jones frequently performs with many of today's best-known artists, including Barbara Bonney, Ruth Ann Swenson, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Denyce Graves, Stephanie Blythe, Håkan Hagegård, Bo Skovhus, Samuel Ramey, James Morris, John Relyea, and Joseph Alessi. In the past he has partnered such great singers as Marilyn Horne, Kathleen Battle, Carol Vaness, Judith Blegen, Tatiana Troyanos and Martti Talvela. Recent seasons have included his debut with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, performances with the Brentano, and an invitation to teach a master class at The Juilliard School under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation. Mr. Jones is a member of the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where highly gifted young artists work with him in a unique graduate degree program in collaborative piano. Each summer he teaches and performs at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California. For ten years he was Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and for three seasons served in the same capacity at San Francisco Opera. General admission tickets to Weill Recital Hall concerts are $35. Tickets may be obtained by calling CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, by going online at www.carnegiehall.org, or by visiting the Carnegie Hall Box Office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue. $15 tickets for students and seniors (with proper ID) are available at the Carnegie Box Office. Weill Recital Hall is located at 154 West 57th Street. For more information, call MidAmerica Productions at (212) 239-4699. Back to top  Back to What's New Table of Contents  Who We Are | Carnegie Hall | Weill Recital Hall Peter Tiboris Conducting Schedule Festival of the Aegean | Elysium Recordings, Inc. Press | Contact Us | Related Links | Site Map | Home
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