Fall 2011 Concert Program - Distinguished Artists Concert and

ARTISTS
Concer t & Lecture Series
photo by Peter Schaaf
F a l l 2 0 11 • S p r i n g 2 0 1 2
Aptos Community Foundation
distinguished
Sara Davis Buechner, pianist
26th Season
PIANIST
FILM DIRECTOR & PIANIST
SOHEIL NASSERI
ANTONIO ITURRIOZ
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA KREMLIN
PIANIST SARA
DAVIS BUECHNER
CADENZA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
HomeSpace — Your favorite furniture store in Santa Cruz!
2701 41st Avenue
Across from Best Buy
831-475-3200
Monday - Saturday 11 - 6
Closed Sunday
A P T O S C O M M U N I T Y F O U N D AT I O N
Executive & Artistic
Director
John Orlando
Graphics
Yasmine Nadel
Board of Directors
Rick Alloy
Susan Bruckner
Maydene Fisher
Winnie Johnsen
Aptos Community
Foundation
President
John Orlando
distinguished
ARTISTS
Concer t & Lecture Series
Dear Friend of the Distinguished Artists Concert & Lecture Series,
Now in its 26th year, the Distinguished Artists Concert & Lecture
Series is proud to offer another outstanding season of musical variety and
excellence for the whole family to enjoy.
Sincerely,
John Orlando
Executive & Artistic Director
www.distinguishedartists.org
Season Sponsor
Yamaha Peninsula
Music Center &
Yamaha Corporation of
America
DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS CONCERT & LECTURE SERIES 3
A
R
T
I
S
T
B
I
O
G
R
A
P
H
Y
Proclaimed as “one of New York’s most prolific recitalists by the New
York Times, since the fall of 2001, Soheil Nasseri gave twenty completely different solo recital programs in New York, all without repeating a single piece.
These concerts included 25 premières of contemporary works in addition to
28 of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas, a part of Mr. Nasseri’s pledge to perform
all of Beethoven’s works involving piano by the 250th anniversary of
Beethoven’s birth in 2020.
Mr. Nasseri made his European recital
debut in May 2004 at Teatro Massimo in
Palermo, Sicily. Since then, he has performed in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls: in addition to his regular New York concerts, he has recently
performed solo recitals or concerti in
Washington, Berlin, London, Florence,
Canada, Bucharest, Tehran (Iran), and
Kerman (Iran). As concerto soloist Mr.
Nasseri has appeared with conductors
Fabio del Cioppo, Justus Frantz, David
LaMarche, John Lopez, Edward Polochick, and Ormsby Wilkins.
In May and June 2010 he joined the American Ballet Theatre for eight
sold-out all-Chopin performances at the Metropolitan Opera House in New
York, playing an integral role onstage as a pianist—both acting and performing for one hour—in the John Neumeier ballet Lady of the Camellias.
Additionally, Mr. Nasseri performed a 10-minute solo-piano excerpt of this
ballet at the ABT season-opening Gala at the Metropolitan Opera, joining star
dancers Julie Kent and Roberto Bolle.
One of Soheil Nasseri’s foremost interests has been his inner-city public
school music education program. Mr. Nasseri has given concerts at more
than 60 public schools in the U.S. since 2003, with a combined audience of
about 25,000 students. Mr. Nasseri is also passionately committed to promoting new music of young classical composers and indeed many composers have written pieces specifically for him, including Richard
Danielpour, Avner Dorman, Hormoz Farhat, Martin Kennedy, Samir OdehTamimi, Haskell Small, Ronn Yedidia, Lev ‘Ljova’' Zhurbin, and Samuel
Zyman. As a recording artist he has 6 solo discs on the Naxos Centaur,
Mahoor, and 21st Century Classical labels.
Born to Iranian parents in Santa Monica, California, Soheil Nasseri began
studying the piano at the age of five and at the age of twenty moved to New
York to study intensively with the late Karl Ulrich Schnabel (1909–2001).
Following the death of Mr. Schnabel, Mr. Nasseri became a protégé of Jerome
Lowenthal who remains Mr. Nasseri’s mentor today, along with Claude
Frank.
Soheil Nasseri divides his time between residences in New York and
Berlin.
4 APTOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
D E D I C AT E D TO T H E M E M O RY O F E R N E S T T. ( B U D ) K R E T S C H M E R
Program 1
Sunday, October 9, 3 PM
Cabrillo College Music Recital Hall, VAPA 5001
Iranian Pianist
HORMOZ FARHAT
1929 -
ROBERT SCHUMANN
1810-1856
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
1810-1849
Soheil Nasseri
SONATA NO. 2 (2011) WEST COAST PREMIERE
I. ALLEGRETTO - VIVACE - MODERATO - VIVACE
II. LARGO CON MOLTO ESPRESSIONE E FLESSIBILITA
III. MOLTO ANIMATO
3 NOVELLETTES FROM OP. 21 (1838)
NO. 1 IN F MAJOR: MARKIERT UND KRÄFTIG
NO. 4 IN D MAJOR: BALLMÄßIG. SEHR MUNTER
NO. 6 IN A MAJOR: SEHR LEBHAFT MIT VIELEM HUMOR
FANTASY
IN
F MINOR, OP. 49 (1841)
Intermission
LUDWIG
BEETHOVEN
1770-1827
VAN
SONATA NO. 29 IN B-FLAT MAJOR, OP. 106
“GROßE SONATE FÜR DAS HAMMER-KLAVIER”
(1817-18)
I. ALLEGRO
II. SCHERZO: ASSAI VIVACE
III. ADAGIO SOSTENUTO
IV. ALLEGRO RISOLUTO
JOHN BAUER, PIANO TECHNICIAN
DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS CONCERT & LECTURE SERIES 5
OLLISION
ENTER
C
A
R
M
AT
C
C
1650
M A N S FI E LD
STR E E T
Sa n ta C ru z
464- 0338
ACROSS THE STREET FROM STAPLES
6 APTOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION


740 Front Street
Ste. 100



831 458-1212
www.cafemare.com
Full Bar • Weekend Brunch • Open Daily • Plenty of Parking
Rehearsal and Wedding Dinners
DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS CONCERT & LECTURE SERIES 7
Bay Federal Credit Union
445 Summit Road
Watsonville, CA 95076
408.846.4064
www.mountmadonna.org/cabrillo
Program 2
Saturday, November 5, 7:30 PM
Cabrillo College Erica Schilling Forum (450)
Film Director
Antonio Iturrioz
The Buddha of the Piano:
A DOCUMENTARY FILM ON THE LIFE OF THE
LEOPOLD GODOWSKY
LEGENDARY PIANIST
Antonio Iturrioz bio see Page 10
103 L OCUST S TREET, S ANTA C RUZ
831 425 2222
DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS CONCERT & LECTURE SERIES 9
A
R
T
I
S
T
B
I
O
G
R
A
P
H
Y
Antonio Iturrioz was born in Cuba and came to
the United States when he was 7 years old. He
played his first concert at age 9 and made his
orchestral debut at age 15 playing the Liszt First
Piano Concerto. His teachers include his father,
Pablo Iturrioz, Francisco De Hoyos (a pupil of
Gyorgi Sandor), Bernardo Segall who studied with
Alexander Siloti who was a pupil of Liszt, Aube
Tzerko and Julian White. In 1971 he took several
master classes from Byron Janis. In 1972 he
attended and played at the Aspen Music Festival.
In 1973 he was one of ten young pianists selected
nationwide by Andre Watts to participate in the
Andre Watts Piano Seminars at Tanglewood. He is
a recipient of the Los Angeles Young Musicians
Foundation Scholarship.
Iturrioz has produced two one of a kind musical documentaries: The first is called The Art of the Left Hand: A Brief History
of Left Hand Piano Music, which appeared in 2006 to critical acclaim and has
been shown on PBS. Pianist Jon Nakamatsu called the film, “great for musicians and non-musicians alike.“ A second film followed in 2010, the inspiration coming from the central figure of the Left Hand film – Leopold
Godowsky. The Buddha of the Piano: Leopold Godowsky is the first and only
film about Godowsky and has been shown on PBS and at the Portland
International Piano Festival in Oregon. Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin said of
this film: “Antonio Iturrioz has performed a wonderful service to music lovers
in general and pianophiles in particular…”.
Concert pianist-filmmaker, Mr. Iturrioz continues to play recitals and show
his films in the U. S. and in Europe. He lives with his wife in the Russian River
area of Sonoma County, California, and teaches privately in Sonoma and
Napa Counties. For more information
please visit his website:
www.theartofthelefthand.com.
10 APTOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Program 3
Sunday, November 6, 3 PM
Cabrillo College Music Recital Hall, VAPA 5001
Cuban Pianist
J.S. Bach 1685-1750
ARRANGED BY LEOPOLD GODOWSKY
ROBERT SCHUMANN 1810-1856
ARRANGED BY GODOWSKY
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN 1810-1849
FRANZ LISZT
1811-1886
ARIA
Antonio Iturrioz
FROM
VIOLIN PARTITA NO. 3
SONG, “A FLOWER
TO
ME THOU SEEMEST”
ETUDE, OP. 25, NO. 1, AEOLIAN HARP
LEGEND NO. 2, ST. FRANCIS
WALKING ON THE WAVES
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN 1810-1849
ETUDE, OP. 25, NO. 7
JOHANN STRAUSS 1825-1899
Leopold GODOWSKY
SYMPHONIC METAMORPHOSES
ARTIST’S LIFE WALTZES
ARRANGED BY
OF
PAUL
ON THE
Intermission
Alexander Scriabin
1872-1915
CHARLES SEPOS
SONOMA COUNTY COMPOSER
NOCTURNE
FOR THE
LEFT HAND ALONE
TANGO BLUE
ROBERT SCHUMANN
1810-1856
SCENES
L. M. GOTTSCHALK
1829-1869
EL COCOYE
FROM
CHILDHOOD, OP. 15
JOHN BAUER, PIANO TECHNICIAN
DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS CONCERT & LECTURE SERIES 11
A
R
T
I
S
T
B
I
O
G
R
A
P
H
I
E
S
Misha Rachlevsky’s lifetime
affinity for chamber music and
chamber orchestra repertoire
began at the College of the
Moscow Conservatory and the
Gnessin Academy of Music.
Born in Moscow, his violin
studies began at the age of five
and continued through the
well-traveled path of the
Russian school of string playing. After leaving the Soviet
Union in 1973, he lived and
worked in different countries on three continents, and in 1976 settled in the
United States, becoming active in the field of chamber music.
Mr. Rachlevsky founded the New American Chamber Orchestra (NACO) in
1984, and led it to international prominence, completing nine European tours in
four years. In 1989, Rachlevsky accepted an offer from the city of Granada,
Spain—a two-year project under which NACO became the resident orchestra of
Granada while, concurrently, Rachlevsky founded and led Granada's own chamber orchestra.
In 1991, in the heady aftermath of Moscow's momentous events, Misha
Rachlevsky found it impossible to resist an opportunity presented by Swiss company Claves, to record Russian works for this label. When Claves concurred with
his suggestion to realize the project with Russian musicians, Rachlevsky called
auditions, and Chamber Orchestra Kremlin was created. The success of these
recordings and the initial concerts and tours, led to turning this formation into a
permanent, full time ensemble. The orchestra celebrates its 20th anniversary in
the 2011-12 season.
Chamber Orchestra Kremlin
Since its formation in the late 1991 in Moscow, the orchestra has performed over
1400 concerts -- nearly 600 in Moscow, the rest on tours in 24 countries of
Europe, North and South America and the Far East. The orchestra has recorded
over 30 CDs, receiving widespread international acclaim and awards such as the
Diapason d'Or in France, Critics Choice in London's Gramophone and in the
New York Times, Record of the Year in Hong Kong and others. Of about 900
compositions in the orchestra's repertoire over 20 were written especially for the
orchestra by composers from Russia, Europe and the USA.
Continued on Page 14
12 APTOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Program 4
Saturday, February 4, 8 PM
Cabrillo College Crocker Theatre
Chamber Orchestra Kremlin
Director Misha Rachlevsky
Piano Solist Sara Davis Buechner
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
1756-1791
DIVERTIMENTO
(1772)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
1756-1791
MOZART PIANO CONCERTO NO. 13,
K. 415
IN
D
MAJOR,
K. 136
ALLEGRO
ANDANTE
ALLEGRO
SARA DAVIS BUECHNER,
ANTONIN DVORAK
1841-1904
Intermission
PIANO SOLO
SERENADE FOR STRINGS
OP. 22 (1875)
MODERATO
TEMPO DI VALSE
SCHERZO: VIVACE
LARGHETTO
FINALE: ALLEGRO VIVACE
IN
E
MINOR,
//////////, PIANO TECHNICIAN
DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS CONCERT & LECTURE SERIES 13
A
R
T
I
S
T
B
I
O
G
R
A
P
H
Y
Continued from Page 12
Sara Davis Buechner enjoys a vibrant
international performance and recording career
as a musician of “intelligence, integrity and allencompassing technical prowess” (New York
Times), “fascinating and astounding virtuosity”
(Philippine Star), and “thoughtful artistry in the
full service of music” (Washington Post). She
established her early career as inner of a bouquet of prizes at the world’s great piano competitions, including the Gold Medal of the 1984
Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition,
and a Bronze Medal in the 1986 Tschaikowsky
International Piano Competition in Moscow.
With an active repertoire of over 100 piano
concertos ranging from Bach to Wuorinen, she
has appeared as soloist with many of the world’s prominent orchestras:
New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, San Francisco, Vancouver, the
CBC Radio Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic, Birmingham (U.K.), BBC
Philharmonic, Kuopio (Finland), Slovak Philharmonic and the Orquesta
Sinfónica de Castilla y León (Spain). The New York Times greeted CD
of piano music by Rudolf Friml as a “revelation,” and devoted the front
page of its Sunday Arts & Leisure section to her 1997 world première
recording of the Bach-Busoni “Goldberg” Variations. Ms. Buechner’s
versatility extends to many premières of new music, and collaborations
with film and dance projects.
A former faculty member of New York University, she has presented lectures and masterclasses worldwide. Now a Canadian resident,
Sara Davis Buechner is Associate Professor of Music at the University
of British Columbia School in Vancouver. She is a principal classical
music consultant to Dover Publications, and plays the Yamaha Piano
exclusively.
14 APTOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Program 5
Sunday, February 5, 3 PM
Cabrillo College Crocker Theatre
Pianist
Sara Davis Buechner
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
1732 - 1809
CARL MARIA VON WEBER
1786 - 1826
JOAQUIN TURINA
1882 - 1949
GEORGE GERSHWIN
1898 - 1937
SONATA IN E FLAT
ALLEGRO
ADAGIO
FINALE (PRESTO)
MAJOR
HOB. XVI:52
SONATA IN C MAJOR OP. 24
ALLEGRO
ADAGIO
MENUETTO (ALLEGRO) - TRIO (POCO
RONDO (PERPETUUM MOBILE)
RITENUTO)
Intermission
DANZAS GITANAS (TEN GYPSY DANCES)
BOOK I, OP. 55
ZAMBRA
DANZA DE LA SEDUCCION
DANZA RITUAL
GENERALIFE
SACROMONTE
BOOK II, OP. 84
FIESTA DE LAS CALDERAS
CIRCULOS RITMICOS
INVOCACION
DANZA RITMICA
SEGURIYA
FOXTROTS
DO - DO - DO
NOVELETTE IN FOURTHS
KICKIN’ THE CLOUDS AWAY
TRANSCRIBED FROM PLAYER
PIANO ROLLS AND
ACOUSTIC RECORDINGS
//////////, PIANO TECHNICIAN
DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS CONCERT & LECTURE SERIES 15
Back Pain & Sciatica Clinic
9
9
9
9
9
Low Back Pain
Neck Pain
Herniated Disc
Bulged Disc
Sciatica
Clinic director Dr. John Falkenroth,
D.C. has been in practice for 11 years and
has treated over 2,000 patients with low
back pain, neck pain, herniated disc,
bulged disc and sciatica. He uses the
computerized treatment that impressed
doctors from Mayo Clinic, Stanford and
Johns Hopkins.
“I have had a lot of pain in my lower
back and neck. Dr. Falkenroth has
worked wonders for me over the last
couple of months. I recommend people
that have back problems to him all the
time. I went to see about five other
doctors before finding Dr. Falkenroth,
all with some results, but not with the
results that Dr. Falkenroth has given
me. I am very happy that I found him
when I did. He’s very, very good at
what he does. He’s also a person who
really cares about his patients….”
Mark W., Aptos
Located at 2959 Park Avenue, Suite F in Soquel
(corner of Park Avenue and Soquel Drive - above Bay Photo Lab)
For a FREE Consultation, call 831-475-8600.
See treatments in action at www.repairmyback.com.
space
hold
16 APTOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
open 6am-3pm, closed Sunday
2650 Soquel
Santa Cruz
95065
openDr.,
6am-3pm,
closed
Sunday
831
475-2725
2650 Soquel Dr., Santa Cruz 95065
831 475-2725
831•457•1677
910 Cedar Street
Santa Cruz
CA 95060
www.gabriellacafe.com
DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS CONCERT & LECTURE SERIES 17
A
R
T
I
S
T
B
I
O
G
R
A
P
H
I
E
S
Maya Barsacq is the founder and conductor of Cadenza (formerly The Santa
Cruz Chamber Orchestra), now in it's sixth season. An ardent and dedicated
advocate of classical music and especially contemporary classical music,
Barsacq has strived to champion new compositions since the inception of the
orchestra. She has conducted Two world Premieres, Six US Premieres and
Three West Coast Premieres with Cadenza. She also works as a freelance
music director, conducting opera, and musical theater pieces. Barsacq is a
strong advocate of music education and appreciation in and out of the classroom. She also hosts a radio show - The Aeolian Impromptu - on KUSP and
is the proud recipient of the 2005 Gail Rich Award for her dedication to the
arts.
Violinist Rebecca Jackson hailed as "riveting" by The San Francisco Examiner,
Korean-American Rebecca Jackson, is a native of California. Ms. Jackson
received her B.M. from The Juilliard School and a graduate degree from UC
Santa Cruz where she studied with Roy Malan. In 2008,
she founded Music in May (Mim), an annual chamber
music festival in Santa Cruz. Next season Mim celebrates
its 5th anniversary (www.musicinmay.org). She is member
of the Cabrillo Music Festival and Sarasota Opera
Orchestra and regularly performs with the San Francisco
Opera & Ballet. Always looking for a good cause, Ms.
Jackson has performed in numerous benefit concerts that
have raised a total exceeding $100,000. Rebecca has produced an album with Emmy Award Winning composer
John Wineglass entitled "Love Songs", available on Itunes
and CD Baby. January 2012 they travel to Haiti to help
support the relief efforts through their music. Ms. Jackson's
acting and original composition was featured April 2010
at Exit Theater (San Francisco) in the production, "The
Wind and Rain." In addition to being an age group triathlete, she served as
Miss Santa Cruz County 2005.
John Orlando graduated summa cum laude with a
Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in performance
from the University of Southern California. His
teachers there were John Crown and Alice Ehlers.
He has also worked with Dorothy Taubman, Edna
Golandsky, Sergei Babayan, John Perry, Gyorgy
Sandor, Pawel Skrzypek, Halida Dinova and
Helene Wickett.
In 1968 Dr. Orlando was chosen first prize winner in the “Young Artist’s Competition” sponsored
by the Fresno Philharmonic Association. In 1986
he gave the world premiere of the Concerto for
18 APTOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Continued on Page 20
Program 6
Saturday, March 31, 8 PM
First Congregational Church, Santa Cruz
Cadenza
Director Maya Barsaq
Violinist Rebecca Jackson Pianist John Orlando
Rekindling the Spirit of the Age of Enlightenment
LUDWIG
BEETHOVEN
1770-1827
VAN
ANICA GALINDO
b. 1981
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
1756-1791
ROMANCES I AND II
REBECCA JACKSON, VIOLIN
SOLO
TRINITAS
MOZART PIANO CONCERTO NO. 15,
MAJOR, K. 450
IN
B FLAT
ALLEGRO
ANDANTE
ALLEGRO
JOHN ORLANDO,
PIANO SOLO
This event has been funded,
in part, from a grant from the
Cultural Council of Santa
Cruz County
//////////, PIANO TECHNICIAN
DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS CONCERT & LECTURE SERIES 19
Continued from page 18
Piano and Winds, written for him by New York composer, Anthony Newman. During
the Spring and Summer of 1997 Dr. John Orlando premiered piano works written for
him by Anthony Newman and George Barati on an international tour with performances in the United States, Australia, Italy, and Brazil.
He has performed with the San Jose, Santa Cruz County and Fresno Symphonies,
the Cabrillo Festival, and the Institute for the Development of Intercultural Relations
for the Arts in Santa Cruz. He is a founding member of the Johannes Trio and in 2005
toured California with the Akademos Quartet in a performance of the Shostakovich
Piano Quintet. In February 2010 Dr. Orlando performed concertos by Mozart with
the San Francisco Sinfonietta at Cabrillo College and at Herbst Hall in San Francisco.
Dr. Orlando has held teaching positions at the Universities of Southern California
and Santa Clara. Dr. Orlando is instructor emeritus from Cabrillo College where he
was head of the piano department for over a 30 years. Dr. Orlando is the director of
the Distinguished Artists Concert & Lecture Series which he founded in 1984, and
the current president of the Aptos Community Foundation. He was one of the first
recipients of the Gail Rich Award for community service in the Arts in Santa Cruz
County and was chosen Best College Teacher and Best Performer in Santa Cruz
County by the Good Times Weekly local newspaper.
Ristorante Avanti
831-427-0135
20 APTOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
www.ristoranteavanti.com
Saturday, March 31, 2 PM
Panel Discussion
(Preconcert talk by Don Adkins, 7pm)
Cabrillo College Music Recital Hall, VAPA
5001
URS
SAN FRANCISCO SINFONIETTA
LEONHARDT STEINER, MUSIC DIRECTOR &
CONDUCTOR
Rekindling the Spirit of the
Age of Enlightenment
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
zaneen ad 1/2 page
1756 – 1791
Ristorante Avanti
831-427-0135
www.ristoranteavanti.com
Ballet School for first printing only.
DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS CONCERT & LECTURE SERIES 23
You are Listening to the
Yamaha CFX Grand Piano
Developed over a 19-year span and created with input from some of the world’s
finest professional pianists, Yamaha CFX Series concert pianos are becoming the
performance choice for musicians worldwide. With beautiful sound and premium
quality, Yamaha pianos are also the choice for their homes and studios.
8 6 1 S . W I N C H E S T E R B LV D. , S A N J O S E , YA M A H A P E N I N S U L A . C O M