Guest Artist Recital: Sheila Browne, viola David

 Guest Artist Recital:
Sheila Browne, viola
and
David Kalhous, piano
“The Viola in my Life”
January 13, 2013 – 7:30 p.m.
Barness Recital Hall
USF School of Music
Tampa, FL
Program
The Viola in my Life, No. 3 ................................ Morton Feldman
for viola and piano (1970)
Selections from Játékok (Games) for solo piano .... György Kurtág
Fanfares
(b. 1926)
Doina
Little Squall
Sirens of the Deluge – Waiting for Noah
Grassblades in memory of Klára Martyn
Elif Dedim, be Dedim (2000) ................................. Hasan Ucarsu
Lachrymae
(Reflections on a song of John Dowland) , Op. 48... Benjamin Britten
- Intermission Divertimento.................................... Joseph Haydn- Piatagorsky
I. Adagio
II. Menuett
III. Allegro di molto
Sonate fuer Bratsche und Klavier (1939) .......... Paul Hindemith
I.
II.
III.
IV.
Breit. Mit Kraft.
Sehr lebhaft
Phantasie
Finale (mit zwei Variationen)
Biographies
Violist Sheila Browne has performed in many of the world’s major halls as soloist,
chamber musician, and as an orchestral principal. Hailed by the New York Times as
a "stylish player" and by Robert Mann as "one of America's most important violists",
Sheila has soloed with the Juilliard Orchestra, Kiev Philharmonic, New World
Symphony, in Carnegie Hall with the New York Women's Ensemble, South African
International Viola Congress Festival Orchestra, and the Viva Vivaldi!, Reina Sofia
and German-French chamber orchestras, among others. She is a member of the
newly formed, dynamic flute-viola-harp Fire Pink Trio. She has recorded concerto,
solo and chamber works for the Nonesuch, Sony, Albany, Centaur and ERM labels,
and has premiered a concerto written for her at the most recent international viola
congresses in Australia and South Africa. The only viola finalist in the
2004 International Pro Musicis Solo Awards at Carnegie Hall, Sheila is a graduate of
the Juilliard School, MusikHochschule Freiburg and Rice University. She was Karen
Tuttle's teaching assistant for four years as an undergraduate at Juilliard, a German
Academic Exchange (DAAD), full-scholarship student of Kim Kashkashian, and Paul
Katz was her quartet mentor. She has been a member of the Arianna, Gotham
and Pellegrini string quartets, and has performed in many festivals including Banff,
Donaueschingen, Evian, Great Lakes, Jeunesses Musicales, Kneisel Hall, Music
Academy of the West, Port Townsend, Sun Valley, Viva Virginia!, and Tanglewood.
She has given recitals and /or masterclasses at many schools, including Eastman,
McGill, Oberlin, Duke, and Boston University. She is an Artist- Professor at
the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, teaching boarding high school,
undergraduate and graduate students and has also served on the faculty of New
York University. She was elected to the Executive Board of the American Viola
Society, and is the first viola professor ever to teach in Iraqi Kurdistan at the National
Youth Orchestra of Iraq. She also teaches at the Montecito International Music
Festival, and the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. She has played
chamber music concerts with Shmuel Ashkenazy, Miriam Fried, Gilbert Kalish, Paul
Katz, Anton Kuerti, Ruth Laredo, Audra Macdonald, Joe Robinson, Arnold
Steinhardt, Richard Stolzman, and Carol Wincenc, among others. Recent concerts
have included solo appearances at the International Viola Congress 2012 at the
Eastman School playing her new transcription of the Prokofiev Cello Sonata, and a
chamber tour of Alaska. Upcoming solo performances include playing Bartok
Concerto with the Hungarian Radio Symphony, and a trip to Turkey for the UNCSA's
Kenan Institute's Art/Islam project. Her latest CD was just released to critical acclaim
on the Bridge label featuring Joan Tower's newly written Rising flute quintet with
Carol Wincenc, recently chosen as CD of the month by Minnesota Public Radio.
David Kalhous is increasingly gaining recognition in Europe and the United States
for his elegant musicianship, brilliant pianism, probing intelligence, and adventurous
programming. With wide-ranging repertoire spanning three centuries, he is equally
at home with music of Scarlatti and Bach, Beethoven and Chopin, and Ligeti and
Feldman. In demand both as soloist and chamber musician, David Kalhous has
recently performed Beethoven's Third and Fifth Piano Concerti with the Czech
Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra and appeared both as soloist and chamber
musician at Northwestern University in Chicago, Czech Radio's Studio Live Concert
Series, Bertramka Concert Series in Prague, and Beethoven Festival in North
Bohemia. He attended the Gilmore Keyboard Festival as a Gilmore Fellow. He
appeared recently as a soloist with Prague Philharmonia, Israel Symphony
Orchestra and Moravian Philharmonic. David Kalhous's debut solo recital at the
Prague Spring Festival received critical acclaim, and he has been invited to present
solo recitals at Prague Symphony Orchestra's World Piano Literature recital series,
Bargemusic and Bechstein Piano Center in New York City, Czech Philharmonic
Chamber Music Society, Konvergence New Music Series in Prague, and Czech
Center in Brussels, to name a few. His recent collaborations with orchestras included
a performance of Brahms' D Minor concerto with the North Bohemia Symphony
Orchestra and Mendelssohn’s Double Concerto for Violin and Piano with the Plzeň
Philharmonic Orchestra.
David Kalhous has also appeared as a soloist with the Prague Symphony Orchestra
FOK, Chamber Philharmonia Pardubice, West-Bohemia Symphony Orchestra, and
Musici de Praga among others and has worked with such conductors as Libor
Pešek, Eli Jaffe, Leoš Svárovský, Stanislav Vavřínek and Marián Valčuha. He has also
made various recordings for the Czech Radio and Television. In addition, David
Kalhous was the author and host of a series of radio programs devoted to music for
piano and its interpretation that were produced and broadcast by the radio
station Classic FM in Prague. Czech Television's Channel 2 showed a documentary
film about David Kalhous, and his new CD featuring complete piano works of Leoš
Janáček (which he recently performed in New York City) will be released next year.
David Kalhous's interest in new music has resulted in close collaboration with many
European and American composers who have written works expressly for him. He
has performed with and under the auspices of the Northwestern University
Contemporary Music Ensemble (György Ligeti Memorial Concert, Steve Reich
Celebration, American premiere of Peter Ablinger's 6 Linien), and presented
numerous contemporary music recitals in New York, Chicago, and several
European cities. He was the first pianist to present recently the first book of György
Ligeti's piano Études and Morton Feldman's For Bunita Marcus in Prague. David
Kalhous is cooperating on several projects with Konvergence Composers
Association in Prague, with SoundField, a Philadelphia-based new and
experimental music organization, and Ear To Mind, a New York-based organization
dedicated to the promotion of new music. A new recording project slated for
release in the 2013/2014 season, “Piano Music from Prague,” will feature newly
commissioned pieces by six leading Czech composers, written specifically for David
Kalhous. This coming season, he will also perform the piano concerti by György
Ligeti and John Cage.
David Kalhous began his professional studies at the Prague Conservatory as a
student of Jaroslav Čermák. His attended such institutions as Hochschule für Musik
und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel-Aviv
University, Yale University, and studied with Paul Badura Skoda, Emil Leichner, Victor
Derevianko, David Northington, and Peter Frankl. He also worked with Jerome
Lowenthal at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. David Kalhous is
completing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Northwestern University in Chicago,
working with Ursula Oppens. In the 2009/10 academic year, he served as a full-time
professor of piano at Texas Tech University School of Music and a Visiting Faculty
Member of the Texas Tech University Graduate School. He is currently an Assistant
Professor of Piano at Florida State University College of Music.
Upcoming School of Music Events:
USF Faculty Recital: John Robison, Lute
Sunday, Jan. 20, 2012 4:00 pm, Barness Recital Hall
Tickets available at the door only, 1 hour prior to performance
$7 Adults/$5 Students & Seniors
USF music professor John Robison will present a program of solo music for
the Renaissance lute, the Baroque theorbo, and the Baroque archlute; he
will be joined by guest artist Maggie Coleman for some English and Italian
lute songs.
Steinway Piano Series: Vassily Primakov
Sunday, Jan. 27, 2012 4:00 pm, USF Concert Hall
Advance Tickets: $8 Students/Seniors, $12 Adults
Day of Performance: $10 Students/Seniors, $15 Adults
Steinway Piano Series presents Russian pianist Vassily Primakov. After his
unforgettable recital last season, Mr. Primakov returns with an "All-Chopin
Program"
Guest Artist Recital: Dennis AsKew, Tuba
Sunday, Jan. 27, 2012 7:30 pm, Barness Recital Hall
Advance Tickets: $8 Students/Seniors, $12 Adults
Day of Performance: $10 Students/Seniors, $15 Adults
Dennis W. AsKew currently serves as Professor of Tuba, Euphonium and
Music Education and Director of Athletic Bands at UNC Greensboro. Dr.
AsKew has been active as a performer, having given solo performances
throughout the United States, Hungary, Canada, Italy, Finland, Australia
and the Netherlands, as well as numerous concerts throughout the United
States and China as a member of the Market Street Brass Quintet.
For additional information and to purchase tickets, visit music.arts.usf.edu
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