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From the United States to Europe to the Middle East
and Asia, Israeli cellist Amit Peled, a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence, is
acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists
on the concert stage today.
Mr. Peled has performed as a soloist with many
orchestras and in the world’s major concert halls such
as: Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall, New York; Salle
Gaveau, Paris; Wigmore Hall, London; Konzerthaus,
Berlin; and Tel Aviv’s Mann Auditorium. Following his
enthusiastically received Alice Tully Hall concerto
debut playing the Hindemith cello concerto, the New
York Times described his, “lowing tone, a seductive
timbre and an emotionally pointed approach to phrasing that made you want to hear him again.”
During the 2011–12 season, Mr. Peled embarked on an extensive
concerto debut tour in the US and Germany with the Nordwest
Philharmonie, performing both Shostakovich Concerto No. 1 and
Victor Herbert’s Cello Concerto, visiting nineteen different cities.
Moreover, Peled joined the legendary Krzysztof Penderecki for his
cello concerto in Chicago’s Millennium Park; performed the Elgar and
Shostakovich concertos with Maestro Michael Stern and the IRIS
Orchestra; performed Haydn’s C Major Cello Concerto with Nicola
Luisotti and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra; and, performed the
Schumann Concerto with the Israel Chamber Orchestra. After an
enthusiastic recital debut at the Kennedy Center, Mr. Peled will return
to that prestigious stage in the 2012–13 season.
As a recording artist, Mr. Peled will release his third Centaur
Records CD “Reflections” in the summer of 2012. Mr. Peled’s previous
two CDs, “The Jewish Soul” and “Cellobration” (Centaur Records),
have received critical acclaim.
Mr. Peled is also a frequent guest artist, performing and giving master classes at prestigious summer music festivals such as the Marlboro
Music Festival, Newport Music Festival, Seattle Chamber Music
Festival, Heifetz International Music Institute, Schleswig Holstein and
Euro Arts Festivals in Germany, Gotland Festival in Sweden, Prussia
Cove Festival in England, The Violoncello Forum in Spain, and the
Mizra International Academy and Festival in Israel.
Amit Peled has been featured on television and radio stations
throughout the world, including NPR’s “Performance Today,” WGBH
Boston, WQXR New York, WFMT Chicago, Deutschland Radio Berlin,
Radio France, Swedish National Radio & TV, and Israeli National Radio
& TV. One of the most sought after cello pedagogues, Mr. Peled is a
Professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins
University.
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Program 4
Sunday, March 17, 3 PM
Cabrillo College Music Recital Hall (VAPA 5001)
Amit Peled, Cello / Alon Goldstein, Piano
BEETHOVEN
1770-1827
VARIATIONS FOR CELLO & PIANO IN
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"BEI MÄNNERN," WOO 46
THEMA. ANDANTE
VARIATION 1.
VARIATION 2.
VARIATION 3.
VARIATION 4.
VARIATION 5.
SI PRENDRE IL TEMPO UN POCO PÌU VIVO
VARIATION 6. ADAGIO
VARIATION 7. ALLEGRO MA NON TROPPO CODA
JOHANNES BRAHMS
1833-1897
SONATA IN F NO. 2 FOR CELLO AND
PIANO, OP. 99
ALLEGRO VIVACE
ADAGIO AFFETTUOSO IN F-SHARP MAJOR[2]
ALLEGRO PASSIONATO IN F MINOR[2]
ALLEGRO MOLTO
LUDWIG
VAN
Intermission
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
1810-1849
SONATA FOR CELLO AND PIANO IN
G MINOR, OP. 65
I. ALLEGRO MODERATO
II. SCHERZO
III. LARGO
IV. FINALE. ALLEGRO
JOHN BAUER, PIANO TECHNICIAN
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Alon Goldstein began the 2010-11 season with return
engagements to the International Keyboard Festival Master
Series in New York, Tannery Pond Concerts, and at the prestigious Ravinia festival. He made debut recitals at the
LACMA museum in Los Angeles as well as the Bouffes-duNord Theatre in Paris and went on his first recital tour in
China and Guatemala celebrating the bicentenary of Chopin
and Schumann. Other important concerts include the noted
recital series Hurstwood Farm in England and the Chopin Society in St Paul. This past
season he also made his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and
Vladimir Jurowski. Upcoming highlights of his 2011-12 season include his debut
recital at the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, a tour with the Tokyo String
Quartet, his debut with the Philharmonique de Radio France Orchestra as well as
return engagements to the New Haifa Symphony with Yoel Levi, the Vermont
Symphony with Jaime Laredo, and the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in
Bucharest to name only a few.
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INTERVIEW WITH CELLIST AMIT PELED
by Peggy Pollard
JAN 2, 2012 “I felt I’m disturbing it, in a way, like waking up an old man” said
Amit Peled to his audience, as he drew his bow across the strings of the antique
cello. It was a famous cello. His audience was a woman — a very sophisticated,
83-year-old woman.
Amit had grown up on a farm in Israel, a countryside kibbutz “in the middle of
nowhere.” At age 10, his dream in life was to play basketball, not music, until his
father brought him cassette tapes of this particular cello’s sounds. And not only he,
but a generation of musicians have grown up on this one cello’s enchanting voice,
had found their heart inspiration from its mesmerizing tones. So now he found himself in front of this woman. A friend of his had arranged this private audition with the
lady in her home because he thought “she should hear you.”
First, for two hours, she listened intently to Amit perform on his own cello.
Although he is a music professor at The Johns Hopkins University and world class
soloist, the woman turned his audition into a music lesson, giving him helpful critique, punctuated with pauses for conversation and glasses of wine.
She was Marta Casals Istomin, director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The cello had belonged to the woman’s husband, now dead these 40 years.
It was a 1733 Goffriller, acquired in 1913 — 100 years ago — by her husband,
Pablo Casals, the most famous cellist of the last century and probably of all time. So
it was on the cello’s 100th anniversary that Marta listened to this young cellist play it.
Alongside her husband Pablo, and after his death, Marta has herself become a
global arts legend, a world-renowned leader for arts, director of many festivals and
top-level international performance institutions.
“I was a little nervous at first,” Peled recalls. “She’s such a legend, a very formal
and classy lady, both in music and entrepreneurship. She has been everywhere. But
she is very honest as a musician. She cares about how you make a phrase convey
musicality.”
And after two hours, she was satisfied. She had found the right heir for her husband’s legacy. That day she bestowed upon Peled her husband’s famous cello, on a
long-term loan for him to perform for world audiences.
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“I never dreamed it was possible. I couldn’t believe it!” he recalls.
She watched Peled’s hands caressing the antique, gleaming wood,
burnished by her husband’s hands for 60 years. She watched as Peled
drew his bow across its strings with the delicacy of a brain surgeon, his
touch sensing the perfect amount of pressure to make tones that cut into
their minds with a razor-sharp blade of sound.
It is a huge historical legacy he has inherited. As a young musician,
Pablo Casals played before Johannes Brahms (yes, that lullaby guy!).
And now Casal’s instrument is in Peled’s hands, for him to carry as a
musical torch to the next generation of listeners.
“The cello’s special sound is more like a human voice than other cellos,” he explains.”It shapes words with its music; it suggests colors to you
that you didn’t know existed. It’s a more sophisticated tool, like a handcrafted Rolls Royce instead of a Toyota.”
He feels the weight of more than 100 years of music on his shoulders.
“It’s a lot of responsibility” he says with an incredulous laugh. His new
mission in life -- to tour internationally with the cello bringing “its link of
music history to as many people in the world as possible” until his few
years with it are up. Then it will be put in a glass box in a museum in
Madrid, to be admired but no longer played, he explained.
So until then, he’s bringing its sounds back life for global audiences.
Since receiving Casal’s Gofriller cello in July, Peled has already played
it for thousands of people in concerts from San Francisco to Istanbul.
“This winter I’ll be driving a long way in the Midwest, so I debated
bringing it” Peled says. “But for the time I have it, I need to make sure as
many people hear it as I can.”
Two weeks ago Peled performed with it in D.C. Casals Istomin was in
the audience. She was still smiling at the end. “It couldn’t be in better
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pianists of the 21st century” and his performance at
the BBC Proms was described by the publication as
“sublime.” The International Record Review stated
that his Rachmaninov recording “confirms him as
one of the most important pianistic talents of our
time” and commented on his 6th solo CD of works
by Haydn, “one can only marvel at the flawless
technique, unfailing musicianship and highly
informed opinion of his own extensive program
notes.” His world-wide recitals have included
appearances at Tonhalle in Zurich, Wigmore Hall
Master Series, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, San
Francisco Performances, Gilmore International
Piano Festival, ProArte Musical in Puerto Rico and Singapore International
Piano Festival and recitals in New York City, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Montreal,
Seattle, Vancouver, Milan and many in the U.K. He has performed with
London Philharmonic, Indianapolis, New Jersey, Vancouver and Taiwan
Symphony Orchestras; Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and Mostly
Mozart Festival Orchestra in Lincoln Center, and has performed and recorded with North Carolina, Saõ Paulo and Singapore Symphonies. Future
orchestral engagements include Utah Symphony under music director
Thierry Fischer, Atlanta Symphony, and the symphony orchestras of
Adelaide and New Zealand. He also continues his ongoing recording project for BIS with Minnesota Orchestra, under Osmo Vänskä, performing and
recording all the Beethoven Concerti, the first CD released to rave reviews.
Born in St. Petersburg, Sudbin displayed exceptional musical talents from an
early age and in 1987 entered the Specialist Music School of the St.
Petersburg Conservatory. In 1990 he continued his studies in Berlin. In 1977
he moved to London, where he studied with Christopher Elton at the Royal
Academy of Music and where he now lives with his wife and baby daughter. The Pulvermacher Foundation, Alexis Gregory Foundation, and Wall
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Program 5
Friday, April 5, 8 PM
First Congregational Church, Santa Cruz
Pianist
Yevgeny Sudbin
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
1685 – 1757
SONATA IN F MINOR, K. 466
SONATA IN G MAJOR, K. 455
SONATA IN G MINOR
SONATA B MINOR, K. 27
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
1810-1849
BALLADE NO. 3
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
1862-1918
L'ISLE
IN
A-FLAT, OP. 47
JOYEUSE
Intermission
FRANZ LISZT
1811 - 1886
“FUNERAILLES”
FROM HARMONIES POETIQUES
RELIGIEUSES, S. 173
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“HARMONIES DU SOIR,”
ANDANTINO IN D-FLAT
FROM TRANSCENDENTAL ETUDES
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
1872 - 1915
SONATA NO. 5, OP. 53
JIM CHRISTOPHER, PIANO TECHNICIAN
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WORLD’S TOP PIANIST YEVGENY SUDBIN
by Peggy Pollard
Yevgeny Sudbin wants to explode your mind.
In color.
With a piano.
Music critics are calling him the world’s greatest pianist. But he is still learning
how to make his music more powerful—with hallucinogenic hues.
Better than shades of grey, the explosions of color are … erotic. In fact, probably
best to cover the ears of innocent children in the audience. “It’s not a PG program”
Sudbin admits in his phone interview from London.
“I’m focused now mainly on expressing color in my music,” he says in his quiet
voice. The goal is Synesthasia — having one sensory perception (hearing) trigger
another sense (vision) independently. The music you hear causes you to actually see
flashes of color in your mind.
It’s a philosophy he learned from his hero, Russian composer Alexander Scriabin,
whose Sonata #5. Sudbin is fascinated with Scriabin’s vision. “It’s taking all my life
to get to know his music.”
It’s a bit beyond merely inspiring the imagination Sudbin explains. “If you go one
step further you can use music to trigger color in the minds of people. In extreme
Synesthasia you actually see colors. Scriabin’s music was so vivid, there were a lot
of reports of his audiences actually seeing flashes of color.”
“I always think in color now when I play any music,” he says. “I’m aware of the
relationship every harmony has to a certain color and mood. But I’m not as extreme
as Scriabin … the perception of color is linked to emotion, like looking at a painting.“
“The ear is perhaps the best gateway to the other senses,” Sudbin says. But
because the piano is a percussive instrument, to evoke color in music is a big challenge.
His Santa Cruz concert program will be color balanced. He has already performed it at London’s Wigmore Hall, where it was broadcast on radio. ”The British
are very picky about their music” he says, adding modestly, but “I had no complaints
from the audience.”
Leading up to his finale with the mental fireworks of Scriabin’s Sonata #5,
Sudbin’s program features a delicate balance of emotions, and a chain of music’s
nobility, starting with the quiet, pure palette of Scarlatti. “It cleanses your ears. It’s
very healthy, shows Scarlatti at his best. He wrote it in Spain as portraits of Spanish
life,” Sudbin says.
Next is Chopin, a devotee of Scarlatti’s. “He made his students play a lot of
Scarlatti’s music. The Chopin selection is “a lovely ballad, a very accessible piece.”
The second half of the program “is much darker, brooding, tragic.”
The third piece is by Debussy, who was inspired by Chopin and Liszt. “L'isle
Joyeuse” is based on a Rococo painting “The Embarkation for Cythera” – a mildly
erotic frivolity; a company embarking for the island of the goddess of love. Everyone
is excited. The people are celebrating love and life. Although the whole island
drowns in the end, in a big, abrupt, splashy climax, “it is quite optimistic,” Sudbin
remarks.
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“Love and death are very present in all the pieces,” he says. But each composer
develops different viewpoints of those themes. Debussy is quite polite compared to
the next pieces by Liszt and Scriabin, he warns.
Scriabin is “purely erotic, vivid in his direct portrayal of dying in ecstasy, very sexual, very obsessed with that subject. His poem before the sonata is incredible--how
do you say?--very, explicit, very detailed.”
“And the middle section is highly virtuosic. It is one of the hardest pieces in piano
literature --technically daunting, but the images are extremely vivid,” Sudbin says.
Now at home in the grey fog of London, Sudbin is looking forward to his second
Santa Cruz visit, to soak some local colors into his soul. His first was two years ago
for the Distinguished Artist Concert. “I had a great time,” he recalls. “I love the mountains! John took me along the breathtaking coast, the beautiful beaches, hikes where
we saw condors. I’m so jealous!”
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top pianist in the world gave us the inaugural concert of the most amazing pianos in
the world, (one of only a few in the world, and the only one on the West Coast) —
the Aptos Foundation’s Yamaha CFX piano. A performance now tattooed, colorfully,
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Ang Li, ranked among the top 30 pianists in the world by The 2009
Cliburn Competition, has appeared at Carnegie Hall in New York, The John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., Lincoln
Center for the Performing Arts in New York, National Arts Centre in Ottawa,
Ruïnekerk of Bergen in the Netherlands, National Center for the Performing
Arts in China, among others.
Ang Li is an internationally acclaimed piano
virtuoso whose performance credits and talents
reach well beyond her years. Her youth, talent,
personality and audience appeal, truly make
her one of the world’s rising classical piano
stars. Her extensive repertoire ranges from early
Baroque to contemporary piano music.
Hailed as “a most accomplished pianist” by
the InDaily Australia and “a revelation” by La
Press Montréal, Ang Li made her first public
appearance at Beijing Concert Hall at age six.
At age thirteen, she made her orchestral debut
with The Little Orchestra Society of New York at
Avery Fisher Hall.
In 2007, Ang Li was invited by the China
National Center for the Performing Arts to
replace pianist Yundi Li in the performance of
the Ravel Piano Concerto in G major with The China National Symphony
Orchestra. She was immediately re-engaged to perform at that venue with
the Beijing Symphony Orchestra in 2008. She has also performed with the
Montréal Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Staten
Island Symphony, Lanaudière Music Festival Orchestra, City Chamber
Orchestra of Hong Kong, among others.
Ms. Li has toured five continents and recently played venues such as
Carnegie Hall in New York, Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth,
Amphitheatre de Lanaudière in Quebec, Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall of The
University of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Tianjin Concert Hall, Hong Kong City
Hall and has received rave reviews and genuine love from her audience.
Ang Li’s China recital debut as part of the 2007 “Meet in Beijing Arts
Festival” was televised nationally by China Central Television. Her performances can be heard frequently on CBC Radio and WQXR Radio. Ang Li’s
latest CD releases include music of Chopin, Debussy, Haydn and WagnerLiszt (by China Record Corporation) and of Brahms and Schlenck (by
Contemporary Record Society) and of Brahms, Bowen, Debussy, Granados
and Liszt (by Van Cliburn Foundation).
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Program 6
Saturday, April 27, 8 PM
Cabrillo College Music Recital Hall
Pianist
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
1756-1791
ROBERT SCHUMANN
1810-1856
Ang Li
SONATA IN C MAJOR, K. 330
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ALLEGRO MODERATO
II.
ANDANTE CANTABILE
III. ALLEGRETTO
KINDERSZENEN (SCENES FROM CHILDHOOD) OP. 15
I.
VON FREMDEN LÄNDERN UND MENSCHEN
(OF FOREIGN LANDS AND PEOPLES)
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KURIOSE GESCHICHTE (A CURIOUS STORY)
III. HASCHE-MANN (BLIND MAN'S BLUFF)
IV. BITTENDES KIND (PLEADING CHILD)
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VI. WICHTIGE BEGEBENHEIT (AN IMPORTANT EVENT)
VII. TRÄUMEREI (DREAMING)
VIII. AM KAMIN (AT THE FIRESIDE)
IX. RITTER VOM STECKENPFERD (KNIGHT OF THE HOBBYHORSE)
X. FAST ZU ERNST (ALMOST TOO SERIOUS)
XI. FÜRCHTENMACHEN (FRIGHTENING)
XII. KIND IM EINSCHLUMMERN (CHILD FALLING ASLEEP)
XIII. DER DICHTER SPRICHT (THE POET SPEAKS)
Intermission
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
1862-1918
PRELUDES
DANSEUSES DE DELPHES
BROUILLARDS
LA CATHÉDRALE ENGLOUTIE
FEUX D'ARTIFICE
THE MUSIC BOX
ANATOLY LIADOV 1855-1914
ENRIQUE GRANADOS 1867-1916
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
1810-1849
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MAJOR, OP.53
"HEROIC"
JOHN BAUER, PIANO TECHNICIAN
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