Yahoo Tuning Groups Ultimate Backup metatuning Pehrson work at viola society, Mannes, Oct. 20

For anyone free the evening of Monday October 20th and who is an (un)
lover of viola jokes, there will be a premiere of a new work of mine
for viola and piano by the New York Viola society at Mannes College
of Music, 7:30PM. I wrote the piece for the splendid violist and
composer Lev Zhurbin and he will be joined by Leonard Lehrman at the
piano, which is a good idea since the work is for viola and piano...

Hope to see you there!

Joseph (aka Joe) Pehrson

Collegial Concert I
October 20, 2004 at 7:30 p.m.
Mannes College of Music
150 W. 85th St. in New York City

Admission is free for NYVS members and Mannes students. General
admission is $10, students and seniors are $5. For more information
call (212) 749-5272 or (201) 837-9196

Program
(Subject to change, check back for more information.)
Vincent Persichetti - Parable for Solo Viola
Valentina Charlap-Evans, Viola

Leanne Darling - Mirage II (2003) and Shift (2003) for Solo
Amplified Viola and Boomerang
Leanne Darling, Viola

Stephen Siegel - Midnight's Garden (2002)
Ann Roggen, Viola
Shmuel Katz, Violin
Paul Salerni - "Speaking of Love"

Don Dal Maso, Viola
Debra Field, Soprano
Paul Salerni, Piano

Joseph Pehrson - "Levitations" for Viola and Piano (2003)
Lev Zhurbin, Viola
Leonard Lehrman, Piano

Benjamin Britten - Lachrymae
Richard O'Neill, Viola

with small ensemble to be announced
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About the Performers:
Valentina Charlap-Evans, Viola
Donald Dal Maso, Viola
Leanne Darling, Viola and Composer
Debra Field, Soprano
Shmuel Katz, Violin
Leonard Lehrman, Piano
Richard O'Neill, Viola
Joseph Pehrson, Composer
Ann Roggen, Viola
Paul Salerni, Piano and Composer
Lev Zhurbin, Viola
Valentina Charlap-Evans [Information to follow]
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Paul Salerni | Lev Zhurbin
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Donald Dal Maso graduated from Haverford College and New York
University. After his graduation from The Curtis Institute of Music,
where he studied primarily with Joseph de Pasquale, he joined the
New York City Opera Orchestra. Since 1999 he has been violist and
Director of The Joyce Ensemble which performs concerts in New York
City and Rockland Country. In addition to his performing career he
holds a diploma in Psychoanalysis, and until 2001 he specialized in
the treatment of young children; he now consults and supervises in
New York City and publishes in the international Psychoanalytic
press.
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Darling | Debra Field | Shmuel Katz
Leonard Lehrman | Richard O'Neill | Joseph Pehrson | Ann Roggen |
Paul Salerni | Lev Zhurbin
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Leanne Darling draws from her classical technique, her Arabic and
jazz skills, and her passion for improvisation to break boundaries
of traditional viola playing. A skilled and experienced performer,
Darling has performed as soloist and chamber musician in England,
Austria, Slovenia, France, Florida, Missouri, Connecticut, and New
York in art galleries, film theaters, clubs, and concert halls. She
has degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Cleveland
Institute of Music and has performed with flutist Julius Baker and
grammy nominated cellist David Darling (no relation). Prior to
moving to New York, Darling was violist of the New Artists Piano
Quartet, and assistant principal violist of the Florida West Coast
Symphony.
Darling began improvising seven years ago and experimenting with
jazz, blues, and Arabic music. She has combined these elements to
produce a unique solo viola performance. Using a sampling/looping
device, Darling generates layers of sound from lyrical melodies to
driving rhythms and textures simulating a whole room full of
musicians. The layers are improvised as well as planned, making each
performance unique. Her musical style ranges from minimalist to free
jazz, blues, Arabic, and ambient music.
Leanne Darling is currently studying classical Arabic music with
virtuoso oudist and violinist Simon Shaheen, and jazz improvisation
with Julie Lyonn Lieberman and David Darling. Recent appearances
include a collaboration with dancers at Dixon place, and a featured
performance at the 2003 ASTA National conference in Columbus, OH.
Darling currently teaches a class on improvisation for strings at
Op.118 Harlem Center for Strings.
Website: www.leannedarling.com
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Darling | Debra Field | Shmuel Katz
Leonard Lehrman | Richard O'Neill | Joseph Pehrson | Ann Roggen |
Paul Salerni | Lev Zhurbin
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Debra Field has performed extensively in oratorio, recital and opera
in the MidAtlantic region, appearing as guest soloist with such
notable groups as the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, Bucks County
Choral Society and Lehigh University Choral Arts. Regular concert
appearances with the Cathedral Choral Society include the annual
Messiah concert. Ms. Field sang as soprano soloist with the
Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra in Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem for
which the Easton Express-Times said: "She easily soared above the
musicians and singers as a kind of overriding celestial presence."
A frequent recitalist, Ms. Field has garnered rave reviews for her
performances of composers ranging from Bach to Hindemith. She has
been included in the Valley Vivaldi recital series, singing Bach and
Scarlatti, as one of the only vocalists to be part of these
concerts. She sang Purcell and lute songs with highly acclaimed
lutenist Richard Stone as part of the Fiori Musicali Guest Artist
Series of the Fairfield Symphony Orchestra. Of a recital given on
the Cathedral Classics Recital Series, the Easton-Express Times
said: "Field is especially fine in articulation, whether in English
or otherwise, thus adding to the pleasure of listening to her." Ms.
Field regularly performs the music of Dr. Paul Salerni, most notably
the song cycle "Regimen Sanitatis Salerni" written especially for
Field. As guest artist with the MidAtlantic Chamber Music Society,
Field sang selections by Brahms and William Duckworth. The
Wilmington NewsJournal heralded her performance: "The Duckworth
songs let Field display her dramatic range...Her diction was
wonderful and her ability to change moods and styles between songs
impressive."
Opera credits include Baby Doe in OperaDelaware's production of The
Ballad of Baby Doe. Ms. Field has been an active participant in the
Lehigh University Opera program, having sung the role of Berta in Il
barbiere di Siviglia and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro to critical
acclaim. Ms. Field created the role of Mrs. Murry in the premiere of
Libby Larsen's A Wrinkle in Time. Opera News said of her
performance: "Debra Field's sensitive acting and singing stood out
in the role of their mother." Other opera roles include Despina in
CosÏ fan tutte, May in Earl Kim's Footfalls and Elle in Poulenc's
La
voix humaine.
Her most recent engagement included a benefit for the Suzuki
Foundation with Paul Salerni, composer and professor at Lehigh
University. This past spring, she was soprano soloist for
Mendelssohn's Elijah with the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra and
Camerata Singers. She also performed Vaughan William's Sea Symphony
with the Reading Choral Society and his Benedicite with the Oxford
Choral Institute. Upcoming engagements include Haydn's Creation with
the Shippensburg Chamber Festival.
Ms. Field is currently Lecturer and head of the voice faculty at
Lehigh University. As a member of NATS, Ms. Field serves as
adjudicator at various high school and university level
competitions.
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Darling | Debra Field | Shmuel Katz
Leonard Lehrman | Richard O'Neill | Joseph Pehrson | Ann Roggen |
Paul Salerni | Lev Zhurbin
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A native of Israel, Shmuel Katz maintains a performing career on the
viola and the violin as a recitalist, chamber musician and an
orchestral player. Mr. Katz received his Bachelors and Masters
degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with
Pinchas Zukerman and Michael Tree.He has also performed in
masterclasses given by Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Josef Gingold
and Dorothy DeLay and has been coached by members of the Guarneri,
Cleveland, Tokyo, LaSalle and Juilliard Quartets. Among his numerous
competition awards in the US and Europe is second prize in the 2003
HAMS viola competition in Chicago and the first prize in the 1995
CIMS Chamber Music Competition in Palermo, Italy. He has been a
recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships
since 1986.
Since 1999 Mr. Katz has been performing and touring as part of the
Katz-Shteinberg Duo with pianist Dmitri Shteinberg. Their recital
tours of Canada, Germany and Israel received rave reviews. Future
engagements include a recital in Weill Hall on February 1,2004 as
well as a broadcast of their CD on WQXR on May 5th, 2004.
Shmuel Katz has appeared with the New York Philharmonic as a
substitute violist and violinist, and has toured with them in
Europe, South America and the Far East. He also performs regularly
with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
Website: www.avikatz.net/shmuel
Top of Page | Valentina Charlap-Evans | Donald Dal Maso | Leanne
Darling | Debra Field | Shmuel Katz
Leonard Lehrman | Richard O'Neill | Joseph Pehrson | Ann Roggen |
Paul Salerni | Lev Zhurbin
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Leonard Lehrman has been performing and accompanying on piano and
other keyboard instruments professionally since 1964. His teachers
included Lenore Anhalt, Olga Heifetz, Kyriena Siloti, Nadia
Boulanger, Lukas Foss, Erik Werba, Malcolm Bilson, and Leonard
Bernstein. Having recorded for Opus One, Premier, Capstone, and
Original Cast Recordings (including many of his own 163 compositions
to date), he has also been pleased to premiere several works by
Joseph Pehrson ("Stringing," Lewis Carroll songs, ...) and their
mutual teacher Elie Siegmeister. Co-Founder of the Elie Siegmeister
Society and Court Street Music in Valley Stream, NY, he was the
first President of the Long Island Composers Alliance, currently
conducts the Oceanside Chorale and the Metropolitan Philharmonic
Chorus, and serves on the Advisory Board of Composers Concordance.
Website: ljlehrman.artists-in-residence.com
Top of Page | Valentina Charlap-Evans | Donald Dal Maso | Leanne
Darling | Debra Field | Shmuel Katz
Leonard Lehrman | Richard O'Neill | Joseph Pehrson | Ann Roggen |
Paul Salerni | Lev Zhurbin
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Violist Richard O'Neill has performed to critical acclaim as chamber
musician and soloist throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
An accomplished chamber musician, he frequently collaborates with
the today's most celebrated musicians including members of the
Juilliard, Guarneri, Mendelssohn and Orion String Quartets,
violinists Gil Shaham and Cho-Liang Lin, among others. In 2004, he
will begin a residency with the Chamber Music Society Two of Lincoln
Center, a program featuring the worldÇs finest young chamber
musicians. His festival appearances include Marlboro, Aspen,
Bridgehampton, Cooperstown, Olympic, and Ravinia (Rising Stars)
Festivals as well as performances for Bargemusic, the Da Camera
Society of Los Angeles, and the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth.
He has also participated in several national tours with Musicians
from Marlboro.
Richard made his solo debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in
2000 performing Berlioz's Harold in Italy, and more recently
performed and recorded Schoenberg's String Quartet Concerto with
Fred Sherry and Robert Craft conducting the 20th Century Classics
Ensemble and Elliot Carter's ASKO Concerto at Carnegie Hall. He is a
member of the International Sejong Soloists, a conductorless string
ensemble, which he tours internationally performing as soloist and
principal viola. He has appeared live on NPR'S Performance Today and
the Korean Broadcasting System.
The first violist to be accepted into the prestigious Artist Diploma
Program at Juilliard, he holds a Bachelor of Music from the
University of Southern California, where he graduated magna cum
laude, and a Master of Music from the Juilliard School. He has
studied with Paul Neubauer, Karen Tuttle, Donald McInnes, and Sally
Peck. O'Neill performs on a rare viola made by Gasparo da Salo of
Brescia Italy, circa 1590, a generous loan from the Samsung
Foundation of Culture.
Upcoming highlights include Opening Night 2003 and the "35 Years of
Commissions" series for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
in Alice Tully Hall, his participation in the Meet the Composer
Series at Carnegie Hall, and solo performances of Britten's
Lachrymae and Bach's Brandeburg Concerto No. 6 with the
International Sejong Soloists as part of a two week residency for
National Public Radio in Washington D.C.
Top of Page | Valentina Charlap-Evans | Donald Dal Maso | Leanne
Darling | Debra Field | Shmuel Katz
Leonard Lehrman | Richard O'Neill | Joseph Pehrson | Ann Roggen |
Paul Salerni | Lev Zhurbin
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Joseph Pehrson, composer-pianist has written works for a wide
variety of media including orchestra and chamber works. They have
been performed at numerous venues including Merkin Hall, Weill
Recital Hall, Symphony Space in New York and throughout the U.S.,
Eastern Europe and Russia. Since 1983 Mr. Pehrson has been co-
director of the Composers Concordance in New York. He studied at the
Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan (DMA 1981).
Pehrson's teachers included composers Leslie Bassett, Joseph
Schwantner, and, informally, Otto Luening and Elie Siegmeister in
New York.
Website: users.rcn.com/jpehrson/JosephPehrson.html
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Darling | Debra Field | Shmuel Katz
Leonard Lehrman | Richard O'Neill | Joseph Pehrson | Ann Roggen |
Paul Salerni | Lev Zhurbin
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Violist Ann Roggen's talents stem from a wide range of solo and
chamber experience.
She has been awarded grants from Chamber Music America and the
National Endowment for the Arts, and as a member of the Orchestra of
St. Luke's, has recorded extensively for Telarc, Sony and Deutsche
Gramaphone.
In recent seasons, she has been heard with the New York Philharmonic
and the St Louis Symphony.
She is presently on the faculty of Bennington College, where she
teaches violin, viola and chamber music. Currently, she is
developing courses designed to integrate the art of music with other
disciplines in the humanities.
Ms. Roggen is an advocate of unique and unusual repertoire for the
viola in combination with other instruments and voice. In
conjunction with the New York Viola Society, she is committed to
creating performance opportunities for music of this genre, both old
and new.
Ms.Roggen received her musical training at the Peabody Institute of
Johns Hopkins University and the Juilliard School. Her principal
teachers have included Karen Tuttle, Lillian Fuchs, Joseph Fuchs and
the Juilliard String Quartet.
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Darling | Debra Field | Shmuel Katz
Leonard Lehrman | Richard O'Neill | Joseph Pehrson | Ann Roggen |
Paul Salerni | Lev Zhurbin
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Paul Salerni is Professor of Music at Lehigh University where he
teaches composition, theory, and directs LUVME (the Lehigh
University Very Modern Ensemble), an ad hoc group of undergraduate,
faculty, and guest musicians which have given over 60 concerts of
contemporary music in the past 20 years. He received a Ph.D. in
composition from Harvard University where he studied with Earl Kim.
Salerni is an expert in the performance of Kim's music. Besides
producing and directing two festivals and several concerts of Kim's
music at Lehigh, Salerni has recently been featured as a guest
pianist and lecturer with the International Sejong Soloists. In
collaboration with them, he has given performances of Kim's music in
Seoul, New York City, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and
at the Aspen Music Festival.
Dr. Salerni's own music has been played throughout the United
States, in Canada, in Europe, and in China. His orchestra music has
been performed by the New Haven Symphony, the New York Chamber
Symphony, the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra, the Schuylkill
Symphony, the Young People's Philharmonic of the Lehigh Valley, the
International Chamber Orchestra, the Kinhaven Orchestra, and LUVME.
His songs have been presented by the Washington Square Contemporary
Music Series and the Derriere Garde Festival in New York City, the
Gabriel Chamber Ensemble, the Contrasts Chamber Artists of
Philadelphia, at the Shenyang International Music Festival (China),
at SUNY Stony Brook, and at the University of Washington. He is best
known for his music for and about children; his recent violin
concerto/fable entitled The Big Sword and the Little Broom has been
called an "extraordinary gift to the audience." Another Italian
fable, The Old Witch and the New Moon, has had numerous performances
including a performance in Italian this past summer at the
international music festival in Canna, Calabria. Both fables have
texts written by poet Dana Gioia, an example of Salerni's close
working relationship with that great American poet. Their past work
together has included numerous art songs and choral pieces, and they
are presently working on a one-act opera to be presented in an
unstaged version this season.
Salerni is a dedicated educator having conducted numerous
performances of student musical theatre and operatic productions at
Lehigh. He was part of the team that organized and taught Lehigh's
first semester abroad program in Vicenza, Italy, and in 1995, he
received Lehigh's most prestigious acknowledgement of excellence in
teaching, the Stabler Award. He also serves on the Board of
Directors of the Suzuki Association of the Americas and was recently
named its Chair-elect.
Website: www.lehigh.edu/~inmsc/salerni/salerni.html
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Darling | Debra Field | Shmuel Katz
Leonard Lehrman | Richard O'Neill | Joseph Pehrson | Ann Roggen |
Paul Salerni | Lev Zhurbin
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Lev Zhurbin (a.k.a. LJOVA) is a busy NYC-based freelance violist and
prolific composer, performing and composing music in many styles.
For more info and mp3s, please visit his website, http://Ljova.com

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