tly,% Hoffman is Professor of Composition at the University of Cincinnati's " "h Cbllege-Conservatory of Music. During the 1993-94 season, he sewed as composer-in-residence

.with the National Chamber Orchestra of Washington, DC and in 1991-92, he held the position '\C -- ** of New Music Advisor for the Buffalo Philharmonic. He has been a resldent composer at the

3 Rockefeller, Camargo and Hindemlth Foundations, the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Hoffman is also an actlve planist, havlng appeared as soloist with, among others, the Chlcago Symphony, the Belglan Radio and T.V. Orchestra, the Costa Rica Natronal Symphony and the Florlda Orchestra.

Honors include a major prize from the Amer~can Academy-lnst~tute of Arts and Letters, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bearns Prize of Columbia University, a BMI Award, ASCAP awards since 1977, and three Amerlcan Music Center grants. His music has been frequently heard at summer festivals such as Portogruaro, Korsholm, Evian, St. Nazaire, Caramoor, Newport, Chamber Music Northwest and the Seattle Chamber Music Festival. Many individuals and organizations have commissioned Hoffman, Including the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, the Fromm Foundation, the Clnclnnatl Symphony, the Natlonal Chamber Orchestra, the American Harp Soclety and the Atheneum Quartet of the Berlln Philharmonic.

% a All of Joel Hoffman's muslc IS published, elther by h ~ s own publishing house Onibatan

9 Music or by RAI Trade (Italy), E.C. Schlrmer, G. Schlrmer and Lyra MUSIC. There are recordings on the CRI, Koch, Stradivarius, Centaur, EMA, Gasparo and Deutsche Welle labels. Further 3 nformatlon can be found at: joelhoffman.net

a spacious and gentle aria. But the third poses more complex musical questions, both thematic and structural. It is w i t i u s music, but not without occasional playful and tangential moments. This thlrd movement borrows liberally from another recent work of mine, a t what price?for piano solo, which-in a more direct way-deats wlth the unfortunate consequences of the current American administrat~on's foreign policy with respect to the Iraq war.

-Joel Hoffman

CHRISTOPHER KARP

VIOLINIST AN0 PIANIST, CHRISTOPHER KARP'S EXTRA-FAMILIAL MUSIC training included violin and chamber music studies with Lorand Fenyves (University of Toronto) and Robert Koff (Brandeis University). He was the concertmaster of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra in the early 1980's BatwP; turning his focus to medicine and science. He has been a frequent

mer on the Faculty Chamber Music Series at the University of Wisconsin-Madism ast three decades, and has performed as a guest on the Faculty Music Series

usic X Contemporary Music Festival at the College Conservatory of Music, Un plays the "Robert Koff" Vuillaume, a stunning copy of a grand pattern Amati,

the Johns Hopkins University Departments of Medicine and Molecular ~ i c r o b i o l ~ " & Immunology (rising to Associate Professor), he moved to Cincinnati, where he currently holds the Gunnar EsiasonICincinnati Bell Chair, and is Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Division of Molecular Immunology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. His research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying the regulation and dysregulation of inflammatory responses in genetic, autoimmune and infectious diseases.

PARRY KARP

' C E L L I S T PARRY KARP I S A R T I S T - I N R E S I D E N C E AND P R O F E S S O R O F C H A M B E R Music and 'cello, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is director of the string chamber music program. He has been 'cellist of the Pro Arte Quartet for the past 30 years.

Parrv K a r ~ is an active solo artist. oerformine numerous recitals . . annually in the United states with pianists Howard and Frances ~ a r i . Mr. Karp has played concerti throughout the United States, and gave the first performance in Romania of Ernest Bloch's Schelomo with the National Radio Orchestra in Bucharest in 2002. He is active as a performer of new music and has performed in the premieres of dozens of works, many of which were written for him, including concerti, sonatas and chamber music. As a solo recording artist, he has recorded the solo 'cello works of Ernest Bloch, and works of Frank Bridge, Rebecca Clarke, Ernest Chausson, Edward Collins, Georges Enesco, John Ireland, Alberic Magnard, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Miklos Rosza, and Richard

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ntral and South America, Europe, and Japan. His discography with the group has been and includes the complete string quartets of Ernest Bloch, Miklos Rosza, and Karol

Szymanowski. Many of these recordings have received awards from Fanfare and High Fidelity Magazines. Other composers whose string quartets or string quintets the Pro Arte Quartet has

orded during his tenure include: Beethoven, Luis de Freitas Branco, Martin Boykan, Tamar sendruck, Dvorak, Brian Fennelly, Andrew Imbrie, Fred Lerdahl. Walter Mays, Mendelssohn,

Karol Rathaus, Samuel Rhodes, Roger Sessions, and Ralph Shapey. As a member of the Pro Arte Quartet he has recorded the Piano Quintets of Ernest Bloch, Johannes Brahms and Armando Jose Fernandes with pianist Howard Karp. The Pro Arte Quartet was one of five finalists for the First Annual Arturo Toscanini Award in the Chamber Music Category (the others being the

$ Juilliard, Tokyo and Emerson Quartets, and the Beaux Arts Trio).

Parry Karp's chamber music discography outside of the Pro Arte Quartet includes works of Britten, Faurh, Martinu, Mozart and PiernB. Mr. Karp has had a visiting professorship at the University of British Columbia, and has been a visiting fellow at Princeton University. Mr. Karp's former students include members of professional string quartets, major orchestras, and teachers throughout the United States.

Mr. Karp received early training in Vienna, and studied 'cello with Lee Duckles, David Kadarauch, Peter Farrell, Gabriel Magyar and Gabor Rejto. Inspirational chamber music teachers included Gabriel Magyar, Howard Karp, Lorand Fenyves and Zoltan Szekely.

HOWARD KARP

A F T E R A C O L L E G E T E A C H I N G C A R E E R O F 46 YEARS. H O W A R D KARP. Emer~tus Professor of MUSIC at the University of Wlsconsln, retired in 2000. He is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School of MUSIC, where he studied plan0 wlth Jack Radunsky and Roslna ".,

Lhbvinne, respectively. Further study took him to Vienna for work at the Akademie fi ir Musik as Fulbright scholar, and to Positano, Italy for Beethoven studies with Wilhelm Kempff. Mr. Karp has given solo recitals in most of the United States, and has been a guest recitalist for the American Liszt Society, the Maryland Piano Festival, the Shenyang International Music Festival in China and the International Enescu Festival. He has won praise for his performances in Europe at many cultural centers, and has performed concertos with the Minnesota Orchestra, Amsterdam Philharmonic, Hague Residentie Orchestra, and Madison Symphony, among others. In additlon to h ~ s solo activities, he is a frequent performer of chamber-muslc, appearing ~n duo and duet recitals with his wife, Frances, and sonata performances with his son and colleague, 'cellist Parry Karp. Despite his retirement from the University of WisconsinlMadison, Mr. Karp's various musical activities continue.

Before coming to Wisconsin in 1972, Mr. Karp taught at the Universities of Illinois and Kentucky. Currently he has former students on the faculties of numerous colleges and universities throughout this country and in Asia.

His CD recording on Laurel Records of the two Piano Quintets of Ernest Bloch with the Pro Arte String Quartet has won critical acclaim. Recent recordings include Five Aphorisms for

andpiano by Andrew lmbrie on the GM label, produced by Gunther Schuller Howard Karp, a 2 CD set produced by the University of Wisconsin School of

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\\ 9 and Parry Karp, &led lafe ic for 'cello and piano.

FRANCES R E I C H E KARP RECEIVED HER EARLY M U S I C A L T R A l N l N C i n Albuquerque, New Mexico with Maurice Lichtman. She attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, earning both Bachelor and Master of Music

d the Juilliard School of Music. She has taught i n Yakima, and Urbana, Illinois; has been an opera coach at the

e University of Wisconsin; and maintained a private piano In addition to 4-hand and 2 piano repertoire with her Parry Karp, she has performed numerous chamber works

tie Orcbstra and the Madison Symphony. A 4 CD set, entiled A Half Century works fOJ 2 pianos and piano 4-hands by Howard and Frances Karp was

in 2001. A CD ef We complete works for 'cello and piano by Ernest Blwh (performed Karp) was released in 2006 (Laurel Records).

KARP FAMILY i*r

LEFT TO RIGHT: CHRISTOPHER KARP, PARRY KARP, HOWARD KARP, FRANCES KARP

DARIJUS SPAKAUSKAS. RECORDING, EDITING AND MASTERING ENGINEER. RECORDED IN CORBEl l

AUDITORIUM. COLLEGECONSERVATORY OF MUSIC. UNIVERSIN OF CINCINNATI, CINCINNATI, OH IN

SEPTEMBER 2003 AND SEPTEMBER 2005. PRODUCED BY JOEL HOFFMAN AND CHRISTOPHER KARP.

PlANO TRlO 1 IS PUBLISHED BY RAI TRADE. PlANO TRlO I IAND PlANO TRIO 3 ON C# ARE PUBLISHED

BY ONIBATAN MUSIC.

COVER ART BY ESTHER GLAZER.

PHOTOS OF KARPS BY KATRIN TALBOT.

GROUP PHOTO BY JOEL HOFFMAN.

PHOTO OF JOEL HOFFMAN BY BEN L. KAUFMAN.