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FACULTY CONCERT SERIES

The Lafayette String QuartetAnn Elliott-Goldschmid, violin

Sharon Stanis, violinJoanna Hood, viola

Pamela Highbaugh Aloni, cello

With

Arthur Rowe, piano

Saturday, February 27, 2016 • 8:00 p.m.Phillip T. Young Recital Hall

MacLaurin Building, University of VictoriaAdmission: $25

P R O G R A M

Octet for Strings: Fanfare for Eight Celebrities Murray Adaskin (1906–2002)

With School of Music students:Brittany Tsui, violin

Natalie Dzbik, violinJoshua Gomberoff, viola

Alex Klassen, cello

Quartet No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 117 Dmitri Shostakovich Moderato con moto (1906–1975) Adagio Allegretto Adagio Allegro

I N T E R M I S S I O NBeverages and snacks available at the

concession located in the lounge

Quintet in A major, Op. 81 AntonínDvořák Allegro, ma non tanto (1841–1904) Dumka: Andante con moto Scherzo Furiant: Molto vivace Finale: Allegro

With Arthur Rowe, piano

LAFAYETTE STRING QUARTET In July 1986, four young musicians, based in Detroit and just beginning their profes-sionalcareers,performedtogetherforthefirsttimeastheLafayetteStringQuartet.TodaytheLSQcontinuestoflourishwithitsoriginalpersonnel:violinistsAnnElliott-Goldschmid and Sharon Stanis, violist Joanna Hood, and cellist Pamela Highbaugh Aloni.

Forfiveyears,theLSQprosperedinDetroit,whereitsmemberstaughtattheCen-ter for Creative Studies/Institute of Music and Dance and Oakland University. The LSQitselfreceivedcoachingfromsomeoftheworld’smostesteemedquartets—theAmadeusandtheAlbanBerg,andCleveland—andfromtheviolinistRostislavDubinsky,ofthelegendaryBorodinQuartet,whoservedasthewomen’s“musicalmentor” until his death in 1997.

TheLSQ’sextraordinarymusicianshipwasrecognizedearlyon.Alreadyin1988,itwasrankedamongthemagazineMusicalAmerica’s“YoungArtiststoWatch,”andinitsfirstyearstheywontheGrandprizeattheFischoffNationalChamberMusicCompetition and prizes at the Portsmouth (now City of London) International StringQuartetCompetition,andtheChicagoDiscoveryCompetition.Aswinnersofthe1988ClevelandStringQuartetCompetition,theLSQhadtheopportunitytostudyfortwoyearswiththeClevelandQuartetattheEastmanSchoolofMusic,inRochester, New York.

Artists-in-Residence at the University of Victoria’sSchoolofMusicsince1991,theirdedicationandskillhaveplayedamajorroleinbuildingoneofthefinestmusicschoolsinCanada.InadditiontoquartetperformancesandcollaboratingwithcolleaguesintheSchoolofMusic,membersofthequartetteachindividuallessons,coach chamber music groups, and give studio masterclasses on a weekly basis. They have been principal players of the Galiano Ensemble of Victoria since its incep-tion and continue to serve the community promoting strings in the public schools through outreach programs and the strings mentoring course at UVic. In June, they offerQuartetFestWest,anintensivequartetseminarthatbringstogetheryoungmusicians from all over the world. Their annual Health Awareness Forum, founded in 2006 offers timely insights from top health experts on a wide range of topics. They recieved honorary doctorates from University Canada West and were honored with the inaugural Craigdarroch Award for Excellence in Artistic Expression in 2010 from the University of Victoria.

TheLSQhasperformedacrossCanada,theUnitedStates,MexicoandEurope,withconcerts often allied with masterclasses and workshops; they had a close and lasting relationship with the University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon while playing on the set of Amatis owned by the institution. They have collaborated with distinguished colleaguesincludingbassistGaryKarr ;clarinetistJamesCampbell;flutistEugeniaZukerman; violinists Andrew Dawes and Gary Levinson; violists James Dunham, Atar Arad, and Yariv Aloni; cellists Paul Katz, and the late Tanya Prochazka; and pia-nists Luba Edlina Dubinsky, Jane Coop, Robert Silverman, Ronald Turini, Alexander Tselyakov, Baya Kakouberi and Flavio Varani. They often collaborate with other string quartetsincludingtheAlcan,theNewZealand,thePenderecki,theMolinari,theEm-ilyCarr,andtheQuartetoLatinoamericano.

The four women also maintain separate careers as solo and chamber music per-formers, teachers, and adjudicators.

TheLSQcarriesalarge,wide-rangingrepertoire,fromtheclassicalperiodtothepresent, and has commissioned music from (and in some cases collaborated closely with) composers including Murray Adaskin, John Burke, Justin Haynes, David Jaffe, R. Murray Schafer, Eugene Weigel, and Kelly Marie Murphy. They have performed the completeBeethovencycle,duringthe2000-2001season,thequartetsoftheSec-ondVienneseschoolwiththeMolinariQuartetin2013,andincelebrationoftheirthirtyyearstogether,willperformthestringquartetsofDmitriShostakovich.

Since1990,theLSQhasreleasedCDsontheDorian,Centrediscs,andotherlabels(includingitsown).ItsdiscographyincludesmajorquartetsbyBorodin,Debussy,Grieg, Shostakovich, and Tchaikovsky; Dvořák’spianoquintets(withAntoninKubalek);and four CDs of music by Adaskin, for his AdLar label. Its 2002 CBC Records disc Death and the Maiden, featuring music by Schubert, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, and Rebecca Clarke, won the Western Canadian Music Award for Outstanding Classical Recording.ItrecordedMichaelLongton’sAlmost Nothing Like Purple Haze for the 2011 CD Jimi Hendrix Uncovered, and has recently released a CD together with AlexanderTselyakovofthequintetsofDmitriShostakovichandthenewlycommis-sionedquintetMotion and Distance, by Canadian composer Kelly-Marie Murphy.

TheLSQisthesubjectofDavidRounds’bookThe Four and the One: In Praise of String Quartets, published in 1999.

COMING UP!

Tuesday,March8,11:00a.m.to2:30p.m.A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE LAFAYETTE STRING QUARTET:

Working with UVic’s Artists-in-Residence

ExperienceadayinthelifeofoneofthemostrenownedstringquartetsinNorthAmerica.Fornearlythirtyyears,theLafayetteStringQuartethasgarneredinterna-tionalacclaimasatalented,all-femalestringquartet.Since1991,theLSQhasheldresidency at the UVic School of Music, sharing their passion for chamber music with students and the Victoria community. This event offers a rare opportunity to accom-panytheLSQastheyrehearsenewmaterial,discusstheirwork,andworkshopwithstudents—allinaday’swork!

Schedule:•11:00-12:30 PTYRecitalHallLSQopenrehearsal:“BuildingtheShostakovich Cycle: A Link in a Very Long Chain”•12:30-1:30MACB037Brownbaglunch:LSQandtheirstudentsdiscuss their work rehearsing, performing, teaching, and coaching.•1:30-2:30PTYRecitalHallMasterclass:LSQandtheirstudentsworkshop chamber music from the string repertoire.

Freeadmission.Attendoneorallevents!ThiseventispartofUVic’sIdeaFest2016,whichrunsfromMarch7-12.

ARTHUR ROWE Canadian pianist and Steinway Artist Arthur Rowe has received enthusiastic reviews from his performances in New York, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Seattle, San Diego, as well as in venues in Europe and New Zealand. Following a New York solo recital, The NewYorkTimeswrote:“TheCanadianpianistArthurRowemadeanimmediateand positive impression…before eight bars had gone by, one knew he was capable ofvigorwithoutheaviness,energywithoutexcessofdrive.Itwasfirst-rateplaying:a kind of execution tinglingly alive to the shape and contribution of each phrase”. ReviewingasolorecitalinLondonEngland,TheLondonTimesspokeofhis“unusualclarityofarticulation”,and“poetryofexpression”,andDavidBurge,writinginTheSanDiegoTribunesaid,“Roweisamarvelouspianist…evenwhenheispushedtothe limit by extreme virtuosic demands…he can concentrate all of his considerable talents on vital matters of phrasing, tone and ensemble”.

Arthur Rowe has been heard regularly on radio broadcasts in Canada and the United States, and has recorded with various artists for the Crystal, ebs, Innova, GM and Fanfare labels. In 2007, he released an all Schubert recording on the Centaur label.Fanfaremagazine’sreviewsays,“Rowe’sreading(oftheposthumousBflatSonata) is one of the most beautiful I have heard… The D. 899 Impromptus are equallyimpressive…hispurlingright-handrunsrecallSchnabel’svelvetysound…ev-ery harmonic change is underscored by a delicate nuance of color change. This kind of expression cannot be taught; it is in the bloodstream and the soul”.

A highly respected chamber musician, Mr. Rowe regularly collaborates with artists and chamber ensembles across North America. He has been a guest artist at sum-mer festivals in Blossom, Interlochen, Niagara, Santa Fe and Seattle, as well as in France, New Zealand, and Yugoslavia. While at Indiana University, he began his long association with violinist William Preucil, Concertmaster of The Cleveland Orchestra, with whom he has concertized for more than three decades. In 2004 The Har-ringtonStringQuartetjoinedforceswithArthurRoweandWilliamPreucilinNewYork for a performance of the Chausson Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet,whichwasreviewedbyHarrisGoldsmithasa“readingthatrivaledthebenchmark recordings by Franzescatti/Casadesus/Pascal, and Heifetz/Sanroma/New Arts”.

Mr. Rowe has recently performed in New York for the Bargemusic series, at Oberlin College, and in Washington State with Estonian bassoonist Martin Kuuskmann. PerformanceslastseasonincludedconcertswiththeDoverQuartet,recentwinnersoftheBanffInternationalStringQuartetcompetition,theLindenQuartet,cellistTsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Jonathan Crow, Concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony, and William Preucil, Concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra.

Having previously held positions at the University of Iowa and the University of Western Ontario, Arthur Rowe is Professor of Piano at the University of Victoria and currently the Acting Director of the School of Music.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Sunday,February28,2:30p.m.(Adults$18/Seniors,students&alumni$14)FACULTY CONCERT SERIES: May Ling Kwok, piano

Esteemed performer, recording artist and instructor, May Ling Kwok performs works by Mozart and Schumann.

Phillip T. Young Recital Hall

Sunday, February 28, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Free admission)GUEST MASTERCLASS: Torrey Kaminski, flute

Asought-afterfluteinstructorandperformingartist,TorreyKaminskiisalsoacertifiedyogateacher.InthismasterclassKaminskiwillpresent

ideas on how to incorporate yoga into daily practice as well as performFerroud’sTrios Pièces pour flûte seule, Fantasy on Syrinx by

Bacchus,andPiazzolla’sTango Etude No. 3.Phillip T. Young Recital Hall

Tuesday,March1,12:30p.m.(Admissionbydonation)TUESDAYMUSIC

Take an afternoon break to enjoy a concert of varied repertoire and instruments featuring School of Music students.

Phillip T. Young Recital Hall

Friday,March4,12:30p.m.(Admissionbydonation)FRIDAYMUSIC

Featuring School of Music brass students in a concert of varied repertoire.Phillip T. Young Recital Hall

Saturday,March5,8:00p.m.(Adults$15/Seniors&Alumni$10/Students$5)UVIC CHORUS & ORCHESTRA: Supplicatorium

AjtonyCsaba,conductor&AdamCon,chorusdirectorMauriceDuruflé–Requiem

Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 5UniversityCentreFarquharAuditorium

Sunday,March6&13,7:00p.m.(Regular$18/$15forCastlemembers)CRAIGDARROCH CASTLE IN SONG

Featuring School of Music students. Tickets available at: thecastle.ca/eventsCraigdarroch Castle (1050 Joan Crescent)

Tickets available at the UVic Ticket Centre (250-721-8480), online (www.tickets.uvic.ca) and at the door.

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