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UPCOMING EVENTS
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• Saturday, February 24, 2018:
Faculty Artist Recital, Darrin Thaves, flute 7:00pm Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets $10/7 *
• Friday, March 2, 2018:
Chamber and University Choirs: On nature and the “other” Jonathan Talberg
and Joshua Palkki, directors 8:00pm Los Altos United Methodist Church
Tickets $10/7
• Sunday, March 4, 2018:
Faculty Artist Recital, The Orpheus Duo, Althea Waites and Mark Uranker,
piano 4:00pm Daniel Recital Hall Tickets $10/7 *
• Monday, March 5, 2018:
Woodwind Chamber Music, Rena Urso, director 8:00pm Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets $10/7 *
• Friday, March 9, 2018:
Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band, John Carnahan and Jermie Arnold,
conductors 8:00pm Carpenter Performing Arts Center Tickets $10/7
• Sunday, March 11, 2018:
BCCM Tenth Anniversary Gala, Johannes Müller Stosch, conductor 2:00pm
Carpenter Performing Arts Center Tickets $10/FREE
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WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
8:00PM
GERALD R. DANIEL RECITAL HALL
JOHN BARCELLONA,
BAROQUE FLUTE
DAVID GARRETT,
VIOLA DA GAMBA
MARK URANKER,
HARPSICHORD
WITH SPECIAL GUEST
KEN AISO,
BAROQUE VIOLIN
F A C U L T Y A R T I S T R E C I T A L
“MUSICAL MASTERPIECES
OF THE BAROQUE ERA”
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of the Houston Symphony, Assistant Principal of the San Antonio Symphony,
and a member of the New Orleans Philharmonic. Garrett also appears frequently
as recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist, receiving popular and critical
acclaim. Writing in Strad magazine, Henry Roth observed, he is, “a polished and
experienced musician...excellent in all departments.”
Garrett maintains a wide range of musical interests: he has recorded modern cello
works for the Albany and Opus One labels, his doctoral dissertation includes
publication of previously unknown baroque cello works, and he pursues the
standard literature in regular solo and chamber music performances. Garrett also
enjoys teaching: his preparatory students consistently excel in competitions and
honors orchestras and he has been a member of the faculty at Ball State University,
the University of Texas at San Antonio, and Trinity University. Garrett teaches
cello at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music.
Along with his wife, Junko, David Garrett performs cello and piano recitals as the
Belrose Duo, including several tours in both the U.S. and Japan. Away from the
cello Garrett enjoys playing the viola da gamba, composing, and arranging, and in
his spare time he enjoys games and sports.
ABOUT
MARK URANKER
Mark Uranker enjoys a varied career as a
pianist, harpsichordist, chamber musician, and composer. With pianist Althea
Waites, he tours as the Orpheus Duo, a two-piano ensemble dedicated to
performing standard works of the repertoire as well as championing new works.
Premiering the works of many composers, he has performed at many venues
including the Luckman Center for the Arts, California Institute of the Arts, the
Palm Springs Bach Festival, and on KUSC.
He has composed for both theater and dance: his works include incidental
music for Moliere’s Bourgeois Gentleman, Peter Shaffer’s Royal Hunt of the Sun
and music for prominent choreographers. Mr. Uranker has also composed and
directed music for the gala opening of the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach.
He gave his New York premiere as a harpsichordist at the prestigious Midtown
Concerts early music series.
In addition, Mr. Uranker also studied harpsichord and continuo playing with
Gwendolyn Toth, and Baroque vocal technique and interpretation with Grant
Herreid. He has coached and directed many works from the Baroque era,
including Orfeo by Monteverdi, Agrippina and Giulio Cesare by Handel and the
Magnificat of J. S. Bach.
Mr. Uranker is on the faculty of the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music.
PROGRAM
Chaconne en Trio ..................................................................................M. Morel
(1660 -1725)
Concerto IV for Harpsichord ......................................Jean-Philippe Rameau
Loure vive (1683-1764)
Vivement
Rondement
Trio in F ..........................................................................Georg Philipp Telemann
Vivace (1681-1767)
Mesto
Allegro
INTERMISSION
Fuga canonica in Epidiapente ..................................... Johann Sebastian Bach
from The Musical Offering (1685 -1750)
Trio Sonata in C minor ...........................................................................J. S. Bach
from The Musical Offering
Largo
Allegro
Andante
Allegro
Ken Aiso—baroque violin
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ABOUT THE
INSTRUMENTS
Mr. Aiso’s baroque violin was made by Antonio Bardantoni in Ancona, Italy,
during the 19th Century (n.d.). It was converted back to an early set up. The bow
was made by Meridith Attwood in the mid 18th Century English style.
Dr. Barcellona’s traversi are replicas of a Carlo Palanca mid-18th-century flute,
one made in 2011 from grenadilla (black wood) and one made in 2012 from ebony,
by Martin Wenner, Singen, Germany.
Dr. Garrett’s viola da gamba was made in 1995 by Joe Baker in the style of baroque
instruments by Barak Norman.
Mr. Uranker’s harpsichord was built by Willard Martin in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania;
it is a Franco-Flemish double manual harpsichord in the French tradition, patterned
after an antique prototype made in Paris circa 1720 signed “Nicolas Blanchet.”
After the performance, you are cordially invited on stage to view the instruments
and ask questions.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
ABOUT
KEN AISO
Ken Aiso is internationally recognized as one of today’s
most musical and versatile violinists. His playing is praised not only for his
singularly beautiful tone, but also for the unique atmosphere of intimacy he
evokes as he draws in his audiences.
As recitalist and chamber musician, Mr. Aiso has performed throughout
Europe, the US and Japan with appearances at prestigious concert halls such as
the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Musikverein (Vienna), Wigmore and Queen
Elizabeth Halls (London). He is a graduate of Royal Academy of Music in London,
and is a prize winner of Long-Thibaud International Competition in Paris and
International Music Competition of Japan. He was honored to appear before the
Emperor and Empress of Japan.
Mr. Aiso has been invited to renowned music festivals in Europe, India, Georgia, Bolivia
and Kazakhstan, and has taught at Montecito Summer Music Festival in Southern
California since 2008. He has performed regularly with the Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, in the period instrument,
as well as with the London Philharmonic, Mahler Chamber, English Chamber, Scottish
Chamber and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestras in the major concert venues in Europe
and USA. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in London in 2005.
Mr. Aiso is a faculty member at the Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles
and at La Sierra University in Riverside. He has co-founded Soundness Festival
in the UK, bringing awareness of classical music as vibrational healing medium,
working in music meditation and improvisation workshops. His holistic work
includes music in hospitals and schools for special needs children.
ABOUT
JOHN BARCELLONA
John Barcellona is Professor Emeritus
of Flute at California State University, Long Beach and is flutist with the
internationally acclaimed Westwood Wind Quintet (recordings on Columbia,
Crystal and WIM labels), the Caliendo Trio (recording on Ardus Gramophone),
the Caliendo/Barcellona Duo, and the BCCM Faculty Baroque Trio (Baroque
flute). John conducts and composes for the BCCM Native American flute Choir—
the only group of its kind.
He is the former Principal flutist with the Pacific Symphony and piccolo with
the Long Beach Symphony. An active freelance musician in southern California,
he has played Principal flute with many international ballet companies. His solo
album, Is this the way to Carnegie Hall? (with Calvin Smith, horn) was nominated
to the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for a Grammy award.
John is a former member of the Moyse Duo with pianist, Louis Moyse. He has also
taught doctoral students at Claremont Graduate University and has performed
with Concordia Clarimontis (faculty Baroque ensemble at Claremont Graduate
University), and Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble.
John is a Contributing Editor and has written a regular column in Flute Talk
magazine entitled, “The Flute Doctor.” This is the first and only time the magazine
has run a complete flute pedagogy series of articles. John has taught and performed
in many music festivals, including the Rio International Cello Encounter in Brazil,
The International flute Festival in Lima, Peru and the Fairbanks Summer Arts
Festival for 30 years. During the Vietnam War era, John was a member of the U.S.
Army Military Academy Band at Westpoint, NY.
John Barcellona received his Bachelor of Music from the Hartt School of Music,
Master of Arts from California State University Long Beach, and Doctor of Musical
Arts from the University of Southern California. He has ran 77 marathons to date
completing the last one February 28, 201. It was his 28th annual University Wind
Quintet, Scholarship Run at the Surf City Marathon in Huntington Beach.
ABOUT
DAVID GARRETT
David Garrett joined the teaching faculty in
the department of Music in Fall 2001. He became part of the cello section of the
Los Angeles Philharmonic in February of 2000. Previously David was a member