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April 26, 2000 -- On Friday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. in Cabell Hall, the McIntire Department of Music will host the final performance of the students from the Guild Trio's annual Chamber Music Performance Seminar. Works include the Mozart D Major Flute Quartet, The Brahms Horn Trio, Dvorak's beloved A Major Piano Quintet, and Beethoven's 8th Violin Sonata. "The seminar keeps growing in popularity every year," says Guild Trio cellist Brooks Whitehouse, "and the breadth of repertoire covered in this semester is unprecedented." To accommodate the length of the program, the concert will start at 7:30 p.m., with an intermission after Mozart and Brahms, starting again at 8:30 p.m. with Beethoven and Dvorak. The seminar actually covered one more major work than is on this program, namely the Shostakovich 8th string quartet, which appeared on the Guild Trio's New Music Ensemble performance on April 17. There were so many people enrolled, and so many major works being prepared, that it was necessary to split the performances up. The Dvorak Quintet has among its string players two recent finalists in the Sixth Annual Shenandoah Valley Music Festival College Concerto Competition. Violinist Min Han and cellist Daniel Pinkham are two of five finalists chosen from this competition which is open to all students attending college in Virginia, the District of Columbia, West Virginia and Maryland. The first place winner will have the opportunity to perform with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra during the 2000 Shenandoah Valley Music Festival. The finals are on April 29 at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA. Min Han, who studies with Guild Trio violinist Janet Orenstein, greatly impressed the string faculty with her flawless performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto at last December's jury examination. So when the competition announcement came along, Orenstein encouraged Han to apply. Pinkham, who studies with the Charlottesville Symphony's prinicpal cellist Paige Riggs, is a rising star in the music department, and brings Max Bruch's famous Kol Nidrei to the finals. The Dvorak's pianist, Michael Mizrahi, is no stranger to competitions either, being a past winner of the National Symphony Orchestra's youth Concerto Competition three years ago. But concerto playing and chamber music pose very different challenges to a player. While a concerto soloist is almost always the dominant leader whenever he or she is playing, chamber music is a collaborative effort requiring a democratic process both in rehearsal and performance. "There is a constant give and take, and a constant need to respond to one another that makes chamber music such a uniquely demanding experience," says Orenstein, "These groups have worked very well together over the course of the semester to foster this kind of group unity and sensitivity." For more information, call the Cabell Box Office at 924-3984. CONTACT: Marcy Day, 924-6492; e-mail, mday@virginia.edu |
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Guild
Trio Chamber Music Performance Seminar Presents Great Repertoire,
and Two Concerto Competition Finalists