Bowling Green State University

Violin professor Caroline Chin will present a recital as part of the Spring 2021 Faculty Artist Series. This event is virtual and will be live streamed:

https://www.youtube.com/user/bgsumusic/videos

PROGRAM

The Bremen Town Musicians..........Kile Smith

Ferdinand the Bull..........Alan Ridout (1934-1996)

An Adventure at Grannie’s..........Gwyneth Walker

Three Little Pigs..........Daniel Dorff

(no intermission)

Bios of guest artist and composers:

David Yang

Recipient of an artist fellowship from the Independence Foundation awarded to a small number of exceptional artists, violist David Yang has been called “a conduit for music” and his playing described as “lithe and expressive” in the Strad Magazine. A renaissance man, he has forged a career that is a blend of performing, composition, and storytelling. David has been heard in collaboration with members of the Borromeo, Brentano, Jasper, Miro, Pro Arte, Vermeer, and Tokyo String Quartets and Apple Hill Chamber Players, Trio Solisti, and Eroica Piano Trios. Concert highlights include concertos in Canada and Great Britain along with recitals in Italy, the UK, and throughout the USA. As an active advocate of new music he has commissioned dozens of works. Artistic Director of the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival (Boston), Ashburton Chamber Music Festival (Devon, England), and Director of Chamber Music at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), in his role as leader of the Auricoalae Storytelling and Music Troupe he developed a residency program to foster the creation of new compositions by public school students. A member of string trio Ensemble Epomeo based in the the United Kingdom, their premiere recording was designated “Critic’s Choice” in Grammophone Magazine (“A splendid disc I cannot get enough of” ). Their second CD included the music of Schnittke, Penderecki, and Kurtag (“...remarkable intensity and elegant assurance throughout... bristles with detail – there are finely balanced chords moving from glowing diatonicism to harsh dissonance, and carefully shaped melodies with beautifully expressive vibrato – yet they never lose sight of the work’s broader architecture, nor of its poignant, increasingly bleak mood” – The Strad Magazine). Their third recording of Schoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht received universal acclaim (“an impressive recording that exposes many details of the score that usually remain obscure”- Gavin Dixon). David records for Avie, New Focus, and Somm.

Daniel Dorff

Daniel Dorff's flute music has entered the repertoire and is frequently performed worldwide; in the 5 years since its publication, 30 flutists have shared YouTube performances of his Sonata (Three Lakes). Dorff has written 7 commissions for the Philadelphia Orchestra's education department, and the Minnesota Orchestra's Kinder Konzert series has performed his music over 200 times. Recent highlights include Concerto for Contrabassoon performed by the Colorado Symphony, an all-Dorff recital by faculty at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, two episodes of NPR's From The Top featuring Sonata (Three Lakes), and numerous orchestral and chamber concerts postponed to later dates. During the quarantine, Dorff's solos, duos, and quartets have been a staple of many livestream  videos. Dorff's works have been presented by Young Audiences (over 1000 opera performances in schools), the Atlanta Opera (60 performances), Baltimore Symphony (32 performances), Pittsburgh Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Aspen Music Festival, Chicago Symphony Radiothon, clarinetists of the Chicago Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic, pianists Jeremy Denk and Marc-André Hamelin, and many of the world's leading flutists. His orchestral music has been premiered by maestros including Alan Gilbert and Wolfgang Sawallisch. Dorff has also created arrangements for Sir James Galway and pop musicians Keith Emerson and Lisa Loeb. Daniel Dorff was born in New Rochelle, NY; acclaim began at age 18 with First Prize in the Aspen Music Festival's annual composers' competition. Dorff received degrees in composition from Cornell and University of Pennsylvania; teachers included George Crumb, George Rochberg, Karel Husa, Henry Brant, Ralph Shapey, and Elie Siegmeister. He studied saxophone with Sigurd Rascher and bass clarinet with Ronald Reuben. Dorff served from 1996 through 2015 as Composer-In-Residence for Symphony in C, in which he played bass clarinet from 1980 through 2002. Dorff's compositions have been published by Theodore Presser, Carl Fischer, Southern/Keiser Music, Shawnee Press, Mel Bay, and Kendor Music, and recorded on Albany, Bridge, Centaur, Crystal, Azica, and many other labels. YouTubes of his compositions and arrangements have received over 1,250,000 views.

Alan Ridout

The English composer Alan Ridout was born in 1934 in West Wickham (Kent). He studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Gordon Jacob and Herbert Howells and took further lessons with Peter Fricker and Michael Tippett. In 1957 he studied in the Netherlands with Henk Badings, who brought him into contact with Adriaan Fokker and the 31-tone system. He settled in Canterbury, the seat of the de Anglican church, a not unimportant fact given the considerable number of his church compositions, both for choir as for organ.
Ridout teaches since 1962 composition at the Royal College of Music in London. During shorter and longer periodes he was teacher also at the Universities of Birmingham, Canterbury and London. Except said church music, Ridout also composed secular choir music, opera's, symphonic works, chamber music, music for piano and a number of microtonal pieces, mainly in 31-tone equal temperament. He is furthermore renowned for his compositions for didactical purposes and his radio talks about the "Background to Music". His style is eclectic, clearly contemporary, but always musical and with the listener's ear in mind.

Kile Smith

The music of Grammy-nominated composer Kile Smith (b. 1956) is hailed nationally and internationally by critics, performers, and audiences for its strong voice, sheer beauty, and “profoundly direct emotional appeal.” Gramophone called the “sparkling beauty” of Vespers “spectacular.” The Philadelphia Inquirer called it “ecstatically beautiful,” American Record Guide, “a major new work,” Audiophile Audition, “easily one of the best releases of the year of any type… a crime to pass up,” and Fanfare, “a magnificent achievement.”

The Arc in the Sky with The Crossing received a 2020 Grammy nomination for Best Choral Performance, and his Canticle with Cincinnati's Vocal Arts Ensemble helped win the 2020 Best Classical Producer Grammy for Blanton Alspaugh. Other commissions include The Consolation of ApolloThe Waking SunWhere Flames a Word, and others for The Crossing, who have commissioned Kile more than any other composer, The Dawn's Early Light for Conspirare and the L.A. Guitar Quartet, and works for Cincinnati’s Vocal Arts Ensemble, Piffaro the Renaissance Band, Helena Symphony, Choral Arts Society of Washington, Lyric Fest, Westminster Choir College, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, Newburyport Chamber Music Festival, the Pennsylvania and iSing Girl choirs, Choral Arts Philadelphia, Relâche, Orchestra 2001, American Guild of Organists Philadelphia Chapter, Gaudete Brass, Red Shift, Mélomanie, and the Philadelphia Sinfonia. He's also completed commissions for organist Alan Morrison, the Association of Anglican Musicians, the Episcopal Cathedral of Boston, and many others. He’s composed for Philadelphia Orchestra concertmaster David Kim and principal horn Jennifer Montone. His music has been performed throughout the US, in Europe, and by The 24 and others in the UK. Kile received an Independence Foundation Fellowship for his first opera, The Book of Job. Nine CDs with his music have been released since 2018. Kile has hosted Fleisher Discoveries on radio and podcast since 2002, and is a contributor to the arts and culture magazine Broad Street Review.

Gwyneth Walker

Widely performed throughout the country, the music of American composer Gwyneth Walker is beloved by performers and audiences alike for its energy, beauty, reverence, drama, and humor. Dr. Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947) is a graduate of Brown University and the Hartt School of Music. She holds B.A., M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in Music Composition. A former faculty member of the Oberlin College Conservatory, she resigned from academic employment in 1982 in order to pursue a career as a full-time composer. For nearly 30 years, she lived on a dairy farm in Braintree, Vermont. She now divides her time between her childhood hometown of New Canaan, Connecticut and the musical community of Randolph, Vermont. Gwyneth Walker is a proud resident of New England. She was the recipient of the 2000 "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Vermont Arts Council and the 2018 "Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award" from Choral Arts New England. In 2020, her alma mater, the Hartt School of Music of the University of Hartford, presented her with the Hartt Alumni Award.

A composer since age two, Gwyneth Walker has always placed great value on active collaboration with musicians. Over the decades, she has traveled to many states to work with instrumental and choral ensembles, soloists, and educational institutions as they rehearse and perform her music. A number of these visits have developed into ongoing relationships. In 2018, Walker was named Composer-in-Residence for the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra in Petoskey, Michigan. Walker's catalog includes over 350 commissioned works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, chorus, and solo voice. A special interest has been dramatic works that combine music with readings, acting, and movement. The music of Gwyneth Walker is published by E.C. Schirmer (choral/vocal/instrumental music) and Lauren Keiser Music (orchestral/instrumental music).

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