Seth Carlin, faculty piano recital

with Nicolas del Grazia, clarinet, and Jooyeon Kong, violin

Free Admission.

Program to include the following:

Preludes and Fugues from the                                        Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
“Well-Tempered Clavier,”  Book I (1722)             

4.  C-sharp minor, S. 849
5. D major, S. 850

 

Characteristic  Pieces from “Davidsbündlertänze,”      Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Opus 6 (1837)                                                               

Lebhaft.
Innig.
Mit Humor.
Ungeduldig.
Einfach.
Sehr rasch.
Nicht schnell.
Balladenmässig. Sehr rasch.
Wie aus der Ferne.

Intermission

Sonata no. 3, opus 28 (1917)                                            Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
 

Suite from L’Histoire du Soldat (1918)                              Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
For Violin, Clarinet and Piano                                     

Marche du Soldat
Le violon du Soldat
Petit Concert
Tango-Valse-Rag

Seth Carlin's career began at the age of nine with a broadcast performance over radio station WNYC, performing a work written especially for him. Since then Carlin has been soloist with orchestras such as the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Philharmonia Baroque and Boston "Pops", with conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Nicholas McGegan and Roger Norrington, in recital with performers such as Pinchas Zukerman and Malcolm Bilson, and in performances at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, the Marlboro Music Festival, and the Newport Music Festival in Rhode Island, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Great Performers at Lincoln Center Mozart Marathon, Cambridge Society for Early Music in Massachusetts, and "On Original Instruments" at Merkin Hall in New York. In addition he has made appearances on French, Swedish, German and mainland Chinese national television and radio, and recorded for Titanic and Naiad records. Recent concerts have taken him to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Mr. Carlin performed the cycle of complete Schubert fortepiano sonatas, including the "Wanderer" Fantasy, in New York City during the 1991-92 season. The concerts were broadcast nationally on National Public Radio's Program "Performance Today." Seth Carlin was a prizewinner in the International Busoni Competition, a recipient of a special scholarship from the French government, and one of only two fully funded National Endowment for the Arts recitalist grant winners in the United States in 1989. He holds degrees from Harvard University (B.A. in music, cum laude), the Juilliard School (M.S. in piano) and the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris (Licence de Concert, premier nommé à l'unanimité), and has studied piano with Rosina Lhevinne, Jules Gentil and Morton Estrin, as well as interpretation with Wilhelm Kempff. His CD recording of Sonatas and Bagatelles by Beethoven was named "Recording of the Month" by Alte Musik Actuelle magazine. Carlin is Professor of Music and head of the piano program at Washington University in Saint Louis.

Acclaimed as a clarinetist of "great artistry and virtuosic command of the instrument" (The Clarinet), Nicolas del Grazia is Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Arkansas Tech University, and has appeared as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician throughout the United States and Europe. Performances have taken him as far afield as Vienna's MusikVerein, London's Barbican Hall, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel). A strong advocate of contemporary music, he has performed with a number of leading new music ensembles, including Brave New Works and Chicago's Pocket Opera Players, and is also a regular member of Aguava New Music Studio, heralded as "brilliant" by the Washington Post and as "easily one of the most impressive new music ensembles in America today" by the International Record Review. He has worked with a number of the country's leading composers, including David Felder, Evan Chambers, Kristin Kuster, Dorothy Chang, and MacArthur 'Genius' prize winner John Eaton. An active scholar and researcher, Nicolas del Grazia has twice been the recipient of awards from The International Clarinet Association for his research. His work focuses particularly on lesser-known works for clarinet from the first half of the twentieth century, and he has published work on the hitherto unknown Pastorale & Rondo by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and the unfinished Quartet for Clarinet and Strings by Alexander Zemlinsky. Nicolas has taught clarinet at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music and Denison University, and has given masterclasses and clinics at universities throughout the US and abroad, including the Vale Veneto International Music Festival in Brazil. His musical studies were at City University London, the Guildhall School of Music (London), and Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music where he completed a D.Mus degree in clarinet performance. He also holds a Master's degree in Music Theory and Analysis from King's College London, and enjoys composing virtuosic encore pieces for the clarinet. The "pixelated humor" (AllMusic.com) of his Tarantella for clarinet and piano can be heard on ITALIAN VINTAGES, on the Centaur label.

 

Jooyeon Kong was born in Seoul, Korea, where she began playing the violin at the age of seven. She continued violin studies at the Yewon School, the Seoul High School for the Arts, and the preparatory division of the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. She earned her bachelor's degree in music performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University where she studied with Kathleen Winkler, and her master's degree and Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music under the tutelage of Peter Oundjian. A member of the St. Louis Symphony since 2006, Jooyeon Kong has also been active as a chamber musician and performer of new music, and has performed on numerous occasions in the collaborative concert series presented by the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and the STL Symphony. Her festival appearances include Banff, Bellingham, Yellow Barn, and Academia de Santender in Spain. She has performed at notable music festivals throughout the United States and Europe including the Bellingham Festival of Music, Yellow Barn Festival, Banff Summer Arts Festival, and the Encuentro de Musica y Academia de Santander in Spain.