Seth Carlin, Fortepiano and Pablo Mahave-Veglia, Cello
Co-Sponsor: Danforth University Center - Chamber Series
Program:
Grande Sonate by Hélène Riese Liebmann (1796-1835)
7 Variations on 'Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen', WoO 46 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata No. 3, Op. 69 in A Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Biographies:
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 St. Louis Symphony, 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 St. Louis.
Cellist Pablo Mahave-Veglia resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he is Associate Professor of Cello at Grand Valley State University. Mr. Mahave-Veglia is a cellist and teacher of broad interests whose repertoire ranges from the early baroque, performed on period instruments, to his ongoing interest in researching, performing and recording the work of contemporary Latin-American composers. He counts among his musical influences his mother, the noted piano pedagogue Mercedes Veglia, as well as such artists/teachers as Arnaldo Fuentes, Steven Doane, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Janos Starker and Uri Vardi.
Throughout the 2014-15 season he will be involved in the performance of the Complete Beethoven Sonatas and Variations for cello and pianoforte utilizing period instruments and historical performance practices. Each of the three concerts will be performed at Grand Valley State University, and repeated in regional concert series, and feature a different keyboard artist. Concerts will take place at Eastern Michigan University, the Ann Arbor Early Music Academy, the Feeding the Soul of the City Series in Muskegon, MI, the Colby Barn Early Music Series in Illinois, and Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
Previous endeavors include touring with a solo program of the Bach Cello Suites using original instruments, including a 5-string violoncello piccolo. Recent concerts, classes and lectures include performances at Ohio University, Converse College in South Carolina, Arizona Sate University, the SUNY at Fredonia, Queens College in Ontario, Canada, and the Universities of Iowa, Delaware, Kentucky and Hong Kong Baptist University, among many others. His program of galant style Sonatas by London-based composers was performed at suc such venues as the Fringe Concerts of the Boston Early Music Festival, the Fontana Chamber Arts Summer Festival in Kalamazoo, and in Chicago’s Live from WFMT radio broadcast series.
An alumnus of the Interlochen Arts Academy, Dr. Mahave-Veglia holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University and the Eastman School of Music. Additionally, he has attended such music festivals as Banff (Canada), NOI (Maryland), Pacific Music Festival (Japan), the Jerusalem International Festival (Israel) and the Schleswig-Holstein and Heidelberg Music Festivals (Germany). Mr. Mahave-Veglia is a former faculty member at the University of Evansville (Indiana), Ripon College (Wisconsin), St. Cloud State University (Minnesota), the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Madison Summer Cello Institute, the International Music Academy in Pilsen (Czech Republic), and the Eastern and Brevard Music Festivals (North Carolina). In addition, he has appeared as soloist or chamber musician in his native Chile, Colombia, Perú, Costa Rica, Europe, Hong Kong and Malaysia. In the United States he has performed at such venues as the Mammoth Lakes Chamber Music Festival (California), the Saugatuck Music Festival (Michigan), the Dame Myra Hess Recital Series in Chicago, the Elvehem Museum in Madison, Wisconsin, and in New York City at the Renee Weiler Hall, Bang on a Can Marathon and le poisson rouge.
Professor Mahave-Veglia performs on a five-string baroque cello made by Chilean Luthier Marcelo Cigna in 1986. He also performs on a late eighteenth century British cello restored to period setup by Ian Watchorn in 2005. His modern instrument is a 1790 William Forster on loan to him by an anonymous private collector.
Mr. Mahave-Veglia has recorded for the Eroica, Centaur, Audite, Ghostly International and Innova labels. Visit his website at www.pmvcello.com