Tod Bowermaster, Horn Recital with Patti Wolf, Piano

Program:

Villanelle  (1905)  -  Paul Dukas  (1865 – 1935)

Intermezzo, op 35, No. 11  (1947)  -  Rheinhold Glière (1875 – 1956)

Nocturne, op 35, No. 10 (1908)  -  Rheinhold Glière

Sonata TWV 41:f1  (1728)  -  G.P. Telemann (1681 – 1767)

Intermission

Concert Rondo K. 371 (1781)   -  W.A. Mozart (1756 – 1791)

Four Selections from “The Horn in Song”

                  Melody from Orfeo Ed Euridice (1762) -  C.W. Gluck (1714 – 1787)

                  Siciliano (1739)  -  J.S. Bach  (1685 – 1750)

                  Du bist wie Eine Blume  (1840)  -  Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856)

                  The Salley Garden (1943)  -  Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)

Concertino  (1954)  -  Lars-Erik Larsson (1908 – 1986)

Biographies:

Tod Bowermaster, a native of Ottawa, Illinois, is Third Horn of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, a position he has held since 1995.  He served as Acting Principal Horn for the 2002-2003 season and has appeared as a soloist with the orchestra on numerous occasions.  He has also performed as a soloist with the Honolulu Symphony, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony, and numerous orchestras throughout the Midwest.  Prior to his appointment with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, he was a member of the Honolulu Symphony and the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra. He has also performed with the orchestras of Chicago, Houston, and San Francisco. Winner of the 1999 American Horn Competition and the 1982 Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition, he continues to enjoy performing in both solo and chamber music settings. 


Mr. Bowermaster has been a regular participant in numerous chamber music festivals nationwide, including the Kapalua Music Festival on Maui, the Bay Chamber Concerts in Rockport, Maine, Summerfest in Kansas City, the Innsbruck Festival, Strings in the Mountains in Steamboat Springs, Colorado and the Landmarks Society Chamber Concerts on the island of St. Croix.


He is also in demand as a teacher, having been invited to give recitals and masterclasses at Rice University, Northwestern University, Illinois State University, Northern Illinois University, the Manhattan School of Music, the University of Missouri, and DePauw University. Recent teaching engagements have included being a guest professor at Northwestern University at the Indiana University Summer Music Festival, and performing and teaching at the FEMUSC festival in Brazil. When not playing the horn, he enjoys playing tennis and singing, He lives in Kirkwood, Missouri with his wife, Cynthia, a violinist, and their children Kathryn and Ryan.

 

Since being selected at age nineteen as the youngest competitor in the prestigious 1985 Van Cliburn Competition, Patti Wolf has been in demand as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician, playing with many of the world’s most distinguished artists.  Among the last are collaborations with concertmasters Glenn Dicterow of the New York Philharmonic, Andreas Cardenas of the Pittsburgh Symphony, recital appearances with the Chicago Symphony’s principal horn, Dale Clevenger, and collaboration with the renowned horn soloist Hermann Baumann.   In August of 2004, Ms. Wolf made her debut in Chautauqua playing a duo piano recital with Peter Frankl.  Subsequently, she has appeared with the Audubon Quartet, flautist Carol Wincenc, and cellist Lynn Harrell.  As a soloist she has appeared with the St. Louis Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Portland Youth Philharmonic, and has performed under the batons of Leonard Slatkin, Catherine Comet, Raymond Leppard, and many others.

 
As a collaborative pianist, Patti Wolf has been invited to several International Brass Conferences in Chicago, Kansas City, and San Francisco, and she has performed in recital at the University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Westminster College, the Eastman School, and the University of Iowa. Summer engagements have taken her to the Marrowstone Festival, the Cactus Pear Festival, Strings in the Mountains, and the Aspen Music Festival, where she worked as an accompanying fellow.  Ms. Wolf’s numerous awards and honors include the Kosciuzko Chopin Competition, the American Music Scholarship Association, and the Yale Alumni Association Award.  A scholarship student of Jane Allen at the Saint Louis Conservatory, she later worked with Joseph Kalichstein at the Julliard School, receiving a Bachelor of Music in 1987, followed by graduate work at the Yale School of Music under Peter Frankl, Claude Frank, and Boris Berman, receiving her Master’s degree in 1989.  In 2001 she joined the staff at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University as a collaborative pianist, and recently she served as visiting professor of piano at Washington University in St. Louis.  In April she was featured at the historic Sheldon Concert Hall’s classical series. Currently she is a regular pianist for the St. Louis Symphony, the Chautauqua Symphony, the Chamber Music Society of Saint Louis, and maintains an active private studio.