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Concert: A Little Night Music; A special alumni concert, Ithaca Concert: A Little Night Music; A special alumni concert, Ithaca

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Welcome by Dean Arthur Ostrander, School of Music

Painted Mermaid

Adagio and Allegro, op. 70 Le Basque

Alex Shuhan, French horn Steve Brown '64, guitar

Miles Brown, double bass

David Gluck '89 (b. 1967)

Robert Schumann (1810-56) Marin Marais (1656-1728)

Alex Shuhan, French horn Diane Birr, piano

Prelude and Fugue in C Minor Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) from The Well Tempered Clavier, Book I

La Cathedrale engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral) Claude Debussy (1862-1918) No. 10 of Preludes, Book I

Rhapsody in C, op. 11, no. 3 Ernst von Dohnanyi (1877-1960)

Mattinata Non ti scordar di me Zueignung If I Could Tell You I Love Life

The Juggler's Etude Don Agustin Bardi Grilli to Remeleixo (Choro no. 9)

Stephanie Pieck '94, piano

Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919) Ernesto de Curtis (1875-1937)

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Idabelle Firestone (187 4-1954)

Mana-Zucca (1887-1981)

Christopher Scholl '7 4, tenor Diane Birr, piano

Ralph Towner (b. 1940) Horacio Salgan (b. 1916)

Horacio Salgan Augusto Marcellino (1937-72)

Gordon Stout, marimba Pablo Cohen, classical guitar

Pianist DIANE BIRR has collaborated with numerous vocalists and instrumentalists in recitals and master classes throughout the United States and in Canada, France, Scotland, Austria, and Norway. Artists with whom she has performed include Eduard Melkus, Frarn;:ois Rabbath, Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Christian Lindberg, Meir Rimon, Joseph Alessi, M. Dee Stewart, and David Walters. She has been an official accompanist for the Music Teachers National Association national competitions (for the past seven years), the International Trombone Workshop, and the International Horn Workshop. For the past ten years she has served on the piano faculty of International Workshops, an annual two-week music and arts festival, where she coaches chamber music and performs in faculty recitals and master classes. Her collaborative performances can be heard on Liscio Recordings, Crystal Records, and Houston Publishing. Birr has been an assistant professor of piano at Ithaca College since 1993.

Bassist MILES BROWN has just completed his third year of study at the Eastman School of Music, where he is majoring in music education and jazz studies. During his high school career he performed in the symphony orchestra, string orchestra, concert band, chamber orchestra, vocal jazz ensemble, jazz ensemble, and an improvisational group called the Players. He also played in the pit orchestra for Guys and Dolls, Bye Bye Birdie, and The Wiz. During that time he won the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award, the Six Flags Music in the Parks Outstanding Soloist Award, and an honorable mention in the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts competition. He played in the all-state string orchestra in 1994 and was the bassist for the all-state jazz ensemble in 1995. He is in great demand as a bassist in New York State and is a coleader of the local rock band the Sour Lemmings, whose latest CD is What Choo Ta/kin Bout Willis?

Guitarist, composer, and arranger STEVE BROWN '64 is a professor of music and director of the jazz studies program at Ithaca College. Three recordings under his leadership are available: Good Lines and Child's P/,ay, both on Cafe Records, and a new release, Night Ulaves, on his own label, Brown Cats Productions. He is coauthor with Ray Brown of an instructional book and recording, An Introduction to jazz Improvisation. He has recorded with Chuck Israels's National Jazz Ensemble; Chuck Mangione; and the California big band Full, Faith and Credit. His latest writing projects have included commissioned works for the Hal Galper Trio and the Airmen of Note, the Celebration of the Arts Jazz Festival (COTA Cats) featuring himself and Phil Woods, and a piece for the Harvard University Band. His recent releases as a guitarist/arranger under the leadership of Steve Gilmore include three compact discs: I'm All Smiles, Silhouette, and The jazz Dancer and the Bass P/,ayer on Jazz Mania; and three CDs under the leadership of drummer Danny D'Imperio: Blues for Philly foe, Hip to It and Glass Enclosure on V.S.O.P. He is an active performer/clini-cian in the United States and Europe, and has performed with Bill Goodwin, Barry Harris, Billy Hart, Gerry Niewood, Jimmy Smith, Bobby Watson, and others. He is featured on the new Brown Cats Production CD by the Ray Brown Great Big Band, Impressions of Point Lobos.

Guitarist PABW COHEN has participated in solo, ensemble, and orchestral concerts in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Festival appearances have included Philadelphia's Mozart on the Square, Festival Casals in Puerto Rico, Carrefour Mondial de la Guitare in Martinique, Calcano Festival in Caracas, Tel Aviv

) Guitar Festival, Geneva International Festival, and Musickfest '95 in Bethlehem, ' Pennsylvania. A graduate ofTemple University with a doctorate in musical arts, Cohen is

guitar professor at Ithaca College, an affiliate artist at Cornell University, and guitar profes-sor at Mansfield University in Pennsylvania. He has received numerous awards for his performances in national and international competitions. Recently he received the Music Teachers National Association Award for his outstanding teaching. "Grand class and enlightened emotion ... " are the words that Les Cahiers de la Guitare used to describe Cohen's playing upon his debut recital at the Salle Cartot in Paris in 1991. "Fluid and delicate shape," wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer in reviewing his rendering of Giuliani's Concerto for guitar and strings as concerto soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. More recently he was recognized by recording the premiere of Carlos Guastavino's ]eromita Linares with Camerata Bariloche Chamber Orchestra of Argentina for Dorian Recordings.

STEPHANIE PIECK '94 graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in piano perform-ance. In 1996 she founded The Music Suite, a piano school in upstate New York, which

)riow has an enrollment of more than 50 students. In 1998 Pieck organized the school's Piano Olympics program, with annual competitions in recital performance, general musi-cianship, and original composition. She has been working closely with the Hal Leonard Corporation to produce its Student Piano Library in Braille. Pieck was recently recognized as a specialist in international Braille keyboard music collections and private music instruc-tion by the Music Education Network for the Visually Impaired at the Southern California Conservatory of Music, and she is an instructor in Braille music for the New York State Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped. She has received scholarships from the Eastern New York chapter of the American Guild of Organists and the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra. A frequent recitalist, she has performed in New York, Pennsylvania, and California.

Tenor CHRISTOPHER SCHOLL '74 recently returned to the United States after almost 20 years in Europe, where he enjoyed a career in opera, oratorio, and recitals. He earned a

, bachelor's degree from Ithaca College and a master's degree from the Eastman School of )1usic. While pursuing his doctoral studies at Eastman, he took a leave of absence to study at the Conservatory of Music in Lubeck, Germany, a move that proved influential in deter-mining his professional pursuits. Scholl performed throughout Europe, singing in Munich, Mannheim, Kiel, Rostock, Paris, Marseilles, and Trieste. He also collaborated with conduc-tors Carlos Kleiber, Jiri Kout, Gerard Oskamp, Wolfgang Sawallisch, and Klauspeter Siebel; and stage directors Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Uwe Schwarz, and Klaus von Wangelin. His oper-

atic repertoire embraces music from the baroque to the 20th century and Broadway. His roles have included Anastasio in Vivaldi's Guistino, Tamino in Mozart's Die Zauberflote, Pang in Puccini's Turandot, Flamand in Richard Strauss's Capriccio, Hans Scholl in Zimmerman's Die Weisse Rose, and Frank in the world premiere of Bialas's Au/ der Matrazen Gruft (On the Grave of Mattresses), an opera about the life of the German poet Heinrich I) Heine. Scholl also excels in operetta, having portrayed such characters as Barenky in Johann Strauss's Der Ziegeunerbaron and Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus. At home on the concert stage as well, he has performed oratorios and song recitals throughout Europe, frequently in duo recital with his wife, mezzo-soprano Ellen Strba. Scholl joined the voice faculty of the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University upon his return to the United States in 1997. Since then he has performed numerous recitals at Bowling Green, as well as in Toledo and Fremont, Ohio. He recently performed Haydn's Maria Theresa Mass at Bluffton College and Messiah with the Toledo Choral Society and with the Mennonite Choral Society in Bern, Indiana.

GORDON STOUT is professor of percussion at Ithaca College. A composer as well as a percussionist specializing in marimba, he has studied composition with Samuel Adler and Warren Benson and percussion with John Beck and James Salmon. As a composer-recitalist he has premiered a number of his original compositions as well as works by other contem- "" porary composers. Many of his compositions for marimba are published and have become standard repertoire for marimbists worldwide. His recordings are devoted to not only his own music, but also the general standard repertoire by important American composers. These recordings include Stout: Music for Solo Marimba (Studio 4 Productions), Gordon Stout: II (Studio 4 Productions), Alec Wilder's Music for Marimba with Other Instruments (Golden Crest Records, Inc.), Nola: The Eastman Marimba Band (Mercury Golden Imports), New Music Series-Volume 2 (Neuma Records), Perpetua~Michael Burritt (Peppermint Artists Productions), and Images of Chagall-Meyer Kupferman (Soundspells Productions). A frequent lecture-recitalist for the Percussive Arts Society, Stout has appeared as featured marimbist at ten international PAS conventions and throughout the United States and Canada. He has performed at clinics and recitals throughout western Europe.

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