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November 21, 2016 - 7pm St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

Guitar CenterFrank Almond, violin

René Izquierdo, guitarMargot Schwartz, violinNicole Sutterfield, viola

Peter Thomas, cello

PROGR A M

Sonata Concertata for Violin and Guitar, Opus 61 ...........................................Nicòlo PaganiniAllegro spirotoso (1782–1840)Adagio assai espressivoRondeau: Allegretto con brio scherzando

Solo works for Guitar To be announced from the stage

Selections from History of Tango .................................................................Astor PiazzolaNightclub 1960 (1921-1992)Cafe 1930, Concert d’aujourd’hui

Intermission

Quintet for guitar and strings, Op. 143 .................................Mario Castelnuovo-TedescoAllegro, vivo e schietto (1895–1968)Andante mestoScherzo. Allegro con spirito, alla MarciaFinale. Allegro con fuoco

Lighting design by Ramsey Renno/Milwaukee Airwaves

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FR ANKLY MUSIC BOARD OF D IRECTORS

Linda Tojek, PresidentBarbara Wanless, Vice President

Mary Wann, SecretaryCalvin C. Kozlowski, Treasurer

Dr. Russell BrookerKim JankowiakPatricia CrumpLinda Edelstein

Marta HaasWendy Slocum

Frank Almond, Artistic Director

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Violinist Frank Almond holds the Charles and Marie Caestecker Concertmaster Chair at the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Now celebrating his

21st season with the MSO, he has also held positions as Concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic with Valery Gergiev, and Guest Concertmaster of the London Philharmonic with Kurt Masur. Other Guest Concertmaster appearances have included the Seattle Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Grand Tetons Music Festival, and the San Diego Symphony. He continues an active schedule of solo and chamber music performances in the US and abroad including appearances with the Ojai Festival, Frankly Music, An die Musik, the Nara Academy in Nara, Japan, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Music in the Vineyards, and various solo appearances with orchestras.

He has been a member of the chamber group An die Musik in New York City since 1997, and also founded and directs the much-loved and somewhat notorious Frankly Music Chamber Series based in Milwaukee. At 17, he was one of the youngest prizewinners in the history of the Nicolo Paganini Competition in Genoa, Italy, and five years later was one of two American prizewinners at the Eighth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, which was documented in an award-winning PBS film. Since then he has kept up an eclectic mix of activities in addition to his concertmaster duties, appearing both as a soloist and chamber musician.

In addition to his work with An die Musik, Mr. Almond’s work as a chamber musician has generated collaborations over the years with many of today’s well-known institutions, including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Hal Leonard Corporation, the Ravinia

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Festival, La Jolla Summerfest, Music in the Vineyards, and numerous other summer festivals.

He has recorded for Summit, Albany, Boolean (his own label), Innova, Newport Classic, Wergo and New Albion and has appeared numerous times on NPR’s Performance Today. In both 2002 and 2004 An die Musik received Grammy nominations for its “Timeless Tales” series. The re-release of Mr. Almond’s recording of the complete Brahms Sonatas, performed in collaboration with pianist William Wolfram, brought extraordinary critical acclaim, and was also listed in the American Record Guide top recordings of 2001.

With pianist William Wolfram, a CD of sonatas by Respighi, Janáček, and Strauss was released on the AVIE label to much acclaim, and was named a “Best of 2007“ by the American Record Guide. A CD of American violin and piano music was released on Innova Recordings with pianist Brian Zeger and has also garnered much press enthusiasm. A recording of selected works of Samuel Barber was released in 2010, in cooperation with the Hal Leonard Corporation. In April 2013 AVIE released A Violin’s Life featuring works and composers directly associated with the “Lipinski” Stradivarius, charting in the Billboard Top 10 in its first week of release. A Violin’s Life, Vol. 2 was released in May 2016, also charting at the top of Billboard.

Mr. Almond holds two degrees from the Julliard School where he studied with Dorothy DeLay. Other important teachers included Michael Tseitlin, Felix Galimir, and Joseph Silverstein. He has held academic positions at San Diego State University, Texas Christian University, and Northwestern University, and in 2014 joined the faculty of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. Also in 2014, he was appointed to a newly created Artist-in-Residence position at the Milwaukee Youth Symphony.

He usually plays on a violin by Antonio Stradivari from 1715, the “ex-Lipiński”. In December 2011, he appeared in concerts and masterclasses in Poland to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Karol Lipiński performing on his former violin.

On January 27, 2014, the “ex-Lipiński” Stradivari was stolen from Mr. Almond in an armed robbery after a Frankly Music concert. The violin was recovered nine days later, and the story continues to make headlines around the world. Mr. Almond is extremely grateful to the Milwaukee Police Department, the FBI, and the thousands of individuals who sent messages of concern and support.

Mr. Almond writes an online column, nondivisi, which may be found, along with more information about Frankly Music, A Violin’s Life and the Lipiński Stradivari, at frankalmond.com.

René Izquierdo, a native of Cuba, graduated from the Guillermo Tomas, Amadeo Roldan Conservatory and Superior Institute of

Art in Havana. In the United States, Mr. Izquierdo earned a Master of Music and an Artist Diploma degree from the Yale University School of Music, where he studied with Benjamin Verdery. While at Yale, he represented the university in an exchange program with the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse du Paris and worked with guitarists Olivie Chassain and Roland Dyens. Rene has appeared as a guest soloist and in chamber music concerts throughout the United States, Cuba and Europe. He has shared the stage with prestigious guitarists including Eliot Fist, Benjamin Verdery and Jorge Morel, as well as renowned flutist Ransom Wilson, soprano Lucy Shelton, David Jolley and

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Paquito d’Rivera. Renowned composers such as Jorge Morel and Carlos R. Rivera have dedicated works to him. Mr. Izquierdo is a recipient of numerous awards. He is a winner of the JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Competition in 2004, Extremadura International Guitar Competition, Schadt String competition, and Stotsenberg International Guitar Competition, among others. He is currently a professor of classical guitar at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee and an active solo performer and chamber musician. Rene has studied with Leo Brouwer, David Russell, Shin-Ichi Fukuda, Eli Kastner, Pepe Romero, Angel Romero, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, David Starobin, Eduardo Fernandez, Jorge Morel, Robert Beaser and Anthony Newman, among others.

A native of Oakland, California, violinist Margot Schwartz is a member of the First Violin section in the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. She has

appeared as soloist with the Milwaukee, Berkeley, and Oakland East Bay Symphonies. As a chamber musician, in which capacity she has performed extensively on both violin and viola, Ms. Schwartz has appeared at New York’s Bargemusic and on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW series. She continues to perform regularly in Milwaukee as the newest member of the esteemed Prometheus Trio; as well as on numerous series in the area, including Frankly Music and Present Music; and with Ilana Setapen in the violin/viola duo Bowing Rogue.

During the summer, Ms. Schwartz performs in the First Violin sections of both the Bellingham and Peninsula Music Festivals. A former teacher at the Music Institute of Chicago as well as the Lincoln-

Bassett School in New Haven, Connecticut, Schwartz currently teaches privately in Milwaukee and coaches sectionals and chamber music at local high schools.Ms. Schwartz holds a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music, where she studied with Ani Kavafian, as well as a Bachelor of Music which she earned cum laude from the Northwestern University School of Music, where she was a student of Roland and Almita Vamos.

Nicole Sutterfield is the Assistant Principal violist of the Milwaukee Symphony. A Minnesota native, Ms. Sutterfield has enjoyed a multi-faceted career

from the midwest to the Pacific coast. As an orchestral musician, Ms. Sutterfield has been a member of the Santa Rosa Symphony and Spokane Symphony as well as principal violist of the Mozart Classical Orchestra of Orange County. She has performed as a soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra and Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, as a backup musician on American Idol, and as special entertainment at the Academy Awards Governors Ball. A former Miss Minnesota, Nicole used her year of service to champion quality music education, visiting over 20,000 students at 84 schools with a guest artist-in-residence program entitled “Music is Instrumental.” Since then, she has served as a Teaching Artist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Manager of Community Engagement Programs at the Colburn Conservatory, and the viola coach for the Spokane Symphony’s Young Musicians Education Programs. She has also participated in Arts Advocacy Days, lobbying for arts funding in both Minnesota and Washington, D.C. Nicole won first place in the Chicago Viola Society competition, was a semifinalist in the international Primrose Memorial Scholarship Competition, and received

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a Non-Finalist Talent Award at the 2007 Miss America Pageant. Ms. Sutterfield holds a Professional Studies Certificate from The Colburn School Conservatory of Music as well as a Bachelor of Music with a minor in journalism from the University of Minnesota. Prior teachers include Paul Coletti, Korey Konkol, and Alice Preves.

Peter J Thomas has been a member of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra since 2008. Originally from Stevens Point, Wisconsin, where he was born into a

family of musicians, Mr. Thomas started cello at age five at the American Suzuki Talent Education Center and received degrees at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and the Cleveland Institute of Music. His primary teachers were Lawrence Leviton, Tanya Remenikova, Joseph Johnson, and Stephen Geber. Prior to joining the MSO, Mr. Thomas performed in the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Canton Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and the New World Symphony.

Mr. Thomas has performed around the country as a soloist, chamber musician, and with the award winning classical cross-over indie-rock band, I’m Not A Pilot. INAP’s discography can be heard on television, movies, and radio stations all over the world and streaming online at Pandora, Spotify, and Rdio. Voted Best Rock Band 2010, 2011, and 2013 in Milwaukee’s Shepherd Express Weekly, Best Rock Band 2011 at WYMS 88nine - Radio Milwaukee

Music Awards (Song of the Year 2014 nomination), and nominated for a plethora of awards including Band of the Year at the 2012 Wisconsin Area Music Industry awards, I’m Not A Pilot has extensively toured the Midwest performing as a four-piece band (and also in collaboration with youth orchestras) at colleges, high schools, performing art centers, music clubs, music festivals, and house concerts. Peter has presented clinics and workshops across the country through his innovative use of the electric cello and has recorded, arranged, and edited music for numerous artists including 2Cellos and The Piano Guys through Hal Leonard Music. He is also the winner of the Wisconsin Area Music Industry’s String Player of the Year award for 2012 and 2015 and has been nominated for the award each year since 2012.

As a teacher, Mr. Thomas maintains a private cello studio of extremely gifted musicians and serves on the faculty of the American Suzuki Institute in the summer. He has taught masterclasses at the UW-Stevens Point, Lawrence University, Eastern Michigan University, Washington College, and at numerous high schools across the state of Wisconsin. His students have won numerous competitions and full tuition scholarships in music programs across the country.

Mr. Thomas also serves on the board of the Wisconsin Cello Society. Peter enjoys the life of being a multi-genre performer/teacher and strives to spread awareness of the arts in the community through his many outlets. Peter performs on a fine English cello circa 1813 by maker Thomas Kennedy.

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January 23, 2017

7 PMSchwan Concert Hall,

Wisconsin Lutheran College

PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR NEXT CONCERT!

An evening of music for winds and strings, culminating in the monumental K. 287 Divertimento of Mozart. Featuring stellar

musicians from the MSO and a few guests as well.

Winds & Strings

Sonora Slocum, fluteTodd Levy, clarinet

Katherine Young Steele, oboeRudy Heinrich, bassoon

Alberto Suarez, hornDietrich Hemann, horn

Frank Almond, violinJeannie Yu, piano

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