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Christian Steiner Ensembles 16 Ensemble News Shan-shan Sun (B.M., 1995, M.M., 1999, piano), student of Paul Schenly, Anne Epperson and Chengzong Yin; and Per Tengstrand, winner of the 1997 Cleveland International Piano Competition, plan to marry in March. They met at CIM when they were practicing in the same corridor. Mr. Tengstrand was visiting for the Piano Competition and Ms. Sun was a graduate student. They became the Tengstrand-Sun Duo in January 2002. The Merling Trio, Ensemble-in-Residence at the School of Music, Western Michigan University, includes Susan Wiersma Uchimura, piano (B.M., 1985, theory); Renata Artman Knific, violin (A.D., 1982, violin); and Bruce Uchimura, cello (A.D., 1983, M.M., 1983, cello). The Trio also serves as faculty members at ENCORE School for Strings. Their new recording, featuring works by Piazzolla and Proto, will be released by Centaur Records in the spring. Tom Knific (B.M., 1982, double bass) will perform with the Trio in Iowa; Hart and Grayling, Michigan; and Reno, Nevada during the current season. The Merling Trio The Kashii Quartet, a student quartet comprised of violinists Nathan Olson, student of William Preucil, and Aaron Requiro, student of David Updegraff; violist Jessica Oudin, student of Jeffrey Irvine; and cellist David Requiro, student of Richard Aaron, has been invited to participate in the 2005 International Chamber Music Workshop at Music@Menlo, a summer festival and concert series directed by pianist Wu Han and David Finckel, cellist of the Emerson String Quartet. The Kashii Quartet will receive coachings from the Emerson, Borromeo, St. Lawrence, Miami and Miró Quartets, among others, and will be featured in several performances throughout the San Francisco area. The program The Kashii Quartet offers a three-week immersion in the chamber works of Beethoven. Ten gifted and highly motivated musicians were chosen by international audition to work on a daily basis with the festival’s renowned artist faculty in an intensive exploration of the Beethoven string quartets, piano trios, and sonatas for violin, cello, and piano, as well as works by Brahms, Schumann, and composers of the 20th century. Additionally, the Quartet has been invited to serve as the ensemble-in-residence at the 2005 Innsbrook Institute Music Festival from June 3-12, where they will be teaching as well as performing. The Miró Quartet accepts the Cleveland Quartet Award The Miró Quartet received the 2005 Cleveland Quartet Award, a biennial honor conferred by Chamber Music America to identify, honor and promote a rising young quartet. Quartet members are Joshua Gindele, cello; John Largess, viola; Sandy Yamamoto (B.M., 1996, M.M., 1998, violin), student of Donald Weilerstein and David Cerone; and Daniel Ching (M.M., 1998, violin), student of Donald Weilerstein. The CIM New Music Ensemble will present a concert on April15 of some of the country’s finest composers. Directed by Margaret Brouwer and conducted by composition graduate assistant Gilbert Galindo, the following works will be performed: Light for soprano, harpsichord, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and percussion by Margaret Brouwer, featuring soloist Mary Mackenzie, student of Beverley Rinaldi; Soul for string quartet and pipa player by Zhou Long; Chamber Symphony for chamber orchestra by John Adams and Ritual Incantations for cello and chamber orchestra by Augusta Read Thomas, featuring cellist Michael DeBruyn, student of Richard Aaron. Zhou Long, who was in residence at CIM during the fall semester, returns for the concert. He will present a Symposium on Saturday, April 16 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. that will be open to the public. He will also conduct master classes with CIM student composers. Joining the New Music Ensemble for this concert will be well-known pipa player, New Yorker Min Xiao-fen, for Zhou Long’s Soul and CIM harpsichordist Janina Ceaser for Brouwer’s Light. Two Decades of Excellence The Cavani String Quartet recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. In case you weren’t aware, Cavani has been the Quartet-in-Residence at CIM since 1988. Members (below, left to right) Mari Sato (violin), Annie Fullard (violin), Merry Peckham (cello) and Kirsten Docter (viola) are familiar faces around campus, but they are also known around the world. Formed in 1984, the Cavani String Quartet is named after 19th century violin makers Giovanni and Vincenzo Cavani. During their residency at CIM, the group has developed the Apprentice Quartet Program, Intensive Quartet Seminar and New Quartet Project for students devoted to the serious study of chamber music. Students from these programs have gone on to successful careers as members of the Maia, Biava, Miró, Cypress and Fry Street Quartets and have been top prize winners in the Coleman, Fischoff, Banff and Naumburg Competitions. The Cavani String Quartet has also participated as visiting artists at Interlochen Arts Camp, Madeline Island Music Festival, Kneisel Hall, Yale Summer School of Music and Art at Norfolk, Britt Arts Training Program and Allegheny Summer Music Festival, Perlman Music Program and ENCORE School for Strings. They have performed at the Carnegie Hall Centennial Series and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Ambassador Series in Los Angeles, Muziekcentrum De Ijsbreker in Amsterdam, and Festival de L’Epau in France, to name a few. The Quartet has been described by The Washington Post as “completely engrossing, powerful and elegant.” The Quartet’s members have been featured on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today” and seen on NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS television. Collaborations with distinguished artists include Itzhak Perlman, Michela Petri, Anton Nel, Benita Valente and members of the Juilliard, Cleveland and Emerson String Quartets.
Daniel Milner 17 9 Preparatory 8 Preparatory David Beytas, an eighth-grade student at Beachwood Middle School and student of Carol Ruzicka in CIM’s Preparatory division, had his composition Starlight Spinner performed at the spring 2004 MENC (The National Association for Music Education) convention in Minnesota. This work was chosen as one of only 22 from 177 applications across the country. David was the only student from Ohio to have his composition performed at the convention. Additionally, David’s original composition Song of the Warrior will be performed at the CIM Preparatory concert April 30, the spring concert of CIM’s three Preparatory string orchestras. CIM students work with students in each section of the orchestra. The concert will be held in Kulas Hall from 11:00 a.m. until 12:30 p.m., with a reception to follow in the lobby. Winners of the Suburban Symphony Orchestra’s Annual Young Artists Concerto Competition included Adam Davis, piano student of Gerardo Teissonnière, and Jessica Wen, piano student of Derek Nishimura. They performed with the Orchestra on March 20 at Beachwood High School. K. Bobbs Sibling Revelry The jurors at the 2005 Firelands Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Concerto Competition in Sandusky were amazed with the exceptionally high level of playing exhibited by the first-prize winners in all the age categories. What they did not know at the time was that the prize winners in three of the categories were siblings! Katrina Bobbs, 16, a student of Gerardo Teissonnière in the Preparatory Piano Division, took first prize in the senior category for playing the Ravel Concerto in G Major. In addition to her piano studies, Katrina is a E. Bobbs private violin student of Paul Kantor. She is also associate concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO) and a member of the COYO string quartet. Emma Louise Bobbs, 13, a private cello student of Richard Aaron, was the first-prize winner in the junior category. She played the Boccherini Concerto in B-flat Major. Both Emma and Katrina play in the Preparatory Chamber Music Program. Their brother Nick Bobbs, 10, took first place in the elementary division for playing the Haydn Concerto in G Major. There are eight children in the very musical Bobbs family, all of whom have been home-schooled by their mother, a piano teacher. As a result of their wins, the Bobbs children will perform two concerts with the Firelands Symphony Orchestra in April, both of which will be recorded on CD. Katrina Bobbs, piano student of Gerardo Teissonnière, has been selected for participation in the Corpus Christi International Young Artists’ Competition in both piano and violin. David Ellis, cello student of Pamela Kelly, won the Contemporary Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition. He performed Bloch’s Schelomo with the Orchestra on March 12. Stephanie Yang, piano student of Olga Radosavljevich, won the Ellis Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition and will perform on May 8, 2005. Stephanie is an 18-year-old senior at Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School. She began her piano studies at the age of four. After moving to Cleveland at the age of six, she began studying with Miss Olga. Stephanie also takes music theory lessons with Adeline Huss. Along with regular lessons, she attended Camp Klavier for six consecutive summers. Kimberly Meier-Sims, head of the Sato Center for Suzuki Studies, leads a group of Suzuki students in a performance to begin the Ice Breaking ceremony on February 18 FluteFest CIM Summer Camps Young Composers It’s going to be a musical summer at CIM! In addition to ongoing music lessons, the CIM Preparatory Division is offering three camps during the summer of 2005. CIM Summer FluteFest is a two-week experience, June 13-24, for flutists ages 11 through high school that combines individual practice, movement classes, ensemble rehearsals and performance in a fun, fast-paced environment. The application deadline is March 28, and auditions will take place on April 17 and 18. CIM Summer Chamber Music, held June 20-July 1, is a 10-day experience for pianists and string players interested in exploring music outside their solo venues. The camp will combine coachings, supervised rehearsals, ear training, chamber music literature classes, rehearsal techniques, movement classes, public master classes and a final performance. Auditions will take place April 16 and 17. The Young Composers Program is an exciting week-long opportunity for composers ages 15-19 being held July 24-30. Very few courses such as this exist for developing young composers. Each will take classes in compositional craft, receive private lessons, enjoy listening sessions and have seminars on a variety of topics. The week culminates in a live performance and CD recording of the works created by each student, performed by members of the resident CIM conservatory ensemble. For more information on all the summer camp programs, call the CIM Preparatory office at (216) 791-5000.
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