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26 His previous CD, Images of Metheny, features music by renowned American Jazz guitarist/composer Pat Metheny. Metheny, after listening to this landmark recording, declared: “I am flattered to be included in Jason’s musical world.” Sevilla: The Music of Isaac Albeniz, was rated one of the Top Ten Classical CDs of the year by both The Philadelphia Inquirer and Cleveland’s Plain Dealer. Vieaux’s recordings and live performances are on the radio and internet; he is often heard on such top-rated programs as NPR’s “All Things Considered”, “Morning Edition”, and American Public Media’s “Performance Today”. Mr. Vieaux’s expressive and communicative gifts have been the subject of many newspaper and magazine articles around the US and abroad. Acoustic Guitar Magazine named Jason Vieaux in its January 2008 cover article The New Virtuosos as “one of three young musicians pushing the instrument beyond the traditional”. England’s MUSO and Gramophone Magazine have published feature articles on Mr. Vieaux. Jason Vieaux began guitar studies at age eight with Jeremy Sparks in Buffalo, New York, and continued study at The Cleveland Institute of Music with John Holmquist. He is the youngest First Prize winner in the history of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America International Competition, a Naumburg International Guitar Competition prizewinner, and, in recognition of his prodigious talent and extraordinary professional career, The Cleveland Institute of Music honored Mr. Vieaux with their Alumni Achievement Award in 1998. In 1995, Mr. Vieaux was an Artistic Ambassador of the United States to Southeast Asia, and concertized in Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar (Burma). He has also toured Europe, Mexico, Canada, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand. Aside from his duties as a performer, Mr. Vieaux is highly dedicated to the art of teaching. He currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio, where he is Head of the Cleveland Institute of Music Guitar Department, the youngest Department Head to serve at the prestigious conservatory. He is also affiliated with Philadelphia-based Astral Artists. Jason’s website is www.jasonvieaux.com. Piotr Gajewski, conductor Piotr Gajewski is widely credited with building the National Philharmonic to its present status as one of the most respected ensembles in the Washington region; he has been hailed in The Washington Post as an “immensely talented and insightful conductor, whose standards, taste and sensitivity are impeccable.” In addition to his appearances with the National Philharmonic, Maestro Gajewski is much in demand as a guest conductor. In recent years, he has appeared with most of the major orchestras in his native Poland, as well as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in England, the Karlovy Vary Symphony in the Czech Republic, the Okanagan Symphony in Canada and numerous orchestras in the United States. Born in Poland, Gajewski began studying piano at age four. After immigrating to the United States in 1969, he continued his studies at the New England Conservatory Preparatory Division, Carleton College and the University of Cincinnati, College- Conservatory of Music, where he earned B.M. and M.M. in Orchestral Conducting.
Upon completing his formal education, Gajewski continued refining his conducting skills at the 1983 Tanglewood Music Festival in Massachusetts, where he was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Conducting Fellowship. His teachers there included Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Andre Previn, Gunther Schuller, Gustav Meier, and Maurice Abravanel. Maestro Gajewski has conducted many important world premieres, including works by Steven Gerber, Joel Hoffman, Andreas Makris, Gerhard Samuel and Peter Ware. Gajewski’s recording on the Koch International label of Steven Gerber’s Violin Concerto, Cello Concerto, and Serenade for String Orchestra with the National Chamber Orchestra, garnered enthusiastic reviews. Gajewski is also a winner of many prizes and awards, among them a prize at New York’s prestigious Leopold Stokowski Conducting Competition and, in 2006, Montgomery County’s Comcast Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Achievement Award. Program Notes George frideric handel English composer Born: February 23, 1685, Halle, Germany Died: April 14, 1759, London Overture to Samson These are the first performances of this work on the Classics series; duration: 7 minutes Born and trained in Germany, George Frideric Handel began his life-long assimilation of English culture not later than his 22nd year. From very early on he enjoyed popular support as well as the patronage of British royalty. It was a time (the late Baroque) when musicians, painters, writers, philosophers and scientists began to travel extensively across Europe as the spirit of the Enlightenment beamed at high noon. For Handel, the Age was a catalyst for his cosmopolitan and eclectic nature. He was free at once to draw from German, French, Italian and English traditions. Furthermore, he became a humanist who saw relevance in theater music and other entertaining forms. However, Handel is best-known by far for his enduring Messiah of 1741, an oratorio written on biblical themes. While his full catalog contains several sacred oratorios, including Samson (scored just a few weeks after Messiah); he also composed many operas and art songs, as well as a trove of instrumental music including diverse concertos, orchestral suites and overtures, volumes of chamber music and many works for organ and harpsichord. Samson is grandly set for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, and is based on Samson Agonistes and other selected verse by the English poet John Milton (1608-1674). The biblical storyline is derived from the Old Testament (Judges 13-16), from the point where Samson has been betrayed by Delilah, blinded and imprisoned by the Philistines, who hold the Israelites as captive slaves. The oratorio concludes after Samson conjures the strength to topple the stone pillars to which he was chained. He perishes with the Philistines, thus freeing the Israelites. The oratorio contains many musical references and analogies, and concludes with selected lines from Milton’s poem, A Solemn Music, of 1630: 27
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