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Kalistos '02-'03 Season Finale
May 9, 2003 @ 8 pm |
Friday, 8
pm May 9, 2003
at First and Second Church [66 Marlborough Strret,
Boston, MA] [click for directions]
another set
of directions from the church website
for more info please call Sasha at 617 393 1960
or email info@kalistos.org
the program has been changed to
the following;
Gabriela Lena Frank Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout [1999/2003]
(excerpts originally for string quartet, arranged for especially for Kalistos
Chamber Orchestra)
Franz Joseph Haydn Cello
concerto in D
Mihail Jojatu, cello [of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra]
Bela Bartok Divertimento for Strings
Tickets can be purchased at the door at the following prices
$15 Adults
$10 Students
$5 Seniors and Young Person under 14
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soloist bio
photo by Ben Kelley
Mihail Jojatu, cello [soloist for May 9,
2002 concert]
Romanian born cellist Mihail Jojatu is currently a member of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra since 2001. He studied at the Bucharest Academy of Music
before coming to the U.S. in 1996. He then attended the Boston Conservatory
of Music (1998-1999) where he studied with former BSO cellist Ronald Feldman
and worked privately with Bernard Greenhouse of the Beaux Arts Trio.
Mihail also studied with Jules Eskin, principal cellist of the Boston Symphony,
through Boston University.
Mihail has collaborated with numerous prestigious artists, including Gil
Shaham, Seiji Ozawa (he was asked by Seiji to play the Dvorak Cello Concerto
with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, substituting for Mstislav Rostropovich
during rehearsals), members of the Julliard String Quartet and the Muir Quartet.
Among his numerous awards, Mihail won the concerto competition at the Boston
University School for the Arts, was subsequently a soloist with the Boston
Pops Orchestra under Keith Lockhart, won first prize at the Aria Concerto
Competition at the Boston Conservatory, and was awarded the Carl Zeise Memorial
Cello Prize while attending the Tanglewood Music Center in his second year.
He has also performed as guest soloist with the Radio Television Orchestra
of Bucharest, and he has won numerous awards in Romania for solo and chamber
music performance. Mihail is also a member of the Triptych String Trio,
which has just released its first CD which is available at Virgin Records.
Mihail’s upcoming concerts and collaborations include a solo performance
of Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 with Berkshire Symphony and Longwood
Symphony (November 2003); Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Radio State Orchestra
of Bucharest (March 2004); prelude chamber music concerts with Sarah Chang
at Tanglewood (Summer 2003).
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Program
notes
coming soon...
Gabriela Lena Frank
Leyendas: An Andean
Walkabout [1999/2003]
(excerpts originally
for string quartet, arranged for string orchestra)
photo by Sabina Frank
Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout draws inspiration
from the idea of mestizaje as envisioned by the Peruvian writer José
María Arguedas, whereby cultures coexist without the subjugation of
one by the other. As such, this piece mixes elements from the western classical
and Andean folk music traditions. "Toyos" depicts one of the most recognizable
instruments of the Andes, the panpipe. The largest kind is the breathy
toyo which requires great stamina and lung power, and is typically
played in parallel fourths. "Tarqueada" is a forceful and fast number
featuring the tarka, a heavy wooden duct flute that is blown harshly in order
to split the tone. Tarka ensembles typically play in casually tuned
4ths, 5ths, and octaves. "Himno de Zampoñas" features a particular
type of panpipe ensemble that divides up melodies through a technique known
as hocketing. The characteristic sound of the zampoña panpipe
is that of a fundamental tone blown flatly so that overtones ring out on
top. "Chasqui" depicts a legendary figure from the Inca times the chasqui
runner, who sprinted great distances to deliver messages between towns separated
from one another by the Andean peaks. The chasqui needed to travel
light. Hence, I take artistic license to imagine his choice of instruments
to be the charango, a high-pitched cousin of the guitar, and the lightweight
bamboo quena flute, both of which are featured in this movement. "Canto de
Velorio" portrays another well-known Andean personality, a professional crying
woman known as velorio. Hired to render funeral rituals even sadder,
the velorio is accompanied here by a second velorio and an additional chorus
of mourning women (coro de mujeres). The chant Dies Irae is quoted as a reflection
of the velorio's penchant for blending verses from Quechua Indian folklore
and western religious rites. "Coqueteos" is a flirtatious love
song sung by gallant men known as romanceros. As such, it is direct
in its harmonic expression, bold, and festive. The romanceros sang
in harmony with one another against a backdrop of guitars which I think of
as a vendaval de guitarras ("storm of guitars"). -Gabriela Lena Frank
Gabriela Frank, composer/pianist (b. 1972)
Praised by the Raleigh-Durham Spectator as a "splendidly realized" pianist,
by the Washington Post as a composer of "unself-conscious craft and mastery,"
by the Lincoln City Observer as "astounding", by the San Francisco Classical
Voice as "captivating", and by the Springfield Union-News as an artist of
"honesty and genius," Gabriela Lena Frank's fusion of Latin American folk
music with classical strains has been received with acclaim in concert venues
across the three Americas and Europe, entailing collaborations with the Illinois
Symphony, the Albany Symphony, the Mallarme Chamber Players, Musicorda String
Festival, Cascade Head Music Festival, ModernWorks!, and numerous other ensembles
and festivals. In January of 2002, she became composer-in-residence with
the University of Kansas in conjunction with the Spencer Museum in Lawrence,
Kansas specifically to continue her work in mestiza composition.
She has been recognized with awards and commissions from ASCAP, the Theodore
Presser Music Foundation, the Society of Composers Inc., the National Federation
of Music Clubs, the International Alliance of Women in Music, the Banff Centre
for the Arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the
National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters,
the American Composers Forum, Arts International, the first annual Raymond
and Beverly Sackler Music Composition Prize, and the Meet The Composer Fund.
In addition to presenting concerts as a pianist and composer, Dr. Frank
enjoys talking with a wide variety of audiences on both contemporary and
Hispanic music and recently was featured on NPR's West Coast Live with Sedge
Thomson. She performs actively across the country and was featured
at the ASCAP Foundation Awards 2002 and the Rock Hotel Pianofest (2002) in
New York. She completed a three-year stint as a volunteer with HASTA
(Hispanic Americans Striving Towards Achievement), a Latino prison group
at the Gus Harrison Correctional Facilities near Detroit, Michigan.
Active as a disseminator of Latin American music, she has participated in
the transcription and publication of a volume of piano works by the Venezuelan
composer, Ramon Delgado Palacios. Currently, Dr. Frank is in the process
of collaborating with renowned Peruvian ethnomusicologist Raul Romero in recording
the piano music of indigenous composers of the Peruvian Andes. She
recently recorded the complete solo piano and piano/violin compositions of
Pulitzer Prize winning composer Leslie Bassett released on the Equilibrium
label. She is published and managed by G. Schirmer and is the youngest
composer in their catalogue. A CD of her compositions is in the works
in collaboration with the Essenza Trio based in Belgium.
Upcoming collaborations for Dr. Frank include a flute concerto to be premiered
by flautist Leone Buyse and conductor Larry Rachleff; a work for violin and
chamber ensemble for Theodore Arm of the acclaimed group Tashi; a string
quartet for the Kronos Quartet; a symphony for the Seattle Symphony under
the baton of Gerry Schwarz; and a quintet for Innuendo which features pianist
Keith Lockhart (conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra), violinist Lucia
Lin (of the Muir Quartet), cellist Owen Young (of the Boston Symphony), violinist
Chris Wu (of the Pittsburgh Symphony) and violinist Amadi Hummings (of the
Concertante Players). Her string quartet Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout
will be performed by the Grammy-nominated Cuarteto Latinoamericano at the
Kennedy Center in Washington DC in the spring of 2003.
Born in Berkeley, CA in 1972, Dr. Frank holds degrees from Rice University
and more recently, a doctorate (2001) from the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor. Her teachers for composition have included William Albright, Leslie
Bassett, William Bolcom, Michael Daugherty and Samuel Jones. Her piano
studies have been with Jeanne Kierman Fischer and Logan Skelton. She
currently makes her home in the San Francisco Bay Area and travels frequently
in South America.
There will be a dress
rehearsal at the First & Second church from 2-4 pm on Friday afternoon
[May 9, 2003] If you'd like to attend the dress rehearsal please contact
Kalistos at 617 393 1960.
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our generous sponsors featured on this page. Without their support
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