Fall 2009 (partial listing)
Sunday November 8, 2009: Britton Recital Hall, 8 pm.
Timothy Abbott, MM Chamber Music Recital
MM dual degree Performance and Chamber Music student Tim Abbott performs the Concertino of Marcel Bitsch, assisted by Joel Ayau, and the first Quartet for Bassoon and String Trio by Bernard Garfield, with violinist Tea Prokes, violist Christia Bieda and cellist Hannah Robbins. The second half begins with Paul Pierné's wind trio Bucolique Variée for which Tim is joined by Sipkje Pesnichak, oboe and Leslie Weinstein, clarinet. The concert closes with NAIROBI, la nuit by Alexandre Ouzounoff, and here Tim is assisted by percussionist Jeffrey Barudin.
Friday November 20, 2009: Britton Recital Hall, 8 pm.
Susan Nelson, first DMA Recital
Susan Nelson performs a set of works based on or inspired by jazz and popular traditions, including the Sonata for Bassoon and Piano by composer, conductor and pianist André Previn, the Two Impromptus by Manfred Schoof, Uncle Bebop from Three Short Stories for Clarinet and Bassoon by Gernot Wolfgang, Carlo Boccadoro's Quaderno d'autunno for trumpet, bassoon, bass and piano, and La Revue de Cuisine by Bohuslav Martinu. Susan will be joined by Angela Wu and Gjergji Gaqi, piano, Cecilia Kang and Steve Sanchez, clarinet, Jacqueline Nutting, violin, Paul Dwyer, cello, Jason Bergman, trumpet, and Philip Alejo, bass.
Saturday November 21, 2009: Interlochen Arts Academy, 5 pm.
Jeffrey Lyman performs and holds a master class for IAA students.
Saturday December 5, 2009: Close Encounters with Music, Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 6 pm.
Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat in a complete performance narrated by Benjamin Luxon and performed by Yehonatan Berick, violin, Diana Gannett, bass, Daniel Gilbert, clarinet, Jeffrey Lyman, bassoon, William Campbell, trumpet, David Jackson, trombone and Joseph Gramley, percussion.
Winter Term 2010 Events (Details to come)
January 10-17, 2010: Jeffrey Lyman performs at the Festival de Musique de Saint Barthélemy, St. Barts, French West Indies.
January 23, 2010: Jeffrey Lyman performs as guest artist at the University of Memphis Double Reed Day.
February 2, 2010: The University of Michigan Wind Quintet in concert, Naples, Florida. Time/place TBA.
Saturday, February 6, 2010: Susan Nelson, Second DMA Recital.
Saturday, March 27, 2010: Jeffrey Lyman, Faculty Recital. REFRIGERATE AFTER OPENING: FRESH AND UNSPOILED MUSIC FOR BASSOON. Program to include music of Jacob TV, Arturo Fuentes, Theodor Burkali and others.
Past Events, Fall 2009
Saturday October 10, 2009: McIntosh Hall, 8 pm.
University of Michigan Bassoon Studio Recital.
Members of the Bassoon Studio, with Jeffrey Lyman and Amy Cheng, piano, perform music by Katherine Hoover, Henri Büsser, Gioacchino Rossini, Julius Weissenborn, Peter Schickele, Francisco Mignone, Adolf Bergt, Daniel Goldblum and José Siqueira. An excerpt from Wassily Kandinsky's Writings on Art and a reading of Steven Kellogg's Ralph's Secret Weapon round out the program.
Monday October 12, 2009: Hill Auditorium, 8 pm.
U of M Concert Band, Rodney Dorsey, conductor. Music of Brian Balmages (Fanfare Canzonique), William Schuman (George Washington Bridge), Alfred Reed (Variations on the "Porazi" Theme), Stephen Eddins (Why I Live at the P.O.), Johann Nepomuk Hummel (Octet), John Mackey (Turning) and Donald Grantham (Starry Crown).
Wednesday October 14, 2009: Hill Auditorium, 8 pm.
University Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Kiesler, conductor. Ludwig van Beethoven, Triple Concerto with Stephen Shipps, violin, Anthony Elliott, cello and John Ellis, piano, and Bela Bartok Concerto for Orchestra.
Wednesday October 21, 2009: Blanche Anderson Moore Organ Hall, 8pm.
Tuple: the bassoon duo of Lynn Hileman and Rachael Elliott perform contemporary works for two bassoons, including music of Michael Daugherty, Sofia Gubaidulina and others.
Friday, October 23, 2009: Hill Auditorium, 8 pm
U of M Symphony Band, Michael Haithcock, conductor. Music of Franz Krommer (Partita in B-flat, Op. 78), Willem Van Otterloo (Serenade for Brass, Harp, Piano and Percussion), Michael Udow (Moon Shadows) and Charles Ives (Son of a Gambolier, Fugue in C, Country Band March)
Saturday October 24, 2009: McIntosh Theatre, 8 pm.
Timothy Abbott and Jeffrey Barudin perform Alexandre Ouzounoff's NAIROBI, la nuit for bassoon and percussion on Jeffrey Barudin's first DMA recital.
Thursday October 29, 2009: University Commons, 7 pm.
A program of works for small woodwind ensembles.
Thursday October 29, 2009: Stamps Auditorium, 8 pm.
Michigan Chamber Players presents Frankenstein!! by H. K. Gruber.
Saturday October 31, 2009: Hill Auditorium, 8 pm.
Bandorama (tickets required).
Friday September 25, 2009. Hill Auditorium, 8 pm.
University Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kenneth Kiesler. Shostakovich Festive Overture, Cello Concerto No. 2, and Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5.
Thursday October 1 and Saturday October 3, 2009. Orchestra Hall, Detroit, 7 pm.
Pre-concert performances of Samuel Barber's Summer Music for Wind Quintet. The pre-concert talk is hosted by DSO Assistant Conductor Charles Greenwell, and will feature the following U of M students: Rachel Blumenthal, flute; Rachel Van Amburgh, oboe; Stephanie Elder, clarinet; Samantha Luxenberg, horn; Patrick Souza, bassoon.
Friday October 2, 2009. Hill Auditorium, 8 pm.
U of M Symphony Band, Michael Haithcock, conductor. Music of Richard Strauss (Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare and Konigsmarsch), Steven Stucky (Funeral Music for Queen Mary), Steven Bryant (Ecstatic Waters), David T. Little (East Coast Attitude), Richard Wagne (Trauermusik)r and Paul Hindemith (Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber).
Tuesday October 6, 2009. Britton Recital Hall, 8 pm.
Michigan Chamber Players presents the University of Michigan Faculty Wind Quintet with special guests Donald Sinta, saxophone and Joseph Gramley, percussion. György Ligeti: Six Bagatelles, John Steinmetz: Quintet; Gary Schocker: Chorinho; Valerie Coleman and Jeff Scott: Suite from Josephine Baker: A Life of Le Jazz Hot!
Friday October 9, 2009: Britton Recital Hall, 8 pm.
Woodwind Chamber Ensembles. U of M Students in a program of small wind ensemble. The program includes the first two movements of Carl Nielsen's Quintet, Francis Poulenc's Sonata for Two Clarinets, Summer Music by Samuel Barber, and André Previn's Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon. Performers include Kat Standefer and Rachel Blumenthal, flutes, Tim Gocklin and Rachel Van Amburgh, oboes, Lisa Kudo, Mark Cramer, Sara Eastwood and Stephanie Elder, clarinets, Colin Branch and Samantha Luxenberg, horns, Ryan Reynolds and Patrick Souza, bassoon, and Cezarre Strydom, piano.
Winter/Spring 2009
Sunday February 8, 2009. Britton Recital Hall, 8 pm
PARENTAL ADVISORY: BASSOON RECITAL
Mix together equal parts Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger, George Bush and several prison inmates and what do you get? Halloween in the East Village? No: a bassoon recital. Join Jeffrey Lyman with colleagues Donald Sinta and Ana Maria Otamendi for music inspired by these personalities. The program begins with the Concert No. 2 by the Swiss harpsichord virtuoso Marguerite Roesgen-Champion with Donald Sinta, alto saxophone and pianist Ana Maria Otamendi, and continues with Andy Warhol Sez... by Paul Moravec, a set of pieces inspired by quotes from Andy Warhol. The "parental advisory" warning is earned by one of two works for bassoon and soundtrack by Dutch composer Jacob TV (aka Jacob ter Veldhuis). GRAB IT! combines excerpts from the raw soundtrack of the film Scared Straight with amplified bassoon, and gives this recital its PG-13 rating. Veldhuis' Believer is a meditation on fragments from an interview between Bill O'Reilly and George Bush, which could be just as frightening to some listeners. Cheil Meijering's I can't get no satisfaction and PDQ Bach's Sonata "Abassoonata" complete the program.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009. Britton Recital Hall, 8 pm.
U of M Faculty members Daniel Gilbert, clarinet, Adam Unsworth, horn, Jeffrey Lyman, bassoon, Gabriel Bolkosky and Yehonatan Berick, violins, Yizhak Schotten, viola, Mary Ann Ramos, cello, and Diana Gannett, double bass, in a performance of Franz Schubert's Octet.
Thursday, February 12, 2009. Interlochen Center for the Arts (3:15-5 pm, Chapel)
Jeffrey Lyman with students Randy Dennler and Ryan Reynolds (both Interlochen Arts Academy graduates and now U of M students) return to Interlochen for a concert and master class. Music by Jacob TV (GRAB IT! for bassoon and soundtrack), Michael Daugherty's Bounce and Isidoro Rossi's Terzetto I per tre fagotti.
Fall 2008
Thursday, August 28: Bassoon ensemble auditions, U of M bassoon majors only.
Tuesday, September 2: Classes begin.
Friday, September 19: University Symphony Orchestra, 8 pm, Hill Auditorium. Kenneth Kiesler conducts Beethoven's Symphony #7 and Michael Daugherty's Metropolis Symphony.
Saturday, September 20: The Ann Arbor Symphony performs Ravel's Concerto in G major for piano and orchestra with Louis Nagel, piano.
Friday, September 26: Symphony Band, 8 pm, Hill Auditorium. Michael Haithcock conducts the music of Christopher Rouse (Wolf Rounds), Paul Hindemith's famous Symphony in B flat, and music by Copland, Bernstein, Orff, Bach, Grantham and Tchaikovsky.
Wednesday, October 1: University Philharmonia, 8 pm, Hill Auditorium. Nan Washburn conducts Kristin Kuster's Iron Diamond, Haydn's Symphony No. 99 and Tchaikovsky's Symphony #2 (full of great bassoon solos...)
Friday, October 3: Concert Band, 8 pm, Hill Auditorium. Rodney Dorsey conducts Frank Ticheli's Second Symphony, Scott McAllister's Krump! and music by Haydn, Vaughan Williams and Persichetti.
October 3-5: Jeff Lyman is guest soloist and teacher at the Seventh Annual Double Reed Festival hosted by the Midwest Double Reed Society and held at the University of Kansas. For more information, go to the MDRS web site.
October 8-18: Jeff Lyman performs as principal bassoon during the residency of the San Francisco Ballet at City Center, New York City. Repertoire will include John Adams Son of Chamber Symphony, Philip Glass Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpani and Orchestra and Sergei Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini.
Friday, October 10: Symphony Band Chamber Winds, 8 pm, Stamps Auditorium. Music of Matthew Tommasini, Reynaldo Hahn, Toru Takemitsu, Igor Stravinsky and Mark Turnage.
Monday, October 13: University Symphony Orchestra, 8 pm, Hill Auditorium. Kenneth Kiesler conducts Gary Kulesha's Fireworks and Procession, Enesco's Prelude in Unison, the Ballet Music from Mozart's opera Idomeneo and Stravinsky's Petrushka.
Wednesday, October 15: Symphony Band, Chamber Choir and University Choir. Michael Haithcock conducts Olivier Messiaen's La ville d'en-haut, Anton Bruckner's Mass in e minor and the Urban Requiem by Michael Colgrass.
Thursday, October 16: Woodwind Chamber Ensembles, 8 pm, Britton Recital Hall. Student chamber groups perform in wind quintets and quartets.
Monday, October 27: Michigan Chamber Players perform Francis Poulenc's Le bal masqué and Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du soldat. 8 pm, Stamps Auditorium, North campus, University of Michigan.
Thursday, October 30: Woodwind Chamber Ensembles, 8 pm, University Commons. Student chamber groups perform in wind quintets and quartets.
Saturday, November 1: Band-O-Rama, 8 pm, Hill Auditorium. The annual extravaganza by all the Michigan Bands.
Wednesday, November 5: Symphony Band Chamber Winds, 8 pm, location(?): Mozart: Harmoniemusik from Don Giovanni; George Antheil: Chamber Concerto; Silvestre Revueltas: Homenaje a Federico Garcia Lorca; Emil Hartmann: Serenade in B flat, opus 43.
Monday, November 10: University Philharmonia, 8 pm, Hill Auditorium: Nan Washburn conducts Schubert's Overture to Rosamunde, Ravel's Suite from Mother Goose, Dvorak's In Nature's Realm and Moncayo's Huapango.
Wednesday, November 12: University Chamber Orchestra, 8 pm, Hill Auditorium: Kenneth Kiesler conducts Mozart's Symphony #1, Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Richard Strauss' Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
Thursday, November 13 through Sunday, November 16: Power Center (times TBD): Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, with members of the University Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Martin Katz.
Monday, November 17: Concert Band, 8 pm, Hill Auditorium. The music of new U of M Composition faculty member Kristen Kuster is featured in a performance of her Lost Gulch Lookout. Rodney Dorsey also conducts Music for Prague 1968 by Karel Husa, and works by Shostakovich and Holst.
Friday, November 21: Symphony Band, 8 pm, Hill Auditorium: Carter Pann: Slalom; David Rakowski: Cantina; Joseph Schwantner: ...and the mountains rising nowhere; Percy Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy; Richard Wagner, arr. Bourgeois: Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral.
January 11-18, 2009: Jeff Lyman performs with the St. Bart's Chamber Orchestra at the Festival de Musique de Saint-Barthélemy, St. Bart's, French West Indies.
Saturday February 7, 2009. Britton Recital Hall, 5 pm
Senior Recital: John Gettel. Assisted by Angela Wu and Dylan Perez, piano; Rachel Woolf, flute; Patrick Carter, oboe; Lewis Gilmore, clarinet; Beth Deering, horn.
The program will include Nino Rota's Concerto for Bassoon, Reminiscenze della TRAVIATA di Verdi per Fagotto con accompagnemento di Pianoforte by Luigi Orselli, Jean Françaix's Deux Pièces pour basson et piano and the Sextuor pour piano, flûte, hautbois, clarinette, basson et cor by Francis Poulenc.
Winter/Spring 2008
Saturday January 26, 8 pm, McIntosh Hall: Emily Weingarten, bassoon and contrabassoon, Senior Recital. Assisted by Flora Alexander, flute, David Gilliland, piano and Dave Schall, contrabassoon. Music by Samuel Adler (Canto XII), Heitor Villa-Lobos (Bachianas Brasileiras #6), John Steinmetz (Sonata) and Bill Douglas (Lyric Suite for Contrabassoon).
Sunday, February 10, 2008: 4 pm, Britton Hall. Hear Nancy Ambrose King, Daniel Gilbert, Jeffrey Lyman, Adam Unsworth and Christopher Harding in two quintets for piano and winds, one by W.A. Mozart and the other by Franz Danzi.
Saturday, February 16, 2008: 8 pm, Britton Hall. ¡El Bajón in México! A recital of solo and chamber music for bassoon by contemporary Mexican composers performed by Jeffrey Lyman and several of his faculty and student colleagues. It will include five works that will offer a small glimpse of the richness of contemporary woodwind music to be found across Mexico. The program begins with the Cinco Canciones Tijuanenses by Baja composer Enrique González-Medina, with Lyman being joined by the newest member of our voice faculty, bass Stephen West, and Daniel Pesca, piano. The next work is the dark and exotic Laberinto de Espejos for solo bassoon by Ramón Montes de Oca. The first half closes with Gabriela Ortíz' brilliant trio for clarinet, bassoon and piano 100 watts, featuring Phillip Paglialonga, clarinet, joining Lyman and Daniel Pesca. After intermission, two larger chamber works are planned: Arturo Márquez' Octeto Malandro and Eugenio Toussaint's arrangement for wind octet and percussion of a suite of mambos by Perez Prado. Other U of M faculty members who will appear include Amy Porter, flute; Donald Sinta, saxophone; Nancy Ambrose King, oboe; Adam Unsworth, horn; Kathryn Votapek, viola; and Joe Gramley, percussion. U of M students filling out the rest of the roster include Andrew Parker, oboe and English horn; Mark Dover, clarinet; Susan Nelson, bassoon; Sarah Hranac, horn and Cody Rex, double bass. It may be cold outside (may be?), but it will be one hot recital!
Thursday, February 21, 2008: 8 pm, Britton Hall. Five of the woodwind faculty join up for a performance of Arturo Márquez' swinging wind quintet Danza de Mediodía on the Faculty Showcase Concert.
Saturday, March 15, 2008: 8 pm, Britton Hall. Join current bassoon studio members, alumni, faculty, colleagues and friends in a memorial to Lewis Hugh Cooper, who was the first bassoon professor at the University of Michigan, and who taught here for 52 years. Prof. Cooper's long and distinguished career will be celebrated in music and memories, hosted by Jeffrey Lyman and Mark Clague.
Saturday, March 22, 2008: 5 pm, Britton Hall. Ari Allal, Masters Recital. Music of Marcel Bitsch, Philippe Hersant, Francis Poulenc, Dana Wilson and more.
Saturday, April 12, 2008: 2 pm, McIntosh Theater. Thomas Reynolds, Senior Recital. Music of Gioacchino Rossini (Concerto a fagotto principale), Otmar Nussio (Variations on an Arietta by Pergolesi), André Previn (Sonata for Bassoon and Piano) and Jean Françaix's Quintette No. 1.
Saturday, April 12, 2008: 8 pm, Britton Hall. U of M Professor of Oboe Dr. Nancy Ambrose King in recital, including a performance of the insanely difficult Duo for oboe and bassoon by Heitor Villa-Lobos. Jeffrey Lyman joins her for the duo.
Past Events from this year:
Fall 2007
SPECIAL EVENT, Saturday October 6, 2007: Join us for a concert with composer, pianist, bassoonist and educator Bill Douglas for a program of some of his new and favorite works. Joining Bill will be Nancy Ambrose King, oboe, Daniel Gilbert, clarinet, Jeffrey Lyman, bassoon, and members of the University of Michigan Bassoon Studio. The program will include his Oboe Sonata, Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano, Suite Cantando for clarinet, bassoon and piano, a couple of movements from his Partita for bassoon and piano, an excerpt from a brand new trio for oboe, clarinet and bassoon, and finally, hits from his days with the Boulder Bassoon Band. The concert will be held at 8 pm in Britton Hall at the School of Music.
Sunday, November 4, 2007: 8 pm, Britton Hall. Eric Rutherford, MM Recital. Program to include music by Hersant, Morlacchi/Torriani, Vivaldi and Jolivet.
Saturday, December 8, 2007: 8 pm, McIntosh Theatre. Jenna Hart, Senior Recital. Music by Gabriel Grovlez, Paul Hindemith, Bill Douglas and Auguste Klughardt.