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Faculty Artist Series Recital – “Elegy and Arroyo” Sara Fraker, oboe & English horn

Faculty Artists, Guest Artists, Woodwinds Wednesday September 12, 2018 - 7:00p.m. to 9:00p.m.

Venue: Holsclaw Hall, 1017 N Olive Rd, Tucson, AZ 85721-0004

 

Dr. Sara Fraker presents two world premieres, “Elegy for Oboe and Piano” by Glen Roven and “Arroyo for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano” by Tucson-based composer Jay Vosk. Completing the program are three chamber works: the lyrical “Duo for Oboe and Viola” by Hilary Tann; Hugo Godron’s eclectic “Suite Bucolique;” and a rare early Romantic sonata for English horn by Italian composer Carlo Yvon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Program

Arroyo for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano *
Jay Vosk (b. 1948)

Elegy for Oboe and Piano, Op. 64 *
suggested by California during the Gulf War by Denise Levertov
Glen Roven (1957-2018)

Suite Bucolique for Oboe and Piano
Hugo Godron (1900-1971)

Duo for Oboe and Viola
Hilary Tann (b. 1947)

Sonata per Corno Inglese e Piano-Forte
Carlo Yvon (1798-1854)

*  world premiere performance

 

About the Artists

Dr. Sara Fraker is assistant professor of oboe at the University of Arizona and a member of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. She spends her summers in residence as a faculty artist at the Bay View Music Festival in northern Michigan. Sara is also principal oboist of True Concord Voices & Orchestra, which recently made their Lincoln Center debut; the ensemble also garnered two Grammy nominations for their 2015 CD release “Far In The Heavens,” on which Sara is a featured soloist.

Sara held the Gillet Fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center and was a participant in the Tanglewood Bach Seminar. She has also performed at the Aspen Music Festival, Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, Chautauqua, Spoleto Festival USA, and the prestigious Schleswig-Holstein Orchestral Academy in Germany. Sara has played with numerous orchestras, including the Phoenix Symphony, Arizona Opera, Broadway in Tucson, St. Andrews Bach Society, Tucson Pops, Illinois Symphony, Champaign-Urbana Symphony, Brockton Symphony, Newton Symphony, New Bedford Symphony, Gardner Chamber Orchestra, and Sinfonia da Camera. Sara has presented recitals at four recent conferences of the International Double Reed Society, including Tokyo and New York City. She performs regularly as a member of the Arizona Wind Quintet and has given master classes at universities and performing arts schools across the United States and in Australia.

Raised in New Haven, Connecticut, Sara is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (DMA), New England Conservatory (MM), and Swarthmore College (BA). She was a National Merit Scholar and recipient of the Garrigues Scholarship, Peter Gram Swing Prize, and Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship. Her principal teachers include Robert Botti, John Dee, Mark McEwen, Jonathan Blumenfeld, Sandra Gerster Lisicki and John de Lancie. Her doctoral thesis, “The Oboe Works of Isang Yun,” explores twenty solo and chamber pieces by the Korean composer, with a focus on tonal language and relationships to East Asian philosophy.

 

Pianist and vocal coach Casey Robards is known for her artistry, versatility and sensitive musicality. Casey has given recitals with singers and instrumentalists throughout the United States, as well as Europe, Central and South America and Asia. Casey regularly performs a variety of genres including solo and chamber instrumental music, art song, opera, musical theatre, the Negro spiritual, gospel, and newly composed works.

Recent engagements include recitals across the United States with Ollie Watts Davis, LaToya Lain, Cherry Duke, Nathaniel Hackmann, Andrew Pelletier, Hai Xin Wu, Fangye Sun, Carrie Pierce, Donna Shin, an engagement with the Alma Symphony playing the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 and numerous instrumental and vocal faculty recitals at Central Michigan University where Dr. Robards is currently a lecturer in collaborative piano. Casey is interested in the intersection of music and social justice and has led benefit recitals for Musicambia, a non-profit organization that creates music conservatories in prisons, and recently recorded a CD of art songs “Come Down Angels: works by women composers” with tenor Henry Pleas.

Dr. Robards is head of collaborative piano at the Bay View Music Festival where, along with giving regular faculty performances, she serves as conductor/coach of the two-week SOARS program (Summer Opera, Art Song and Recording Seminar) and coach/pianist for the American Spiritual Institute. Prior appointments include positions with Indianapolis Opera (resident pianist/coach), Indiana University (collaborative piano/voice faculty, opera coach), and Oberlin Conservatory (postdoctoral collaborative pianist).

Dr. Robards holds degrees in piano performance, piano pedagogy and vocal coaching and accompanying from the University of Illinois. She received the Henri Kohn Memorial Award at Tanglewood and attended the 2015 Songfest Professional Development Program for College Teachers.

 

As an avid chamber musician, Ivan Ugorich has won the McCauley Chamber Music Competition with his quartet in 2012, and has been selected to compete in the International Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition as a 2016 finalist with the Cerulean Trio. He has also performed with his two groups on the radio with WUOL 90.5 and WFSQ 91.5 respectively. In May he will appear with his trio in Carnegie Hall as part of a program titled “Home and Abroad.”

Ugorich has performed with orchestras including the Sarasota Orchestra, the Florida Orchestra, and the Orlando Philharmonic. Additionally, he won the position of principal violist with Symphony Orchestra Augusta, where he served from 2014 to 2016. Other performance opportunities have taken him to Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Denmark, and China. Engagements have included performances with notable artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Lang-Lang, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Midori, Guy Braunstein, Boston Pops, Pink Martini, and Time for Three. He also has had experience as a soloist winning three solo competitions. Ivan earned a bachelor’s degree in performance from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and a master’s degree from Florida State University. He has been a member of the staff at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music since August 2016.

 

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Tonight we feature the UA percussion performing a riveting quartet, Professor Morris Palter on solo snare, and a choral performance led by conductor Huang He. Please read below for more details on some of the pieces.

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Semi-Finals:

Monday, March 8, 2021

2:00 p.m.





Finals:

Sunday, March 14, 2021

2:00 p.m.





The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music presents the 39th Annual Sholin Guitar Competition, honoring the memory of Norman Douglas Sholin (1951-1980).

Norman Douglas Sholin founded and designed the guitar degree program at the University of Arizona School of Music [and Dance] in 1974. He earned a BFA (1974) and an MFA (1978) in classical guitar from the California Institute of the Arts. He studied with teacher and musicologist Emilio Pujol in Cervera, Spain in 1972 and 1973 and played in a master class for Andrés Segovia in 1973.

The University of Arizona has become a major international center for the study of classical guitar. The Norman Douglas Sholin Memorial Scholarship Award, which is presented annually, promotes excellence in this segment of the arts. Through their gifts, donors honor the students that qualify for it, as well as the memory of Mr. Sholin, whose love for the guitar and its music still brings inspiration.

For additional information about the Norman Douglas Sholin Scholarship Fund contact Tom Patterson, professor of guitar, rtp@email.arizona.edu, 520-621-1157.

Past winners, Norman Douglas Sholin Memorial Scholarship Award Recipients:

1982 Bobby Orlando, 1983 David Mintz, 1984 Alison Bert,
1985 Lou Mowad, 1986 Alison Bert, 1987 Todd Seelye,
1988 Todd Seelye, 1989 Charles King, 1990 Douglas James,
1991 Mark Basinski, 1992 Douglas James, 1993 Douglas James,
1994 Ivan Rijos, 1995 Celso Cano, 1996 Paul Grove,
1997 Alieksey Vianna, 1998 Alieksey Vianna,
1999 Bruno Correia, 2000 Andrew Hull,
2001 Randall Avers, 2002 Daniel Bolshoy,
2003 Dieter Hennings, 2004 Gonzalo Molano,
2005 Gonzalo Molano, 2006 Jane Curry, 2007 Matthew Palmer,
2008 Matthew Palmer & Lars Rosvoll, 2009 Eduardo Minozzi Costa,
2010 Eduardo Minozzi Costa & Renato Serrano Muñoz,

2011 Renato Serrano Muñoz, 2012 Renato Serrano Muñoz,

2013 Misael Barraza Díaz & Renato Serrano Muñoz,

2014 Augustus Woodrow, 2015 Misael Barraza Díaz,

2016 Misael Barraza Díaz, 2017 Andrés Pantoja,

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The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music presents the 39th Annual Sholin Guitar Competition, honoring the memory of Norman Douglas Sholin (1951-1980).  

Norman Douglas Sholin founded and designed the guitar degree program at the University of Arizona School of Music [and Dance] in 1974. He earned a BFA (1974) and an MFA (1978) in classical guitar from the California Institute of the Arts. He studied with teacher and musicologist Emilio Pujol in Cervera, Spain in 1972 and 1973 and played in a master class for Andrés Segovia in 1973.

The University of Arizona has become a major international center for the study of classical guitar. The Norman Douglas Sholin Memorial Scholarship Award, which is presented annually, promotes excellence in this segment of the arts. Through their gifts, donors honor the students that qualify for it, as well as the memory of Mr. Sholin, whose love for the guitar and its music still brings inspiration.

For additional information about the Norman Douglas Sholin Scholarship Fund contact Tom Patterson, professor of guitar, rtp@email.arizona.edu, 520-621-1157.

Past winners, Norman Douglas Sholin Memorial Scholarship Award Recipients:

1982 Bobby Orlando, 1983 David Mintz, 1984 Alison Bert,
1985 Lou Mowad, 1986 Alison Bert, 1987 Todd Seelye,
1988 Todd Seelye, 1989 Charles King, 1990 Douglas James,
1991 Mark Basinski, 1992 Douglas James, 1993 Douglas James,
1994 Ivan Rijos, 1995 Celso Cano, 1996 Paul Grove,
1997 Alieksey Vianna, 1998 Alieksey Vianna,
1999 Bruno Correia, 2000 Andrew Hull,
2001 Randall Avers, 2002 Daniel Bolshoy,
2003 Dieter Hennings, 2004 Gonzalo Molano,
2005 Gonzalo Molano, 2006 Jane Curry, 2007 Matthew Palmer,
2008 Matthew Palmer & Lars Rosvoll, 2009 Eduardo Minozzi Costa,
2010 Eduardo Minozzi Costa & Renato Serrano Muñoz, 

2011 Renato Serrano Muñoz, 2012 Renato Serrano Muñoz, 

2013 Misael Barraza Díaz & Renato Serrano Muñoz, 

2014 Augustus Woodrow, 2015 Misael Barraza Díaz, 

2016 Misael Barraza Díaz, 2017 Andrés Pantoja, 

2018 Misael Barraza Díaz, 2019 Misael Barraza Díaz
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With just 11 days left in our first-ever crowdfunding scholarship drive, we are down to the wire to effect change in our deserving student's lives! Can you spare $11? Any amount makes a difference! Please consider sharing this post and using our Facebook frame!



The Music Advisory Board, in support of the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music, cordially invites you to participate in our Spring 2021 scholarship drive, To Music with Love.

What the world needs now is more love and more music! And the Fred Fox School of Music needs your financial support. Your tax-deductible gift helps to provide the financial support that our talented, visionary young musicians need in order to thrive, create, and innovate at the Fred Fox School of Music.

The Fred Fox School of Music is a place of discovery, growth, and of musical excellence. The generous support of our loyal patrons, alumni, and friends is crucial to serving our bold mission and supporting our wonderful students. This monthlong fundraising event features student performances, stories, and powerful testimonies to the transformational power of scholarship gifts.

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The Music Advisory Board, in support of the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music, cordially invites you to participate in our Spring 2021 scholarship drive, To Music with Love.

What the world needs now is more love and more music! And the Fred Fox School of Music needs your financial support. Your tax-deductible gift helps to provide the financial support that our talented, visionary young musicians need in order to thrive, create, and innovate at the Fred Fox School of Music.

The Fred Fox School of Music is a place of discovery, growth, and of musical excellence. The generous support of our loyal patrons, alumni, and friends is crucial to serving our bold mission and supporting our wonderful students. This monthlong fundraising event features student performances, stories, and powerful testimonies to the transformational power of scholarship gifts.

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Victoria Gonzales from Tucson, Arizona, is an undergraduate music performance (harp) and Japanese culture major at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music. Thank you Victoria for sharing your story!



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The Music Advisory Board, in support of the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music, cordially invites you to participate in our Spring 2021 scholarship drive, To Music with Love.

What the world needs now is more love and more music! And the Fred Fox School of Music needs your financial support. Your tax-deductible gift helps to provide the financial support that our talented, visionary young musicians need in order to thrive, create, and innovate at the Fred Fox School of Music.

The Fred Fox School of Music is a place of discovery, growth, and of musical excellence. The generous support of our loyal patrons, alumni, and friends is crucial to serving our bold mission and supporting our wonderful students. This monthlong fundraising event features student performances, stories, and powerful testimonies to the transformational power of scholarship gifts.

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We are delighted to announce this week's masterclass within the UA Bolton Guitar Studies Virtual Series where students of Bolton Guitar Studies will perform for legendary classical guitarist David Russell. Undergraduate candidate Yihui Wang and alumni Duo Chinoiserie prepared works by Manuel María Ponce and Claude Debussy.

This event is scheduled for Friday, March 5th at 11:00 a.m. (MST). The meeting will last one hour and a half with a Q & A segment towards the end and it will be live streamed on the University of Arizona Guitar Studies Facebook page, where audience can submit their questions through chat.

To access the meeting simply go to the Bolton Guitar Studies website and click on the link for the Zoom meeting, found below the flyer:


The password to enter this virtual class will be sent by email to all interested parties. If you would like to be a part of this virtual class please email Ana Maria Iordache (anamariaiordache@email.arizona.edu) and let her know your name and affiliation.

In the case you have missed the fall season featuring great artists such as David Russell, María Jesús Rodríguez, Sérgio Assad, Dennis Tolz, Antonius Müller, Douglas James, Joaquín Clerch, Stephen Goss, Xianji Liu, Stephan Connor, Berta Rojas, Misael Barraza Díaz, Judicaël Perroy, Marco Tamayo, they are now available on the Bolton Guitar Studies official website:
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We are delighted to announce this weeks masterclass within the UA Bolton Guitar Studies Virtual Series where students of Bolton Guitar Studies will perform for legendary classical guitarist David Russell. Undergraduate candidate Yihui Wang and alumni Duo Chinoiserie prepared works by Manuel María Ponce and Claude Debussy. 

This event is scheduled for Friday, March 5th at 11:00 a.m. (MST). The meeting will last one hour and a half with a Q & A segment towards the end and it will be live streamed on the University of Arizona Guitar Studies Facebook page, where audience can submit their questions through chat.

To access the meeting simply go to the Bolton Guitar Studies website and click on the link for the Zoom meeting, found below the flyer:
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The password to enter this virtual class will be sent by email to all interested parties. If you would like to be a part of this virtual class please email Ana Maria Iordache (anamariaiordache@email.arizona.edu) and let her know your name and affiliation.

In the case you have missed the fall season featuring great artists such as David Russell, María Jesús Rodríguez, Sérgio Assad, Dennis Tolz, Antonius Müller, Douglas James, Joaquín Clerch, Stephen Goss, Xianji Liu, Stephan Connor, Berta Rojas, Misael Barraza Díaz, Judicaël Perroy, Marco Tamayo, they are now available on the Bolton Guitar Studies official website:
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Congratulations to UArizona alumnus Gabriel Machado, who is currently conducting the Brazilian National Virtual Choir - a project that started during the pandemic, in which over 5,000 people have participated. Thank you for changing the world with your music (and for wearing your Arizona shirt)!

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