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Home › News & Events › Events › FACULTY AREA SERIES RECITAL – DANIEL KATZEN, HORN & MICHAEL DAUPHINAIS, PIANO

FACULTY AREA SERIES RECITAL – DANIEL KATZEN, HORN & MICHAEL DAUPHINAIS, PIANO

Faculty Artists, Guest Artists, Keyboard, Strings, Woodwinds Saturday February 17, 2018 - 4:30p.m. to 6:30p.m.

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

The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music presents a Faculty Artist Series recital featuring Daniel Katzen, horn, with pianist Michael Dauphinais, tenor James Stevens, and string musicians from TSO and UA conducted by Thomas Cockrell. The free-admission performance will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 17, 2018 in Crowder Hall.

Professor Katzen’s annual solo horn recital will commemorate his decade-plus tenure as professor of horn at the University of Arizona. Professor Katzen will be retiring from his position as of May 2018. Daniel Katzen is delighted that his mentor and former teacher, Fred Fox, will be the guest of honor at his retirement recital at the University of Arizona.

“I have had the great fortune of playing in the Boston Symphony for 30 years and now with the students and faculty of the University of Arizona for an additional 11 years.” His program will turn back the clock to his first solo recital in 2008. Bartók’s “Romanian Folk Dances” with pianist Michael Dauphinais and Bach’s sixth and final cello suite will be followed by Benjamin Britten’s haunting and powerful Serenade for tenor, horn and strings. Thomas Cockrell will conduct an orchestra of TSO and UA strings. The tenor is James Stevens, from George Mason University.

During Katzen‘s early tenure at UA, he wanted his students to experience the great benefits from the wisdom of master horn teacher Fred Fox, so he invited him to come to Tucson. Mr. Fox’s visits became a yearly routine, extending his teaching to other brass and woodwind instrumentalists. Besides master classes open to all, students would line up outside Katzen‘s studio for lessons with Fred Fox. Occasionally, Katzen would travel to Los Angeles with a small group of students to receive additional instruction from Mr. Fox, who at the time was approaching his 100th birthday.

Professor Katzen‘s long-time friendship with Fred Fox was the motivation that brought the Fox family to the UA School of Music. Katzen says, “I met Fred when he was ‘old’: 62! He had just stopped working in the Hollywood film studios and started to devote his energies towards teaching young players. I was 24 at the time and was introduced to him through a mutual colleague, James Thatcher. The lessons we enjoyed were of seminal importance to me, in that thisteacher (among my seven) was giving me the bare basics of horn playing in a way that stuck with me. The technical issues I had been having simply disappeared, so much, that, when I went to the audition for the Boston Symphony, the information came along with me. I got the job!”

Thirty years later, upon his arrival at the UA School of Music in the position of horn professor, Katzen brought his old mentor, Fred, to work with his students in Tucson. After Fred came regularly for six years, his son, Alan Fox, got involved in the workings of the School of Music and became a donor; first for the endowing of a flagship masters-level tuition-free woodwind quintet (The Fred Fox Graduate Wind Quintet), and then with a naming gift when the UA School of Music became the “Fred Fox School of Music.” Two years later, the Fred Fox Graduate Brass Quintet was formed, thanks to an additional endowment from the Fox family.

“These generous gifts have been transformative for the school and members of the Fox family continue to be great friends and regular visitors to our school,” said Professor Katzen.

 

Daniel Katzen joined the University of Arizona School of Music faculty after finishing his 29th year as second horn of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a position he held from 1979 to 2008. Prof. Katzen’s studies and performance career have taken him to 25 U.S. states and 22 foreign countries on five continents to perform more than 5000 concerts. He can be heard live in concert at his annual UA solo and chamber recitals, various orchestral appearances around the United States and on his dozens of CDs with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras, Empire Brass and other orchestral and chamber ensembles. His three CDs of Bach Suites for ‘Cello Solo played on the horn and his publications of the transcriptions are unique and have already sold out the first printing. In addition to his tenure in the BSO, Katzen was a faculty member at Boston University College of Fine Arts, New England Conservatory and Tanglewood Music Center in the East, and California Institute of the Arts and University of California/Irvine School of Music in the West. His previous orchestral affiliations include fourth horn with the San Diego Symphony, second horn in both the Grant Park (Chicago) and Phoenix Symphonies, and extra horn with the Chicago Symphony and the Munich, Los Angeles and Rochester Philharmonics. He can also be heard on the soundtracks of more than two-dozen motion pictures, including “E.T.,” “Nixon,” “Pearl Harbor,” “Twister” and “Jumanji.” Prof. Katzen concertizes on a customized horn made for him in 1980 by Dan Rauch.

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Meet pianist Wenxin Guan and don't miss her performance with the ASO this weekend!

49th Annual President’s Concert – Arizona Symphony Orchestra
with 2022-2023 Concerto Competition winners
Gloria Ines Orozco Dorado, clarinet
Wenxin Guan, piano
Martina Portychova, mezzo-soprano
Emmy Tisdel, violin
February 4, Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
February 5, Sunday, 3:30 p.m.
Crowder Hall, $10 music.arizona.edu/tickets

The concert will feature the Arizona Symphony Orchestra and student soloists who won the highly competitive University of Arizona Concerto Competition. Featuring clarinetist Gloria Ines Orozco Dorado, performing the “Black Dog Concerto” by Scott McAllister; pianist Wenxin Guan, performing movements II and III of the Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 by Felix Mendelssohn; mezzo-soprano Martina Portychova, performing “Nobles Seigneurs, salut!” from Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer; and violinist Emmy Tisdel, performing movement I of the Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 35 by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The students are selected from each area of the Fred Fox School of Music – strings, voice, wind and percussion, and keyboard. They represent the depth of talent at the school, shining in this performance with the Arizona Symphony Orchestra. Graduate students Yudai Ueda and Fátima Corona del Toro will conduct the students’ performances. The program will also include works by Myroslav Skoryk and Alexander Borodin, under the baton of Dr. Thomas Cockrell.

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About Wenxin Guan

Wenxin Guan, a native of China, is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance at the University of Arizona under the guidance of Dr. Daniel Linder. She earned both a Master’s degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy and a Master’s degree in Music Education from the University of Oklahoma in 2021, where she studied piano with Dr. Jeongwon Ham and Dr. John Murphy and piano pedagogy with Dr. Barbara Fast and Dr. Jane Magrath. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance from Capital University in 2018, where she studied with Dr. Tianshu Wang. Wenxin’s playing has earned her numerous scholarships and grants, providing opportunities to perform both regionally and internationally (Eisenstadt, Austria). She has received awards in several piano competitions, including the MTNA Oklahoma Young Artist Competition, OMTA Collegiate Competition, the University of Oklahoma Concerto Competition, and Capital University’s Concerto Competition. She has also performed in masterclasses for Alexander Kobrin, Alan Chow, Alvin Chow, Lisa Kaplan, and others.
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Meet violinist Emmy Tisdel and don't miss her performing with the ASO this weekend!

49th Annual President’s Concert – Arizona Symphony Orchestra
with 2022-2023 Concerto Competition winners
Gloria Ines Orozco Dorado, clarinet
Wenxin Guan, piano
Martina Portychova, mezzo-soprano
Emmy Tisdel, violin
February 4, Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
February 5, Sunday, 3:30 p.m.
Crowder Hall, $10 music.arizona.edu/tickets

The concert will feature the Arizona Symphony Orchestra and student soloists who won the highly competitive University of Arizona Concerto Competition. Featuring clarinetist Gloria Ines Orozco Dorado, performing the “Black Dog Concerto” by Scott McAllister; pianist Wenxin Guan, performing movements II and III of the Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 by Felix Mendelssohn; mezzo-soprano Martina Portychova, performing “Nobles Seigneurs, salut!” from Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer; and violinist Emmy Tisdel, performing movement I of the Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 35 by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The students are selected from each area of the Fred Fox School of Music – strings, voice, wind and percussion, and keyboard. They represent the depth of talent at the school, shining in this performance with the Arizona Symphony Orchestra. Graduate students Yudai Ueda and Fátima Corona del Toro will conduct the students’ performances. The program will also include works by Myroslav Skoryk and Alexander Borodin, under the baton of Dr. Thomas Cockrell.

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About Emmy Tisdel

Emmy Tisdel is a doctoral student in the Fred Fox School of Music at the University of Arizona, where she studies with Tim Kantor. She joined the Tucson Symphony Orchestra as a member of the second violin section in Fall 2022. Emmy has been selected as a P.E.O. Scholar for the 2022-23 academic year, and is also a former University of Arizona Doctoral Fellow. Within the University of Arizona, Emmy is a member of the Graduate String Quartet, the Cabrini Quartet. Emmy graduated from Oberlin Conservatory with a bachelor’s degree in music, from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University with a Master of Music, and from Schulich School of Music at McGill University with an Artists’ Diploma and a Graduate Diploma in music performance. She is a co-founder of Ensemble Urbain, a conductorless chamber orchestra based in Montreal; she is a faculty member for the SA’ Oaxaca strings international music festival, which provides free chamber music tutoring to students based in Mexico; and a member of Austin Camerata, an interdisciplinary chamber music organization based in Austin, Texas. She has played in masterclasses for people including Christian Tetzlaff, Jamie Laredo, and Ani Kavafian. Former teachers include Jinjoo Cho, Kenneth Goldsmith, David Bowlin, Samantha George, and Katie Brooks.

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Meet mezzo-soprano Martina Portychova!

49th Annual President’s Concert – Arizona Symphony Orchestra
with 2022-2023 Concerto Competition winners
Gloria Ines Orozco Dorado, clarinet
Wenxin Guan, piano
Martina Portychova, mezzo-soprano
Emmy Tisdel, violin
February 4, Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
February 5, Sunday, 3:30 p.m.
Crowder Hall, $10 music.arizona.edu/tickets

The concert will feature the Arizona Symphony Orchestra and student soloists who won the highly competitive University of Arizona Concerto Competition. Featuring clarinetist Gloria Ines Orozco Dorado, performing the “Black Dog Concerto” by Scott McAllister; pianist Wenxin Guan, performing movements II and III of the Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 by Felix Mendelssohn; mezzo-soprano Martina Portychova, performing “Nobles Seigneurs, salut!” from Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer; and violinist Emmy Tisdel, performing movement I of the Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 35 by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The students are selected from each area of the Fred Fox School of Music – strings, voice, wind and percussion, and keyboard. They represent the depth of talent at the school, shining in this performance with the Arizona Symphony Orchestra. Graduate students Yudai Ueda and Fátima Corona del Toro will conduct the students’ performances. The program will also include works by Myroslav Skoryk and Alexander Borodin, under the baton of Dr. Thomas Cockrell.
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About Martina Portychova

Born in Liberec, Czechoslovakia, Martina Portychova started her musical education when she was just five years old. She was enrolled at the elite Public Music Academy for piano, and auditioned for the prestigious Children's Choir, where she remained a member throughout high school. In 1995 Ms. Portychova moved from the rolling green pastures of the Czech Republic to the Arizona desert. She lived in Tucson where she attended University of Arizona and earned her Bachelor and master's degree in Voice Performance. When she was not performing, she would explore the desert on her Arabian horse Gypsy Gaim and compete in endurance races. She remained in the United States after her education was completed and moved to New York to seek her professional life. Recently she officially became a citizen here. This was an essential life goal, and her American identity is important in her life. Maintaining dual citizenship in both the Czech Republic and this country gives her a seamless advantage to working anywhere between the European Union and here in the United States. Having grown up in Eastern Europe, Ms. Portychova speaks several languages. Russian, Czech, German, French, Italian, and Latin are her most fluid. Her other personal interests include skiing, horseback riding, and target shooting.
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