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Dates of
Performances
April
14, 2006 JAKARTA at the Teater Kecil (studio)-Taman
Ismail Marzuki Arts Center,
Jl. Cikini Raya 73, Jakarta, Indonesia 10330, at 7:00 p.m.
April 21, 2006
NEW YORK at the United Nations Auditorium in New York,
(presented by the Indonesian Permanent Mission to the United
Nations), Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, United
Nations Headquarters, First Avenue and 42nd
Street, New York, NY 10017, at 7.00 pm
BY INVITATION ONLY
April 24, 2006
BALTIMORE at Towson University Performing Arts Center,
(supported and organized by Towson University), 8000 York
Road, Towson, Maryland 21252, at 8.15 pm
April 25, 2006
BALTIMORE Master Classes, Towson University Dept. of Music
(supported and organized by Towson University)
April 26, 2006
WASHINGTON DC at the Embassy of Indonesia,
(presented by the Embassy of Indonesia in Washington, D.C.),
2020 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036, at 8.00
pm
April 28, 2006
LOS ANGELES at the Goethe Institute Auditorium,
5750 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036, at 7:00 pm
(presented by the Indonesian Consulate General in Los
Angeles)
THE PERFORMERS
CLASSICAL NUANCES
is a
chamber ensemble of rare distinction, consisting of a unique
combination of instruments: oboe, viola and piano. Formed in
1995 in Jakarta, Indonesia, the trio performs regularly
worldwide, spanning four continents with performance
locations ranging from Bangkok to Seoul; Los Angeles to New
York City; Athens to London; Canberra to Kuwait.
CLASSICAL NUANCES has attracted the attention of a
number of composers whom have written works for this
ensemble, including Michael Marsh-Edwards (England);
Trisutji Kamal (Indonesia); Choi Chun Hee (Korea); and
Gennadi Belov (Russia).
The particularly expressive qualities of oboe, viola and
piano are made evident in the works featured tonight. The
plaintive, reedy oboe in contrast to the dark, voluptuous
resonance of the viola, along with the wide array of
textures provided by the piano invoke a tonal palette of
primarily treble, alto and tenor sonorities that is unique
to the world of chamber music. Tonight's concert pieces
celebrate the juxtaposition and transformation of Eastern
and Western classical and folk genres. The addition of
nuances enhanced by shadow puppetry by Indonesian dalang
(shadow puppeter) Mr. Nanang Hape integrates a
centuries-old Indonesian cultural artistic tradition with a
musical event, thus adding an exciting visual interpretative
element in this multicultural and multimedia event that
spans Western and Eastern artistic forms.
Korean oboist, SOUN-YOUN YOON holds many respected
positions in Korea where she is a graduate of the Faculty of
Music at Seoul National University. Honors include principal
oboist, Seoul Symphony Orchestra; Korean Symphony Orchestra,
Korean Women's Woodwind Quintet, first prize winner of two
prestigious national competitions and more. Mrs. Yoon, who
is a distinguished Associate of the Royal College of Music
in London, England, is currently lecturer of oboe at Samyuk
University, and principal oboist with the Korean Senior
Orchestra. She is the first woman ever to hold a position on
the honorary committee of the Korean Senior Orchestra, a
prestigious professional orchestra comprising first chair
players and highest ranking music professors of the major
orchestras and universities in Korea.
American violist, SHARON ENG is active worldwide as a
music educator, clinician, conductor and chamber recitalist,
playing premieres of solo works and giving chamber music
concerts and master classes in 12 countries. Dr. Eng
received her Bachelor and Master degrees in viola
performance at the Juilliard School in New York City, while
garnering a host of honors (fellowships to Aspen and
Tanglewood Music Festivals, U.S. representative to von
Karajan's international youth orchestra in Berlin...).
Director of the strings program at Jakarta International
School since 1996, her orchestras have performed in
Budapest, Manila, Vienna/Salzburg, Shanghai and elsewhere.
Dr. Eng appears as faculty-artist in residence at the summer
International Music Institute and Festival at Mt. Saint
Mary's University in Maryland).
Indonesian pianist, ARY SUTEDJA DAVID is renown as
one of Indonesia's finest classical pianists and
accompanists. She took her Masters in piano in the United
States, studying with Reynaldo Reyes, and receiving
prestigious awards and scholarships while at Towson
University. Ary did postgraduate studies at St. Petersburg
Conservatory. She toured as accompanist for the Bremen Opera
Company in Germany. With her husband, Mikhail David, Ary
organized and managed the JakArt International Arts, Culture
and Educational Festival that, over the years, hosted
hundreds of events and thousands of artists--both locally
and from abroad--in venues throughout Indonesia, and more
recently, in 14 cities in Greece during the celebration of
the 2004 Cultural Olympiad.
NANANG
HAPE is
an Indonesian puppeteer. Born in Ponorogo, Indonesia in
1975, he graduated from the Indonesian School of Performing
Arts in Surakarta (Solo, Central Java), majoring in
traditional classical puppetry (Wayang). He has
conducted research
throughout Indonesia on Wayang, and performs
Wayang in many different styles. Recently, he has
collaborated with classical and jazz musicians around the
world, including performances of music and Wayang in
Portugal, Netherlands and Greece. He recently performed in
six universities in Central Java and is currently writing
essays and scripts for Wayang and a novel, while
giving Wayang workshops for children.
MIKHAIL DAVID
designed the
lighting and visual presentation that accompanies the
Wayang performances. Founder and Artistic Director of
ProSeni and JakArt Foundation’s International Arts Festivals
since 2001, Mikhail David brings long experience and wide
ranging creativity to the art of stagecraft. He has held
one-man shows and collaborated with many artists in Europe,
Asia and the Americas, works that have included painting,
sculpture, design art, installations and performance art
‘happenings.’
THE MUSIC
Michael Head
is known as one of a group of 20th Century English light
music composers, whose great gift for melody and ballad-like
compositions have held their place in the English vocal
repertoire. Schooled at the Royal Academy of Music, Head was
both an accomplished pianist and singer, often combining
both roles in performances and broadcasts. His works are
generally regarded as conservative in style with a quality
of song that enjoys popular appeal. Gavotte and Elegiac
Dance comes from a suite of three pieces for oboe and
piano that evoke the English country garden with its lush
study in English folk melodies and modalities.
Trisutji
Kamal is
Indonesia's most prolific and active composer today, with
works spanning symphonic, chamber, opera, ballet, piano
concerti and music for film. Born in Jakarta in 1936, she
studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, graduating
from the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome in Piano and
Composition. Since 1984, her compositions have been
inspired by Islamic idioms, the combining of musical
elements with the rhythms of Tajwid or "correct
pronounciation" of the reading of the Holy Qur'an. Kamal’s
unique musical language is manifest in a set of three
prayers for solo viola that she wrote in response to Sharon
Eng’s commission for solo viola music. Marked ad lib
throughout, her deeply personal and profoundly spiritual
Prayers are unmetered, harmonically complex, while
retaining Western classical forms. Ilir-ilur and
Kicur-kicur are Kamal’s piano transcriptions of beloved
Indonesian folk songs.
August
Klughardt's
(born in Kothen) romantic Schilflieder (Reed
Songs) are five Fantasiestucke pieces set to poems by
Lenau, that were composed in 1872 for piano, oboe and viola.
Klughardt's music was inspired by his association with Franz
Liszt whom he met when working at the court theatre in
Weimar, and by the music of Robert Schumann and Richard
Wagner. Klughardt, who died suddenly at the relatively young
age of 54, held many distinctions, among them member of the
Berlin Academy of the Arts, conferral of an honorary
doctorate by the University of Erlangen, chief conductor in
Neustrelitz, and court director of music in Dessau, during
which time he conducted Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.
The music of Schilflieder is highly programmatic,
with Lenau's text telling the story of grief of a lost
lover:
Charles
Martin Loeffler
was born in Alsace in 1861 and died in Massachusetts in
1935. A composer and violinist, his childhood was spent in
Russia, Hungary and Switzerland. He studied violin in Berlin
and Paris, and composition with Ernest Guiraud of the Paris
Conservatory. In 1881 he moved to Boston to become deputy
leader of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His musical
compositions generally reflect French Impressionist
techniques, including tonight's Two Rhapsodies, a
brooding tour-de-force masterpiece based on a set of
surrealist poems by French poet, Maurice Rollinat: "Oh! His
bagpipe, near the crossroads of the crucifix! . . . Under
cold skies...down deep in my soul, there in the nook of
...fears, I hear his bagpipe groaning as of yore."
Rollinat's text, which inspired Loeffler's first movement, "L'Etang"
(The Pool) shares in common Lenau's text, which at inspired
Klughardt's last movement, with their pool/pond, moonbeams,
storms and reeds/rushes serving as metaphors for sorrow,
death and despair.”
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
originally wrote the famous "Kegelstat" Trio in E-Flat,
K.498 for clarinet, viola and piano, another
unusual combination that lends itself nicely to an
oboe-viola-piano treatment. In three movements, this
composition was written in 1786 when Mozart was writing at
the height of his powers, a year that produced his two piano
quartets, the "Prague" Symphony,
three piano concerti, his
fourth violin concerto and two great operas, The Marriage
of Figaro (1785-86) and Don Giovanni (1786-87).
Alan
Richardson
(born in Edinburgh in 1904) was a student of Harold Craxton
at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM). He toured Australia and
New Zealand in 1931, was Carl Flesch's accompanist from
1936-1939, and married Craxton's daughter, Janet, an oboist
who inspired many important works. Richardson's music is
regarded as concise, melodious and polished. He was
professor of piano at RAM until his death in 1978. Three
Pieces for Oboe, Viola and Piano is neo-classical
in form and structure, and characteristically dry, witty and
rhythmic.
Amir
Pasasribu
(born in Tapanuli, Sumatra in 1915) and Jaya Suprana,
born in Bali in 1949 , are two of Indonesia's most
beloved composers. They both compose music that reflect the
rich and diverse folk heritage of Indonesia. Pasaribu’s
transcription of the popular Petruk, Gareng dan Bagong
was rescored for Classical Nuancesby Joko Lemazh from
Pasaribu’s piano version. The music is based on a popular
Javanese folk tale from the Wayang puppet theatre called
Punokawan that follows the comic antics of three
retainers of a local Javanese king. Jaya Suprana received
his musical training at the Musik-hochschule Muenster and
Folkwanghochschule Essen. His works are imbued with
Indonesian ethnic elements. Tembang Alit
opens with a soft Javanese melody in a slow tempo that
abruptly changes into a spirited Balinese dance full of
rhythmic vitality, and new colors and textures. His music is
generally characterized by their simple, gentle,
transparent, clear and flowing lines.
THE PROGRAM
Tonight’s performance, which will be announced from the
stage consists of movements from these works:
●Michael
Head (1990-1976)
Gavotte and Elegiac Dance for Oboe and Piano
●Trisutji Kamal (1936 - )
Doa Syukur (Prayer of Gratitude) for Solo Viola
arrangement of Indonesian folk melodies Ilir-Ilir (for Solo
Piano)
and Kicir-kicir
●August
Klughardt Schilflieder, (1847-1902)
Op. 28 for Piano, Oboe and Viola
1.Langsam, traumerisch; 2.Leidenschaftlich erregt;
3.Zart, in ruhiger bewegung; 4.Feurig; 5.Sehr ruhig
●C.M. Loeffler (1861-1935)
Two Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola and Piano
I. L'Etang (The Pool); II. La Cornemuse (The Bagpipe)
●W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
Trio in E-flat, K.498 for piano, oboe (clarinet) and viola
I. Andante; II. Minuet-Trio; III. Allegretto
●Amir Pasaribu (1915- )
Petruk, Gareng dan
Bagong (arr. J. Lemazh for Classical Nuances
●Alan Richardson (1904-1978)
Three Pieces for Oboe, Viola and Piano
1. Alla Marcia; 2. Variations; 3. Graziana
●Jaya Suprana (1949 - )
Tembang Alit (A little Song) for Solo Piano
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