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Viola Music by Film Composers

February 1, 2009, 2:30 p.m.

Bruno Walter Auditorium
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, NYC
Note: Use the Performing Arts Library's entrance at 111 Amsterdam Avenue, just south of 65th Street. (The Lincoln Center Plaza entrance is closed on Sundays).

Free Admission

Program

Alan Shulman (1915-2002) - Theme and Variations for Viola and Piano

Brenton Caldwell, Viola
Yi-Fang Huang, Piano

Nino Rota (1911-1979) - Sonata for Viola and Piano in C Major (1945)
Allegretto scorrevole
Andante sostenuto
Allegro sccorevole

Mark Holloway, Viola
Steven Beck, Piano

Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995) - Introduction and Allegro for Viola Solo op.44

Christine Rutledge, Viola

William Walton (1902-1983) - Concerto for Viola (1929)
Andante comodo

Sila Eser, Viola
Yi-Fang Huang, Piano

Franz Waxman (1906-1967)(arr.Kugel-Fernandez) - Carmen Fantasie (1946)

Michael Fernandez, Viola
Yi-Fang Huang, Piano

About the Performers

Since beginning viola studies at the age of twelve, Brenton Caldwell has appeared in concert throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan. A recipient of several awards, Mr. Caldwell was recently a finalist and runner-up in the National Young Artist Competition held in Midland, Texas. As a soloist, he has performed with the Curtis and Banff Chamber Ensembles and the East Texas Symphony Orchestra. Having a deep passion for chamber music, Mr. Caldwell has performed alongside highly acclaimed artists such as Roberto Diaz, Gary Graffman, Ida Kavafian, Menahem Pressler, and Steven Tenenbom. Festival appearances include those at the Banff Centre, Ravinia's Steans Institute for Young Artists, Verbier Academy, Music@Menlo, Music from Angel Fire, Tanglewood, Pacific Music Festival, and the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival.
With an ardent devotion to education, Mr. Caldwell has participated in numerous outreach projects and concerts and served as teaching assistant to his long-time mentor Karen Tuttle. Other major viola instructors include Ruth Morrow, Susan Dubois, Jeffrey Irvine, Lynne Ramsey, Roberto Diaz, and Misha Amory. Mr. Caldwell has studied chamber music closely with Pamela Frank, Joseph Silverstein, members of the Beaux Arts Trio and the Cavani, Cleveland, Guarneri, and Orion string quartets. Through master classes, Mr. Caldwell has worked on numerous occasions with Kim Kashkashian and Nobuko Imai. Mr. Caldwell is a second year fellow of the Academy, a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute. Through the Academy he teaches in the New York City public school system and performs at Carnegie Hall and Juilliard as a member of Ensemble ACJW. A native of Tyler, Texas, Mr. Caldwell earned his Bachelor of Music degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music and an Artist Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he held the Edward B. Garrigues fellowship.

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Violist Mark Holloway is an active chamber and orchestral musician, both within the United States and abroad. He was principal violist at Tanglewood and has played chamber music at the Marlboro, Ravinia, Angel Fire, Sarasota, Prussia Cove, Banff, Taos, and Giverny festivals. He plays as a substitute with the New York Philharmonic, the American Symphony, where he has appeared as principal violist, and Orpheus. Mark was principal violist of the Haddonfield Symphony and the NY String Orchestra, and was a member and guest principal violist of both the Portland Symphony (Maine) and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. He received first prize in the American String Teachers' Association MA Competition and has played at Bargemusic, the 92nd Street Y, on WQXR's Young Artists' Showcase, live on WGBH, and with the Brandenburg Ensemble, Boston Symphony, Boston Musica Viva, and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Mark's festival appearances include Caramoor, Boston Chamber Music Society, Richmond Festival, Mainly Mozart, Festival Mozaic, Hotchkiss, Jupiter Chamber Players, Concordia Chamber Players, Lyric Chamber Music Society, and the Mostly Music festival. He received his diploma from the Curtis Institute, where he studied with Michael Tree, and a B.M. Summa cum laude from Boston University where he was a student of Michelle LaCourse.
Hailed by the American Record Guide as an "outstanding violist," Mark has been fortunate to work with some of the leading composers of our time, including Elliott Carter, Sofia Gubaidulina, Paul Moravec, Joan Tower, and George Tsontakis. He has also recorded music of Webern, Stravinsky, and Moravec for upcoming releases on Naxos. Next season he will join the prestigious Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two.