Narrowland Arts
at
THE SCHOOLHOUSE CENTER
Presents
KATHY ROSENBACH
TOM HILL
and FRIENDS
Award Winning String Quartet
“A TRIBUTE TO THE 20th CENTURY”
Narrowland Arts presents “A TRIBUTE TO THE 20th CENTURY” on Saturday evening, July 28 at 8:00 p.m. in Manso Hall. Tickets are $15.00 and may be reserved by calling 508.487.4800 X 101 or purchased at the door.
Michael Bonner, cello, is an active chamber musician in Boston, where he performs with pianist Sarah Takagi as part of the duo PiantaCella. Michael has held principal positions in the University of Rochester Symphony Orchestra, the Longy Chamber Orchestra and the Vassar Festival Orchestra. He has served as a teaching assistant in the studio of Rhonda Rider at the Boston Conservatory, and a chamber coach at the Longy School of Music. Michael has studied at the Tangelwood Institute with Leonard Berstein, and at the Eastman School of Music. His teachers include George Seaman, Jonathon Miller, Kim Scholes, and Rhonda Rider; he has participated in masterclasses with Menahem Pressler, Eugene Lehner and David Deveau.
Michael received the bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University, where he was a recipient of the David McCord Prize for musical excellence. His is presently on the faculty of the Longy School of Music.
Thomas Hill, Clarinet, holds both a bachelor's and master's degree with honors from the New England Conservatory. He also attended the Cleveland Institute of Music where he was a member of the celebrated class of Robert Marcellus. As a chamber musician, Mr. Hill has performed, toured,recorded and broadcast throughout the Americas and in Asia as a member of the Aeolian Chamber Players of New York and the Boston
Chamber Music Society. He has played on innumerable concert and festival series, and has been widely engaged as soloist and ensemble performer during his tenures in New York, Los Angeles and Boston. Mr. Hill has been principal clarinetist if the New Haven Symphony, the Long Beach Symphony, the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra, the Handel and Haydn Society and the Boston Philharmonic.
In addition to his private studio, his teaching credentials include artist-professor affiliations with the New England Conservatory, the Boston Conservatory, the Longy School of Music the Chinese Foundation for the Performing Arts and the university systems of New York, California,
Massachusetts and Missouri.
Kathryn Rosenbach, piano, is known for her performances as soloist and
chamber musician, as well as a choral conductor and performer. Presently Ms. Rosenbach is the Artist Director of the Composers in Red Sneakers. She received BFA and MFA degrees from SUNY/Buffalo, an Artist's diploma from the Academia musicale di Chigiana (Siena, Italy) and has pursued doctoral studies at the Eastman School of Music. Her performances have included premiers of Yehudi Wyner, Lejarin Hiller, Marlos Nobre and Herman Weiss, as well as performances with the late-Yvar Mikhashoff. Her teachers have included Guido Agosti, Leo Smit, David Burge and Stephen Manes.
Ms. Rosenbach has taught at SUNY/Buffalo, Nazareth College, the Longy School of Music, Simmons College, and is presently on the faculty of the Powers Music School. Under the direction of Jan Williams, she participated in the recording of "Music for Six" by Lukas Foss on CRI. Ms. Rosenbach has recorded two videos: "What Make's Music?" and "Explorations and
Transformations".
Sarah Thornblade, violin, is a member of both the Auros Group for New Music and the Rhode Island Philharmonic and performs with Emmanuel Music and the Boston Ballet Orchestra. Before moving to Boston, Sarah was a member of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra and performed with the Los Angeles Opera in addition to an active schedule as a studio musician. A founding member of the Arianna String Quartet, she won grand prize in the Fishoff, Coleman and Carmel chamber music competitions. The quartet was awarded a grant from Chamber Music America to establish a residency at Eastern Michigan University, where they performed regularly and taught chamber music, in addition to concertizing throughout the U.S. and Japan. The quartet also participated in the first Isaac Stern Carnegie Hall chamber music
masterclasses.
Sarah has performed with artists such as Gilbert Kalish, Eliot Fisk, Andres
Cardenes, Andres Diaz and Marc Johnson. She has performed at the Pregon Bach festival, Tanglewood, Strings in the Mountains Festival, Colorado Music Festival, Spoleto Festival and at the Norfolk Festival.Sarah studied with Schmuel Ashkenasi, Miriam Fried, MaryLou Speaker-Churchill and Eugene Lehner.
The Evening’s Program:
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1942) L. Bernstein I , II (1918-1992)
Sonata-Fantasia (1992) G. Schuller Maestoso, Agitato, Vivace (1925- )
Lento Sturmisch bewegt (animato temposo)
Le Grand Tango for Cello and Piano (1990) A. Piazzola
(1921-1992)
~Intermission~
Quatour pour la fin du temps(1942) O. Messiaen
I. Liturgie de cristal (1908-1990)
II. Vocalise, pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin du temps
III. Abime des osieaux
VI. Intermede
V. Louange a l'Eternite de Jesus
VI. Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes
VII. Fouillio d'arc-en-ciel, pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps
VIII. Louange a' L'Immortalite de Jesus
Narrowland Arts produces programs and events at the Schoolhouse Center, located at 494 Commercial Street in Provincetown’s historic East End Gallery District. For more information or an interview with the artist please contact Michael Carroll at 508.487.4800 X 105.
