Aug
11
Sun
Aug 11 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Three For All
Sunday, August 11th, at 3:00PM
Doors open at 2:30PM
Bösendorfer Hall, Ruggero Piano
Program
Trio in B Flat Major, Opus 11 L. van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Allegro con brio
Adagio
Thema: Pria ch’io l’impegno – Allegretto
Fantasy Trio R. Muczynski (1929-2010)
Allegro energico
Andante con espressione
Allegro deciso
Introduction and Finale
Trio in D Minor, Opus 120 G. Faure (1845-1924)
Allegro, ma non troppo
Andantino
Allegro vivo
Oblivion A. Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Libertango
Bonnie Thron, Cello
Fred Jacobowitz, Clarinet
Anatoly Larkin, Piano
Bonnie Thron joined the North Carolina Symphony as principal cellist in 2000. She currently is a member of the piano quartet Quercus and frequently plays with the Mallarmé Chamber Players. In the summers, she performs at the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival in Maine.
Previously she was a member of the Peabody Trio, in residence at the Peabody Institute, during which time the group won the Naumberg chamber music competition. Early in her career, Thron was assistant principal cellist of the Denver Symphony for a season, and played and recorded with the Orpheus Chamber Ensemble. She has had a long history with the Apple Hill Chamber Players, as a guest artist and chamber music coach, and was involved in the group’s first Playing for Peace tour to the Middle East in 1991.
Thron has performed concertos with the North Carolina Symphony, the Orpheus Chamber Ensemble, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Panama National Orchestra, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and various other orchestras in North Carolina and her original home state of New Hampshire. She received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School. Her teachers include Lynn Harrell, Harvey Shapiro, Norman Fischer, and Elsa Hilger.
Thron also received a BSN from Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and worked as a nurse for several years, at Johns Hopkins Hospital and as a case manager in home care nursing, during which time she was a cello teacher at the Baltimore School for the Arts. Thron and her husband, clarinetist Fred Jacobowitz, have a son—pianist, clarinetist, and computer whiz Louis.
Fred Jacobowitz is a graduate of the famous New York City High School of Performing Arts (featured in the movie “Fame”). He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Julliard School, where he studied with the late Leon Russianoff. Later, he pursued doctoral studies at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University where he studied with Loren Kitt. He likes to joke that he got his Clarinet degrees from Julliard and his Sax and Flute degrees from the famous ‘School of Hard Knocks’.
Fred made his New York debut at Carnegie Hall (now Weill Hall) as winner of the Artists International Competition. He was a featured soloist on radio stations WBAI and WQXR in New York City, with the Goldman Band, and in recital throughout the Metropolitan New York area. In addition, he played in and soloed with (and even conducted) the Kingsborough College (Brooklyn, NC) symphonic band. As a chamber musician, he has participated in the Marlboro Music Festival and played in the Verrazano Winds Woodwind Quintet in Brooklyn, New York. Other chamber music projects include the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music (Keene, NH) and most recently Washington Musica Viva in Tacoma Park, Maryland.
Mr. Jacobowitz was Principle Clarinetist in the Annapolis (Maryland) Symphony Orchestra from 1989-2002. While living in Baltimore, he also taught clarinet and saxophone at Peabody’s Preparatory Division. He is equally at home in the worlds of Classical, Jazz and Folk, having performed and recorded with his Kol Haruach Klezmer Band and his duo, Ebony and Ivory. Other records include 2 CDs with the Machaya Klezmer Band in Maryland. He has even played in a South Serbian Gypsy Band. He has performed as recitalist and soloist throughout the US, Canada, and Panama.
Fred now resides in Raleigh, NC, where (when not performing out of town) he is a machinist. He teaches woodwinds and freelances, and he can often be heard playing concerts with his wife, North Carolina Symphony Principal Cellist, Bonnie Thron. In addition, he performs as half of the Jacobowitz-Larkin duo with pianist Anatoly Larkin. He runs his own business, Case Closed, fixing musical instrument cases and is a professional Little League Baseball Umpire.
Born in 1979, Russia, Anatoly Larkin has been studying and making music from around the age of 4. After studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in UK, Anatoly completed his doctoral studies in Piano Performance at the University of Minnesota under the advice of Alexander Braginsky. In Minnesota, he was a member of the new-music ensemble, Zeitgeist, fulfilling his passion for contemporary and avant-garde music. With Zeitgeist, Anatoly had premiered works by Paul Dresher, Scott Miller, Amy Wurtz, Jerome Kitzke, Bill Banfield, Anthony Gatto, Kathy Jackanich, Justin Rubin, Michael Wittgraf and many others. He continues to be an active improviser, having collaborated with trombonist Patrick Crossland, clarinetist Pat O’Keefe, violinist Yuri Merzhevsky and other artists.
In 2005, he moved to Raleigh, NC, to join Zenph, a music technology company. There he developed a software/manual process, subsequently trademarked as Re-Performance®, that made it possible to hear performances of golden age pianists in famous audio recordings (such as those on wax cylinders, or from 78s) live again, with the help of state-of-the-art reproducing piano technology. He oversaw the recordings of critically acclaimed albums such as, for example, “Bach: The Goldberg Variations 1955 Performance”, “Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff” or “Oscar Peterson: Unmistakable”. He also oversaw the use of this technology in collaborations with live artists, like violinist Joshua Bell and HK Philharmonic. Currently, he is involved in creating Re-Performances of “Steinway Immortals” for Steinway and Sons in New York.
Anatoly continues to perform, teach, and, occasionally, compose music. In his teaching studio, he employs the successful ear-training methods of his first music teacher, Nadezhda Matsayeva. He also teaches music courses at the North Carolina State University. His recent projects include a presentation of piano works by “Russian Composers In Their Early 30s” (featured as a radio special on “The Classical Station”, 89.7FM), piano recordings with piano technician Marc Wienert, chamber performances with musicians Jonathan Kramer, Fred Jacobowitz, Alex Gorodezky and various members of NC Symphony Orchestra, as well as the continuing collaboration with living composers, including John Starosta and Craig Bove.
Oct
5
Sat
This program will explore Latin music from different points of view including American composer Adrienne Albert’s Ode to Piazzolla and Cuban Stories; John Williams’s interpretation of Por Una Cabeza by the famous Argentine composer, Carlos Gardel; two trios by Astor Piazzolla; and Pacific Serenade, inspired by an evening on the West Coast by Miguel del Aguila from Uruguay. Teresa Fernandez will round out the program with a selection of Latin songs.
Por Una Cabeza for Violin & Piano
Carlos Gardel/John Williams (arranger)
Ode to Piazzolla for Violin, Cello & Piano
Adrienne Albert
Invierno Porteno for Violin, Cello & Piano
Astor Piazzolla
Primavera Portena for Violin, Cello & Piano
Astor Piazzolla
Pacific Serenade for Clarinet & Piano
Miguel del Aguila
Latin Songs
Teresa Fernandez (vocalist)
Cuban Stories for Flute, Cello, Violin & Piano
Adrienne Albert
Dec
5
Thu
Dec 5 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Feb
15
Sat
Feb 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Mar
21
Sat
Mar 21 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Sep
10
Fri
Sep 10 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Dr. Carol Ann Barry is a Nationally Certified member of MTNA. Her piano training has included several degree programs as well as study abroad. Selected to serve as a Rotary International Fellow, she studied at the Goethe Institute in Munich, and the Hochschule für Musik und Darsteleende Kunst in Hamburg, Germany. Dr. Barry is interested in the pedagogical work of internationally renowned pedagogue Abby Whiteside. Her doctoral work included extensive studies in New York City with pianist Sophia Rosoff.
Dr. Barry is a frequent presenter at music conferences at the state and national levels. Her creative teaching style has enhanced her ability to work with children with diverse learning needs. Dr. Barry served on the organizational committee of the 2005 WPPC Conference in Anaheim, California, and has presented several papers for the organization, including the lecture, Outlining-A Crucial Practice Technique, at the 2009 national conference in Arizona. A lecture recital featuring the Preludes, Op. 64, by Cesar Cui, was presented at the College Music Society national conference in 2010.
Between 1995 and 2000, Dr. Barry served as the Director of Keyboard Studies at the Columbia Institute of Fine Arts, in Falls Church, Virginia. During her tenure at Columbia, she developed and directed the Columbia Pedagogy Series, which served as an outreach to teachers and musicians throughout the Washington area. She was the founding director of the Columbia Concert Series at CIFA, which presented some of Washington’s finest artists and performance ensembles.
Orchestral appearances have included the McLean Symphony, Reston Community Orchestra, and the Columbia Orchestra in performances of Addinsell’s “Warsaw” Concerto, and the Carnival of the Animals, by Camille Saint-Saens,. She also performed Mozart’s Concerto in D Minor, K. 466 and Chopin’s F Minor Piano Concerto. Dr. Barry spends significant time teaching in her private piano studio, located in Cary, N.C.
A collaborative pianist, Dr. Barry currently serves as an accompanist for the widely diverse voice department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the fall of 2015 she performed a piano trio concert with local artists Samford Enseln and violinist Petia Radneva Mantalova. Solo performances have included an all-Beethoven program featuring the piano sonatas of Beethoven’s middle period.
Dr. Barry received a Baccalaureate degree from Old Dominion University, a Masters of Music in Piano from the University of Louisville School of Music and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Feb
12
Sat
Feb 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
The Hillsborough Street Jazz Trio is a Raleigh-based jazz piano trio with broad-ranging influences from from Brad Mehldau to Tom Waits. This Valentine’s concert will feature classic love songs as well as some offbeat favorites that celebrate the twists and turns of a relationship.
This event will be ticketed at the door: $13 adults, $10 students/seniors and children. Masks are required during the performance, capacity will be limited to 60, and social distancing is encouraged.
*If you have already purchased a ticket for the Free Spirits Ensemble concert that was originally scheduled for this day, you may choose to redeem it for this performance; alternatively, you can save it for either the March 26th Free Spirits concert or the ensemble’s postponed concert to be announced next season.
Feb
25
Fri
Feb 25 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Mar
26
Sat
After almost two years, the Free Spirits Ensemble is back in Bosendorfer Hall at Ruggero Piano – and ready to dance! Our concert begins with Michele Mangani’s “Tre Danza Latine”. Next is featured “Four Unknown Dances” by Lanette Lind. We then shift to South American with four selections from Jobim and Piazzolla, arranged by Jim Williams – all designed to warm an early spring evening with Terpsichore.
MICHELE MANGANI
Tre Danza Latine for clarinet and piano
LANETTE LIND
Four Unknown Dances for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
Inveirno Porteno for violin, cello and piano
Oblivion for violin, cello and piano
FOUR LATIN SELECTIONS (ARRANGED BY JIM WILLIAMS)
FOR CLARINET, VIOLIN, CELLO AND PIANO
Girl from Ipanema | Antonio Carlos Jobim
Shadow of Your Smile | Johnny Mandel
Ausensias | Astor Piazzolla
Street Tango | Astor Piazzolla
