Klarinet Archive - Posting 000089.txt from 2000/04

From: <cellis@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Wind Ensembles in Concert!
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:55:29 -0400

On Sunday, April 16, at 7 p.m. Longy's Sundays at Seven Series presents the
annual Artist Diploma Spotlight. The concert features the wind quintet Vento
Chiaro performing Hindemith's Kleine Kammermusik, Opus 24, No. 2; the brass
quintet Brass Menagerie performing Victor Ewald's Quintet No. 1 and Barber's
Adagio; Susanna Cortesio, violin, performing Vaughan William's The Lark
Ascending; and Jeoung-Hye Han, piano, performing Beethoven's Sonata, Opus 53,
"Waldstein," and her own arrangement of Ravel's La Valse. The concert takes
place in the Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall at Longy School of Music, 27 Garden
Street, Cambridge. Admission is $10; $5 students and seniors. For further
information or to purchase tickets, please call (617) 876-0956, extension 500.
The Box Office at Longy is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Vento Chiaro was founded at the Peabody Conservatory in 1997. Vento
Chiaro's musical interests span many centuries, including composers from
Teleman to Haydn, Harbison to Ligeti. As supporters of new music, Vento
Chiaro hopes to begin commissioning works in the near future. The ensemble's
coaches have included Peter Langdren, Anthony Gigliotti, and Linda Harwell.
Their current coach is Longy faculty member Jonathan Cohler. Vento Chiaro is
a semi-finalist in the 2000 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the
largest and most prestigious chamber music competition in the United States.
They will compete for the finals in South Bend, Indiana, this coming May.
Brass Menagerie was formed by a group of undergraduate students at the
Louisiana State University School of Music. As an ensemble they have presented
concerts, been featured in local music festivals, and performed on Louisiana
Public Radio broadcasts. They have enjoyed performance opportunities with
summer festivals, professional symphony orchestras, and opera companies, most
recently participating in the 1998 Boston University Tanglewood Institute
receiving the honor of the Most Outstanding Brass Quintet.
Susanna Cortesio is a native of Des Moines, Iowa, where she received her
early violin instruction. She received both her undergraduate and master's
degrees from the Eastman School of Music where she was a student of Charles
Castleman and served as his assistant She also was an assistant to the Ying
Quartet in the Music for All outreach program at Eastman. As a member of the
Florestan String Quartet, she completed a rural residency for one year in
Kentucky, which was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and
New Performing Arts, Louisville, Kentucky. She has performed as a soloist with
various orchestras and chamber groups including the Waterloo/Cedar Falls
Symphony and Eastman's Musica Nova Ensemble. Most recently she serves as guest
concertmaster for the Charlestown Symphony. Cortesio studies with Laura
Bossert.
Jeong-Hye Han, a native of Seoul, Korea, has received her Bachelor and
Master of Music from Boston Conservatory where she studied with Dr. Jonathan
Bass. She has appeared on the Steinway Showcase, the Federal Reserve Bank
Recital Series, and the Massachusetts General Hospital Recital Series, which
was televised. In 1999, she won the Chopin Piano Concerto Competition at
Longy School of Music, where she currently studies with Randall Hodgkinson.
Other honors include a special prize in the Shreveport nternational Wideman
Piano Competition and a membership in the Honors Piano Trio at Boston
Conservatory.

For further information, please contact:
617-876-0956, x500

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