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Donald F. Cook Recital Hall M.O. Morgan Building

Saturday, 28 September 1996 at 8:00p.m.

AN EVENING WITH PIERROT

Nancy Dahn, violin/viola Michelle Cheramy, flute/piccolo

Kristina Szutor, piano

Thomas Heinrich, cello Paul Bendzsa, clarinet/bass clarinet Carolyn Hart, sprechstimme

with special guest speaker Tony Chadwick

Die Eiseme Brigade Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

Expressionism: Visual Reflections Tony Chadwick Department of French and Spanish

There will be a brief intermission to allow for stage set-up

Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 (1912) Thrice Seven Poems from Albert Giraud's Pierrot Lunaire

(German by Otto Erich Hartleben)

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Arnold Schoenberg

Paul Bendzsa (clarinet), woodwind specialist, teacher and performer, has been a faculty member at Memorial UniveiSity of Newfoundland since 1976. His enthusiasm for new music and musical adventure has led him to founding membeiSbips in a diveme number of ensembles: the Atlantic Arts Trio, the Canadian Saxophone Quartet, Fusion, the Blue Ryder Ensemble and most recently the Borealis Ensemble. As a result of these collaborations a number of tows have taken him across Canada, to England, Spain, Hong Kong, Korea and Australia, where newly commissioned and classical music have been performed.

Michelle O.eramy

Originally from British Columbia, Michelle Cberamy's many performance activities have carried her from one coast of North America to the other. After completing her Master's degree at Indiana University, she spent a season with the Thunder Bay Symphony before joining the faculty of MUN. She has appeared in solo and chamber music concerts throughout Canada and in the United States (including concerto performances with orchestras in BC and Indiana), and has been broadcast on both CBC and National Public Radio. Her plans for this year reflect her interest in newly composed music: she has commissioned a work for flute and piano from young Canadian composer Heather Schmidt, and is plotting another musical adventure with the School of Music's own Dr. Clark Ross. -

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Nancy Dahn

Nancy Dahn received her training at the New England Conservatory, the Juilliard School, and the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she completed her doctorate in violin performance this summer. She is an assistant professor at Memorial UniveiSity's School of Music, where she teaches violin and conducts the award-winning MUN Chamber Orchestra. Dr. Dahn has performed as a recitalist on numerous occasions in Canada, and the United States, as well as in England, France, and Switzerland. She has also appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Ohio, Massachusetts, and Canada. Dr. Dahn was awarded fellowships to study and perform at the Tanglewood Music Center for three summeiS, and has also performed at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Taos School of Music, and the Britten PeaiS festival in Aldeburgh, England. Nancy Dahn was recently concert master for the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, an ensemble specializing in new music; she has also served in the same capacity for the orchestras of Tanglewood, the New England Conservatory, and the Cleveland Institute of Music. A winner of numerous competitions, including the concerto competitions of the Cleveland Institute and New England Conservatory, Dr. Dahn was a fmalist in the 1994 Louise McMahon International Competitions. Prior to joining the faculty at Memorial, she taught violin and chamber music at the Cleveland Institute of Music as the assistant to Donald WeileiStein.

Carolyn Hart

Carolyn Hart is an active chamber and solo recitalist. She has toured extensively in Canada, Asia and Great Britain. She was a finalist in the CBC national competitiion and the Eckhardt-Grnmatt6 competition. Her Bachelor and MasteiS of Music were completed at the UniveiSity of Toronto. Further studies took her to the Banff School of Fine Arts, Britten­PealS School in Aldeburgh, England and the Academie de Musique in Lausanne. Her doctornte in music was recently completed at the University of British Columbia. She is an associate professor at Memorial UniveiSity and is on the Board of ExamineiS for Western Ontarian Conservatory of Music.

Kristina Szutor

Pianist Kristina Szutor is a native of British Columbia who now lives in Newfoundland where she is on faculty at Memorial UniveiSity's School of Music. She holds a MasteiS degree from the Juilliard School of Music and a Doctorate in piano performance from the UniveiSity of British Columbia. She has performed as both soloist and chamber musician i

throughout Canada and in the United States and Europe as well. Recent projects have included a collaborntive CD of j Newfoundland composer Michael Parker's music to be released later this year.

Thomas Heinrich

Thomas Heinrich, a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music, made his solo debut at the age of sixteen with the Vermont Symphony Orchestrn and has performed as a chamber musician and soloist in North America, Japan, Germany and the former Yugoslavia. He has also appeared as soloist with the Chebucto Symphony Orchestrn in the Brahms Double Concerto. As assistant principal cellist of the American Sinfonietta, a chamber orchestra based in Bellingham, Washington, Mr. Heinrich has twice toured extensively in Europe. This January he will return to Europe for a tour of Germany, Austria, and Latvia as principal cellist of the American Sinfonietta. Mr. Heinrich has recorded chamber music of Saint-Saens for the Summit Records label with visiting and resident artists of the Banff Centre. He also recorded a CD of orchestral works by Mendelssohn with the American Sinfonietta which was released in January, 1996 on the Summit Select record label. Mr. Heinrich has served as principal cellist of the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and assistant principal cellist of the Erie Philharmonic under Eiji Que and the Pacific Music Festival Orchestrn under Leonard Bernstein. His performances have been broadcast on CBC Radio, WQLN, Public Radio, Erie, Pennsylvania and live on Yugoslavia National Television. Thomas Heinrich teaches cello at Memorial UniveiSity of Newfoundland.