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DIR ECTORMilton Masciadri

Claudio Cruz is Music Director of the Youth Orchestra of the State of Sao Paulo, Artistic Director of tradicional Festival in Brasil: Oficina de Música de Curitiba and first violin of Quarteto Carlos Gomes. He started his musical studies with his father, luthier João Cruz. Later he studied violin with Erich Lehninger (Max Rostal student), and Maria Vischnia (first prize of Carl Flesch Competition) He also attended master classes by Joseph Gingold and Chaim Taub.Claudio Cruz received the Grammy Award in 2002, for a recording of Astor Piazzolla. In Brazil he received awards given by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics in 1985 and 1997, the Carlos Gomes Award 2002 and 2006, the Bravo Award in 2011. He was Concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestra of the State of São

Paulo for 24 years. Claudio Cruz was also Music Director of the Villa-Lobos Chamber Orchestra, Ribeirão Preto Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra of Campinas.With the São Paulo State Youth Orchestra participated in the Festival MDR Musiksommer Germany in 2012, Young Euro Classic Festival Berlin in 2013, Berlioz Festival France and Grachtenfestival Amsterdam in 2014, in March 2015 held concerts at Lincoln Center in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington.

Claudio Cruz ~ violin

Milton Masciadri is Professor of Double Bass at the University of Georgia, where he has been a member of the music faculty since 1984. Repre-senting the third generation of double bassists in his family, he was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and began double bass studies with his father. By the age of 17, he was co-principal bassist with the Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra in Brazil, and at the age of 19 was on the music faculty of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Masciadri is a frequent recitalist and soloist with major symphony orchestras in Europe, Asia, North America, Central America and South America. He has presented master classes at such musical institutions as The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Paris Conservatoire, Guildhall School of Music in London, Moscow Conservatory, Federal

University of Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires National Conservatory, and Milan Conservatorio among many others. Dr. Masciadri’s solo performances have taken place at many internationally renowned concert venues including New York’s Lincoln Center, “La Fenice” Opera House in Venice, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Castro Alves Opera House in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil) and the Municipal Theater of Sao Paulo. During the summers he teaches at several international music festivals and double bass conventions in the United States, South America and Europe. His solo recordings have been released on the DMR, Sinfonica, ACA & Fondazione labels.Masciadri’s enthusiasm for enlarging the repertoire of the double bass has led him to publish and premiere works of many contemporary American and South American composers, including works commissioned for him by such institutions as UNESCO and Funarte, as well as making contributions of his own with numerous transcriptions and arrangements. Some of Masciadri 2017-18 performances included performances in Italy, Spain, France, Uruguay, Argen-tina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, China, Canada, Slovenia, Japan, Korea, Croatia and the United States.In 2009 Dr. Masciadri received the title of Distinguished University Professor of the University of Georgia, the first faculty member in the fine arts to be so honored in 62 years, and he also holds the title of “Accademico” of the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna, Italy – Europe’s oldest musical edu-cational institution. He has been awarded the Brazilian Medal of Honor for Academic Achievements for his musical and educational services to the people of Brazil, is listed in the “International Who’s Who in Music”, and in 1998 was designated a UNESCO Artist for Peace and in 2011 he received the Knighthood honor of the designation of Cavaglieri di San Marco in Venice, Italy. In 2015 Masciadri was Awarded the Leonardo da Vinci World Award for the Arts by the world Cultura Council, first musician to receive the award since its inception. In 2016 the University of Georgia Awarded him the SEC (southeastern Conference of American University) Academic Achiemvement Award.Masciadri performes on a 320 years old Testore double bass, appears in the International Who’s Who in Music and has solo recordings on DMR, ACA, Fondazione & Sinfonica Labels.

Milton Masciadri ~ double bass

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“Her interpretation possesses a secret magic,” says the German newspaper Badische Neueste Nachrichten about the Brazilian pianist Ana Flávia Frazão. Internationally acclaimed by the audience and critics, and notable for her refined, technically impressive touch, she was the award-winning pianist at “Concurso Nacional JK” [President Juscelino Kubitschek National Competition], held in Brasília in 1992. Among other achievements, she was awarded in 2001 the first prize together with Trio Augarten for the concert series at Kyoto Concert Hall in Japan. Born in Goiânia, she graduated from the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) and received both her master’s degree and doctorate with highest distinction from the Karlsruhe University of Music in Germany, where she lived for eight years. In 2004 she recorded her

debut CD album, Vocalize, with the double bassist Milton Masciadri; the CD was released in Europe on Sinfônica record label. Years afterwards, in 2012, Ana Flávia and the German violinist Laurent Albrecht Breuninger paired up to record Heitor-Villa Lobos’ complete works for piano and violin (Telos Music Records). In 2015 the duo repeated the collaboration including recording a CD and a DVD with works by Brazilian and French composers. Along with her dynamic career as a pianist, Ana Flávia Frazão has been an Associate Professor of Piano and Chamber Music at the Federal University of Goiás. She also combines her career with being the artistic director for national-based music projects; three of the most significant include the series of concerts named “Concertos na Cidade” [City Concerts], “Concertos UFG” [UFG Concerts], and the International Symposium on Music Performance.

Ana Flávia Frazão ~ piano

Praised for having “a magnificent personality, a superb energy, a total com-mand and an extremely convincing taste” (La Libre Belgique), young Italian violinist Markus Placci is enjoying a growing international reputation that has already brought him solo appearences throughout Europe, South America, Asia and the United States in renowned venues such as the Great Philharmonic Hall (Shostakovich Hall) and the Glinka Philarmonic Hall in St. Petersburg (Russia), the Kursaal in Baden-Baden, the Teatro Monumental in Madrid, the Auditori in Barcelona, the Teatro Comunale and Mozart Hall in Bologna, the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Sanders Theater in Boston, and the Richardson Auditorium in Princeton.Winner of the prestigious “XXVI Vittorio Veneto Competition” on a unanimous vote of the Jury presided by Maestro Bruno Giuranna, Mr. Placci is also the

recipient of numerous other international awards and prizes such as the “Brahms Preis” and “Baden-Baden Philarmonie Foundation-Carl Flesch Preis” in Germany, and the “Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize” at Tanglewood. He was a top prize winner at the “Washington International Competition 2006”. Since his solo debut at age of 13 with the Bologna Symphony, Mr. Placci has appeared in solo perfor-mances with major symphony orchestras like the Barcelona Symphony, the Radio Television Orchestra of Spain (RTVE), the Baden-Baden Philarmonie, the Annapolis Symphony, the Bologna Symphony, Milan’s Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra, Teatro San Carlo of Napoli Symphony, the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano, the St. Petersburg State Philharmonic, the Padova e del Veneto Orchestra, among others.In September 2005, collaborating with conductor Uwe Mund and the RTVE Orchestra (Orchestra of the Radio-Television of Spain), Mr. Placci world premiered with great acclaim the Violin Concerto written by Catalan composer Jordi Cervello’. The concert was broadcasted live from Teatro Monumental in Madrid both on the radio and the national television (Tve2). In 2007, Cervello’ composed and dedicated to him his “Tre Pensieri” for violin and piano.Mr. Placci is also an avid chamber musician. He recently performed with Yo-Yo Ma in Tokyo, and has per-formed in prominent concert seasons such as Musica Insieme and Accademia Filarmonica Mozart in Bologna, Societa’ del Quartetto of Vicenza, Asolo Musica, Steinway Hall Boston, to trio appearances as a founding member of the Fortuna Piano Trio with K. Lee and M. Carbonara, which won the “Emanuel Ax-Villecroze Academy Award 2007” in France, and toured South America (Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay).Throughout the years Mr. Placci has been broadcast live on prominent radio stations such as the BBC Radio, the RTVE-Spain, the Bartok Radio-Hungary, WGBH Boston and RaiRadio in Italy.In 2007 Mr. Placci has been appointed as Violin Faculty at The Boston Conservatory, being the youngest professor ever to have been appointed in that position. In 2016 he was presented both with “The Boston Conservatory Outstanding Faulty of the Year”, and with the MA ASTA (America Strings Teachers Association) “Best Studio Teacher of 2016” award.Markus Placci plays on a 1871 J.B. Vuillaume violin, copy of the “Alard” Stradivari.

Markus Placci ~ violin

Praised by The Washington Post for her “eloquence” and “rock-solid authority,” Liza Stepanova has performed as a soloist with the Juilliard Orchestra and Southwest German Philharmonic with conductors James DePreist and Nicholas McGegan; at the Berlin Philharmonie, Avery Fisher Hall, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Kennedy Cen-ter, Krannert and Mondavi Performing Arts Centers; and live on WQXR New York, WFMT Chicago, and WETA Washington. Stepanova’s new CD featuring piano music connected to visual art will be released in September 2017. Other highlights of the 2016-17 season include perfor-mances at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Atlanta’s Spivey Hall, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, with New York Philharmonic En-sembles at the Kaufman Center, an artist residency at Yellow Barn, and

a tour of Israel. Stepanova is a member of the Lysander Piano Trio, winner of the 2012 Concert Artists Guild Competition. Also an in-demand art song recitalist, she has been on the faculty of SongFest at The Colburn School in Los Angeles since 2010. Stepanova studied in Berlin, Germany and earned a DMA from The Juilliard School, where she subsequently taught for four years. Previously a visiting artist at Smith College, she is currently an assistant professor of piano at the University of Georgia.

Liza Stepanova ~ piano

A Steinway artist, Sergio Gallo specializes in the repertoire of the Romantic period, especially Liszt and his contemporaries, including Schumann, Henselt, Brahms, and Chopin. He has made several ac-claimed recordings for Eroica, and a recent release with Naxos of Liszt’s transcriptions of opera by Meyerbeer, which was critically acclaimed by American Record Guide, Deutsche Liszt-Gesellshaft, and BBC Magazine: “Gallo makes a good case for Liszt’s honouring of the operatic originals” (Naxos 8.573235). In 2011 he won the Global Music Awards Award of Excellence for his album, Mostly Villa-Lobos: 20th Century Piano Music from the Americas.Gallo has performed with orchestras throughout the Americas and worldwide. Since his Brazilian national radio début (Radio Cultura, São

Paulo) and his European radio début (Radio France, Paris), his work has been regularly played on classical music radio outlets around the world. He has recently signed a contract with Naxos to release a CD with works by Beethoven as part of the recordings of the complete works by the composer.

Sergio Gallo ~ piano

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Arthur Ross is an extremely active performing artist, serving as Acting Principal Violist of Symphony Orchestra Augusta, Associate Principal Violist of the Greenville Symphony, and as a tenured member of the South Carolina Philharmonic. He has been a soloist with all three ensembles, and has performed with orchestras and ensembles in Charleston, Charlotte, Hilton Head, Savannah, Myrtle Beach, Atlanta, and elsewhere throughout the southeast.Mr. Ross began his studies on the viola at age 14, and later earned a Bache-lor’s of Music degree from the Eastman School as a pupil of George Taylor. He studied chamber music with cellist, Stephen Doane, violists, James Dunham and John Graham, violinist, Charles Castleman, and members of the Ying Quartet. He has worked with some of the world’s great conductors including

Christoph Eschenbach, Leonard Slatkin, Roger Norrington, and Michael Tilson Thomas, and with a wide range of classical and popular performers: from Zuill Bailey, Sharon Isbin, Olga Kern, Benedetto Lupo, Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Christopher Parkening, David Shifrin, Joseph Silverstein, and Kyoko Takezawa, to Art Garfunkel, Take 6, Pink Martini, LeAnn Rimes, and The Temptations.

Arthur Ross ~ viola

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Daniel Bolshoy has recently been appointed to the faculty of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music where he directs the guitar pro-gram. One of Canada’s leading concert artists, he has performed as a soloist with over sixty orchestras internationally and across Canada, including the: Mexico City Philharmonic, Israel Chamber, Volgograd Symphony (Russia), and the symphony orchestras of New Mexico, Vancouver, Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary, Kingston, Victoria, Okanagan, Saskatoon, Nova Scotia, as well as the Mani-toba Chamber Orchestra, the Ottawa Chamber, and many others. An avid chamber musician, he has performed at numerous cham-ber music festival and concert series throughout North America, Europe, Russia, Asia and the Middle East. Daniel Bolshoy appears on seven commercial recordings and two documentary films on

the Bravo! network. His recordings and live performances are often broadcast on CBC Radio, NPR and various classical music stations. He has recently completed a tour of concerts and master classes in China, including a residency at the Beijing central conservatory. Daniel Bolshoy has adjudicated many international music competitions, including the Gui-tar Foundation of America, Guitar-Gems festival in Israel, the Tabula Rasa festival in Russia, and the National Finals of the Canadian Federation of Music Festivals. Dr. Bolshoy holds a D.M. Degree from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. His students have won awards in competitions, and scholarships to leading Universities and Conservatories, includ-ing awards in the Federation of Canadian Music Festival, The Northwest, The Guitar Founda-tion of America, the Parkening, and the Alessandria (Italy) International Guitar competitions. Daniel Bolshoy is a D’Addario Strings Gold Performing Artist.

Daniel Bolshoy ~ guitar

D. Ray McClellan is Professor of Clarinet at the University of Georgia and a member of the Georgia Woodwind Quintet. He also taught at James Madison University, Henderson State University, was clarinetist and solo-ist with “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band and an active orchestral player. McClellan has performed recitals in Puerto Rico, Cana-da, Taiwan, Japan, Italy, Brazil, Kenya, Tanzania and the Czech Republic. He has been guest principal clarinet with The Savannah Orchestra, Augus-ta Symphony, Charleston Symphony, Alexandria Symphony, Garden State Philharmonic and in the sections of the Atlanta Symphony, Stamford Symphony and the Alabama Symphony. McClellan has been featured in recitals at the International Clarinet Convention in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, and 2014. He has performed concertos with the “The President’s Own” Unit-

ed State Marine Band and Chamber Orchestra, The Augusta Symphony, The Queens Philharmonic, String Orchestra of the Rockies and Orquestra Sinfonica de Goiânia. He has recorded with ACA Digital, Mark Re-cordings and the Clarinet Concerto by Gerald Finzi with ARCO Chamber Orchestra on Phoenix USA.

D. Ray McClellan ~ clarinet

Michael Heald is an associate professor of violin at the University of Georgia. He received his master’s degree and doctorate degree in violin perfor-mance at Michigan State University, studying with Walter Verdehr. He has performed in master classes with members of the Kronos, Alban Berg and Amadeus Quartets, Joseph Silverstein and with Yehudi Menuhin, Joseph Fuchs, Ruggiero Ricci, and Franco Gulli. He has served as concertmaster of the Lansing, Shreveport, and Jackson Symphony orchestras. He has given recitals and master classes across the United States and in Europe. He has recorded a CD of sonatas by Beethoven and Elgar that is available on the Arabesque label. He is currently on the faculty of the Montecito Interna-tional Summer Music Festival in California and Chamber Music on the Hill

in South Carolina. He has also served as an editor for the violin forum of the ASTA magazine, as well as presenting regularly at regional and national conferences.

Michael Heald ~ violin

David Starkweather is professor of cello at The University of Georgia Hodgson School of Music in Athens where he has been on the faculty since 1983. He was awarded a certificate of merit as semifinalist in the 1986 Tchaikovsky Competition. Starkweather grew up in the San Francisco bay area. He attended the Eastman School of Music, followed by graduate studies with cellist Bernard Greenhouse at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, earning a doctorate degree in 1983. In 1985 Stark-weather spent six months in Switzerland with Pierre Fournier, receiving the French cellist’s accolade, “Pure talent as an interpreter at the devotion of music and one of the best cellists of his generation.” Starkweather’s 3-DVD set of the Bach Six Suites, which incorporates his manuscript edition, was selected for a UGA Creative Research medal in 2009. Two

CDs with pianist Evgeny Rivkin are available at iTunes and CDBaby, featuring sonatas by Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Brahms, and Britten. Additionally, numerous video recordings are available on Starkweather’s YouTube channel. His publications include articles in American String Teacher and Strings, and an edition of two Locatelli sonatas published by Artaria Editions, Wellington, New Zealand. David Starkweather has served his profession most recently as Associate Director of the Hodgson School of Music 2010-2016. He was String Area chair for ten years, and served the Georgia American String Teachers Association (GaASTA), first as secretary and then as president. He wrote the application for the original UGA String Project grant from ASTA, and ran the program for the initial four years, additionally running the GaASTA Chamber Music Workshop for ten years. The cello he has played since 1975 is a Jean Baptiste Vuillaume from c.1840.

David Starkweather ~ cello

Maggie Snyder is Associate Professor of Viola at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia. She has performed solo recitals, chamber music, concertos, and as an orchestral musician throughout the United States and abroad. She has appeared at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, the Kaufmann Center, the Seoul Arts Center, and in Greece, Korea, and Russia. She has performed under the batons of James Levine, Yuri Temirkanov, David Zinman, Robert Spano, Leonard Slatkin, James dePriest, Julius Rudel, James Conlon, Keith Lockhart, and Michael Tilson Thomas, and at such festivals as the Brevard Music Festival, the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival where she was a Time Warner Fellow. In May, 2009, she gave her debut recital in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie

Hall with her duo, Allemagnetti, as an award winner with Artists International Inc. That recital featured three world premiere works she commissioned by Thomas Pasatieri, Kamran Ince, and Garrett Byrnes. The group was called a “winning pair” with a “highly promising debut” by the New York Concert Review. In 2001, Ms. Snyder was a semi-finalist at the 8th Primrose International Viola Competition. She is the principal violist of the Chamber Orchestra of New York, which is fea-tured on the Naxos recording label, and is an Artist-Faculty member of the Brevard Music Festival. She has performed chamber music with members of the Cleveland and Tokyo Quartets, the Aspen String Trio, Jon Manassee, Norman Kreiger, Itamar Zorman, and Ivo Van der Werff, among many others. Her solo recordings, “Modern American Viola Music (with Tim Lovelace, piano)” and “Allemagnetti – Music for Viola and Harpsichord (with Alexandra Snyder Dunbar, harpsichord)” are represented exclusively through Arabesque Recordings and available through iTunes and am-azon.com. An upcoming solo CD, “Viola Alone,” will be released in the fall of 2017 and features a world premiere recording of a new work she commissioned from Libby Larsen. Ms. Snyder has given master classes, clinics, and recitals at universities and music schools throughout the country, including The Universities of Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Colorado, Interlochen, Hartt, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Converse College. Ms. Snyder earned graduate degrees from The Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she was the teaching assistant for Victoria Chiang. Her Bachelor’s degree is from the University of Memphis, where she was a Pressar Scholar. Ms. Snyder has also served on the faculties of West Virginia University, Ohio University, and the University of Alabama.

Maggie Snyder ~ viola

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C. Gomes (1836-1896)Sonata for strings in D Major • Allegro Animato• Allegro Scherzoso• Adagio Lento e Calmo• Vivace (Burrico de Pau)

Claudio Cruz, violinMichael Heald, violinArthur Ross, violaDavid Starkweather, celloMilton Masciadri, double bass

D. Ray McCleland, clarinetDavid Starkweather, celloAna Flávia Frazão, piano

J. Brahms (1833-1897)Trio in A minor for clarinet, cello and piano, op.114• Allegro • Adagio • Andantino grazioso - Trio• Allegro

F. Schubert (1797-1828)“Trout” Piano Quintet• Allegro Vivace• Andante• Scherzo• Theme & Variations• Finale – Allegro Giusto

Claudio Cruz, violinMaggie Snyder, violaDavid Starkweather, celloMilton Masciadri, double bassSergio Gallo, piano

J. Barrière (1707-1747)Duetto a Deux • Andante• Adagio• Presto

David Starkweather, celloMilton Masciadri, double bass

Claudio Cruz, violinArthur Ross, violaDavid Starkweather, celloMilton Masciadri, double bassAna Flávia Frazão, piano

A. Vieira (1952)Piano Quintet – “Fronteiras – Borders” op.297• Molto Lento, expressive • Molto Lento• Allegro Festivo

J. Brahms (1833-1897)Piano Quartet in G minor• Allegro• Intermezzo• Andante con Moto• Rondo alla Zingarese

Markus Placci, violinMaggie Snyder, violaDavid Starkweather, celloLiza Stepanova, piano

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thursday Program31L. Bocherini (1743-1805)Guitar Quintet • Introduction & Fandango

Claudio Cruz, violinMichael Heald, violinMaggie Snyder, violaDavid Starkweather, celloDaniel Bolshoy, guitar

Claudio Cruz, violinArthur Ross, violaDavid Starkweather, celloSergio Gallo, piano

W. A. Mozart (1770-1827)Piano Quartet in G minor kv.478• Allegro • Andante• Rondo

A. Dvorak (1841-1904)String Quintet op.77 • Allegro con Fuoco• Scherzo• Poco Andante• Finale Allegro Assai

G. Bottesini (1821-1889)String Quintet • Allegro Moderato• Scherzo – Allegro ma non Troppo• Adagio• Finale – Allegro con Brio

Markus Placci, violinClaudio Cruz, violinArthur Ross, violaDavid Starkweather, celloMilton Masciadri, double bass

Markus Placci, violinMichael Heald, violinMaggie Snyder, violaDavid Starkweather, celloMilton Masciadri, double bass

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