Defining the Vision for American Art Music
Presented by the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild
and the North Carolina Museum of Art
DATE: Sunday, 6 June 2004, 3:00 PM
SITE: NC Museum of Art Map
2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh
PROGRAM
INFORMATION & TICKET SALES
- NCMA Box Office (919) 715-5923
- Raleigh Chamber Music Guild (919) 821-2030
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
A highly accomplished soloist, chamber musician, and teacher, Katie Lansdale performs actively both in America and Europe. As concerto soloist, she performs a wide range of repertoire with diverse orchestras: traditional repertoire such as Ravel Tzigane and Beethoven Concerto with the National Symphony, Mozart Concerto No.5 with the Baltimore Symphony, and with the New York Repertory Orchestra Paganini Concerto No.1, Bartok Rhapsody, Sarasate Zigeunerweisen, and Barber Concerto. This season she performs Mozart Concerti with the Austin Mozart Festival, where she will improvize her own cadenzas. Lansdale also frequently performs new concerti, including James Lewis' Doubles Singles Variables with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and Peter Alexander's new concerto for Electric Violin with the NYC Spectrum Orchestra. Recent recitals and guest artist venues have included the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection (DC), the Palais de l'Europe (Paris), Merkin Hall, and Jordan Hall in Boston.
Lauded for her vast repertoire and wide interests as a violinist, Ms. Lansdale has a particular passion for solo Bach, for which she was awarded the prestigious Schlosspreis for Performance at the Salzburg Mozarteum. She has performed the complete solo Bach works in concert over twelve times, in venues ranging from Argentina to Utah to Washington, D.C. Response to these performances have been most enthusiastic; in Raleigh-Durham, critics wrote: "Ms. Lansdale pulled off a performance that would put many internationally renowned virtuosi to shame — a highly intellectual interpretation charged with emotional depth." Reviewing her recent Bach CD for Cyberphunx Music, American Record Guide wrote simply, "This is one of the best recordings there are of this music." This CD is available via cyberphunx@prodigy.net.
Grand prizewinner at both the Yellow Spring and Fischoff National Chamber Competitions, Ms. Lansdale is a frequent guest on chamber series, collaborating with Yo Yo Ma, Felix Galimir and Donald Weilerstein. She performs as guest artist at chamber festivals throughout the States and in Western Europe. As a member of the Lions Gate Trio, she has toured America and Europe annually for thirteen years. Now in residence at Hartt and Yale, the Trio's concert tours have taken them to festivals in France and Finland, as well as tours of Belgium and Germany. In France, the Trio recorded the solo, duo and trio music of French composer Nicolas Bacri for Triton Records; via a Copland Foundation award, the Trio also commissioned and recorded four new American trios for Centaur. They are currently engaged to record the duos and trios of Robert Schumann for Harmonia Mundi. Ms. Lansdale also performs with the Locrian Ensemble in New York, presenting solo and chamber music written in the last ten years. She has a BA cum laude from Yale University, where she received prizes for work in humanities and in the arts, and graduate music degrees from Cleveland Institute and Manhattan School of Music. She has studied with Donald Weilerstein, Mitchell Stern, Felix Galimir, and Josef Gingold. Former Artist-in-Residence at SUNY-Stony Brook, she is currently on the faculty at the Hartt School in Hartford, Connecticut.
Cellist Elizabeth Anderson has won the highest praise from critics and audiences in the United States and abroad. Her recordings for RCA Red Seal, Telarc and Nonesuch have been highly acclaimed including her release of premier recordings of Luigi Silva's extraordinary transcriptions. Ms. Anderson is also deeply committed to new music. Many renowned composers have dedicated works to her including Samuel Adler, Michael Rose and Kenneth Frazelle.
As a founding member of the celebrated Meliora Quartet, she made numerous appearances on the world's most prestigious chamber music series, including those at New York's Lincoln Center, the Corcoran Gallery and Library of Congress in Washington D.C., and at Jordan Hall in Boston. The Quartet was Grand Prize Winner of The Naumburg Chamber Music Award, The Fischoff Competition, The Coleman Competition and The Cleveland Quartet Competition.
An active concerto soloist, Ms. Anderson has performed with the Helsinki Chamber Orchestra, the Aspen Orchestra and the Israel Chamber Orchestra. As recitalist she has toured throughout the United States and Europe. She has been a frequent guest at music festivals around the world such as the Spoleto Festival in Italy and Melbourne, Australia, the Moon Beach Festival in Okinawa, Japan, the Inkoo Festival in Finland and in the United States at Aspen, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Music Festival of Arkansas, Rocky Ridge Music Center, the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina and the Portland, Maine Chamber Music Festival.
In addition to her work as a western classical cellist, Elizabeth is a performer of North Indian classical singing and has given numerous performances and workshops that focus on the synthesis of western classical and Indian music through improvisation.
Anderson studied with Jacqueline Du Pre, Steven Doane, Paul Katz, Yo-Yo Ma, Wallace Rushkin and Leonard Rose. She holds Bachelor of Music degrees from the Juilliard School and California State University at Sacramento and a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music. She was formerly a faculty member at the Eastman School of Music, Florida State University, Middlebury College and the Longy School of Music in Cambridge Massachusetts. From 1990-2001 she was Associate Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a member of the McIver Ensemble.
Ms. Anderson currently performs as cellist of the Carolina Trio and at Lincoln Center as a member of the New York City Opera Orchestra.
Pianist Barbara McKenzie has been hailed by the critics as "a discovery which has charmed us all" (Le Matin), "here is a sensitivity and intensity that one rarely finds, even from the most venerated artists" (Westfalische Rundschau). "total musical understanding manifested itself during the entire evening" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung).
Since 1980 Ms. McKenzie's career has taken her into the concert halls and international music festivals of Great Britian, Germany, France and Italy. She was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts to tour as a musical ambassador for the US State Department in eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, and for debuts in Leningrad and Moscow. As conservatory prize winner and graduate of the Peabody Conservatory she has been the recipient of many awards and competition prizes including: the First Prize with the McKenzie-Ware Duo in the International Chamber Music Competition in Paris, the Young Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York and third prize in the International Brahms Competition in Hamburg. Her radio broadcasts and recordings include Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne, Germany; Hessicher Rundfunk, Frankfurt; Radio Television de Belge Francaise-RTB F, Brussels; BBC, London; Morning Pro Musica-WGBH, Boston; and Radio France, Paris. Ms. McKenzie has performed with several of the nation's premiere recording artists and chamber ensembles including the Audubon Quartet, the Cassatt Quartet, the Ciompi Quartet, flutist Carol Wincenc, and soprano Jane Bryden. She is a founding member of the Carolina Piano Trio with Eric Pritchard and Elizabeth Anderson and performs regularly with members of the North Carolina Symphony and artist faculty from the NC School of the Arts.
Upon returning to her native North Carolina after living a decade in Germany, she was selected as an Artist-in-Residence by the North Carolina Arts Council. She has created three chamber music series in eastern North Carolina and serves as the artistic director for: the American Music Festival, the Chamber Music Society of Wilmington and the Friends of Music of Bald Head Island. She was selected as a North Carolina Woman of Achievement for her outstanding contribution to the arts in North Carolina. Ms McKenzie is married to publisher Jay Tervo and together with their two daughters they make their home in Wilmington, NC.
The reception following the concert is sponsored by the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild.
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