Music from the French Impressionists
ARTISTS: Kay Borkowski, flute; Jacqueline Bartlett, harp; Allen Kindt, piano; Eric Koontz, viola; Franklin Keel, cello; Frank Borkowski, clarinet; Nancy Bargerstock, violin; Janet Bloom, violin Page de Camara, Violin
DATE: October 28 2007, 3 PM (2:00 PM Tour)
SITE: NC Museum of Art
2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh
PROGRAM
TICKETS: $10 General Public; $8 NCMA Members & Students
INFORMATION & TICKET SALES
- NCMA Box Office (919) 715-5923
- Raleigh Chamber Music Guild (919) 821-2030
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Jacquelyn Bartlett is a native of Detroit and she graduated with honors from Interlochen Arts Academy and attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She began her musical studies with her mother, a harpist with the Detroit Symphony. Other teachers included renowned harpitsts Carlos Salzedo and Alic Chalifoux. Ms. Bartlett has performed with many of the leading orchestras in the U.S., including the Detroit Symphony, the Kansas City Philharmonic, the North Carolina Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, and the Baltimore Symphony. She has worked with some of the world's most distinguished conductors including Eugene Ormandy, Sixten Ehrling, Sergui Comissiona, Aaron Copland, Thor Johnson and Pierre Boulez. As a soloist and chamber musician, Ms. Bartlett has toured extensively and recently recorded a disc with the Mallaremé Chamber Players, titled "Music for Harp, Flute and Strings," distributed by Albany. As a harp teacher, her students have garnered top prozes in many competitions including the American Harp Society Competition.
Eric Koontz has led the viola sections of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya) and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra before returning to the United States to pursue studies towards the Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In Barcelona, he premiered Max Bruch's Double Concerto for Viola, Clarinet and Orchestra on the Iberian Peninsula under the baton of Lawrence Foster. An active chamber musician, he was a founding member of the Nayades Trio (flute, harp and viola); the Reinecke Trio (clarinet, viola and piano); and the Quartet Glinka, with whom he participated in performances of the complete string quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich at the Juan March Foundation in Madrid. In Israel, Koontz has performed with Music in the Desert, a festival for new music at Kibbutz Sde Boker, directed by Michael Wolpe.
As a chamber and symphonic violist, Koontz has recorded with the RCA, EMI, Ars Harmonica, Columna, Koch and Decca labels. He earned the Bachelor of Music at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and holds the Master of Music and the Master of Musical Arts degrees from Yale University. He has studied with Donald McInnes, Scott Rawls, Msao Kawasaki, Jesse Levine, Hatto Beyerle, Gerald Stanick, Jaap Schroder, and Lawrence Dreyfus.
Koontz joined the string faculty at the Hayes School of Music at Appalachian State University in 2005 and the faculty of the Brevard Music Center in 2004. Examples of his writing in print include the articles "Els músics i els reptes de l'OBC" (4 April 2002, Avui newspaper, Barcelona) and "Una orquesta eficaz y plural" (November 2002, Scherzo magazine, Madrid).
Kay Borkowski majored in flute at Indiana University. She has taught and performed in faculty ensembles at West Virginia University, Ohio University, Indiana-University Fort Wayne, the University of South Florida and Appalachian. She has been principal flutist with the Augusta Symphony, South Carolina Philharmonic, Fort Wayne Philharmonic and Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. She also has been a flute soloist with the Indiana Chamber Orchestra, Tampa Bay Chamber Orchestra and the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra. She is a member of the Hayes School of Music Advisory Board.
Allen Kindt is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and holds a master's degree in performance from The Juilliard School as well as a doctorate in musical arts from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Gyorgy Sandor. Kindt has participated in NET television concerts as part of the Young Musical Artists series. A professor emeritus at Appalachian State University, where he taught from 1971-2000, he has served as visiting professor of piano at the Schenyang Conservatory of Music in China, where he also performed with the Liaoning Provincial Symphony.