University of Evansville Piano Series
Junghwa Lee
Thursday, September 22, 2011 | 7:30 P.M. | Wheeler Concert Hall
Program
Fauré: Nocturne No. 1 in E-flat minor, Op. 33, No. 1; Nocturne No. 6 in D-flat Major, Op. 63
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Liszt: Sonata in B minor, S. 178
Pianist Junghwa Lee, a native of Korea, performs actively in solo recitals, chamber concerts and lecture recitals, and has frequently appeared in concerto performances as a soloist including those with the Korean Symphony Orchestra, Salina Symphony Orchestra, Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra and Southern Illinois Music Festival Orchestra among others. Lee has presented solo performances in Korea, Holland, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, China, the United Kingdom and the United States, including appearances at the Arts Center Concert Series at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, Shenyang Music Cultural Exchange Exhibition Between China and Foreign Countries Festival in China, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series at the Chicago Cultural Center and Artists International's Special Presentation Winners Series at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
Winner of many competitions in Korea, including Sonyun-Hankuk-Ilbo, Wolgan-Eumak, Seoul National University Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition and the Korean Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, Lee received the Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, along with the Max Landow Memorial Scholarship for outstanding doctoral students and the Liberace Foundation Scholarship for Performing/Creative Artists. As an active collaborator as well as soloist, she received the Excellence in Accompanying Award from the Eastman School.
With her interest in promoting music for young students and the community, she has also performed several times at the "Young People's Recital" as a guest solo artist, and has initiated and directed musical events, such as the Hays Spring Music Project and Scholarship Musicale in the Hays, Kansas area. As a dedicated teacher as well as performer, she has taught at many clinics, festivals and masterclasses, and organized the Fort Hays State University (FHSU) High School Piano Competition and the FHSU Summer Piano Camp. She directed the Cottonwood Music Project, a weeklong chamber music outreach program and concerts, during 2003-2005.
Lee received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance from Seoul National University, and her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music. She served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Piano at Oklahoma State University and Assistant Professor of Piano at Fort Hays State University, and is currently Associate Professor of Piano at Southern Illinois University Carbondale where she is Coordinator of the Keyboard Area and Director of SIUC Summer Piano Camp and SIUC Summer Piano Competition.
During the 2011-2012 season, Lee will be performing solo recitals in Missouri, Indiana, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Massachusetts, as well as in London, Paris and Amsterdam.
Garnet Ungar
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 | 7:30 P.M. | Wheeler Concert Hall
Program
Liszt 200th Birthday Concert
In Festo Transfigurationis Domini Nostri Jesu Christi , S.188
Sancta Dorothea, S. 187
Resignazione, S. 187a
Alleluia, S. 183
Elegy No. 2, S. 197
Piano Piece in F-sharp Major, S. 193
Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 172a: VII. Funérailles; III. Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
Three Concert Études, S.144: III. Un Sospiro
Transcendental Études, S. 139: IV. Mazeppa
Garnet Ungar has appeared throughout North America as piano soloist with orchestra, in recitals and masterclasses at major universities, and in solo and chamber broadcasts on Public Radio and the CBC. He has also performed in Switzerland, Sweden, and England, and his recording of the Brahms Second Piano Concerto with the Varna Philharmonic in Bulgaria was described in John Bell Young's Clavier Magazine review as "powerful and precise…having solidity and passion, a magisterial presence, structural integrity, immediacy and intensity." In 2012 he will perform solo recitals at major venues in Toronto and New York City. In 2009 he released his second CD, of Schubert piano works. A review in Fanfare Magazine mentioned "subtle nuances under perfect control and never sounding self-conscious…a fine control of myriad touches and colors… steady, focused, and unrelenting-a really superlative account." Clavier Companion describes "an impressively imaginative and nuanced musical sensitivity with a refined technique" and "a complexity to his interpretations that cannot be fully appreciated at a first listening."
Dr. Ungar has served on the piano faculties of Mount Royal College in Calgary and the University Settlement House in Toronto. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Piano at the University of Evansville in Indiana and served on the piano faculty of the Music at Maple Mount Summer Institute in Kentucky. He regularly adjudicates piano competitions including, most recently, the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival, Midwest Young Artists in Chicago, and Kentucky MTNA. In demand as a private teacher, his students have won several other important local and state competitions. They have included six first prizewinners in the Evansville Philharmonic Competition, four finalists in the Indianapolis Symphony Competition, and first and second place winners in the Murray State/Paducah Symphony Competition. He has also taught multiple State MTNA and Evansville Schmidt Award winners.
Born in Montréal, Québec, Dr. Ungar obtained degrees in piano performance from the Universities of Toronto, Calgary, and Houston, where his principal teachers were William Aide, Marilyn Engle, Abbey Simon, and Ruth Tomfohrde. Additional studies include sessions at the Royal Conservatory of Toronto, where he obtained an Associate Performer's diploma, with Marek Jablonski at the Banff School of Fine Arts, Marc Durand and Anton Kuerti at the Centre d'Arts Orford in Québec, and Bernard Ebert at the Académie de Musique de Sion in Switzerland.
Corey Hamm
Sunday, January 15, 2012 | 2:00 P.M. | Wheeler Concert Hall
Program
Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated; Squares
Fujikura: Two Etudes
Godin: Cadenza
Corey Hamm has commissioned, premiered and recorded over one hundred solo, chamber and concerto works, collaborating with the composers in each case. He has given over thirty performances of Frederic Rzewski's hour long solo piano epic The People United Will Never Be Defeated!, including one for Rzewski himself, in such cities as Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei, London, Toronto, Seattle, with more coming. Other recent performances have seen Hamm in works by Sierra, Kurtag, Ligeti, Bermel, Sculthorpe, Desenne, Feldman, Cherney, Harman, Bashaw, Harley, Ryan, Ter Veldhuis, Jodlowski, Rakowski, Godin, Chin, Kapustin, Medtner, Rachmaninoff, Chang, Mellits, Brook, Harley, Radford, among many others. He had the opportunity to play the complete solo piano and chamber works of Henri Dutilleux for the composer himself.
Hamm is pianist with the new music ensembles The Nu:BC Collective and Hammerhead Consort, the second of which was winner of the Canadian National Music Competition and Sir Ernest MacMillan Foundation Chamber Music Award. Recent projects include a recording of Rzewski's The People United...!, a recording of solo and chamber music of David Crumb, a recording of works written for The Nu:BC Collective, a recording of contemporary clarinet and piano music with Cris Inguanti, as well as performances of Ravel's Left Hand Concerto, Ligeti's Piano Concerto, Kurtag's quasi una fantasia, and the World Premiere of Jordan Nobles' Piano concerto.
Dr. Hamm is Assistant Professor of Piano and Chamber Music at the University of British Columbia where he is also Director of The UBC Contemporary Players. He was winner of the 2009 Killam Award for Teaching Excellence. He has also been on the Piano Faculty of The Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP, or Sick Puppy!) at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and is Co-Director of The Young Artist Experience (YAE). Corey is also in demand for masterclasses and juries in North America, Asia, and Europe. Dr. Hamm's beloved teachers include Lydia Artymiw, Marek Jablonski, Stephane Lemelin, Ernesto Lejano, and Thelma Johannes O'Neill.
Anne Fiedler, piano, Carol Dallinger, violin
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 | 7:30 P.M. | Wheeler Concert Hall
Program
Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass, 1840-1860": IV. Thoreau
Del Tredici : Gotham Glory "Four Scenes of New York City": III. Missing Towers
Anne Hastings Fiedler is professor of music and head of the keyboard area. In 2008 she received the prestigious Exemplary Teacher Award given by University of Evansville and also the Outstanding Teacher Award given by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences for the 2007-08 academic year. An active performer, Professor Fiedler was finalist and prizewinner in the National Beethoven Piano Sonata Competition and has collaborated nationally with a variety of soloists and ensembles, notably in performances at International Trumpet Guild and International Double Reed Society events. She can be heard on the recent CD entitled Oboe Serenade. Professor Fiedler has been featured soloist on numerous occasions with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, the Evansville Chamber Orchestra and the University of Evansville Orchestra. She performs frequently as collaborative pianist with faculty and guest artists on the First Tuesday Series and Tuesday Night Concert Series sponsored by the music department. Fiedler is also principal keyboard and assistant principal second violin of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra.
Professor Fiedler's diverse areas of interest and teaching experience include studio piano, music theory, piano pedagogy, and collaborative piano. She is a collegiate theory text reviewer for McGraw-Hill Publishing and regularly serves as an adjudicator for local and state competitions. She is co-founder and first president of the Greater Evansville Chapter of the Indiana Music Teachers Association and has presented at IMTA state conferences. Other distinctions include biographical listings in American Keyboard Artists, Who's Who in America, Outstanding Young Women of America, and Who's Who Among American Teachers.
Professor Fiedler holds Bachelor of Music with Highest Honors and Master of Music Degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She currently teaches courses in applied piano and music theory.
