Ariel Lunchtime Concert (08/11/2021)

Описание: Music Program :

Fantasiestücke, op. 73 for Cello and Piano Robert Schumann (1897-1966)
I. Zar und mit Ausdruck
II. Lebhaft
III. Rasch und mit Feuer

Papillon, op. 77 Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

Ricordanza (Soliloquy for Cello and Piano) George Rochberg (1918-2005)

“Figaro” from “The Barber of Seville” by Rossini Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)

PAUSE

Sonata for Cello and Piano in A Major César Franck (1822-1890)
Allegretto ben moderato
Allegro
Recitativo-Fantasia
Allegretto poco mosso


Performers:

NATHAN HSU
A native of St. Louis, Nathan Hsu started playing the cello when he was 4 years old. Nathan began his cello career under the guidance of Mary Lou Gotman at the Community Music School at Webster university. Throughout high school, he studied with Catherine Lehr Ramos, former assistant principal and James Czyzewski, a current member of the St. Louis Symphony. He was also a participant of the Community Music School Preparatory Program under Vera Parkin. He received his undergraduate degree in cello performance from Rice University under cellist Norman Fischer and will be studying with Desmond Hoebig for his Master’s Degree.Nathan is currently a section cellist of the Municipal Opera Theater of St. Louis Orchestra. He has also participated in other groups, including the Shepherd Symphony Orchestra, the Town and Country Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Orchestra of St. Louis, the Missouri All-State Orchestra, and the New Texas Sinfonia. He has also attended various summer programs including the Rocky Mountain Summer Conservatory, the Arianna String Quartet Music Festival, the Interlochen Summer Arts Academy, and other Suzuki programs in Utah and Chicago.Nathan has been a featured soloist with different local orchestras in the Missouri Bi-state Region, such as the Town and Country Symphony, the Alton Symphony, the Belleville Philharmonic, the University City Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Civic Orchestra, and the Gateway Festival Orchestra. He has also received a third place prize in the International Enkor Competition and has also been a finalist in the MTNA National string competition. As a chamber musician, he has been a semi-finalist as a member of the Rader String Quartet in the international Fischoff Chamber Competition and also a finalist in the Coltman Chamber Music Competition as a member of the Agathon Quartet.

VERA PARKIN
Vera Parkin performed as a keyboardist in the St. Louis Symphony from 1987-2018, and is an active and award winning pedagogue, arts administrator, and chamber musician. She is particularly known as a collaborative pianist and has worked in professional theater and opera, including OTSL and Union Avenue Opera. Vera has strong ties to the Suzuki string community, having served as an accompanist to legendary string pedagogue John Kendall for 10 years. As founding Artistic Director of the Community Music School's Preparatory Program, she has supervised over 450 of the the region’s most advanced young musicians over a 22 year period. Vera has also taught internationally through the cultural diplomacy agencies American Voices and American-Lebanese Talent Education. Vera is everybody's accompanist and friend. She has been an adjunct professor at Webster University since 1997 and is also a staff accompanist at SIUE, where she regularly performs the string repertoire, including early music. She was recognized as the St. Louis Symphony's Music Educator of the Year in 2011.“More than anything else, I am devoted to helping students develop the skills, realm of imagination, insight, personal character, and habits needed to be useful and employable in our field. I also see the tremendous role music and musicians may play in society in terms of developing needed qualities such as empathy, compassion, pursuit of beauty, and disdain for the course, crass and in different elements of our popular culture. I want my students to be ambassadors for beauty and generosity of spirit, and will encourage them personally and professionally to view music as the means for distributing good will and grace in this life. ~ Vera”