Jorja Fleezanis
Michael Grebanier
Garrick Ohlsson
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JORJA
FLEEZANIS
Violinist
Jorja Fleezanis is Professor of Music and holds the
Henry A. Upper Chair in Orchestral Studies at the Jacobs School
of Music, Indiana University. She was concertmaster of the Minnesota
Orchestra from 1989 to 2009—the longest-tenured concertmaster in the
orchestra's history and only the second woman in the U.S. to hold
the title of concertmaster in a major orchestra when appointed. Prior
to Minnesota, she was associate concertmaster with the San Francisco
Symphony for eight years.
A
devoted teacher, Fleezanis became an adjunct faculty member at the
University of Minnesota's School of Music in 1990. She has also enjoyed
teaching roles with other organizations: as teacher and artist at
the Round Top International Festival Institute in Texas (1990-2007);
artist-in-residence at the University of California, Davis; guest
artist and teacher at the San Francisco Conservatory, where she served
on the faculty from 1981 to 1989; artist and mentor at the Music@Menlo
Festival (2003-2008); teacher and coach at the New World Symphony
(1988-2008), and a visiting teacher to the Boston Conservatory, The
Juilliard School, and Interlochen Academy and Summer Camp.
Fleezanis
has had a number of works commissioned for her, including by the Minnesota
Orchestra with the John Adams Violin Concerto and Ikon of Eros by
John Tavener, the latter recorded on Reference Records. Her recording
of the complete Violin Sonatas of Beethoven with the French fortepianist
Cyril Huvé was released in 2003 on the Cyprés label.
Other recordings include Aaron Jay Kernis' Brilliant Sky, Infinite
Sky on CRI, commissioned for Fleezanis by the Schubert Club, and,
with Garrick Ohlsson, Stefan Wolpe's Violin Sonata for Koch International.
Fleezanis studied at the Cincinnati
Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music.
MICHAEL
GREBANIER
Michael
Grebanier joined the San Francisco Symphony as Philip S. Boone
Principal Cellist in 1977. Prior to that, he was principal cellist of
the Pittsburgh Symphony for fourteen years (the youngest musician to
hold that post in the ensemble's history) and a member of the Cleveland
Orchestra.
Mr.
Grebanier has been a soloist with the SFS in the major works for cello
and orchestra; most recently, in December 2005, he was soloist with
Alexander Barantschik in the Brahms Double Concerto, with Michael Tilson
Thomas leading the Orchestra. Mr. Grebanier has played the complete
cycle of Beethoven cello and piano sonatas with Malcolm Frager and has
been affiliated with the Marlboro Festival in Vermont and the Casals
Festival in Puerto Rico.
Michael Grebanier began his
musical studies in his native New York City and later attended the Curtis
Institute of Music. His teachers included Carl Ziegler of the NBC Symphony,
Orlando Cole of the Curtis String Quartet, and Leonard Rose. While at
Curtis, he won the Walter Naumburg Award and made his recital debut
in New York City at nineteen. He has recorded the Prokofiev cello sonatas
with pianist Janet Guggenheim for Naxos, and he is featured in the first
recording of the complete music for cello and piano by Rachmaninoff,
also on Naxos.
GARRICK
OHLSSON
Since winning the 1970 Chopin
International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson
has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive
and technical prowess. Although known as one of the world's leading
exponents of the music of Frédéric Chopin, Mr. Ohlsson
commands an enormous repertoire which ranges over the entire piano literature.
A student of the late Claudio Arrau, Mr. Ohlsson has come to be noted
for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and
Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. His concerto repertoire
alone is unusually wide and eclectic, and to date he has at his command
some 80 concertos.
In 2010, in recognition of
Chopin's 200th birthday Mr. Ohlsson presented a series of all-Chopin
recital programs in Seattle, Berkeley and La Jolla culminating at Lincoln
Center. In conjunction with that project a film based on Chopin's life
and his music, co-produced by Polish, French, British and Chinese television
stations, is planned for simultaneous release. Other highlights during
the 2009-2010 season included appearances with the New York Philharmonic
and the symphony orchestras of San Francisco, Houston, Atlanta, Vancouver,
Indianapolis, San Diego, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Baltimore. He was
heard in solo recital in Chicago, Fort Worth, and Philadelphia and in
a special gala concert presented in Chopin's birth house in Warsaw.
Mr. Ohlsson's debut in Russia took place during St. Petersburg's winter
festival in December, when he appeared both in recital and with the
St. Petersburg Philharmonic.
HAYDN
Piano Trio TBA
BEETHOVEN
Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 70 No. 2
DVORAK
Piano Trio in F Minor, Op. 65
Concert Sponsored by Myrna
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Corey
Cerovsek has performed to constant acclaim with conductors
such as Zubin Mehta, Charles Dutoit, Michael Tilson Thomas, Neeme Järvi,
Andrew Litton, Yoel Levi, and Jesús Lopez-Cobos. His North
American performances have included those with the orchestras of Boston,
Philadelphia, San Francisco, Detroit, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Atlanta,
Baltimore, Montreal, Vancouver, and Toronto, among many others; and
internationally with such groups as the Israel Philharmonic, Iceland
Symphony, Prague Symphony, National Symphony (Ireland), Hong Kong Philharmonic,
Residentie Orkest of the Hague, Berlin Symphony, Sydney, Melbourne and
Adelaide Symphonies (Australia), Bournemouth Symphony, Sjaellands Symfoniorkester
(Denmark), Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestre de Poitou-Charentes
and Montpellier Festival Orchestra (France). He has toured in Australia,
Canada, Denmark, Japan, China, Austria, the Netherlands, Brazil and
Spain.
In recital, Mr. Cerovsek has
performed throughout the world, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum (Boston), the Kennedy Center (Washington), Lincoln Center's Walter
Reade Theatre and the Frick Collection (New York), the Place des Arts
(Montréal), Davies Symphony Hall (San Francisco), Wigmore Hall
(London), Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall (Istanbul), the Théâtre
du Châtelet (Paris), and l'Espace Gianadda (Martigny). He is also
an avid chamber musician, regularly appearing at the festivals of Verbier
(Switzerland), Kuhmo (Finland) and Tanglewood (USA).
In 2008, Claves released his
recording of the Wienawski 2nd Violin Concerto the Vieuxtemp 5th Concerto
with Lausanne Chamber Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu to great acclaim.
This recording followed the 2006 release on this label of his recording
of the Sonatas for Violin and Piano of Beethoven with pianist Paavali
Jumppanen. This recording received numerous awards, including Gramophone
Recommends, 5 Diapasons, 4 stars from Le Monde de la Musique, Supersonic
Pizzicato, and Fono Forum Stern des Monats and the Miderm Award for
best chamber music recording for 2008. His Corigliano Violin Sonata,
with Andrew Russo on the Black Box label, was nominated for a 2006 Grammy
Award. Corey Cerovsek Plays Wieniawski , made with pianist Katja Cerovsek
for the Delos label, also received much critical acclaim. Other recordings
have been released on the Delos, Black Box, Aguavá New Music
Studio, and Cala Records labels.
In the summer of 2009, Mr.
Cerovsek returned to the Festival International de Lanaudiere performing
the Korngold Concerto with the Montreal Symphony under the direction
of Julian Kuerti. In North American in 9/10 he returns to the
Indianapolis Symphony to perform the Stravinsky Concerto with Hannu
Lintu conducting.
He has been featured twice
on NBC's Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, on the David
Frost Show in England, on the PBS special Musical Encounters and on
CBS's Sunday Morning.
Born in 1972 in Vancouver,
Canada, and now residing in Paris, Cerovsek began playing the violin
at the age of five. After early studies with Charmian Gadd and Richard
Goldner he graduated at age 12 from the University of Toronto's Royal
Conservatory of Music with a gold medal for the highest marks in strings.
That same year, he was accepted by Josef Gingold as a student and enrolled
at Indiana University, where he received bachelor's degrees in mathematics
and music at age 15, masters in both at 16, and completed his doctoral
course work in mathematics and music at age 18. Concurrently he studied
piano with Enrica Cavallo, until 1997 frequently appearing in concert
performing on both instruments.
Corey Cerovsek performs on
the “Milanollo” Stradivarius of 1728, an instrument played, among others,
by Christian Ferras, Giovanni Battista Viotti, and Nicolò Paganini.
PROGRAM TBA
Concert Sponsored by Denise
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