2013 FESTIVAL OPENING CONCERT
was a great success and a wonderful gift to the community! Thank you all who participated and made the evening so enjoyable by your
playing. This concert is made possible by the generosity of the musicians' talents and time, the sponsorship of the Chapel Hill Cooperative String Program for the fees for the concert venue, and the Chapel Hill Senior Center for the use of their theatre for rehearsals. Thank you all.
The Festival Orchestra
conducted by Maestro Tonu Kalam, Professor and Director of the award-winning UNC-Chapel Hill Orchestra.
Organized especially for this event, it features local soloists and players who are members of the Triangle area orchestras
and ensembles. Many are professional musicians and teachers, together with some dedicated amateurs.
Names marked * denote a childhood in Chapel Hill or Carrboro
was a great success and a wonderful gift to the community! Thank you all who participated and made the evening so enjoyable by your
playing. This concert is made possible by the generosity of the musicians' talents and time, the sponsorship of the Chapel Hill Cooperative String Program for the fees for the concert venue, and the Chapel Hill Senior Center for the use of their theatre for rehearsals. Thank you all.
The Festival Orchestra
conducted by Maestro Tonu Kalam, Professor and Director of the award-winning UNC-Chapel Hill Orchestra.
Organized especially for this event, it features local soloists and players who are members of the Triangle area orchestras
and ensembles. Many are professional musicians and teachers, together with some dedicated amateurs.
Names marked * denote a childhood in Chapel Hill or Carrboro
Friday, November 22, 2013 at 7:30pm at the Chapel Hill Bible Church, Chapel Hill
PROGRAM
A. Vivaldi - Concerto for 4 Violins and Orchestra. Soloists -*Edith Gettes, *Laura Thomas, *Yolana Murrell, *Bettina Yost.
Arias featuring soprano *Andrea Moore Healy
W.A. Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola. Soloists are *Jennifer Curtis - Violin and *Matthew Chicurel - Viola
PROGRAM
A. Vivaldi - Concerto for 4 Violins and Orchestra. Soloists -*Edith Gettes, *Laura Thomas, *Yolana Murrell, *Bettina Yost.
Arias featuring soprano *Andrea Moore Healy
W.A. Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola. Soloists are *Jennifer Curtis - Violin and *Matthew Chicurel - Viola
TONU KALAM: Biography
Tonu Kalam, born of Estonian parents, was trained as a conductor, pianist and composer at Harvard University, the University of California
at Berkeley, and the Curtis Institute of Music. His summer credits include fellowships at Tanglewood and Aspen as well as many years at
the Marlboro Music Festival. A prizewinner in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Young Conductor’s Competition, he has appeared as guest conductor with the North Carolina Symphony, the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, the Marlboro Festival
Orchestra, and in Europe with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and Finland’s Oulu Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Kalam has conducted over 135 opera performances for companies such as the Shreveport Opera, the Lake George Opera Festival, and the
Nevada Opera. As an educator, he has guest conducted all-state, all-region and all-county orchestras in New York, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Texas, Louisiana, and Montana. He has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and has held visiting appointments at the University of Miami in Florida and St. Olaf College in Minnesota. For 13 years Mr. Kalam was an administrator and artist-faculty member at the renowned
Kneisel Hall summer chamber music festival in Blue Hill, Maine. Presently he is a Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, serving as Music Director and Conductor of the UNC Symphony Orchestra. Under his leadership, the UNCSO was named the 2012 first-place winner of The American Prize in Orchestral Performance–College/University Division. For 25 years Mr. Kalam concurrently held the position of Music Director and Conductor of the Longview Symphony Orchestra in Texas. In addition to his conducting activities, he performs regularly as a pianist and chamber musician, and he is also a member of the Advisory Council and former president of the Conductors Guild, an
international organization devoted to serving the artistic and professional needs of conductors.
Tonu Kalam, born of Estonian parents, was trained as a conductor, pianist and composer at Harvard University, the University of California
at Berkeley, and the Curtis Institute of Music. His summer credits include fellowships at Tanglewood and Aspen as well as many years at
the Marlboro Music Festival. A prizewinner in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Young Conductor’s Competition, he has appeared as guest conductor with the North Carolina Symphony, the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, the Marlboro Festival
Orchestra, and in Europe with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and Finland’s Oulu Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Kalam has conducted over 135 opera performances for companies such as the Shreveport Opera, the Lake George Opera Festival, and the
Nevada Opera. As an educator, he has guest conducted all-state, all-region and all-county orchestras in New York, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Texas, Louisiana, and Montana. He has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and has held visiting appointments at the University of Miami in Florida and St. Olaf College in Minnesota. For 13 years Mr. Kalam was an administrator and artist-faculty member at the renowned
Kneisel Hall summer chamber music festival in Blue Hill, Maine. Presently he is a Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, serving as Music Director and Conductor of the UNC Symphony Orchestra. Under his leadership, the UNCSO was named the 2012 first-place winner of The American Prize in Orchestral Performance–College/University Division. For 25 years Mr. Kalam concurrently held the position of Music Director and Conductor of the Longview Symphony Orchestra in Texas. In addition to his conducting activities, he performs regularly as a pianist and chamber musician, and he is also a member of the Advisory Council and former president of the Conductors Guild, an
international organization devoted to serving the artistic and professional needs of conductors.
*Jennifer Curtis
Chapel Hill raised violinist Jennifer Curtis, navigates with personality and truth in every piece she performs. Her second solo concert in Carnegie Hall was described by the New York Times as "one of the gutsiest and most individual recital programs," and celebrated her as "an artist of keen intelligence and taste, well worth watching
out for."
As a violinist, Jennifer is driven by passion and curiosity, eliminating boundaries of musical genres and traversing the globe with musical diplomacy. Winner of Astral Artists Milka/Astral grand prize for violin and Artists International presentations, Jennifer is also an improviser, composer, multi-instrumentalist, member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), and educator.
Recent activities include solo performances with the Simon Bolivar Orchestra in Venezuela, The Knights Chamber Orchestra, featured artist at the Brasov International Festival in Romania in honor of George Enescu, featured violinist/composer and percussionist for El Festival de las Artes Esénias de Lima, Peru, appearances at the Mostly Mozart Festival, International Brahms Festival, Ecstatic Festival, Festival musique de chambre a Giverny, Darmstadt Festival, Iceland Airwaves Festival, Wein Modern Festival for Contemporary music and many more. A lover of Latin American music, Jennifer has had many musical expeditions in 6 countries south of Mexico. She founded the group Tres Americas Ensemble, toured with her original works and concerti of Mozart, collaborated and studied with Musical Shaman of the Amazon and the Andes, improvised for live radio from the interior of the jungle, taught in conservatories and public schools, and performed as violinist, mandolinist, vocalist and percussionist at many clubs and world music festivals.
Upcoming and recent projects include solo and chamber music performances with John Adams at the library of congress, Carnegie Hall performance of La Pasíon by Osvaldo Golijov, a Cornell University sponsored commission for a new composition, concertmaster of East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) US tour, solo improvisation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a solo CD featuring original compositions inspired by deserts around the world.
Jennifer holds degrees from Mills College and The Juilliard School, where she studied with Robert Mann and performed l'arbre des Songes, Dutilleux's concerto for violin and orchestra and Lou Harrison's Violin Concerto in Slendro.
Jennifer is on faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and plays on a 1777 Vincenzo Panormo violin.
http://iceorg.org
Chapel Hill raised violinist Jennifer Curtis, navigates with personality and truth in every piece she performs. Her second solo concert in Carnegie Hall was described by the New York Times as "one of the gutsiest and most individual recital programs," and celebrated her as "an artist of keen intelligence and taste, well worth watching
out for."
As a violinist, Jennifer is driven by passion and curiosity, eliminating boundaries of musical genres and traversing the globe with musical diplomacy. Winner of Astral Artists Milka/Astral grand prize for violin and Artists International presentations, Jennifer is also an improviser, composer, multi-instrumentalist, member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), and educator.
Recent activities include solo performances with the Simon Bolivar Orchestra in Venezuela, The Knights Chamber Orchestra, featured artist at the Brasov International Festival in Romania in honor of George Enescu, featured violinist/composer and percussionist for El Festival de las Artes Esénias de Lima, Peru, appearances at the Mostly Mozart Festival, International Brahms Festival, Ecstatic Festival, Festival musique de chambre a Giverny, Darmstadt Festival, Iceland Airwaves Festival, Wein Modern Festival for Contemporary music and many more. A lover of Latin American music, Jennifer has had many musical expeditions in 6 countries south of Mexico. She founded the group Tres Americas Ensemble, toured with her original works and concerti of Mozart, collaborated and studied with Musical Shaman of the Amazon and the Andes, improvised for live radio from the interior of the jungle, taught in conservatories and public schools, and performed as violinist, mandolinist, vocalist and percussionist at many clubs and world music festivals.
Upcoming and recent projects include solo and chamber music performances with John Adams at the library of congress, Carnegie Hall performance of La Pasíon by Osvaldo Golijov, a Cornell University sponsored commission for a new composition, concertmaster of East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) US tour, solo improvisation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a solo CD featuring original compositions inspired by deserts around the world.
Jennifer holds degrees from Mills College and The Juilliard School, where she studied with Robert Mann and performed l'arbre des Songes, Dutilleux's concerto for violin and orchestra and Lou Harrison's Violin Concerto in Slendro.
Jennifer is on faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and plays on a 1777 Vincenzo Panormo violin.
http://iceorg.org
*Matt Chicurel
Chapel Hill violist and violinist, Matthew Chicurel, has performed in the U.S. and Europe in
such halls as New York’s Carnegie, Merkin, Alice Tully and Lincoln Center. Mr. Chicurel has performed with the Carolina Chamber Symphony, NC Opera, Capitol Opera, The Chamber Orchestra of theTriangle, The Carolina Philharmonic, Greensboro Symphony, The Manhattan Chamber Symphonee, The West Side Chamber Orchestra and The Symphony of the Mountains.
He is member of Juniper String Quartet, Burnished Trio and formerly with BarHop Quartet. He attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, under Ulrich Eichenauer, and received a Masters
Degree from Mannes College of Music in New York, under Daniel Panner. Mr. Chicurel maintains a strong commitment to arts education, teaching privately and helped found a children’s violin program at the Richard Rogers School of Arts and Technology (PS166) in NYC. His former students have been
or are currently enrolled in some of the world’s finest institutions including The Juilliard School, The Kaufman Center’s Special Music School (P.S. 859) in New York, and The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, in Winston Salem. Mr. Chicurel resides in Chapel Hill North Carolina, where he is a freelance performer, teacher, formerly the director of the Strings and Orchestral Studies program at
the Emerson Waldorf School, a conductor with the Piedmont Youth Orchestra, founder and conductor of the SidexSide chamber program, and Vice-President of the non-profit group, Music For Children.
Chapel Hill violist and violinist, Matthew Chicurel, has performed in the U.S. and Europe in
such halls as New York’s Carnegie, Merkin, Alice Tully and Lincoln Center. Mr. Chicurel has performed with the Carolina Chamber Symphony, NC Opera, Capitol Opera, The Chamber Orchestra of theTriangle, The Carolina Philharmonic, Greensboro Symphony, The Manhattan Chamber Symphonee, The West Side Chamber Orchestra and The Symphony of the Mountains.
He is member of Juniper String Quartet, Burnished Trio and formerly with BarHop Quartet. He attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, under Ulrich Eichenauer, and received a Masters
Degree from Mannes College of Music in New York, under Daniel Panner. Mr. Chicurel maintains a strong commitment to arts education, teaching privately and helped found a children’s violin program at the Richard Rogers School of Arts and Technology (PS166) in NYC. His former students have been
or are currently enrolled in some of the world’s finest institutions including The Juilliard School, The Kaufman Center’s Special Music School (P.S. 859) in New York, and The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, in Winston Salem. Mr. Chicurel resides in Chapel Hill North Carolina, where he is a freelance performer, teacher, formerly the director of the Strings and Orchestral Studies program at
the Emerson Waldorf School, a conductor with the Piedmont Youth Orchestra, founder and conductor of the SidexSide chamber program, and Vice-President of the non-profit group, Music For Children.
Soprano
*Andrea Edith Moore brings a “certain opalescence that is particularly served by her impressive phrasing and inherent musicality” to myriad leading roles including Pamina, Zerlina, The Countess Almaviva, Euridice and Manon among others. Ms. Moore is a regular singer with the North Carolina Opera where she “garnered the biggest ovations” for her performance of Micaela in Carmen and in Aida her “Priestess was hauntingly ethereal.” Acclaimed in Brittenʼs haunted opera The Turn of the Screw also with NCO, “The star of the show was Andrea Edith Moore as the Governess, with beautiful and clear tones, and every word and phrase distinct, and convincingly more and more distracted as the drama progressed.”
Ms. Moore has sung under the baton of Maestros Vladimir Ashkenazy, Francesco Maria Colombo, Giuseppe Grazioli, Keitaro Harada, Klaus Dieter Jung, Andreas Mitisek, Lorenzo Muti, Timothy Myers, Anton Nanut, Valery Ryvkin, Gerard Schwartz and David Zinman and directors including the late Colin Graham, Vera Calabria, Candace Evans and Andreas Franz. She has performed with the Hamburger Kammeroper, Central City Opera, Aspen Music Festival,
Greensboro Opera, The North Carolina Opera, Long Leaf Opera Festival, Yale Opera, and Peabody Opera Theater. Ms. Moore has sung in recital with the Richard Tucker Foundation in New York, The North Carolina Master Chorale, The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle and on tour in South America with notable debuts in Buenos Aires at Teatro Colon and Rio de Janeiroʼs Teatro Municipal. Ms. Moore stays on the cutting edge of new music and has sung premieres of works by composers including Stephen Chatman, Marjorie Merryman, Zachary Wadsworth and Judah Adashi and has served as a vocal advisor with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.
Among many honors Moore is a prize-winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, is a grant recipient from the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust and has been twice awarded the Yale School of Music Alumni Award.
Ms. Moore holds a Master of Music and an Artist Diploma from Yale University as well as a Bachelor of Music from the Peabody Conservatory of Music at The Johns Hopkins University and is a graduate of the UNCSA. Ms. Moore currently serves on the voice faculty at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
*Andrea Edith Moore brings a “certain opalescence that is particularly served by her impressive phrasing and inherent musicality” to myriad leading roles including Pamina, Zerlina, The Countess Almaviva, Euridice and Manon among others. Ms. Moore is a regular singer with the North Carolina Opera where she “garnered the biggest ovations” for her performance of Micaela in Carmen and in Aida her “Priestess was hauntingly ethereal.” Acclaimed in Brittenʼs haunted opera The Turn of the Screw also with NCO, “The star of the show was Andrea Edith Moore as the Governess, with beautiful and clear tones, and every word and phrase distinct, and convincingly more and more distracted as the drama progressed.”
Ms. Moore has sung under the baton of Maestros Vladimir Ashkenazy, Francesco Maria Colombo, Giuseppe Grazioli, Keitaro Harada, Klaus Dieter Jung, Andreas Mitisek, Lorenzo Muti, Timothy Myers, Anton Nanut, Valery Ryvkin, Gerard Schwartz and David Zinman and directors including the late Colin Graham, Vera Calabria, Candace Evans and Andreas Franz. She has performed with the Hamburger Kammeroper, Central City Opera, Aspen Music Festival,
Greensboro Opera, The North Carolina Opera, Long Leaf Opera Festival, Yale Opera, and Peabody Opera Theater. Ms. Moore has sung in recital with the Richard Tucker Foundation in New York, The North Carolina Master Chorale, The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle and on tour in South America with notable debuts in Buenos Aires at Teatro Colon and Rio de Janeiroʼs Teatro Municipal. Ms. Moore stays on the cutting edge of new music and has sung premieres of works by composers including Stephen Chatman, Marjorie Merryman, Zachary Wadsworth and Judah Adashi and has served as a vocal advisor with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.
Among many honors Moore is a prize-winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, is a grant recipient from the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust and has been twice awarded the Yale School of Music Alumni Award.
Ms. Moore holds a Master of Music and an Artist Diploma from Yale University as well as a Bachelor of Music from the Peabody Conservatory of Music at The Johns Hopkins University and is a graduate of the UNCSA. Ms. Moore currently serves on the voice faculty at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Festival Orchestra - contact: Jane Salemson - contact: chncmusicmakersfestival@gmail.com
The Chapel Hill Cello Choir and Quartet - contact: Jane Salemson - britcellist@gmail.com
The Chapel Hill Cooperative Suzuki Project (CHCSP) and the Suzuki Players - contact: Mary Frances Boyce
The Fiddle Workshop - Rebecca Buchanan
The Piedmont Orchestras
The New Hope Piano Quartet
The Chapel Hill Cello Choir and Quartet - contact: Jane Salemson - britcellist@gmail.com
The Chapel Hill Cooperative Suzuki Project (CHCSP) and the Suzuki Players - contact: Mary Frances Boyce
The Fiddle Workshop - Rebecca Buchanan
The Piedmont Orchestras
The New Hope Piano Quartet
VOLUNTEERS
History Committee - Dr. Mary Frances Boyce, Mary Ellen Bierk, Nancy Brooks
Senior Outreach Program - Dr. Donna Prather
History Committee - Dr. Mary Frances Boyce, Mary Ellen Bierk, Nancy Brooks
Senior Outreach Program - Dr. Donna Prather