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January 2017

Xak Bjerken, piano

Thursday, January 19, 2017

7:30 p.m., Orvis Auditorium

Pianist Xak Bjerken has appeared with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, the Schoenberg Ensemble, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Disney Hall. He has performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Glinka Hall in St Petersburg, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, and for many years performed throughout the US as a member of the Los Angeles Piano Quartet. He has performed with the Cuarteto Casals, the Prazak, New Zealand, and Miami string quartets, and held chamber music residencies at the Tanglewood Music Center, Spoleto Festival and Olympic Music Festival. He is the director of Ensemble X, a new music ensemble, and has served on the faculty of Kneisel Hall, the Eastern Music Festival, and at the Chamber Music Conference at Bennington College. Bjerken has worked closely with composers Győrgy Kurtag, Sofia Gubaidulina, Steven Stucky, and George Benjamin, and over the next two years, will be presenting premieres of piano concertos by Stephen Hartke, Elizabeth Ogonek, and Jesse Jones. He released his first solo recording on CRI in 2001, and has since recorded for Koch International, Chandos, Albany Records, Artona, and is about to release his third recording for Open G Records, presenting solo and chamber works by Steven Stucky. Xak Bjerken is Professor of Music at Cornell University where he co-directs Mayfest, an international chamber music festival with his wife, pianist Miri Yampolsky. Bjerken studied with Aube Tzerko at the University of California at Los Angeles and received his Master's and Doctoral degrees from the Peabody Conservatory as a student of and teaching assistant to Leon Fleisher.

The recital will include:

Claude Debussy: Images, Book II
Cloches à travers les feuilles ("Bells through the leaves")
Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut ("And the moon descends on the ruined Poissons d'or ("Goldfish")
Stephen Hartke: Post-Modern Homages, book II (1992), and "The Flames of the Sun" (2015)
Steven Stucky: Piano Sonata (2015)
Jesse Jones: Ephemera (2014)
Alexander Scriabin: Sonata No. 9, op. 68 "Black Mass" (1912)

Tickets (at the door): $12 general admission; $8 seniors (65+), UH students/faculty/staff; $5 UHM music majors.

(Performance is eligible for Mus 199 credit)

Sara Ricer, oboe (master's recital)

Friday, January 20, 2017

7:30 p.m., Orvis Auditorium

Sara Ricer, a student of J. Scott Janusch, will present a recital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Music in Performance.

Admission is free.

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Jeremy Wong, baritone

Thomas Yee, piano

Saturday, January 21, 2017

7:30 p.m., Orvis Auditorium

Join baritone Jeremy M. Wong and pianist Thomas Yee in an exploration of the music of the British Isles. Program includes: folksong arrangements by Benjamin Britten, Gerald Finzi's Let us garlands bring, and the Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Jeremy Wong is a lecturer in vocal performance at the UH Mānoa Music Department.

Tickets (at the door): $12 general admission; $8 seniors (65+), UH faculty/staff/students; $5 UHM music majors.

(Performance is eligible for Mus 199 credit)

Garrick Ohlsson, piano

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Orvis Auditorium

6:30 p.m. -- pre-concert talk

7:30 p.m. -- recital

Part of the Honolulu Chamber Music Series.

Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Although long regarded 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. To date he has at his command more than 80 concertos, ranging from Haydn and Mozart to works of the 21st century, many commissioned for him.

Mr. Ohlsson's Orvis program:

Beethoven: Sonata in F-sharp Major, Op. 78
Beethoven: Sonata in C minor, Op. 111
Chopin: Scherzo in E Major, Op. 54
Chopin: Mazurka in B-flat minor, Op. 24, No. 4
Chopin: Mazurka in A-flat Major, Op. 59, No. 2
Chopin: Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op. 30, No. 4
Chopin: Ballade in G minor, Op. 23

Tickets: Purchase online ($60 General Admission, $20 Students)

(Performance is eligible for Mus 199 credit)

Coming up in February...

Outreach College presents Wonderheads
Flute Ensemble "The K" from Gachon University, South Korea
Eroica Trio (Honolulu Chamber Music Series)
Outreach College presents -- Dobet Gnahoré
Daniel Lucas, violoncello (senior recital)
UH Wind Ensemble & UH Symphonic Band Spring Concert

Visit manoa.hawaii.edu/music/events/ for a complete listing of Music Department events.

The Music Department is located at 2411 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI 96822, (at the corner of University Ave.) on the campus of the University of Hawai'i - Mānoa. Our web address manoa.hawaii.edu/music.

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