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Green Lake Festival of Music

Concert SeasonJune 2 – July 23, 2017

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R E F L E C T I O N S O N S O U N D & M O V E M E N T

No Charge For Tickets – Donate What You Can – Call (920) 748-9398 www.GreenLakeFestival.org

In grateful memory of Artist Leslie Trewyn

A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION:

The Power of Storywith NPR’s Ari Shapiro

October 14At the Overture Center in Madison

Tickets at wpr.org/100.

The Green Lake Festival of Music, Inc. is a tax-deductible 501c3 non-profit corporation whose mission is to entertain, inspire, and educate through musical performances and activities of the highest quality. Comments and questions about the Festival and its programs are always welcome. Please contact the Green Lake Festival of Music office at:

PO Box 569, Green Lake, WI 54941 920-748-9398, [email protected] or www.GreenLakeFestival.org

The Green Lake Festival of Music, Inc. is a member of Chamber Music America, the Green Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, the Ripon Area Chamber of Commerce, Arts Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Presenters Network. The Green Lake Festival of Music is supported in part by the Arts Midwest Touring Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional funding from the Wisconsin Arts Board, the Crane Group, and General Mills Foundations. Other funding comes from the Horicon Bank, Oshkosh Area Community Foundation, and private/corporate donations. Wisconsin Public Radio has provided promotional support.

In Memoriam

Leslie Trewyn 1941 – 2017 June 23, 2017 would have been artist Leslie Trewyn’s 76th birthday. The celebration she hoped to have with her family and friends will take place without her and will be a gathering to celebrate her life. Last fall Leslie began a painting that she planned to donate to the Festival for the artwork in promotional materials, as she had done each of the last four seasons.

Her paintings are playful, with bold colors and images of her travels near and far. Unable to finish the 2017 painting because of illness, she gave permission to use the colorful digital image of a sold painting that fit this season’s theme about water. Leslie was able to choose the design she liked best that Festival Support Specialist Barb Mitchell created.

We are so grateful for Leslie’s generosity. A frequent Festival audience member and donor, Leslie enthusiastically supported concerts and special events, even opening her studio last spring for a reception for the Friends/Volunteers group to welcome people, unveil her Festival painting, and kickoff the season.

And she was grateful, especially for her dear family and friends.

Leslie inspired us with her extraordinary talent and, at the same time, her easy, genuine manner. She took an almost childlike delight in people and in beauty, expressing her passion through art. In her final days Leslie donated a tryptich, three panels of paintings of a nearby farm she loved, to the Green Lake Caestecker Public Library, describing to those gathered for her presentation how the paintings evolved as she worked on them. She also gave a favorite painting to the Thrasher Opera House and donated to many organizations she cared about. We can all continue to enjoy her artwork in these places and in Festival posters hanging in Horicon Bank lobbies.

We remember Leslie with full hearts and give thanks for her life.

Welcome from the President ..............................................................................................................2Welcome from Laura Deming, Director ..........................................................................................2Distinguished Friend of the Festival .................................................................................................4Esther Chae & Caleb Borick Bios .....................................................................................................6Premiere Concert .................................................................................................................................7Chamber Music Camp, Master Classes, & Choral Institute ..........................................................8Performance Locations .......................................................................................................................9Thomas E. Caestecker Free Family Concerts ................................................................................11Frank Almond, Andrew Armstrong, & Green Lake Chamber Players Bios ............................12Frank Almond, Andrew Armstrong, & Green Lake Chamber Players Concert .....................13Green Lake Chamber Players Concert ...........................................................................................15Barn Concert ......................................................................................................................................19Daedalus Quartet Bios ......................................................................................................................20Daedalus Quartet Concert ................................................................................................................21Daedalus Quartet & Green Lake Chamber Players Concert ......................................................23Calendar of Events ............................................................................................................................24Wisconsin Symphonic Winds Bios ..................................................................................................26Outdoor Concert of American Composers ..................................................................................27Seniors Lunch & Piano Recital ........................................................................................................292017 Business Sponsors ....................................................................................................................29Changyong Shin Bio ..........................................................................................................................30Changyong Shin Concert ..................................................................................................................31The Rose Ensemble Bio ...................................................................................................................32The Rose Ensemble Concert ...........................................................................................................33Choral Institute Soloists Bios ...........................................................................................................34Cabaret Concert .................................................................................................................................37Choral Institute Chorus & Orchestra Concert ..............................................................................38Choral Institute Chorus & Orchestra Bios ....................................................................................40Board of Directors, Staff, & Friends of the Festival ...................................................................42The Encore Society............................................................................................................................44The Language of Music ....................................................................................................................46

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Greetings and welcome!

As we enter our 38th Season, it is my honor and pleasure to welcome you on behalf of our Board of Trustees. Laura and her team have done an outstanding job of creating a season we believe you will long remember. We’re very eager to spread the word that we’re not charging for tickets. We want everyone to enjoy these outstanding concerts and donate what they’re able to give. At a time when all arts organizations are under increasing

pressure, I can happily report our Board, Staff, and Friends/Volunteers are showing great loyalty and support. We who are closely involved have never felt more optimistic about our future. We invite you to enjoy our many musical opportunities, and we welcome your advice, suggestions, and — most of all — your involvement! Best wishes to you all,

David Woods

I often think about you, our audience, and hope you realize what you bring to our live performances — your passion, focus, and appreciation. You complete the connection! I look forward to seeing you throughout the summer. Our bold experiment this season to ask for donations rather than charge for tickets was inspired by the Lakes Area Music Festival in Brainerd, MN, a community much like Green Lake, with year-round and summer residents enjoying free, live, classical concerts in a beautiful resort setting. We want everyone to feel welcome and to experience the Festival’s many events. We found our $25-30 ticket prices limiting; some found it too expensive, others would have given more. We hope you will give what you

can and express what the Festival means to you. As you know, our concerts have a cost, and we trust you will be inspired to support them through your donations for concerts, sponsorships, scholarships, and general giving throughout the year. All arts organizations, even with sold-out performances, have to raise 60% or more through fundraising. Festival donors have traditionally been extraordinarily generous. Raising funds is an ongoing challenge we undertake gladly to keep this Festival thriving. The board is pleased to honor philanthropist Thomas E. Caestecker with the 2017 Distinguished Friend of the Festival award, a tradition to recognize those who contribute greatly. We’re experiencing an excitement that comes when lots of good things come together at

Dear members of the Green Lake Festival of Music Family,

Welcome from the President

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Dear members of the Green Lake Festival of Music Family,

Welcome from the President

the same time. Our new Festival Support Specialist, Barb Mitchell, joins us full-time during her summer off from the Art, Music and Theater Departments at Ripon College. Festival intern Grace Sullivan brings energy, intelligence, and fun. We welcome Cathylee and Steve Arbaugh, who have immediately strengthened and energized the Festival. They recently moved from Chicago to Ripon, where they bought and are restoring the historic 1860’s home at 512 Woodside. We thank them for the fabulous kickoff party they hosted in May. Cathylee is our new Chair of the Friends/Volunteers. An interior designer, she is highly organized and loves working with people. Steve, a marketing consultant, brings expertise, creativity, and leadership. This year’s theme came from Stephanie Prellwitz, Executive Director of the Green Lake Association, the group founded in 1951 to help conserve Big Green Lake and its watershed. She noted the wordplay

on “ waves, waterworks, and reflections” — lake waves and sound waves, water management and compositions about water, and light bouncing off the lake and thoughts. How serendipitous, then, when I received an email from Jonathan Posthuma, a composer who grew up near Brandon, WI, and sang in the Green Lake Children’s Choir under Jonathan Willcocks. “ Participating in the Festival was a transformative experience as a young singer and one of many reasons I wanted to become a professional musician and composer,” he wrote. He recently received his Masters in Music Composition from UW-Madison and now works in Saint Paul, MN. The Choral Institute will give the world premiere of his composition Nibi, (Water) Song, which uses an Ojibwemowin text and melody.

This summer we celebrate our long, vital relationship with the Thrasher Opera House! June 29th is the 20th anniversary of the Festival’s first concert at the Thrasher Opera House, before air-conditioning and renovation. Thrasher’s Executive Director, Maria Dietrich, was the Festival administrator then. “ I remember sweat dripping down the nose of the cellist from the Jacques Thibaud Trio,” Maria said.

In May the Festival board voted unanimously to undertake a capital campaign leading up to our 40th anniversary in 2019 to raise endowment money to ensure another 40 years. We honor the vision of founding endowment donors Lucile Grams and George Miller and thank all who have given and will give to continue their legacy.

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Distinguished Friend of the Festival

In 1990 we established this award to recognize individuals who have given outstanding service to the Festival through the donation of

their time, expertise, in-kind, or financial contributions.

The following individuals have received this honor:

• 1990 – Dr. Burton Kilbourne & Lucile Morton-Grams

• 1991 – Virginia Kraut• 1992 – George Miller• 1993 – Nancy Vandervelde• 1994 – Elizabeth Blodgett• 1995 – Roberta Boismenue• 1996 – Sylvia Richards• 1997 – Shirley Sather• 1998 – Douglas Morris• 1999 – Sir David Willcocks• 2000 – John Roesch• 2001 – Robert House• 2002 – Jonathan Willcocks• 2003 – Kirin Nielsen• 2004 – Constance Koehne• 2005 - Robert W. Dott• 2006 – Maria Dietrich• 2007 – Thatcher Peterson• 2008 – Jim & Nancy Hynes• 2009 – Gladys Veidemanis• 2010 – Todd & Betty Berens• 2011 – Jeannette & Jim Kreston• 2012 – Julie Ann Lickteig & Tom Gnewuch• 2013 – Anthea Kreston & Jason Duckles• 2014 – John & Jane Chapman• 2015 – Jan White-Moon• 2016 – Mary Lehwald Lofgren

Distinguished Friendof the Festival

In 1990 we established this awardto recognize individuals who have given outstanding service to the Festival through the donation of

their time, expertise, in-kind,or financial contributions.

The following individuals have


By Jaye Alderson

The Green Lake Festival of Music is pleased to honor Thomas E. Caestecker with the 2017 Distinguished Friend of the Festival award for his generous,

enduring support of the Festival and of the arts in general. A strong patron of music for the public, he has served on the board of trustees of the Green Lake Festival of Music and sponsors the Thomas E. Caestecker Free Family Concert Series. Additionally, he gives to the nationally recognized Green Lake Festival Chamber Music Camp and to the Festival’s general endowment.

Thomas E. Caestecker, a resident of Green Lake, Wisconsin, and Kenilworth, Illinois, grew up in suburban Chicago and graduated from high school at Loyola Academy. He received his bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and holds honorary doctorates in humane letters from Spring Hill College in Alabama and from Ripon College, where he remains an Honorary Life Trustee.

A businessman and community leader, Caestecker served as president of Markham Investments, LLC. The Caestecker family has a strong bond with the Green Lake area, where five generations of the family have enjoyed time on the water.

“I have a great fondness for the area,” Caestecker said. “My parents met in Chicago and had a little bit of their early romance in the Green Lake area. My father played on Lawsonia Golf Course the year it opened in 1930. As a young boy, I would be at Green Lake with my grandparents during the summers, and my parents would come on the weekends. As I got older, I was working in the Chicago area and would come up on

weekends. My grandchildren love it. That’s another bit of the cement that keeps me close.”

A strong supporter of Ripon College over many years, Caestecker provided a gift to build the new wing of C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts that is named in his honor and includes studios, a gallery and a sculpture garden. He also supported the College’s 2001 Sesquicentennial Celebration and the 2003 inauguration of President David C. Joyce. He served as a Ripon College Trustee from 1985 to 2002 before becoming an Honorary Life Trustee.

Caestecker also is an honorary trustee of the Green Lake Association, dedicated to conserving Big Green Lake and its watershed. He served as its director and created an award in honor of his parents and their commitment to Green Lake.

He has sponsored a scholarship each year since 1983 for a student from Green Lake High School, served on the board of the Wisconsin Historical Society, and has been involved in the renovation of the library in Green Lake that is named in his honor.

He is on the Chairman’s Council of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and, in honor of his parents, initiated the endowed concertmaster chair. He also established a chair in music at Georgetown and a chair in the liberal arts at Spring Hill College.

The arts and humanities hold a place in his heart because it’s “in my DNA,” Caestecker said. As a young man, his father was a professional violinist, his father’s brother was a professional cellist, and his mother “wrote beautiful poetry.”

“Today, more than ever, we need something in our lives that is more human,” Caestecker said. “We are living in a technological age, and that will continue. But to be a fully educated person, you need exposure to the fine arts.”

Distinguished Friend of the Festival

Thomas E. Caestecker



Esther Chae & Caleb BorickEsther ChaeEsther Chae, a budding, high school sophomore musician, is currently studying with Dr. Ross Harbaugh at the

University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. Esther has been a scholarship recipient of the Coral Gables Music Club since 2010. She made her debut with the Coral Gables Symphony at the age of 9, which was broadcast on WLRN television, and has made annual appearances since.

Esther and her sister, Gloria, have performed multiple times for their district, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, being displayed on television and the news. In 2012, they claimed overall grand prize winners for the second annual launch of Young Talent Big Dreams.

In 2015, Esther was a recipient of the Homestead Community Concert Music Scholarship Competition, won first prize for the South Florida Solo Competition, and performed with the Coral Gables Symphony and Greater

Miami Youth Symphony. She was also featured in the Saint Martha-Yamaha Concert Series at Barry University and, in addition, played with the Amernet String Quartet.

Last year, Esther won various competitions. She soloed with the Alhambra Orchestra and New World Symphony and was a recipient of the Hollywood Music Club scholarship and the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award of $10,000. That May she won the highest award for the Homestead Community Concert, performing Paganini’s “Caprice 24.” The Miami Herald wrote, “Only the most virtuosic cellists can perform this feat.” She was also featured on NPR’s live radio program, From the Top, Episode #320, with Green Lake Festival’s own Trio Lago Verde.

Esther has garnered more achievements this year, performing the Walton Cello Concerto with the New World School of the Arts Orchestra and placing as a finalist in the national Blount Slawson Young Artists Competition. She is happy to be back for her third year at the Green Lake Festival of Music.

Caleb Connor BorickCaleb, a homeschooled 14-year-old, began piano at age five and currently studies with International

Steinway Artist, Dr. Joseph Rackers. Since 2013, Caleb has been a Charleston Symphony Orchestra League Summer Studies scholarship recipient. He won top honors in 2015 and 2016, receiving the Ruth and Barry Goldsmith Scholarship. Other awards include the Lancaster-King Piano Award, the Amidon-Hatfield Piano Award and the Claire McPhail Memorial Scholarship from the Charleston Music Club.

Caleb was a presenter in Charleston’s first TEDx in 2013. He has participated in numerous international competitions across the United States, winning the Grand Prize in the Philadelphia International Music Festival’s Concerto Competition, third place in MTNA Nationals Junior Division, and first place in the Ronald Sachs International Music Competition piano division. In summer 2017, Caleb will attend the Southeastern Piano Festival and the International Institute for Young Musicians,

where he is a semi-finalist in the International Piano Competition.

Since age eleven, Caleb has been a featured soloist with the Fountain Inn Symphony Orchestra, the Charleston Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra for their 20th Anniversary East Coast Tour to Carnegie Hall, and the Alicante Symphony Orchestra at Music Fest Perugia in Perugia, Italy. He has appeared both on WPR’s The Midday with Norman Gilliland and on NPR’s From The Top, Episode #320, from Lubbock, TX.

As an arts education leader, Caleb regularly plays concerts at local nursing homes, community outreaches, and benefits. When he is not playing the piano, Caleb enjoys karate. With less than two years of training, he earned his black belt in August 2016 and is now teaching younger students on a daily basis.

Caleb and Esther are part of the 2017 Green Lake Festival of Music Chamber Music Camp and can be heard in concert with their chamber music groups on Saturday, June 17th, at 2 p.m. in the Crystal room in the Roger Williams Inn at the Green Lake Conference Center. There is no admission charge; donations are celebrated.


Esther Chae & Caleb Borick Premiere ConcertEsther Chae, cello and Caleb Borick, piano

Friday, June 9 • 7:30 p.m.Thrasher Opera House, Green Lake, Wisconsin 7:00 p.m. Pre-concert ConversationSponsored by Lynn Grout-Paul, in memory of Jerry Grout Thrasher Opera House Art Gallery exhibit by artist Margaret Grout Pagoria — through July

Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor, BWV 849 Johann Sebastian Bach

Well-tempered Clavier Book I (1685 – 1750)

Caleb Borick

Zigeunerweisen, Opus 20 Pablo de Sarasate

(1844 – 1908)

Esther Chae and Caleb Borick

Après une Lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata Franz Liszt

(1811 – 1886)

Caleb Borick

Sonata for Cello and Piano in A Major, Opus 69 Ludwig van Beethoven

(1770 – 1827)

Esther Chae and Caleb Borick

This concert is funded in part by the Arts Midwest Touring Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional funding from the Wisconsin Arts Board, the Crane Group, and General Mills Foundations. Other funding comes from the Horicon Bank, Oshkosh Area Community Foundation, and private/corporate donations. Wisconsin Public Radio is providing promotional support. This performance is being recorded for subsequent broadcast. Silence during the performance is appreciated.


Chamber Music Camp, Master Classes, & Choral Institute Green Lake Festival of Music’s Chamber CampJune 12-26, 2016Green Lake Conference Center, Green Lake, WIUnder the direction of Tom Rosenberg, who is also the Fischoff Competition artistic director, this nationally acclaimed chamber music experience brings together advanced pre-college and college-aged students of violin, viola, cello, and piano.

Chamber Camp ConcertsChamber Camp RecitalSaturday, June 17, 2:00 p.m.Crystal Room in Roger Williams Inn at Green Lake Conference Center, Green Lake WI (no tickets necessary)

Finale & Circle of Sound ConcertSaturday, June 24, 4:00 p.m.Sponsored by Horicon BankDemmer Recital Hall, Rodman Center for the Arts, Ripon, WI

Green Lake Festival of Music’s Choral InstituteJuly 20-23Ripon College Campus, Ripon, WIThe Green Lake Festival of Music’s Choral Institute offers conductors, teachers, and all who love to sing a rich musical experience and performance with orchestra, all in a supportive, enriching atmosphere. Rehearsals, workshops and opportunities for socializing all contribute to a rewarding experience. The four-day Choral Institute is led by Dr. Stephen Alltop, Northwestern University professor and Music Director and Conductor of the Apollo Chorus of Chicago.

Choral Institute Finale ConcertSunday, July 23, 3 p.m.Demmer Recital Hall, Rodman Center for the Arts, Ripon College, Ripon, WI

Free Master Classes Except where noted, all Master Classes start at 11:10 a.m. at the Green Lake Conference Center in the Crystal Room of the Roger Williams Inn

Tuesday, June 13, 9:30 a.m. Violin Master Class with Frank Almond

Wednesday, June 14 Viola Master Class with Renee Skerik

Thursday, June 15 Violin Master Class with Samantha George

Monday, June 19 Piano Master Class with Andrew Armstrong

Tuesday, June 20 Cello Master Class with Tom Rosenberg

Wednesday, June 21, 10 a.m. Master Class with the Daedalus Quartet

Saturday, July 8, 10 a.m. Rodman Center for the Arts, Ripon College Piano Master Class with Changyong Shin Special thanks to Dr. Eun-Joo Kwak, concert pianist and educator, for her assistance and expertise.


The 2017 season is made possible thanks to the support of the locations listed here. Concertgoers enjoy the architecture and rich history of each of these concert venues. Whether you attend one or all of our events, we hope you will enjoy and be inspired by these beautiful places.

Performance Locations

The Boston Barn W3320 State Rd. 23, Green Lake, WI 54941

Deacon Mills Park 534 Mill St., Green Lake, WI 54941

Demmer Recital Hall see Rodman Center for the Arts

First Congregational Church of Ripon

220 Ransom St., Ripon, WI 54971

Green Lake Caestecker Library 518 Hill St., Green Lake, WI 54941

Green Lake Conference Center W2511 Wisconsin 23, Green Lake, WI 54941

Harwood Memorial Union Lawn (site of commencement) Congress & Elm Streets

Ripon College, Ripon, WI 54941

Heidel House Resort & Spa 643 Illinois Ave., Green Lake, WI 54941

Princeton Public Library 424 W. Water St., Princeton, WI 54968

Ripon Public Library 120 Jefferson St., Ripon, WI 54971

Rodman Center for the Arts Ripon College, on Union, just north

of Thorne, Ripon, WI 54971

Rogers Williams Inn see Green Lake conference Center

Thrasher Opera House 506 Mill St., Green Lake WI 54941

Caren Reich, Agent115 S Wisconsin Street

Berlin, WI 54923Bus: 920-361-2160

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CAESTECKER FINE ARTS SERIES

Be our guest for this 40 year traditionMilwaukee Symphony Orchestra

Sunday, Oct. 13:00 p.m.

Field house, Willmore CenterLocated on the corner of Thorne St. and Union St. ripon.edu/series

CAESTECKER FINE ARTS SERIES

Be our guest for this 40 year traditionMilwaukee Symphony Orchestra

Sunday, Oct. 13:00 p.m.

Field house, Willmore CenterLocated on the corner of Thorne St. and Union St. ripon.edu/series


Thomas E. Caestecker Free Family Concerts

The Three Little Pigs, by Daniel Dorff, for violin, cello, and narrator, in collaboration with

the national library summer reading theme, “Building a Better World.”

Green Lake Caestecker Public Library

Monday, June 19 • 2 p.m. @518 Hill St., Green Lake, WI 54941

Ripon Public LibraryTuesday, June 20 • 10:30 a.m. @120 Jefferson St., Ripon, WI 54971

Princeton Public LibraryThursday, July 13 • 11 a.m.

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Frank Almond, Andrew Armstrong, & Green Lake Chamber Players

Frank Almond

Violinist Frank Almond holds the Charles and Marie Caestecker Concertmaster Chair

at the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Now celebrating his 20th season with the MSO, he has also held positions as Concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic with Valery Gergiev and as Guest Concertmaster of the London Philharmonic with Kurt Masur. In addition, he maintains an active schedule of solo and chamber music performances in the US and abroad, has been a member of the chamber group An die Musik in New York City since 1997, and also directs the somewhat notorious Frankly Music Chamber Series based in Milwaukee.

At 17, he was one of the youngest prize winners in the history of the Nicolo Paganini Competition in Genoa, Italy, and five years later was one of two American prizewinners at the Eighth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, which was documented in an award-winning PBS film.

He has recorded for AVIE, Summit, Albany, Innova, Boolean (his own label), Newport Classic, Wergo and New Albion, receiving much critical acclaim and multiple Grammy nominations. Mr. Almond holds two degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Dorothy Delay. Other important teachers included Michael Tseitlin, Felix Galimir, and Joseph Silverstein. In August 2014 he began an Artist/Teacher appointment at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, as well as a newly created Artist-in-Residence position at the Milwaukee Youth Symphony.

Andrew Armstrong

Praised by critics for his passionate expression and dazzling technique, pianist Andrew Armstrong has delighted audiences across

Asia, Europe, Latin America, Canada, and the United States, including performances at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and Warsaw’s National Philharmonic.

Andrew’s orchestral engagements across the globe have seen him perform a sprawling repertoire of more than 50 concertos with orchestra. He has performed with such conductors as Peter Oundjian, Itzhak Perlman, Günther Herbig, Stefan Sanderling, Jean Marie Zeitouni, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and has appeared in solo recitals in chamber music concerts with the Elias, Alexander, American, and Manhattan String Quartets, and also as a member of the Caramoor Virtuosi, Boston Chamber Music Society, Seattle Chamber Music Society, and the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players.

He has released several award -winning recordings with his longtime recital partner, James Ehnes, including 3 volumes of the music of Béla Bartók, Prokofiev’s Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2, and Five Melodies, Tartini’s Devil’s Trill and Leclair’s Tambourin Sonata, a recital disc of works by Franck and Strauss, as well as an upcoming release featuring pieces by Debussy, Elgar, and Respighi (Onyx Classics).

Andrew is devoted to outreach programs and playing for children. In addition to his many concerts, his performances are heard regularly on National Public Radio and

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Frank Almond, Concertmaster, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; Karen Kim, violin; Renee Skerik, viola; Tom Rosenberg, cello; Andrew Armstrong, piano

Monday, June 12 • 7:30 p.m.Thrasher Opera House, Green Lake, Wisconsin 7:00 p.m. Pre-concert ConversationFrank Almond’s Festival appearance sponsored by Laura DeGolier

Serenade for String Trio in D Major, Opus 8 Ludwig van Beethoven I. Marcia: Allegro (1770 – 1827) II. Adagio III. Menuetto: Allegretto IV. Adagio - Scherzo: Allegro molto V. Allegretto alla Polacca VI. Andante quasi allegretto - Allegro VII. Marcia: Allegro

Karen Kim, Renee Skerik, Tom Rosenberg

Sonata for Violin and Piano in E-flat Major, Opus 18 Richard Strauss I. Allegro, ma non troppo (1864 – 1949) II. Improvisation: Andante cantabile III. Finale: Andante - Allegro

Frank Almond, Andrew Armstrong

Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Opus 44 Robert Schumann I. Allegro brillante (1810 – 1856) II. In modo d’una Marcia: Un poco largamente III. Scherzo: Molto vivace IV. Allegro ma non troppo

Frank Almond, Karen Kim, Renee Skerik, Tom Rosenberg, Andrew Armstrong



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Mr. Armstrong lives happily in Massachu-setts, with his wife Esty, their two children, two dogs, two guinea pigs, and two fish.

Karen Kim

Grammy Award-winning violinist Karen Kim is widely hailed for her sensitive musicianship and passionate commitment

to chamber and contemporary music. She has performed extensively throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, appearing in such venues and concert series as Carnegie Hall’s Zankel and Weill Recital Halls, Lincoln Center, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York; the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society and Library of Congress in Washington, DC; the Celebrity Series of Boston; the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society; the San Miguel de Allende Chamber Music Festival in Mexico; the Vienna Musikverein; London’s Wigmore Hall; the Musée d’Orsay in Paris; the Seoul Arts Center; Angel Place in Sydney; and the Havana Contemporary Music Festival. Her recordings as a founding member of the Parker Quartet from 2002 to 2012 include the complete string quartets of György Ligeti, which received the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance in 2011. With the Parker Quartet, Karen Kim also received the Grand Prize and Mozart Prize at the 2005 Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition.

Esteemed for her versatility across a broad spectrum of musical idioms and artistic disciplines, Karen Kim has collaborated with artists ranging from Kim Kashkashian, Paul Katz, Roger Tapping, Jörg Widmann, and Shai Wosner to Questlove & The Roots and the James Sewell Ballet. She is a member of the chamber ensembles Third Sound, East Coast Contemporary

Ensemble, and Cadillac Moon Ensemble, and frequently performs with such groups as the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Metropolis Ensemble, NOVUS NY, and Chameleon Arts Ensemble. She is also a devoted advocate of the music of our time, and has premiered works by Lera Auerbach, Jeremy Gill, Patrick Castillo, Wang Jie, Osnat Netzer, Ryan Francis, Conrad Winslow, Inés Thiebaut, Craig Woodward, and others.

A native of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Karen Kim received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in violin performance and her master’s degree in chamber music from the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Donald Weilerstein and jazz vocalist Dominique Eade.

Renee Skerik

Renee Skerik has maintained an active career as a chamber musician and viola teacher. Currently on the faculty of the

Interlochen Arts Academy and Director of their Summer Viola Institute, she was formerly Professor of Viola at Texas Tech University School of Music and violist of the Botticelli String Quartet. She toured throughout the United States, Europe, Iceland, and Brazil, including performances at the 33rd International Viola Congress in Reykjavik, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Renee performed for ten years as violist of the Artaria String Quartet and was co-founder of Stringwood Summer Chamber Music Festival and the Artaria Chamber Music School. She has served on the faculty of the MacPhail Center for the Arts, Carleton College, Viterbo College, The Quartet Program, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Bravo! Summer Chamber Music Institute, Stringwood and was Artist/Teacher at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.



Green Lake Chamber Players Green Lake Chamber Players Karen Kim, violin, Rami Solomonow, viola, Laura Deming, Jesse Nummelin, & Tom Rosenberg, cello, Andrew Armstrong & Rie Tanaka, piano

Thursday, June 15 • 7:30 p.m.Thrasher Opera House, Green Lake, Wisconsin 7:00 p.m. Pre-concert Conversation

String Trio in G major, Opus 53, No. 1 Franz Joseph Haydn I. Allegretto ed Innocente (1732 – 1809) II. Presto

Karen Kim, Rami Solomonow, Tom Rosenberg

Requiem for 3 Cellos and Piano, Opus 66 David Popper (1843 – 1913)

Laura Deming, Jesse Nummelin, Tom Rosenberg, Rie Tanaka

Jardins sous la pluie (Gardens in the Rain), Claude Debussy from Estampes (1862 – 1918) Nocturne in F-sharp Major Frédéric Chopin (1810 – 1849) L’Isle Joyeuse (Island of Joy) Claude Debussy

Andrew Armstrong

Intermission

Piano Trio in C major, Opus 87 Johannes Brahms I. Allegro moderato (1833 – 1897) II. Andante con moto III. Scherzo: Presto IV. Allegro giocoso

Karen Kim, Tom Rosenberg, Andrew Armstrong



Her chamber music collaborations include performances with Janos Starker, Raphael Hillyer, Arnold Steinhardt, and Charles Castleman.

Tom Rosenberg

Nationally known as a dynamic teacher, chamber music coach, performer and since 1981, the Artistic Director of the Fischoff

National Chamber Music Competition, Tom is on the faculties of Carleton and Macalester Colleges, the McNally-Smith College of Music, maintains an award-winning pre-college studio of cellists and chamber ensembles, and is a member of the Schubert Piano Trio and The Isles Ensemble. He is recipient of the “Master Studio Teacher Award” from ASTA Minnesota, the McKnight Performing Artist Fellowship Award, Arts Educator of the Year from the Michiana Arts and Sciences Council, the 2007 Indiana Governor’s Arts Award, top chamber music prizes at the Munich (Germany), Portsmouth (England) Competitions and is a three-time Naumburg Award finalist. A founding member of the highly acclaimed Chester String Quartet, with whom for twenty years he toured internationally and made numerous recordings, Tom is a graduate of Oberlin and Eastman where he was teaching assistant to both Paul Katz and Laurence Lesser. Other teachers include Richard Kapuscinski, Alan Harris, Alta Mayer, and for chamber music, members of the Budapest, Juilliard, Tokyo, Guarneri, and Cleveland Quartets.

Rami Solomonow

Rami Solomonow is a graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv, Israel where he studied with Oedoen

Partos. He was a member of the Israel Chamber Orchestra until 1972 and received prizes in viola and chamber music from the American-Israel Foundation. In 1973 Mr. Solomonow moved to the US where he studied with Shmuel Ashkenasi at Northern Illinois University. From 1974 to 1995 he served as Principal Violist of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In 1995 he left the opera to become a founding member of the Chicago String Quartet which was the Quartet in residence at DePaul University and Taos School of Music until 2004.

Mr. Solomonow has been a faculty member at DePaul University since 1981 and has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in numerous concerts, music festivals, and summer music schools in the United States, Israel, Japan, and South America. Mr. Solomonow is a member of the Chicago Chamber Musicians Ensemble and in recent years has performed chamber works with Menahem Pressler, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Leonard Rose, Gil Shaham, Shlomo Mintz, Edgar Mayer, Christoph Eschenbach, Midori, Robert McDonald, and members of the Guarneri, Borodin, and Juilliard Quartets. He has also been a guest violist with the Vermeer, American, Fine Arts, Audubon, Cassatt, and DaPonte String Quartets and the Tempest Trio.

Mr. Solomonow has performed on live television and radio broadcasts and has recorded with the Vermeer Quartet, Chicago String Quartet, Chicago Chamber

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Musicians, and as a solo violist with the DePaul Wind Ensemble. A recording of a Mozart chamber work for strings and winds with the Chicago Chamber Musicians has been nominated for the Grammy award.

Laura Deming

Cellist Laura Deming joined the orchestra of Lyric Opera of Chicago at age 22. In 1991 she founded the Pine

Mountain Music Festival in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, was later named Artistic Director Emerita, and is currently in her third season as director of the Green Lake Festival of Music. During sabbatical years with Lyric Opera she has played principal cello with Detroit’s Michigan Opera Theatre, conducted Marquette, Michigan’s Northern Michigan University Orchestra and Upper Peninsula Youth Orchestra, served as the first artistic and executive director of the Pine Mountain Music Festival, and conducted the ensembles at Cardinal Stritch Univerisity. While there, she co-founded the Clarus Piano Trio with pianist, Dr. Eun-Joo Kwak, and Timothy Klabunde, violinist with the Milwaukee Symphony. A native of Oshkosh, Laura began studying cello in the 4th grade public school music program at Read School with Robert Messner. A powerful childhood memory is getting to hear Marion Anderson sing at then Oshkosh High School. Laura graduated from Northwestern University, where she studied with Dudley Powers. Laura did post-graduate work at the International Cello Centre in Scotland under Jane Cowan, teacher of Steven Isserlis. Her recent chamber music collaborations include Schubert’s C Major String Quintet with the University of Miami’s Bergonzi String Quartet, and as cellist in the piano trio for Second City Guide to the Opera, the acclaimed collaboration between Lyric Opera of Chicago and Second City.

Rie Tanaka

Japanese pianist, Rie Tanaka started playing piano at age three. By the age of ten, she had won the first place at the Muse

Daito Piano Festival in Osaka and has been active in the competition scene ever since. In Japan, Tanaka was a prize winner of the 8th Rosenstock International Piano Competition, Kyoto Piano Concours, and Osaka College of Music Competition. Tanaka moved to the U.S. in 2008 and has won several competitions and scholarships, including the West Central MTNA Young Artist Competition, the Thursday Musical Young Artist Scholarship Competition, the Schubert Club Scholarship Competition, the Mechelke Piano Award, the 17th Annual Masters Concerto and Aria Competition at the Kenwood Symphony Orchestra, and the Wisconsin State MTNA Young Artist Competition. Tanaka was awarded “Best Performance of Commissioned Piece” in the 17th Chautauqua International Piano Competition in New York, where she was a finalist. Active as a soloist and collaborative pianist, Tanaka frequently performs in Minnesota and Wisconsin and has appeared in venues such as NHK Osaka Hall, Phoenix Hall in Osaka, Japan, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Center, Sundin Hall, and the Landmark Center in St. Paul. Tanaka also serves as a pianist of the South Beach Chamber Ensemble in their annual Wisconsin concert series. Tanaka received her Bachelor of Music from the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point where she studied under Raffi Besalyan. She was chosen as the Outstanding Music Major in 2013 for her excellence in performance and academia. She received a Master’s degree in Piano Performance at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities and is currently pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Minnesota under the guidance of Alexander

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Green Lake Chamber Players Braginsky. Tanaka is a piano instructor at the Saint Paul Conservatory of Music and teaches group piano classes as well as individual lessons at the University of Minnesota as a teaching assistant. She serves as a collaborative pianist, registrar, and counselor at the Green Lake Festival Chamber Music Camp in Green Lake, Wisconsin.

Jesse Nummelin

Jesse Nummelin is a 27-year-old native of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. He started Suzuki cello at age three with the Aber

Suzuki Center for the Arts and performed with the Suzuki Chamber Ensemble under Mr. David Becker from 2004-2008. Jesse later went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts in cello performance at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point and then a Masters of Music at Arizona State where he served as cello studio teaching assistant. He has played with the CWSO scholarship quartet, premiered several compositions with string quartet at the Museum of Musical Instruments in Phoenix, AZ and performed on the UWSP radio broadcast “Acoustic Revival.” He also made a series of jazz recordings in New York that can be found on YouTube under the name of Ondine Foulger Jazz. Jesse has played with orchestras including the Phoenix Symphony, Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, Scottsdale Arts Orchestra, Musica Nova, Tucson Pops and the Tucson Symphony.

David Perry

Violinist David Perry joined the Pro Arte Quartet and the UW-Madison faculty in 1995 and was granted a Paul

Collins Endowed Professorship in 2003.

He is artist in residence and Professor of Violin.

Perry is concertmaster of the Chicago Philharmonic, and frequently serves as guest concertmaster of groups including the Ravinia Festival Orchestra (Illinois), the American Sinfonietta (Washington, D.C.), and the China National Symphony Orchestra. He has been soloist with numerous symphony orchestras in the United States, including St. Louis and Chicago, and abroad. Former concertmaster and faculty member at the Aspen Music Festival and School, he is a founding member of the Aspen String Trio, which tours the U.S. each season. For more than twenty years Perry has been active with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (New York), renowned for playing without conductor. With them he has performed, often as concertmaster, in Carnegie Hall and at most of the major cultural centers of North and South America, Europe, and Asia, and he can be heard on many of their Deutsche Grammophon recordings. His solo recordings include music of Pleyel (Naxos), Mendelssohn (Sonos), and Sarasate (Sonari), and he has numerous releases with the Pro Arte Quartet. His critically acclaimed recording of the complete Brahms Piano Trios was released this year on the Delos label.

A 1985 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Perry’s first prizes include the International D’Angelo Competition, National Music Teachers’ National Association Auditions, and the Juilliard Concerto Competition. Perry’s early training was with John Kendall and Almita Vamos, followed by studies with Dorothy DeLay, Paul Kantor, and Masao Kawaski at the Juilliard School. He plays on a 1711 Franciscus Gobetti violin, due to generous support through the UW Foundation.

Biographies: Tom Rosenberg and Rami Solomonow: page 16


Circle of Sound Students and faculty of the 2017 Chamber Music Camp

Special thanks to Jeannette Boston Kreston and Jim Kreston for graciously opening their beautiful centennial farm to the Festival for this special event. Jeannette was Executive Director of the Green Lake Festival of Music from 1997 to 2011 and established the Chamber Music Camp and the Thomas E. Caestecker Free Family Concert Series during her tenure. The tradition of the Circle of Sound was the inspiration of daughter Anthea Kreston, now second violinist with the Artemis Quartet in Berlin, Germany, who was the founding director and faculty member of the Chamber Music Camp.

Barn Concert Green Lake Chamber Players & Circle of SoundDavid Perry, violin; Rami Solomonow, viola; Tom Rosenberg, cello Students of the 2017 Chamber Music Camp

Saturday, June 17 • 7:30 p.m.The Boston Barn, Green Lake, Wisconsin

Divertimento in E flat Major, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart K. 563 for String Trio (1756 – 1791) I. Allegro II. Adagio III. Menuetto: Allegretto IV. Andante V. Menuetto: Allegretto VI. Allegro

David Perry, Rami Solomonov, Tom Rosenberg


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Daedalus QuartetPraised by The New Yorker as “a fresh and vital young participant in what is a golden age of American string quartets,” the Daedalus Quartet has established itself as a leader among the new generation of string ensembles. Since winning the top prize in the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2001, the Daedalus Quartet has impressed critics and listeners alike with the security, technical finish, interpretive unity, and sheer gusto of its performances. The New York Times has praised the Daedalus Quartet’s “insightful and vibrant” Haydn, the “impressive intensity” of their Beethoven, their “luminous” Berg, and the “riveting focus” of their Dutilleux. The Washington Post in turn has acclaimed their performance of Mendelssohn for its “rockets of blistering virtuosity,” while the Houston Chronicle has described the “silvery beauty” of their Schubert and the “magic that hushed the audience” when they played Ravel, the Boston Globe the “finesse and fury” of their Shostakovich, the Toronto Globe and Mail the “thrilling revelation” of their Hindemith, and the Cincinnati Enquirer the “tremendous emotional power” of their Brahms.

Since its founding the Daedalus Quartet has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center (Great Performers series), the Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., and Boston’s Gardner Museum, as well as on major series in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Winnipeg, and Vancouver. Abroad the ensemble has been heard in the Musikverein in Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and in leading venues in Japan.

The Daedalus Quartet has won plaudits for its adventurous exploration of contemporary music, most notably the compositions of Elliott Carter, George Perle, György Kurtág and

György Ligeti. Among the works the ensemble has premiered is David Horne’s Flight from the Labyrinth, commissioned for the Quartet by the Caramoor Festival; Fred Lerdahl’s Third String Quartet, commissioned by Chamber Music America; and Lawrence Dillon’s String Quartet No. 4, commissioned by the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts. In 2013, the Fromm Foundation awarded a commission to the Daedalus Quartet and composer Huck Hodge; the quartet premiered Hodge’s new work, based on the writings of Jorge Luis Borges,

Carl Jung, and the contemporary Buddhist poet Ko Un, in April 2016.

The Quartet has also collaborated with some of the world’s finest instrumentalists: these include pianists Marc-André Hamelin, Simone Dinnerstein, Awadagin Pratt, Joyce Yang, and

Benjamin Hochman; clarinetists Paquito D’Rivera, Ricardo Morales, and Alexander Fiterstein; and violists Roger Tapping and Donald Weilerstein.

The Daedalus Quartet has served as Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania since 2006 and has forged associations with some of America’s leading classical music and educational institutions: Carnegie Hall, through its European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO) Rising Stars program; and Lincoln Center, which appointed the Daedalus Quartet as the Chamber Music Society Two Quartet for 2005-07. In 2007, the Quartet was awarded Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award. The Quartet won Chamber Music America’s Guarneri String Quartet Award, which funded a three-year residency in Suffolk County, Long Island from 2007-2010.

The Daedalus Quartet members hold degrees from the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute, Cleveland Institute, and Harvard University.



Daedalus Quartet Daedalus QuartetMin-Young Kim and Matilda Kaul, violins; Jessica Thompson, viola, Thomas Kraines, cello

Tuesday, June 20 • 7:30 p.m.First Congregational Church, 220 Ransom St., Ripon, WI 549717:00 p.m. Pre-concert ConversationSponsored by the Lucile Grams Fund for young artist concerts

Quartet in c minor, Opus 18, #4 Ludwig van Beethoven I. Allegro ma non tanto (1770 – 1827) II. Andante scherzoso quasi allegretto III. Menuetto: Allegretto IV. Allegro – Prestissimo

Chaconne (2016) Fred Lerdahl b. 1943

Intermission

Quartet in C Major, Opus 59, #3 Ludwig van Beethoven I. Andante con moto – Allegro Vivace (1770 – 1827) II. Andante con moto quasi allegretto III. Menuetto (Grazioso) IV. Allegro molto

Notes about Chaconne The Daedalus Quartet commissioned this work to celebrate its 15th anniversary, supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, and Aaron Copland Fund for Music.

Chaconne is one movement lasting 19 minutes and follows the form of symmetrical phrases and strictly periodic variations. Many of its textures emerge from little canons, not unlike children’s rounds. The 50 variations group into three large rotations, forming three arcs of tension and relaxation. “I purposely disguised its symmetries and periodicities in order to build an overall dramatic shape.” — Fred Lerdahl



Daedalus Quartet (continued)Violinist Min-Young Kim is a founding member of the Daedalus Quartet. She has toured extensively with Musicians from Marlboro, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and has also collaborated in festivals and performances with members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, Cleveland, Takács and Vermeer Quartets. An advocate for music of our time, Ms. Kim enjoys working closely with composers and has premiered and performed

many new works. In early music, she has performed and recorded on the baroque violin with Apollo’s Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra and New York Collegium. A graduate of Harvard University and the Juilliard School, Ms. Kim teaches violin and chamber music at the University of Pennsylvania, and was formerly on the faculty of Columbia University and the School for Strings in New York. Her major teachers include Donald Weilerstein, Robert Mann and Shirley Givens.

Canadian violinist Matilda Kaul is a graduate of the Juilliard School and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Upon completion of her studies, she joined the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, with whom she has appeared in the great halls and festivals of the world (Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie, Cité de la Musique and Salle Pleyel, Lucerne KKL, Proms, Edinburgh

Festival) with some of the most respected conductors of our time (Haitink, Harnoncourt, Nézet-Séguin, Jurowski). Ms. Kaul has been a frequent guest concertmaster and principal in orchestras around Europe (Zürich Tonhalle, BBC Symphony, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Kammer Akademie Potsdam), and maintains a strong interest in historical performance practice, having been heard in recording and on stage with John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Romantique et Revolutionnaire and English Baroque Soloists, Philippe Herreweghe’s Orchestre des Champs Elysées, and Emmanuel Krivine’s Chambre Philharmonique. Ms. Kaul has performed as chamber musician on both sides of the Atlantic, at festivals such as Ravinia, Norfolk, Charlottesville, Prussia Cove (U.K.), La Loingtaine (France), Oulosalo (Finland), East Neuk (Scotland), and Alfred Brendel’s Music at Plush (U.K.).

Violist Jessica Thompson is a passionate chamber musician who has performed at the Marlboro, Portland (Maine), and Verbier (Switzerland) Music Festivals. She has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and performs frequently with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players. Before joining the Daedalus

Quartet, Ms. Thompson was a member of the Chester String Quartet, the resident ensemble at Indiana University South Bend, where she served as Associate Professor of Viola. She currently teaches viola at Princeton and Columbia Universities. Ms. Thompson has appeared as soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra and has given recitals in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Washington, D.C. She performed at the “Wall-to-Wall Bach” event at Symphony Space in New York in 2008 and at the International Viola Congress in Minneapolis in 2004. Educated at the Curtis Institute of Music, her principal teachers have been Karen Tuttle, Korey Konkol, and Alice Preves.

Cellist Thomas Kraines has forged a multifaceted career, equally comfortable with avant-garde improvisation, new music, and traditional chamber music and solo reper-toire. Mr. Kraines has been heard with ensembles such as Music from Copland House, Concertante, Mistral, the East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), and the Network for New Music, and at festivals including the Bravo! Vail, Bard, the Sebago/Long Lakes,

and Moab. An accomplished composer of chamber music, his works have been performed across the country by artists such as pianists Awadagin Pratt and Wayman Chin, violinists Corey Cerovsek and Jennifer Frautschi, and sopranos Maria Jette and Ilana Davidson. His free-impro-visation duo Dithyramb, with percussionist Cameron Britt, has performed and taught as guests of the Longy School of Music, the University of Florida at Gainesville, and the Jubilus Festival. Mr. Kraines has taught at the Peabody Conservatory, the Longy School of Music, the Killington Music Festival, Yellow Barn, and the Walden School, and is currently on the faculty of Temple University. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, violinist Juliette Kang, and their two daughters, Rosalie and Clarissa.


Daedalus Quartet (continued) Daedalus Quartet & Green Lake Chamber PlayersKaren Kim, violin; Tom Rosenberg, cello; Catherine Kautsky, piano; Min-Young Kim and Matilda Kaul, violins; Jessica Thompson, viola, Thomas Kraines, cello

Friday, June 23 • 7:30 p.m.Rodman Center for the Arts, Ripon College, Ripon, WI7:00 p.m. Pre-concert Conversation

Piano Quartet in A Major — The Trout Franz Schubert I. Allegro vivace (1770 – 1827) II. Andante III. Scherzo: Presto IV. Thema: Andantino V. Finale: Allegro giusto

Intermission String Sextet in D minor — Souvenir de Florence Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky I. Allegro con spirito (1840 – 1893) II. Adagio cantabile e con moto III. Allegretto moderato IV. Allegro con brio e vivace



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Chamber Camp June 11-25 GLCCRecital for CMC donors & students7 pm RWI-GLCC

T. Caestecker Family Concert 2 pm GLCL

T. Caestecker Family Concert10:30 am RPL

Frank Almond Violin Masterclass9:30 amRWI-GLCC

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Renee Skerik Viola Masterclass11:10 amRWI-GLCC

Andy Armstrong Piano Masterclass 11:10 am RWI-GLCC

Daedalus Quartet7:30 pm FCC

Tom Rosenberg Cello Masterclass 11:10 am RWI-GLCC

Daedalus Quartet Masterclass 10 am RWI-GLCC

Final brunch for CMC donors, students & families 9:30 am RWI-GLCC


SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Reel & Reception5 pm GLAL

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Green Lake Chamber Players *7:30 pm TOH

Daedalus Quartet & GL Chamber Players*7:30 pm DRH-RC

Chamber Camp Final Student Concert*4 pm DRH-RC

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2 3 4 5 6 7 8Pianist ChangYong ShinLunch with Seniors 12 pm HHRecital 2 pm TOH

Pianist ChangYong Shin*7:30 pm TOH

The Rose Ensemble*7:30 pm TOH

Cabaret Concert*7:30 pm TOH

Choral InstituteJuly 20-23 RC-RC

Pianist ChangYong Shin Masterclass10 am RCA-RC

T. Caestecker Family Concert 11 am PPL

KEY FOR LOCATIONS:

BB Boston Barn Green Lake

DMP Deacon Mills Park Green Lake

DRH-RC Demmer Recital Hall Ripon College

FCC First Congregational Church of Ripon

GLAL Green Lake American Legion

GLCC Green Lake Conference Center

GLCL Green Lake Caestecker Library

HH Heidel House

HMUL-RC Harwood Memorial Union Lawn Ripon College

PPL Princeton Public Library

RC-RC Rodman Center Ripon College

RPL Ripon Public Library

RWI-GLCC Roger Williams Inn Green Lake Conference Center

TOH Thrasher Opera House

*Pre-concert conversation 30 minutes before start time

Samantha George Violin Masterclass 11:10 am RWI-GLCC

Daedalus Quartet Masterclass 10 am RWI-GLCC


Wisconsin Symphonic WindsMusic DirectorMark FonderMark Fonder taught fulltime instrumental music and band, ages elementary school through college, for over 35 years. As professor of music, he was the

conductor of the Ithaca College Concert Band and taught instrumental music education courses at Ithaca College from 1989 until his retirement in 2015. From 1994 to 2003, he chaired their Music Education Department. He is still active as a guest conductor, adjudicator, school music consultant, and clinician throughout the United States.

Internationally, he has guest conducted, presented research, and adjudicated bands in Australia, Japan, Canada, China, Singapore, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and throughout Europe. Dr. Fonder, a graduate of and twice a fellowship recipient at the University of Illinois, was director of bands at Park Falls (Wisconsin) High School and was on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and University of Texas-San Antonio prior to going to New York.

He has also served on the faculties of The University of Washington, VanderCook College of Music, and the Eastman School of Music. Dr. Fonder authored an award-winning book, Patrick Conway and his Famous Band (Meredith Publications, 2012), and his research (over 30 articles) has been published in various journals including the Music Educators Journal, Winds, Band Directors Guide, Instrumentalist, Journal of Band Research, Council for Research in Music Education, and the Journal of Research in Music Education. He was chair of the Music Educators Journal Editorial Committee from 1998-2002 and was the editor of the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education from 2003 to 2015. He is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Band Research.

Dr. Fonder has played principal trombone with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, the Green Bay Packer Band, and the San Antonio Brass, and for such entertainers as Robert Goulet, Rich Little, and Rita Moreno. In 1987, Dr. Fonder was awarded the National Band Association-Wisconsin Chapter Citation of Excellence, in 1998, the Ithaca College President’s Recognition Award, in 2013, the Ithaca College Faculty

Excellence Award, in 2015, the New York State Band Directors Association Band Director of the Year, and has been the recipient of a University of Wisconsin teaching fellowship. He has been elected to Phi Delta Kappa, an honorary education fraternity, Phi Kappa Phi, an honorary scholars fraternity, Pi Kappa Lambda, an honorary music fraternity and the prestigious American Bandmasters Association. In 2015, he moved back to his home state of Wisconsin and is currently the conductor and artistic director of the Wisconsin Symphonic Winds.

Kurt DietrichKurt Dietrich is Professor of Music and Barbara Baldwin DeFrees Professor of Performing Arts at Ripon

College, where he has taught since 1980. At Ripon Dietrich directs the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the Jazz Ensemble, teaches brass instruments and a variety of courses.

Dietrich has degrees from Lawrence University, Northwestern University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned his doctorate.

He was trombonist with Matrix, with which he recorded for RCA, Warner Brothers, Pablo and Summit Records. He remains an active player in both jazz and classical groups, and has been principal trombone in the Wisconsin Symphonic Winds since its founding.

Dietrich is the author of two books, Duke’s ‘Bones: Ellington’s Great Trombonists, and Jazz ‘Bones: The World of Jazz Trombone. He has also contributed to Annual Review of


Wisconsin Symphonic Winds Wisconsin Symphonic WindsJazz Studies, Black Music Research Journal, International Dictionary of Black Composers and other publications. He regularly writes reviews of books and recordings. He is completing a book about Wisconsin jazz musicians.

Donald SchleicherNow celebrating his 21st season as Music Director and Conductor of the University of Illinois

Symphony Orchestra, American conductor Donald Schleicher has also served as Music Director of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra and as Music Director and Principal Conductor/Artistic Director for the Pine Mountain Music Festival.

Schleicher has conducted the National Philharmonic of the Ukraine, the Guiyang (China) Symphony, the Gwangju (South Korea) Symphony, the Inchon (South Korea) Philharmonic, the Daegu (South Korea) Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Filarmonica de la UNAM of Mexico City, the South Dakota Symphony, and the orchestras of Bridgeport, Tallahassee, and Lansing. He has also appeared as a guest conductor at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival in Detroit. In 2015, he returned to the PMMF to lead the festival’s 25th Anniversary Season by conducting their production of “The Barber of Seville” as well as leading the PMMF Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s monumental “Symphony No. 9.” In 2016, he guest conducted the Nairobi Orchestra in Kenya.

He is frequently invited to lead performances or provide conducting masterclasses at many of the countries major music schools such as the Oberlin Conservatory, Eastman School of Music, Baylor University, University of Minnesota, Ithaca College, Ohio State University, the University of Missouri, and Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. As an enthusiastic advocate of public school music education, Schleicher has conducted All-State orchestras, festivals, and youth orchestras in nearly every state of the U.S. and is active as a clinician for public school music educators.

Schleicher’s class at Illinois is an international

draw for talented young conductors. Many of his former conducting students have gone on to hold prestigious positions with organizations such as the San Francisco Symphony, the Hartford Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, Richmond Philharmonic, and the University of Chicago. Schleicher has served as the lead teacher for numerous conducting workshops including the International Conducting Workshop and Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria, the International Conducting Institute in Kromeriz, Czech Republic, the New York Conducting Institute, the Ithaca College International Conducting Workshop and the Conducting Master Class and Workshop Series in Chicago.

As a dedicated advocate of contemporary music, Donald has collaborated with leading composers including Chen Yi, Michael Daugherty, and Frank Ticheli. In December of 2014, his collaboration with Augusta Read Thomas led to a recording project of her works now available on Nimbus Records.

Outdoor Concert of American Composers

Wisconsin Symphonic WindsMonday, July 3 • 7 p.m.

@Green outside Harwood Memorial Union (where commencement

is held), Ripon College Bring lawn chair or blanket! Rain

location: Great Hall, Ripon College. The composition, Bubbling

Woodwinds, by David Schanke, will be conducted by Donald

Schleicher, a former Ripon High School Band student of

Mr. Schanke. Don dedicates his performance to Mr. Schanke’s

dear friend and colleague, Gordon Bischoff.



Seniors Lunch & Piano Recital

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Changyong Shin, pianoTwenty-one year old Korean pianist Changyong Shin is the First Prize winner of the 2016 Hilton Head International Piano Competition and 2017 Seoul International Piano Competition.

Until 2011, he studied with Choong-Mo Kang at The Juilliard School and Ms. Mari Kwon, a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, at Dankook University in Korea. Since then, he has been studying with Robert McDonald at the Curtis Institute of Music and in 2016 began a Masters degree at The Juilliard School, also under the tutelage of Robert McDonald. Mr. Shin is also an accomplished chamber music performer. He gave a chamber music recital at the invitation of the Kumho Art Hall and joined the Young Artist Festival of Chamber Music as a member of a Korean chamber group. Additionally, he performed recitals with his Curtis colleagues in Paris, Sarasota, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia.

Mr. Shin has performed in prestigious venues, including two solo recitals and a chamber

concert at Kumho Art Hall, a “Young Mozart Concert” at The Mozart Hall, the Young Musicians Festival at Youngsan Art Hall, the Korean traditional music festival at the Recital Hall of The Seoul Arts center, and the Gala concert of the Ewha & Kyeonghyang competition at Baroque Chamber Hall. Also, he has been invited several times to perform at the UJung Art Center in Korea. His performance schedule for 2016-17 includes recitals at Salle Cortot in Paris, as well as in Great Britain.

He has won prizes at competitions around the world, including First Prize in the Kookmin Ilbo & Hansei University music competition (2005); Grand Prizes at the C. Bechstein & Samik music competition (2006), the Hankook Ilbo competition (2006), and the CBS competition (2008); First Prize at the Ewha & Kyeonghyang competition (2008), Third Prize at the Chopin Junior competition and the Eumyeon competition in 2005. In 2010, Mr. Shin won Third Prize and two special prizes (Romantic period and Master Class) at the Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition in America.


Changyong Shin, piano Changyong Shin, pianoThe Burt & Helen (Bunny) Kilbourne Piano Concert Series

Friday, July 7 • 7:30 p.m. Thrasher Opera House, Green Lake, Wisconsin 7:00 p.m. Pre-concert Conversation

Toccata in D Major, BWV 912 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Opus 101 Ludwig van Beethoven I. Allegretto ma non troppo (1770 – 1827) II. Vivace alla Marcia III. Adagio ma non troppo, con affetto IV. Allegro

Polonaise-Fantasie in A flat Major, Opus 61 Frédéric Chopin (1810 – 1849)

Intermission

Six moments musicaux, Opus 16 Sergei Rachmaninoff I. Andantino (1873 – 1943) II. Allegretto III. Andante cantabile IV. Presto V. Adagio sostenuto VI. Maestoso



Founded in 1996 by Artistic Director Jordan Sramek and now in its 21st performance season, The Rose Ensemble is based in Saint Paul, Minnesota and enjoys a full schedule of performing, recording and outreach. Through virtuosic artistry and scholarly research, the group produces imaginative and inspiring musical performances and educational programs that connect each individual to compelling stories of human culture and spirituality from around the world. Each season, the group illuminates several centuries of rarely heard repertoire, bringing to modern audiences research from the world’s manuscript libraries and fresh perspectives on music, history, languages, politics, religion and more.

With ten critically acclaimed recordings and a diverse selection of concert programs, The Rose Ensemble has thrilled audiences across the United States and Europe with repertoire spanning 1,000 years and over 25 languages, including recent unique programs highlighting Maltese, Hawaiian, French, Ukrainian, Middle Eastern, and Cuban repertoire. Rose Ensemble musicians have received acclaim for their ability to perform both as an ensemble and as individual soloists, while Mr. Sramek has been lauded for diverse programming and ground-breaking research. The group is the recipient of the 2005 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence and took first

place in both secular and sacred categories at the 2012 Tolosa (Spain) International Choral Competition. Mr. Sramek is the 2010 recipient of the Chorus America Louis Botto Award for Innovative Action and Entrepreneurial Zeal.

Recognized as a leader and innovator in the world-wide vocal music scene, The Rose Ensemble tours regularly. Recent appearances include Trinity Wall Street Series (NYC), Early Music Now (Milwaukee), the Musical Instrument Museum (Phoenix), Cornell University, Luther College, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. In 2012 the group served as artists in residence at the Society for Biblical Literature Conference, and in 2013 appeared at St. Quirinus Cathedral, Neuss (Germany). In 2014, The Rose Ensemble was chosen to represent the United States at the international Baroque music festival Misiones de Chiquitos in Bolivia, and later that year made its debut performance with the Minnesota Orchestra. Upcoming performance highlights include the World Symposium on Choral Music (Barcelona), Festival des Choeurs Lauréats (Provençe), and a tour in northern Germany. The group can be heard regularly on American Public Media, the European Broadcasting Union and NPR’s Performance Today.

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The Rose EnsembleJordan Sramek, Founder & Artistic Director; Kristina Boerger, Julianna Emanski, Amanda Jane Kelley (soprano); Alyssa Anderson, Clara Osowski (mezzo-soprano); Andrew Rader (counter-tenor); Garrett Eucker, Bradley King, Jordan Sramek (tenor); Mark Dietrich, Jake Endres (bass)


I. Pace e Bene: In Honor of St. Francis of Assisi **Motet: Voce Mea Padre Costanzo Porta, OFM (1529? – 1601) **Lauda: Sia laudato San Francesco Laudario di Cortona (Anon., 13th-cen.) **Hymn: In paupertatis predio Conductus, Notre Dame de Paris (Anon., 13th-cen.) Motet: Flos florum Guillaume Dufay (1400 – 1474) **II Vespers Hymn: Plaudat Frater Porta Alleluia: O patriarcha pauperum Francisce Narciso Durán, OFM (1776 – 1846) Gloria in excelsis Deo Ciconia **Sequence: Stabat Mater plainchant, mode II **Motet: Beatus Franciscus Jerónimo de Aliseda (1548 – 1591) **Lauda: Laudar vollio per amore Laudario di Cortona (Anonymous, 13th-century)

IntermissionII. Brightest and Best: A Peaceful Journey Across America

***Star in the East White, The Southern Harmony (1854) Pure Love Anonymous, Original Shaker Music (1893) Lincoln & Liberty (tune: Old Rosin the Bow) Hutchinson’s Republican Songster (1860), arr. Chouinard ****Hawaiì Aloha Hīmeni —Lorenzo Lyons (1807 – 1886) ****Nāmolokama Lā Mele Hawaiì Puirt-a-beul Trad. Scottish Gaelic Mouth Music, arr. Kachelmeier I Been in de Storm American Spiritual, arr. J. David Moore, b. 1962 The Rock Island Line Huddie Ledbetter, arr. J. David Moore ****Aloha Òe (1878) Mele Hawaiì —Queen Liliùokalani ** featured on The Rose Ensemble’s CD Il Poverello *** featured on The Rose Ensemble’s CD And Glory Shone Around **** featured on The Rose Ensemble’s CD Nā Mele Hawaiì

This performance is being recorded for subsequent broadcast. Silence during the performance is appreciated.


Choral Institute SoloistsWarnell BerryBass-baritone Warnell Berry, Jr. has had a love and passion for music since childhood. His performance experience

ranges from opera to musical theatre and church music. Some of these include the Atlanta Symphony Chorus under the direction of Robert Shaw, principal/chorus of Rigoletto, Die Zauberflote, the musical Ain’t Misbehavin’, and the role of Coalhouse Walker, Jr. in Ragtime. He received his training at the University of South Carolina, S.C. State University, and the University of Oklahoma where he was a student of Thomas Carey. He is currently a member of the Apollo Chorus of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Grant Park Festival Chorus, and Chicago Community Chorus. He serves as soloist/section leader at Edgebrook Lutheran Church, and Minister of Music (pianist) at Pillar of Love Fellowship UCC.

Dimitri GermanBaritone Dimitri German is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music where he studied with

W. Stephen Smith. While completing his Masters, Dimitri appeared as Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, Tom in The Face on the Barroom Floor, George Benton in Dead Man Walking, and Sir Despard in Ruddigore. Last Summer Dimitri made his Lincoln Center debut as a soloist in Buxtehude’s Jesu Membra Nostri with The Crossing and the early music ensemble, Quicksilver. There he also appeared

as soloist in Lewis Spratlan’s Common Ground with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), a part of Lincoln Center’s “Mostly Mozart Festival”. Dimitri sings regularly with The Crossing in Philadelphia and is a featured soloist on their Grammy-nominated recording of Thomas Lloyd’s choral drama, Bonhoeffer. Other past solo work includes Haydn’s Creation, Bach’s St. John Passion, Britten’s Cantata Misericordium, the Fauré Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Ted Hearne’s Katrina Ballads, and Carter’s Seven Last Words of Christ. He recently performed Bach’s Coffee Cantata with CHAI Collaborative Ensemble and this summer will sing in the Grant Park Festival Chorus. Dimitri received his Bachelor of Music degree from Moody Bible Institute and regularly sings with the Chicago Symphony Chorus.

Chelsea LyonsA skilled and versatile musician, mezzo-soprano Chelsea Lyons has been equally lauded in concert, operatic, and choral

performances of works spanning from the early Renaissance to new contemporary music. Her soloist engagements include Bach’s Magnificat, Vivaldi’s Dixit Dominus, Handel’s Messiah, and Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, Requiem in D minor, and Vesperae solennelle, as well as the premiere of Samuel Carl Adams’ Light Readings in Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW series. On the operatic stage, Ms. Lyons recently performed the roles of Cherubino in Northwestern University’s production of Le nozze di Figaro, and Bessie in a student

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production of Kurt Weill’s Das Mahagonny Songspiel. Other operatic credits include Sally (A Hand of Bridge), Hansel (Hansel & Gretel), Nancy (Albert Herring), Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors), and Ambrosia in the world premiere of A Wake or a Wedding (Richard Pearson Thomas). As a choral musician, Chelsea is a member of Philadelphia’s Grammy-nominated new music ensemble The Crossing, directed by Donald Nally, and can be heard on their recently released albums Sound from the Bench (Ted Hearne) and Canticles of the Holy Wind (John Luther Adams) [cantaloupemusic.com]. She also performs with the Grant Park Music Festival Chorus, Alice Millar Chapel Choir, and Madison Choral Project, and looks forward to joining the acclaimed vocal ensemble Chicago A Cappella this holiday season. Ms. Lyons is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton (’08) and Northwestern University (MM, ’17), and has studied with James Toland, Janet Smith, W. Stephen Smith, and Karen Brunssen.

Josefien StoppelenburgCalled “an astonishing singer” by the Chicago Tribune, Dutch soprano Josefien Stoppelenburg has performed as a soloist in the

United States, Europe, Asia, South America, and the Arab Emirates. From 2005 until 2007, Josefien was part of the Young Opera Ensemble of Cologne, Germany. Leading roles have included Aci in the Haymarket Opera Company’s acclaimed production of Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo and Tirsi in Clori, Tirsi e Fileno, and Poulencs’s La Voix Humaine in the International Chamber Opera Festival (The Netherlands).

Equally at home in the field of historical performance, she has appeared with Camerata Amsterdam, Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orkest, Noord Nederlands Orkest, Haymarket Opera Company, Apollo Chorus of Chicago, Baroque Artists of Champaign Urbana, Newberry Consort, Handel Week Festival, Fulcrum Point and Music of the Baroque, Bloomington Bach Cantata Project and the Fort Wayne Symphony Orchestra. Concerts this season include performances with the Rembrandt Chamber Players, Boulder Bach Festival, Cincinnati Bach Ensemble, Arizona Bach Festival, Third Coast Baroque, Camerata Amsterdam, the Peoria Symphony and the Peoria Bach Festival. The ensemble Brothers and Sisters (vocal duo Charlotte and Josefien Stoppelenburg and piano duo Martijn and Stefan Blaak) recently appeared live on Radio 4, the Dutch classical radio station for Classical Music and just made their ensemble debut in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

Many composers write especially for Josefien. She has performed works by Jacob TV, Esa-Pekka Salonen , Stacy Garrop, Lita Grier, Eric Whitacre and William Neil, as well as works by Dutch composers, including her father, composer Willem Stoppelenburg.

Josefien recently gave master classes to voice students of Indiana University (Jacobs School of Music) for the Historical Performance Department, at Illinois State University and at Colorado University (College of Music).

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In 2013, Stoppelenburg won the Chicago Oratorio Award as well as a second place in the American Prize Opera Competition. She performed several times for the Dutch Royal Family.

Josefien’s second love is painting. She was the Artist in Residence at the Evanston Art Center and paints frequently on commission. Her colorful paintings were used as opera sets, cd booklets, music festival posters and as note cards.www.josefienstoppelenburg.com www.inspiration-paintings.com

Ryan Townsend StrandTenor Ryan Townsend Strand has been hailed as having “beautiful vocalism” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “an

attractive nimble tenor” with “a nice sense of Baroque style” (Chicago Classical Review). Strand has been a featured soloist under the direction of conductors Paul Agnew, Jane Glover, and William Jon Gray with Music of the Baroque in Chicago.

A passionate performer of Bach, Strand was most recently the tenor soloist in the Johannes-Passion with the Madison Bach Musicians. At the start of the 2016-2017 season, Strand was seen onstage playing the role of Dr. Cajus in Verdi’s Falstaff with Chicago’s Main Street Opera. Other Chicago credits include singing the role of Ferrando from Cosi fan tutte with the Elmhurst Symphony in their all-Mozart Review. Other opera credits include playing

Laurie in American composer Mark Adamo’s Little Women, Nerone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea and Al Joad in Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath. With Chicago Opera Theater, Strand has sung chorus roles in productions of Philip Glass’s The Perfect American, Mozart’s Lucio Silla, and Bloch’s Macbeth.

He made his professional Chicago opera debut in Haymarket Opera’s production of Scarlatti’s Gli equivoci nel sembiante. Strand sings with the contemporary vocal ensemble The Crossing in Philadelphia under the direction of Donald Nally. Locally, Strand performs with Music of the Baroque, the Chicago Bach Project, and the Grant Park Festival Chorus. He is a founding member of the new Constellation Men’s Ensemble based out of Chicago. Strand is a graduate of Northwestern University where he received his Master’s of Voice & Opera. www.facebook.com/ryantownsendstrand

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Choral Institute Chorus & OrchestraDr. Stephen Alltop, conductor; Dr. John Hughes, assistant conductor; Marty Vajgrt, piano and organ; Josefien Stoppelenburg, soprano; Chelsea Lyons, mezzo-soprano; Ryan Townsend Strand, tenor; Dimitri German, baritone; Warnell Berry, baritone

Sunday, July 23 • 3:00 p.m.Demmer Recital Hall, Rodman Center for the Arts, Ripon, WIThis concert is sponsored in part by gifts to the Willcocks Vocal Fund

Our World of Water A Program Celebrating Water and the Elements Earth, Wind, and Fire Chandos Anthem No. 4 “O Sing Unto the Lord” George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759) “O Sing Unto the Lord”

Josefien Stoppelenburg, soprano

“The waves of the sea rage horribly” Ryan Townsend Strand, tenor

“Let the whole earth stand in awe of Him” “Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad” By the Waters of Babylon Round for Four Voices by Philip Hayes (1737 – 1797) De torrente in via bibet from Dixit Dominus George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759)

Josefien Stoppelenburg, soprano and Chelsea Lyons, mezzo-soprano Elijah (Selections) Felix Mendelssohn 16. The fire descends from heaven (1809 – 1847) 17. Is not his word like a fire?

Warnell Berry, baritone 19a O Lord, Thou hast overthrown thine enemies 20. Thanks be to God!

Intermission


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For the Beauty of the Earth John Rutter b. 1945 Nibi (Water) Song Jonathan Posthuma World Premiere b. 1989

Shenendoah James Erb (1926 – 2014) Cloudburst (in memory of Lars Lofgren) Eric Whitacre b. 1970

Dr. John Hughes, conductor He’s Got the Whole World arr. Ray Lebau Singing in the Rain arr. Mark Hayes You’ll Never Walk Alone/Climb Every Mountain Tony Bennett, Margery McKay, Patricia Neway, and Richard Rodgers arr. Mark Hayes

Dimitri German, baritone


Choral Institute Chorus & OrchestraDr. Stephen AlltopStephen Alltop has built a career based on excellence in several disciplines, conducting both orchestral and choral ensembles,

and performing as a keyboard artist. He serves as Music Director of the Apollo Chorus of Chicago, the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra and the Green Lake Choral Institute. Dr. Alltop has been a member of Northwestern University’s conducting and keyboard faculties since 1994. From 2000-2008, he was the Music Director and Conductor of the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra. A specialist in oratorio performance, he has conducted over 100 oratorio and operatic masterworks.

Stephen Alltop has appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as both a harpsichord and organ soloist, and given recitals across the United States and Europe. He has performed with Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, Chicago Chamber Musicians, Chicago Sinfonietta, Joffrey Ballet, Minnesota Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Omaha Symphony. His recordings are on the Albany, American Gramaphone, Cedille and Clarion labels. In the Fall of 2015, Alltop served as a recitalist, coordinator and concert host for the WFMT Bach Keyboard Festival in Chicago, a presentation of the complete keyboard works of Bach. In 2014 he coordinated and performed as part of the WFMT Bach Organ Project which included the complete organ works of Bach

Dr. Alltop has guest conducted numerous orchestras and choruses across the United States, Europe and Korea. In 2013, he served as conductor for the Iowa All-State Orchestra, and has conducted numerous High School Choral Festivals, All-State and Honors ensembles. Dr. Alltop has worked closely with leading composers of the day, including residency projects with Jeff Beal, John Corigliano, Eleanor Daley, Stephen Paulus and Eric Whitacre, and has conducted world premieres of works by John Luther Adams, Jan Bach, Miguel del Agila, Frank Ferko, Fabrizio Festa, Stephen Paulus, Joseph Schwantner, Alan Terricciano, and many others. The Champaign-Urbana Symphony was recently named a recipient of a Music

Alive grant from New Music USA and the League of American Symphony Orchestras, which will place composer Stacy Garrop in residence with the orchestra from 2016-2019. He has performed with many leading musicians and actors of our time, including Hilary Hahn, Orli Shaham, Tony Randall, Martin Sheen, and Brian Dennehy, and has prepared choral ensembles for the Netflix series Sense8, the Ravinia Festival, Chicago Opera Theater, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Star Wars in Concert, and Josh Groban on Tour. Stephen Alltop is represented by Joanne Rile Artist Management.

Dr. John HughesDr. John C. Hughes is assistant professor of music and director of choral activities at Ripon College in Wisconsin.

In addition to conducting the college’s choirs, Hughes teaches conducting, choral methods, and private voice lessons. Outside of Ripon College, he is in demand as a clinician and honor choir conductor and serves as assistant conductor of the Choral Institute at the Green Lake Festival of Music (WI). He also founded and hosts Choir Chat, a weekly podcast of interviews with conductors and composers. Accompanying his busy performance schedule, Hughes is passionate about choral literature and scholarship, specializing in Lutheran music before 1600 and trends in contemporary choral composition. From January 2012 until August 2015, he wrote the Repertoire Forum column for the bi-monthly publication Choral Director. He has authored peer-reviewed articles in Choral Journal and The Choral Scholar, as well as numerous reviews of choral music, books, and recordings. He serves as editor of Melisma, the newsletter of the north-central division of the American Choral Directors Association, and as associate editor of score reviews for The Choral Scholar. Additionally, he is a national board member of and the Wisconsin state representative for the National Collegiate Choral Organization. Hughes earned his undergraduate degree in music education from Augustana College (IL), M.M. from Northern Illinois University, and D.M.A. from The University of Iowa.


Choral Institute Chorus & Orchestra Choral Institute Chorus & OrchestraJonathan Posthuma Jonathan Posthuma is a Wisconsin-born composer now living in Saint Paul, Minnesota who grew up near Brandon, WI,

attended Central Wisconsin Christian Schools in Waupun, WI, and sang for several years in the Green Lake Festival Children’s Choir under the direction of Jonathan Willcocks, which was his earliest introduction to the work of a living composer. Recently, he received his Masters in Music Composition from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he studied with Stephen Dembski and Laura Schwendinger. As part of his degree requirement, Jonathan composed and recorded, The God of Material Things, a song cycle for narrator, soloist, chorus, and orchestra, which sets the poetry of David Schelhaas, professor emeritus of Dordt College, where Jonathan studied composition privately with Luke Dahn while completing his Bachelor of Music Education degree.

Other recent large ensemble works include: his orchestral work, Fili di Perle, which received 3rd Prize in the Karol Szymanowski International Composers Competition in Katowice, Poland; An Isthmus Aubade, dedicated to Scott Teeple and the UW-Madison Wind Ensemble and premiered in April 2015; and Concerto Grosso No. 1 for strings, percussion, and piano, commissioned and premiered by the Madison Area Youth Orchestra and Clocks in Motion in June 2015. Among his other awards are 2011 BMI Student Composer Award for Five Studies for Piano: Two Pencils and a Hymnbook and an award for sound design from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for his incidental music for The Glass Menagerie. Jonathan also sings in VocalEssence Chorus and Kantorei, two auditioned choirs in the Twin Cities, for whom he has also written choral pieces premiered in their 2016-2017 seasons.


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A glossary of musical terms you may find in this program or elsewhere.

The Language of Music

Adagio—A slow, leisurely tempo

Agitato—Agitated, restless

Air—Song

Alla Polacca—In the manner of a polonaise

Allegretto—A rather light, cheerful tempo, but not as fast as allegro

Allegro—A lively, brisk tempo

Allemande—In moderate tempo; a Renaissance and Baroque court dance developed in France from a German folk dance

Andante—A moderately slow, easy, flowing tempo

Andantino— Slightly faster than andante

Appassionato—Impassioned; played with emotion or passion

Assai—Very, much; i.e., “Allegro assai,” very lively

Baroque—The period from about 1600 - 1750, characterized by dignity, elegant elaboration, and precise craftsmanship; think Bach and Handel

Brillante— Showy and sparkling in style

Cadenza—Virtuoso solo passage in the manner of an improvisation, performed near the end of an aria or movement of a concerto

Cantabile—Singable, with the melody smoothly performed and well brought out

Canzonetta—A short, light vocal piece, especially in the Italian style of the 17th century.

Capriccioso— In a free, playful, impulsive style.

Chaconne—Composition in moderate triple time, typically a repeated chord progression

Classical Period—From about 1750 - 1825, characterized by refinement, order, and an objective view; think Haydn and Mozart

Coda—Italian for ‘tail;’ the last part of a piece, usually added to a standard form to give a more effective sense of finality

Con affetto—With feeling and tenderness

Con brio—With vigor or brilliance


Conductus—A medieval vocal composition with 1-4 parts of homophonic texture, based on a single, metrical Latin text

Con fuoco—With fire

Con moto—With motion; rather quick

Corrente—A 16th-century court dance, characterized by short advances and retreats; the second movement of the Classical Baroque suite

Counterpoint—The art of combining in a single texture two or more independent melodic lines; adjectival form is “contrapuntal”

Development—The elaboration of a theme by presenting it in a varied melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic treatment

Etudes—Studies; compositions intended as a basis for the improvement of the performer’s technique

Espressivo—Expressive

Fortissimo—Very loud

Fugue—A polyphonic work in which one or more themes are introduced, then developed by means of imitation and counterpoint

Gavotte—A French dance of moderate tempo

Gigue—A lively dance

Giocoso—Lively, humorous, joyful

Giusto—In strict tempo: with exactness

Grazioso—To be played in a graceful, smooth manner

Interval—Difference between two musical pitches

Largamente—With slowness and breadth

Largo—Very slow, stately

Lauda—vernacular sacred song in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

Lento—A slow tempo, slower than Andante

Major/Minor—Terms used for the two basic scales of music since about 1700, and for the two types of keys based on these scales

Ma—But

Maestoso—Majestic and stately

Menuetto—An early French dance in triple rhythm

Mode—An arrangement of eight diatonic tones, according to a fixed scheme of their intervals

Moderato—At a moderate rate of speed

Molto—Very much

Motet—polyphonic choral composition on sacred text

Motif—A short, repeated melodic or rhythmic idea that undergoes development throughout a movement or composition

Mosso—Move; moving

Musicaux—Musical

Nocturne—A composition of dreamy or romantic character, often suggestive of night, usually for piano

Non troppo (non tanto)—Not too much


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Opus—A number used to designate the chronological position of a published work within a composer’s output

Pesante—Heavy

Plainchant—Monophonic medieval sacred music for unaccompanied voices

Poco—A little

Polonaise-Fantasie—A fantasy on a Polish polonaise (a slow dance in triple time)

Prelude—A short piece that introduces a larger work; an introductory piece paired with a fugue; also an independent character piece for piano or other instrument

Presto (prestissimo)—A very quick tempo

Quasi—Seemingly, but not truly-having some resemblance

Requiem—A solemn mass for the repose of the dead

Romantic Period—From about 1820 - 1900, characterized by an emphasis on the emotional elements of music; think Chopin, Brahms, Liszt

Rondo—A composition in which one prominent theme appears again and again alternating with other, contrasting themes

Sarabande—A slow Spanish dance in triplet time

Scherzo (scherzoso)—A “joke;” a movement or piece having a light, humorous character

Serenade—An instrumental composition in several movements for small ensemble, stylistically midway between the suite and symphony

Sonata form—Used to describe a movement consisting of three sections: exposition, development, and recapitulation of a theme (or themes), often followed by a Coda

Sostenuto—Sustained, either in the sense of holding the notes for their full value or holding back the tempo

Suite—A set of pieces in contrasting dance forms

Tempo—The speed or pace that a piece of music is played

Thema—Theme, subject

Toccata—A freestyle composition for a keyboard (or ‘touch’) instrument (e.g. organ, harpsichord, piano) characterized by brilliant passages and rapid figures

Trill—A rapid alternation of two adjacent tones

Trio—A group of three performers; also refers to the middle section of a scherzo or other movement

Vivace—A lively, brisk tempo

Vivo—Lively

The Language of Music (continued)

In Memoriam

Leslie Trewyn 1941 – 2017 65th Season

August 1-19, 2017

www.mus i c f e s t i va l . c om | 920 .854 .4060Box Office located in Green Gables Shops North Ephraim

All concerts held in the Door Community Auditorium, Fish Creek, 7:30 PM

Tickets Start at $35

Students and Children

are JUST $10

Discover World Class Symphonic Music in the Heart of Door County!

Season Highlights:• Tribute to Arthur Fiedler

• Pianist Jon Kimura Parker

• Violinist James Ehnes

• And Much More!

Victor YampolskyMusic Director and Conductor

A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION:

The Power of Storywith NPR’s Ari Shapiro

October 14At the Overture Center in Madison

Tickets at wpr.org/100.

Photo Credit: Stephen V

oss for NPR

Documents

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