WOODWIND ENSEMBLES

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Leoš Janáček

(1854-1928)

Eric Ewazen

(b. 1954)

Mládí (Youth)

Allegro

Andante sostenuto

Vivace

Allegro animato

Moisés López Ruiz, flute

Anna Larson, oboe

Yurong Bao, clarinet

Martin Kocev, bass clarinet

Allen Jiang, bassoon

AllenJade Carter, horn

Richard Solis, coach

Ballade, Pastorale and Dance for Flute,

Horn and Piano

Darilyn Fine, flute

Rachel Lauson, horn

Tianle Chen, piano

Mary Kay Fink & Richard King, coaches

(continued)

7:30pm | Mixon Hall

John Clouser, Mary Kay Fink, Frank Rosenwein,

Jonathan Sherwin, Richard Solis, Barrick Stees

& Afendi Yusuf, coaches

Suite d’après Corrette, for Oboe, Clarinet

and Bassoon, Op. 161b

Entrée et Rondeau

Tambourin

Musette

Sérénade

Fanfare

Rondeau

Menuet

Le Coucou

Caitlyn Gurgel, oboe

Zikang Wang, clarinet

Allen Jiang, bassoon

John Clouser, coach

The Rite of Spring for Wind Quintet

Catharsis Wind Quintet

Jessica Chancey, flute

M. Isaac Ripple, oboe

Shihao Zhu, clarinet

Corbin Krebs, bassoon

Willem Crone, horn

Jonathan Sherwin, coach

Intermission

Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Horn, Op. 274

I. Allegro

II. A Tale: Andante

Hanlin Chen, clarinet

Susannah Greenslit, horn

Zhiye Lin, piano

John Clouser & Richard King, coaches

Darius Milhaud

(1892-1974)

Igor Stravinsky

(1882-1971)

arr. Jonathan Russell

Carl Reinecke

(1824-1910)

Serenade No. 11 in E-flat Major, K. 375

Allegro maestoso

Menuetto

Adagio

Menuetto

Finale: Allegro

Emily Hodges, oboe

Anna Larson, oboe

Zachary West, clarinet

Shihao Zhu, clarinet

David Burrough, bassoon

Hunter Lorelli, bassoon

Nathan Peebles, horn

Connor Monday, horn

Richard King, Frank Rosenwein,

Barrick Stees & Afendi Yusuf, coaches

Octet for Wind Instruments

Sinfonia

Tema con variazioni

Finale

Peter Arfsten, flute

Huibin Zou, clarinet

Ian Morin, bassoon

Mackenzie Brauns, bassoon

Amy Head, trumpet

Jamie Gorski, trumpet

Giovanni Miceli, trombone

David Hector, trombone

Barrick Stees, coach

Wolfgang Amadeus

Mozart

(1756-1791)

Igor Stravinsky

PETER ARFSTEN, flute, is a master’s student from Queens, New

York, and studies with Mary Kay Fink.

YURONG BAO, clarinet, is an undergraduate student from Beijing,

China, and studies with Franklin Cohen.

MACKENZIE BRAUNS, bassoon, is an artist diploma student from

Cincinnati, Ohio, and studies with Barrick Stees.

DAVID BURROUGH, bassoon, is an undergraduate student from

Katy, Texas, and studies with Barrick Stees.

ALLENJADE CARTER, horn, is an undergraduate student from

Austin, Texas, and studies with Richard King.

JESSICA CHANCEY, flute, is an undergraduate student from

Orlando, Florida, and studies with Mary Kay Fink.

HANLIN CHEN, clarinet, is an undergraduate student from AnHui,

HeFei, China, and studies with Franklin Cohen.

TIANLE CHEN, piano, is a master’s student from Nanning, China,

and studies with Kathryn Brown.

WILLEM CRONE, horn, is an undergraduate student from

Blacksburg, Virginia, and studies with Richard King.

DARILYN FINE, flute, is an undergraduate student from Verona,

New Jersey, and studies with Mary Kay Fink.

JAMIE GORSKI, trumpet, is an undergraduate student from Little

Canada, Minnesota, and studies with Michael Sachs.

SUSANNAH GREENSLIT, horn, is an undergraduate student from

Odenton, Maryland, and studies with Richard King.

CAITLYN GURGEL, oboe, is an undergraduate student from

Austin, Texas, and studies with Jeffrey Rathbun.

AMY HEAD, trumpet, is a master’s student from Hilliard, Ohio, and

studies with Michael Miller.

DAVID HECTOR, trombone, is an undergraduate student from

Evergreen Park, Illinois, and studies with Massimo La Rosa.

EMILY HODGES, oboe, is an undergraduate student from

Morrisville, North Carolina, and studies with Frank Rosenwein.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

ALLEN JIANG, bassoon, is an undergraduate student from Chicago,

Illinois, and studies with John Clouser.

MARTIN KOCEV, clarinet, is an undergraduate student from

Valandovo, Macedonia, and studies with Franklin Cohen.

CORBIN KREBS, bassoon, is an undergraduate student from Las

Vegas, Nevada, and studies with Barrick Stees.

ANNA LARSON, oboe, is an undergraduate student from Portland,

Oregon, and studies with Jeffrey Rathbun.

RACHEL LAUSON, horn, is an undergraduate student from Edina,

Minnesota, and studies with Richard King.

ZHIYE LIN, piano, is an undergraduate student from Shantou, China,

and studies with HaeSun Paik.

HUNTER LORELLI, bassoon, is an undergraduate student from

Washington, DC, and studies with Barrick Stees.

GIOVANNI MICELI, trombone, is a professional studies student

from Palermo, Italy, and studies with Massimo La Rosa.

CONNOR MONDAY, horn, is an undergraduate student from

Jacksonville, Florida, and studies with Richard Solis.

IAN MORIN, bassoon, is a master’s student from Deltona, Florida,

and studies with Barrick Stees.

NATHAN PEEBLES, horn, is an undergraduate student from

Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and studies with Richard King.

M. ISAAC RIPPLE, oboe, is an undergraduate student from Erie,

Pennsylvania, and studies with Frank Rosenwein.

MOISÉS LÓPEZ RUIZ, flute, is a master’s student from Cantillana,

Spain, and studies with Mary Kay Fink.

ZIKANG WANG, clarinet, is an undergraduate student from

Chengdu, Sichuan, China, and studies with Franklin Cohen.

ZACHARY WEST, clarinet, is an undergraduate student from

Plymouth, Massachusetts, and studies with Franklin Cohen.

SHIHAO ZHU, clarinet, is an undergraduate student from

Zhengzhou, China, and studies with Franklin Cohen.

HUIBIN ZOU, clarinet, is an undergraduate student from Beijing,

China, and studies with Franklin Cohen.

ABOUT THE COACHES

JOHN CLOUSER is the head of CIM’s Bassoon Department and is

principal bassoon of The Cleveland Orchestra. He completed studies

at Temple University, Trenton State College and Gordon College, and

his teachers have included Bernard Garfield and Matthew Ruggiero.

Clouser served as associate principal bassoon of Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal from 1994-97. He was also former principal

bassoon of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra from 1988-94 and a

member of the faculty woodwind quintet at Memphis State University

from 1988-92. He has participated in the Peninsula, Colorado,

Tanglewood, Flagstaff, Round Top and Grand Teton Festivals, and

served as adjunct professor at McGill University, Rhodes College and

Haverford College. He was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1997.

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MARY KAY FINK joined The Cleveland Orchestra as piccoloist in

1990 and has appeared as soloist with the orchestra on numerous

occasions. She has also been a member of the New Jersey Symphony,

Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and Seito-Kinen Festival Orchestra. In

addition, she has performed with the New York Philharmonic,

Nashville Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra

and Milwaukee Symphony. She was Associate Professor of Flute at the

University of Wisconsin-Madison (1988-89), flute instructor at Baldwin

Wallace College (1994-99) and has been on the faculty of CIM since

1991. In 1986 she won first prize in the National Flute Association

Young Artist Competition and has been invited to many of the

National Flute Conventions as a performer. She holds degrees from

Oberlin Conservatory of Music and The Juilliard School.

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RICHARD KING joined The Cleveland Orchestra in 1988 at age 20

as associate principal horn. He served as principal horn from 1997-

2015, and now sits as a section member. King has been featured many

times as soloist with the Orchestra, including works by Britten, Haydn

and Mozart. He has also appeared as soloist with the Richmond

Symphony, Tokyo Symphony and New Zealand’s Auckland

Philharmonia.

A native of Long Island, New York, King began playing the horn at the

age of 9 and spent six years as a student of Arthur Green. He then

attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where his

primary horn teacher was former Cleveland Orchestra principal

Myron Bloom.

An active chamber musician and recitalist, King has performed as a

member of the Center City Brass Quintet since 1985; their five

recordings on the Chandos label have been met with wide critical

acclaim. His albums of Chamber Music for Horn and Schubert Lieder

transcribed for horn and piano have been released by Albany Records.

In July and August of 2014, he was a first-time participant at the

Marlboro Music Festival.

King is a member of the faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music

since 1995. He plays a Conn 8D horn and is a clinician for the Conn-

Selmer musical instrument company. He lives in Cleveland Heights

with his wife Julie, a cellist, and their children, Charlie and Amelia.

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FRANK ROSENWEIN joined The Cleveland Orchestra as principal

oboe at the beginning of the 2005-06 season. He made his solo debut

with the orchestra in February 2007, and since then has performed as

soloist numerous times, most recently in the Vaughan Williams

Concerto in April 2017. Prior to coming to Cleveland, Rosenwein

served as principal oboe of the San Diego Symphony and San Diego

Opera from 2002-05. He has also served as guest principal oboe with

the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Born in Evanston, Illinois, Rosenwein holds a Bachelor of Music degree

from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with former

Cleveland Orchestra principal oboe John Mack, and a Master of Music

degree from The Juilliard School studying with Elaine Douvas. An avid

chamber musician, Rosenwein has spent many summers at the

Marlboro Festival and has performed with the Mainly Mozart Festival in

San Diego, Seattle Chamber Music Society and Philadelphia Chamber

Music Society. As a teacher, Rosenwein was appointed to the CIM

faculty in 2006 and holds the position of head of the oboe department.

He also teaches at the Kent/Blossom Music Festival and is in demand

as a guest artist and master class clinician in schools all over the world.

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JONATHAN SHERWIN, bassoonist and contrabassoonist, joined

The Cleveland Orchestra in 1997. He was previously a member of the

Colorado Symphony, where he also served as personnel manager.

While living in Denver, he was active on local Denver television and

radio, performing voice overs for the orchestra’s publicity and

advertising. In addition, Sherwin was the host for the Colorado

Symphony’s “Talk Back” series of post-concert question and answer

forums. A native of Buffalo, New York, he holds a bachelor’s degree

and Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music and a

master’s degree from Northwestern University. His teachers have

included K. David Van Hoesen, Willard Elliot, Burl Lane and Bradford

Buckley.

Sherwin has served as principal bassoon of the Chicago Opera

Theater, Chicago Civic Orchestra and Chicago City Ballet Orchestra,

and also has been a member of the New Orleans Symphony, Buffalo

Philharmonic and Chicago’s Music of the Baroque. He has participated

in the Aspen Music Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, Spoleto

Festival USA and the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. Active

as an educator, Sherwin teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Music and

at Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music and has given

master classes at many colleges and music festivals including the

Eastman School of Music, Duquesne University, Aspen Music Festival

and Chautauqua Music Festival. When not practicing, teaching or

making reeds, Sherwin can be found on the tennis court or watching

classic movies.

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RICHARD SOLIS was a member of The Cleveland Orchestra from

1971-2012. He served as principal horn with the Orchestra from

1978-95. Solis attended CIM and studied horn with Myron Bloom from

1965-69. He is a former artist-in-residence at the University of

Delaware and was principal horn of the Festival Casals. His recordings

include chamber music from the Marlboro Festival, and he can be

heard on more than 100 recordings with The Cleveland Orchestra as

principal horn. He was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1977.

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BARRICK STEES is the assistant principal bassoonist of The

Cleveland Orchestra and instructor of bassoon at the Cleveland

Institute of Music and Kent/Blossom Music. Stees received a bachelor’s

degree and performer’s certificate from the Eastman School of Music

where he studied with K. David Van Hoesen.

He has concertized extensively in Europe, South America and Asia,

including a solo tour of Hong Kong and China. He has appeared at

international music festivals in Italy, Germany, Argentina, Colombia and

the Dominican Republic. He has given recitals throughout the United

States. Solo appearances include performances with the Hartford

Symphony, South Bend Symphony, Brevard Music Center Orchestra

and Cass City Bach Festival.

Awarded the Presidential Scholar Teacher Recognition Award from

the United States Secretary of Education, he has taught at Michigan

State University, Interlochen Arts Camp, Interlochen Arts Academy,

Brevard Music Center and University of Akron. His former students

occupy prominent positions in orchestras and universities throughout

the United States.

Stees was previously principal bassoonist with the Hartford Symphony

and has played with the Pittsburgh, Milwaukee and Detroit Symphony

Orchestras as well as the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has recorded

three solo CDs, The Romantic Bassoon, Opera Transcriptions and

Paraphrases and Nostalgica. His website, www.steesbassoon.com, and

blog, BarryBlogs, contain a wealth of information for bassoonists.

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AFENDI YUSUF joined The Cleveland Orchestra as principal

clarinet with the start of the 2017-18 season. Born in Addis Ababa,

Ethiopia, he has appeared as guest principal with a number of North

American ensembles, including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra,

Canadian Opera Company and the Toronto and Cincinnati symphony

orchestras. As a guest musician, he has performed with the Los

Angeles Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra and Vancouver Symphony

Orchestra, under the batons of Gustavo Dudamel, Edo de Waart,

Gianandrea Noseda, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Yehuda Gilad.

A winner of a variety of concerto competitions, Yusuf has made solo

appearances with the Colburn Orchestra, Royal Conservatory

Orchestra and Guelph Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has

collaborated with performers Charles Neidich, Ronald Leonard, Martin

Beaver, and with composers Georg Friedrich Haas, John Adams and

Anders Hillborg. He is an alumnus of the Aspen Music Festival and

School, Brott Music Festival, National Youth Orchestra of Canada and

National Arts Centre’s Young Artists Program. He has been a

participant of the Marlboro Music Festival since the summer of 2016.

Yusuf holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ontario’s Wilfrid Laurier

University, where he was a student of Ross Edwards, and an Artist

Diploma from the Glenn Gould School in Toronto, where he studied

with Joaquin Valdepeñas. He also holds a Master of Music degree and

Professional Studies Certificate from the Colburn School’s

Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, where he was a student of

Yehuda Gilad.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

May 6, Sunday

Brecksville/Broadview Heights High School Performing Arts Center

6380 Mill Rd., Broadview Heights

1pm: CYWS II – Concert Winds

Darren Allen, conductor

3pm: CYWS II – Symphonic Winds

Melissa Lichtler, conductor

5pm: CYWS I

Daniel Crain, conductor

Tickets: $5 at the door

May 8, Wednesday

8pm | Mixon Hall

Young Artist Program Chamber Music Recital

Annie Fullard, director

Students from the Young Artist Program, a highly selective and

intensive program for students in grades 7-12, present their end-of-

semester chamber music concert.

May 14, Monday

7pm | Mixon Hall

Continuing Education Showcase Recital

Adult students from the Continuing Education division are joined by

faculty in an end-of-year concert.

May 15, Tuesday

6pm | Mixon Hall

Preparatory Showcase Recital

Preparatory students present a year-end concert.

May 20, Sunday

1pm | Mixon Hall

Preparatory Chamber Music Recital

Annie Fullard and Carolyn Gadiel Warner, directors

Students from the Preparatory Friday Night Chamber Music Program

present their final concert of the semester.