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Judy Albrecht William Asbury

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Zach De Pue, violinNick Kendall, violin

Ranaan Meyer, double bass

7:30 p.m. Thursday, February 26, 2015Schwab Auditorium

The program will be announced from the stage.

The concert is presented without an intermission.

This concert is a component of the Center for the Performing Arts Classical Music Project. With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the

project provides opportunities to engage students, faculty, and the community with classical music artists and programs. Marica Tacconi, Penn State professor of musicology, and Carrie Jackson, Penn State associate professor of German

and linguistics, provide faculty leadership for the curriculum and academic components of the project.

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ProGrAmTime for Three (Tf3) will perform works from the list below and will announce the selections from the stage.

“Ashokan Farewell”....................................................... Jay Ungar/Arranged by Tf3

“Bach Double”.......................................Johann Sebastian Bach/Arranged by Tf3

“Banjo Love”.......Ranaan Meyer/Steve Hackman/Nick Kendall/Zach De Pue

“Blackbird”.................................John Lennon/Paul McCartney/Arranged by Tf3

“Bradford Commission”.........................................................Kendall/De Pue/Meyer

“Chaconne in Winter”................................Bach/Arranged by Hackman and Tf3

“Czardas”....................................................................Vittorio Monti/Arranged by Tf3

“Danny Boy”....Traditional/Arranged by Meyer/Rob Moose/Lily & Madeleine

“Don Don”..................................................................................Meyer/Arranged by Tf3

“Ecuador”...................................................................................Meyer/Arranged by Tf3

“Firework”............................................Katy Perry/Arranged by Hackman and Tf3

“Forget About It”....................................................................Meyer/Arranged by Tf3

“Fox Down”...............................................................................Meyer/Arranged by Tf3

“Hallelujah”.............................................................Leonard Cohen/Arranged by Tf3

“Happy Day”....................................................................Kendall/Arranged by Moose

“Hide and Seek”.......................................................Imogen Heap/Arranged by Tf3

“Hungarian Dance No. 5”.............................Johannes Brahms/Arranged by Tf3

“The Hymn”................................................................................Kendall/De Pue/Meyer

“In the Dressing Room”...........................Meyer/Arranged by Meyer and Moose

“Jazz Riff”.....................................................................................................................Meyer

“Jerusalem’s Ridge”.....................................................Bill Monroe/Arranged by Tf3

“Kissing in the Tree”...........................................Meyer/Hackman/Kendall/De Pue

“Little Lion Man”...................Mumford & Sons/Arranged by Hackman and Tf3

“Mohawk”...................................................................................Meyer/Arranged by Tf3

“Norwegian Wood”.........Lennon/McCartney/Arranged by Hackman and Tf3

“Of Time and Three Rivers”................................................Meyer/Arranged by Tf3

“Orange Blossom Special” .................................Charlie Rouse/Arranged by Tf3

“Ogden”.....................................Meyer/Arranged by Meyer/Josh Fobare/Kendall

“Amazing Grace”............................................................Traditional/Arranged by Tf3

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“Amazing Grace”............................................................Traditional/Arranged by Tf3

timE For tHrEE“Time for Three is the future of music.” – Sir Simon Rattle

Time for Three—violinist Zachary “Zach” De Pue, violinist Nicolas “Nick” Kendall, and double bassist Ranaan Meyer—defies, happily and infectiously, any traditional genre classification. With an uncom-mon mix of virtuosity and showmanship, the American trio performs classical music from Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, and

“Philly Phunk”...........................................................................Meyer/Arranged by Tf3

“Quail Hollow”........................................................................................................ Kendall

“Queen of Voodoo”....................................... Meyer/Kendall/Arranged by Moose

“Round About”...............................................................Kendall/Arranged by Moose

“Shenandoah”..................................................................Traditional/Arranged by Tf3

“Stillness is the Move”..........Dirty Projectors/Arranged by Hackman and Tf3

“Stronger ” ....................... Kanye West/Arranged by Hackman/Moose and Tf3

“Sundays”......................................................................Meyer/Arranged by Hackman

“Taszo Tango”................................................................ Kendall/Arranged by Moose

“Thunder Stomp”....................................................................Meyer/Arranged by Tf3

“UFO”........................................................Coldplay/Arranged by Hackman and Tf3

“With or Without You” ...................................U2/Arranged by Hackman and Tf3

“Wyoming 307”........................................................................Meyer/Arranged by Tf3

beyond; gives world premieres by Pulitzer Prize winners William Bol-com and Jennifer Higdon; and plays originals and its own arrange-ments of everything from bluegrass and folk tunes to ingenious mash-ups of hits by the Beatles, Kanye West, Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, and others.

Time for Three, or Tf3 for short, has performed at venues ranging from Carnegie Hall and the famed jazz club Yoshi’s in San Francisco to European festivals, the BBC Proms, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, NFL games, the Indianapolis 500, and most recently on the hit ABC show Dancing with the Stars. The group’s YouTube bullying-prevention video, “Stronger,” has inspired students across the globe, eliciting features on CNN and the Huffington Post. Since 2009, Tf3 has had a hugely successful residency with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, helping to expand the orchestra’s audience with innovative outreach.

The latest milestone for Tf3 was the June 2014 release of Time for Three, its debut on UMC. The album, with tracks co-produced by Bon Iver’s Rob Moose, showcases not only the trio’s melody-rich string weave but also its uncommon flair for collaboration. The group teamed with pop singer-songwriter Joshua Radin, jazz saxophone icon Branford Marsalis, Decca cello star Alisa Weilerstein, Hawaiian ukulele ace Jake Shimabukuro, Indianapolis folk-pop sister duo Lily & Madeleine, and others.

Since the trio musicians were students together at Philadelphia’s Cur-tis Institute of Music, they have wowed media and fellow artists with their charismatic musicianship. “In person, the members of Time for Three come off as just three dudes in a band,” NPR noted. “But with their staggering technique and freewheeling genre-crossing, it’s hard not to be swept up in the force of their contagious energy.” The Wall Street Journal praised the trio’s rare blend of “spontaneity and preci-sion,” while the Indianapolis Examiner raved, “Demonstrating their ability to deeply connect with their audience in a most interactive way, they electrified a full-house crowd.”  

But perhaps no one has offered a more enthusiastic appraisal than the great Sir Simon Rattle, chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. “Simply put, they’re a knockout! Three benevolent monsters—mon-sters of ability and technique surely. But also conveyers of an infec-tious joy that I find both touching and moving,” Rattle said. “I would recommend them not only for entertainment value, but also for anyone looking to see how all types of American music can develop when life and passion such as this are breathed into it.”

Time for Three, the new album, sees the group explore the interac-tive possibilities of string instruments, projecting the trio’s onstage

magnetism into pure aural allure. The recording also presents the collaborative essence of the group in the most organic fashion. The trio members have a personal connection to each of the guest art-ists. The centerpiece of Time for Three is “Chaconne in Winter,” one of the trio’s concert favorites. It’s perhaps the ultimate Tf3 mash-up, with Bach’s totemic “Chaconne” melded with Bon Iver’s “Calgary” in an arrangement by Steve Hackman, a friend and collaborator of the group from the Curtis Institute.

The album represents an eclectic, but natural, mix. “Like most young people in America now, the three of us grew up listening to all kinds of music—’90s hip-hop, grunge, bluegrass—and we’ve always played a wide variety of music,” Kendall said. “We’re part of a new generation of classically trained musicians who approach diverse styles from the same heartfelt place. We hear and feel it all in a similar way, as just music.”

De Pue, Kendall, and Meyer started playing together at the Curtis Institute. The two violinists discovered a mutual love for fiddling in the bluegrass and country traditions. Meyer introduced them to his roots in jazz and improvised music. After experiments and jam sessions, the musical friendships evolved into Time for Three. “The instruments we play are almost incidental—it’s the musical personalities and the unique synergy we have together that make Tf3 what it is,” Du Pue said. “Nick and I have different approaches on the violin, but after fourteen years of playing together, our styles and energies comple-ment one another in a way that’s magical, really. I think Ranaan is reinventing the double bass, paying particular attention to quality of sound. But we have great chemistry with or without our instruments, onstage or off. It’s always fun to be a part of this.”

Tf3 gained instant attention, in 2003, when lightning caused a power failure during a concert by The Philadelphia Orchestra. While techni-cians worked to restore the lights, Meyer and De Pue, who were both performing as orchestra members, performed an impromptu jam ses-sion that included such folk-inflected works as “Jerusalem’s Ridge,” “Ragtime Annie,” and “The Orange Blossom Special.” It was decid-edly different music from the scheduled symphony program, but the crowd went wild. The trio has since performed more than a thousand engagements as diverse as the music it plays—from featured soloists on The Philadelphia Orchestra’s subscription series and residencies at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., to former Philly maestro Christoph Eschenbach’s birthday concert at Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein Festival and a private concert on the aircraft carrier Intrepid.

Tf3 independently released its first album, Three Fervent Travelers (E1), in 2010. It debuted in the top ten on the charts of Billboard, Amazon, and iTunes, and it remained in the top ten of the Billboard

Crossover Chart for more than ten months. That release followed two self-produced CDs, which sold more than 20,000 copies. In 2011, Tf3 raised more than $20,000 from its fans in one week through a Kick-starter campaign to finance its first professionally produced music video. The result was “Stronger,” which became a YouTube sensation and established the trio as leaders in the fight against bullying. The musicians partnered with PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Cen-ter to bring their message to schools across the country through resi-dencies, workshops, and the media. Tf3 has embarked on a major commissioning program to expand its unique repertoire for symphony orchestras. The first fruit of the program was Concerto 4-3 by Pulitzer winner Higdon. In 2008, the trio premiered the work in six performances with The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eschenbach. The group has since performed it dozens of times across the country to acclaim, including with the Fort Worth Symphony (documented on a 2012 recording released by the orchestra) and a 2013 performance with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. In 2010, Tf3 premiered Travels in Time for Three by Chris Brubeck, a work co-commissioned by the Boston Pops, Colorado Music Festival, and eight other organizations. The next work in the series was Games and Challenges by Bolcom, commissioned by the Indianapolis and Grand Rapids symphony orchestras. The trio premiered the piece in 2013. Tf3 is working on a commission by the Sun Valley Summer Symphony in which it will write and perform a 55-minute piece with orchestra to premiere in August 2015 in Sun Val-ley, Idaho.  In 2009, Tf3 inaugurated an ambitious three-year residency with the Indianapolis Symphony, a groundbreaking project in which the trio not only got involved in the community but also curated a successful “Happy Hour” series of concerts with the orchestra. The project gen-erated media attention and heightened the orchestra’s profile, espe-cially among the younger demographic, making the three musicians household names in Indianapolis. Thrilled with the residency’s success, the Indianapolis Symphony in 2012 extended and expanded the trio’s contract. The group now spends fourteen weeks each season with the orchestra doing everything from programming, arranging, and per-forming concerts to conducting education, fundraising, and commu-nity outreach. Tf3’s residency with the symphony received an Indiana Innovation Award in 2013. Tf3 has been seen and heard on various TV and radio broadcasts throughout the country, including numerous times on PBS, NPR, and CNN. The trio was featured in a documentary film about Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square directed by Robert Downey Sr., and the group recorded the soundtrack to the History Channel production The Span-ish-American War.

ZACHAry “ZACH” dE PuE comes from a musical family. In addition to the De Pue Brothers Band, his father is a composer and professor emeritus of music com-position at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Born in Bowling Green, De Pue graduated in 2002 from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with renowned violinists Ida Kavafian and Jaime Laredo. He was the recipient of a merit-based full-tuition scholarship and held the institute’s David H. Springman Memorial Fellowship.

Prior to entering Curtis, De Pue attended the Cleveland Insti-tute of Music. He made his solo debut with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra in 1994 and performed as a soloist with the World Youth Symphony Orchestra in 1995. De Pue has performed at the Isaac Stern Music Workshop; the Angel Fire, La Jolla, and Sarasota music festivals; the Chautauqua Institu-tion; and Interlochen Arts Acad-emy. In 2007, he was appointed concertmaster of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.

Even with an ever-increasing performance and media schedule, Tf3 remains committed to reaching younger audiences by participating in educational residencies and outreach concerts, including annual visits to the late actor Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for children with terminal illnesses, weeklong residencies at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall’s series of family concerts, and countless jam sessions and instances of impromptu music-making with students in university classrooms, coffeehouses, and elsewhere.

“To hear these three young guys is to be thankful that music was invented … ,” said Newman in summing up Time for Three’s cross-gen-erational appeal. “If I had been able to create a sound like these kids a few years back, I might have thought twice about going into acting!”

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Time for Three’s Zach De Pue, Nick Kendall, and Ranaan Meyer

niColAs “niCK” KEndAll studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with the internation-ally renowned violinist Victor Danchenko. He maintains a strong interest in other musical instru-ments and genres and is an enthusiastic teacher. He utilizes elements from both classical and nontraditional repertoires in his popular workshops.

Highlights of his career include performances with Israel’s Jeru-salem Symphony, under conduc-tor James Judd; an acclaimed Philadelphia recital debut under the auspices of Astral Artistic Services; a quartet performance at Carnegie Hall; performances as a member of the Astral Trio at the Los Angeles Chamber Music Festival and the Kimmel Cen-ter’s Verizon Hall; and a guest artist appearance on tour with the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra.

Kendall debuted with the National Symphony Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra as the winner of the Young Artists Com-petitions. He has since performed in concert halls in Anchorage, Alaska; Chapel Hill, North Caro-lina; and in the cities of Chicago, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Louisville, San Francisco, and Tokyo. Kend-all is also a member of the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, often called ECCO, and the Dryden String Quartet.

rAnAAn mEyEr began his musical studies with the piano at age 4 but took up the double bass at 11. He attended the Manhattan School of Music and graduated from the Cur-tis Institute of Music in 2003. Beyond regular appearances with ensembles such as the Min-nesota Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and The Philadelphia Orchestra, Meyer is in demand as a composer.

He has created unique works for Time for Three, other ensembles, and for solo bass. Meyer com-pleted a commission, “My Zayda” (for violin, piano, and double bass), for the Kingston Chamber Music Festival in Rhode Island. Other completed commissions include a solo double bass piece for Network for New Music; a double bass and harp duet; a set of pieces for Astral Artistic Services; and a Time for Three composition, “Of Time and Three Rivers,” for the Pittsburgh Sym-phony Orchestra. The American Composers Forum expedited each commission.

Meyer, an accomplished jazz musician, has performed with Jane Monheit, Victor Lewis, Jason Moran, Mark O’Connor, Ari Hoenig, Duane Eubanks, Mickey Roker, and others. At age 19, Meyer produced, directed, and performed in the first Washington Township Jazz Festival, which was broadcast live on Philadelphia’s WRTI.

An avid teacher, Meyer held adjunct double bass professor-ships at Princeton University and the University of Delaware. He

spent several summers teaching alongside Hal Robinson, principal bass of The Philadelphia Orches-tra, at the Strings International Music Festival in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He has also taught at the Inter-mountain Suzuki Camp in Sandy, Utah, and at Mark O’Connor’s String Camp in San Diego.

Meyer is the founder of Project Interactive, which culturally con-nects artistic possibilities in com-munities. In 2008, he launched Wabass, a double bass camp, with Eric Larson of the Houston Sym-phony and Hal Robinson.

Brussels Jazz OrchestraBJO’s Finest and GraphicologyBelgium’s lone professional jazz big band co-performed the music

for the Oscar-winning best picture, The Artist.

In 2013, the orchestra celebrated its twentieth anniversary with BJO’s Finest–Live, a CD of songs composed and arranged by band members. The first set of the orchestra’s concert offers music inspired by that recording.

After intermission, the band performs Graphicology, its collaboration with graphic novelist Philip Paquet. The writer selected existing stories

and created two new ones for the project. Six composers penned an accompanying soundtrack. The stories were edited into original videos

that are projected while the orchestra performs the soundtrack.

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visionEnriching lives through inspiring experiences

missionThe Center for the Performing Arts provides a context, through artistic connections, to the human experience. By bringing artists and audiences together we spark discovery of passion, inspira-tion, and inner truths. We are a motivator for creative thinking and examination of our relationship with the world.

Front cover photos: 1. Diavolo Kenneth Mucke 2. Antibalas Marina Abadjieff 3. Imago Theatre’s Frogz Jerry Mouawad 4. SISTER ACT © 2014 Joan Marcus 5. Cyrille Aimée 6. The King’s Singers Axel Nickolaus 7. Time for Three Sherry Ferrante 8. THE CHIEFTAINS Kevin Kelly 9. Brussels Jazz Orchestra’s Graphicology Philip Paquet 10. eighth blackbird Luke Ratray 11. Rosanne Cash © Clay Patrick McBride 12. Theatreworks USA’s The Lightning Thief Jeremy Daniel 13. Brooklyn Rider Sarah Small 14. CAMELOT 15. The Nile Project Matjaz Kacicnik    

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