University of Missouri School of Music2019-2020 Series • Guest Artist Recital

Mizzou & World Brass

Association Festivalfeaturing

Otto Sauter Dariusz Mikulski Armin Bachmann

Natalia Bolshakova Iskander Akhmadullin

Libby Roberts Esterhazy Quartet

March 14, 2020 • 3:00pmJeanne & Rex Sinquefield Music Center

Program

Sonata for Piano and Horn, Op.17 (1800) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

I. Allegro moderato

Dariusz Mikulski, horn | Natalia Bolshakova, piano

Trombone Concertino, Op. 4 (1837) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ferdinand David (1810-1873)

I. Allegro maestoso II. Marcia funebre (Andante) III. Allegro maestoso

Armin Bachmann, trombone | Natalia Bolshakova, piano

En forêt for horn and piano, Op. 40 (1941) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugène Joseph Bozza(1905-1991)

Dariusz Mikulski, horn | Natalia Bolshakova, piano

Hommage à Jean Tinguely for Trombone Solo (1994) . . . . . . . . Jean-François Michel(b. 1957)

Armin Bachmann, trombone

Brief Pause

Trumpet Concerto in D Major, TWV 51:D 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

I. Adagio II. Allegro III. Grave IV. Allegro

Otto Sauter, piccolo trumpet | Esterhazy QuartetLibby Roberts, harpsichord

Sinfonia à due Trombe in D Major (ca. 1690) . . . . . . . . . . Anonymous (Torelli School)

I. Grave II. Allegro III. Grave IV. Allegro

Otto Sauter & Iskander Akhmadullin, piccolo trumpetsEsterhazy Quartet

Esterhazy Quartet: Eva Szekely and Julie Rosenfeld, violins Leslie Perna, viola | Eli Lara, cello

If you wish to visit with the performers, please do so in the lobby after the performance.

Armin Bachmamn “If energy becomes sound, and the passion is heard as a melody, I feel good.”

With this statement, Armin Bachmann expresses his passion. His studies, which he completed in Germany and Switzerland have resulted in years of travel that have lasted until today. A trombonist in a number of prestigious European orchestras, he

was also active in chamber music performing with ensembles such as the Swiss Brass Consort, Ensemble Contrasts Nuremberg, Duo Pazzo Munich to name just a few.

A highly regarded soloist, Armin has performed with symphony orchestras, brass and wind bands and organ or Ländlerkapelle. In addition to his playing work he is also an established conductor of brass and wind bands and he has also been a juror at international competitions.

Passionate about education, Armin Bachmann is a professor at the Academy of Music “Franz Liszt” in Weimar, has given master classes in Tokyo, Paris, Manchester, Vienna, Munich, Helsinki and Lugano, was head of the Music School in the region Burgdorf, has been a speaker at various workshops and a conductor of youth ensembles in addition to his work as a speaker and presenter at concerts.

To date, Armin has made more than 45 CD recordings, appeared on numerous live radio and television performances and has performed numerous world premieres of contemporary works.

A passionate alphorn players and a casual euphonium player, his lifeblood flows for the Slokar Trombone Quartet with which he, together with his former teacher Branimir Slokar, has performed around the globe since 1983.

In 2012, Armin Bachmann was awarded the Prize for Music for The Canton of Solothurn.

Terry Everson “It is not hyperbole to say that Terry is the perfect principal trumpet for [the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra], and one of the finest musicians I have worked with in my twenty-five years of conducting America’s Orchestra. He doesn’t seem to

have any technical limitations on the instrument, and he is as comfortable standing up to take a jazz solo as he is with the classical repertoire…. He is positive, supportive, and joyous in his approach to music-making. I can’t imagine a more versatile or skilled brass player, and I would gladly work with him in any repertoire.”

– Keith Lockhart, Conductor, The Boston Pops Orchestra

“To put it simply, Terry is one of the most accomplished, professional and artistic musicians I know….He can play music of any style with panache and wisdom. I have worked with him on a variety of music from Mozart to Zemlinsky all the way up to premieres of the newest of the new. Terry fields all challenges. In short, as a trumpet player he is a ‘Monster’.”

– Gil Rose, Artistic Director, Boston Modern Orchestra Project

“…the solo playing spoke well for the talent occupying the orchestra’s first chairs: Principal trumpet Terry Everson nailed his contributions to both the Mahler [fifth] symphony and Shostakovich’s cheeky Piano Concerto No. 1.”

– John von Rhein, music critic, Chicago Tribune

“Terry Everson is our Itzhak Perlman.”

– Michael Anderson, Board of Directors of the International Trumpet Guild

“A trumpet player’s trumpet player,” in the words of one of his frequent collaborators, Terry Everson has performed at 14 International Trumpet Guild Conferences, and his name has appeared in ITG publications over 500 times since his first appearance at its annual conference in 1980. His performances are universally acclaimed, not only for his brilliant technique, crystalline tone and incredible dynamic range, but for the heartfelt musical commitment he displays; many listeners attest that they forget about the trumpet as they connect directly to the musician himself.

His first international acclaim occurred in 1988, when the International Trumpet Guild sponsored two major competitions on consecutive days: one specializing in Baroque/Classical, the other in Twentieth Century literature. Everson shocked the Guild by entering and winning both by unanimous juries, performing seven major concerti and sonatas from memory within 30 hours. Everson followed this up just over a year later as First Prize laureate of the 1990 Louise D. McMahon International Music Competition, again performing from memory a full recital and a concerto with orchestra.

Hailed by the Boston Globe for his “dazzling, clarion brightness with elegant edges” and in the Boston Musical Intelligencer for “virtuosity and musicality that was simply stunning”, Terry Everson has performed and given masterclasses throughout the United States, as well as in Central America, Europe and Asia. He has premiered major solo works by composers Martin Amlin, Richard Cornell, John Davison, Stanley Friedman, Jan Krzywicki, Elena Roussanova Lucas, and Gary Ziek. He has released three complete recordings of numerous notable modern works for trumpet and piano, as well as single entries on discs devoted to the works of Davison, Krzywicki and Lisa Bielawa; he has also recorded as soloist with the New England Brass Band, the Lexington Brass Band and the Eastern Wind Symphony, and is featured in over 50 CD releases as Principal Trumpet of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Boston University recently produced a CD of live performances with the BU Wind Ensemble,

and soon Mr. Everson will release the first installment of an “Art of the Sonata” series with pianist Shiela Kibbe.

Mr. Everson has served on the faculty of the Boston University College of Fine Arts and Tanglewood Institute since 1999; a master pedagogue, his work at BU was recognized with the University’s 2014 Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching. His masterclasses have met with acclaim in schools such as Northwestern University, Rice University, Yale University, the University of North Texas, the University of Michigan, Florida State University, the New England Conservatory, the Royal College of Music (London), and the music conservatories of Xi’an and Shenyang, China.

Terry Everson’s annual Fourth of July performances as Principal Trumpet of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra are viewed by millions worldwide via broadcast and online, and he has been a featured soloist with the orchestra on multiple tours. Equally at home in any musical style in front of any ensemble, he has also performed as a soloist with the Costa Rica National Symphony Brass & Percussion, the U.S. Army Band (“Pershing’s Own”), the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Peninsula Music Festival, the Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass, the Lexington Philharmonic, the Lawton Philharmonic, the Tanglewood Young Artists Wind Ensemble, the Triangle Brass Band and Youth Brass Band, the Brass Band of Columbus, the New England Brass Band, the Lexington Brass Band, and numerous college and high school wind ensembles.

An active church musician for over three decades, much of Terry Everson’s compositional output derives its basis from hymnody and related materials, such as his trumpet ensembles Ponder Anew and There’s a Great Day Coming, the Christmas carol setting Once in Royal David’s City for bass trombonist Douglas Yeo and the New England Brass Band, and his Hyfrydol Aspects for trumpet and piano written for his son Peter. Mr. Everson has also written competition pieces for the Boston University Trumpet Ensemble, whose performances of Idea Number Twenty-Four and There and Back Again have won prizes in the National Trumpet Competition in Washington, DC; Idea Number Twenty-Four has since become a staple of contest repertoire featured at the (USA) National Trumpet Competition. The BU Trumpet Ensemble’s performance of his arrangement of the Finale of Felix Mendelssohn’s Fourth Symphony at the 2007 ITG Conference received an enthusiastic standing ovation. Mr. Everson has filled commissions from Wizards! double reed ensemble, the Texas Tech Trombone Choir, the Lutheran Music Program (brass quintet) the Philadelphia College of Bible (trumpet ensemble), and the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra. His setting of W.L. Thompson’s There’s a Great Day Coming has been recorded by Philip Smith (retired Principal Trumpet, New York Philharmonic) on the Cala label’s New York Legends series, and was recently a viral sensation in a video rendition by the Snarky Puppy trumpets and friends.

Terry Everson is an Artist/Clinician for S.E. Shires Trumpets of Holliston, MA, USA, and performs on mouthpieces designed by Pickett Brass.

Sabine Kierdorf Sabine Kierdorf studied French, English and Economics at the University Kassel, Germany and the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier, France. 1995 she started in the Media- and PR department of “Deutsche Welle”, Cologne, Germany. 1996 she became head of the editorial department at the “Pisacane, Kock am Brink OHG”. 1999 she took over the management of concerts and music productions of “DeutschlandRadio” Cologne. 2000 she

took over the exclusive management of the internationally renowned trumpeter Otto Sauter and his ensemble Ten of the Best with ten of the leading trumpet players of the world and organized e.g. the TV Gala “A Salute to Satchmo” for the 100th birthday of Louis Armstrong for the TV Stations ARD, ORF.

2001 and 2002 she became Manging Director of the soccer stadium Arena AufSchalke/ Veltins Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Germany for concerts and event productions. It was the first stadium with a mobile green and roof. She organized 2 opening events (80.000 spectators) with No Angels, Lionel Richie (Live on TV: SAT.1/ DSF), 2 concerts of the German pop group PUR (100.000 spectators/ TV production: ZDF), a giant AIDA opera production on a stage of 10.000 m² (50.000 spectators) etc. and was co-founder of the European Stadium Cooperation with the most important stadiums in Europe.

2003 she organized a series of UNICEF-Gala events for the 50th birthday of UNICEF Germany and the UNICEF foundation of Ann Katrin Linsenhoff (German Equestrian Olympic champion). Since 2004 she manages the annual “Wartburg Festival” in the 1.000-year-old UNESCO world cultural heritage castle. 2004 she took over the selection of event managers of the Hapag Lloyd 5 stars plus cruise ship MS Europa. 2005 she managed the International Choir and Music Festival “Musica Sacra a Roma” in Rome and at the Vatican.

2006-2008 she organized the “Little Amadeus Aktionstag” and Concert series with 70 concerts together with her partners Otto Sauter and the TV producer of the worldwide successful TV series “Little Amadeus” (KI.KA/ARD/ZDF/ Echo Classic for Children Award), and the recording of the cinema movie soundtrack with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Zubin Mehta as well as the “Playtime Live City Concert Tour”, the official Germany-wide music festival during the FIFA Football World Championship 2006TM with Otto Sauter & Ten of the Best.

2008 she organized the world ring premiere of the trumpet concerto written for Otto Sauter by the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis and the Bernd Hummel Jubilee concert with Germany’s most renowned actor Mario Adorf, Otto Sauter and the Cappella Istropolitana. 2009 she took over the artist management of Gert Hof, the worldwide leading light designer (Millennium Events in Beijing, Athens, Berlin, biggest cruiseship baptism of the world, AIDAdiva in Hamburg). 2014 she managed the concert series of the famous Neuschwanstein Castle Festival. 2016 she organized with Otto Sauter the 80th birthday Charity Gala-Event of the world famous conductor Maestro Zubin Mehta.

She is Managing Director of the World & European Brass Association (Honorary Music Advisor: Maestro Zubin Mehta) that she founded together with her partner Otto Sauter as Artistic Director in 2014 and that maintains cultural parthnerships for eduction, concerts and intercultural exchange with more than 65 countries wordwide.

Sabine Kierdorf is Guest professor for Arts Management at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China and developed a horse assisted leadership, teambuilding and intercultural communication training model for executives. She works with international renowned companies and founded with partners of the University Vechta, the German Association for professional equine assisted human resource development (EQ Pferd e.V.).

Awards etc.

Opus German Stage Prize of the European Association of Event Centres EVVC 2001 at the prolight & sound Frankfurt.

2019 first Foreign Experts Committee Members of UNESCO, UNEP, FAO, GIAHS for the Aohan Globally Important Heritage System Community, China together with Ioannis Theofanopoulos (former Ambassador of Greece in China).

Dariusz Mikulski Conductor and French horn player; General Manager and Artistic Director of the Warsaw Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra; General and Artistic Director of Sudecka Philharmonic Orchestra of Wałbrzych (2005-2010); Professor at the Music Academy of Łódz; General Manager

of CONCORNO Kulturmanagement Berlin; guest conductor of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra in Bangkok; Conductor of the Opera House in Poznan (2006-2009); Conductor of the Opera House in Wroclaw (2009-2010); Artistc Director of Amber Youth Orchestra (AYO); Artistic Director of Vienna Royal Artist Orchestra, Professor, Conductor and Soloist by The World Brass Association.

Dariusz Mikulski works both as a soloist and as a conductor with many orchestras, such as the NDR Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Orchester der Deutschen Oper of Berlin, Wiener Kammerorchester, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonie der Nationen, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra, Łódz Philharmonic Orchestra, Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, Irkuck Philharmonic Orchestra, Berliner Sinfoniker, Municipal Orchestra of Thessaloniki, State Orchestra of Thessaloniki, Baskent Akademik Orchestra, Cyprus Philharmonic Orchestra and many others. Among his radio and CD recordings are numerous works for French Horn, Chamber and Symphonic music and Opera.

Dariusz Mikulski studied French horn with Prof. Radovan Vlatkovic and

conducting with Prof. Tomas Ungar at the Music Academy of Stuttgart and Nicolaus Harnoncourt at Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He is prize winner of many international Horn Competitions - “Prager Spring International Competition”, “International Horn Competition in Toulon”,“Marktneukirchen Horn Competition”, “Peter Damm International Horn Competition” a.o. Dr. Dariusz Mikulski is also the founder and CEO of ‘CONCORNO Cultural Management’ – a company that specializes in international concerts and artists management.

Being one of the youngest artists in the history of Polish culture, Dr. Dariusz Mikulski has been honored by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, receiving the “Gloria Artis“ medal, for his artistic activity (2008). In 2011 he was awarded with the Silver Medal of the City of Berlin, for his contribution in Culture.

In May of 2015, Dariusz Mikulski was the Music Director and Conductor of the World Premiere of the Greek Opera “El Greco”, composed by George Hatzinassios and in October of 2016 he was the Musical Director and Conductor of Verdi’s Opera “Aida”, in Thessaloniki

Megaron Concert Hall, 2018 “Magic Flute” Opera Premiere in Bangkok. As a Professor by the World Brass Association Dariusz Mikulski is active as a teacher, conductor and a soloist in 53 countries.

Dariusz Mikulski is playing Hans Hoyer Horn K 10

Otto Sauter Otto Sauter (Cologne, Germany) is one of the world‘s leading trumpet soloists. As specialist on the piccolo trumpet, he hasappeared in all major concert halls. He played with the Philharmonia Orchestra London for Prince Charles at St. James‘s Palace, in St. Peter‘s Square for Pope John Paul II and in the Forbidden City Beijing.

1988-1998 he was principal trumpet in the Bremen State Philharmonic Orchestra. 1991 he founded the annual Bremen International Trumpet Days, the world‘s leading brass festival at this time with guests like Ray Charles, Maynard Ferguson, Maurice André etc.. 1994 he founded the International Trumpet Academy Bremen, for the most gifted young international trumpet players. Sauter also was invited for guest professorships at international universities like the Bremen Academy of Arts, the Royal Academy London, the Toho Gakuen School for Music Tokyo, the Toho Gakuen Orchestra Academy Toyama, the Universidad Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile, the Universidade Federal do Amazonas and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. 2014 he founded the World & European Brass Association, an international cooperation of festivals, orchestras, universities and cultural institutions to support brass music in masterclasses, concerts and professional exchange worldwide (Honorary Music Advisor:

Maestro Zubin Mehta). Today the association maintains cultural partnerships with more than 65 countries worldwide.

For 50 years UNICEF-Germany, he initiated a concertseries and regularly invited artists like Montserrat Caballé or Bobby McFerrin, to give joint concerts for the ‘‘Otto Sauter Foundation’’.

With EMI Classics, Otto Sauter started his CD series of world premiere recordings ‘‘World of Baroque’’, with concerts from his music collection containing about 600 rediscovered compositions of baroque and early classical masters like A. Scarlatti, G. Reutter or J. M. Molter, that were not peformed in the last 250 years. Besides the baroque repertory, Otto Sauter dedicated himself to the enlargement of contemporary original literature for piccolo trumpet. Julien Francois Zbinden, Harald Genzmer, Jan Koetsier, Jurai Filas, Enjott Schneider, Mikis Theodorakis were writing compositions for piccolo trumpet for him.

2007/8 he initiated the „Little Amadeus Live“ concerts series supported by Volkswagen, based on the worldwide succesful children’s TV series and played 70 concerts in 35 cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

He is artistic director of the annual ‘‘Wartburg-Festival“, the international Choir- and Music Festival ‘‘Musica Sacra a Roma“ in Rome and at the Vatican, the ‘‘Playtime Live City Concert Tour’’ supported by the Organising Committee FIFA World Cup 2006TM and the Neuschwanstein Castle Festival 2014.

Otto Sauter works with artists like: Edita Gruberova, José Carreras, Gösta Winberg, Ivo Porgorelich, Elena Bashkirova, Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Poppen, Marcello Viotti, Mikis Theodorakis, Sting Guitarist Dominic Miller.

Iskander Akhmadullin Dr. Iskander Akhmadullin, Professor of Trumpet at the University of Missouri, has performed in orchestras in Russia and in the United States and can be heard on the Marco Polo, Naxos, Hugo, Klavier and Delos labels. He is currently co-principal trumpet of the Missouri Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist and chamber musician,

Akhmadullin has performed in the United States, Russia, France, Germany, Austria, Armenia, Japan, Australia, Mexico and Chile. Active as both a recitalist and a chamber musician, he has premiered a number of solo and chamber works. In April 2018, MSR Classics has released Russian Trumpet Sonatas CD by Iskander Akhmadullin and pianist Natalia Bolshakova, which includes 7 world premiere recordings. Critics agree that they “play all the music idiomatically, stylishly,” “with impetus and élan,” and that it is a “considerable source of fun.”

Akhmadullin has been a faculty member of the World Brass Association,

the National Trumpet Competition, Midwest Trumpet Festival, and Rafael Méndez International Brass Festival in Mexico. He has performed at the International Trumpet Guild conferences, Missouri and Texas Music Educators Association conventions, and with the American Bandmasters Association, College Band Directors National Association and World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles. In Russia, Akhmadullin has performed at the Moscow Autumn Festival and Russian Trumpet Guild conferences. Previously, he was on the faculty of Southeastern Oklahoma State University and taught at the University of North Texas and Moscow Conservatory. Dr. Akhmadullin holds degrees from the Kazan Music College, Moscow State Conservatory and the University of North Texas. His major teachers are Abbas Slashkin, Vadim Novikov, Leonard Candelaria and Keith Johnson. He is the first brass player from Eastern Europe to earn a doctorate degree from a major American university. Iskander Akhmadullin is an Artist-Clinician for Edwards Trumpets.

Natalia Bolshakova Prize-winning pianist Natalia Bolshakova enjoys an active performing career and has been praised for her beautiful and electrifying playing, astonishing versatility and artistry. She has appeared as a recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with orchestras in France, England, Germany, Czech

Republic, Bulgaria, Spain, Russia, and across the United States. Her wide repertoire encompasses works from baroque era to the newest music composed for her. Natalia Bolshakova has been a laureate and a winner in many competitions, including the New Orleans International Piano Competition, the Ima Hogg Young Artist International Competition and Vysočina International Piano Competition.

As a recording artist, she collaborated with trumpeter John Holt on several albums, two of which were named “best new recordings” from North America by Gramophone magazine in 2005. In April 2018, MSR Classics has released Russian Trumpet Sonatas CD by Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet and Natalia Bolshakova, which includes 7 world premiere recordings.

Dr. Bolshakova, who has been on the faculty of the School of Music at the University of Missouri since 2004, studied at the Moscow Ippolitov-Ivanov College, Moscow State Conservatory and the University of North Texas.

Esterhazy Quartet Eva Szekely and Julie Rosenfeld, violins Leslie Perna, viola Eli Lara, cello Throughout its distinguished career the Esterhazy Quartet has delighted audiences on three continents, performing at venues such as the Haydn Festspiele in Austria, the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada and the Beethoven Society in Santiago de Chile. The

Esterhazy Quartet has garnered international accolades from critics, who have praised the Quartet for its intelligence, refinement and “velvety palette of tonal colors” (La Segunda, Santiago de Chile). Taking its name from Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy, the patron of composer Joseph Haydn – “father” of the string quartet – the Esterhazy Quartet has appeared at several important music festivals in the United States and abroad, including the Western Arts Festival, the Classical Music Seminar in Eisenstadt, Austria, the International Music Festival of Para in Belém, Brazil, and most recently at the First Festival of Music de Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil. Frequently throughout the years the Esterhazy Quartet has performed live on National Public Radio “Hear America First” and “Quartessence” series, as well as WGBH Boston’s Classical Performances.

Formed in 1968 as the ensemble-in-residence at the University of Missouri, the Esterhazy Quartet is widely recognized for its commitment to performing and promoting the music of our time, especially modern music of the Americas. The Esterhazy Quartet maintains one of the largest collections of Latin American string quartets in the United States, and is responsible for the commission, world premiere and recording of several new American string quartets. Albany Records has recently released an album featuring the Esterhazy Quartet performing works of Samuel Adler, including Adler’s 9th String Quartet, written for the Esterhazy Quartet. Another recent release, the complete string quartets of James Willey available on Albany Records and New World Records/CRI, received a rave review from David DeBoor Canfield of Fanfare magazine: “The coruscating playing of the Esterhazy Quartet can scarcely be over-praised. Any composer would be gratified to have his work presented in such stellar fashion.”

In addition to collaborating with contemporary composers, the Esterhazy Quartet actively promotes the advancement of the string quartet art form through master classes, seminars and workshops for young performers and composers. Its most recent composer collaborations include the world premieres of works by Andrew List and James Willey written for

and dedicated to the quartet in celebration of its 50th anniversary.

The Esterhazy Quartet will be returning to Brazil to perform as featured guest artists at the XXXIII International Chamber Music Festival of Para in Belem.

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