PROGRAM

Jean-Marie Leclair — Sonata for two violins in A major

Nancy McFarland Gaub, violin & Matitiahu Braun, violin

Johann Sebastian Bach — Chaconne for solo violin from Partita in d minor, BWV 1004

Matitiahu Braun, violin

Ruben Varga — Two Caprices from ‘Prelude and Four Caprices’

Matitiahu Braun, violin

Franz Josef Haydn — Sailor Song

Freddy Niagara Fonseca, tenor & Phil D’Agostino, piano

Richard Strauss — Morgen!

Hugo Wolf — Ich hab' in Penna

Ulrike Selleck, soprano & Phil D’Agostino, piano

    INTERMISSION

Stella Sung — Voices of Time, Viola and Eurythmy

Karen Carter, eurythmy & Matitiahu Braun, viola

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Duo for Violin and Viola in G major K.423

Nancy McFarland Gaub, violin & Matitiahu Braun, viola

Maurice Ravel — From ‘Scheherazade’: La flûte enchantée

Gabriel Fauré — Mandoline

Margaret Clair, mezzo-soprano, & Phil D’Agostino, piano

Alan Ridout — Ferdinand the Bull

Nancy McFarland Gaub, violin & Karen Carter, narrator

    ARTISTS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:

    Violinist Nancy McFarland Gaub has had a varied career throughout the U.S., Mexico & Europe as soloist, recitalist, chamber & orchestral musician. She teaches violin & chamber music at Grinnell College, performs chamber music with the Iowa Chamber Coalition & the New Prairie Camerata, and is performer & co-artistic director of the Roycroft Chamber Music Festival in E Aurora, NY.

    A native of Israel, Matitiahu Braun came to the US in 1962 to study at The Juilliard School with Joseph Fuchs after graduating from the Israel Academy in Tel Aviv. At the Juilliard he received Artist and Post-graduate diplomas and was the recipient of the prestigious Naumburg Prize.

After stints with the Musica Aeterna Orchestra & Denver Symphony, he joined the New York Philharmonic, a position he held from 1969 till 2006. 

    He served as Principal & Solo Violist with the Dallas Symphony in the late 1970s. Called “Master of Strings” by a New York critic, Mr. Braun is known as a recitalist & chamber musician, he also enjoys being a teacher, working privately with students and professionals; coaching orchestra and chamber music groups, and presenting master classes on both violin and viola.

    Mr. Braun has a CD recording of solo violin music by Bach, Geminiani, Ysaye, and Ben-Haim and is planning another recording including both violin and viola in the near future.

    Freddy Niagara Fonseca is a poet, impresario and the founder of Chamber Music Society Fairfield.

    Phil D'Agostino has a Bachelor's in Piano from Oberlin College...has lived in Fairfield since 1979.  Works on the staff of M.U.M.

    Soprano Ulrike Selleck grew up in a family of classical singers and musicians. As a child she performed as a pianist, often with orchestra, sang solos in choirs and studied under Carl Orff for two years. In Fairfield Ulrike was seen and heard in her show-stopping performance as Katisha in "The Mikado". She performed in Puccini's "La Boheme" at Hancher in Iowa City, sang the Mezzo solo in Beethoven's "9th Symphony" with the Ottumwa Symphony, as well as two arias at the Steinway benefit concert and the Chamber Music Society Fairfield concert.

Upcoming performances include a recital of songs and arias in Fairfield as well as a performance with the Ottumwa Symphony Opera Gala on May 8, 2008.

Ulrike has just opened her voice studio in Fairfield and is taking students.

    Karen Carter, eurythmist, trained at the Eurythmy School of Spring Valley, New York. She has extensive experience performing and teaching both Eurythmy and Music. Her newest performing endeavor includes reciting poetry which she does several times a year.

    Margaret Clair sang professionally in the San Francisco Bay Area & Europe for many years before becoming a ‘Mid-Westerner’ in 2000.  She holds a B.A. in Voice Education from San Francisco State University and a M.A. in Voice Performance from the Univ of Iowa and is currently adjunct voice professor at Iowa Wesleyan College.  She has had the opportunity to study with many great teachers; Blanche Thebom, the leading mezzo at the Metropolitan Opera, Carol Dyk, and Dr. Katherine Eberele.  Margaret and her husband, Randy West, and their two children have found their home in Fairfield and look forward to the many new performing opportunities Fairfield will offer.

Chamber Music Society Fairfield is giving its Fall Musical Soiree on Saturday, October 6, starting at 7:45 PM sharp at the Jason & Glenda Schneider residence in Fairfield.

You will be hearing instrumental and vocal compositions by J.S. Bach, Haydn, Ravel, Fauré, Chopin, Mozart, Stella Sung, Leclair, Richard Strauss, Wolf, Ruben Varga, and Alan Ridout, the latter with quite a charming composition for narration and violin solo called ‘Ferdinand the Bull’.

The artists are violinists Nancy McFarland Gaub and Mati Braun (also on viola) who is flying in from New York; mezzo-soprano Margaret Clair; German soprano Ulrike Selleck; tenor Freddy Niagara Fonseca; pianists Phil D’Agostino and Meara Oberdieck (canceled); and Karen Carter, narration & eurythmy.

Please note that the two previous concerts were sold out very quickly, so you may want to book your seat(s) right away.

Seating is limited.  Admission $15.  RSVP only.  Call Freddy at 641-472-7634 for booking and directions.

Design and copyright 2009 Freddy Niagara Fonseca

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