Danse et Danzón

Live Concert: January 23rd, 2023 @ 7:30 PM
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Virtual Concert: January 30th, 2023 @ 7:30 PM

TICKETS

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The woodwind quintet is perhaps the most colorful, vibrant, and dynamic of all chamber groupings, with a repertoire of incredible stylistic range. For kaleidoscopic color and elegant clarity, there is perhaps no better demonstration than Maurice Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin, the French composer's sublime homage to Baroque dance. Before this legendary work, the program will begin with Jacques Ibert's joyous and buoyant 3 Pièces brèves, a bubbling taster for the depth to come. The second half of the program is a trip to Latin America: Paquito d'Rivera's Aires Tropicales is an eclectic set of dances from Spanish to jazz to Afro-Cuban, and Astor Piazzolla's Libertango is a passionate force of nuevo tango that will ignite the soul.

Program
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​Ibert: 3 Pièces brèves
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Paquito D'Rivera: Aires Tropicales
Piazzolla: Libertango

Musicians
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Flutist Gabe Fridkis is quickly establishing himself as a distinguished orchestral musician and sought after soloist. Gabe began his musical studies at seven years of age at the Westminster Conservatory of Music in Princeton, NJ.  At 11, Gabe debuted with his brother, Jake Fridkis at the National Flute Convention in San Diego, premiering a duet by world-renowned flutist and composer Gary Schocker. At 12, Gabe toured Europe as the soloist with a chamber orchestra, performing in Prague, Florence and across Eastern Europe, as well as beginning studies in the private studio of Mr. Schocker as his youngest full-time student.

    After taking a three year hiatus from music to study law and business at American University in Washington D.C. Gabe resumed his musical studies with Dr. Tara Helen O’Connor at the Conservatory of Music at SUNY Purchase winning a position in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago before completing his Bachelor of Music degree. He moved to Chicago to join the orchestra while concurrently pursuing a Masters degree at DePaul University in the studio of Mark Sparks. During his first year in Chicago in addition to his studies Gabe appeared as a soloist with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and won the Principal Flute chair in the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. Gabe received his Master of Music degree in the spring of 2018, while simultaneously completing his first season with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra and second season with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. During these two years Gabe also performed with the Nashville Symphony and the San Antonio Symphony. In 2018 Gabe auditioned for and was appointed Assistant Principal Flute of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, a position he currently holds.

    During his years in school Gabe attended many music festivals including a summer in the National Repertory Orchestra, two summers with the Aspen Music Festival, one at the Brevard Music Center where he was the winner of the Jean and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition, as well as taking part in the Breckenridge, Eastern, and Banff music festivals. Gabe has had the opportunity to work with conductors including Riccardo Muti, Christoph Eschenbach, Osmo Vanska, Ken-David Masur and Robert Spano, and soloists such as Yo Yo Ma, Andre Watts and Augustin Hadelich. Gabe also studied with Stefan Hoskuldsson, Demarre McGill, Ransom Wilson, Marianne Gedigian, and Nadine Asin.

    In addition to his orchestral and solo work, Gabe also performs with his brother and duo partner, Jake Fridkis and has been an adjunct faculty member at the University of North Texas. 
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    Gabe is a Wm. S. Haynes Flutes performing artist plays a 14K Gold Haynes flute with silver mechanism.

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Joshua Elmore is the recently appointed principal bassoonist of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Joshua has performed with many orchestras around the United States including The New York Philharmonic, Oregon Symphony and Charleston Symphony and performed a side-by-side collaboration at Carnegie Hall with The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. 

Before joining the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Joshua completed his professional studies certificate at the Colburn School in Los Angeles as a student of Richard Beene. Joshua was a Kovner Fellow graduate of the Juilliard School where he studied under Judith LeClair and appeared often as principal bassoon of The Juilliard Orchestra.  Joshua has been a member of The New York String Orchestra Seminar and was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Music Academy of the West and the National Orchestra Institute where he recorded a grammy-nominated orchestral album with NAXOS.

Originally from Cleveland, Joshua began his official bassoon studies with Mark DeMio before joining the Young Artist Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of Barrick Stees. During his high school years, Joshua was principal bassoonist of the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony and was a member of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra and regularly rehearsed and performed in Severance Hall. Joshua was a member of Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra of the USA (NYO-USA) where he toured China and Europe with Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev and Christoph Eschenbach. Joshua has also performed on NPR’s From The Top and was selected to receive the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award.

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Tamer Edlebi joined the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra as assistant principal oboe
during the 2018/2019 season. Prior to his appointment to the FWSO, Mr. Edlebi made guest appearances with the Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, and the Houston Grand Opera and Ballet orchestras.

He has participated in numerous summer festivals, including the Kent/Blossom Music Festival, as well as four summers at the Aspen Music Festival and School where he studied with Richard Woodhams and Elaine Douvas. Most recently, Edlebi served as principal oboe of Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería in Mexico City performing not only standards of the orchestral repertoire, but many contemporary works by notable Mexican composers. An avid lover of chamber music, Edlebi is a founding member of the Prismatics Woodwind Quintet, prizewinners of the 2015 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. In 2017, he was named a Zarin Mehta Fellow through the New York Philharmonic Global Academy partnership with Rice University.

Edlebi holds a bachelor's degree from Chapman University where he studied with Ariana Ghez. He also completed graduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music under the tutelage of Frank Rosenwein, and earned a master’s degree from Rice University as a student of Robert Atherholt. Other teachers include Adam Dinitz and Jonathan Fischer of the Houston Symphony.

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Kelly Cornell was named associate principal horn of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in 2012.  In 2014 she was appointed to the position of principal horn of the Santa Fe Opera. Kelly has previously been a member of the Kansas City Symphony and the Nashville Symphony and has served as a substitute in the Cincinnati Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, and St. Paul Chamber orchestras.   

​Kelly is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and the New England Conservatory of Music. She is married to FWSO violinist Matt Milewski and they have a young son. 

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Stas Chernyshev, a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, is recently appointed principal clarinetist of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. He is the founder and artistic director of Fort Worth Performances for Autism, and a co-director of Opus Nova Chamber Music Series. Mr. Chernyshev is a prize winner of many international competitions, and has appeared at Carnegie Hall in New York, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as well as in Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Russia, South Korea, Japan. A devoted chamber musician, Mr. Chernyshev has collaborated with Grammy-winning ensemblesEighth Blackbird and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, commissioned new works for his instrument. He has been featured on WQXR -New York’s classical music station and WHYY’s television program - On Stage at Curtis. Mr. Chernyshev holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, and a Master’s degree from St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia. He is an alumnus of Ensemble Connect (formerly Ensemble ACJW), a program of Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute, and ArtistYear, a program of the Curtis Institute of Music.

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Ann Hung, born in Taipei, Taiwan, began her musical studies at a young age, starting with piano at age five and clarinet at age nine. Dr. Hung is an active performer in the Dallas and Fort Worth area who regularly performs in the realms of both the orchestral and chamber music. She has shared the stage with the Fort Worth Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the members of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the faculty of the Juilliard School. Dr. Hung is always pushing the boundaries of her repertoire and skills, such as collaborating with jazz musicians and commissioning new composers. As a proponent of new music, she has avidlycommissioned new works including a wind quintet with her quintet Opus Now premiering in Symphony Space in NYC. One of the new works that Dr. Hung commissioned is included in a recently released album “Stained Glass Story” by Eldad Tarmu. Dr. Hung is currently teaching in Lewisville ISD, Burleson ISD as private lesson instructor and often plays with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. She is the associate director of the Fort Worth Performances for Autism and co- founder of Opus Nova Chamber Music Series.