Inspired by Mozart


Live Concert: January 31st, 2022 @ 7:30 PM
Private Home near TCU, Fort Worth

Virtual Concert: February 7th, 2022 @ 7:30 PM
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​Our first Salon Concert after a two year gap! We are excited to bring back our flagship concerts with this beautifully designed salon program featuring newly appointed FWSO Principal Bassoon Joshua Elmore and Assistant Principal Oboe Tamar Edelbi.​

With their special interest in the sound and lyrical possibilities of the clarinet, oboe, and bassoon, Mozart and Beethoven helped popularize the acceptance and use of these woodwind instruments in symphonies and chamber music from the Classical Period onward. The combination of clarinet(s), oboe and bassoon from this period often lends itself to a playful, congenial style met with irresistible lyricism. This program features Beethoven’s early interest and experimentation with these newer instruments, as well as Mozart’s refined mastery of their combination, finishing with a special, commissioned arrangement of the Marriage of Figaro Overture.

Program
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​Beethoven: Duo No. 3 for Clarinet and Bassoon
Mozart: Divertimento Nº 3 K.V. 439b for Two Clarinets and Bassoon
Beethoven: Trio op 87 for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro Overture arr. by A. Timofeev for Opus Nova for Two Clarinets, Oboe, and Bassoon

Musicians
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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