Out of Shadow
Vítězslava Kaprálová: April Preludes, Op.13 for piano solo
About
Female chamber musicians, orchestral players, and soloists are not a novelty in this day, yet it is still rare to see concerts featuring works composed by women. Opus Nova sees this as an opportunity to create a female-inspired program and bring these gems of the chamber music repertoire to you.
In this concert, you will hear works by Grammy-nominated composer Missy Mazzoli; Amy Beach, the first major female American composer; and two Czech composers who heavily influenced each other’s music and life (Bohuslav Martinu and Vitezslava Kapralova). The program ends with a charming Baroque aria by Barbara Strozzi, arranged for Opus Nova by Alyssa Weinberg.
In this concert, you will hear works by Grammy-nominated composer Missy Mazzoli; Amy Beach, the first major female American composer; and two Czech composers who heavily influenced each other’s music and life (Bohuslav Martinu and Vitezslava Kapralova). The program ends with a charming Baroque aria by Barbara Strozzi, arranged for Opus Nova by Alyssa Weinberg.
Musicians
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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.
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A soloist, chamber musician and educator, pianist Daniel Anastasio combines an intellectual curiosity with “technical prowess and emotional sensitivity” (Rivard Report). His performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 3, conducted by Leon Fleisher with the Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra, was “the highlight to everyone’s ears, if the full-house of standing ovation were any indication” (ECM reviews).
Anastasio was a concerto competition finalist at Stony Brook University and Juilliard, where he won the Mieczyslaw Munz Scholarship. He received fellowships to Music Academy of the West, Kneisel Hall, Tanglewood Music Center and Yellow Barn Music Festival. Anastasio is the co-founder and pianist for Unheard-of//Ensemble, a group dedicated to commissioning composers and premiering their works. With his wife, pianist Erika Dohi, he co-directs BLUEPRINTS piano series in Manhattan. Anastasio continues to perform in New York City’s many venues, from Carnegie’s Weill Hall to Roulette Intermedium and National Sawdust in Brooklyn. Recently joining the faculty of San Antonio College as a full-time piano instructor, Mr. Anastasio is a member of Agarita, a San Antonio-based chamber ensemble dedicated to making classical music accessible to everyone in San Antonio, reaching the whole of its community including the most underserved populations and geographic areas. He has been a repeat concerto soloist with the Mid-Texas Symphony, and guest with the Olmos Ensemble, and Musical Bridges Around the World. Anastasio received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music and philosophy at Cornell University, and a Master of Music degree at Juilliard. He is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts at Stony Brook University, where he is finishing his studies with Gilbert Kalish and Christina Dahl. |
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Ke Mai (a.k.a. MaiKe), originally from China and began violin study at age four under his father’s influence. Before he joins Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in 2018, he was violinist of Dallas Opera Orchestra, the second violin principal of Des Moines Metro Opera.MaiKe study the art of violin playing with former Concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony, Emanuel Borok and received the Performance Diploma from SMU, Meadows School of Art in 2014. After Maike acquired Violin performing Masters and Bachelor degree in the National Music Academy of Ukraine in 2007，he won the position of the first violin of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine. In 2011, after a global online audition, MaiKe was selected as Principal Second Violinist for the 2011 YouTube Symphony Orchestra in Sydney, Australia,
As an active chamber music musician, Maike is the founding member of Cezanne Quartet, which awarded the Peak chamber music fellowship in Meadows school in SMU in 2014, won the second prize in the Coltman chamber music competition in Austin in 2015. Maike plays a rare fine violin made by Carl Becker in 1919. |
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Sarah Kienle joined the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in 2017. She started her viola studies at the age of 7 in her hometown of Kalispell, Montana. After graduating from the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, she went on to receive her Bachelor of Music from the Colburn School and Master of Music from Indiana University where she studied with Paul Coletti and Atar Arad. Sarah spent two years as a fellow with the New World Symphony before moving to Texas, where she has performed with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Houston Symphony. She spends her summers in Durango, Colorado hiking and playing at the Music in the Mountains Festival.
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First Prize winner of both the 2013 Astral Artists Auditions and 2013 Sphinx competitions, Christine Lamprea joined the Sphinx Soloists Program, and as such is presented as soloist with orchestras worldwide. She also toured with the Sphinx Virtuosi across the U.S., in such venues as Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. She has appeared as soloist with the Costa Rica National Symphony, and the Houston, New Jersey, and San Antonio symphonies. A Gluck Community Service Fellow at The Juilliard School and the recipient of a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, she recently received a Sphinx MPower Artist Grant, and holds a Master’s degree from the New England Conservatory. She has studied with eminent cellists Bonnie Hampton, Natasha Brofsky and Matt Haimovitz. Ms. Lamprea is Lecturer in Cello at Texas Christian University for the 2018-2019 academic year.
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