Concerts Presented September 2015
Aaron Copland School of Music
Edward Smaldone, Director
presents
Melanie Bonich, Violin
MM Classical Performance Graduation Recital
Friday, September 11, 2015, 5 pm , LeFrak Concert Hall
Christine Dore, Accompanist
Le quattro stagioni Op. 8 No. 1, RV. 269 Antonio Vivaldi
La primavera ("Spring")
Allegro: Giunt'e la Primavera
Largo: Il Caparo che dorme
Allegro: Danza Pastorale
Michael Mandrin, Violin
Kara Cantele, Violin
James Yeolim Yoon, Viola
Elizabeth Kim, Cello
Sonata for Violin and Piano, No. 22 in A Major, K. 305 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Allegro di molto
Tema con variazioni: Andante grazioso
Sonata for Violin and Piano Felix Mendelssohn
Allegro Vivace
Adagio
Assai Vivace
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Camille Saint-Saëns
Melanie Bonich is a student of Daniel Phillips
Aaron Copland School of Music
Edward Smaldone, Director
presents
Jacob Elkin
Electronic Composition Recital
"Portraits of an American Leader"
Friday, September 18, 2015, 1 pm, LeFrak Concert Hall
All pieces on one track (please allow time to load):
1. "Thank you Billy Ray"!
2. "Because our country is a battlefield"!
3. "Moms and Dads, friends and neighbors"!
4. "Some of them were still little boys"!
5. "Grow" "Oil"!
6. "And so does Michael Feinberg"!
7. "Incite murder"!
8. Save us from evil!
9. "We awoke in a different world"!
10. "As a result we must look at security in a new way"!
11. "The virus"!
12. "Something's wrong with the system"!
13. why must itself up every of a park!
- e.e. cummings!
14. "Acts of God"!
15. "Party tonight"!
16. "The deep wet snow made" !
Aaron Copland School of Music
Edward Smaldone, Director
presents
Hao-Wen Cheng, Saxophone
Masters Graduation Recital
Thursday, September 24, 2015, 2:45 PM, Choral Room 264
What is the things called love C. Porter
Peresina Gary Bartz
望春風 (spring breeze) Deng Yu-Shian
Fungii mama Blue Mitchell
To father Hao-Wen Cheng
Hao-Wen Cheng, Alto sax
Sergej Avanesov, Tenor sax
Hila Kulik, Piano
Dustin Kiselbach, Bass
Jack Kilby, Drums
Hao-Wen Cheng is a student of Antonio Hart
Aaron Copland School of Music
Edward Smaldone, Director
presents
Odd Steinar Albrigtsen, Guitar
Master Of Music In Jazz Studies Graduation Recital
September 24, 2015, 3:45 PM, Recital Hall 226
Mode Odd Albrigtsen
Macon Odd Albrigtsen
Rapid Eye Movement Odd Albrigtsen
Chorizo Odd Albrigtsen
Toninho Odd Albrigtsen
Odd Albrigtsen - Guitar
Tuomo Uusitalo - Piano
Dustin Kiselbach - Bass
Jesse Simson - Drums
Odd Albrigtsen is a student of David Berkman, Paul Bollenback and Lage Lund.
Aaron Copland School of Music
Edward Smaldone, Director
presents
Amanda Wai, Piano
B.M. Graduation Recital
Friday, September 25th, 2015, 7:30 PM, LeFrak Concert Hall
Prelude and Fugue No. 6 in D minor, BWV 875 Johannes Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
I. Vivace ma non troppo, Adagio espressivo
II. Prestissimo
III. Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung (Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo)
Étude No. 3, Un Sospiro (A Sigh) Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Jeux D'eau Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Suite No. 2, Op. 17 Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
III. Romance
IV. Tarantella
Amanda Wai, Piano
Xing Yu Liu, Piano
Amanda Wai is a student of Donald Pirone.
Aaron Copland School of Music
Edward Smaldone, Director
presents
The Queens College Orchestra
Maurice Peress, Music Director
Wednesday, September 30, 12:15 pm
LeFrak Concert Hall
Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990) Fanfare for the Common Man (1942)
Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990) Clarinet Concerto (1949)
Clarinet, Ayana Ouchi
David Vabuena
Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981) Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1939)
Violin, Christopher Joyal
Allegro
Andante
Presto in moto perpetuo
Roy Harris (1898 - 1979) Symphony No.3 (1939)