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Meditation and Passion: Uncovering Piano Masterworks of Haiti Edouard Saintonge Elegie-Meringue Ludovic Lamothe Quatre Danses Carmen Brouard Quatre nocturne Nocturne No. 1 Edmond Saintonge Pages intimes: No. 1 Désespérance No. 2 Mélancholie, Mazurke de Salon No. 3 Causerie sentimentale Émile Desamours Sonate Folklorique (en sol majeur, sur les chansons populaires d’Haiti) Pianist Marianne Parker is a founding member of the L+M Duo, which performs contemporary music for percussion and piano. Previously, she served as Principal Pianist of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, where she studied under Chicago Symphony Orchestra Principal Pianist Mary Sauer. Ms. Parker previously studied at the Bösendorfer Piano Institute of Vienna under Krassimera Jordan, and with pianists Wei-Han Su, David Northington, and David Brunell.  About Crossing Borders Music Mission,  Vision, and Impact  The mission of Crossing Borders Music is to use music to promote the dignity of people from all cultures. They envision a more harmonious world in which people experience musical and artistic dimensions of world cultures in such a way that influences how they shop, invest, travel, volunteer, do business, and live their day-to-day lives. To this end, Crossing Borders Music produces moving music that tells compelling stories by composers from under-represented cultures – music that invites audiences to learn more and get involved. Crossing Borders Music also presents educational programs to foster young people’s awareness of the diversity and richness of cultures and their music. Crossing Borders Music focuses on cultures that are poorly understood and often historically marginalized. By sharing music by composers from these cultures, their music tells the stories others are not. In so doing, they  challenge stereotypes and preconceptions. Therefore, when they hear audience members say their music defied their expectations or broadened their worldview, they know they’re fulfilling their mission.

ON THE PROGRAM Bach/Hess: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Mozart: Sonata in c-minor, K. 457 Molto Allegro Rachmaninoff: Prelude in g-sharp minor, Op. 32, No. 12 Prelude in b-minor, Op. 32, no.10 Prelude in G Major, Op. 32, No. 5 Prelude in A Major, Op. 32, No. 9 Chopin: Barcarolle, Op. 60 Beach: Soirée de Vienne (Concert Paraphrase on motives from Die Fledermaus) FROM THE PIANOFORTE WEBSITE Hailed for his prodigious technique, and praised by the Washington Post for an “unusually fresh and arresting approach to the piano,” pianist Michael Adcock has cultivated a versatile career as soloist, chamber musician and pre-concert lecturer. Michael Adcock earned the Master’s, Artist Diploma and Doctoral degrees from the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, where he studied with Leon Fleisher and Ellen Mack, in addition to being an adjunct member of the theory and chamber music faculties. Mr. Adcock took his Bachelor’s degree from the Oberlin College-Conservatory where he graduated Pi Kappa Lambda. At Oberlin, he was twice awarded the Kaufmann Prize in chamber music and received the Hurlbutt Award as most outstanding graduating senior in the conservatory. Mr. Adcock attended secondary school at the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he received the Irwin Freundlich Memorial Piano Award. Recipient of the 1998 Lili Boulanger Memorial Award, Mr. Adcock was also a prizewinner in the 1996 Washington International Competition, as well as the Kosciusko Foundation Chopin Competitions in Chicago and New York. Mr. Adcock gave his Carnegie Weill Recital Hall debut in 1998. In January 2016, Mr. Adcock was a featured artist on Washington, DC’s WETA-FM “Front Row Washington” and has also been featured on radio broadcasts in New York City (WQXR) and Tampa, FL (WUSF). Recently, Mr. Adcock is a featured soloist in “Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty”, the first-ever documentary on the composer (2016; H. Paul Moon, director). Michael Adcock’s new solo CD, “Keyboard Transcriptions,” will be available on the Centaur label in early May 2017, and includes Prokofiev’s transcription of his Romeo and Juliet ballet, as well as the Gershwin-Wild Seven Virtuoso Etudes. Mr. Adcock has collaborated with many notable musicians, among them Denyce Graves, Ani Kavafian, Gervase dePeyer, James Buswell, Timothy Eddy, Carol Wincenc and the St. Petersburg String Quartet. A former Artist-in-Residence at the Aspen Institute (MD), Mr. Adcock has been affiliated with many chamber series and summer festivals and was for 17 years a faculty member of the Musicorda Festival. Mr. Adcock is currently associate piano faculty at the Sarasota Music Festival, a faculty member of the Washington Conservatory of Music in Bethesda, MD, and artistic director of the UU Chalice Concert Series in Columbia, MD. A native of Virginia, Mr. Adcock makes his home in Silver Spring, MD. Michael Adcock’s website is: www.michaeladcockpiano.com

Inna Faliks presents works from Schubert, Beethoven, Carter, Birtwistle and Liszt! FROM THE PIANOFORTE WEBSITE “Adventurous and passionate” (The New Yorker) Ukrainian-born pianist Inna Faliks has established herself as one of the most exciting, committed, communicative and poetic artists of her generation. Faliks has made a name for herself through her commanding performances of standard piano repertoire, as well genre-bending, interdisciplinary projects, and inquisitive work with contemporary composers. After her acclaimed teenage debuts at the Gilmore Festival and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, she has performed on many of the world’s great stages, with numerous orchestras, in solo appearances, and with conductors such as Leonard Slatkin and Keith Lockhart. Faliks is currently Professor of Piano and Head of Piano at UCLA. Critics call her “a concert pianist of the highest order” (Chicago WTTW), praise her “courage to take risks, expressive intensity and technical perfection” (General Anzeiger, Bonn), “remarkable insight” (Audiophile audition) “poetry and panoramic vision” (Washington Post), “riveting passion, playfulness” (Baltimore Sun) and “signature blend of lithe grace and raw power” (Lucid Culture.) Her October 2014 all-Beethoven CD release on MSR classics drew rave reviews: the disc’s preview on on WTTW called Faliks “High priestess of the piano, pianist of the highest order, as dramatic and subtle as a great stage actor.” Her previous, critically acclaimed CD on MSR Classics, Sound of Verse, was released in 2009, featuring music of Boris Pasternak, Rachmaninoff and Ravel. Her discography also includes a recital recording for the Yamaha Disklavier library. Recording projects in the works include a Brahms sonatas CD, Chopin solo and cello sonatas recording with cellist Wendy Warner, as well as “Polonaise-Fantasie, Story of a Pianist” – a recital of encores for piano combined with essays written by Faliks, to be released on the Delos label. Ms. Faliks’s distinguished career has taken her to thousands of recitals and concerti throughout the US, Asia, and Europe. Highlights of the recent seasons include a 2016 tour of China, with appearances in all the major halls such as Beijing Center for Performing Arts, Shanghai Oriental Arts Theater and Tianjin Grand Theater, as well as her acclaimed debuts at the Festival Intenacional de Piano in Mexico, in the Fazioli Series in Italy and in Israel’s Tel Aviv Museum, at Portland Piano Festival and with the Pacifica Chamber Players, a collaboration with the famed dance troupe Bodytraffic, and Jacaranda in Los Angeles. Recent return engagements include Newport Festival, Bargemusic and Le Poisson Rouge in NYC, Broad Stage Santa Monica, a tour of Canada, Salle Cortot in Paris, Beethoven 4th with Minnesota Sinfonia, and at Peninsula Festival , where she played the 1st and 3rd Prokofiev Concerti in the same half of the program with Victor Yampolsky, conductor. She is regularly engaged as a concerto soloist nation-wide; other concerti in the recent seasons include Rachmaninoff 2nd concerto with Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Greensboro Symphony, Rachmaninoff 2nd with Vallejo Symphony, Gershwin Project with Daniel Meyer and the Erie Symphony, and Clara Schumann at Wintergreen Festival, Beethoven 3rd with Evanston Symphony. She has been featured on WQXR, WNYC, WFMT and many international television broadcasts, and has performed in major venues such as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Concert Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paris’ Salle Cortot, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall and in many important festivals such as Verbier, Portland International, Music in the Mountains, Brevard, Taos, International Keyboard Festival at Mannes, Bargemusic, and Chautauqua.

Michael Tsalka performs Melankcholia and Ekstasis: Keyboard Works from Across the Centuries.

Program Jeeyoon Kim will discuss and play selections from her new CD,  "10 More Minutes"  In the Evening (Schumann) Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2 (Chopin) Fantasie-Impromtpu in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2 (Chopin) Pagodas from Estampes (Debussy) Gardens in the Rain from Estampes (Debussy) Sonata in F major, Op. 10, No. 2 (Beethoven) Allegro Allegretto Presto Arabeske (Schumann) Intermezzo, Op. 118, No. 2 (Brahms) Grande Valse in A-flat Major, Op. 42 (Chopin) Jeeyoon Kim Classical pianist Jeeyoon Kim’s greatest passion is music and connection. Her insightful commentary from the stage at her concerts started with her wish to connect with an audience. She is much more than just a pianist who performs music and afterwards disappears from crowds. “The more I have a deeper relationship with a piece, the more I want to bring others with me in that space. It is too beautiful to miss out. Music speaks for itself, but if there is a way to have more people appreciate music at a performance, even in that 1% of a chance, I would do it!” Many of Jeeyoon’s fans love her performance style, bringing sensitive and sincere musical expressions and a personal approach to the audience through her music. Jeeyoon’s followers often comment that her concerts are more like ‘experiences’ than just a piano concert. Jeeyoon considers herself a “foodie”. She grew up in Korea, which is considered a foodies’ dream country and remembers that meals in childhood were a central part of Korean culture and her family. She states “whether it is French cuisine or sushi, my favorite kind of meal is when I can feel the essence of a cook through their food. Music is a same thing; it may be Chopin, but perhaps there is something personal and unique about every performance as each musician brings that music through their windows.” She began studying music when she was just 4 years old and continued her undergraduate studies in  Korea, majoring in piano performance. Jeeyoon received her Masters of Music and Doctorate of Music in Piano Performance from the Jacob School of Music at Indiana University. Jeeyoon’s global performance appearances include PianoForte Salon Series on 98.7WFMT, Hilbert Circle Theatre in Indianapolis, Wheeler Concert Hall at the University of Evansville, GloVil Art Hall in Korea, Judson Park Auditorium in Cleveland, the Mozarteum Festival in Salzburg, Austria, the San Diego Symphony Chamber Music Series, and the La Jolla Music Society Series. She has collaborated with soloists including violinist Phillippe Quint, Cellist Johannes Moser and Violinist Ning Feng. Susan Kitterman, former Artistic Director of New World Youth Symphony describes Jeeyoon’s artistry as ‘Absolutely phenomenal! What a sensitive and gifted pianist…’.  Jazz Pianist, Gary Walter, commented ‘It would be criminal for the world not to hear Jeeyoon perform…’ In her other sphere of the musical world, she is known as “Dr. Kim”. As an accomplished pedagogue, she enjoys teaching, giving master classes and workshops to teachers at national and state music conferences.

An advocate of Italian music, pianist Alessandro Marangoni has recorded more than 20 CDs with works by Rossini, Clementi, and others. His international career took off when he won the prestigious “Amici di Milano” International Prize for Music in 2007, and that same year, he performed at the Teatro all Scala in Milan as a soloist in tribute to to the great conductor Victor de Sabata. In commemoration of the maestro’s death, Mr. Marangoni recorded an album on the La Bottega Discantica label dedicated to him. Soon after, he was signed as a recording artist with the NAXOS label. Mr. Alessandro has recently appeared as both a soloist and chamber musician in Rome, Milan, Venice, Florence, at the Festival MITO, Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Sagra Musicale Umbra as well as in venues across Europe, Canada and the United States. He has collaborated with with the Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra, the Granada Philharmonic, the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and il Quartetto di Fiesole di Fiesole e il Nuovo Quartetto Italiano. He is also the pianist for the critically acclaimed Trio Albatros Ensemble. Alessandro Marangoni is the artistic director of Forte? Fortissimo! TV, a new Music Web Channel created with Stefano Sgarella. Today on the Pianoforte Salon Series, he performs works by Rossini and Chopin.  Dave Schwan hosts, and Mary Mazurek is the technical Producer. Music: Rossini: Prelude inoffensive Rossini: Petite Polka Chinoise Chopin: Nocturne op. posthumous Rossini: Barcarole Chopin: Scherzo No.2 Op. 31 Rossini: Une caresse à ma femme

Pianist Alexander Djordjevic is known for his “formidable talent and technique,” “profound poetic sensitivity” and “elegant, expressive, yet powerful and electrifying playing.” The Washington Post has declared him “a constant infusion of original insight” and Gramophone Magazine proclaimed him “a fine young pianist.”

PROGRAM: J.S. Bach Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I  W.A. Mozart Sonata in F Major, K.332 (Allegro - Adagio - Allegro Assai) Frédéric Chopin  Ballade in G minor, Op.23 Carter Pann From “The Piano’s 12 Sides” (2011) White Moon Over Water Mark Olivieri Hommage à Trois (2005) Luca’s Swell: Hommage à Aaron Copland (b.1972) Gestures: Hommage à Toru Takemitsu Funk for Nikki: Hommage à James Brown Described by the New York Times as an “able and persuasive advocate” of new music, pianist Nicholas Phillips’ playing has been praised for its “bejeweled accuracy” (Fanfare) and as “razor-sharp yet wonderfully spirited” (American Records Guide).  He maintains an active schedule as a soloist and collaborative artist; recent performances include solo recitals in Korea and Argentina, as well as dozens of states across the U.S., and an invited performance at the Croatian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Phillips has given lecture-recitals and presentations at conferences in the U.S., Argentina, Croatia, England, and South Korea and is the author of “Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words Revisited: Culture, Gender, Literature, and the Role of Domestic Piano Music in Victorian England,” published by VDM Verlag.  In 2011,  he released two CDs on Albany Records; Portals and Passages, which features the piano music of American composer Ethan Wickman (b.1973), and Boris Papandopulo: Piano Music, which features music by the famous Croatian composer. and his most recent CD, American Vernacular: New Music for Solo Piano, features works he commissioned from ten American composers. Nicholas Phillips holds degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music, Indiana University, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is currently Associate Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.  

Kliment Krylovskiy, clarinet; Vanessa Mollard, violin; and Riko Higuma, piano PROGRAM:  Béla Bartók — Contrasts (1881 – 1945) I    Verbunkos:  Moderato, ben ritmato II    Piheno:  Lento III   Sebes:  Allegro vivace Dmitry Shostakovich — Three Duets (1906 – 1975) I    Praludium II   Gavotte III  Walser  Aram Khachaturian — Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano (1903 – 1978) I    Andante con dolore II   Allegro III  Moderato – Prestissimo - Moderato The Zodiac Trio The Zodiac Trio enjoys an international concert schedule that spans three continents and presents an eclectic repertoire that mixes contemporary with the traditional. In its relatively short history - the ensemble formed in 2006 at Manhattan School of Music, before becoming the first American group and the only ensemble with a wind instrument to enter the esteemed Ysaÿe Quartet Chamber Music program at the Paris Superior Conservatory -  has managed to achieve a level of recognition on the international chamber music stage, rarely bestowed upon an ensemble of such untraditional instrumentation. The Trio has performed at Ottawa Chamberfest, Festival Radio France Montpellier, International Colmar Festival, the Oriental Performing Arts Center in Shanghai, National Performing Arts Center in Beijing, Izumi Hall in Japan, Lincoln Center’s Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York’s Tishman Auditorium and Merkin Concert Hall, UCLA Clark Library; has been broadcast by France 3 Television, Beijing’s CCTV News, Canada’s CBC Radio and Television, NBC, WXQR, 98.7 WFMT, WGBH’s “Live from Frasier”, and has recorded for Radio France in Paris. The Zodiac Trio was originally formed under the guidance of renowned clarinetist David Krakauer and violinist Isodore Cohen of the Beaux Arts Trio. Shortly after its inception, the Trio was introduced to the New York audience on WQXR’s “Young Artist Showcase.”  Subsequently, the Zodiac Trio gave its official debut at the Kaufman Center, prompting Edith Eisler of the New York Concert Review to describe the young ensemble as “excellent...” praising its “remarkable ability” and “infectious enjoyment of the music.” The debut was followed by a string of concerts in Southern France where the Trio was further praised by the local media: “...unforgettable concerts by the Zodiac Trio! ...Truly exceptional and sublime talent... The prestigious level of the performances radiated the undeniable talent of the trio and foreshadowed their great success in the future.” – raved the Nice- Matin. In 2007, the Zodiac Trio was first brought to the attention of the international chamber music scene in a feature by the London- based international MUSO magazine, praising the Trio for “bringing a rare combination of instruments into the spotlight by unearthing old repertoire and commissioning new music.” At this time, the young ensemble was making its mark on the competition circuit, having garnered prizes at the Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition (Ohio, U.S.), FNAPEC International Chamber Ensemble Competition (Paris, France), International Chamber Music Competition of Duchi D'Acquaviva (Italy), Val Tidone International Music Competition (Italy), the Cziffra Foundation (France), Joyce Dutka Foundation for the Arts (New York), International Peninsula Young Artist Festival in California and the ProMusica Ensemble Competition (France), among others. The ensemble also received a Recording Grant and a Commission Grant from Co-op Press, resulting in its first commercial CD.

Program: Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, op.70 Arvo Part: Fratres Luigi Boccherini (arr. Katims): Sonata No. 6 in A Major, G4 Robert Schumann: Märchenbilder, Op.113 Henri Vieuxtemps: Élégie, Op.30 Aurelien Pederzoli, viola Chicago-based violist Aurelian Pederzoli trained from a young age on the violin and his talent and skill earned him wide acclaim from critics and the public alike. But something was missing. Artistic frustrations with the violin led him to pick up the viola and, to his surprise, his authentic musical voice emerged. “The sonority of the viola just seems to resonate with the fibers of my being,” Pederzoli says, “and I love the viola’s repertoire and the very communal role it plays in ensembles.”  A finalist in the 2015 International Hugo Kauder Competition for Viola at Yale University, Pederzoli merges a deep reservoir of  musicality with wide-eyed curiosity about his instrument as a soloist and chamber ensemble player, and as a teacher at the New Music School in Chicago. He is a member of the innovative Black Oak Ensemble which pairs classical works with music from around the world, a frequent collaborator with the Lincoln Trio, and he has toured internationally with blues harmonica virtuoso Corky Siegel. A deft collaborator, Pederzoli works with other musicians of many stripes, including members of eighth black bird, bassist Matt Ulery, composer/pianist Fernando Otero, members of the Vermeer Quartet, pianist H.J Lim, accordionist Julien Labro, violinist Rachel Kolly d'Alba, pianist Christian Chamorel, violinist Daniel Rowland, violist David Aaron Carpenter, and composer/saxophonist Miguel Zenon. He also works with many of the leading composers of our time, Recent project have included Lee Hyla, Hans Thomalla, Gunter Schuller, and Robert Dillon, and he has premiered and recorded works by Augusta Read Thomas, Bernard Rands, Mason Bates,  Shulamit Ran, Sarah Ritch, Jennifer Higdon, Marc Mellitts, Nico Muhly and others. Aurelian Pederzoli was born in France and graduated from the Paris Conservatory before moving to Chicago. He studies viola with Frank Babbitt and Li Kuo Chang. His violin teachers included Jean Lenert, Shmuel Ashkenasi, and Veda Reynolds. In 2008, Pederzoli cofounded Anaphora Ensemble to explore and present adventurous music in Chicago. Pederzoli was a founding member of the Spektral Quartet in 2010 and played with the ensemble until 2014. His work appears on recordings from Azica, Parlour Tapes+, Cedille, Southport, and Aparte labels. A new string trio recording with Desirée Ruhstrat, violin, and David Cunliffe, cello, of music by Conrad Tao, Jennifer Higdon, David Ludwig, and Marc Mellits, is forthcoming in 2016.   Matthew Hagle, piano Pianist Matthew Hagle is a musician of great versatility and depth, whose performances are a rare mixture of musical understanding, imaginative programming, pianistic mastery and beauty of sound. In solo recitals he often explores the boundaries of the piano repertoire, using thoughtful programming and committed performance to integrate newer repertoire and lesser-known older works with the traditional canon. At the moment, he is working on a more conventional project: performing the 32 Beethoven Sonatas in a series of live radio recitals. Mr.