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Sneak Peek at May
5/01
12pm - Williamstown Jazz Festival: Intercollegiate Festival
5pm - Instructor Voice Recital
5/02
9:30am - Williamstown Jazz Festival: Intercollegiate Festival
12:30pm - Instructor Violin and Viola Recital
1:30pm - Senior Recital: Teng Jian Khoo '09, violin
3pm - Senior Thesis Recital: Alicia Choi '09, violin
6:30pm - Senior Recital: Kenny Taubenslag '09, piano
8:30pm - Williamstown Jazz Festival: Miguel Zenon Quartet
5/03
1pm - Artsbreak featuring
Senior Recital: Betsy Ribble '09, cello
3pm - Williams Student Symphony: Saluting the Sea
5pm - Senior Recital: Sarah Riskind '09, soprano
5/04
5pm - Vocal Jazz Instructor Recital
5/06
12:15pm - MIDWEEKMUSIC in Thompson
8pm - Williamstown Jazz Festival: Vijay Iyer Trio
5/09
4pm - Senior Recital: Scott Smedinghoff '09, organ
8pm - Williams Symphonic Winds: Yo Shakespeare
5/10
1pm - Artsbreak
3pm - Senior Recital: Ed Wichiencharoen '09, piano
7:30pm - Williams Brass Ensemble: Brass Bash
5/11
12:15 - In C
5/13
12:15pm - MIDWEEKMUSIC
4:15pm - Instructor Cello and Vocal Recital
7pm - MIDWEEKMUSIC
5/15
3:30pm - Student Chamber Recital
5/16
2pm - Instructor Piano Recital
8pm - Williams Opera: Cosi fan tutte
5/19
12:15 - MIDWEEKMUSIC (Tuesday)
4pm - Instructor Piano Recital
6pm - Guitar Performance Workshop
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MIDWEEKMUSIC
Wednesday, April 29
12:15pm
Chapin Hall
Featured in this week's lunchtime showcase:
Teng Jian Khoo '09, violin
Tiffany Yu '12, piano
Ernest Chausson, Poème, opus 25
Caroline Kan '09, violin
Noah Lindquist '08, piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Violin Concerto in A Major No. 5, KV 219
Kenneth Taubenslag '09, piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Rondo in A Minor, K. 511
Sarah Riskind '09, soprano
Robert Silversmith '11, piano
Robert Schumann, Frauenliebe und Leben, opus 42
Teng Jian Khoo '09, violin
Noah Lindquist '08, piano
Karol Szymanowski, Sonata for Violin and Piano, opus 9
Stephanie Jensen '12, violin
Noah Lindquist '08, piano
Jean Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D Minor, opus 47
Check the website for the most up to date list of performers. Don't forget to bring your lunch! |
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Vocal Instructor Recital
Erin Casey, instructor
Friday, May 1
5:00pm
Chapin Hall
Featuring: Margy Love '12, mezzo-soprano; Tasha Chu '11, soprano; Stella Onochie '09, mezzo-soprano; Chaz Lee '11, bass-baritone; Rob Gearity '11, baritone; Andrew Dominitz '11, tenor; Tasha Chu '11, soprano; Lauren Glaves-Barrett '11, soprano; and Maki Matsui '10, soprano.
Works: Faure's Mai; Schumann's Frauenliebe und leben; Schubert's Litany; Brahms's Vier Ernste Gesange; and selections from Sondheim's Company, Bart's Oliver!, Lerner and Loewe's Camelot, Floyd's Susannah, Handel's Giulio Cesare, Verdi's Falstaff, and Mozart's Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro.
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Senior Recital: Teng Jian Khoo '09, violin
Accompanied by Tiffany Yu '12, piano and Noah Lindquist '08, piano
Saturday, May 2
1:30pm
Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall
Works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ernest Chausson, and Karol Szymanowski.
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A resident of Penang, Malaysia, Teng Jian Khoo ’09 began playing the violin at age 10, after an abortive attempt to learn the piano. His first teacher was Lo Mei Yoke, concertmistress of the Penang State Symphony Orchestra. As an orchestral musician, Teng Jian has performed in Malaysia, Thailand and Australia, most notably joining the Southeast Asian Youth Orchestra in 2004. He is currently a student of Joanna Kurkowicz.
At Williams, Teng Jian has at various times been a member of the Berkshire Symphony, Symphonic Winds and Percussion Ensemble. In addition, he conducts the Student Symphony. A Physics major who has dabbled in Math, History and Chinese, he plans to pursue a PhD. in Physics next year.
Besides his musical exploits, Teng Jian is an avid fencer, cook and cat-lover.
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Senior Thesis Recital: Alicia Choi '09
Accompanied by Doris Stevenson, piano
Saturday, May 2
3:00pm
Chapin Hall
Works by Arvo Pärt, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Joseph-Maruice Ravel.
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Alicia began studying the violin at the age of four. From 2001-2005, Alicia received the Louis Smadbeck scholarship to attend the Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School of Music. She was a scholarship student at the Aspen Music Festival and School in the summers of 2001 and 2006. Alicia has also won several competitions and awards; the most recent include the 2005 Long Island Conservatory LISMA International Music Competition, the 2006 and 2009 Berkshire Student Soloist Competitions, the 2007 Williams College Joseph O. Kremer ’36 Memorial Scholarship, and the 2007 South Mountain Association Willem Willeke Memorial Scholarship.
At Williams College, Alicia has performed in ensembles such as Berkshire Symphony, Symphonic Winds, and Student Symphony, as well as various chamber groups. She currently studies with Joanna Kurkowicz.
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Senior Recital: Sarah Riskind '09, soprano
Also featuring: Katie Yosua '11, soprano and Rob Silversmith '11, baritone
Accompanied by Scott Smedinghoff '09, harpsichord; Talia Loewen '12, cello; and Dan Kohane '12, piano.
Sunday, May 3
5:00pm
Chapin Hall
Works by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Eccles, and Robert Schumann
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Sarah was born and raised by her Texan parents in Needham, Massachusetts. After many years of violin and piano lessons, she began studying voice during her sophomore year of college. In addition to singing in the Chamber Choir and sometimes Symphonic Winds, she is now the student conductor of the Williams Concert Choir, assistant conductor of the Bennington Children’s Chorus (directed by Kerry Ryer-Parke), senior director of the Williams College Elizabethans, and director of the Contra Dance band, Rude Cider. For her senior thesis, Sarah composed a three-movement work for soprano and chamber orchestra entitled Heart’s Place, which incorporates texts from a variety of medieval and Biblical sources. She will conduct the ensemble, featuring Kerry Ryer-Parke, at the Symphonic Winds concert on Saturday, May 9th at 8:00pm in Chapin Hall. Her post-Williams plans include composing, conducting, and pursuing her love of music in every way possible.
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We Appreciate...
...your continued support through donations to the Music Ensembles Fund. Contributions may be mailed to Music Ensembles Fund, Attn. Michelle Picard, 54 Chapin Hall Drive, Williamstown, MA 01267. Please let us know how you would like your name listed in our programs. Designations: Angels $100+, Patrons $50-$99, Sponsors $25-$49, and Friends, under $25.
We extend thanks to our amazing donors:Angel ($100+)
Anonymous (in honor of retired music professors Irwin Shainman and Kenneth Roberts)
Jerald Bope
Mary Ellen Czerniak
Jeremy S. Davis '56 & Helen B. Davis
Joseph Eaton Dewey
Polly Hamilton
Richard Levy, Jr. & Carol Miller
Carrie Fisher & Daniel Polsky
Mary & Henry Flynt, JR.
Willemina Kramer
Andrew & Janet Masetti
Alexander Schumacker '08
Sweetwood
Sergey & Dr. Natalya Yantovsky, DMD
Patron ($51 - $99)
Janice Adkins
Robert & Barbara Bashevkin
David & Hanne Booth
Kristin & Robert Buckwalter
Stephen & Gretchen Doret
David Kemple
Ira Lapidus, DMD
Keren & Richard Oberfield
Jane & David Peth
Dorothy Scullin
Sheri & Bud Wobus
Doris McNabb Youngquist
Sponsor ($25 - $49)
Alcenith V. Green
Young Ja Y. Kim
Ronnie and Larry Levin
Esther Northrup
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Olenik
If you wish to become a donor, contributions may be mailed to: Music Ensembles Fund, 54 Chapin Hall Drive, Williamstown, MA 01267, Attn: Michelle Picard. Please let us know how you would like your name listed in our programs and e-newsletters.
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