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    Journey
    The Back Bay Guitar Trio is an exciting new ensemble that has made an immediate impression on the New England music scene. The group formed in early 2002 when David Newsam invited former student Steve Marchena and his duo partner John Mason to perform as a trio. All three guitarists are respected educators and performers with extremely diverse musical interests. These talents blend themselves in a unique way within the trio. The BBGT create a new and exciting approach to the classical guitar trio while still respecting the long-standing tradition. The Back Bay Guitar Trio has performed at Dartmouth College, Longy School of Music, Berklee College of Music, St. Anselm College, University of New Hampshire, The House of Blues and at the world renowned Boston Hatch Shell. The BBGT have also been featured artists in the Boston Classical Guitar Society concert series, the North Shore Leider concert series in Rockport, Massachusetts and opened up for guitarist Al Dimeola at the Lebanon (NH) Opera House. Their new CD release, "The Journey", showcases the group's wide stylistic range and includes, transcriptions of Debussy, Brahms, Gershwin, Prokofiev and Brubeck, Latin American compositions from Paulo Bellinati and Astor Piazzolla, trio arrangements by John Duarte, Heinrich Albert, and Paul Hindemith, and many surprises including 10-string guitar, bottleneck slide, and harmonica! The Back Bay Guitar Trio bring the energy, excitement, and humor of their live performances to life on "The Journey".
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    Works By Brahms Bridge Mozart & Faure
    Frank Graves studied violin in Vienna, Austria under Guenter Pichler, the former concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic, Harry Farbman and Jean Piguet. He was a member of the National Symphony Orchestra in 1976-77 under Mstislav Rostropovich. He has appeared in recitals at the Longy School of Music and the Gardner Museum and is an active freelance player in the Boston area. Colleen Katsuki has delighted audiences throughout New England and New York as a collaborative pianist. She has performed with violinists Frank Graves and Lucy Chapman Stoltzman, pianist Jennifer Elowsky-Fox, and soprano Joanna Porackova as well as with the New England Philharmonic and the Wellesley Symphony Orchestra. A student of Mary Sauer, pianist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, she also studied with the renowned Hungarian coach, Dusi Mura and with Anthony di Bonaventura at Boston University.
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    Spectrum
    Tal Shalom-Kobi, a native of Israel, is a Bass player and a music educator, who has been active in the world of music for the past 15 years. Tal holds a degree in Music Education from Berklee College of Music, and Masters in Jazz Performance from New England Conservatory. Tal has performed in Jazz Festivals overseas and locally in venues like Berklee Performance Center, Ryles Jazz Club, and Jordan Hall among others. Tal is the leader of the 'Four N' More' Jazz group, and co-leads the 'Jazz Marauders' Latin Jazz quartet. Together with her performance career she stayed active in the field of education, teaching Piano, and youth ensemble groups in her home studio in Newton. Miki Matsuki is an experienced and versatile jazz drummer. She has performed in various musical settings including: soundtrack work, a tour of Korea, the performances at the Symphony Hall etc. Ms. Matsuki has performed with great musicians including Wynton Marsalis, Joanne Brackeen, George Garzone, Darren Barrett, Dave Bryant, Stan Strickland, and many others. Ms. Matsuki graduated from Berklee College of Music and received her M.M. from the Longy School of Music and is currently enrolled in the Graduate Performance Diploma program there with full scholarship. Pianist Pamela Hines grew up in Massachusetts and has played with some great artists in past years. Hines' 2007 CD, 'Return,' with John Lockwood and Bob Gullotti and a special guest appearance by Jerry Bergonzi, earned #13 ranking on jazz week charts in early 2008. Her debut CD with Bob Moses in 1998 earned her a guest spot on Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland. Hines received her MM from New England Conservatory in 1998.
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    New Leaf
    Infused with lightness and joy, Susan Conant's music is a blend of Celtic and ethnic inspired melody with classical and jazz harmony. As a composer, performer and teacher on classical and traditional flutes, Conant's programs include her own original chamber music, Celtic and world music, classical music and musical stories. For Conant, now located in Charleston, SC, but previously from the Chicago area, chamber music is both a performance genre that allows her to communicate a deeply personal musical expression and a teaching tool that engages musicians of all ages and abilities in the life-long practice of music. Conant's most recent activities include performing her own compositions and musical stories including performances at the 2009 Piccolo Spoleto's Bishop Gadsden and Children's concerts and as the featured artist for the Chicago Chamber Choir's 2008 spring series. She also just finished arranging and directing her sixth Annual Celebration of Music at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva (UUSG) and will share her "Celebration of a Day" program with the Unitarian Church in Charleston in August 2009. These multi-generational programs are a compilation of instrumental and vocal selections, stories and readings woven together to articulate a spiritual theme. Conant served a one of the music directors and Youth Choir Director at UUSG where her goal was to create an alternative path to worship that enriched the congregation's sense of community. As such, she directed and performed with an assortment of ad-hoc ensembles made up of musicians of all ages and abilities. Composing is an important new direction for Conant. In early 2007, she released her debut CD, A New Leaf, consisting of original chamber works for flute and other instruments. Combining bits and pieces from an eclectic musical background, her evocative music and expressive flute playing paints a lush landscape of moods from contemplative to joyful. Here are some comments about Conant's music on the recording A New Leaf: 'a wonderful collection', 'Highly inspiring ... earthy. The music is very soothing and deep. I strongly recommend it.', "pure joy', "expressive, fun, convincing, deserves to be more widely known...performances and recorded sound were very good'. Finally Conant enjoys playing all kinds of folk music. She is a member of Musaica, a Chicago based Latin band that specializes in Columbian folk and Brazilian Choro music. She plays regularly for Scottish Country dancing with O're the Border, a Midwest based Scottish band of fiddle, flute and keyboard. Susan was first enchanted by folk music as a young child. Her grandmother (Lily Conant) was a long-time steward of Pinewoods, a folk dance and folk music camp for adults and families in Plymouth, MA. Susan spent her summers there playing early music on the recorder and learning traditional dance and music from the British Isles and North America. This experience showed her how to use music making, storytelling and movement to engage a multi-aged audience. Conant's love of chamber music formed when as a teen, she participated in a youth chamber music class led by Connie Sattler at the Hartt School of Music. Sattler's model of coaching and communicating the love of music through intense study of chamber music continues to provide inspiration. Susan studied flute and recorder with Susan Zimmerman at the Hartford Conservatory and flute with Trix Kout at Longy School of Music She went on to the New England Conservatory of Music where she was a flute performance major studying under Claude Monteux. Jacqueline Schwab, featured on 'Celtic Suite', is well-known for her improvisational piano playing. She has recorded three solo CDs and performs on over forty other albums including the soundtrack for Ken Burns' "Civil War" documentary. Her playing has been described as 'gorgeously spare' (The Boston Globe) yet 'sounds as if she has an orchestra at her fingertips' (Sing Out). Jacqueline's style fits somewhere between folk traditional, classical and new age. Although improvisation is often connected with jazz, Jacqueline derives inspiration from traditional and classical music. Lynn McCanne's expressive piano playing can be heard on 'Duet', 'Fantasy', 'The Tide', and 'Lord Balgonie's Medley'. Lynn performs locally in the western suburbs of Chicago, provides piano music at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva, IL and is a member of a number of vocal ensembles. Cynthia Spiegel is an accomplished free-lance soprano and can be heard in many Chicago are churches. She is member of Bella Voce and St Charles Singers. Cynthia performed as soloist in their 2006 tour of France. Conor Mackey ('Dialogue' and 'Sassafras Reel') is a very talented young musician who studies composition at Northern Illinois University. He is equally accomplished on both classical bassoon and electric guitar and moves easily between an eclectic array of musical styles from classical to jazz and funk. A member of the band 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' Conor can be heard touring throughout the midwest. Wendy Evans-Glazier, violinist, ('Lord Balgonie's Medley' and 'Bonnie at Morn') holds a Bachelor of Music degree in performance from Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, and a Master of Music degree and Performance Certificate from Northwestern University. She has held positions with the Omaha Symphony, Florida Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Elgin Symphony. She also performs with the Chicago Philharmonic, Ravinia Festival Orchestra, Grant Park Symphony, Chicago Opera Theater, and the Rockford Symphony. As a member of the Telos String Quartet, she performed numerous recitals in the Midwestern states and in Italy. She has recorded with Mannheim Steamroller and John Denver, and performed with such popular artists as Josh Grobin, Patti LaBelle, Vince Gill and Ray Charles. Larry Glazier, cellist, ('Lord Balgonie's Medley' and 'Bonnie at Morn') has held positions with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Elgin Symphony. He also performs with the Grant Park Symphony, Chicago Lyric Opera, and the Rockford Symphony.
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    Lute Legends: Ancient Airs from East and West
    This CD was generously funded by an artist development grant from the Ontario Arts Council. Recorded February 2008, St. John Chrysostom Catholic Church (Newmarket, ON) Recording engineer & producer: Norbert Kraft Digital Editing: Lucas Harris Booklet design: Rose Zhao Photography: Terry Williams 13-course Baroque lute after Jauch (Michael Schreiner, 2006) 13-course Baroque lute after Frei (Michael Schreiner, 2001): tracks 3&4 Lucas Harris began his musical life as a jazz guitarist in his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. After graduating summa cum laude from Pomona College, he studied for a year in Milan, Italy as one of the first Marco Fodella Foundation scholars and then at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. Lucas now keeps a busy schedule as a continuo player for dozens of Baroque ensembles across North America. He is the regular lutenist with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, and has been living in Toronto since early 2004. Lucas is a regular on the faculty for the Oberlin Conservatory's Baroque Performance Institute and the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, and has also taught for Amherst Early Music, the International Baroque Institute at Longy, and the New York Continuo Collective. He is a founder of the Toronto Continuo Collective, a weekly class and performing 'pluck band' dedicated to the art of seventeenth-century accompaniment. Beyond continuo work, recent solo and directing projects include a concerto program for CBC radio's Young Artist Series, a recital for the Minnesota Guitar Society, a production of Cavalli's La Calisto at Ohio State University, and a program with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra in Vancouver. Lucas was praised for his work with Les voix humaines in Montréal: "The revelation of the concert was the Torontonian lutenist Lucas Harris, who weaved a poetic thread through his infinitely subtle interventions. The sweetness and patience of his playing . . . was astonishing." (Le Devoir) Wen Zhao is an internationally acclaimed pipa virtuoso, a sensitive and lyrical performer. Born in Beijing, she began to study the pipa at the age of seven, eventually completing her university study with the renowned pipa master Wang Fan Di. After winning the first prize at Beijing Youth National Instrument Competition in 1995, Wen continued her musical career in England, performing and teaching Chinese music throughout the U.K. Wen lives in Toronto since 1997, and teaches pipa at both the Royal Conservatory of Music and York University in Toronto. Zhao has appeared at major ethnic music festivals worldwide, including those in China, Switzerland, the U.K., Canada, and the U.S. These appearances deeply impressed the audience and were highly acclaimed by the media: BBC TV, CBC TV, CBC radio and OMNI TV have all broadcasted her solo performances. The Toronto Star and several Chinese media groups have interviewed her to showcase her masterful pipa playing. Beyond her work as a soloist, Zhao has collaborated with some world's top Western ensembles, including Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, London Grand Union Orchestra, and the Accordes String Quartet. She is especially honoured to be one of the featured musicians for the CBC award-winning documentary film The Four Seasons Mosaic. The Duo Wen and Lucas met through the many performances of 'The Four Seasons: A Cycle of the Sun,' a Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra concert/touring program and CBC documentary designed by Tafelmusik bassist Alison Mackay which juxtaposes Vivaldi's famous concerto cycle with other eighteenth-century music about nature from three non-European traditions. This program has toured Canada, the United States, and China. The two decided to embark on a project that would juxtapose the traditions of European and Chinese lute performance: both the many similarities (their common ancestor from the Middle East, their noble social status, their similar shape and design, and that both have a very ancient history and a strong body of surviving repertoire from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) as well as their differences (especially the astonishing capacity of the pipa's four simple strings for melodic shape, color, and descriptive textures versus the lute's tradition of counterpoint and harmony, supported by many pairs of double courses of strings including deep bass notes). The two have performed duet arrangements in several Toronto venues: on the 'Musically Speaking' series at Trinity Church, the Toronto Harbourfront Music Garden series, and at the Music Gallery in a recital sponsored by Baroque Music Beside the Grange and the Chinese Artists' Society of Toronto. They also performed in China at the Beijing Natural History Museum and the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum. They also created the duo program 'Lettres chinoises' which was performed at the Montreal Baroque Festival in July 2008.
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    Sons for Accompanied & Unnacompanied Viola
    Michael Zaretsky Born in the former Soviet Union, violist Michael Zaretsky graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory cum laude. He began his career as a member of the Moscow Philharmonic String Quartet and the Moscow Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra. In 1972, he immigrated to Israel and became principal viola of the Jerusalem Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra and a soloist of Radio Israel. The following year he played for Leonard Bernstein, who brought him to Tanglewood, where he successfully auditioned for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Besides being a member of the BSO for the past thirty-three years, Mr. Zaretsky regularly plays solo recitals and chamber music, he has appeared with such leading artists as Yuri Bashmet, Yefim Bronfman, Emanuel Ax, and Vadim Repin. As a soloist, he has appeared with the Boston Pops, Rhode Island Philharmonic, and Atlantic Symphony Orchestra. A faculty member at Boston University and the Longy School of Music, he regularly performs in Israel, Japan, and Mexico. In the summer of 2003 he was soloist with the Georgian Chamber Orchestra at the International Music Festival directed by Liana Issakadze in Borjomi, Georgia. In November 2005, at the invitation of the American College of Greece, he performed and discussed the six Bach cello suites in Athens, Greece. In January 2007 he performed Jakov Jakoulov's Viola Concerto No. 2 with the New England String Ensemble. Mr. Zaretsky has made four acclaimed recordings for ARTONA: "Black Snow," an album of Russian music for viola and piano with pianist Xak Bjerken, "Bach, Bach & Bach," with harpsichordist Marina Minkin, "Singular Voices: Brahms, Schumann, and the Viola," with Mr. Bjerken and mezzo-soprano Pamela Dellal, and an album of Bach's six cello suites performed on viola. Besides the traditional viola repertoire, Mr. Zaretsky performs an extensive repertoire of new music. His collaboration with composer Jakov Jakoulov has resulted in many works for viola with piano, harpsichord, or orchestra, including Jakoulov's Viola Concerto No. 2, Sonata for Viola and Piano, Chant III for viola and cello, and Chant IV for viola and violin. In 2006, film composer and Boston Pops Laureate Conductor John Williams wrote his Duo Concertante for Mr. Zaretsky and dedicated it him. Mr. Zaretsky and BSO violinist Victor Romanul gave the public premiere of the Duo Concertante in Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood in August 2007. Pianist Xak Bjerken has given solo and chamber music recitals in Europe and throughout the United States. Orchestral solo appearances include Edinburgh with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Rome with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra and in Disney Hall, Los Angeles, with members of the LA Philharmonic. He has performed at the Royal Concertgebouw Hall in Amsterdam, Alice Tully Hall, Weill Hall, the Kennedy Center, and has given recitals in Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Hungary. Mr. Bjerken is the pianist of the Los Angeles Piano Quartet, which tours the U.S. regularly, and with his wife, pianist Miri Yampolsky, directs MAYFEST, an annual chamber music festival in Ithaca, New York. In addition, he has directed three festivals of twentieth-century music: 'Angels, Saints and Birdsong: A Messiaen Festival,' 'Through the Iron Curtain: Music of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union,' and 'The Stravinsky Project.' Mr. Bjerken has held chamber music residencies at the Tanglewood Music Center and the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, performed at the Olympic Music Festival and the Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival, and served on the faculty of the Eastern Music Festival. His first solo recording for CRI, released in 2001, was entitled High Rise, he has also recorded for Chandos, Albany Records, Fleur de Son, and Koch International and has made three recordings with violist Michael Zaretsky for the Artona label. Mr. Bjerken earned his bachelor's degree cum laude at UCLA, studying with Aube Tzerko, and his master's and doctoral degrees from the Peabody Institute as a student and teaching assistant to Leon Fleisher.
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    Sings Cole Porter
    Here are your favorite songs of Cole Porter, sung by Stanley Wilson, one of the most exciting emerging artists of today, along with pianist/arranger Ben Cook of the Boston Pops. The best songs of Porter are arranged here with whimsey and pizzazz, variety and imagination. Stanley Wilson displays his amazing versatility and freedom of expression of music from an innocent and carefree age. Most of today's outstanding artists started young, Stanley Wilson is no exception. He started at age six, singing "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" at a Christmas party, and became very serious as a young man. He received his Master of Music from the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts in Opera Performance and continues to learn by keeping up his studies with Douglas Kevin Wilson. Mr. Wilson has amassed an extensive list of opera credits which includes productions with the Commonwealth Opera, Bel Canto Music Festival of New Hampshire, the New England Opera Theatre, and the production of Dona Francisquita at the Jarvis Conservatory in Napa, California. A finalist in the 2002 Boston Region of the NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) Competition, Mr. Wilson has taken his outstanding voice to Solfest, a festival sponsored by the Key West Symphony Orchestra, in which he assisted Maestra Donna Roll in preparing young, school-age singers to participate in fifteen performances of opera scenes supporting the roles of the adult soloists. Working with top-rated New York City conductors, pianists, coaches, and voice teachers, he recently completed Intermezzo, a month-long opera festival under the direction of Maestro Steven Osgood where he sang the principal roles, Laurie in Little Women, and Tanzmeister in Ariadne auf Naxos. He has also assisted the Provincetown Repertory Theater in their productions of The Trip to Bountiful with their tour of New York City. Popular musicals are included in Mr. Wilson's mastery of varied genres. His roles include Eddie Ryan in Funny Girl with the Jewish Community Center and Sasha in Fiddler on the Roof with Gargaro Productions, both of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has also been featured in the complex role of the MC in Cabaret. Mr. Wilson's concert experience includes performances of the major oratorios with: Boston Classical Orchestra New Bedford Symphony Salisbury Singers and Arcadia Orchestra Arlington Philharmonic Concord Chorus and Orchestra Manchester Chorale and Orchestra Master Singers of Worcester Oratorio Choir of New Haven Concert Singers of Greater Lynn The most recent full, solo recital given by Mr. Wilson with pianist Malcolm Halliday was entitled "Baroque to Broadway" and displayed his astounding versatility by featuring a varied program of songs of Handel, Fauré, Roger Quilter, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, and Stephen Sondheim. His most recent CD of the songs of Cole Porter is available on many internet retail CD web sites including Amazon.com, CD Baby.com, as well as the Con Brio web site, ConBrioRecording.com. His next CD of lieder by Schumann is in production and is scheduled to be released later in 2006. Although Mr. Wilson spent a few years practicing dentistry, he made the permanent move to the performing stage because of his love for music - both classical and musical theatre. "Even while I was pursuing other careers in my life, I was still studying voice and performing. One day I woke up and realized that to be truly happy in my life, I needed to be singing as a career. While I love having people tell me that they think I have a beautiful voice, I feel the best part of singing is the ability to communicate with the listener and enable them to have an emotional response to the music. That is what makes the performance experience complete for me and worth coming back to on a daily basis." Mr. Wilson currently teaches voice at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Bancroft School, as well as privately from his home in Worcester, Massachusetts. His philosphy of teaching: "Whether one is singing classical, musical theatre, jazz, pop or rock, a sound technique must come first. From there, a singer can begin to develop the ability to communicate with the listener and to explore what music is truly about." Stanley works out at his local gym, and supplements his regimen with walks with his dog, Sandy, and an occasional dinner at a five-star restaurant in New York City. Contact information: Management: Elizabeth Galagarza Ramon Alsina Artists Management 1400 Benson Street #5A Bronx, NY 10461 781.877.4211 www.ramonalsina.org Publicist: Carol Greenley Con Brio Recordings Carol@ConBrioRecordings.com www.ConBrioRecordings.com Artist: Stanley Wilson www.StanleyWilsonTenor.com.
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    A Voice Gone Silent Too Soon: The Music of Gerhard
    A Voice Gone SIlent Too Soon: The Music of Gerhard Schedl • Walden chamber players About the Music "Music is an addiction. The principal aim of my actions has always been, on the one hand, the attainment of an individual authenticity, as complete as possible, founded upon the rendering of experience of environment and society and the critical distance towards it. And on the other hand, the best possible mastery of material and form, the definition of which remains a compositional problem that needs to be always newly addressed in respect to it's musical-historical relevance." - Gerhard Schedl String Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello (1991) Schedl's search for an expressive and personal musical language is much evident in his String Trio. His use of a broad palette of instrumental effects serves to deepen the impact and distinct character of each movement. The trio consists of two short movements to open the piece, followed by a longer movement, which is divided into several sections of contrasting character. The trio was commissioned by the Cologne Philharmonic, and it received it's premiere in 1993 in a concert that also included several works by J.S. Bach - a composer with a lasting influence on Schedl's music. A Due for Violin and Cello (2000) Schedl's struggle between outward success and profound depression in the context of societal estrangement is movingly expressed in A Due, one of his last compositions. In four movements, the music contrasts passages of searing intensity with moments of great beauty and tranquility - an inner tranquility that he ultimately failed to attain for himself. After three private concerts, A Due was publicly premiered at the Festival "Klangspuren" in Schwaz, Tyrol (Austria) on September 16th, 2001, ten months after Schedl's death. A Tre, Variations for Clarinet, Violin and Piano (1984) A Tre was commissioned by the Frankfurter Klarinettentrio, a chamber music group, and it was premiered on December 9, 1987. The earliest work on this recording, the trio differs in construction and style from the CD's other compositions. It's five movements meld a rhythmically free and almost improvisational style into a continuous flow of music. The music is dominated by dense passages of repeated "mini-motives" and even single notes, and in the last movement these motives break apart until they dissolve in a final "sound of air". A Cinque for Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano (1996-1997) A Cinque was premiered on April 28, 1997, at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. The work consists of three movements, all derived from one basic musical "cell", giving the quintet a mono-thematic structure. Special effects, such as harmonics in the clarinet and col legno passages (using the wooden part of the bow) in the strings add to the wide palette of colors and the richness of the tonal language. Again we hear Schedl's struggle to find a level of spiritual balance. The quintet ends with a section marked "very calm and delicate", conveying the mood of a religious ceremony. Gerhard Schedl (1957-2000) was born in Vienna, Austria. As a young man he studied composition at the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts and musicology at the University of Vienna. In the years 1979-1981 he was awarded the Theodor Ko¨rner Foundation Award, Composition grant from the City of Vienna, 3rd Prize of the Competition for composition of house music of the "Wiener Volksbil- dung", Prize of the "Week of Young Composers" in Hilchenbach, 3rd Prize of the Carl Maria von Weber Competition of the City of Dresden for children's opera and the "Wu¨rdigungspreis" (Appreciation Award) of the Ministry of Science and Research. His break-through as a composer came in 1981 at the age of 24 with the successful world premieres of his scenic oratorio "The Grand Inquisitor", his opera for children, The Swineherd", and the orchestral piece "Tango". In that same year he began a permanent collaboration with the publishing house Doblinger in Vienna and took the position of Lecturer at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. Subsequently Mr. Schedl's music was performed by such orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Vienna Symphony, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Lyon and the Minnesota Orchestra, as well as many prominent chamber ensembles and soloists. In 1982 Mr. Schedl became a Lecturer at the University of Mainz, Germany and from 1990 on he served as Composer-in-Residence at the Salzburg Landestheater in Austria. Mr. Schedl was one of the stars the European modern music scene, his music was hailed by critics and performers alike but after suffering extended bouts of depression he tragically took his own life on November 30, 2000. He left behind his wife and two sons. Perhaps the best clues to the conflict between his outward success and his inner struggle lie in the desperate longing in his music for harmony and tonal unity. Further, one can trace a clear narrative posthumously through several of his compositions of a protagonist who eventually despairs and breaks in the face of an inhumane and callous society. The Walden Chamber Players has been an enthusiastic advocate of Schedl's music ever since they first encountered it eight years ago. Since then, the ensemble has performed many of his works in all parts of the USA to resounding audience response. Few other composers' music has moved them as profoundly as that of Schedl, it is, they believe, music of tremendous beauty, sophistication and intensity. - Program notes excerpted from the original notes by Christian Heindl, Reinhard Kager and Hartmut Krones, translated into English by Christof Huebner with further edits by Willard Hertz. Walden Chamber Players Founded in 1997, the Boston-based Walden Chamber Players has garnered a reputation for being one of the most exciting and versatile chamber groups performing today. Critics have hailed it's performances of everything from Bach to Schoenberg, and Chamber Music America Magazine raves: "A season spent with the Walden Chamber Players is a time for discovery." The success of it's performances, recordings and educational curricula has earned it a place as one of the most sought-after chamber ensembles in the United States. Walden Chamber Players is comprised of twelve dynamic artists in various combinations of string, piano, and wind ensembles. The wide variety of instrumental groupings possible with this ensemble allows for great versatility and eclectic programming, a hallmark of the Walden Chamber Players. Members of the ensemble are versatile chamber artists and soloists who often perform at leading festivals throughout the United States and abroad. They are also sought- after teachers and lecturers and serve on the faculty of some of the country's premier musical teaching institutions, such as the New England Conservatory of Music, University of Michigan, Boston University, Longy School of Music and the Boston Conservatory.
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