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John Kennedy, Director and Host
PROGRAM I: PAMELA Z
Works for Voice, Electronics, and Video
Memminger Auditorium
May 27 at 9:00pm
“Bone Music” (1992)
Pamela Z (b. 1956)
“Typewriter” (1995)
“Declaratives in the First Person” (2005)
“Badagada” (1986)
“Flare Stains” (2010)
“Breathing” (2013)
“Unknown Person” (from Baggage Allowance, 2010)
“16 Actions” (2009)
“Syrinx / Birdvoice” (2003)
“Pop Titles ‘You’” (1986)
“Broom” (2009)
PROGRAM II: IN CELEBRATION OF 100 YEARS OF THE RITE OF SPRING,
MAY 29, 1913–MAY 29, 2013
Simons Center Recital Hall at College of Charleston
May 29 at 5:00pm
In addition to select passages of The Rite of Spring, the following works will be performed:
Epitaphium (1959)
Allegro Barbaro (1911)
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
Preludes Book II (1912)
XI. “Les tierces alternées”
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Three Japanese Lyrics (1913) Syrinx (1913)
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Six Bagatelles (1913) Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914)
Anton Webern (1883–1945)
Octandre (1923)
Music for Pieces of Wood (1973) Edgard Varèse (1883–1965)
Workers’ Union (1975) Louis Andriessen (b. 1939)
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Steve Reich (b. 1936)
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JOHN KENNEDY (conductor, director,
and host), Spoleto Festival USA Resident
Conductor and Director of Orchestral
Activities, has led acclaimed performances
and premieres worldwide of opera, ballet,
orchestral, and new music. Kennedy has
conducted the Festival’s widely-regarded
recent American premiere productions of
the operas Faustus, the Last Night by Pascal
Dusapin (2007), Proserpina by Wolfgang Rihm (2010), Émilie by
Kaija Saariaho (2011), and Kepler by Philip Glass (2012). As artistic
director of Santa Fe New Music since 2001 and of New York’s
Essential Music from 1988–2001, he has been a leader in exploring
diverse and adventurous repertoire and in contextualizing it
for today’s audiences. He has also served as guest conductor in
residence at Oberlin Conservatory and worked with leading new
music ensembles including Ensemble ACJW, Magik*Magik, and
the Talea Ensemble. Kennedy is the composer of over 90 works,
including opera, orchestral, chamber, and experimental works
that have been performed throughout the world.
SAMANTHA BENNETT (violin, Program
IV) is an active soloist and chamber musician
around the Boston area. As a recitalist,
Bennett has performed in Boston’s Jordan
Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall at the invitation
of the Razumovsky Academy, and Zankel Hall
at Carnegie Hall. She has participated in such
internationally renowned music festivals as
Spoleto Festival USA, the Music Academy of
the West, and the Tanglewood Music Festival. As a member of the
Tanglewood Music Center, Bennett had the privilege of performing
as part of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit.
Additionally, she accompanied legendary soloists Yo­-Yo Ma, Anne­
-Sophie Mutter, Gil Shaham, and Emanuel Ax as part of the PBS
broadcast Tanglewood’s 75th Anniversary Celebration. Currently,
Bennett plays with the Boston Philharmonic and is the principal
second violin of the Discovery Ensemble, a group that presents
outreach classes and concerts in underprivileged Boston public
schools in addition to concert performances.
NATHAN DAVIS (composer, Program III)
“writes music that deals deftly and poetically
with timbre and sonority” (The New York
Times). His music has been commissioned by
the International Contemporary Ensemble
(ICE), Claire Chase, Steven Schick, Yarn/Wire,
La Jolla Symphony Chorus, Miller Theater,
Santa Fe New Music, and the Ojai Festival
(for eighth blackbird and sound sculptor
Trimpin). Lincoln Center inaugurated the Tully Scope Festival
with the premiere of Davis’s landmark work, Bells. His music
has been presented at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Symphony
Space, The Kitchen, Roulette, Le Poisson Rouge, the Stone, the
Park Avenue Armory, and many festivals. He has received awards
from Meet The Composer, Fromm Foundation, Copland Fund,
Jerome Foundation, American Music Center, MATA, ASCAP, and
the ISCM. As a percussionist and a core member of ICE, Davis
is in residence at the Mostly Mozart Festival and has premiered
hundreds of pieces, working with luminaries and fostering
emerging composers. He is on the faculty at Dartmouth College.
HENRIK
HEIDE, (flute, Program II)
praised by The Washington Post for his
“gleaming tone,” has appeared as soloist
with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra,
Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and National
Repertory Orchestra. He is currently a fellow
with the New World Symphony in Miami
Beach, Florida. Heide was a member of the
2012 Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra and
has also participated in numerous music festivals, including the
Tanglewood Music Center, Music Academy of the West, Pacific
Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, National Orchestral Institute,
National Repertory Orchestra, and the Kent/Blossom Music
Festival. He is a substitute flutist with the Milwaukee Symphony
Orchestra. Heide received his master’s degree in 2012 from The
Juilliard School, where he was a student of Jeffrey Khaner. He has
also studied with Jeani Foster, Betty Bielefeld, Stephanie Jutt, and
Leone Buyse at Rice University, where he received his bachelor’s
degree.
PUREUM JO (soprano, Program II), a native
of Korea, is entering the international opera
world while finishing her graduate studies at
The Juilliard School, where she received her
undergraduate degree. Early on in her career,
she won numerous competitions including
The Korean Voice Competition and the Seoul
Philharmonic Competition. Jo has sung the
role of Sandrina in La finta giardiniera, Giulia
in La scala di seta, Lucinde and Melisse in Armide, and La Virtú in
L’incoronazione di Poppea. She has also performed at Alice Tully
Hall in concerts including Juilliard’s Wednesday at One series,
Brian Zeger’s Songfest, and Robert Mealy’s Juilliard 415 Rameau
concert. Jo has appeared as a soloist in Haydn’s Mass in Time of
War and Mozart’s Laudate Dominum with Voice of Ascension
in New York City. She is the recipient of the Anna Case MacKay
Scholarship. Jo is performing the title role in Spoleto Festival USA’s
2013 production of Matsukaze.
GLEB KANASEVICH (clarinet, Programs
III and IV) has appeared as a soloist with
the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra,
Belarus National Philharmonic, Peabody
Symphony Orchestra, and many more. He
has performed on the stages of Norfolk
Chamber Music Festival, Atlantic Music
Festival, soundSCAPE, and Klangspuren
Schwaz, and has received instruction as a
clarinetist and composer at the Yale School of Music and Peabody
Conservatory. Kanasevich has won numerous competitions and
awards as a clarinetist and composer in the United States, South
America, and Europe. Kanasevich currently holds a position
as a clarinetist/composer with Lunar Ensemble and is under
management of Chesapeake International Artists. His playing can
be heard on the 2011 NEOS label release Music of Marcela Pavia
and Max E. Keller, and on the 2012 solo release Refractions, which
also features his original compositions.
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Okho (1989) Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001)
Elegy for Solo Viola (1944)
John Kennedy, concept and conductor
Pureum Jo, soprano
Henrik Heide, flute
Jocelin Pan, viola
Keun-A Lee, piano
Members of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
PROGRAM III: MUSIC OF NATHAN DAVIS
Simons Center Recital Hall at College of Charleston
June 2 at 5:00pm
Bells (2011) for ensemble with four-channel diffusion and cellphone transmission Nathan Davis (b. 1973)
Weather Rock (2012) for violin, cello, and percussion
On speaking a hundred names (2010) for bassoon and processing
Crawlspace (2002) for amplified computer, processing itself
video programming by Charles Spears
Skrzyp Skzryń (2010) for string quartet
Nathan Davis, percussion and electronics
Ryan Wilkins, bassoon
Gleb Kanasevich, clarinet
Members of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra
PROGRAM IV: IN A SPRING GARDEN
Simons Center Recital Hall at College of Charleston
June 7 at 5:00pm
Death Valley Junction (2010)
Missy Mazzoli (b. 1980)
Variative. Derivative. Exploitative…
from Zyklus for clarinet and tape (2011)
Gleb Kanasevich (b. 1989)
Cadernos (2009)
Hop (1989)
Andreia Pinto-Correia (b. 1981)
Im Frühlingsgarten (In a Spring Garden, 2002)
Toshio Hosokawa (b. 1955)
Paul Lansky (b. 1944)
Sergei Pavlov, conductor
Gleb Kanasevich, clarinet
George Nickson, vibraphone
Samantha Bennett, violin
Members of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra
These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina.
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KEUN-A LEE (piano, Program II) has been
on the music staffs of New York City Opera,
Spoleto Festival USA, The Gotham Chamber
Opera, The Juilliard School, and Manhattan
School of Music. She has performed in
venues that include Carnegie Hall’s Zankel
Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall,
The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.,
Chicago’s Preston Bradley Hall, Toronto’s
Centre for the Arts, and the Sejong Cultural Center and Seoul Arts
Center, both in her native Korea. Recent engagements include
the New York Philharmonic Chamber Music Series, the seasonopening concert with Liang Wang by the Lyric Chamber Music
Society of New York, recitals for the Marilyn Horne Foundation
at the Music Academy of the West, and recitals with the winners
of Young Concert Artists and Concert Artist Guild. She holds a
master’s degree and artist diploma from The Juilliard School and
a professional studies certificate in vocal accompanying from
Manhattan School of Music.
GEORGE
NICKSON
(vibraphone,
Program IV) has been hailed as “a performer
handling his role with ease and flair” by
The New York Times. Nickson, a native of
South Florida, was appointed principal
percussionist of the Sarasota Orchestra
in April 2012. He also recently received
a master’s degree at The Juilliard School,
where he studied with Daniel Druckman.
Recent highlights include performing Sur Incises by Pierre
Boulez with AXIOM at Lincoln Center, a complete performance
of Drumming by Steve Reich at (Le) Poisson Rouge, and being a
finalist for the Boston Symphony’s Percussion position in January
2012. Previous engagements include solo percussion recitals at
The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and at the Kravis Center
for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida, in addition
to serving as guest principal percussionist with the National
Orchestra of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo.
JOCELIN PAN (viola, Program II) began
her musical studies on piano at age five
in her hometown of Leawood, Kansas.
She later developed an interest in violin
after hearing fiddle music and begged her
parents for an instrument. When Pan moved
to California with her family, she began
seriously studying classical performance and
experimented with playing the viola. After
an enriching experience at the Young Musician’s Foundation’s
Summer Orchestra Camp, Pan decided to permanently switch
her focus from violin to viola at the age of 13. Since then, she
has pursued intense musical training: she enrolled in the Colburn
School’s preparatory division, where she studied privately with
Ingrid Hutman of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Currently, Pan
is pursuing a graduate degree at The Juilliard School and studying
with Steven Tenenbom and Robert Vernon. She graduated from
The Juilliard School in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree under the
tutelage of Heidi Castleman and Misha Amory.
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SERGEI PAVLOV (conductor, Program
IV) has been guest conductor of the Classic
FM Radio Symphony Orchestra in his native
Bulgaria since 2007. Currently he is conductor
in residence at Teatro Nacional Sucre, the
national opera theater of Ecuador. Recent
engagements include assistant conductor
of the National Repertory Orchestra in
Colorado, chorus master of Théâtre du
Châtelet in Paris, assistant conductor of Ensemble Orchestral de
Paris, associate conductor of the Illinois Opera Theater at the
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Urbana, Illinois, and
visiting director of the orchestral and choral programs at Eastern
Illinois University. Born in Bulgaria, Pavlov graduated from the
Bulgarian National Conservatory of Music. Upon completing his
studies, Pavlov joined the Conservatory’s faculty as assistant
professor in conducting, a position he held until departing for the
United States in 2004. Pavlov has also served as music director of
the University of Illinois String Orchestra and assistant conductor
of the Quad City Symphony.
RYAN S. WILKINS (bassoon, Program III)
is a recent graduate of The Juilliard School,
where he received his master of music
degree. Before Juilliard, Wilkins earned his
bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College’s
Conservatory of Music. His primary teachers
include Judith LeClair, George Sakakeeny,
Barrick Stees, and Eric Stomberg. From
2009–11, Wilkins was a member of the
Wooster Symphony Orchestra and has since appeared as a guest
with the San Antonio Symphony and New World Symphony. He
has played under such conductors as Kurt Masur, Alan Gilbert,
Christoph von Dohnányi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Semyon Bychkov.
In 2010 and 2011, Wilkins was a fellow at the Music Academy of
the West where he studied with Benjamin Kamins and Dennis
Michael. This is his second summer at Spoleto Festival USA.
PAMELA Z (Program I) is a San Francisco-
based composer/performer and media artist
who makes solo works that combine a wide
range of vocal techniques with electronic
processing, samples, gesture-activated
MIDI controllers, and video. She has toured
extensively throughout the U.S., Europe,
and Japan. Her work has been presented at
venues and exhibitions that include Bang on
a Can (New York), the Japan Interlink Festival, Other Minds (San
Francisco), the Venice Biennale, and the Dakar Biennale. She has
created installation works and has composed scores for dance,
film, and new music chamber ensembles. In addition to her solo
work, she has been commissioned to compose scores for dance,
theater, film, and new music chamber ensembles including Kronos
Quartet and the Bang on a Can Allstars. Her numerous awards
include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Capital Fund, the
CalArts Alpert Award, The MAP Fund, the ASCAP Award, an Ars
Electronica honorable mention, the NEA/JUSFC Fellowship, and a
Djerrassi Resident Artist Program residency. www.pamelaz.com.