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GUEST ARTISTS (continued)
Orlando received his undergraduate degree from DePauw University and holds two Master’s
degrees (flute and conducting) from New England Conservatory. He has performed in master
classes for Raymond Guiot, Alan Marion, Shigenori Kudo, Leone Buyse, and Trevor Wye.
After receiving a Master’s degree in composition, composer David M. Cohen worked and
composed in New York City where he was deeply influenced by leading avant-garde composers
such as Stefan Wolpe, Raoul Pleskow, Charles Wuorinen, Milton Babbitt, Phillip Glass, and
Frederic Rzewski. His work was performed at various universities and at Lincoln Center. He then
attended UCLA's film scoring program under the direction of CBS music supervisor Don Ray and
studied "Hollywood" orchestration from the preeminent orchestrator, Dr. Albert Harris. David
subsequently composed music for documentary features and written songs for film. In 2011, he
was commissioned by the Cape Symphony to compose an original work, Cape Cod Impressions,
to celebrate the orchestra's 50th anniversary. He also wrote arrangements for Siobhan
Magnus' performance with the symphony in celebration of Barnstable's 375th anniversary and
for the CSO's 2014 holiday concert. David resides in Sandwich.
Cellist Bo Ericsson is a native of Sweden, where he graduated from the Gothenborg
Conservatory of Music, and has studied with Erling Blondal Bengtsson at the Swedish Radio
School in Stockholm with Anthony Pini and William Pleeth in London, and in Cologne, Germany,
with the Amadeus String Quartet. He has been principal cellist with both the Bergen (Norway)
Philharmonic Orchestra and the Upsala (Sweden) Chamber Orchestra, and has also played with
the Gothenborg Symphony, the Swedish Radio Orchestra, and the Stockholm Philharmonic. As
a founding member of the Berwald String Quartet, he toured extensively in Scandinavia,
England, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. He has taught at the Bergen Conservatory of
Music, the Music Conservatory in Ingesund (Sweden), and the Nordfjordeid (Norway) Summer
Music Festival. He is currently the principal cellist of the Cape Symphony and an active chamber
music performer. He and his wife, Elizabeth Schultze, comprise the Schultze-Ericsson Cello Duo.
He has performed throughout the Cape and maintains a cello studio at his home in Orleans and
teaches at the Cape Conservatory.
Pianist David Kuehn is Executive Director of the Cotuit Center for the Arts. Since taking the
helm in 2010, he has successfully led a revitalization program that has resulted in increased
community awareness, membership and donor support, and quality programming in all areas
of the arts. A native of Indiana, he earned a degree in music performance from UCLA and later
played in Daniel Lentz’ ensemble. In Los Angeles, Kuehn worked with such visionaries as Philip
Glass, John Adams, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Dan Flavin, Franco Assetto, and others. In
1993, he hopped back over the Midwest en route to NYC where he eventually ran the classical
music division of RCA records, guiding recording projects by such luminaries as Leontyne Price,
Van Cliburn, Michael Tilson Thomas, Denyce Graves, Max Vengerov and the Kronos Quartet.
His experience, though founded in classical music, spans all genres of the arts, from music to
theater and fine arts. David lives in Yarmouth Port.
After the concert, we hope you join the artists at the Dunbar Tea Shop’s new
Wine Bar Lounge for great wine and tapas.
This is the first of five concerts in the Village Concert Series. Information about our
next concert will soon be on our website www.sandwichartsalliance.org.
VILLAGE CONCERT SERIES
presents
The Percussion Plus Project
Guest Artists
Orlando Cela, flute
Bo Ericsson, violoncello
David Kuehn, piano
Amy Lynn Barber & Mark Prall
Percussion
September 12, 2015 7:30 PM
First Church, 136 Main Street
Sandwich, MA 02563
PROGRAM
PERCUSSIONISTS
Noc: Pogled v Nebo
for flute and percussion
Alojz Ajdic (b. 1939)
Mariel
for cello and marimba
Osvaldo Golijov (b.1960)
Homage to Keith Jarrett and Gary Burton
for flute and vibraphone
Barbara Kolb (b.1939)
A Day in the Life
for piano and percussion
1. Morning Meditation
2. Morning Walk
3 .The Daily Work
4. Evening Repose
David Cohen (b. 1950)
The Percussion Plus Project is honored to present the inaugural concert of the new Sandwich
Arts Alliance Village Concert Series. It is very exciting that Sandwich audiences will now be able
to enjoy the highest quality performances of classical and contemporary music and jazz in
historic venues in town. Although The Percussion Plus Project has performed nationally and
internationally for over 20 years old, we are new to Cape Cod, and just made our Cape debut in
May at the Cultural Center in Yarmouth.
We are a unique chamber music ensemble that focuses on unusual and innovative repertoire works for a core group of percussionists and another solo instrument. Since percussion music
for the concert stage is a relatively recent genre, our repertoire consists primarily of works by
living composers.
The Percussion Plus Project was founded in 1993 in Prague by Amy Lynn Barber. The ensemble
had its own successful concert series for several years in Prague, Ljubljana, and Vienna, and
performed throughout Europe at international festivals and concert series as well as recording
works for radio and CDs. In 2013, The Percussion Plus Project celebrated its 20th season and
concluded an 11-year residency at DePauw University. The ensemble presented regular
concerts in Indianapolis and Chicago, and also performed at national and international
conferences and festivals.
Commissions of new works and working closely with composers play a major role in the
ensemble’s activities, as does inviting outstanding musicians to be guest artists. The Percussion
Plus Project has premiered many works composed for it by European and American composers
and has featured an international list of guest artists. We continue both of those traditions in
today’s concert, with the premiere of a new work by Sandwich composer David Cohen, and
with the appearance of Orlando Cela, Bo Ericsson, and David Kuehn as our guest soloists.
Our concerts and recordings have consistently won critical acclaim for the quality of our
performances and for creative and unique programming. The ensemble has completed two CD
projects: one of commissioned works by American composers, and one of works by the Finnish
composer Jarmo Sermila.
Amy Lynn Barber, artistic director of The Percussion Plus Project, has performed and taught on
five continents and has commissioned, premiered and recorded over 50 new solo and chamber
works from European and American composers. She is also known for innovative programming
and presentation of new music to a broad audience. She has worked closely with many
composers, including John Cage, Elliott Carter, Augusta Read Thomas, Tania Leon, Hans Werner
Henze, Chen Yi, Karel Husa, Libby Larsen, and Joseph Schwantner. She is especially associated
with the music of George Crumb and organized and directed several festivals of his music in
Europe and the US. Amy has been a member of the Slovenian Philharmonic and the Prague
Symphony and has played with orchestras in New England, Texas, and Michigan. She has
performed and recorded with many outstanding conductors, including Carlos Kleiber, Seiji
Ozawa,Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur, Jiri Belohlavek, Simone Young, Charles Mackerras, and
JoAnn Falletta. Amy is a former Dean of the DePauw University School of Music and soon-to-be
Professor Emeritus of Music. She has also been Professor of Percussion at the Prague
Conservatory and directed the percussion program at the Interlochen Arts Academy. She led
the DePauw Percussion Ensemble on tours to Central Europe, Brazil, and China, and has been a
guest artist at many European and American percussion and contemporary music events. She
has twice been awarded Fulbright lectureships for research and teaching abroad and has
received grants for her work in contemporary music. In 2007, she received the Distinguished
Alumni Award from the Boston University School of Music. Amy earned the BM degree from
Boston University, the MM degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the
Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Hartt School of Music.
Percussionist Mark Prall is a summa cum laude graduate in percussion performance of
Montclair State University where he studied with Laurence Jacobs , Andrew Cyrille and Freddie
Waits. He has performed with the Queens Symphony, the Goldman Band, the New Jersey
Chamber Music Society, and the Hudson Chamber Orchestra (Principal Percussionist). He is
currently the principal timpanist with the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, the Plymouth
Philharmonic, the Chatham Chorale, the Falmouth Chorale, and the former Simon Simonetta.
He is an active performer in chamber and theatre productions throughout Cape Cod. He has
appeared as a soloist with the Cape Symphony Orchestra on numerous occasions, performing
on timpani as well as on xylophone. Mark teaches privately and directs the Nauset Percussion
Ensemble, a student-based group which performs several concerts throughout the year.
GUEST ARTISTS
A native of Venezuela, flutist Orlando Cela has premiering over 100 works, both as a flutist and
as a conductor. As a flutist, he has performed at the National Portrait Gallery of the
Smithsonian (Washington DC), the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston), and at the
Center for New Music and Technologies at UC Berkeley. His credits abroad include concerts at
the Zentrum Danziger (Berlin), the Espace des Femmes (Paris), and at the Musikverein (Vienna).
The former Music Director of the Boston-based Willow Flute Ensemble, Orlando arranged over
a hundred works for the ensemble, from Baroque to contemporary, including folk music from
five countries. He has lectured at Tulane University, Berklee College of Music, Brandeis
University, the Central Conservatory of Music in China, the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und
Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (Germany), and the Charlotte New Music Festival (NC), at flute
festivals in Ithaca and Syracuse, at Dulwich College (Beijing) and Shanghai Normal University.