Between Times

A Concert by Trio Clavino

 At 14:00 on May 26, 2018 / Saturday

CCOM Recital Hall

Trio Clavino

Christy Banks, Clarinet

Simon Maurer, Violin & Viola

PAN Xun, Piano

1.Alexander Arutiunian

Suite   Final – Allegro non troppo

2. Tatjana Milošević Mijanović

A Walk with Rina 

3. Panagiotis Theodossiou

Between Times (“Time past and time future…”)

4. Bram Van Camp

Music for 3 Instruments 

5.  Igor Stravinsky

Suite from L’Histoire du Soldat (“The Soldier’s Tale”)    

Tango – Valse – Rag

The Devil's Dance

6. Rusty Banks

ReFractal for clarinet, violin, piano, and electronics

7. Peter Schickele

Serenade for Three 

I. Dances

II. Songs

III. Variations

Trio Clavino

Founded by pianist Xun Pan, clarinetist Doris Hall-Gulati, and violinist/violist Simon Maurer, the members of Trio Clavino are the Artists-in-Residence at the Pre College Music Division Program at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. Each musician in this group brings a unique style into the ensemble. As part of their mission to introduce as many new works as possible for this particular combination, Trio Clavino is committed to premiering and performing commissioned works by living composers. The Trio had a highly successful tour in Germany, Austria, and China in May 2012. They returned to China in 2013 with a Fulbright Grant, undertaking a performing/teaching tour of Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, Xiamen, Wuhan, and Changsha arranged by the United States Embassy in Beijing. In this trip, besides playing major concert halls, including China Conservatory of Music Concert Hall in Beijing and Oriental Arts Center in Shanghai, they also performed in hospitals, universities and schools, and offered master classes to Chinese students.  Trio Clavino has also traveled to European countries in March 2014. They have received the Fullbright Grant again in 2016 to perform, teach, and make cultural exchange with many Chinese conservatories and universities.  Trio Clavino has received three years of the Ensemble-in-Resident at the China Conservatory of Music from 2018. For the 2018 China trip, Clarinetist Christy Banks will step in to the ensemble since Hall-Gulati has conflict with other concerts.

Christy Banks, clarinetist 

Christy Banks is Associate Professor of Clarinet at Millersville University of Pennsylvania where she also serves as Assistant Chair of the Music Department.  Prior to her appointment to the Millersville University Music Faculty in 2005, Dr. Banks taught clarinet, saxophone, and related music courses at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Concordia University, Doane College, Union College, and Peru State College. A former member of the Lincoln Symphony and the Nebraska Chamber Players, Banks has performed with the Harrisburg, Lancaster, and Reading Symphonies, Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Allegro Chamber Orchestra of Lancaster, and Opera Lancaster.  She has appeared as a soloist/recitalist throughout the US as well as in Italy, Austria, Germany, China, New Zealand, and Iceland. Passionate about new music, Banks is a member of NakedEye Ensemble and the Spatial Forces Duo.  Additionally, Banks is a member of the BATIK Clarinet Quartet and the Manor Winds Woodwind Quintet. National/International Conference performances/presentations include the College Music Society National Conference (2016, 2017), International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest® (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017), NACWPI National Conference (2012, 2014, 2015, 2017), and SEAMUS (2013).  Banks received her DMA and BM in clarinet from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an MM in clarinet from Florida State University. Dr. Banks is the Pennsylvania state chair of the International Clarinet Association and the founder of the Millersville University Single Reed Symposium.

Simon Maurer, violinist/violist

Simon Maurer grew up in Switzerland in a family of six children, all of whom became professional musicians.  He studied music at the Conservatory in Biel, and continued his violin studies in the U.S. with Geoffrey Michaels at Swarthmore College and Joyce Robbins at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Mr. Maurer is an accomplished musician performing chamber music, solo and orchestra concerts throughout the eastern United States and Switzerland.  He is currently Concertmaster of the Schuylkill Symphony Orchestra, Assistant Concertmaster of the Pennsylvania Sinfonia, and performs with Valley Vivaldi, Satori. He has performed as feature soloist in France and Switzerland with the St. Jean Orchestra of Geneva Switzerland, receiving rave reviews.

A founding member of Gabriel Chamber Ensemble, www.gabrielensemble.org, he has performed with the ensemble throughout North Eastern and Central Pennsylvania for 19 years and is artistic director at their concert series at Jerusalem Lutheran Church in Schuylkill Haven. Committed to performance and education, the group takes pride in bringing classical music to underserved areas, and makes efforts to have music outreach in the schools.

Mr. Maurer also ventures in the practice of jazz and free style improvisation.  He has been a featured soloist in Philadelphia area jazz clubs, has performed at “Jazzfest” in Schuylkill County.  He has recorded numerous projects with folk singers and rock groups: Maggie Pierce and EJ; Zen fro Primates, and others.

Simon lives on a converted 20 acre Boy Scout camp, where he built his own 2000 square foot concert hall and enjoys the outdoors. Tennis is the preferred exercise. He has two lovely granddaughters!

Xun Pan, pianist

Chinese-American pianist Xun Pan received his early musical training fromhis grandmother and pianists-parents, Pan Yiming and Ying Shizhen. He continued his studies at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, Syracuse University in New York, and earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Mr. Pan has won many international piano competitions and awards, beginning with first prize in the 1986 China National Piano Competition in Beijing, and the "Dr. Luis Sigall" International Piano Competition in Chile in 1987, the International Festival Piano Competition in Korea in 1990, the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition in New York in 1992, and the Artists International Competition in New York in 1993. A student of Theodore Lettvin, Mr. Pan has performed solo recitals worldwide from Carnegie Weill Hall to the Beijing National Center for Performing Arts. He has performed in Moscow, Santiago, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Pyong-Yang, London, Los Angeles, Frankfurt, Taipei, Budapest, New York, Vina Del Mar, Washington DC, Lisbon, Toronto, Boston, and many other cities in the world. He “…excites his audience with extraordinary power and masterful technique.” (Intelligencer Journal) 

A noted chamber musician, Mr. Pan is also the pianist of the Newstead Trio. Their work has been broadcast live on radio and television, and they have released several highly acclaimed recordings. Mr. Pan has been served as a judge in several piano competitions includes "Frinna Awerbuch" International Piano Competition in New York; United States Music Open Competition in San Francisco, CA; Florida International Piano Competition in Orlando, FL;  “Harmony” International Piano Competition, Chengdu, China;  Kayserburg International Piano Competition, Kunming, China; and “Maria Clara Cullell” International Piano Competition in Costa Rica.

Dr. Pan teaches piano at Millersville University of Pennsylvania and is a visiting professor at China Conservatory of Music, Sichuan Conservatory of Music, China Northwest University for Nationalities, Fuzhou University, Yantai University, Shandong University, Qinghai Normal University, and Wenzhou University. He served as the chairman of the piano department between 1996 and 2010 in former Pennsylvania Academy of Music. He also serves as the Artistic Director of the Lancaster International Piano Festival in Lancaster, Pennsylvania since 2012.

Composers：

Panagiotis Theodossiou

Panagiotis Theodossiou, member of the Greek Composers Union, studied Piano, Composition and Jazz Improvisation at “Nikos Skalkotas” and Athens Modern Conservatory and Theology as well at the Kapodistriakon University of Athens.

He is a post-graduate student in Music Studies Department of Ionian University, Corfu, Greece.

He is Artistic Director of Kaloy Foundation Conservatory (http://fondationkaloy.com/).

He is also a certificate music teacher in ABRSM while he has been teaching Piano, Theory, Harmony and Counterpoint at Athens Conservatories for many years. Other activities include his contribution as an article-writer in Greek musical magazines and a producer on the Greek radio. He has been in charge of the Music Department and coordinator of vocal and instrumental ensembles of "Geitonas" Educational Institutes (1995 – 2016) and founder of many successful children and youth vocal and instrumental ensembles at musical schools in Greece. His composing activities includes works for piano, chamber, choral and orchestral music and music for the big screen as well. His love for and interest in orchestration and jazz arrangement led him to write many symphonic transcriptions on classical and contemporary piano works and found small ensembles in which he participates as a pianist.

There are 100 and more titles of his works listed among the acquisitions of the "Lilian Voudouri Great Music Library" Greece.His works have been performed in Europe and U.S.A. by distinguished artists. He has recorded many of his works on CD, and participated on CD recordings in Greek and foreign labels and institutions. 

Bram Van Camp

Bram Van Camp graduated for violin and composition under Wim Henderickx and Theo Loevendie at the Conservatories of Antwerp and Amsterdam. His works contain solo and chamber music, ensemble works, orchestral music (including a symphony Tetrahedron), a Violin and Piano Concerto and a song cycle. He has received many prizes for his work as a composer: the Aquarius Composition Competition (1999), the Belgian Artistic Promotion awarded by SABAM (2002), the Youth and Music Award for Composition (2007) and the International Composition Competition ‘New Note’ in Croatia. His compositions were commissioned by several organizations: the Festival of Flanders, the TRANSIT New Music Festival, deSingel and Ars Musica. His works were performed by a.o. the Arditti Quartet, Het Collectief, HERMESensemble, I Solisti, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Flanders Symphony Orchestra and Blindman Collective. Furthermore, his works are performed in various Belgian concert houses, including deSingel, BOZAR and the Concertgebouw Brugge. His work was also programmed in Montpellier (Fr), London (UK), The Amsterdam Concertgebouw (NL), Croatia, Denmark and Slovakia. His portret cd recorded by Het Collectief was highly praised at home and abroad, including 5 stars in Diapason (Fr) and The Gramophone (GB).

Tatjana Milošević Mijanović

Tatjana Milošević Mijanović holds a BA and MA degree in composition from the class of Professor Zoran Eric at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, who also supervised her doctoral artistic project – a two-act chamber opera titled Who Killed Princess Mond, 2013. Currently she teaches as an associate professor at the same department. As a visiting professor, she worked at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virigina (USA). She was a lecturer and jury member at the 15th Young Composers Meeting in Apeldoorn (Holland). She has also lectured Composition and Orchestration at the Department of Composition of the Academy of Arts in Banjaluka (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

She has composed music for diverse media including chamber, solo instruments, electro-acoustic, vocal, symphonic, music for theater and collaborated with renowned artists such as Het Trio (Holland), De Ereprijs (Holland), Creo (USA), Zagreb String Trio (Croatia), Symphony Orchestra of Serbian Broadcasting Company, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, St. George Strings, New music ensemble Gradilište, Trio Pokret, Trio Singidunum, Collegium musicum female choir, Bojan Suđić, Nada Kolundžija etc. 

Her works have been performed in most countries of Europe, the US, South Korea, as well as Serbia at major festivals and venues including BEMUS, NIMUS, ISCM World Music Days, International Review of Composers Belgrade, Music Biennale Zagreb, BIMHUIS Amsterdam, Theater Schouwburg Arnhem (Holland), Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten Graz (Austria), Ministry of Culture Cetinje (Montenegro)…  Milosevic has won numerous Serbian and international music awards.

Program Notes：

 "Between Times" "Time past and time future..." for clarinet, viola and piano (2017).

Work written within the framework of composer's postgraduate studies on "Composition for Vocal and Instrumental Ensembles" in Ionian university and dedicated to the professor Josef Papadatos. Based on an excerpt from the "Four Quartets" by T.S.Eliot is polystilistic in idiom and in concertante style. "Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present." (T.S.Eliot, "Four Quartets")

The parts: I. Adagio misterioso (Outer Space, Gravity Zero) II. Allegro (Into a time vortex) III. L'istesso tempo (Escape) to Antonio Vivaldi & Dmitri Shostakovitch IV. Andante rubato (Tranquillity Nebula) to Olivier Messiaen V. Allegro (Gravitational Disorder) to Keith Emerson VI. Adagio misterioso (Eternal Present) Premier by “Ionian Islands Festival Ensemble" at Ionian Academy Concert Hall in 2017.

Bram Van Camp    Music for 3 Instruments

The instrumentation refers undoubtedly to Bartok’s ‘Contrasts’ (1938), in which the composer starts from differences between the three instruments to create a composition that consists of a swarm of contrasts.

However my point in writing this trio was just the opposite: no matter how different these instruments might be, at all times I considered the trio to be one single instrument. As a consequence each single instrument is only be significant in relation to the other two instruments. As a consequence you will hardly encounter long solo’s.

The trio exists of 3 continuous movements in a combination of slow – fast – slow. Remarkable is the returning motive existing of only 1 to 3 tones, a theme also used at the start and at the end of the oeuvre. The sober motive illustrates that the timbre is more important than the harmony.

The trio sounds as one instrument by combining differing instrumental and virtuoso techniques: the clarinet often plays multiphonics, combined with a harmonics or a sul ponticello in the violin part, to enrich and to accentuate the overtones. The strokes of the piano are turned into a crescendo, when the clarinet takes over the pitches, for example with a flatterzunge. Virtuoso pizzicati from the violin extend the staccato sound of the piano, etc.

Tatjana Milošević Mijanović    A Walk with Rina

A Walk with Rina (2014) explores the compatibility of thematic materials from my earlier works. The piece simultaneously presents the opening theme from my ballet CoinciDance and new thematic materials that lend that theme a different sounding perspective. As a result of this ‘stacking up’ of old and new, a ‘poly-musicality’ emerges, referring to the multi-layered and multi-dimensional quality of the musical materials. In his Letters to Myself, the composer György Ligeti explains this: ‘Behind music, there is another music, and behind it, yet another music – an infinite perspective, like looking at our reflection in a pair of mirrors, which produces endless reflecting.’

Rina is the name of main protagonist of CoinciDance. It is present in various traditions, ranging from Indian and Hebrew to Latin, Anglo-Saxon, and Japanese, and is most typically associated with concepts such as the sea, joy, purity, etc. It may also mean ‘peaceful’ and ‘melody’, which metaphorically points to the theme from that ballet.

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