Music by Members - Nov 2, 2017
Member Program featuring Stacy Cahoon, Gene Chen, John Church, Carrie Hammond, Lisa Kugelman.
This program spans four centuries of music, from Elizabethan Songs to string chamber music written in the 20th century. John Church, baritone, has assembled a collection of true Elizabethan songs as well as Roger Quilter’s modern interpretations. He will be accompanied by Elizabeth Carabillo, piano. The A Minor Tchaikovsky Piano Trio, first movement, will be performed by Lisa Kugelman, violin, Fran Bard, cello, and Stacy Cahoon, piano. It is an elegy dedicated “In Memory of a Great Artist” to Tchaikovsky’s close friend and mentor, Nicholas Rubenstein. Clarinet and Soprano will combine in the Spohr German Songs Op. 103, with husband and wife team of Jon and Carrie Hammond, with Paul Feyer, piano. The program finishes with a unique String Trio performing both contemporary works by Yale composer Kernis writing in homage to Mozart, as well as a movement from Mozart’s Divertimento in E flat. These are performed by MuUyas String Trio consisting of *Yu-Hao Chang, violin, Gene Chen, viola, and *Vivian Su, cello.
PROGRAM
Go Lovely Rose Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
Text, Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
Ye Bubling Springs Thomas Greaves (fl. 1604)
I Die when as I do not See Her (1606) John Danyel (1564-c.1626)
Time Stands Still John Dowland (1563-1626)
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
(text, Shakespeare, 1599, As You Like It Act II Scene 7 )
John Church, baritone
Elizabeth Carabillo, piano
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Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 Peter I. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
1. Pezzo Elegiaco
Lisa Kugelman, violin
Fran Bard, cello
Stacy Cahoon, piano
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Three Selections from Six German Songs, Op.103 Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Carrie Hammond, soprano
*Jonathan Hammond, clarinet
*Paul Feyer, piano
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Mozart en route (or a little traveling music) Aaron Jay Kernis (b. 1960)
Divertimento in E-Flat, K. 563 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Andante
MuUyas String Trio
*Yu-Hao Chang, violin
Gene Chen, viola
*Vivian Su, cello
BIOS
Stacy Cahoon
uUyas also collaborated with the Hartt School Dance Division and the Bowen McCauley Dance Company, performing in both the Hartt School and DC’s Historic Lansburg Theatre. MuUyas has performed with many musicians, such as Judith Mendenhall, Bonita Boyd, Chewon Park, and Megan Chang. Members of the MuUyas Chamber Music are currently all working towards their Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree at University of Hartford's Hartt School.
John Church
John Church, baritone, received his BA in music and briefly studied composition as a post graduate. He sings with the choir at St. John’s Episcopal Church (West Hartford), MadSingers, and CitySingers of Hartford. He has also sung with Trinity Episcopal’s Compline Schola, and The Festival Singers (in performances of Neely Bruce’s Bill of Rights), and joins friends regularly to entertain at Avery Heights.
Carrie Hammond
Carrie is the director of Business Development for Infinity Hall & Bistro, a 500-seat live music venue anchoring Hartford’s Front Street Arts and Entertainment District. She was CEO of the Hartford Symphony from 2011-2014 and before that spent 25 years in financial and strategic management for both The Travelers and United Technologies. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Wellesley College, she is active on many Boards including The Hartford Stage, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, The Hartt School, Connecticut Arts Alliance and Choral Arts New England.
A soprano dedicated to choral singing, Carrie is a 25-year member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the resident chorus of the Boston Symphony as well as the Boston based Copley Singers. She sang for 15 years with the Trinity Church Choir (Copley Square, Boston), the Hartford Chorale, and various a Capella groups. Recordings include Brahms Requiem Boston Symphony, James Levine conducting (BSO Classics 2008), Candlelight Carols (London), With Heart and Voice, and A Choral Christmas (Dorian), Trinity Church, Boston.
Jonathan A. Hammond Jr.
Jon is a cardiothoracic surgeon at Hartford HealthCare, where he has been in practice for more than 25 years. He is currently Surgical Director of the Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support Services. He is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
A clarinet student of Anthony Gigliotti, former principal clarinet of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Jon attended Williams College where he spent 4 years as principal clarinet in the Berkshire Symphony. He spent 4 summers at Interlochen where he was first chair in the World Youth Orchestra. He represented his high school in the Pennsylvania District, Regional, and All-State Bands and Orchestras, as well as the All-Eastern Orchestra and the National High School Honors Band. He is currently a member of the Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra.
Elizabeth Carabillo
Elizabeth Carabillo has been a handbell choir director and is currently the accompanist for the CT Women's Chorale.