And on with the show! Participating faculty Daniela Mineva, Cindy Moyer, Virginia Ryder, Eugene Novotney, Elisabeth Harrington, Robin Miller and Gilbert Cline.

HSU Music Faculty in Welcome Concert

With selections from Mozart to Sondheim, and Hindemith to Ellington, members of the HSU Music Department faculty will perform a musical welcome to the new school year on Saturday, September 10 in Fulkerson Recital Hall.

“We started this last year and it was a great success,” said faculty organizer and performer Elisabeth Harrington. “It’s an opportunity to present a concert of diverse music that showcases the wide variety of musical interests and talents of our faculty.”

The early evening event features a host of unique small ensembles, from a piano and trumpet duo to a string quintet and singers from a recent theatrical production. Several members of the local musical community will also perform with the HSU faculty players.

Among the scheduled performances: A string quartet of Cindy Moyer, Karen Davy, Sherry Hanson and Carol Jacobson will play a Mozart Quartet.  Brian Post and Shao Way Wu perform a medley of tunes by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.

Elisabeth Harrington will reprise two songs from the recent Ferndale Repertory Theatre production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, with co-star Craig Benson and other cast members. Daniela Mineva and Gilbert Cline perform Paul Hindemith’s Sonata, which Cline describes as “one of the tour de force moments of the modern era for trumpet and piano.”

Other faculty players include Eugene Novotney, Howard Kaufman, Virginia Ryder and Robin Miller.

The musical smorgasbord will be followed by a real one, with a reception where audience members can meet the players.

The Welcome Concert begins at the early time of 5 pm on Saturday September 10 in Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus in Arcata. Reception is immediately afterwards. Tickets are $8/$3 students and seniors from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. An HSU Department of Music production.

Media: Muse, Tri-City Weekly, HSU Now, Arcata Eye, North Coast Journal

Welcome Concert: The Program

1.Little Sunflower  by Freddie Hubbard
Afro-Blue  by Mongo Santamaria

Players:
Eugene Novotney, tenor pan
Howard Kaufman, double tenor pans
Virginia Ryder, double seconds pans
Jonathan Kipp, cello pans
Shao Way Wu, bass
David Peñalosa, congas

2. Ellington / Strayhorn Medley
 Upper Manhattan Medical Group
 Daydream
 Blood Count
 A-Train

Players:
Brian Post, piano
Shao Way Wu, bass

3. Toccata by  Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

Robin Miller, piano

4. Quartet in G Major, K. 387 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I. Allegro vivace assai

Cindy Moyer, violin
Karen Davy, violin
Sherry Hanson, viola
Carol Jacobson, cello

5. Selections from Sweeney Todd  by Stephen Sondheim
“The Worst Pies in London”
“Have a Little Priest”

Elisabeth Harrington (as Mrs. Lovett), soprano
Craig Benson (as Sweeney Todd), baritone
Robin Miller, piano
Tamaras Abrams, percussion
Introduction by Ginger Gene, Artistic Director of Ferndale Repertory Theatre

6.Quintet in F Minor by César Franck
II. Lento, con molto sentimento

Cindy Moyer, violin
Karen Davy, violin
Sherry Hanson, viola
Carol Jacobson, cello
Daniela Mineva, piano

7. Sonata: 1st movement  by Paul Hindemith
“Mit Kraft” (strength / force / power / vigor)

Gilbert Cline, trumpet
Daniela Mineva, piano

All are invited to a reception in the Music Lobby to meet the artists immediately following the concert.

The Faculty Artists Series features both Humboldt State faculty and prominent guest artists from across the United States. The series continues to raise funds for the Barlow Scholarship,used to attract outstanding young musicians to Humboldt State University.

The Helmholtz Trio

Join the Helmholtz Trio for "Music From Behind the Iron Curtain” with works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Grazyna Bacewicz, three composers who overcame Stalin's artistic tyranny with determination, wit and defiance. Performance is Saturday night, September 9, at 8 pm in the Fulkerson Recital Hall, in the Music Building on the HSU campus. A Faculty Artist Series concert. $8, $3 students/seniors, HSU ticket office or at the door. 826-3928.

Helmholtz Trio

Music From Behind the Iron Curtain

How do world-renowned composers respond to censorship by a notorious dictator? In the case of three masters of the twentieth century, “with defiance and resilience,” according to Deborah Clasquin, Professor of Music at Humboldt State University, pianist and member of the Helmholtz Trio, which will perform “Music From Behind the Iron Curtain” on Saturday, September 9 at 8 pm in the Fulkerson Recital Hall on the HSU campus.

This program of music by Serge Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich and Grazyna Bacewicz “celebrates the determination and wit each composer used to survive their world of oppression” in the Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin.

The Helmholtz Trio is Terrie Baune on violin, Carol Jacobson on violoncello and Deborah Clasquin on piano. Baune is concertmaster of the North State Symphony and Associate Concertmaster of the Oakland-East Bay Orchestra; Jacobson is conductor of the Eureka Symphony. In addition to teaching at HSU, Clasquin has appeared in Paris, Moscow and Kiev as well as other U.S. cities and throughout northern California as a recitalist and orchestral soloist.

The Trio will play “Five Melodies, for Violin and Piano” by Prokofiev, “Trio in E Minor” by Shostakovich and “Sonata no. 4 for Violin and Piano” by Bacewicz.

Tickets are $8, $3 students/seniors, and can be purchased at the Works in Eureka and Arcata, the Metro in Arcata, and at the HSU Ticket Office, or at the door. Call the Concert Line at 707 826-5436 for details. The Fulkerson Recital Hall is located in the Music Building at Humboldt State.


Helmholtz Trio Bios

Terrie Baune, violin, is concertmaster of the North State Symphony and Associate Concertmaster of the Oakland-East Bay Orchestra. She is currently a member of the Empyrean Ensemble, a new-music ensemble in residence at UC Davis. She has been on the faculty of UC Davis, CSU Stanislaus and UC Santa Cruz. Her other professional credits include four yours as a member of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C., violinist in the Gabrielli Trio, a National Ensemble in New Zealand, and the Concertmaster position with the Fresno Philharmonic, the Rohnert Park Symphony and the Santa Cruz Symphony.

Carol Jacobson, violoncello, has attended the University of the Pacific and the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Her chamber studies include the Royal Danish Conservatory, as well as the Royal Conservatory—the Hague. She is current Conductor of the ArMac Orchestra and the Eureka Symphony. She has been a member of the Amicelli Cello Quartet and the North Coast Chamber Players.

Deborah Clasquin, piano, enjoys an active career as a recitalist, as well as orchestral soloist, and has appeared in concert in Paris, Moscow, Kiev, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C., San Francisco and throughout Northern California. Numerous prizes and awards have marked her performing career, as well as being broadcast nationwide by National Public Radio’s Performance Today. She is a Professor of Music at Humboldt State University and was recently nominated as a Distinguished Teachers in the Arts Program by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.

Media

From Eureka Times-Standard: Taking their name from German scientist and musician Hermann von Helmholtz, the lineup includes HSU music professor Deborah Clasquin on piano, Carol Jacobsen, from the ArMac Orchestra and the Eureka Symphony, playing violoncello and Terrie Baune, of the Empyrean Ensemble in residence at University of California, Davis, lending her violin to the group.

According to Clasquin, she and Baune have played in different groups for the last 10 years, and the three have played together in various ensembles. In 2003, the desire to form a piano trio was finally realized and we can share in the spoils Saturday night.

The Program


Five Melodies, for violin and piano, Opus 35a……….Serge Prokofiev
No.1 in E flat Major, andante (1891-1953)
No.2 in a minor, lento ma non troppo
No.4 in A Major, allegretto leggero e scherzando


Sonata no. 4 for violin and piano…….……………..….Grazyna Bacewicz
Moderato—Allegro non troppo (1909-1969)
Andante ma non troppo
Scherzo: Molto vivo
Finale: Con passione

~Intermission~

Trio in e minor, Opus 67……………………………..Dmitri Shostakovich
Andante (1906-1975)
Allegro non troppo
Largo
Allegretto