April 6, 2003
Contact: Jo Ann Lloyd
(805) 756-1511
20th Century Music To Be Focus of April 13 Recital at Cal Poly
SAN LUIS OBISPO -- Compositions of the 20th century will be performed
by
Cal Poly music faculty member Amber Ferenz, on the bassoon, and guest
performers Mark Menzies, violin, and Peter Miyamoto, piano, at 7 p.m.
Tuesday, April 13, in Room 218 of the Davidson Music Center on campus.
Works by André Previn, Sofia Gubaidulina, Elliott Carter, John
Cage and
Leos Janacek will be featured.
Ferenz, who’s in her first year teaching bassoon at Cal Poly, earned
an
M.F.A. in bassoon performance from the California Institute of the Arts
and a bachelor’s degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts.
She
studied with Julie Feves, Mark Popkin and George Goslee.
She has performed with the U. S. Air Force Heritage of America Band,
North Carolina Symphony, Durham Opera, Winston-Salem Symphony, Carolina
Chamber Symphony, and North Carolina School of the Arts Chamber Music
Society.
Menzies was recently described in a Los Angeles Times review as an
“extraordinary musician” and a “riveting violinist.”
At 31, he has
played concerts worldwide. As the first violinist of the New York-based
Ensemble Sospeso, he performs regularly in New York at Carnegie Hall and
Columbia University's Miller Theater.
His first CD release as leader-soloist and artistic director of the
London-based Salomon ensemble was nominated for a Grammy award. He is
completing his dissertation for a Ph.D. in critical studies of music at
UC San Diego and is chair of Western Orchestral Instrument Studies at
CalArts, where he also teaches violin, viola, chamber music and
20th-century theory and analysis.
Miyamoto has enjoyed an international career as a pianist. He studied
at
the Curtis Institute of Music with Leon Fleisher, Yale University with
Claude Frank and Peter Frankl, the Royal Academy of Music (London) with
Maria Curcio-Diamand, and completed doctoral studies at Michigan State
University with Ralph Votapek. In 1990 he was named the first Gilmore
Young Artist.
He has captured top prizes in numerous competitions, including the
American Pianist Association National Fellowship Competition, D’Angelo
International Competition, National Chopin Competition, San Francisco
Symphony Competition and Los Angeles Philharmonic Competition.
Miyamoto served on the faculty at Michigan State University and is
currently a professor of piano and coordinator of the keyboard
department at the California Institute of the Arts.
Admission to the recital is free. It is sponsored by the Cal Poly Music
Department and College of Liberal Arts. For more information, call the
Music Department at 756-2406.
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