Young Concert Artist

Narek Hakhnazaryan

Thursday, October 6 at 7:30 p.m.Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall

Iowa State University

The Martha-Ellen Tye Performing Arts Institute Presents

The Martha-Ellen Tye Performing Arts Institute epitomizes Iowa State’s land-grant mission of education and outreach. These programs serve a broad spectrum of constituencies and audiences. The goals of the Institute are: • toenhancethedevelopmentof creativity in students through the performing arts. • toassistinthecareerdevelopmentof young artists by providing performance opportunities and educational experiences. • toofferstudentsatalleducational levels the opportunity to interact directly with professional artists through master classes, workshops, lecture demonstrations and clinics.

In collaboration with the Iowa State Center’s Performing Arts Series, the Institute introduces students at all levels to the performing arts and serves over 15,000 students from pre-school to college age each year. Workshops and performances in the schools, master classes with professional artists, and school-time matinees at Stephens Auditorium are offered in the areas of music, theatre and dance.

In addition to to Mr. Hakhnazaryan’s residency, programs scheduled for the 2011-2012 season include:

Staged reading and masterclass with • the Aquila Theatre Company

17 school-time matinee performances•

Residency with multicultural • instrumentalist Todd Green

On Stage! - an audience development • project for high school students

Martha-Ellen Tye Career Development • Award to be presented at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions-Iowa District

Master class for singers in the 2012 • MONC Iowa District Auditions

Drama workshop with the Montana • Repertory Theater Company

For more information, contact Sara Compton, outreach coordinator, at (515) 294-3347, toll free at 1-877-THE-CENTER, e-mail scompton@iastate.edu or visit us online at www.center.iastate.edu

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IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRAwith Leon Fleisher, Piano Soloist, and Gérard Korsten, Conductor

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2011 7:30 pm$44 and $40 | $25 (18 & under) | $20 (ISU students with student ID)

Overture Dinner begins at 5:30 pm | $25 Adult, $12.50 Child (12 & under)

For Tickets: Stephens Auditorium Ticket OfficeTicketmaster: www.ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000 | All Ticketmaster Outlets

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Ames International Orchestra Festival Association

Ames Commission on the Arts

PROGRAM (subject to change)

Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 96 in D Major, HOB I:96 (“The Miracle”)Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto (Left Hand), No. 4, Op. 53

Leon Fleisher, pianistMícheál Ó Súilleabháin To Be AnnouncedL.V. Beethoven Symphony No. 7, Op. 92

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Find Tickets Now!

IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRAwith Leon Fleisher, Piano Soloist, and Gérard Korsten, Conductor

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2011 7:30 pm$44 and $40 | $25 (18 & under) | $20 (ISU students with student ID)

Overture Dinner begins at 5:30 pm | $25 Adult, $12.50 Child (12 & under)

For Tickets: Stephens Auditorium Ticket OfficeTicketmaster: www.ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000 | All Ticketmaster Outlets

Sponsored by

Ames International Orchestra Festival Association

Ames Commission on the Arts

PROGRAM (subject to change)

Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 96 in D Major, HOB I:96 (“The Miracle”)Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto (Left Hand), No. 4, Op. 53

Leon Fleisher, pianistMícheál Ó Súilleabháin To Be AnnouncedL.V. Beethoven Symphony No. 7, Op. 92

Irish Chamber O

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Young Concert Artist

Variations on a theme from Rossini’s “Moses in Egypt”

NICCOLO PAGANINI(1742-1840)

Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Op. 40 DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH(1906-1975)Allegro non troppo

AllegroLargoAllegro

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

Fantasiestücke, Op. 7 Zart und mit Ausdruck Lefhaft, leicht Rasch un mit Feuer

Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69 Allegro, ma non tanto Scherzo Adagio cantabile – Allegro vivace

Program subject to change

You are invited to join Mr. Hakhnazaryan and Ms. Polera at a reception in the lobby following the recital

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Program

Intermission

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Ms. Polera’s mastery and affection for the complete standard cello-piano repertory is well-known, as is her attention and dedication to the works of living composers. In recent seasons she performed Elliott Carter’s venerable Sonata for Cello and Piano on tour in Paris, New York and Philadelphia, along with new works by Lowell Liebermann and YCA composers Benjamin C.S. Boyle and Kenji Bunch to critical acclaim. Her CD recording Sound Vessels

(with cellist Scott Kluksdahl) features the recording premiere of Richard Wernick’s “Duo,” as well as works of Robert Helps, Augusta Read Thomas and Elliott Carter.

Noreen Polera holds Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Martin Canin.

Martha-Ellen Tye, Philanthropist

The late Martha-Ellen Tye is most remembered for her for charitable giving, embracing through her financial resources a philosophy that develops the “whole person – body, mind, and spirit.” Mrs. Tye devoted her life to making that philosophy possible for her community, her state, and her world.

Named Outstanding Individual Philanthropist in 1989 by the Iowa Chapter of the National Society of Fund-Raising Executives, Mrs. Tye established many new projects especially in two areas: keeping the arts alive and investing in youth. These interests influenced her giving from the creation of the Martha-Ellen Tye Playhouse in Marshalltown to becoming the lead donor in the renovation of the Iowa State Center’s Fisher Theater, named for Mrs. Tye’s brother, J.W. “Bill” Fisher.

For her generous gifts to Iowa State, Mrs. Tye received the ISU Foundation’s Order of the Knoll Campanile Award in 1997 recognizing her exemplary philanthropy and outstanding dedication.

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Armenian cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan’s powerful and poetic playing has propelled him to the First Prize and Gold Medal at the 2011 XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition. Already hailed a “seasoned phenom” (Washington Post) following his Kennedy Center debut, Mr. Hakhnazaryan’s 2011-2012 season brings his first New York concerto performance at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall as part of the Young Concert Artists gala with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s under Ryan McAdams and with the London Symphony and Mariinsky Orchestras under Maestro Valery Gergiev.

Additionally, Mr. Hakhnazaryan performs extensively this season as soloist with the Hilton Head, Signature (OK), Springfield (OH), and Longwood (MA) symphonies in the U.S; in a five-concert tour across Europe with the Moscow Philharmonic; and other international orchestras including the Verdi Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, and the Tokyo Symphony at Japan’s Suntory Hall. He appears in recital in California, Maryland, Missouri, and Kansas as well as in Europe including a tour in Italy and as part of the Verbier, Beethoven (Poland), and Tivoli (Denmark) festivals.

Recent highlights include performances with the Boston Pops; as part of Boston’s Celebrity

Series; the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts; and with the Pasadena Symphony and Naples Philharmonic Orchestras. An accomplished chamber musician, Narek will be performing with the Boston Chamber Music Society and has performed with Ravinia’s Steans Institute; the Caramoor “Rising Stars” series; and at the Young Concert Artists Festival in Tokyo.

As First Prize winner in the 2008 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Mr. Hakahnazaryan debuted in the Young Concert Artists Series in New York at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, sponsored by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation Prize, and in Washington, DC.

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Mr. Hakhnazaryan has received scholarships from the Rostropovich Russian Performing Arts Fund which brought him concerts in Russia, Germany, Italy, Austria, France, Great Britain, Greece, Turkey and Canada. His prizes include First Prize in the 2006 Aram Khachaturian International Competition in Armenia and First Place in the 2006 Johansen International Competition for Young String Players.

Mr. Hakhnazaryan was born in 1988 in Yerevan, Armenia, into a family of musicians: his father is a violinist and his mother is a pianist. His early studies were at the Sayat-Nova School of Music in Yerevan with Zareh Sarkisyan. At the age of 12, Mr. Hakhnazaryan began studies at the Moscow Conservatory with Alexey Seleznyov. Working with Laurence Lesser, he received an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music in 2011. Mr. Hakhnazaryan plays a 1698 David Tecchler cello, on loan from Valentine Saarmaa, granddaughter of the renowned luthier Jacques Francais.

NAREK HAKHNAZARYAN, cellistNOREEN POLERA, pianist

Pianist Noreen Polera ranks among the most highly-regarded collaborative pianists and diverse chamber artists performing today. She maintains a career that has taken her to every major American music center and abroad to Europe, Russia, and Asian centers of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Seoul. Recent performances include those at Alice Tully Hall, Zankel Hall, Weill Recital Hall, 92nd Street Y, Jordan Hall, Gardner Museum, the Kennedy Center, Salle Cortot, and appearances at festivals including Caramoor, Bard and Grand Teton, as well as engagements at the Chamber Music Societies of Philadelphia and La Jolla. She has recorded for EMI, Audiophon and Centaur Records.

Noreen Polera has collaborated with leading soloists including David Shifrin, Matt Haimovitz, Carter Brey, Antonio Menesis, Aurora-Natalie Ginastera, Yo-Yo Ma and Leonard Rose. Winner of the Accompanying Prize at the Eighth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, she regularly collaborates with laureates of the Queen Elisabeth, Tchaikovsky and Naumburg international competitions.

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