Faculty/Guest Artist Recital: Ars Nostra - Dulcis Domus

October 21, 2012 – 7:30 p.m. USF Concert Hall

Sang-Hie Lee, piano

Youmee Kim, piano

Robert McCormick, percussion

Beran Harp, percussion

USF School of Music

Tampa, FL

Program

I. Tribute for Two Pianos (1991) ........................................ JB Floyd Part I Part II Quarter note = 75 Part III Quarter note = 111

II. Deep Blue Ocean for Two Pianos (2010) ..... Robert Paterson The Darkness Below Sunbeams and Waterfalls Accents and Waves

III. Persona for Two Pianos and Two Percussion Players (2012)** ........................................... EunHye Park

- Short Intermission -

IV. An Arrangement on Arirang .................................... Youmee Kim

V. Sky, Tree, River from Piano Silhouettes (2012)* .......... Max Lifchitz

VI. Frozen Land for Two Pianos (2010)* .............. Chan Hae Lee Quarter note = 80 MM Quarter note = 40 MM Quarter note = ca 50 MM

* Commissioned work ** World Premiere

Biographies Youmee Kim, DMA, Assistant Professor of Piano at Ohio University, Athens, OH. Born in Korea, Dr. Kim received degrees from Ewha Womans University, (BM with Dr. Mijae Youn), Indiana University (MM and Performer Diploma, with Professor Edward Auer), and The Ohio State University (DMA with Professor Steven Glaser) in piano performance, where she worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. She has won numerous awards including the Women in Music Competition and the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs Scholarship. She has performed extensively in Korea and North America, and has been featured by the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra in Canada. Dr. Kim performed at the American Music Festival in Lancaster, OH, the Chamber series Concert of Troy-Hayner Cultural Center in Troy, OH, and had recitals at Ewha Womans University, Sangmyung University, Hansae University and Seoul Theological University. She has presented a lecture recital at the College Music Society International Conference in Seoul and Kyung-ju, Korea in 2011. She recently performed at Boston, Marshall University, North Carolina School of Arts and University of North Carolina, Greensboro. A specialist in 20th Century American piano music, Dr. Kim has authored An Analysis and Performance Guide to Benjamin Lees’ Odyssey I and II’ (VDM Verlag, Germany), and published articles for “International Piano Music.” As an active member of Music Teachers’ National Association (MTNA), she serves as Vice Chair of the South East District of Ohio MTNA. Sang-Hie Lee received a BA in piano performance with honors from Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, received MM in piano performance from American Conservatory of Music, Chicago, completed both EdD and DMA curricula with specialization on piano performance and pedagogy from University of Georgia. Since her debut recitals in Rome, Italy; Bruno Walter Auditorium at the Lincoln Center, New York; and Dr. Bethune Collegiate Auditorium in Ontario, Canada, Lee has performed solo and chamber music throughout the United States, China, South Korea, Canada, and Europe. A founding member of “ars nostra,” she continues to champion “our arts” by commissioning and performing new music by colleagues and new music of other contemporary composers. Dr. Lee’s research on pianists’ hand biomechanics has appeared in Medical Problems of Performing Artists, Psychomusicology, Médicine des Arts, the American Music Teacher, and Australian Journal of Music Education. Her research is cited in MENC Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning, the Pianist’s Reference Guide, Pianographie, the Piano Quarterly, the Journal of the American Liszt Society. She is also published in the International Society for Music Education Conference Proceedings, College Music Society Newsletter, Psychology of Music, The Piano Quarterly, the Bulletin of the Council of Research in Music Education, Conference on Piano Pedagogy Proceedings, Music Teachers National Association, and Music Educators National Conference. She is the Editor of the new CMS Cultural Expressions in Music Monograph Series, and serves on the Editorial Board of the CMS Symposium and International Journal of Music Education Research, and served Board of Directors of the Performing Arts Medicine Association. She is the author of Scholarly Research for Musicians: a Comprehensive Strategy (2012, 2013) published by McGraw Hill Publishing Companies.

Robert M. McCormick, percussion, is Professor of Music at the University of South Florida and timpanist with Opera Tampa. He is a former member of the Harry Partch Ensemble and served as principal percussion with the Florida Orchestra for twenty seasons. He is a composer of several works for percussion instruments. Professor McCormick has published over 50 CDs. The McCormick Percussion Group of the USF School of Music won an Award of Merit for Creativity and Originality from the Global Music Awards for their recently released CD: Concerti for Strings with Percussion Orchestra. Robert was the recipient of the Florida Music Educator of the Year Award, the 2006 Keystone Percussion Composition Award, and the 2010 Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher Award. Beran Harp, a graduate student majoring in percussion under Professor McCormick. Mr. Harp has appeared in numerous concerts at USF and other venues. He is featured in several CDs produced with McCormick Percussion Ensemble under major labels.

Program Notes Piano Duo project attempts to establish aesthetic concept of Ars Nostra (our arts) with the emphasis on bringing new music to center stage with ethnographic sentiments, aesthetic nuances, colors and multi-arts collaboration. Through Ars Nostra piano duo concerts and CD project, we hope to share and promote our talented colleagues’ creativity to a wider audience. JB Floyd is a prominent composer-pianist at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida. Tribute for Two Pianos (1991) has three parts, each with distinct structure and mood, weaving classical and jazz idioms equally fluently. Tribute, composed in 1991, was originally created for piano accompanied by Disklavier. A set of pitches presented in the beginning begins a theme that is later loosely adhered to in the following sections of the piece. The first section contains a rhapsodic treatment using the theme in a stretched-out manner and covers a wide range of the keyboard. The next section utilizes the theme set in a harmonized format. This leads to the final section where the theme is presented in a contrapuntal style. Tribute was written as a remembrance of Floyd’s father and has received many performances including one by JB Floyd at Merkin Hall, New York City in 2002. It is available on CD entitled Tribute on The Composer in The Computer Age –Vol. III, Centaur Records CRC2213. Robert Paterson is a “rising star” residing in New York city. Deep Blue Ocean for Two Pianos (2010) was written while vacationing in a Florida coast and learning to scuba dive. The piece shows a fascination of the many shapes of the changing waters. You will hear the murmurs, the big waves, playful creatures, and the composer’s joy not only in discovering the freedom in water but also becoming a new father of his first son. Max Lifchitz, a renowned composer-pianist residing in Albany, New York, wrote five piano Silhouetts for Sang-Hie Lee in Spring of 2012, “inspired by Elisabeth Condon’s exceptional artwork. Sky, Tree, River is the most complex and technically demanding work of the cycle. Taking a cue from the romantic and impressionistic piano literature, the’river’ is depicted by the running succession of fast 32nd notes that serve as background for the piece. The ‘tree’ is pictured by the unpredictable melodic lines that serve as a counterpoint to the fast passagework. A quote of the poignant and moving Korean folk- melody Arirang is used to represent the sky. The appearance of this melody – in contrary-motion counterpoint – signals the climax of the work and leads to the concluding passage where floating 32nd notes

reappear fleetingly while vanishing into the distance.” (Quoted from Kaufman Concert Program in May 15, 2012, written by the composer). Elisabeth Condon is the recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foun- dation Grant, Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, numerous university research grants and artist residencies including Yaddo, Fountainhead, and Red Gate in Beijing. Born in Los Angeles and educated at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, she is Associate Professor of painting at University of South Florida, Tampa. Exhibitions include the Songzhuang Museum, Beijing; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; the Ft. Lauderdale Museum, FL, the Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT and a survey exhibition at the Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA, for which a catalogue was published. For more information got to www.elisabethcondon.com Chan Hae Lee is one of the most prominent Korean Women composers (J. Robison, 2012), whose works have been performed and recognized worldwide. Frozen Land for Two Pianos (2010) was commissioned by Sang-Hie Lee with a specific request to express yearnings and hopes for unification of the two Koreas. Each of the three-movements has a clear story to tell. The work begins with a battling country with sporadic gunfire, pain and chaos. The second movement is composed around a song that represents a common dolces domus (sweet home) sentiment in both North and South Koreas. After this bitterly sweet song, the third movement is reminiscent of harmonious drum dance and perhaps peaceful union at last?! After a lifetime of distinguished achievement as a Professor of Composition at YonSei University, she and her husband spend their retirement years in Cambodia helping to develop music education programs for the Cambodian people. EunHye Park’s works have been performed worldwide, Europe, Russia, America, and Asia. She is particularly fond of incorporating her compositions with multi-art media, dance, art, film. She is a Professor of Composition at Ewha Womans University. A close friend and frequent guest of USF, we are honored to premiere “Persona” for two pianos and two percussion players.

Upcoming School of Music Events:

USF Jaz z Combos Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 7:30 pm, Barness Recital Hall Free Event The talented students of the USF Jazz Studies program will present a concert of small group jazz. Music from the classic jazz repertoire will be performed along with more contemporary works.

OCTUBAFEST 2012 : USF Tuba-Euphon ium S tud io Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 7:30 pm, Barness Recital Hall Free Event Octubafest 2012: The USF Tuba-Euphonium Studio featured in a free concert. These talented musicians will rock the house with a highly varied music from composers ranging from Bach to Vaughan Williams. Come hear these amazing young players!

Ce leb ra t i ng Ko rean Women Compose rs Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 2:00 pm, USF Concert Hall Advance Tickets: $8 Students/Seniors, $12 Adults Day of Performance: $10 Students/Seniors, $15 Adults Included on the program will be the Western hemisphere premieres of compositions by Lee Gui-Sook, Park Eun-Ha, Paik Young-Eun, and Kim Eunhye. Lee Gui-Sook (b. 1964), who received her doctoral degree in composition from Ohio State University, will be represented by her Spring for two pianos/eight hands, as well as by some of her songs for soprano and piano. Paik Young-Eun (b. 1957), a well-known professor at Dankook University in Seoul, will be featured through her percussion quartet Story of Woods, while Park Eun-Ha (b. 1970), who did her graduate composition degrees in Japan, will be represented through her solo piano work St. Peter. For additional information and to purchase tickets, visit the Concerts & Events section at music.arts.usf.edu

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