Donald F. Cook Recital Hall M.O. Morgan Building

Friday, 28 February 1996 at 8:00p.m.

Centuries' End SCHOOL OF MUSIC Music from the 1790s, 1890s and 1990s

Michelle Cheramy, flute Heather Schmidt, piano Atlantic String Quartet

Fantasie, Op. 79 (1898)

Klavierstiike, Op. 118 (1892) Intermezzo Intermezzo Ballade Intermezzo Romanze Intermezzo

Sonata for flute and piano (1997)* Allegro Lento e mesto Allegro energico

Quintets for flute and strings (1797) Op. 45 No.2

Andantino Minuetto

Op. 45 No.1 Allegretto con vivacita Allegretto

Intermission

Suite for flute and piano, Op. 34 (1898) Moderato Scherzo Romance Final

• Commissioned with the assistance of the Canada Council World premiere performance

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Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Heather Schmidt (b. 1974)

Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)

Charles Marie Widor (1844-1937)

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MICHELLE CHERAMY

Originally from British Columbia, flutist Michelle Clleramy's musical endeavours have carried her from one coast of North America to the other, performing repertoire ranging from J.S. Bach to Luciano Berio. A student of Camille Cllurchfield at the University of British Columbia and Peter lloyd at Indiana University, Michelle has also been greatly influenced by summers spent at such places as the Banff Centre and Sarasota Festivals, working with noted flutists Trevor Wye, Carol Wincenc, Samuel Baron, and Leone Buyse. Although Michelle's solo performances have won awards in both the United States and Canada (including second prize at the Concours de l'Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal), she is equally interested in chamber music and orchestral playing, and has been broadcast on CBC radio in all three genres. Collaborations have included work with members of the Vancouver and CBC Vancouver Orchestras, as well as faculty from Indiana University, Alberta College and Memorial.

Michelle moved to St. John's last year after spending a season playing second flute/piccolo with the Thunder Bay Symphony. True to her roots, she spends most of her spare time drinking cappuccino.

HEATHER SCHMIDT

Composer Heather Schmidt, at the age of 22, has received national and international recognition for her compositions through numerous performances and broadcasts, commissions, and awards. In the last season alone her works have seen premieres at Merkin and Alice Tully Halls in New York, readings by orchestras such as the Toronto Symphony, and performances by the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Orchestra London Canada, the Niagara Symphony, and at the Winnipeg New Music Festival. Later this year, the Henschel Quartett of Germany will perform her string quartet Phantoms in France at the ProQuartet series, and a new orchestral work will have its world premiere at Alice Tully Hall.

Among her numerous commissions from performers and ensembles in the U.S.A, Europe, and Canada, Ms. Schmidt was commissioned by the CBC to write the imposed piece to be performed by all semi-fmalists in the Fifth Banff International String Quartet Competition in 1995. The work was performed by the winning quartet at Carnegie's Weill Hall in June 1996. Phantoms was submitted by the English network of CBC to the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris in June 1996, and was also performed at a Canadian Music Festival in Crakow, Poland, in April1996. Ms. Schmidt already has commissions stretching into 1998, including a string octet commissioned by the WDR for performance by the Henschel and Minguet Quartetts to be premiered and broadcast in Germany, a string quintet for the CBC (Ottawa), and a concerto for cello and small orchestra to be premiered at the Vancouver New Music Festival by Shauna Rolston.

Ms. Schmidt is also an accomplished pianist. She has appeared in recital as soloist and chamber musician in standard and contemporary repertoire, in venues as diverse as the Dvorak Museum in Prague (where she gave the premiere of her Adagio for violin and piano with violinist Scott St.John), and New York's Merkin Hall. Ms. Schmidt was for two years the pianist with the Indiana University New Music Ensemble; most recently she appeared at the Winnipeg New Music Festival in a live-to-air broadcast performance of her chamber work Prism.

Originally from Calgary, Ms. Schmidt now lives in New York City where she is pursuing a "professional studies" diploma at the Juilliard School. She holds a Master's degree with a double major in piano performance and composition from Indiana Unviersity. In 1996, at the age of 21, she became the youngest student ever to receive a Doctor of Music degree from that same institution.

ATLANTIC STRING QUARTET

The Atlantic String Quartet in its present membership has been together for one year. In addition to its regular concert series, members of the quartet also function as principal string players of both the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonia. The members of the ASQ are:

A&on McLellan, first violin, started studying the violin at the age of nine in her hometown of Kingston, Ontario. She attended university at both Queens and McGill. While in Montreal she studied with Sonia Jelinkova. Alison joined the ASQ in September of 1994.

Jennifer Johnson, second violin, began her studies in London, Ontario. She attended Wilfrid Laurier University and completed her B.Mus at Converse College in South Carolina, where she studied with Paul Statsky. Jennifer joined the ASQ in September of 1993.

Alexandra Fekete, viola, grew in Newfoundland where she began the viola in 1981. Four years later she began studying at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. Alex has also studied at McGill and Memorial Universities and has played with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada.

1beodore Weber, violoncello, started playing the cello at age nine in his hometown of New York. He completed his B.Mus. at the University of Michigan, where he studied with the Samuel Mayes and Jeffrey Solow. He completed his M.Mus. at the Cleveland Institute of Music where he studied with Alan Harris. Theo joined the ASQ in September of 1993.