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Sid W. FoulgerSid & Mary Foulger Foundation

!is event is made possible by:

Mr. Sid W. Foulger!e Sid & Mary Foulger Foundation

A special thank you:Dr. Charles A. Wight, President, Weber State University

Dr. Michael Vaughn, Provost, Weber State UniversityDr. Madonne Miner, Dean, College of Arts & Humanities, Weber State University

Dr. !omas Priest, Chair, Department of Performing Arts Susie Lane, Administrative Specialist, WSU Dean of Arts & Humanities

Diane Nery Stern, WSU Director of Cultural A"airsCarol Biddle, WSU Development Director

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!e Val A. Browning Center for the Performing ArtsChris Casquilho, Administrative Director

Kirsten “Flu"y” Blake, Production ManagerAustin Hull, Stage Operations Supervisor

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July 10

PROGRAMUtah Symphony

Vladimir Kulenovic, conductor

Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 22 Henri Wieniawski i. Allegro moderato (1835-1880)

Strauss Shi, violin

Violin Concerto No. 3, Op. 61 Camille Saint-Saëns i. Molto moderato e maestoso (1835-1921)

Da Huang, violin

Totentanz, S. 126 Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Sun Chang, piano

Intermission

Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 26 Sergei Proko#ev i. Andante – Allegro (1891-1953) ii. Tema con variazioni iii. Allegro, ma non troppo

Fan-Ya Lin, piano

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Pianist Sun Chang is a senior at !omas Je"erson High School in Auburn, Washington. Ever since her move from South Korea to the States in 2003, she has studied with Dr. Peter Mack, with whom she became a prizewinner at many local, regional, national, and international competitions. In 2012, she was chosen as a #nalist for the National MTNA Solo Piano competition, and also won the Bach Festival and Romantic and Impressionist Competitions hosted by Seattle International Piano Festival that same year. In addition to solo works, she enjoys chamber music; with her brother she won the MTNA National Senior Piano Duets Competition in 2011. As a singer, she participates in Chamber Choir both in and out of school. Other school activities include partici-pation in wind ensemble as an oboist and musical theatre as a rehearsal accompanist.

Sun is an avid performer. Having been chosen as one of Seattle’s emerging artists by the Seat-tle Chamber Music Society in 2010, she gave four concerts in the area along with three other pianists. In that same year she collaborated with the UPS symphony to perform Chopin’s #rst concerto. In March of this year, she won the Seattle Young Artists Music Festival’s concerto com-petition and performed with Philharmonia Northwest directed by Julia Tai. !is fall, she will at-tend Northwestern University on scholarship, double majoring in piano performance with Alan Chow and linguistics.

Artists’ Profiles

Born in Hunan, China, Da Huang began her violin lessons since she was 5 years old. She entered the Central Conser-vatory of Music Pre-college Division in 2006, studying wit Professor Tang Wei Jian. Since 2009 she has been awarded Academic Excellent Award and Gucci Music Fund from the Soong Ching Ling Foundation every year, and was elected into Best of Best (BOB) Plan by Central Conservatory of Music in 2013.Among Da Huang’s awards are the First Prize of Teenager Team in the 9th Macedonia International Competition in 2010, Gold Prize of CCTV Piano and Violin Competition in 2011, Fouth Prize of the Mravinsky International Music Competition with top-level scholarship by Conservatory Santa Cecilia of Rome in 2012, and the First Prize in Cen-tral Conservatory Pre-college Chamber Music Competition in 2013.

She was featured in the 2012 CCTV New Year Concert, in Stadttheater Wiener Neustadt, Aus-tria in 2012, the 2013 New Year Tea Party of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and as a member of the Central Conservatory Junior Orches-tra Tour in Taiwan in 2013.

Strauss Shi, 17-year-old violinist from San Francisco, was a recent graduate from the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts (SOTA) where he was concertmaster. He cur-rently studies with Chen Zhao, a member of the San Fran-cisco Symphony, and had previously studied with Zuohan Pan from 2006-2011.He has won several local competitions and was previously a leading member of SOTA’s Dragon String $uartet. !e quartet has performed throughout the Bay Area and in mas-terclasses with the Alexander String $uartet and members of the Juilliard String $uartet.Strauss has been studying and performing on the Erhu (two-stringed #ddle) and many other Chinese musical instruments since early youth; and ever since then, he has been working closely with many of the Chinese musical ensembles, such as the Melody of China and the San Francisco Guzheng Music

Society. At age 9, he made his solo debut at the San Francisco Herbst !eatre performing on the Erhu. Aside from the numerous performances, he was awarded Gold Prize in the Junior Division at the International Chinese Instruments Competition in 2010 and in 2012, respectively. In addi-tion, he was also awarded Gold Prize in the Silicon Valley International Art Competition in 2012.Strauss was former associate principal of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra from 2011-2012 and on their European Tour in 2012. He made his debut at many major concert ven-ues in Europe including the Gasteig (Munich) and the Berlin Philharmonie (Berlin).He will be attending !e Juilliard School in the fall to study with Catherine Cho.

Artists’ ProfilesSpecial Guest Artist Fan-Ya Lin was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1989. Fan-Ya began her piano study at age four. Fan-Ya at-tended Dun-Hua Elementary School (studied with Shu-Fen Zheng and Mei-Fu Chen), !e Junior High Division of !e A%liated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University, and !e A%liated Senior High School of Na-tional Taiwan Normal University (studied with Gwhyneth Chen). With great love and passion for music, it is Fan-Ya’s ultimate goal to become a concert pianist.

Fan-Ya has been selected as top prize winners of numerous piano competitions, including the #rst place winner of the 2012 Coeur d’Alene Symphony Orchestra Concerto Com-petition, the second place winner, teacher’s favorite award recipient, and president’s award recipient of the 2011 Seattle International Piano Competition, the #rst place winner of the 2011 Grand Junction Young Artist Concerto Compe-

tition, the #rst place winner of the 2011 Aurora Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Concerto Competition, the second place winner in the piano duet category of the 2010 New York Inter-national Piano Competition, the #rst place winner of 2010 Music Teacher National Association Steinway Young Artists National Piano Competition, the #rst place winner of the 2010 Music Teacher National Association Southwest Division Competition, the #rst place winner of the 2009 Music Teacher National Association State Competition in Utah, the #rst place winner of the 2009 Snowy Range Piano Competition, the third place winner of the 2009 Beethoven Club International Piano Competition, and the #rst place winner of the 2009 Utah Music Teacher As-sociation Concerto Competition.

Fan-Ya also attended many music festivals such as 2010 Esterhazy Classical Music Festival, 2009 Music@Menlo, 2009 Aspen Music Festival, 2008 Paris International Music Session, and 2005 Bowdoin Music Festival. Furthermore, she played in the piano masterclasses given by renowned pianists such as Ivo Pogorelich, Dr. Boris Berman, Tamas Vasary, Dr. Nelita True, Dr. Boris Slutsky, Wu Han, and Lydia Artymiw. In the summer of 2010, Fan-Ya studied at Indiana Univer-sity with Menahem Pressler as a visiting student.

In addition, Fan-Ya has been selected as one of the 2011 “National Concert Hall Rising Stars” in Taiwan a&er the #rst and the #nal round of the competition. As the winner of this competition, Fan-Ya will be giving a solo recital at the National Concert Hall in Taiwan on June 9, 2012, as well as performing for the conductor of National Symphony Orchestra Maestro Shao-Chai Lu in person for future concerto and chamber music performance opportunities with the NSO and its members. A recent graduate and Edna Ione Hall Scholarship recipient from Weber State Uni-versity as a student of Dr. Yu-Jane Yang, Fan-Ya will be attending the Juilliard School this fall as a student of Jerome Lowenthal and Choong Mo Kang.

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Dear Friends,

Welcome to the Sid & Mary Foulger International Music Festival & Concerto Competition for Strings and Piano. It is especially gratifying to introduce this exciting program to the community where I grew up, and at the school that gave me my start. I began my formal education at Weber College in 1939 and will never forget the kindness shown to me by President H. Aldous Dixon who took a personal interest in me and nurtured my dream of becoming a mechanical engineer. Today that same individualized, one-on-one faculty–student interaction remains a Weber State hallmark.

!e great Greek scholar and philosopher Plato wrote, “Musical training is a more potent instrument that any other, because rhythm and harmony #nd their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated, graceful.”

As a youth in Ogden, Utah during the Great Depression, I knew that my family was struggling to make ends meet. With little spare money for luxuries, my parents nevertheless arranged for me to take piano lessons, and I trace my lifelong love of music to that treasured childhood experience.

Before she passed away, my dear wife, Mary, and I shared a love of music. Whenever we were in a position to do so, we devoted time, energy and resources to promoting music education in the U.S. and abroad. It is an e"ort that was, and still is, very close to my heart.

In the spring of 2012, I met a remarkable student pianist from Taiwan, Fan-Ya Lin, who came to this country to study with Dr. Yu-Jane Yang at Weber State University. I was so impressed with Fan-Ya’s 'awless musical interpretation and impeccable technique that I vowed to help the university expand its already stellar music program. It was my desire to establish a world-class summer music festival in the heart of the majestic Wasatch Mountains—one that would challenge aspiring professionals and help them mature. !e SMF International Music Festival exposes participants to an internationally renowned music faculty and provides an unparalleled educational opportunity.

Good music elevates us above everyday life. I #rmly believe in its transformative power and en-courage everyone to support !e SMF International Music Festival at Weber State University as it strives to prepare promising young musicians for careers in the performing arts. It is a pleasure and a privilege to be part of this outstanding endeavor.

Sincerely,

Sid W. FoulgerSponsor of the Sid & Mary Foulger International Music Festival & Competition

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Sponsor’s Message

Associate Conductor of the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera, Vladimir Kulenovic maintains a guest con-ducting schedule that includes collaborations with ac-claimed soloists Leon Fleisher, Mischa Masky, Akiko Suwanai and Augustine Hadelich, and orchestras worldwide.

In Europe, Kulenovic will lead Leipzig Symphony, Bel-grade Philharmonic, Slovenian Philharmonic, Zagreb Philharmonic and Macedonian Philharmonic. In Asia he served as the Principal Conductor of the Kyoto Music Festival, and led two critically acclaimed per-formances with Evergreen Symphony at the National Concert Hall in Taipei.

Recent engagements include performances with the Beethoven-Orchester Bonn at Beethovenhalle, National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Juilliard Orchestra at Lincoln Center, Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein, Verbier, Aspen, Salzburg Mozarte-um and Cabrillo festival orchestras, and bene#t a performance of Mozart’s Requiem with members of New York Choral Society and Juilliard Orchestra, which raised signi#cant funds for Japan’s Disaster Relief Fund.

Since 2008, Vladimir was mentored by Kurt Masur during his annual masterclasses in New York, Bonn, Leipzig and Verbier where he assisted maestro as the Verbier Festival Conducting Fellow, and led the Festival Orchestra in two internationally televised perfor-mances on Medici TV. Vladimir also served as maestro Masur’s assistant at the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and prepared the orchestra at the Dubrovnik Festival for maestro Zubin Mehta.

Recipient of the Sir Georg Solti Award, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Scholarship, Bruno Wal-ter Memorial Scholarship, Vladimir was awarded the Charles Schi" Conducting Prize for Excellence at the Juilliard School, where he completed his postgraduate studies under the mentorship of James DePreist and Alan Gilbert.

Prior to his studies at Juilliard, he served as cover conductor of the Baltimore Symphony and Baltimore Opera and graduated from the Peabody Institute under the tutelage of Gustav Meier. He also served as a conducting fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, Salzburg Mozarteum and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.

Mr. Kulenovic was awarded the prestigious Alfred B. Whitney Prize for the highest scho-lastic achievement at the Boston Conservatory where he graduated summa cum laude as Valedictorian, earning degrees in Conducting and Piano Performance. As a pianist, Mr. Kulenovic won the 2nd Prize at the Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Paris.

Conductor Profile

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!ierry FischerMusic Director!e Maurice Abravanel Chair, Endowed by the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation

Jerry SteichenPrincipal Pops Conductor

Vladimir KulenovicAssociate Conductor

VIOLIN*Ralph MatsonConcertmaster!e Jon M. and Karen Huntsman Chair, in honor of Wendell J. and Belva B. Ashton

Kathryn EberleAssociate Concertmaster!e Richard K. and Shirley S. Hemingway Chair

Leonard BrausAssociate Concertmaster

David ParkAssistant Concertmaster

Claude HalterPrincipal Second

Wen Yuan GuAssociate Principal Second

Karen Wyatt

Stephanie Cathcart††Joseph EvansLoiAnne Eyring†Teresa HicksLun Jiang

Rebekah JohnsonTina Johnson††Veronica KuligDavid LangrMelissa !orley Lewis

Yuki Mac$ueenAlex MartinRebecca MoenchDavid Porter

Lynn Maxine Rosen

M. Judd SheranianLynnette StewartJulie Wunderle

VIOLA*Brant BaylessPrincipal!e Sue and Walker Wallace Chair

Roberta ZalkindAssociate Principal

Joel GibbsJulie EdwardsCarl JohansenScott LewisChristopher McKellarLeslie Richards††Je"rey Wagner

CELLO*J. Ryan SelbergPrincipal!e Kenneth A. and Jeral-dine S. Randall Chair

Matthew JohnsonAssociate Principal

John EcksteinWalter HamanNoriko Kishi††Anne LeeKevin ShumwayPegsoon Whang

BASS*David YavornitzkyPrincipal

Corbin JohnstonAssociate Principal

James AllynFrank W. Asper, Jr.Ben Henderson††Claudia NortonJens Tenbroek!omas Zera

HARPLouise VickermanPrincipal

FLUTEMercedes SmithPrincipal!e Val A. Browning Chair

Lisa ByrnesAssociate Principal

Caitlyn Valovick Moore

PICCOLOCaitlyn Valovick Moore

OBOERobert StephensonPrincipalJames HallAssociate PrincipalLissa StolzEnglish HornLissa Stolz

CLARINETTad CalcaraPrincipal!e Norman C. and Barbara Lindquist Tanner Chair, in memory of Jean Lindquist Pell

Erin Voellinger††Acting Associate Principal

Lee Livengood#

BASS CLARINETLee Livengood#

BASSOONLori WikePrincipal!e Edward and Barbara Moreton Chair

Leon ChodosAssociate Principal

Jennifer Rhodes

CONTRABASSOONLeon Chodos

HORNBruce M. Gi"ordPrincipal

Ronald L. BeitelActing Associate Principal

Llewellyn B. HumphreysStephen ProserNathan Basinger††

TRUMPETTravis PetersonPrincipal!e Robert L. and Joyce Rice Chair

Je" LukeAssociate Principal

Peter MarguliesNick Norton

TROMBONELarry ZalkindPrincipal

Donna Parkes††Acting Associate Principal

BASS TROMBONEGraeme Mutchler

TUBAGary OfenlochPrincipal

TIMPANIGeorge BrownPrincipal

PERCUSSIONKeith CarrickPrincipal

Don H. MainEric Hopkins

KEYBOARDJason HardinkPrincipal

LIBRARIANClovis LarkPrincipal

Maureen ConroyAssociate Librarian

STAGE MANAGEMENTChip DanceProduction & Stage Manager

Mark BarracloughAssistant Stage & PropertiesManager

* String Seating Rotates† Leave of Absence# Sabbatical†† Substitute Member

!ank you to the generous supporters of the Telitha E. Lindquist College Of Arts & HumanitiesGifts received May 1, 2012 through April 30, 2013

Visionaries Val A. Browning FoundationSid and Mary Foulger FoundationSid W. FoulgerSorenson Legacy Foundation

Legends George E. and Mary C. HallRalph P. and Judith H. Vander Heide

Luminaries J and J FerreeO.C. Tanner CompanyWeber County RAMP

Mentors Je!ry R. and Linda G. BurtonLawrence T. Dee and Janet T. Dee

Foundation"e Jarvis & Constance Doctorow

Family FoundationJames C. and Mary Ann JacobsKimber KableSuzanne M. LindquistStewart Education Foundation

Ambassadors B.W. Bastian FoundationMarriner S. Eccles FoundationDouglas and Shelley Felt Family

FoundationR. Robert and Marcia P. HarrisNebeker Family FoundationSouthlane LLCWells Fargo

Friends of the Arts & Humanities Robert R. and Audrey N. BeishlineMark A. and R. Carol BiddleHelen S. and Bill J. Brookens

Yaeko K. BrynerCannonball Musical Instruments, LLCC. Comstock Clayton FoundationMichael F. CollettRichard F., II and Karen W. FairbanksCheryl M. and Greg HansenAnnette S. HowardWilliam G. and Barbara A. HughesElliot J. and Susie G. HuletEdwin B. and Mildred S. Jones

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