String Academy Spotlight Sunday, April 8, 2018, 3:00 PM

St. John’s Episcopal Church

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This program sponsored in part by the City of Tallahassee/Leon County/Council on Culture & Arts (COCA); and the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.

Bach Parley String Academy Scholarship Fund 2017-2018 Scholarship Donors (as of April 1, 2018)

James Alves Patricia Applegate Phil & Betty Ashler Ann L. Berlureau Barbara Bewerse Tom & Cathy Bishop Judy Burgert David Campbell Harriet R. Chase Michael Corzine & Betsy Calhoun G. Kurt Piehler & Susan Contente Rick Effinger Stan & Carole Fiore Sanford Safron & Penny Gilmer

Miriam Gurniak Linda Hester Glenn Hosken Hotel Duval Nancy & Louis Hubener Ronald A Kanen David & Carol Killeen John Knoblauch Joe Kraus Robert Faucett Lide David & Rosa McNaughton Ermine M. Owenby Tom & Ava Prebys Julian & Betty Proctor

Joan H. Raley Karl Scheuerman Elizabeth Serow Danny & Mary Shuler Ruth Sisson Jean Souter Erica & Robert Thaler Susan & Stephen Turner Barbara Mason White Earl Bacon Insurance Agency Hotel Duval St. John’s Episcopal Church

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Today’s Program

String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K. 516 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Allegro (1756-1791) Adagio; Allegro

String Academy Faculty String Quartet in C minor, Op. 18 No. 4 Ludwig van Beethoven (17170-1827)

Cadre Quartet Take Five Dave Brubeck (1920-2012) (Arranged by Bert Ligon)

Cadre Quartet Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 Johann Sebastian Bach Vivace (1685-1750) Largo, ma non tanto Allegro

Valerie Arsenault and Andy Shen, Carrie Holden, Meghan Sahely, Miriam Barfield, Anne Leftheris,

Zlatina Staykova, Melanie Punter, and Joseph Kraus

_________________________________________________________________ The Tallahassee Bach Parley thanks all of our donors and volunteers for support, especially St. John’s Episcopal Church, Betsy Calhoun, and Lindsay Hardy for hosting this concert and the Bach Parley String Academy. Thanks also to the Tallahassee Democrat, WFSU & WFSQ radio’s Tom Flanigan and Dan MacDonald, Erica Thaler for help with publicity, Patty Herrington for distributing posters, and First Presbyterian Church for housing our library and archives.

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The Tallahassee Bach Parley 2017-2018 Membership as of April 1, 2018:

Bach Circle ($1000+) Michael & Kelly Beck Dana M. Preu Dr. Stephen & Elizabeth Richardson Handel Circle ($500-999) John & Nancy Barfield Bill Brubaker Linda Hester Lynda W. & Thomas S. McCaleb Cheryl & Patrick Meighan Lester Abberger & Dr. Amanda Stringer Vivaldi Circle ($250-499) James Alves Nick Baldwin Melissa & Charles E. Brewer Sue Hansen Ken Hays Ronald A. Kanen Dennis G. King Esq. Mary & Ben Lawson Tom & Ava Prebys In memory of Curtis & Trudy King Jeanne & William Ryder Ruth Sisson Francis & Karen Skilling Ralph V. Turner Telemann Circle ($100-249) Barbara & Hector Aguirre Karl & Melissa Barton Stanton Beazley Bob & Wings Benton Betty Boop Ernie Brock

Judy Burgert Michael Corzine & Betsy Calhoun Harriet R. Chase Jim & Mary Clark G. Kurt Piehler & Susan Contente Tim & Sue Cross Grace & Alan Dakan James & Rochelle Davis Karen Wendland Dix Betty & Bob Dixon Diane & Jack Dowling Woody & Charlotte Dudley Christine Elizabeth Evans Jan & Larry Everett Nancy Fischer Patricia J. Flowers Anna Marie Friars Sanford Safron & Penny Gilmer Patricia Gosen John & Leigh Watson Healy Al & Laura Huff Barbara & Fred Jones Jane Kennedy John Knoblauch Joe Lama Gudrun Gaar & Robbie Laub Jim, Julie & Anne Leftheris Shanah Luhmann Emoryette McDonald Kate Muldoon & Bill Miller Patricia Yancey Martin & Gayle Nelson Ermine M. Owenby Talbot D'Alemberte & Patsy Palmer Julian & Betty Proctor Joan H. Raley Betty Serow Jean T. Souter Lawrence & Robyn Stevenson

Diane L. Stuart Susan & Stephen Turner Kent Putnam & Paula Walborsky Tamara Alagova & Georges Weatherly John & Linda Williams Rameau Circle ($50-99) Patricia Applegate Karen & Bruce Bickley Peter & Brownyn Bigelow Nancy Bivins Susan Cerulean & Jeff Chanton Stan & Carole Fiore Ben & Beth Fusaro Stanley Gewanter Mary Anne Gray Miriam Gurniak Christine M. Hazelip Karyn King Hebert Nancy & Louis Hubener Diana V. Jenkins Valleria & Vladimir Kosmynin Joe Kraus Daniel & Arlene MacDonald Jim & Susan Mau Ruben Malan Mr. & Mrs. E. K. Mellon Walter & Marian Moore Kathleen Oman Doris Partridge Louise Rill Hank Rosen Tony & Janice Salinero Paula Saunders Danny & Mary Shuler Jeanette Sickel Barbara Stansell Erica & Rob Thaler Mick & Trish Wilhoit Kayla Williams

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Purcell Circle ($25-49) Paul Arons Ann L. Berlureau Tom & Cathy Bishop Dr. Carlos S. Boueres Mary Lama Cordero Patricia A. Curtis Stephanie Daniels Ginny Densmore Laura Dunaway Martha A. Fenner

Sue Gross Carla Connors & Timothy Hoekman Leslie Johnson Dwight Kingsbury Dr. Toni Fuss Kirkwood-Tucker Christiane LeClair Robert Faucett Lide Bruno & Cecelia Linder Chris Livaudais Jonathan & Antje Lubach

Marjorie Morgan Russell Pfost Michael Buchler & Nancy Rogers Gerry Norden Smith Dr. Patricia Stanley Lori Strickland Katya & Tom Taylor Joanne Taylor Jane J. Watson

Today’s Musicians

VALERIE PREBYS ARSENAULT has two favorite musical activities: teaching the violin and playing baroque music. She is the President and Music Director of the Tallahassee Bach Parley, and she maintains a thriving studio of violin and viola students at the core of the Bach Parley String Academy. As Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida State University, she directs the Baroque Ensemble (on period instruments), teaches music history, and has taught violin and directed the Irish Ensemble. She is a member of the Tallahassee Symphony and the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. She studied violin at the New England Conservatory (BM), violin pedagogy and baroque violin at the Indiana University School of Music (MM, Early Music), and earned her doctorate from the Florida State University College of Music. At the Bach Parley String Academy, Arsenault uses a synthesis of Suzuki and traditional pedagogy, tailored to suit the strengths and learning styles of each student. Her approach is positive and compassionate, but also demanding, and she enjoys helping her students find creative solutions to technical and musical challenges.

MIRIAM BARFIELD began studying the violin at age six with Melissa Brewer. She received her Bachelor of Music from Florida State University, where she studied with Dr. Pamela Ryan, and completed a Master of Music in Viola Performance at The Boston Conservatory under Patricia McCarty. She was a state winner for the ASTA National Solo Competition in 2010 (Massachusetts) and in 2008 (Florida) and has performed in master classes for Joseph Silverstein, Robert Spano, James Dunham, and Thomas Dumm. She has been a member of many orchestras, including the Tallahassee Symphony, the Columbus (GA) Symphony, the Albany (GA) Symphony (as principal), the Mobile Symphony, and the Cape Ann Symphony (MA). Miriam has attended the Lucerne Festival Academy in Switzerland, Brevard Music Festival, Schlern International Music Festival in Italy, and the Meadowmount School of Music, where she was a teaching assistant for four summers and performed with violinists Joseph Silverstein and James Ehnes. She teaches violin and viola at the Bach Parley String Academy.

CAROLINE HOLDEN has played with many orchestras across the country, including the Grand Rapids Symphony, the Louisiana Philharmonic, the Mississippi Symphony, and the West Michigan Symphony. She currently serves as Assistant Concertmaster of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, and is also a member of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra. She performs chamber music as a violinist in the Purple Martin String Quartet, and is a founding member of the Argot Trio with her husband, Dr. Jonathan Holden. Caroline is a native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and earned degrees from Hope College in Holland, MI and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She resides in Tallahassee with her husband and two young children. Outside of music, she enjoys gardening and stained-glass projects.

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JOSEPH KRAUS teaches music theory at the Florida State University of College of Music. His research on the music of Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, and Bruckner has appeared in Music Theory Spectrum, Music Theory Online, Journal of Musicological Research, Mozart-Jahrbuch, Sibelius Forum, Bruckner Studies (Cambridge), The Nineteenth-Century Symphony (Schirmer), and Intimate Voices: The Twentieth-Century String Quartet (Rochester). He is currently completing a book on musical meaning in Tchaikovsky’s instrumental works for Indiana University Press. Joe serves as a substitute organist and pianist at various churches in the Tallahassee area (including St. John’s), and enjoys opportunities to perform in ensembles like the Tallahassee Bach Parley.

ANNE LEFTHERIS began taking formal violin lessons at the age of 4 in the studio of Dr. Valerie Arsenault. She began playing viola at the age of 11 and was twice selected as a member of the Florida all-state orchestra. A Chiles High School junior, she is a member of the Key Club, Culinary Club, and National Honor Society. Her hobbies include hiking, acrylic painting, and playing tennis. She aspires to obtain a degree in Accounting and become a business consultant and travel throughout the country.

JOVEY OSAGIE started violin when he was in the middle of his 5th grade year. For 6th and 7th grade, he studied violin by himself and grew more interested music. He even began to compose, learn the bass and play the piano. By 8th grade, he started taking formal lessons with Dr. Valerie Arsenault. He is currently a sophomore at Lawton Chiles High, and has been selected for the Florida All-State Orchestra, and has also played at a music camp at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In his free time, he likes to compose his own music, play soccer, and play the piano. He is also a member of MAO, the Tallahassee Youth Orchestra, the TYO string quartet, and National Honor Society.

MELANIE PUNTER is Associate Professor of Double Bass at Florida State University. As a member of the Juilliard Music Advancement Program faculty, she coached chamber music and bass ensembles and taught double bass. She is a member of New York's prestigious Orchestra of St. Luke's performing at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and is principal bassist of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. She has performed with the American Symphony Orchestra, the Opera Orchestra of New York, Joffrey Ballet, New York City Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre. She performs regularly at the Caramoor International Music and has participated in Festival of Two Worlds in Charleston, SC and in Spoleto, Italy. An active chamber musician, she is a member of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra performing on period instruments.

MEGAN SAHELY performs regularly as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra member. She currently holds positions with the Tallahassee Symphony, the Pensacola Symphony, and Sinfonia Gulf Coast. From benefit recitals in the Jacksonville area, to performances at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, and a concert tour of China with the University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Sahely has been heard around world. She has also performed at the Ameropa Chamber Music Festival in Prague. Recent engagements

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include solo recitals at Florida State University and at Ancient City Baptist Church in St. Augustine. Ms. Sahely earned the Bachelor of Music Education and Bachelor of Music Performance degrees from the University of Kentucky, where she graduated summa cum laude. She earned the Master's of Music from Florida State University, where she is currently a doctoral student in Violin Performance. She maintains a private teaching studio in the Tallahassee area. A proponent for string education in public schools, she has taught orchestra and general music at the John F. Kennedy German-American School in Berlin, Germany, Edythe J. Hayes Middle School, and Bryan Station Middle School. She is currently the Orchestra Director at Raa Middle School, Tallahassee's Magnet school for the Arts.

ANDY SHEN is a relatively normal high school student, who just happens to have played violin for the past 12 years. Andy has been accepted to the Florida All-State Orchestra multiple times, and has also won the Big Bend Young Artists Competition three times. In his spare time when he is not dishing out a Sonata or a Concerto, you are likely to find him reading a book, practicing Chinese martial arts, or most likely sleeping. His plans for the future are largely under construction, but he does plan to be a lawyer of some sort.

ZLATINA STAYKOVA is a native of Bulgaria. She holds a Master of Music and Doctor of Music in Cello Performance from Florida State University where she studied with Lubomir Georgiev, David Bjella, and Gregory Sauer. Ms. Staykova received her Bachelor's degree from the National Academy of Music in Sofia, Bulgaria. An avid chamber musician, she has participated in various ensembles and has been awarded scholarships for playing in the Liberace and Eppes Piano Trios. Ms. Staykova is a co-founding member of the Torreya and Purple Martin String Quartets. Currently she performs with the Tallahassee, Pensacola, and Mobile Symphony Orchestras. In her teaching studio, Ms. Staykova strives to achieve the perfect balance between encouraging the good habits of playing the instrument and inspiring the musical creativity of every student.

JAMES WI is the cello player in the Cadre quartet. At Chiles High School, James has been selected for Florida All-State orchestra twice, and was a member of the Chiles High Orchestra when they attended the National Orchestra Festival at the America String Teachers Association national conference. James developed an early interest in playing the cello by listening to famous players like Mischa Maisky. Inspired by such great players, he started playing the cello in the 3rd grade and continues to study with Kim Jones. Currently in 10th grade, he is active in the Chiles High School orchestra, Chiles FBLA, and Chiles Mu Alpha Theta.

The Tallahassee Bach Parley Board of Directors Lester Abberger, Chair Nancy Barfield Susan van Hoeij Erica Thaler, Vice Chair Charles E. Brewer Carla King Richardson Julie Leftheris, Treasurer Deborrah Brodsky Stephen Richardson Denise Williams, Secretary Michael Corzine Ava Prebys Jim Alves Rick Effinger Brian Schaper

As always, the Tallahassee Bach Parley provides accommodations for persons with disabilities. Please notify the music director by calling 850-459-3195 or by email at musicdirector@bachparley.org at least five working days prior to a concert if accommodation for disability or if a program in an alternative format is needed.

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& Chamber Singers

Sunday, June 3, 2018, 3:00pm $10 suggested donation, Annual Reception, free childcare available

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Quick Start Ukulele Tuesday evening Spring class session: April 24, May 1, May 15, and May 22 Information and Sign up: tinyurl.com/ParleyUkulele

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Summer Camps: Overture Beginning Violin Camp For K – Rising 3rd Graders, 9AM-12PM, June 11–15, 2018

Chamber Music Workshop For violin, viola, cello – all ages welcome! (with minimum 1 year playing experience) 9AM-12PM, June 18–22, 2018

Information and Sign up: tinyurl.com/ClassesAndCamps

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