Treasures of the 20th CenturyOlga Dubossarskaya KalerFaculty Recital

Saturday, May 14, 2016 • 8:00 p.m.

DePaul Concert Hall800 West Belden Avenue • Chicago

Saturday, May 14, 2016 • 8:00 p.m.DePaul Concert Hall

Treasures of The 20Th CenTury

Olga Dubossarskaya Kaler, violin Faculty Recital Michelle Areyzaga, soprano Stephen Balderston, cello Lyudmila Lakisova, piano

Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 6 (1913) Erich Wolfgang Korngold Ben moderato ma con passione (1897-1957) Scherzo: Allegro molto (con fuoco) Adagio: Mit tiefer Empfindung Finale: Allegretto Quazi Andante (con grazia)

Lyudmila Lakisova, piano

intermission

Suite for Violin and Soprano (1923) Heitor Villa-Lobos A menina e a cançao Librement - Un puoco moderato (1887-1959) Quéro ser alégre - Vagaroso e calmo Sertaneja (La campagnarde du Brésil) - Animato e spirituoso

Michelle Areyzaga, soprano

Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 (1914) Zoltán Kodály Allegro serioso, non troppo (1882-1967) Adagio - Andante Maestoso e largamente, ma non troppo lento – Presto

Stephen Balderston, cello

Program

Olga Dubossarskaya Kaler • May 14, 2016

Praised by critics for her “deep, soulful sound” and “powerful, enchanting renditions,” Olga Dubossarskaya Kaler has toured three continents as a soloist, chamber musician and artist-teacher, combining performing and teaching careers with equal success. She joined the applied violin faculty of DePaul University School of Music in 2004 and currently serves as Associate Professor of Violin. Currently a member of the World Orchestra for Peace under the direction of Valery Gergiev, Olga Kaler has appeared on the world’s legendary concert stages, such as the Carnegie Hall of New York, Moscow Conservatory Great Hall, the Albert Hall of London, and Berlin Philharmonie Hall, to name a few. In addition, Kaler appears regularly with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra of NY and The Chicago Ensemble. Olga Kaler has received numerous awards as a performer, including the Special Prize at the Rodolfo Lipitzer International Competition, 1st Prizes at the Northwestern and Thaviu-Isaacs Competitions. Kaler’s previous orchestral engagements include the Chicago Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. She held leadership positions with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ars Viva Orchestra, the Lake Forest Symphony Orchestra, and the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Kaler is highly sought out as an artist-teacher and guest clinician. She has presented masterclasses at Eastman School of Music, Northwestern University, Michigan State, and Andrews University, among others. Summer festival teaching engagements have included the International Heifetz Institute, Bowdoin International Music Festival in Maine, Skaneateles Music festival in New York, and Montreal Festival in Canada, to name a few. Dr. Kaler’s recent works of scholarship, Scale System for Reluctant Scale Enthusiasts and An Effective Method for Teaching and Studying Violin Technique have met with enthusiastic reception from string players and pedagogues worldwide. Both textbooks have been adopted into pedagogy curriculums and added to library materials at major conservatories in the United States and abroad. Kaler holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Northwestern University Bienen School of Music and previous degrees from the New England

Biographies

Conservatory of Boston, the Moscow State Conservatory in Russia and the Stolyarsky Special Music School for Gifted Children in Odessa, Ukraine. Her most influential teachers include Professors Almita Vamos, Nelli Shkolnikova, Benjamin Mordkovich, Naoum Latinsky, Inna Gaukhman and James Buswell.

A diverse and coveted singer, American soprano Michelle Areyzaga is in demand among highly regarded orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and abroad. She has performed operatic roles with New York City Opera in Telemann’s Orpheus as well as in their VOX series, and has appeared in leading roles with Chicago Opera Theater, Lyric Opera of Chicago’s In the Neighborhoods programs, Opera Birmingham, Ravinia Festival, and Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México.

As an orchestral soloist, she has appeared with Cleveland Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Oregon Bach Festival, Richmond Symphony, Toledo Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Grant Park Music Festival, Rochester Symphony, Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Wichita Symphony Orchestra, Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra, and North Carolina Symphony, among others. She sang the first Bach B minor Mass in the country of Costa Rica, under the baton of Maestro John Nelson.

Ms. Areyzaga’s operatic roles have included Susanna, Le nozze di Figaro; title role, Madama Butterfly; Cunegonde, Candide; Adina, L’elisir d’amore; Despina, Così fan tutte; Zerlina, Don Giovanni; Pamina, Die Zauberflöte; Lauretta, Gianni Schicchi; both Musetta and Mimì, La bohème and Casilda in The Gondoliers.

Known as a foremost interpreter of vocal art song and chamber music, Ms. Areyzaga has been a repeat guest of the New York Festival of Song under the direction of Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Chicago Ensemble, as well as Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, and the Tucson Desert Song Festival. She has collaborated with the Avalon String Quartet, the Cavatina Duo, and the Lincoln Trio, and has been selected to perform world premieres of many new works by American composers.

Olga Dubossarskaya Kaler • May 14, 2016biographies

Olga Dubossarskaya Kaler • May 14, 2016biographies

As a recorded artist, she has performed song cycles by Gwyneth Walker on The Sun Is Love (Proteus). Other recordings include Songs from Spoon River (Cedille) by Lita Grier and The Small Hours, songs by William Ferris. She has sung numerous times in both live and programmed broadcasts on Chicago’s classical music radio station WFMT.

Cellist Stephen Balderston is known internationally as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician and coach of the highest caliber. Professor of cello at DePaul University School of Music, Mr. Balderston continues a demanding performance schedule in a variety of venues, and presents master classes around the United States. In recent years, he has performed solo works and chamber music with Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Christoph Eschenbach, Lynn Harrell, Yo-Yo Ma, Menahem Pressler, Gil Shaham, Joseph Silverstein and Pinchas Zukerman.

Mr. Balderston was the cello coach for Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan workshops in 1999 and 2000 in Weimar, Germany; the 2001 workshop in Chicago; and the 2004 workshop in Seville, Spain. In 2002 he accompanied a group of colleagues to China for Shanghai’s International Music Festival. Since then, Mr. Balderston has been a participant, coach and soloist at a number of prestigious summer venues, including the Grand Teton Music Festival, Marrowstone Music Festival, the International Festival – Institute at Round Top, the Park City International Chamber Music Festival, the ARIA International Festival, and the Northwestern University High School Institute. He has appeared as a featured artist at the Ravinia Festival, the American String Project, Bargemusic, OK Mozart International Festival, Santa Barbara Chamber Music Festival as well as the Affinis Music Festival in Japan. In August of 2004, Balderston was featured as lecturer, soloist and coach at the International String Music Festival in Taipei, Taiwan. He has served as a chamber music coach for the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras. Mr. Balderston is a member of the American Chamber Players and the Evanston Chamber Ensemble.

Mr. Balderston was assistant principal cello with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 10 years, and a member of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for 10 years. He performed as soloist with both orchestras and was an artist-in-residence at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Balderston began his studies on the cello with Gabor Rejto in his native southern California, and earned both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Lynn Harrell.

Olga Dubossarskaya Kaler • May 14, 2016biographies

Lyudmila Lakisova graduated from the School of Music for Gifted Children, affiliated with the Belorussian State Conservatory of Music, receiving her bachelor’s degree in 1988. She earned her master’s degree in piano performance, pedagogy, and chamber music in 1993 with a Ph.D in piano accompaniment in 1995, both from the Belorussian State Conservatory of Music in Minsk.

In 1989, she became a recital pianist and accompanist for the Belorussian State Philharmonic Chamber Choir and performed with the Belorussian State Symphony. Lyudmila has been a featured soloist and ensemble performer with many orchestras in the Chicago area, including the North Shore Chamber Orchestra, Wheaton Symphony, West Suburban Symphony, Camerata Chicago, and the Landolfi Piano Trio.

She has performed in many well-known venues, such as Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, Harris Theater in downtown Chicago, as well as Bennett Gordon Hall at Ravinia and Carnegie Hall in New York. Lyudmila has also given performances in the Steinway Society Concert series, Stradivary Society, and was featured on WFMT with Kerry Frumkin and in the Myra Hess Concert Series at the Chicago Cultural Center.

In previous years, she toured extensively in England with violinist Drostan Hall, as well as with Trio Chicago & Friends on the continents of Africa and Asia. In addition to her solo and chamber performances, Lyudmila has become well known in Chicago music circles as a colabarative pianist and accompanist, piano teacher and chamber coach. Lyudmila provides her accompanying and coaching skills to the students of Chicago’s well-known violin and piano teachers, such as Olga Kaler, Drew Lecher, Desirée Ruhstrat, Almita Vamos, Brenda Huang and Sueanne Metz. She is a chamber music coach at Midwest Young Artists in Highwood, IL.

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