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September 6, 2007
Binghamton Philharmonic Opens 2007-2008 Season With An Exploration Of Latin American Musical Influences
Works by Milhaud, Saint-Saëns and Copland based on Latin
American Themes
Award Winning Colombian-American Violinist Christina Castelli
Appears as Guest Artist
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On Saturday October 6, 2007, at 8:00 p.m.
in the Anderson Center at Binghamton University, the
Binghamton Philharmonic, José-Luis Novo
music director and conductor, opens its 2007-2008
Season: South of the Border, A Latin American Festival with
a concert titled Musical Tourists: Latin
American Encounters. The event kicks off
a season-long exploration of classical music from Latin
America which culminates in April with the world premiere of
a work by Mexican-American composer Carlos
SánchezSánchez-GutiérrezCarlos
Sánchez-Gutiérrez, the Binghamton Philharmonic's
first ever composer-in-residence. The October 6
concert examines the influence of Latin American music on
composers from Europe and the United States, with works by
Darius Milhaud (Le Boeuf sur le
toit), Camille Saint-Saëns (Havanaise
and Introduction & Rondo capriccioso)
and Aaron Copland (El Salón
México). The orchestra will also perform
the Lieutenant Kijé Suite by Sergei
Prokofiev, whose music is a major influence on Mr.
Sánchez-Gutiérrez. Violinist Christina Castelli,
winner of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth of Brussels and
Sphinx competitions, will be the soloist in the
two Saint-Saëns pieces.
Tickets range from $29-$40 for adults, $26-$37 for seniors
(over 60) and $10 for students and children. Call
607-723-3931 for tickets and information. Tickets
may be purchased online at
www.binghamtonphilharmonic.org.
The Binghamton Philharmonic has recently improved
its website so patrons can now choose their seats online.
This concert is sponsored by CDPHP.
The Binghamton Philharmonic's 2007-2008 Classical Series is
sponsored by M&T Bank.
The Binghamton Philharmonic will also present a
pre-concert talk by composer-in-residence
Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez at 7:00 p.m. in the
Anderson Center Chamber Hall. The pre-concert talk is
free to all ticket holders and is sponsored by The
Golub Foundation of Price Chopper.
Also, a pre-concert dinner will be held in
the Anderson Center Reception Room at 6:00 p.m., presented
by Sodexho Catering Service at Binghamton University. Call
607-777-2925 for dinner reservations and information.
This performance is made possible with public funds from the
New York State Council on the Arts, a state
agency. General Operating Support is provided to the
Binghamton Philharmonic by a grant from the United
Cultural Fund, a program of the Broome
County Arts Council.
The
Binghamton Philharmonic's 2007-2008 Season is also made
possible by a grant from The New York State Music
Fund, established by the New York State Attorney
General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
For more information on the Binghamton
Philharmonic's 2007-2008 Season visit:
www.binghamtonphilharmonic.org.
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Christina Castelli
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Christina Castelli |
An Astral Artistic Services National Auditions
winner in 2001, Astral has presented violinist
Christina Castelli in recital and chamber
performances and as orchestral soloist on its
concert series. She made her Philadelphia recital
and concerto debuts in 2003, also under Astral's
auspices, and was featured with Astral artists at
Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall.
Ms. Castelli has garnered international acclaim
for her concerto and recital performances throughout
the U.S., Europe, Canada, and South America. A
Laureate of the prestigious 2001 Queen Elisabeth
International Violin Competition in Brussels and
Grand Prize winner of the 1997 William Primrose
International Viola Competition, she has been a
featured soloist with orchestras worldwide,
including the Cleveland Orchestra and the Atlanta,
National, Seattle, Colorado, Pittsburgh, New Jersey,
and Alabama symphonies, and the Belgian National
Orchestra, Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia
(Brussels), National Orchestra of Colombia, and
Chilean Regional Philharmonic. As a recitalist, she
has appeared on concert series in nearly every major
city in the U.S. and has been presented in such
venues the Ravinia Festival, the Vancouver Chamber
Music Festival, the Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts, and Carnegie Hall, where she made
her critically acclaimed recital debut in 2004.
An avid chamber musician, Ms. Castelli has
appeared as soloist with and leader of the
International Sejong Soloists chambergensemble and
as concertmaster of the Metamorphosen Chamber
Orchestra in additCaracolion to giving performances on both
violin and viola in numerous string and piano trios
and quartets. She has been heard as a soloist and
chamber musician in live and recorded performances
on radio stations worldwide, including NPR's
"Performance Today," WQXR in New York, Chicago's
WFMT, Vermont Public Radio, Caracol Colombian Radio,
RBTF Radio Brussels, and UCV Chilean Radio.
Highlights of the 2007-2008 season include Ms.
Castelli's debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra and
the Chicago Sinfonietta, in addition to opening the
new concert seasons for the Binghamton (NY) and the
Grand Junction (CO) symphonies. She also gives
recitals throughout the U.S.
In 1996, Ms. Castelli earned the highest award
available to young artists in the U.S. when she was
named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, receiving
a gold medallion from President Bill Clinton and
Vice President Al Gore in Washington, D.C. She has
also been granted First Prize in numerous
competitions, including the Juilliard Concerto
Competition, the California International Young
Artists Violin Competition, the Holland-America
Music Society Competition, the National Federation
of Music Clubs Competition, and the Sphinx
Competition, where she was the only competitor ever
to receive the award twice.
A passionate advocate of music outreach, Ms.
Castelli frequently gives presentations to children
in metropolitan public schools through her Community
Music Commitment (CMC) program, and conducts
masterclasses for violin and viola students. In the
summer of 2007, she traveled to Tunisia as part of
an outreach program by Music for the People to learn
about music native to the country and to share
Western music with communities in the capital city
of Tunis. While in Africa, Ms. Castelli presented
masterclasses, provided private music instruction,
and performed bothiWestern and Tunisianmmusic with
musicians from both backgrounds.
Ms. Castelli began violin studies at age three
with Edward Kreitman and continued her studies with
Roland and Almita Vamos. She earned a Bachelor's
degree with honors in Chemistry from Harvard
University and a Master's degree in Violin
Performance from The Juilliard School, where she
studied violin with Dorothy DeLay and chamber music
with Rohan De Silva. She is the recipient of the
2001 Samuel GardnerRPrizJuilliard'se as well as the 2002
William Schuman Prize, Juilliard's only award for
graduate students.
Ms. Castelli performs on a violin crafted by
Giovanni Grancino of Milan in 1709.
www.christinacastelli.com
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October 10, 2007
 Guarneri String Quartet
to Perform All-Beethoven Chamber Music Concert
Famed Quartet to Retire Next Season
On Sunday October 28, 2007 at 3:00 p.m. in the Anderson Center at
Binghamton University, the Binghamton Philharmonic
presents a special chamber music concert by the Guarneri String Quartet. This
famed ensemble, which was in residence at Binghamton University in the 1960's,
will be retiring at the end of the 2008-2009 season. This will be one of
their last performances in the Binghamton area. The Guarneri String Quartet,
made up of Arnold Steinhardt and John Dalley,
violins, Michael Tree, viola and Peter Wiley,
cello, is renowned for its interpretations of the music of Beethoven, having
recorded the complete Beethoven string quartets twice. In this
concert the Guarneri will perform two Beethoven masterpieces: the
Quartet in E-flat, Op. 74 ("Harp") and the Quartet No. 13, Op.
130.
Tickets range from $29-$40 for adults, $26-$37 for seniors (over 60) and $10
for students and children. Call 607-723-3931 for tickets and
information. Tickets may be purchased online at
www.binghamtonphilharmonic.org. The
Binghamton Philharmonic has recently improved its website so patrons can now
choose their seats online.
This concert is sponsored by Hinman Howard & Kattell.
This performance is made possible with public funds from the New York
State Council on the Arts, a state agency. General Operating
Support is provided to the Binghamton Philharmonic by a grant from the
United Cultural Fund, a program of the Broome County Arts
Council. The Binghamton Philharmonic's 2007-2008 Season is also made
possible by a grant from The New York State Music Fund,
established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy
Advisors.
Guarneri String Quartet
ARNOLD STEINHARDT, violin
JOHN DALLEY, violin
MICHAEL TREE, viola
PETER WILEY, cello
The renowned Guarneri String Quartet "is among the most revered and enduring
ensembles of its kind in the world" (National Public Radio) and has circled the
globe countless times since it was formed in 1964, playing in the most
prestigious halls in North and South America, Mexico, Europe, Asia and
Australia. The Guarneri String Quartet has announced its retirement at the
completion of the 2008-09 season. In the coming seasons the quartet will
celebrate by doing what it does best - touring extensively throughout the United
States as they have for nearly 45 years. These performances also include their
annual Metropolitan Museum of Art concert series, instituted in 1965, as well as
a collaboration with the Johannes String Quartet. The ensemble also makes its
annual tour to Europe this winter.
The Guarneri has been featured on many television and radio specials,
documentaries and educational presentations both in North America and abroad.
They have been interviewed by Charles Kuralt ontCBS' nationwide television
program, Sunday Morning. A full-length film entitled High Fidelity
- The Guarneri String Quartet was released nationally, to great critical
and public acclaim, in the fall of 1989 (the film was directed and produced by
Allan Miller who was also the director/producer of the Academy Award-winning
documentary, From Mozart to Mao, which dealt with Isaac Stern's visit
to China). The quartet is also the subject of various books including Quartet by
Helen Drees Ruttencutter (Lippincott & Crowell, 1980), The Art of Quartet
Playing: the Guarneri in Conversation with David Blum (Alfred A. Knopf,
1986) and Arnold Steinhardt's Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in
Pursuit of Harmony (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998).
In addition to mastering the finest works in the existing quartet repertoire,
the Guarneri String Quartet is committed to performing and popularizing works by
today's foremost composers. In the spring of 2008 the quartet, in collaboration
with the Johannes String Quartet, will premiere new works by acclaimed American
composers William Bolcom and Derek Bermel. In the.2003-04 season, they gave the
first performance of String Quartet No. 5 (In Search of La Vita Nuova) writtenafor them by the award-winning American composer, Richard Danielpour. Mr.
Danielpour hadDpreviously written a Concerto for String Quartet and Orchesta,
commissioned,by the National Symphony Orchestra and written expressly for the
Guarneri String Quartet. It was premiered with the NSO in the Kennedy Center
under the direction of Leonard Slatkin in January, 2000 followed by its New York
premiere at Carnegie Hall later that same month. In the 2001-02 season, the
Guarneri gave the first performances of String Quartet No. 5, written for them
by Lukas Foss and this work remains in their active repertoire.
In 1982, Mayor Koch presented the Quartet with the first New York Seal of
Recognition. The Quartet was awarded Honorary Doctorate degrees by the
University of South Florida (1976) and the State University of New York (1983).
In 1992, the Guarneri String Quartet became the only quartet to receive the
prestigious Award of Merit from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters in
New York City. The Quartet continues their longstanding series and residency at
the University of Maryland where they are on the faculty. In 2004, the Guarneri
received the Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award from Chamber Music
America. This is CMA's highest honor, given annually to an individual or
ensemble for a lifetime of service and achievement in the field. In 2005,
Guarneri received the Ford Honors Award from the University Musical Society of
the University of Michigan where they have performed 30 times over the past 40
years.
The Guarneri String Quartet has recorded for Surrounded by Entertainment, which
released a CD in Spring 2001 of Quartets by Ravel, Debussy and Fauré.éSeveral of
its recordings on both RCA Red Seal and Philips have won international awards,
including its recent recording of Juan Crisostomo de Arriaga's String Quartet
Nos. 1-3 (Philips), which won the 1996 Deutsche Schallplattenkritik Award in
Germany. Among its other award-winning recordings are collaborations with such
artists as Artur Rubinstein, Pinchas Zukerman; and Boris Kroyt and MischatSchneider of the Budapest Quartet. They have also recorded on the Arabesque
label Mendelssohn's String Quartet No. 3 and its first ever recording of the
great Mendelssohn Octet, Op. 20, in collaboration with the Orion Quartet.
Programs and guest artists are subject to change.
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