2016 Beethoven Festival Park City Spring Chamber Concerts

Final Concerts of the 32nd Season of Utah’s longest-running Classical Music Festival
Concert Schedule
Beethoven Festival Park City
Spring Chamber Music Festival – from Provo to New York April 16 – 30

ARTIST SHOWCASE CONCERT
Saturday Evening, April 16 at 7:30pm
NuSkin Center at 75 Center Street
Provo
Directions

Program:
“Trout” Quintet for Piano and Strings by Franz Schubert
“Variations on a Theme by Mozart” by Ludwig van Beethoven, for Clarinet and Piano
“Fratres” by Arvo Part for Violin and Guitar
“Nocturne” in C Minor by Frederic Chopin for Clarinet and Piano
“Un Sospiro” by Franz Liszt for Solo Piano
“Pur ti miro” Duet by Monteverdi arranged for Viola, Clarinet and Piano by Russell Harlow

Artists:
Donna Fairbanks, Violin
Leslie Harlow, Viola
Cheung Chau, Cello
Denson Angulo, Bass
Jon Yerby, Guitar
Russell Harlow, Clarinet
Massimiliano Frani, Piano
Hsiang John Tu, Piano

The April 16 concert is collaboration with Utah Valley University and will be presented at 7:30pm in the stunning NuSkin Innovation Center Pavillion. Daynes Music and Steinway Pianos are providing the 7-foot concert grand piano to showcase Schubert’s beloved “Trout” Quintet for Piano and Strings, featuring pianist Massimiliano Frani. The program will also include works by Arvo Part, Beethoven, Chopin, and Monteverdi. Concert pianist and Juilliard Concerto Competition winner Hsiang John Tu will perform “Un Sospiro”, the beautiful piano work by Liszt and the virtuoso Beethoven “Mozart Variations” with clarinetist Russell Harlow. Violinist Donna Fairbanks and classical guitarist Jon Yerby are recording a collection of works for violin and guitar incluing the beautiful work “Fratres” by Arvo Part.

Tickets for the concert are $10 regular admission, $5 for students and seniors 62+, and $5 for faculty and UVU students. Tickets will be available at the door or in advance: Online Tickets

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ARTIST SHOWCASE CONCERT
Sunday Evening, April 17 at 7:30pm
Park City Community Church
4501 Utah Hwy 224
Directions
Park City

Program:
“Variations on a Theme by Mozart” by Ludwig van Beethoven, for Clarinet and Piano
“Arpegionne Sonata” for Viola and Guitar by Franz Schubert
“Nocturne” in C Minor by Frederic Chopin for Clarinet and Piano
“Un Sospiro” by Franz Liszt for Solo Piano
“Quartet for Clarinet and Strings” by Wolfgang A. Mozart

Artists:
Donna Fairbanks, Violin
Leslie Harlow, Viola
Cheung Chau, Cello
Jon Yerby, Guitar
Russell Harlow, Clarinet
Massimiliano Frani, Piano
Hsiang John Tu, Piano

The April 17th concert will be presented in the Park City area at the Park City Community Church at 7:30pm. The program will include an elegant Quartet for Clarinet and Strings by Mozart, featuring Festival Artist in Residence Russell Harlow, along with the “Arpeggione” Sonata for Viola and Guitar by Schubert, the Beethoven “Mozart Variations”, “Un Sospiro” by Liszt, performed by Hsiang John Tu, and “Fratres” by Arvo Part for Violin and PIano featuring again violinist Donna Fairbanks and guitarist John Yerby.
Tickets are $20, $15 for students and seniors 62+.
 Tickets will be available at the door or in advance: Online Tickets

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KINEMUSIC Concert of Music with Film
Tuesday Evening, April 19 at 7:00 pm
Tower Theater in Salt Lake City
876 E 900 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84105
Directions

Program:
“Easy Street” by Chaplin with Music of Beethoven for String Quartet and Piano, arranged and conducted by Russell Harlow
“Who is Eve?” by Miroslav Loncar, film by Leslie Harlow
“Arpeggione” by Schubert, film by Harlow
“Timeless” film and music by Harlow

Performers:
Violinists Donna Fairbanks and Rebekah Willey
Violist Leslie Harlow
Cellist Cheung Chau
Guitarist Jon Yerby
Pianist Hsiang John Tu
Conductor Russell Harlow

The third Utah performance will be “KineMusic” on April 19 at 7pm at the Tower Theater in Salt Lake City. This concert is presented in collaboration with the Salt Lake Film Society, the Utah Guitar Society and the Beethoven Festival Park City. Four films will accompany live performances: “Easy Street” by Charles Chaplin with music of Beethoven, the world premier of “Who is Eve? for Guitar and Violin, “Arpeggione” with music of Schubert and “Timeless” with music by Leslie Harlow.

Tickets are $20 regular admission, $10 for Salt Lake Film Society and Utah Guitar Society members – For more information visit the Salt Lake Film Society Website
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Beethoven Festival in New York
April 30 at 4pm
AFTERNOON CONCERT for Bargemusic
at Fulton Ferry at the Base of the Brooklyn Bridge
Directions

Program:
“Danzas Argentinian” for Piano, by Ginastera
“Tsigane” for Violin and Piano, by Ravel
“Variations on a Theme by Mozart” by Ludwig van Beethoven, for Clarinet and Piano
“Sonata for Viola and Piano” by Ottmar Gerster
Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano by Menotti
“Pur ti miro” Duet by Monteverdi for Viola, Clarinet and Piano

Artists:
John Novacek, Piano
Simón Gollo, Violin
Leslie Harlow, Viola
Russell Harlow, Clarinet

Admission is Free for this Afternoon Concert presented by the Bargemusic Series.

About the Artists:
Pianist John Novacek’s major American performances have been heard in New York City’s Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, 92nd Street Y, Columbia University’s Miller Theater, Merkin Concert Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Symphony Space, Washington’s The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Chicago’s Symphony Center and Los Angeles’ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Hollywood Bowl and Royce Hall, while international venues include Paris’ Theatre des Champs-Elysées, Salle Gaveau and Musée du Louvre, London’s Wigmore Hall and Barbican Centre, as well as most of the major concert halls of Japan. He is also a frequent guest artist at festivals, here and abroad, including New York City’s Mostly Mozart Festival, California’s Festival Mozaic and those of Aspen, Cape Cod, Caramoor, Chautauqua, Colorado College, Mimir, Ravinia, Seattle, SummerFest La Jolla, Wolf Trap, BBC Proms (England), Braunschweig (Germany), Lucerne, Menuhin and Verbier (Switzerland), Majorca (Spain), Sorrento (Italy), Stavanger (Norway), Toulouse (France) and Sapporo (Japan).
Often heard on radio broadcasts worldwide, John Novacek has appeared on NPR’s Performance Today, St. Paul Sunday and, as both featured guest composer/performer, on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. He was also seen and heard on television, including The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Entertainment Tonight and CNN International.
John Novacek is a much sought-after collaborative artist and has performed with Joshua Bell, Matt Haimovitz, Leila Josefowicz, Cho-Liang Lin, Yo-Yo Ma, Truls Mork, Elmar Oliveira and Emmanuel Pahud, and, as well as the Colorado, Harrington, Jupiter, New Hollywood, St. Lawrence, SuperNova and Ying string quartets. He also tours widely as a member of Intersection, a piano trio that includes violinist Kaura Frautschi and cellist Kristina Reiko Coooper. Mr. Novacek has also given numerous world premieres and worked closely with composers John Adams, John Harbison, Jennifer Higdon, George Rochberg, John Williams and John Zorn.
John Novacek took top prizes at both the Leschetizky and Joanna Hodges international piano competitions, among many others. He studied piano with Polish virtuoso Jakob Gimpel at California State University, Northridge, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum laude. Subsequently, he earned a Master of Music degree from New York City’s Mannes College of Music, where his instructors were Peter Serkin in piano and Felix Galimer in chamber music. Mr. Novacek’s coaches in composition included Frederick Werle, Aurelio de la Vega and Daniel Kessner.
John Novacek’s own compositions and arrangements have been performed by the Pacific Symphony, The 5 Browns, Concertante, Manasse/Nakamatsu Duo, Harrington String Quartet, Ying Quartet, Millennium, Quattro Mani and The Three Tenors. He has recorded over 30 CDs, encompassing solo and chamber music by most major composers from Bach to Bartók, as well as many contemporary and original scores. Mr. Novacek records for Philips, Nonesuch, Arabesque, Warner Classics, Sony/BMG, Koch International, Universal Classics, Ambassador, Pony Canyon, Four Winds, Arkay, Virtuoso and EMI Classics. CD titles include Road Movies (2004 GRAMMY nomination as “Best Chamber Music Performance”), Great Mozart Piano Works, Spanish Rhapsody, Novarags (original ragtime compositions), Classic Romance, Hungarian Sketches, Intersection, Romances et Meditations and, with Leila Josefowicz, Americana (GRAMOPHONE: “Editor’s Choice”), For the End of Time, Shostakovich and Recital (BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE: 5 stars/June 2005’s chamber choice).

John Novacek is a Steinway Artist.
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Award-winning Swiss-Venezuelan violinist, Simon Gollo, earned degrees from the Conservatoire de Musique de Geneve, Switzerland and the Conservatoire Superieur et Academie de Musique Tibor Varga in Sion, Switzerland. His teachers include Gyula Stuller, Anne Bauer, Gabor Takaçs. Mr. Gollo has also participated in masterclasses given by members of the Amadeus, Bartok, and Sine Nomine quartets as well as violin masters Alexander Kerr, Naoko Tanaka, Tibor Varga, Ana Chumachenko and Igor Bezrodny.
Gollo is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Nuevo Mundo Festival and Academy in Aruba, has a recognized career in prestigious scenarios such as the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (Philadelphia, USA), 92Y- Kaufmann Concert Hall (NY, USA), Chamber Music Society of Detroit, National Gallery of Art (Washington DC, USA), Bolivar Hall (London, UK), Teatro Teresa Carreño (Caracas, Venezuela), Auditorio Blas Galindo, (Mexico City, Mexico). Performing with international figures such as Alessio Bax, Ricardo Morales, Paul Rosenthal, Dmitri Berlinsky, Alissa Margulis, Monique Duphil, Jakob Koranyi, John Novacek, Marcio Carneiro, Richard Young (Member of the Vermeer Quartet).
Simon Gollo is a gifted and committed pedagogue who keeps a very busy teaching schedule. This includes invitations to teach masterclasses around the world. He is faculty member at the Summit Music Festival in New York and he is regularly invited by Professor Naoko Tanaka to the precollege department of Juilliard School of Music.
From 2012 to 2015 Simon Gollo was a member of the Dali String Quartet, and he is regularly invited by the St. Luke’s Orchestra in NY and several chamber music ensembles as Classical Jam, Camerata Nordica, International Chamber Soloists, Chamber Orchestra of San Antonio for tours and concerts given at esteemed venues such as the Carnegie hall in NYC or the Cadogan Hall (London, UK – BBC Proms Festival), among others.

In Fall 2015, Simon Gollo started working as a violin professor at New Mexico State University and became a member of La Catrina String Quartet.

Presented by the Park City Chamber Music Society