2016 Performances

December 26 - January 1

NEVADA CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Trinity Episcopal Church
200 Island Ave
Reno, NV 89501
Performance Times Vary


December 18

FRENCH COMPOSERS

Congregation Shearith Israel
1180 University Drive, NE, Atlanta 30306
4pm
FREE

Ravel:  Two Hebrew Melodies for cello and orchestra (Kaddish and L'Enigme, eternelle).  Saint-Saens:  La Muse et le poete for violin, cello and orchestra.  

Cello: Wendy Warner
Violin: Juan Ramirez


December 2

XIAMEN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA IN XIAMEN, CHINA

Symphony Concert
XMU Sciences and Arts Center Concert Hall
Xiamen, China
7:30pm

Wendy performs Rococo Variations by Tchaikovsky and more with the Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conducted by Renchang Fu (Artistic Director, Chief Conductor of Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra).


November 20

ECLIPSE RELEASE PARTY

PianoForte Foundation
1335 S Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60605
4pm

A CD release party for the new album “Eclipse” on Cedille Records.  Cocktails at 4pm followed by a 45 minute performance/presentation with the artists starting around 4:45pm and concluding with more mingling, drinking and food!


November 19

ECLIPSE RELEASE CONCERT

Lutheran Church of the Ascension
460 Sunset Ridge Rd
Northfield, IL 60093
4:30pm
Free

Join us as we celebrate the release of Eclipse – a new release on Cedille Records.  Comprised entirely of music by composer Mischa Zupko, Eclipse is the title track of an album that revels in and draws inspiration from the beauties of the cosmos.  Saturday’s program will include selected tracks from Eclipse, featuring violinist SangMee Lee, cellist Wendy Warner and Mischa Zupko as pianist.  It’s a CD release party you won’t want to miss!

Rising for Violin and Piano
Nebula for Solo Cello
Eclipse for Violin and Cello
From Twilight for Solo Violin

Shades for Grey for Violin and Piano
    I. Shadows
    II. Waves

Love Obsession for Cello, Piano and 6 Electronic Cello Tracks


November 8

ACROSS THE VAST SKY: THE MUSIC OF OLA GJEILO

Legacy Hall,
RiverCenter for the Performing Arts
900 Broadway
Columbus , GA 31901
7:30pm

The transcendent music of Ola Gjeilo has the spellbinding power to move both audience and performers to a place of sublime beauty. The ensembles are joined by string quartet and piano accompaniment, conducted by Constantina Tsolainou, The Paul S. and Jean R. Amos Distinguished Chair in Music.


October 13

FACULTY RECITAL: WENDY WARNER WITH ALEXANDER KOBRIN

Legacy Hall, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts
900 Broadway
Columbus , GA 31901
7:30pm

Wendy Warner, the Leah D. Hamer Distinguished Chair in Cello, and Alexander Kobrin, the L. Rexford Whiddon Distinguished Chair in Piano, present masterworks for cello and piano by Beethoven and Brahms.

Cello: Wendy Warner
Piano: Alexander Kobrin


October 3

DUNLAP CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

Wofford College
429 North Church Street
Spartanburg, S.C. 20303
7:00pm

Alexander Kobrin, pianist, winner of the Van Cliburn Competition and professor of piano at New York University, in a program of Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque, Rachmaninoff Transcriptions and with Wendy Warner, cellist, winner of the Rostropovich Competition, for the Shostakovich Cello Sonata.

Cello: Wendy Warner
Piano: Alexander Kobrin


September 20

FACULTY RECITAL: ROBERT MURRAY, TRUMPET

Legacy Hall, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts
900 Broadway
Columbus , GA 31901
7:30pm

Trumpet great Robert Murray performs an eclectic collaborative program with faculty colleagues. The program features Jan Koetsier’s elegant ‘Duo Giocoso’ with violist Zoran Jakovcic, Jason Basoco’s thrilling Ice Journey featuring the Schwob School of Music Faculty Trumpet Quartet in their premier performance, Sharon Davis’ lush and beautiful settings of Four Irish Folksongs with cellist Wendy Warner; and David Sampson’s energetic Breakaway with Kevin Whalen, trumpet.

Wendy Warner
Zoran Jakovcic
Kevin Whalen


September 1

GUEST COMPOSER: RICARDO ZOHN-MULDOON

Legacy Hall, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts
900 Broadway
Columbus , GA 31901
7:30pm

A special evening of chamber works by Pulitzer prize nominee Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, head of composition at the famed Eastman School of Music, performed by Schwob faculty performers.

Wendy Warner
Alina S. Bennett
Michelle Debruyn
Andrée Martin
Lisa Oberlander
Boris Abramov
Tatiana Muzanova
Andrew Zohn
Diana Sharpe
Paul Vaillancourt
Jamie Nix
Guest Artist Guitarist: Dieter Hennings Yeoman


August 28

FACULTY RECITAL: EARL COLEMAN AND FRIENDS

Legacy Hall, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts
900 Broadway
Columbus , GA 31901
7:30pm

Music from England and the United States. Featured works include Vaughan William’s Five Mystical Songs and the Columbus premiere of Robert Patterson’s American Pierrot (A Langston Hughes Songbook).

Cello: Wendy Warner
Baritone: Earl Coleman
Piano: Susan Hoskins


August 25

FACULTY CHAMBER MUSIC

Legacy Hall, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts
900 Broadway
Columbus , GA 31901
7:30pm

Beethoven and Brahms

Cello: Wendy Warner
Clarinet: Lisa Oberlander
Piano: Alexander Kobrin


July 30

HALCYON MUSIC FESTIVAL

St John's Episcopal Church
Portsmouth, NH
7:30pm

The Final Serenade
Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole

Cello: Wendy Warner
Piano: Lolita Lisovkaya-Sayevich


July 29

HALCYON MUSIC FESTIVAL

St John's Episcopal Church
Portsmouth, NH
7:30pm

The Four B’s: Bach, Beethoven, Bolcom, Brahms
Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Trio in Bb Major, Opus 11 

Cello: Wendy Warner
Violin: Mark Ptashne
Piano: Heng-Jin Park


July 28

HALCYON MUSIC FESTIVAL

St John's Episcopal Church
Portsmouth, NH
7:30pm

Made in USA
Paul Schoenfield | Café Music for Piano Trio

Cello: Wendy Warner
Violin: Monica Pegis
Piano: Heng-Jin Park


July 22

HALCYON MUSIC FESTIVAL

St John's Episcopal Church
Portsmouth, NH
7:30pm

Vive la France!
Claude Debussy | String Quartet

Cello: Wendy Warner
Violin: Miki-Sophia Cloud
Violin: Monica Pegis
Viola: Timothy Deighton


July 20

HALCYON MUSIC FESTIVAL

St John's Episcopal Church
Portsmouth, NH
7:30pm

The Final Serenade
Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole

Cello: Wendy Warner
Piano: Lolita Lisovkaya-Sayevich


June 11

NORTH SHORE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

The Village Presbyterian Church
1300 Shermer Road, Northbrook, IL 60062
7:30pm

Grand Finale - "Virtuoso Parade"
David Popper
Requiem for three cellos and piano op. 66

Cello: Wendy Warner
Cello: Mark Kosower
Cello: Daniel Kaler
Piano: Angela Yoffe


June 10

NORTH SHORE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

The Village Presbyterian Church
1300 Shermer Road, Northbrook, IL 60062
7:30pm

"From Darkness to Light"
Franz Schubert
String Quintet in C major, D.956

Cello: Wendy Warner
Cello: Mark Kosower
Violin: Vadim Gluzman
Violin: Danbi Um
Viola: Atar Arad


June 8

NORTH SHORE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL

The Village Presbyterian Church
1300 Shermer Road, Northbrook, IL 60062

Opening Night - "Slavonic Soul"
Antonín Dvořák
Piano Quintet No.2 in A major, Op. 81

Cello: Wendy Warner
Piano: William Wolfram
Violin: Vadim Gluzman
Violin: Danbi Um
Viola: Atar Arad


June 5

BRAHMS AND DVOŘÁK DOUBLED

Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
50 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL
Sunday, June 5, 2016
2:30pm

Two of the ESO’s favorite soloists will do double duty in both the Brahms “Double” Concerto and in a special arrangement of a popular Dvořák Slavonic Dance. The Hungarian and Slavonic dances illustrate the lighter sides of Brahms and Dvořák, while the “Double” Concerto and the Dvořák Seventh Symphony represent both composers at their most profound.

PROGRAM

Dvořák
Slavonic Dance, Op. 46, No. 3 in A Flat

Brahms
Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 102
Irina Muresanu, Violin
Wendy Warner, Cello

Dvořák/ Morawetz
Slavonic Dance, Op. 72, No. 2 in E minor
Irina Muresanu, Violin
Wendy Warner, Cello

Brahms/ Schmeling
Hungarian Dance, No. 6 in D Major

Dvořák
Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70


May 20

PIATIGORSKY INTERNATIONAL CELLO FESTIVAL

Alfred Newman Recital Hall
3616 Trousdale Pkwy Los Angeles, California 90089
1:00pm

Brahms’s Sonata in E Minor, Op. 38 and
Popper’s Im Walde Suite, Op. 50

Cello: Wendy Warner
Piano: Rina Dokshitsky


March 1

KOBRIN, SCHWARTZ, WARNER PIANO TRIO

Sanibel Congregational Church
2050 Periwinkle Way
Sanibel, FL
8:00pm

The internationally acclaimed Columbus State University faculty artists Alexander Kobrin, The L. Rexford Whiddon Distinguished Chair in Piano, Sergiu Schwartz, The William B. and Sue Marie Turner Distinguished Chair in Violin, and Wendy Warner, The Leah D. Hamer Distinguished Chair in Cello, perform beloved piano trio masterworks by Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Brahms.


February 25

KOBRIN-SCHWARTZ-WARNER PIANO TRIO

Legacy Hall, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts
900 Broadway
Columbus , GA 31901
7:30pm

Internationally acclaimed faculty artists Alexander Kobrin, The L. Rexford Whiddon Distinguished Chair in Piano, Sergiu Schwartz, The William B. and Sue Marie Turner Distinguished Chair in Violin, and Wendy Warner, The Leah D. Hamer Distinguished Chair in Cello, perform beloved piano trio masterworks by Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Brahms.


February 20

THE AMERICAN ROMANTIC

Wichita Symphony Orchestra
225 W Douglass Ave.
Ste 207
Wichita, KS

Indulge in the lavish music of Tchaikovsky, feel your heart skip a beat with Mozart, and let your dreams take flight in the sweeping melodies of American composer Howard Hanson’s “Romantic” Symphony.

MOZART - Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
TCHAIKOVSKY - Rococo Variations
TCHAIKOVSKY - Pezzo Capriccioso
HANSON - Symphony No. 2, “The Romantic"

Guest ConductorThomas Wilkins
Cello: Wendy Warner, cello


January 21

GUITAR AND FRIENDS

Legacy Hall, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts
900 Broadway
Columbus , GA 31901
7:30pm

Schwob faculty guitarist Andrew Zohn is joined by Lisa Oberlander, clarinet, Andrée Martin, flute, Boris Abramov and Ela Tokarska, violins, Wendy Warner, cello, and Zoran Jakovcic, viola, for an evening of chamber music with guitar.

Guitar: Andrew Zohn
Clarinet: Lisa Oberlander
Flute: Andrée Martin
Violin: Boris Abramov
Violin: Ela Tokarska
Viola: Zoran Jakovcic
Cello: Wendy Warner


January 7

MOZART CHAMBER FESTIVAL

RiverCenter for the Performing Arts
900 Broadway
Columbus, Georgia
7:30pm

Mozart: Overture to “Lucio Silla”, K. 135
Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major
Mozart: Adagio & Fugue in C Minor, K. 546
Mozart: Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425 “Linz”