The Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players closes its 1999-2000 season Sunday, Feb. 6, at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall. The concert features works by two Cornell doctoral composition students: Yotam Haber and Robert Paterson.
Death in Venice by Haber is written for solo trumpet. It is dedicated to and performed by Frank Campos, professor at the Ithaca College School of Music. Meditation on a Theme of Bach (from The Musical Offering), also by Haber, is performed by Cornell faculty member Xak Bjerken on amplified piano. Haber, who was selected to participate in a program at the Atlantic Center for the Arts this past November, dedicated his piece to the center and its dance studio, which he praised for its wonderful acoustics.
Paterson's Star Crossing is performed by an ensemble of four, led by conductor Paul Osterfield. "This work is my attempt to convey what I think it might feel like to travel through the galaxy, and to give the feeling, through sound, of staring up at the star-filled sky on a quiet, clear night," said Paterson. He was the 1999 winner of the Brian M. Israel Composition Prize, awarded annually by the Syracuse Society for New Music.
Violinist Linda Case, guitarist Pablo Cohen and Bjerken perform Tuesday, Feb. 8, at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall. Case opens and closes the program with pianist Bjerken, performing Stravinsky's Suite Italienne and Brahms' Sonata No. 3 in D Minor. Cohen joins Case for the remaining four works: Paganini's Cantabile, an arrangement of Bartók's Rumanian Folk Dances, Canciones Populares Argentinas by Carlos Guastavino, and Jacques Ibert's Entr'acte.
A senior lecturer in the Department of Music, Case has been concertmaster of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra for the past 16 years and is a founding member of the Accordo Perfetto Piano Quartet and the Ariadne String Quartet at Ithaca College.
Cohen, who teaches guitar at Ithaca College and is an affiliate with Cornell and Mansfield College, has participated in solo, ensemble and orchestral concerts around the globe, including appearances at Philadelphia's Mozart on the Square, Festival Casals in Puerto Rico and Geneva International Festival. Recently he received the Music Teachers National Association Award for outstanding teaching.
Both concerts are free.
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