Sunday
May 30, 2010, 3:30 pm
Warner Concert Hall
Concert No. 434
Trio Sonata Op. 3, No. 2 Arcangelo Corelli
Tatiana Chulochnikova, Fiona Hughes, baroque violin
Steuart Pincombe, baroque cello
Francisco González, organ
(1653–1713)
From “Brentano Lieder”
Ich wollt ein Sträußlein binden
Amor
Melanie Emig, soprano
Jenna Douglas, piano *
Des Canyons aux Étoiles
VI. Appel Interstellaire
Nicolee Kuester, horn
Eugene Kim, piano
Richard Strauss
(1864–1949)
Olivier Messiaen
(1908–1992)
Transcendental Etude No. 6 in G Minor (Vision)
Justin Bartlett, piano
Parallels
Michael D. Rosen, piano
Meade Bernard, electronics
* Staff accompanist
Franz Liszt
(1811–1886)
Michael D. Rosen
(b. 1986)

Carmen Fantasy
Rain
Franz Waxman
(1906–1967)
Eunhye Dong, violin
Ran Duan, piano
Michael King
(b. 1990)
Michael King, piano
Alexander Frank, bass
Alex Morris, drums
Please silence all cell phones and refrain from the use of video cameras unless prior arrangements have been made with the performers.
The use of flash cameras is prohibited. Thank you.

Ich wollt ein Sträußlein binden
I would have made a bouquet but dark night arrived and there was no little flower to be found, or I would have brought it.
Then down my cheeks flowed tears onto the clover -
I saw that one small flower had sprouted up now in the garden.
I wanted to pick it for you deep in the dark clover, but it began to speak:
"Ah, do not harm me!
"Be kind-hearted, consider your own grief, and do not let me die in agony before my time!"
And if it had not spoken so, in the garden all alone,
I would have plucked it for you, but now that cannot be.
My sweetheart has not come,
I am so entirely alone.
In love dwells tribulation, and it can be no different.
Amor
By the fire sat the child
Cupid, Cupid and was blind; with his little wings he fans into the flames and smiles;
Fan, smile, wily child!
Ah, the child's wing is burning!
Cupid, Cupid runs quickly.
O how the burning hurts him deeply!
Beating his wings, he weeps loudly;
To the shepherdess's lap runs, crying for help, the wily child.
And the shepherdess helps the child,
Cupid, Cupid, naughty and blind.
Shepherdess, look, your heart is burning;
You did not recognize the rascal.
See, the flame is growing quickly.
Save yourself, from the wily child!
Strauss

Parallels , for piano and electronics, has undergone a series of changes over the past year. Initially, the piece was composed for pianist Tom Fosnocht, but in the most recent version, I am the performer. I called this piece Parallels because I see the development as a continuous and simultaneous monologue spoken by the piano and the live/sampled electronics (I know that seems antithetical to the word monologue) .
These monologues come together at structural points, reinforcing each other and expanding their expressive possibilities.
~ Michael D. Rosen

Justin Bartlett started piano lessons at the age of eight. After winning three local competitions in Massachusetts, he decided to pursue a B.M. in piano performance.
Justin enrolled at the Oberlin Conservatory as a student of Robert Shannon on a Dean's
Talent Scholarship. Next year he begins his M.M. with Arnaldo Cohen at Indiana
University's Jacob's School of Music, where he will be an Associate Instructor of
Piano. He has played in master classes for Jean-Marc Luisada and Jean-Francois
Antonioli and has had supplemental studies with Bruce Brubaker, J.Y. Song and Arie
Vardi. During his Oberlin career, Justin traveled with his piano quintet to Ecuador to perform and teach in Quito. He was also a finalist in the Oberlin concerto competition.
A former martial artist, he has danced as a member of Oberlin Dance Company and involved himself in numerous modern dance pieces on campus.
A composer, performer, improviser, installation artist and concert programmer, Meade
Bernard’s music has been performed by The Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Non
Sequitur and The Walden School Players, including members of the new music ensembles Da Capo and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). His composition teachers have included Tom Lopez, Peter Swendsen, Lewis Nielson,
David Lang, Alvin Curran, Simon Emmerson and Laetitia Sonami. A fascination with architecture has led to recent work exploring different performance environments, and how the expectations surrounding a performance are effected by the space in which it is presented. Meade is currently pursuing a B.M. in the TIMARA program at Oberlin
Conservatory, as well as a B.A. in English at Oberlin College. He is passionate about inter-artistic collaboration, and has worked with film, dance, visual art, and theater. He was invited with colleague Alexander Overington to perform their piece Fricatine at the 2009 SEAMUS Festival, and has received awards and recognition from ASCAP,
NFAA, the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, the Walden School and St. Paul's School.
His music has been featured on WYPR, a Baltimore NPR affiliate, and WRPI, an independent radio station in the New York capital region. He is a founding member of
CMC (Cross-Media Collaborations), a consortium of students and staff of Oberlin
College and Conservatory interested in the redefinition of Oberlin's performance spaces.
Tatiana Chulochnikova is a baroque violin major at the Oberlin Conservatory of
Music where she is completing a master’s degree in the studio of Marilyn McDonald.
Tatiana began studying violin at the age of seven in Kharkov, Ukraine. She holds a bachelor's and Graduate Performance Diploma from Moscow State Tchaikovsky
Conservatory, having studied both modern and baroque violin. While in Moscow,
Tatiana appeared as a soloist and member of various chamber music groups, served as concertmaster of the Moscow Conservatory Baroque Orchestra and participated in concert projects with Pratum Integrum and Musica Aeterna baroque orchestras in
Russia. Tatiana's other orchestral experience includes performances under the baton of
Teodor Curentzis, Philippe Herreweghe, Christopher Hogwood, Anrew Parrot and
Pierre Boulez. Tatiana has also collaborated with world-renowned baroque orchestras such as Tafelmusik and Apollo's Fire. Tatiana’s recent performances in the U.S. include appearances at the Boston Early Music Festival 2009, the Kennedy Center,
Severance Hall in Cleveland, OH and Chicago Temple.
Tatiana's chamber music projects include performances at the Spotlight on Young
Musicians Music Festival in France as well as numerous concerts and music festivals in Russia and the U.S. Recently Tatiana was admitted to Juilliard's historical performance program for a Graduate Performance Diploma in baroque violin.
Eunhye Dong , a native of South Korea, started studying the violin at the age of five.
She is currently a full scholarship student studying under the tutelage of Marilyn
McDonald. Additional teachers include Aaron Rosand, Kyung Sun Lee, Dong Suk
Kang and Kurt Sassmannshaus. She has been a soloist with numerous orchestras,

including the Ukraine National Philharmonic and performed in master classes with
Pamela Frank, James Buswell, Jennifer Koh, the Ying Quartet and Anner Bylsma.
Eunhye will attend the Cleveland Institute of Music next fall in the Artist Diploma program studying under Paul Kantor.
Jenna Douglas completed a Master of Music in Collaborative Piano Performance from the University of Western Ontario in 2009. She was an apprentice coach and repétiteur for a production of Estacio's Frobisher at the Banff Centre's Opera Theatre
Program in 2007 and a vocal coach and repétiteur for UW Opera's production of
Weill's Street Scene in 2008. Jenna’s operatic experience also includes scenes from
Mozart's Così fan tutte in Sulmona, Italy (2008), Copland's The Tender Land in
Edmonton, AB (2007), excerpts from James Rolfe’s Beatrice Chancy in Winnipeg,
MB (2006) and scenes from Shostakovich’s The Nose and Cheryomushki during
UWO’s Centennial Shostakovich Festival (2006). Jenna is currently a vocal coach and collaborative pianist at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Upcoming engagements include an apprentice coach position at San Francisco Opera's Merola Program, including a production of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore and scenes from Smetana's The
Bartered Bride .
Ran Duan comes from a very musical family - his father a prominent composer and his mother a cellist. He was born in Changchun, Jilin Province in China, and received his early training in piano and composition at the Middle School administered by the
Central Conservatory at Beijing. His principal teachers were Zhong Hong (piano) and
Liu Changyuan (composition). Ran is currently completing a B.M. at the Oberlin
Conservatory in both piano, under Lydia Frumkin and Sedmara Rutstein, and composition with Lewis Nielson. He has received several awards for his compositions while at Oberlin, including the selection of Four Falsehoods for recording as part of the Oberlin Contemporary Music Division CD project and the performance of the piece as part of the Conservatory Project at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. His current projects include a large chamber ensemble piece and a recently completed work for cello and waterphone. As a pianist, Ran has been featured as a soloist with the
Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, most recently performing points on a curve to find by Luciano Berio and Unsuk Chin’s Double Concerto for piano and percussion.
Melanie Emig is graduating from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance and a master’s degree in Opera Theater. She has performed various roles in Oberlin's mainstage productions, including La Fée in
Massenet's Cendrillon and 1st Spirit in Mozart's The Magic Flute . While at Oberlin,
Melanie sang in master classes with renowned singers Marilyn Horne and Samuel
Ramey, performed with the wind ensemble, and was named a finalist in the concerto competition. She would like to thank her teacher Daune Mahy who has been an inspiring mentor these past five years.
Alexander Frank
was a finalist in the 2009 International Society of Bassists Jazz
Competition, where he performed with pianist Bill Mays and drummer Tim Froncek.
Alex is a Los Angeles native where he studied jazz bass with legendary bassist John
Clayton and classical bass with David Allen Moore of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Recently, Alex performed with jazz greats Benny Golson, Wes Anderson, Dennis
Reynolds at Cleveland State University and Marcus Belgrave at Cliff Bell’s in Detroit.
Other appearances include the Cleveland Bop Stop with Paul Samuels, Giannelli
Square with Gerald Wiggins, Dazzle’s in Denver with the Arent-Mckay Group and both the Jazz Bakery and Catalina Bar & Grill with Coastal Interchange in Los
Angeles. Alex was a featured musician, with screen credit, on the soundtrack of the recent independent film Sherman’s Way . He is currently a senior at Oberlin where he studies with Professor of Jazz Studies and Double Bass Peter Dominguez and where he has also studied with jazz giant Eddie Gomez from the Bill Evans Trio

Francisco González discovered music at age sixteen when he was accidentally exposed to early keyboard recordings. This enlightening experience led him on a quest to teach himself harpsichord. Within a year he was admitted to the Oberlin
Conservatory, where he studied with harpsichordist Webb Wiggins. In the fall of 2010
Francisco will pursue a M.M. degree at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, which has awarded him an Artistic Excellence scholarship.
Fiona Hughes is pursuing a master’s degree in baroque violin with Marilyn
McDonald. Her undergraduate degree is from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Steven Rose. Fiona has been involved in music festivals across the country, including ENCORE, Kinhaven Music School and the Brevard Music Center.
She traveled to Japan in the summer of 2007 as a participant of the Pacific Music
Festival, where she concertized in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya with maestro Riccardo
Muti. In 2008 Fiona attended the Banff Centre’s master class program in Canada, working with violinists Ian Swensen and Monica Huggett. Currently a member of the
Akron Symphony, she has performed in master classes given by Lynn Harrell, Roberto
Díaz, Anner Bylsma and Jordi Savall. As a baroque violinist, Fiona has given concerts in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan and performed with Boston’s Handel and Haydn
Society. Fiona was honored to join Apollo’s Fire (The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra) for their March “Mozart Celebration” concerts in Severance Hall.
Eugene Kim is a third-year piano performance major at the Oberlin Conservatory of
Music, studying with Robert Shannon and pursuing composition as a second concentration. He began his piano studies at the age of eight with a local teacher and then at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles. At Colburn he studied with Miriam Merhan, Maho Nabeshima and Stephen Cook. During high school he worked with several ensembles, performing annually during a live broadcast with
105.1 K-Mozart in the Bing Theatre at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
(LACMA).
Eugene continues to participate in collaborative music making at the Oberlin
Conservatory with the Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME), directed by Professor
Timothy Weiss. Eugene has performed works by Lukas Foss, Josh Levine, Bruno
Maderna, Christian Wolff and Brett Dean and has had the opportunity to work with guest artists Claire Chase (OC `01) and John Kennedy (OC `82). Outside of CME he has performed Concerto for Piano, Percussion and Six Players written by visiting faculty member Seung-Ah Oh. Recently he premiered the harpsichord and cello suite,
Doubles written by graduate Gregory Charette (OC `09) , with cellist and friend Dylan
Messina. In early May of this year he worked with the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra alongside Musical Union, Chamber Choir and College Choir performing Igor
Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms.
A native of Chicago, Illinois, Michael King started playing the drums in church at an early age. When Michael was in eighth grade he was chosen to play drums in the Dos
Claves Orchestra, a Latin-Jazz program for inner city youth in Chicago. Through this program Michael learned various styles of Latin music and rhythms. When he became a freshmen in high school he started to play the piano by ear. He performed in church, which helped him grow as a pianist enabling him to hear complex melodies and harmonies in contemporary gospel music. For his remaining high school years, he was selected to be the pianist in the Ravinia Jazz Scholars program, playing all the different styles and eras of jazz music. Here he met Ramsey Lewis and opened for his show at the Black United Fund Torch Passing ceremony. In addition, Michael was part of the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute in high school where he toured with jazz superstars Antonio Hart and Lisa Henry and shared the stage with Herbie Hancock.
Michael is currently a sophomore at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
A native of Boulder, Colorado and student of Roland Pandolfi, Nicolee Kuester is graduating with degrees in horn performance and creative writing. She is interested in

new sounds, collaborative music, multi-genre works and innovative concert and publishing formats. In her spare time she walks for long distances, bakes vegan goods and engages in other quiet adventures. She will be attending University of California
San Diego in the fall to pursue a M.A. in contemporary music performance.
Having returned from a five-week tour teaching and performing in Beijing, China,
Alex Edward Morris is looking forward to completing his degree at the Oberlin
Conservatory. Alex is a recipient of the Conservatory Initiative Grant Supporting
Imagination and Excellence from Oberlin's Creativity & Leadership project, and a two-time performer for the Danenberg Honors Recital series. He has had the privilege of performing at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Detroit Jazz Festival, Walt Disney Concert
Hall and many other world-class venues. Recently he toured the Virgin Islands with the Oberlin Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Wendell Logan, and earlier this month performed at the opening celebration concert for the Bertram and Judith Kohl
Building in Oberlin with Stevie Wonder.
Steuart Pincombe will receive a B.M. in modern cello performance and a M.M. in viola da gamba and baroque cello performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of
Music where he studied with Catharina Meints and Darrett Adkins. Steuart has collaborated in chamber concerts with leading American modern and baroque performers and has appeared in solo and chamber music performances throughout the
U.S. and Europe. In addition to performing, he has presented master classes at such institutions as Biola University, Gordon College, University of California Dominguez
Hills and Missouri State University (MSU) and guest lectures at MSU, Oral Roberts
University and the Oberlin Conservatory. Steuart has recorded the complete Bach suites for solo cello and has recorded contemporary music for Oberlin’s Aural
Capacity label and the Centaur label. He is currently a baroque cellist in Apollo's Fire and modern cellist of the Credo Trio. Steuart is on the faculty of the Credo Chamber
Music summer program in Oberlin, OH and the Credo Prelude program in Wenham,
MA. He lives in Oberlin with his wife Michelle.
Michael Rosen , originally from San Francisco, has earned degrees in composition and
TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) at the Oberlin Conservatory of
Music. At a young age Michael began piano, composition and music theory studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division. His creative work, ranging from sound installation to orchestral composition, emphasizes a technological approach to sonic interactivity. He has received awards from the University of
California Santa Barbara College of Creative Studies, the National Federation of
Music Clubs, Music Teachers National Association and the Walden School and has attended festivals at Interlochen and The Banff Centre. In the fall of 2010 Michael will begin a master’s degree at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.