Tuesday, November 15, 2022

DIFFERENT STRINGS

Church of the Transfiguration, Little Church Around the Corner

Hubert Howe — Moments of Uncertainty †

• I.
• II.
• III.

• Craig Ketter, piano

Dary John Mizelle — Preludes & Fugues, Book II (Nos. 2, 9, 16, 20) †

• No. 2
• No, 9
• No. 16
• No. 20

• Craig Ketter, piano

Richard Brooks — Sonata for Guitar †

• I. Allegro moderato
• II. Andante ma non troppa
• III. Moderato
• IV. Allegro marcato

• Bill Zito, guitar

Roger Blanc — Fantasy Variations †

• Craig Ketter, piano

Igor Vorobyev — Elegy in the Old Style ‡

• Oren Fader, guitar

Dana Dimitri Richardson — Consolations †

• I.
• II.
• III.

• Craig Ketter, piano

† World Premiere  ‡ New York Premiere



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Thursday, December 15, 2022

MOMENTS SWEEP PAST

Church of the Transfiguration, Little Church Around the Corner

Peter Kelsh — Four Shelley Songs †

• I. Stanzas — April, 1814
• II. Lines: When the Lamp is Shattered
• III. Love’s Philosophy
• IV. The Indian Serenade

• Robert Garner, baritone; Craig Ketter, piano

Sergey Oskolkov — Sonata for Bass Clarinet & Piano ‡

• David Valbuena, bass clarinet, Markus Kaitila, piano

Scott D. Miller — Liszt on Liszt †

• Markus Kaitila, piano

Emiko Hayashi — Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Cello †

• Josh Henderson, violin; Peter Sachon, cello; Craig Ketter, piano

Kevin McCarter — City Park, Afternoon †

• Robert Garner, baritone, David Valbuena, clarinet, Peter Sachon, cello

Anthony Izzo — Permutations †

• I. Ostinato
• II. Fragmentations
• III. Impositions

• Markus Kaitila, piano

Patrick Andrew Thompson — Moments Sweep Past (Three Poems of Tracy K. Smith) ‡

1. The Weather in Space
2. It & Co.
3. Us & Co.

• Winner of the 15th annual John Eaton Memorial Competition
• Jacqueline Milena Mulligan, soprano, Peter Sachon, cello, Craig Ketter, piano

† World Premiere  ‡ New York Premiere



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Tuesday, January 10, 2023

NAMASTE CLARINET QUINTET & GUIDO ARBONELLI

Church of the Transfiguration, Little Church Around the Corner

David See — Suite for Clarinet Quintet †

• Allemande Rag
• Waltz
• March
• Tango — “Shadows"
• Fantasia & Fugue

• Natalia Benedetti, E-flat clarinet; Mattia Rellini, B-flat clarinet; Valentina Betti Sorbelli, B-flat clarinet; Letizia Rossi, bass clarinet; Guido Arbonelli, bass clarinet

Gayther Myers — Poem in October †

• Natalia Benedetti, B-flat clarinet; Mattia Rellini, B-flat clarinet; Guido Arbonelli, bass clarinet

David Mecionis — Two Table Canons for Two Clarinetists ‡

• Table Canon No. 1 — Con un po’ di pazzia.
• Table Canon No. 2 — Tempo bene giusto, come se fosse Largo. Sempre comodo e semplice. 

• Natalia Benedetti, E-flat & B-flat clarinets; Guido Arbonelli, B-flat & bass clarinets

Hubert Howe — Inharmonic Fantasy Nº 15 ‡

• Letizia Rossi, bass clarinet; Hubert Howe, electronics

Robert S. Cohen — Variants ‡

1. Alpha — dread of the coming pandemic
2. Delta — panic and fear over the worst of the variants
3. Omicron — sadness and sense of loss though the new variant is less lethal
4. Seta — an imaginary final, cold-like variant that allows us to exuberantly resume a normal life

• Natalia Benedetti, B-flat clarinet; Guido Arbonelli, bass clarinet

Todd Mason — Echoes of the Heart †

• Natalia Benedetti, B-flat clarinet; Valentina Betti Sorbelli, B-flat clarinet; Guido Arbonelli, bass clarinet

Anton Rovner — Lamento †

• Natalia Benedetti, B-flat clarinet; Valentina Betti Sorbelli, B-flat clarinet; Letizia Rossi, B-flat clarinet; Guido Arbonelli, bass clarinet

Timothy L. Miller — Circus Minimus: Six Vignettes for Clarinet Ensemble ‡

• I. Circus on Parade
• II. Under the Big Top
• III. Flying Circus
• IV. Sleeping Clowns
• V. Carousel Rag
• VI. Lions, Tigers, Bears & Elephants

• Natalia Benedetti, E-flat clarinet; Mattia Rellini, B-flat clarinet; David Valbuena, B-flat clarinet; Valentina Betti Sorbelli, B-flat clarinet; Jacqueline Gillette, B-flat clarinet; Letizia Rossi, bass clarinet; Guido Arbonelli, bass clarinet

† World Premiere  ‡ US Premiere

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Sunday, February 12, 2023

NEW YORK to MOSCOW MUSICAL BRIDGES PROGRAM

Lermontov Library, Ulitsa Barbolina 6, Moscow

David See — Das, vas ist — for soprano & pianos ‡

• Marina Donayeva, soprano, Olga Tabachnik, piano

Timothy L. Miller — Cuatro en uno — piano 4-hands †

• Tatiana Rovner, Olga Tabachnik, piano

Christopher Sahar — Four Violin Duos ‡

• Maria Khodina, Anastasia Anisimova, violins

Christopher Sahar — Ludwig Variations — flute solo †

• Ekaterina Milkina, flute

Robert S. Cohen — Five Nights in Sophia — violin and piano ‡

• Ekaterina Gubanova, violin; Tatiana Rovner, piano

David Mecionis — Five Mirror Canons — violin and cello †

• Maria Khodina, violin; Nadezhda Grebennikova, cello

Eric Heilner — Short Story for Violin & Piano, No. 1 ‡

• Maria Khodina, violin; Sayaka Takahashi, piano

Dary John Mizelle — Preludes & Fugues, Book II (Nos. 2, 9, 16, 20) — piano solo ‡

• Sayaka Takahashi, piano

Linda Marcel — Anjana, a Cantabrian Myth — violin solo ‡

• Ekaterina Gubanova, violin

Hubert Howe — Nocturne, Dance & Dream — solo piano

• Sayaka Takahashi, piano

Barrett Kalellis — In Our Time — soprano and piano ‡

• Valeria Golovko, soprano; Sayaka Takahashi, piano

† World Premiere ‡ Russian Premiere



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Monday, February 13, 2023

THE INTERVAL BETWEEN

Marc A. Scorca Hall / OPERA America's National Opera Center

David Picton — Piano Sonata No. 1 †

• I. Allegro
• II. Theme and Variations
• III. Scherzando and Fugue

• Markus Kaitila, piano

Kevin McCarter — Responding Variations †

• Lillian Copeland, oboe, Arthur Dibble, viola

Debra Kaye — Submarine Dreams

• Mary Barto, bass flute, Troy Rinker, Jr, double bass

Nataliya Medvedovskaya — Ragtimes

1. Railroad Ragtime
2. Good Morning Ragtime
3. Ragtime for New Year’s Eve

• Nataliya Medvedovskaya, piano

Olga Victorova — Magic Birds Phung Hoan (Telling the Sage Lin Loon the Mystery of the Twelve Tones in Music) ††

• Tempo a piacere
• Tempo giusto

• Katie Thomas, violin

Tamara Cashour — Two Shorts for Piccolo & Contrabassoon †

1. Piccolo Giardino (Very Tiny Garden)
2. ContraIndication (Big Pharma Let Me Down Again)

• Mary Barto, piccolo; Harry Searing, contrabassoon

Timothy L. Miller — Two Settings of Ogden Nash Poems †

1. If He Were Alive Today, Mayhap, Mr. Morgan
2. Two Dogs I have

• Anthony de Mare, narrator-piano

David Mecionis — Trio in Two Parts with an Interval Between ‡

• Part One
• Interval
• Part Two

• Lillian Copeland, oboe; Harry Searing, bassoon; Arthur Dibble, viola

Andrey Bandura — Spring Sonata for Violin & Piano ††

• I. Andante con espressione
• II. Allegro scherzando
• III. Poetica
• IV. Allegro giocoso

• Katie Thomas, violin; Markus Kaitila, piano

† World Premiere †† US Premiere ‡ New York Premiere



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Monday, March 27, 2023

LINES OF REFERENCE

Marc A. Scorca Hall / OPERA America's National Opera Center

Madelyn Byrne — Flow ‡

1. Flood: It’s like a dragon. — It’s all I can do to stand. I feel dizzy, drawn, mauled.
2. Voyage

• Timothy Hanley, clarinet; Artie Dibble, viola; Craig Ketter, piano

Mark Belodubrovsky — Romances on Verses by African Poets ††

• 1. The Breath of the Ancestors
• 4. The Waves

• Gennadiy Vysotskiy, baritone; Craig Ketter, piano

Nataliya Medvedovskaya — Aria of the Fairy of Doubt †

• Anna Voevoda, soprano, Nataliya Medvedovskaya, piano

Hubert Howe — Harmonic Fantasy Nº 6 †

• Timothy Hanely, clarinet & fixed media

Linda Marcel — The Wonders  ‡

• Ammon Swinbank, flute; David Mecionis, electric guitar; Artie Dibble, violin; Rocío Díaz de Cossio, cello, with fixed media

Sergey Oskolkov — Line of Reference ††

1. You look around — you can dimly see
2. We shall fly off years, centuries ahead
3. I shall grow as grey moss on a stone
4. The path of a drop against the glass pane

• Gennadiy Vysotskiy, baritone; Craig Ketter, piano

Robert S. Cohen — Do Not Enter ‡

1. Strange Wanderings
2. Midnight Walk
3. Run Away!

• Wes Krygsman, tuba, Craig Ketter, piano

† World Premiere †† US Premiere ‡ New York Premiere



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Thursday, April 13, 2023

ROWING IN EDEN

Church of the Transfiguration, Little Church Around the Corner

Eric Heilner — SQrt: Season 1, Episode 1 †

• Bergamot Quartet  

Carl Kanter — String Quartet, September 2021 †

• I. Allegro
• II. Largo — Allegretto — Largo
• III. Allegro Vivace
• IV. Adagio — Allegro — Adagio

• Bergamot Quartet

Susan J. Fischer — Emily Dickinson Seasons of Love ††

1. My River Runs to Thee (Spring)
2. The Fainting Bee (Summer)
3. Heart, We Will Forget (autumn)
4. Wild Nights! Wild Nights! (Winter)

• Valerie Gonzalez, soprano; Adam Klein, tenor; Craig Ketter, piano

Marina Shmotova — Playing (or, Games) ††

• I. Con moto delicato
• II. Volando cantabile
• III. Allegro estatico

• Craig Ketter, piano

Christopher Kaufman — Mercury's Shadow ‡

• Ledah Finck, violin; Sarah Thomas, violin

Thomas Parente — Violin Sonata †

• I. Con moto: South Hero Romp, with micro-onde
• II. Grave: Pandemia
• III. Vivace Hine Ma Tov (To Duell Together)
• IV. Presto: Toccata

• Haig Hovsepian, violin; Nara Avetisyan, piano

Bergamot Quartet:

• Ledah Finck, violin; Sarah Thomas, violin; Amy Huimei Tan, viola; Irène Han, cello

† World Premiere †† US Premiere ‡ New York Premiere

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Monday, May 22, 2023

TRANSFIGURED SKYLINE

Mary Flagler Cary Hall at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music

Emiko Hayashi — Last Days of Summer †

• Laura Goldberg, violin, Kate Dillingham, cello, Markus Kaitila, piano

Patricia Leonard — Transfiguration †

• Kate Dillingham, cello, Craig Ketter, piano

Paul Aljian — Trio for Flute, Viola & Cello †

• Ammon Swinbank, flute, Artie Dibble, viola, Sara Strozza, cello

Simona Smirnova — Manhattan Skyline

• Simona Smirnova, kanklės

Alexander Vustin — In Memoriam Grigori Frid ‡

• I. Introduction: Semplice
• II. Farewell Song: L’istesso tempo

• Artie Dibble, viola, Markus Kaitila, piano

Davide Capobianco — Plethora of Simulacra †

• Ammon Swinbank, flute; David Valbuena, clarinet; Kyle Miller, electric guitar; Artie Dibble, viola; Sara Strozza, cello; Dylan Ofrias, percussion

Barrett Kalellis — Dancing the Lively Air †

• .I. Allegro
• II. Presto energico
• III. Adagio non lento
• IV. Allegro deciso

• Laura Goldberg, violin; Kate Dillingham, cello; Markus Kaitila, piano

Timothy L. Miller — Three Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• I. The Day Is Done
• II. Sleep
• III. Daybreak

• Dominika Zamara, soprano; Craig Ketter, piano

† World Premiere  ‡ New York Premiere

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