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Performing Arts Highlights 2002-2003 
KEMP -- photo by Walter Sallenger FMU Artist Series Concert
Monday, 23 September 2002
Kassab Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 8:00 pm

Knoxville Early Music Project
The Road to Kilkenny: Music from England, Ireland, and Scotland

The Knoxville Early Music Project (KEMP) has delighted audiences since its founding in 1991. The ensemble performs music from the Renaissance and Baroque eras on period instruments. KEMP has performed at concert venues and colleges and universities throughout the southeastern United States, delighting audiences with lively, informed interpretations of a wide range of early music, including dance tunes, dramatic and art songs, and virtuosic instrumental pieces. KEMP offers: a full-length recital; a program of sacred music; lecture/demonstrations for music classes; and masterclasses. KEMP gives performances for people of all ages and ranges of familiarity with its repertoire. Although the music often includes rarely heard gems from the past, the ensemble's presentation is always accessible, energetic, and enticing.

                                       PROGRAM

Carolan's Concerto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1736)
Mabel Kelly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Turlough O'Carolan
The Nobleman's Wedding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anonymous Irish
Madame Bonaparte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Playford, The Dancing Master, 1695
                                                                Arranged by Martha Bishop
The Faery Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anon. Irish

Balance a Straw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .James Oswald (1710-1769)
From The Poppy: Aria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Oswald
From The Nightshade: Hornpipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Oswald

The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry . . . . . . . . . . Anon. Scottish Ballad (Child No. 113)

Gray's Inn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Coperario (fl. 1613)
                                                          Improvisation Arr. Tina Chancey

Cupid, the Slyest Rogue Alive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
T'was a Furlong from Edinborough Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Purcell

                                       INTERMISSION

In a Garden So Green. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Anon. Scottish

Lady Ann Bothwel's Lament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
Sleepy Body

Bridget Cruise  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anon. Irish Ballad, Tune: O'Carolan

Wells Humor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Playford
Mr. Isaac's Maggot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Playford
To Althea from Prison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Poem: Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)
                                    Set to the tune of Strawberries and Cream (Arr. KEMP)
Jack's Maggot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Playford
                                      (Tunes in this set Arr. M. Bishop, except as noted)

Martha Bishop (viola da gamba, baroque cello)

Martha Bishop, from Atlanta, Georgia, teaches viola da gamba and cello at Agnes Scott College and Emory University, and she is occasionally guest faculty at Florida State University. She directs a Renaissance Collegium, Lauda Musicam, at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church and is much in demand as an early music workshop clinician throughout the United States and in other countries. A past president of the Viola da Gamba Society of America, Ms. Bishop is currently Musical Director of its annual Conclave. She has performed with many Atlanta chamber ensembles and has recently several times been viola da gamba soloist with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra and with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with Robert Shaw in Bach's St John Passion. Her viola da gamba studies were with John Hsu at Cornell University. Ms. Bishop's many teaching publications for viola da gamba are used worldwide, and she has successfully competed in several composition contests, composing music for early instruments.

Amy Kraabel Porter (soprano vocals)

Besides her work with KEMP, Amy Porter is well versed in both opera and musical theater. While earning her B.M. and M.M. in Vocal Performance, she sang several diverse roles at the Opera Theaters of Northwestern and Indiana University, respectively, in works ranging from Dido and Aeneas, South Pacific, and Candide, to Weill's Mahagonny Songspiel. With the Baroque Ensemble of the Indiana University Early Music Institute, she sang both Bach's B Minor Mass, and his St. Johannes-Passion. Additionally, she has been a featured artist with the Ohio Light Opera, The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, The American Cabaret Theater, and for the Brevard Festival's televised 60th Anniversary Concert.  As a proficient interpreter of 20th C. music, she has been featured in several concerts, including those of Poulenc, Berg, and Cage. Now living in Knoxville, Tennessee, Ms. Porter is the Director of Vocal Programs for Knoxville's Community School of the Arts, teaches voice for Pellissippi State, and is a frequent guest artist throughout the Southeast.

Ann Stierli (viola da gamba, flutes, recorders, crumhorns)

Ann Stierli received her B.M. in flute performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. She is a former member of the Miami Philharmonic Orchestra, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, and the Early Music Consort of Miami.

Ms. Stierli is currently director of the Knoxville Chapter of the American Recorder Society (ARS) and the Silver Winds Flute Ensemble. She teaches flute, recorder, and viol privately in the Knoxville area.

Thomas Tallant (lute, theorbo,  early guitar)

Thomas Tallant has studied classical guitar at the University of South Carolina with Rodney Stucky and Charles Rock. He began his studies on the lute in 1980 and has studied with Patrick O'Brien.

Mr. Tallant has performed many concerts in the southeastern United States, including performances in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee. He co-founded the Knoxville Early Music Project in 1991.

For more information about KEMP:
Thomas Tallant, taurus@icx.net

CLick for more informationFMU Artist Series Concert
Monday, 28 October 2002
Kassab Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 8:00 pm

The Ciompi Quartet of Duke University

Praised by audiences and critics worldwide, the Ciompi Quartet has established itself as one of the nation's leading chamber ensembles. At Duke University, its home base in Durham, North Carolina, its reputation for performances of the highest standard has earned the group a place of central importance to the region's cultural life. With many years' collective experience on the concert stage, the Ciompi Quartet brings rare insight to its performances, and the ability to project the heart and soul of masterpieces ranging from Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven to works by today's most communicative composers.

                                  PROGRAM

Quartet in F Major, Op. 77 #2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joseph Haydn
       Allegro moderato                                               1732-1809
       Menuet: Presto
       Andante
       Finale: Vivace assai

Quartet #6 (1939) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bela Bartok
       Mesto - Vivace                                                 1881-1945
       Mesto - Marcia
       Mesto - Burletta
       Mesto

Quartet in F Major, Op. 135 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ludwig van Beethoven
       Allegretto                                                     1770-1827
       Vivace
       Lento assai, contante e tranquillo
       Grave. Ma non troppo tratto - Allegro

Please visit the Ciompi Quartet website for additional information including biographies, etc. www.ciompi.org/home.html

FMU Artist Series Concert
Tuesday, 28 January 2003
Kassab Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 8:00 pm

Shawn Leopard and John Paul
Music for Two Harpsichords

Among the delights of music there is a wonderful series of pieces for two harpsichords played together.  Johann Sebastian Bach and several of his talented sons composed the centrepieces of this repertoire which also includes works from 17th- and 18th-century France, England and Italy.  Add some creative new arrangements of popular and familiar tunes by Haydn, Boccerini, Albéniz and Scott Joplin and you have a concert by Shawn Leopard and John Paul which is as entertaining as it is classic.

Their instruments include brass/iron strung instruments from the 17th-century French and Italian schools  and two Lautenwercke (lute-harpsichords) strung in gut.  Together they produce a sound both rich and clear, doing equal justice to a Baroque Allegro, a Joplin Rag or a Tango by Albéniz.  This duo presently travels with two new harsichords by Anden Houben with are in matching walnut cases and specially voiced to sound together.  

                                  Program

Trio Sonata in A Minor. . . . . . . . . Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
    From "The Essercizii Musici"
    Largo
    Vivace
    Affetuoso
    Allegro

Trio Sonata, Opus 18, No. 2 . . . . . . . . . . . Hugo Distler (1908-1942)
    Rasche, energische Halbe
    Einleitung: Sehr erregte Achtel, dabei frei im Zeitmass
    Recht geschwinde Achtel

Trio Sonata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
    From the Musical Offering, BWV 1079
    Largo
    Allegro
    Andante
    Allegro

Suite for Two Harpsichords. . . . . . . George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)
    Allemande
    Courante
    Sarabande
    Chaconne

Trio Sonata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
    Allegro vivo
    Largo
    Final: Allegro

Spanish Dance from La Vida Breve. . . . . . . .Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)

Fandango. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Antonio Soler (1729-1783)

Shawn Leopard received a BA degree in Foreign Languages from the University of Southern Mississippi and an MA in Musicology from Indiana University with special emphasis in early music performance.  Her teachers included Dana Ragsdale, Lois Leventhal, and Elisabeth Wright, a former student of Gustav Leonhardt.  Ms. Leopard is currently teaching and performing in Jackson, Mississippi, where she is associated with St. Andrew's Episcopal Cathedral as a professional soloist and consultant.  Her specialty in early music performance, as a continuo player and harpsichordist, has been admired in many concerts with various groups throughout the Southeast.

John Paul grew up in the small West-Country town of Lyme Regis, England.  Self-taught until the age of 18, when an audition earned him entrance to the Royal Academy of Music in London, he has continually studied and performed on piano, organ, and harpsichord.  His principal teachers were Alan Richardson, Harold Craxton, C. H. Trevor, and Thurston Dart.  With performance diplomas from the Royal Academy of Music and an honors degree from the University of London, he immigrated to the United States in 1965 to assume the position he still holds as organist-choirmaster of St. Andrew's Episcopal Cathedral in Jackson, Mississippi.  In 1971 he received a doctoral degree from the University of Colorado.

Shawn Leopard and John Paul began their collaboration in 1996 to explore and perform the repertoire of music written for two harpsichords.  They focus on the works of Johann  Sebastian Bach and his sons and create their own transcriptions of French, Spanish, and Italian music suited to their medium.  They have toured extensively in the Southeastern United States and recorded to critical acclaim with Lyrichord Discs of New York City and Centaur Discs of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

FMU First Tuesday Concert
Tuesday, 1 April 2003
Kassab Hall, Hyman Fine Arts Center, 8:00 pm

The Firenze Quartet and Friends

                          Thelma Hawkins, violin
                            Doris West, violin
                            Sherry Woods, viola
                            Julia Krebs, cello
                           Betsy Johnson, flute
                           Sharon Mapes, soprano
                            Katie Taylor, harp
Concerto for Harp & Strings . . . . .George Frederick Handel
        Larghetto
        Allegro moderato
Concerto for Flute K285 . . . . . . .Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
        Allegro
The Glass Slipper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sherry Woods
Cantata, "The Lowest Trees Have Tops" . . . .Peter Schickele
        The Mad Maid's Song
        Evening Song
        To Death
Suite Antique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Rutter
        Prelude
Quartet No. 6, "American" . . . . . . . . . . Antonin Dvorak
Fantasia on "Greensleeves". . . . . . .Ralph Vaughn-Williams

      Thelma Hawkins, violin, serves as one of the Florence Symphony's rotating concertmasters.  Recently retired from the public schools where she was the strings teacher at Williams and Wilson, she is well-known to the Florence musical arts community.

      Doris West, violin, also serves as one of the Florence Symphony's rotating concertmasters and as Principal Second Violin.  She spent many years teaching strings in Florence, serving as the orchestra director at Moore and West Florence High School.

      Sherry Woods, viola, is Principal Viola of the Florence Symphony and a member of the South Carolina Philharmonic.  She recently completed the DMA in musical composition from the University of South Carolina, where she completed a DMA in viola in 1991.  She maintains a studio of private students in Florence.

      Julia Krebs, cello, is one of the Florence Symphony's rotating Principal Cellists.  Dr. Krebs is well-known to Francis Marion University students as a professor in the biology department and has been named to the university's honored list of "Professor of the Year."

      Starr Ward is co-principal violinist with the Florence Symphony Orchestra and has been a soloist in the past two seasons.  She graduated from UNC-Greensboro with a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Music Education.

      Betsy Johnson, flute, has received music degrees from Converse College and the University of Michigan.  She is principal flute with the Florence Symphony Orchestra and Director of Music Ministries at the First Presbyterian Church.

      Sharon Mapes, soprano, holds the Master of Music degree from the Westminster Choir College.  Soprano soloist and Associate Conductor of the Morristown Choral Society, she maintained a large private voice studio, and now teaches vocal students in South Carolina.  She is a member of the Chancel Choir at Central Methodist Church in Florence, SC, as well as the Masterworks Choir.

      Katie Taylor is the Principal Harpist for the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra in Columbia.  She performs regularly with the Asheville and Florence Symphony Orchestras.  She is currently the instructor of harp at the University of South Carolina-Aiken.  Ms. Taylor has given solo harp and chamber music recitals at Piccolo Spoleto, the Spoleto Festival USA Finale at Middleton Place, and venues in Sandersonville, Aiken, Augusta, and Columbia.

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