Tickets On Sale Now! 2011-2012 Opera Theater

November 9-12, 2011

Massenet Cendrillon

(“Cinderella”, sung in French)

February 29-March 3, 2012

Rossini La Cambiale di Matrimonio

(“The Mail-Order Marriage,” sung in Italian)

April 20, 21 and 22 (matinee), 2012

Great Scenes from Great Operas

All CIM Opera Theater productions feature projected

translations so audiences are always in on the action.

Call 216.791.5000, ext. 411 for tickets.

See You

at the Opera!

Wednesday, October 12

7:30pm

Gidon Kremer, violin

Giedrė Dirvanauskaite, cello

Andrius Zlabys, piano

Tickets $28, $40

Call 216.791.5000, online at cim.edu

— the fourth season of the —

Mixon Hall

MASTERS SERIES -Tickets now available -

Sunday, October 2, 2011 — 4 p.m.

Mixon Hall

FACULTY RECITAL

STEPHEN ROSE, violin

JEANNE PREUCIL ROSE, violin, guest artist

STANLEY KONOPKA, viola

RICHARD WEISS, cello

JOELA JONES, piano

Program

Suite Popular Española MANUEL DE FALLA

for Cello and Piano (1876 – 1946)

1. El paño moruno

2. Seguidilla murciana

3. Asturiana

4. Jota

5. Nana

6. Canción

7. VII.Polo

Intermezzo from the Opera “Goyescas” ENRIQUE GRANADOS

(trans. Cassado) (1867 – 1916)

for Cello and Piano

Richard Weiss, cello

Joela Jones, piano

Piano Trio No. 2 in B minor, Op. 76 (1933) JOAQUÍN TURINA

(1882 - 1949)

I. Lento – Allegro mollto moderato

II. Molto vivace

III. Lento – Andante mosso – Allegretto

The Cleveland Orchestra Piano Trio

Stephen Rose, violin

Richard Weiss, cello

Joela Jones, piano

INTERMISSION

Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84 EDWARD ELGAR

(1857 - 1934)

1. Moderato – Allegro

2. Adagio

3. Andante – Allegro

About the Performers

Stephen Rose is a member of the CIM violin faculty. He was appointed to the

violin section of The Cleveland Orchestra in 1997, and is now principal second

violin of The Orchestra. Mr. Rose received a Bachelor of Music degree from

CIM and Master of Music degree from Eastman School of Music. Teachers

include William Preucil, David Cerone, David Updegraff and Sally O’Reilly.

He has appeared in recital and on chamber music concerts throughout North

America and Europe. Mr. Rose was the former first violinist of the Everest

Quartet, the Resident String Quartet of the Midland-Odessa Symphony, from

1992-1996. The Quartet was a top prize-winner at the 1995 Banff International

String Quartet Competition and presented concerts and master classes through-

out the U.S. Mr. Rose has presented master classes at the National Orchestral

Institute and the New World Symphony and has been a faculty member at EN-

CORE School for Strings and Kent/Blossom. He has been a participant at sum-

mer music festivals, including the Mainly Mozart Festival, Seattle Chamber

Music Festival, Orcas Island, Music at Gretna, Mimir Chamber Music Festival,

Pacific Music Festival (Japan) and Festival der Zukunft in Switzerland. He

received an Alumni Achievement Award from CIM in 2005.

Jeanne Preucil Rose joined The Cleveland Orchestra’s first violin section in

January 1999. Born into a musical family, Ms. Preucil Rose began violin les-

sons at the age of four and soon joined the rest of her family in performances

across the United States and Japan. She earned a bachelor of music degree

from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a master of music degree and per-

former’s certificate from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New

York. Before becoming a member of The Cleveland Orchestra, Ms. Preucil

Rose was concertmaster of the Midland-Odessa Symphony and a member of

the award-winning Everest Quartet. She has also participated in many summer

music festivals.

Stanley Konopka joined The Cleveland Orchestra in 1991 and has been assis-

tant principal viola since 1993. He previously served as principal violist and

soloist with the National Repertory Orchestra and was a member of the Pitts-

burgh Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Konopka won several notable awards at the

Interlochen Arts Academy before attending the Cleveland Institute of Music

(CIM) as a student of Cleveland Orchestra Principal Viola Robert Vernon.

Currently a faculty member at CIM, Mr. Konopka has taught at the Encore

School for Strings and has performed at the chamber music festivals of Banff,

Taos and Pensacola.

Richard Weiss is first assistant principal cello of The Cleveland Orchestra.

For the 2009-2010 season, he served as acting principal. A native of Los Ange-

les, California, he won first prize in the Music Teachers National Association

competition. At the Tanglewood Festival, he was the Young Artist contest win-

ner and concerto soloist. While attending the Eastman School on full merit

scholarship, he won a position in the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Dur-

ing his senior year, he was appointed to The Cleveland Orchestra. He has ap-

peared as a soloist many times with The Cleveland Orchestra, and his reper-

toire includes concertos by Beethoven (Triple), Brahms (Double), Dvořák,

Lalo, Rósza, Saint-Saëns (both A and D minor), Schumann and Tchaikovsky.

He is a member of the Cleveland Orchestra Piano Trio, which performs both

locally and on tour. Mr. Weiss teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Music and

the Kent/Blossom Music Festival. He coaches the cello sections of the CIM

Orchestras, the New World Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra Youth

Orchestra. He performs at several music festivals, including Aspen, Pensacola,

Reno and Kent/Blossom. Along with Cleveland Orchestra colleagues Joela

Jones, Max Dimoff, and Don Miller, he recorded Claude Bolling’s Suite for

Cello and Jazz Piano Trio.

Joela Jones, an artist of exceptional versatility, plays piano, organ, harpsi-

chord, celesta, synthesizer and accordion with The Cleveland Orchestra. As

soloist with the Orchestra, she has performed over fifty different concertos in

more than 200 performances at Severance Hall and Blossom Music Center as

well as on tour in Europe and Asia. Recent appearances as piano soloist with

Music Director Franz Welser-Möst conducting include Stravinsky’s Move-

ments, Messiaen’s Sept Haï-Kaï and Bernstein’s The Age of Anxiety. Since the

renovation of Severance Hall’s Norton Memorial Organ in 2001, Ms. Jones has

performed works for organ and orchestra by Barber, Poulenc, Saint-Saëns,

Janáček, MacMillan and Ives. She is also principal accompanist for the Cleve-

land Orchestra Chorus and visiting vocal soloists. A native of Miami, Florida,

Joela Jones studied as a child with Ernst von Dohnányi. Recognized as a prod-

igy, she made her New York debut with Arthur Fiedler and the Metropolitan

Opera Orchestra. Ms. Jones has appeared as soloist with the orchestras of Bos-

ton, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Philadelphia and San Francisco, and has per-

formed extensively in solo and chamber music recitals. She teaches advanced

orchestral keyboard classes at the Cleveland Institute of Music, chairs collabo-

rative piano at Kent/Blossom Music, and is visiting coach for the New World

Symphony in Miami. She has recorded works by Poulenc and d’Indy with the

London Symphony Orchestra. With The Cleveland Orchestra, she has recorded

Janáček’s Capriccio for Left Hand with Christoph von Dohnányi and Messi-

aen’s La Ville d’en Haut and Sept Haï-Kaï with Pierre Boulez.