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Monday, November 29, 2010 – 7 p.m. Bader Recital HallTuesday, November 30, 2010 – 7 p.m. Wisconsin Conservatory of Music

Schumann and ChopinFrank Almond, violin

Max Mandel, violaStephen Balderston, cello

William Wolfram, piano

Märchenbilder (Fairy Tales), Op. 113 Robert Schumann Nicht schnell (1810–1856) Lebhaft Rasch Langsam

Max Mandel, violaWilliam Wolfram, piano

Nocturne in C# minor, Op. posthumous Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)Fantasia in A flat, Op. 49

Scherzo in b minor, Op. 20

Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brilliant, Op. 22

William Wolfram, piano

Intermission

Piano Quartet in E flat, Op. 47 Robert Schumann Sostenuto assai- Allegro non troppo (1810–1856) Lebhaft Scherzo. Molto vivace Andante cantabile Finale. Vivace

This concert is generously sponsored by Judy Keyes.

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FR ANK ALMOND

Violinist Frank Almond holds the Charles and Marie Caestecker Concert-master Chair at the Milwaukee Sympho-ny Orchestra. He

returned to the MSO after holding positions as Concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic with Valery Gergiev, and Guest Concertmaster of the London Philharmonic with Kurt Masur. He has also appeared as a guest concertmaster for the Seattle Sympho-ny, the Montreal Symphony, and the Grand Tetons Music Festival. He continues an active schedule of solo and chamber music performances in the US and abroad including recent appearances with the Ojai Festival, the American String Project in Seattle, Frankly Music, the Nara Academy in Nara, Japan, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Music in the Vineyards, and various solo appearances with orchestras. He has been a member of the chamber group An die Musik in New York City since 1997, and also directs the highly successful Frankly Music Chamber Series based in Milwaukee. At 17, he was one of the youngest prizewinners in the history of the Nicolo Paganini Competition in Genoa, Italy, and five years later was one of two American prizewinners at the Eighth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, which was documented in an award-winning PBS film. Since then he has kept up an eclectic mix of activities in addition to his Concertmaster duties, appearing both as a soloist and chamber musician.

In addition to his work with An die Musik, Mr. Almond’s talent as a chamber musician has generated collaborations over the years with many of today’s well-known institutions, including the Chamber Music

Society of Lincoln Center, the Hal Leonard Corporation, the Ravinia Festival, La Jolla Summerfest, Music in the Vineyards, and numerous other summer festivals.He has recorded for Summit, Albany, Boolean (his own label), Innova, New-port Classic, Wergo and New Albion and has appeared numerous times on NPR’s Performance Today. In both 2002 and 2004 An die Musik received Grammy nominations for its “Timeless Tales” series. The re-release of Mr. Almond’s recording of the complete Brahms Sonatas, performed in collaboration with pianist William Wolfram, brought extraordinary critical acclaim, and was listed in the American Record Guide top recordings of 2001.

Frank’s most recent CD with William Wolfram was released on the AVIE label to much acclaim, and was named a “Best of 2007” by the American Record Guide. His new CD of American violin and piano music was released in 2010 on Innova Recordings with pianist Brian Zeger, and has also received outstand-ing press response. A CD of selected works of Samuel Barber was recently released, in cooperation with the Hal Leonard Corporation.

Mr. Almond holds two degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Dorothy DeLay. Other important teachers included Michael Tseitlin, Felix Galimir, and Joseph Silverstein. In Fall 2010 he joined the faculty at North-western University.

When he’s not traveling around play-ing the violin he lives in Milwaukee with his wife and two young daugh-ters. He plays on a violin by Antonio Stradivari from 1715, the “ex-Lipinski”. In 2008 he started writing an online column called nondivisi.

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WILL IA M WOLFR A M

American pianist William Wolfram was a silver medalist at both the William Kapell and the Naumburg Interna-tional Piano Competi-tions, and a bronze

medalist at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow. A versatile recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician, he has won the respect of musicians and critics across the country and abroad. Wolfram has several recordings on the Naxos label, has played recitals in cities throughout the U.S., Asia and Europe, and has performed with dozens of the finest orchestras in the world.

In 2010-11 William Wolfram’s engage-ments include performances with the Seattle and Wheeling symphonies, the Boise and Fort Wayne philharmonics, and the New Philharmonic (IL), in addi-tion to several chamber music appear-ances. In summer 2010 he performed Mendelssohn under Christopher Seaman at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro (NC). His 2009-10 season included appearances with the North Carolina Symphony, under Andrew Litton, in Lowell Liebermann’s Piano Concerto No. 2; with the Buffalo Phil-harmonic, Music Director JoAnn Falletta conducting, in Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 2; and with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (Canada), under Edwin Out-water, in Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3. He also performed Chopin’s Concerto No. 2 with the City of Birmingham Sym-phony, conducted by Andrew Litton.

His concerto debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony under the baton of Leonard Slatkin was the first in a long succession of appearances and career relationships with numerous American conductors and orchestras. He has appeared with the San Francisco, Saint Louis, Indianapo-lis, Seattle and New Jersey symphonies, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the National Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, and the Grand Teton and Obispo Mozart festival orchestras, among many others.

He enjoys regular and ongoing close as-sociations with the Dallas Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, and the Minne-sota Orchestra. Conductors with whom he has worked include Jerzy Semkow, Joseph Silverstein, Jens Nygaard, Mark Wigglesworth, Jeffrey Tate, Vladimir Spivakov, Gerard Schwarz, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Jeffrey Kahane, James Judd, Ro-berto Minczuk, Stefan Sanderling, JoAnn Falletta, James Paul, and Carlos Kalmar. Abroad, Wolfram has appeared with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Warsaw, Moscow, and Budapest philharmonics, the Capetown and Jo-hannesberg symphonies of South Africa, L’Orchestre de Bretagne, the orchestras of Thailand and Singapore, and the National Symphony of Peru.

An enthusiastic supporter of new music, he has collaborated with and performed music by composers such as Aaron Jay Kernis, Kenneth Frazelle, Marc Andre Dalbavie, Kenji Bunch, and Paul Chihara. His world premiere perfor-mance of the Chihara re-orchestration of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Milwaukee Symphony under the baton of Andreas Delfs, was met with great critical attention and acclaim.

Wolfram has extensive experience in the recording studio. For the Albany label, he recorded the piano con-certos of Edward Collins with Marin Alsop and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Wolfram has recorded, and continues to record, the solo piano music of Franz Liszt for Naxos records. These recordings include Liszt’s rarely heard Etudes en douze exercices, as well as opera transcriptions of both Doni-zetti and Bellini. Wolfram was the focus of a full chapter in Joseph Horowitz’s book, The Ivory Trade: Music and the Business of Music at the Van Cliburn In-ternational Piano Competition. On tele-vision, he was a featured pianist in the documentary of the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition.

A graduate of The Juilliard School, Wil-liam Wolfram resides in New York City with his wife and two daughters.

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M A X M ANDEL & STEPHEN BALDERSTON

Canadian violist Max Mandel is one of the most acclaimed and active chamber musicians of his generation. Comfort-able in many styles and genres, Mr.

Mandel’s current group affiliations include the FLUX Quartet, The Kirby String Quartet, The Silk Road Ensemble, The Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert, The Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, The Smithsonian Chamber Players, The Caramoor Virtuosi, Blarvuster, ClassNotes, The Knights, and I Furiosi Baroque Ensemble.

Early formative experiences include founding the Metro String Quartet, forging his dedication to chamber music through collaboration with his colleagues and teachers, such as Lorand Fenyves at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and the Banff Center for the Arts. Private studies at the University of To-ronto and the Juilliard School were with Steven Dann and Samuel Rhodes.

Mr. Mandel has been Guest Principal of The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Cam-erata Nordica and The Canadian Opera Company Orchestra. He is also a frequent guest of Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.Mr. Mandel is a fan of all kinds of music from Mozart to Feldman to Ghostface and considers himself very fortunate to have collaborated with great artists in many genres from Vera Beths to Don Byron to Kirk Hammett of Metallica. Mr. Mandel plays on a 1973 Giovanni Bat-tista Morassi generously loaned to him by Lesley Robertson of the St. Lawrence Quartet. He resides in Brooklyn, NY.

Stephen Balderston joined the DePaul School of Music faculty as String Coordinator and Professor of Cello after twenty successful years as

an orchestra and chamber musician. Balderston was Assistant Principal Cello with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for ten years after ten years

with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. He performed as soloist with both orchestras and was an artist-in-residence at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Balderston began his studies on the cello with Gabor Rejto in his native southern California, and earned both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Lynn Harrell. Known internationally as a soloist, chamber musician and coach, Balderston regularly participates in clinics, chamber music concerts and festivals throughout the U.S. and abroad. In recent years, Balderston has performed solo works and chamber music with Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Christoph Eschenbach, Lynn Harrell, Yo-Yo Ma, Menahem Pressler, Gil Shaham, Joseph Silverstein and Pinchas Zukerman. He debuted as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 2000. He has been a featured artist at the Ravinia Festival in Illinois, Bargemusic in New York City and the Affinis Music Festival in Japan. Additionally, he has participated in the OK Mozart International Festival in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, the Santa Barbara Chamber Music Festival and the International Music Festival in Shanghai, China. Balderston’s summers have been spent performing and working with students at a variety of venues. Balderston was the cello coach for Daniel Barenboim’s “West-Eastern Divan” workshops in 1999 and 2000 in Weimar, Germany, the 2001 Workshop held in Chicago, and the 2004 Workshop in Seville, Spain. In 2002 he accompanied a group of colleagues to Shanghai, China for that city’s international music festival. In August of 2004 Balderston was featured as lecturer, soloist and coach at the International String Music Festival in Taipei, Taiwan. Since 2002, he has been a teacher, coach and soloist at a number of prestigious summer venues, including the Marrowstone Music Festival, the International Festival – Institute at Round Top, the Midwest Young Artists Festival, the ARIA International Festival and the Northwestern University High School Institute.

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