Chamber Music Milwaukee
2011-2012 Season
The UWM Peck School of the Arts is pleased to announce the eighth season of its chamber music series, Chamber Music Milwaukee. The series, under the artistic direction of faculty members Gregory Flint and Todd Levy, features UWM faculty and their guests in a series of four Thursday evening concerts.
Chamber Music Milwauke draws on the accomplished performers of the Peck School's Department of Music and their guests for a series that takes a fresh look at familiar works and explores rarely performed music in a wide range of instrumental combinations.
Chamber Music Milwaukee is supported in part by the William F. Vilas Trust and the Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Dr. Abraham B. and Irma F. Schwartz Fund.
Concerts
November 10, 2011, 8:00 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall
Guest to be announced
January 25, 2012, 8:00 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall
Returning to Chamber Music Milwaukee for this program is renowned soprano Susanna Phillips. A regular lead performer at the Metropolitan Opera, Ms. Phillips recently starred as Lucia in Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of Lucia di Lammermoor.
Susanna will perform alongside UWM music faculty and special guests in a special concert of wonderful vocal chamber music.
February 23, 2012, 8:00 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall
Chamber Music Milwaukee continues it's season with a performance featuring Milwaukee's Arcas String Quartet. This young and vibrant quartet will join forces with UWM faculty members Margaret Butler, Todd Levy, and Greg Flint in a concert that features music of Brahms, Mozart and Benjamin Britten.
March 29, 2012, 8:00 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall
Welcoming special guests, the American Brass Quintet
Tickets
Single Tickets: $17 general/$12 seniors, faculty, alumni/$10 students
Box Office
Phone: (414) 229-4308
Location: Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 East Kenwood Blvd. (enter through the parking lot to the south of the building)
Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 10 am - 5 pm and half an hour prior to performances. Short-term parking spaces are available for those purchasing tickets.
Location & Parking
All concerts take place in the Helen Bader Concert Hall in the Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 East Kenwood Blvd.
Metered parking is available in the Zelazo Center lot (to the south of the building) and in the UWM Union Parking Garage, 2200 East Kenwood Blvd.
Artists
Margaret Butler
Oboist Margaret Butler grew up in Rhode Island where she began her studies on the recorder and flute. A love for the sound of the Baroque oboe led her to study the modern oboe. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music and her Master of Music degree from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music. Margaret participated in the Ban! Summer Music Festival where she was a featured soloist and has also played in Graz, Austria with the American Institute of Musical Studies. She was principal oboist for the Florida Grand Opera, Miami City Ballet and Palm Beach Opera before joining the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in 2002. In 2007, she played principal oboe for the Santa Fe Opera Company and participated as a soloist in the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. The following Spring she was invited to play as guest principal oboist for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. In addition to performing with the Milwaukee Symphony, Margaret is principal oboist for the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra and is on faculty at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee.
Gregory Flint
Gregory Flint is associate professor of horn at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and co-director of the Chamber Music Milwaukee concert series. As a performer, he is currently principal horn with the Elgin Symphony, the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, Present Music of Milwaukee and the Fulcrum Point New Music Project. He often performs with the Milwaukee Symphony, and has also appeared with the Chicago Symphony, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Honolulu Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, and the Ravinia Festival Orchestra. A busy chamber musician, Flint is a founding member of the critically acclaimed Asbury Brass Quintet, hornist with the Tower Brass of Chicago, and has also toured regularly with the Prairie Winds and the Chicago Brass Quintet. Past summers have included solo appearances in Spain, Costa Rica and South America. Gregory currently spends his summer months in New Mexico as a member of the Santa Fe Opera orchestra.
Stefan Kartman
Stefan Kartman is currently Associate Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. In addition to solo performance, he has performed to critical acclaim as cellist of the Kneisel Trio and the Florestan Duo. He has given performances and masterclasses in conservatories and schools of music worldwide including the Cleveland Institute of Music (USA), the Xiamen Conservatory of Music (China), and the D’Albaco Conservatory of Music (Italy), among many others.
An avid chamber music enthusiast, Dr. Kartman has served on the faculties of the Alfred University Summer Chamber Music Institute, the MidAmerica Chamber Music Festival, the Troy Youth Chamber Music Institute, the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, and was artistic director of the Milwaukee Chamber Music Festival. His early training in chamber music was with his father, Myron Kartman, of the Antioch String Quartet and during his formal training as a chamber musician, he studied with members of the Guarneri and Juilliard String Quartets and the Beaux Arts Trio.
Stefan Kartman received degrees from Northwestern University, The Juilliard School of Music, and his doctorate from Rutgers University. He has been teaching assistant to Harvey Shapiro and Zara Nelsova of the Juilliard School and proudly acknowledges the pedagogical heritage of his teachers Shapiro, Nelsova, Bernard Greenhouse, Alan Harris, and Anthony Cooke.
Todd Levy
Principal Clarinet of the MSO and The Santa Fe Opera orchestras, two-time Grammy Award winner Todd Levy has performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, Mostly Mozart, with the Israel Philharmonic, and at the White House; as chamber musician with members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Orion, Miami quartets, James Levine, Christoph Eschenbach, and Mitsuko Uchida; and as guest principal clarinet with the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, and frequently for Seiji Ozawa and Ricardo Muti in Japan. He has performed world premiere concerti or chamber works by composers such as John Harbison, Joan Tower, Peter Schickele, Paquito D'Rivera, Morton Subotnick, and Marc Neikrug and performs on the new release of Marc Neikrug's Through Roses chamber work with violinist Pinchas Zuckerman, actor John Rubenstein and the composer conducting. He has recorded the Brahms Clarinet Sonatas for Avie, and three educational book/CD's of clarinet competition works for G. Schirmer/Hal Leonard, and a new edition/CD of the Bernstein Clarinet Sonata for Boosey and Hawkes/Hal Leonard. He performs exclusively on Vandoren reeds, mouthpieces, and ligatures, and Selmer Signature clarinets. He is also on the faculty of UW/Milwaukee and is co-director of Chamber Music Milwaukee. For a more complete biography, visit toddlevy.org.
Jeffry Peterson
Jeffry Peterson is best known for his work in the field of collaborative piano and has performed throughout the United States with such celebrated singers as Yolanda Marculescu, Erie Mills, Evelyn Lear and Kurt Ollmann. Peterson performs regularly on UWM's Chamber Music Milwaukee series; other notable performances include a recital with soprano Mary Elizabeth Williams at the Mateus Festival in Portugal and performances with Erie Mills, soprano, and James Tocco, pianist, at the John Downey Festival in London. Recording credits include collaborations with Yolanda Marculescu-Stern, an album of American flute music with Robert Goodberg, and the Something to Sing About choral anthology for G. Schirmer. His CD with the renowned soprano Erie Mills, Always It's Spring (VAI audio), includes three songs by John Downey. Songs of Love and Longing, with soprano Valerie Errante, was released on Albany Classics in 2008, and Skyborn Music, with the Milwaukee Choral Artists, will be released on the Gothic label in fall 2009. Peterson is professor of piano at UWM and often performs with the UWM voice faculty. He founded UWM's Vocal Arts Series. He chairs the graduate program in vocal accompanying and recently introduced a new Bachelor's degree in Collaborative Piano at UWM.
Ilana Setapen
Since her solo orchestral debut at age 15 with the Amarillo Symphony, Ilana Setapen has been flourishing as a violinist with a powerful and original voice. She is the newly appointed Associate Concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Assistant Concertmaster of the Grant Park Festival Orchestra in Chicago. Ms. Setapen has won top prizes in many competitions, such as the Irving M. Klein International String Competition, the Pasadena Showcase Competition, the Kingsville International Competition and the Amarillo Young Performers Competition. At the age of 21, she became concertmaster of the Riverside County Philharmonic in Los Angeles. She has also been concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra, the Colburn Orchestra, the American Youth Symphony, the National Repertory Orchestra, and the USC Thornton Symphony. Solo appearances have been with the Milwaukee Symphony, the Riverside Philharmonic, the Pasadena Pops, the American Youth Symphony, the Idaho Falls Symphony, the National Repertory Orchestra, and the Amarillo Symphony, among others. She has participated in numerous festivals such as the New York String Seminar, Aspen Music Festival, ENCORE School for Strings, and the National Repertory Orchestra. Also an avid chamber musician, she was for two years the first violinist of the award-winning Calla Quartet in New York. Solo and chamber music performances have brought her abroad to France, Brazil, Holland, England, Monaco, and Italy. She has also performed in Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, and Disney Hall. Ms. Setapen grew up in Amarillo, Texas. She studied with Robert Lipsett both at the University of Southern California and at the Colburn Conservatory. She received her Master of Music Degree from the Juilliard School as a student of Donald Weilerstein and Ronald Copes. She performs on a 1624 Brothers Amati violin on loan from Frank Almond.
Caen Thomason-Redus
Caen Thomason-Redus is the Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and enjoys traveling the world performing and teaching. Solo appearances in recent years include the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the National Flute Association Convention, and UWM's major ensembles. Recital programs vary greatly and include everything from virtuosic baroque sonatas to contemporary African American music for solo flute. At UWM, Caen is particularly active in chamber music through the faculty artist series Chamber Music Milwaukee and his own series of recitals. You can hear him on The Flute Collection and the Moyse Collection of Flute Classics, two sets of recordings and anthologies published by Schirmer. Prior to arriving in Milwaukee, Caen spent two years performing with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as their Minority Fellow and now performs often with professional orchestras such as the St. Louis, Milwaukee and Kansas City symphonies. Caen began playing Muramatsu flutes in 2003 and is a Muramatsu Artist. Caen's previous teaching activities include faculty positions at Wayne State University and the Sphinx Preparatory Academy, both located in downtown Detroit. He is professionally active with the National Flute Association, Early Music Now, the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, and several other arts organizations. Caen and his wife, hornist Kristi Crago, served as principals in the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra and as faculty at the University of Evansville in Indiana. Dedicated to education and musical outreach, Caen and Kristi spend much of their personal time creating and taking part in programs that bring music closer to people of all backgrounds and ages. They are the proud parents of two young boys and love living in Milwaukee.
Jeannie Yu
Jeannie Yu is an award-winning pianist who is equally at home with chamber music, collaborative arts, and solo performances. She has performed as soloist with the Flint Symphony, Portland Symphony, Marina del Rey-Westchester Symphony, Des Moines Symphony, Des Moines Brandenburg Symphony, the Xiamen Symphony Orchestra (China), Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra, and the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra. She is an avid chamber musician who is an associate member of the Rembrandt Chamber Players in Chicago. She received her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees from the Juilliard School, and her Doctorate Degree from the Peabody Conservatory.