Gilbert, Laura

Rust, Roberta

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LYNN UNIVERSITY Conservatory of Music Concert featuring Laura Gilbert, flute Roberta Rust, piano 7:30 p.m. April 5, 2002 Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall Simply Grand Those who know ... choose Kretzer • Ballet Florida • Crest Theatre • Old School Square • • Colony Hotel • Florida Stage • Four Seasons Resort· • Governors Club • Kravis Center • Lynn University • • Palm Beach County Cultural Center· • Palm Beach County School of the Arts • • Palm Beach Opera • Renato's • • Tommy Smith • The Backstreet Boys • kretzer P A N 0 860 North Military Trail* West Palm Beach, FL* 33415 * (561) 478-5320 www.kretzerpiano.com LAURA GILBERT, flute Laura Gilbert has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, and Japan, including solo appearances in Carnegie Recital Hall, Kennedy Center, Jordan Hall, San Francisco's Herbst Theatre, and Casals and Suntory Halls in Tokyo. Dr. Gilbert has appeared as a soloist with the Heiddberg Chamber Orchestra, Korea National Orchestra, Coloradp Orchestra, Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonla Virtuosi, and the Brandenburg Ensemble (of which she is a member). She also toured the United States as a guest artist with "Musicians from Marlboro." She has performed with Jaime Laredo, the Bach Aria Group, Dorian Quintet, Aeolian Chamber Players, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Speculum Musicae, and she had numerous performances with the late Rudolf Serkin. In addition to her solo and ensemble collaborations, she has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic. Dr. Gilbert is a member of the ensemble Aureole, which has won numerous international awards, and whose first recording on Koch International Classics was short-listed for three Grammy awards and nominated for one in 1991. Dr. Gilbert has also recorded on the RCA, Angel, Nonesuch, Warner Bros., and Philips labels; she was a member of the ensemble, with soprano Dawn Upshaw, on the 1991 Grammy award-winning disc The Girl with the Orange Lips. Dr. Gilbert's solo debut recording with pianist Emma Tahmizian received enthusiastic reviews from Fanfare and American Record Guide. ROBERTA RUST, piano Roberta Rust began her concert career as soloist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra at age sixteen. Her subsequent performances across four continents have consistently captivated critics and inspired audiences. She has performed in the United States, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, China, and South Korea. Following her New York debut, Pulitzer-Prize winning music critic Tim Page wrote in The New York Timer. "Roberta Rust is a powerhouse of a pianist-one who combines an almost frightening fervor and intensiry with impeccable technique and spartan control." She has appeared in chamber music with the Lark and Ying String Quartets and as soloist with the New World Symphony and Symphony of the Americas. Her critically acclaimed compact discs include Franz Joseph Haydn (Centaur Records), Piano Music ofVJ/a-Lobos (Centaur Records), and Three American Premieres and the Prokofieff Sonata No. 6 (P rotone Records). The Miami Herald described her as follows: "There was tremendous bravura, sweep and power ... Herewasa virruosa''. Rust served as Artistic Ambassador for the United States and has been the recipient of a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She was awarded additional grants and priz.es from the Organization of American States, National Society of Arts and Letters, and International Concours de Fortcpiano in Paris. She studied at the Peabody Conservatory, graduated summa cum laudc from the University ofT cxas at Austin, and received performer's certificates in piano and German Lieder from the Mozartcum in Salzburg, Austria. She earned her master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music and her doctorate at the University of Miami. Her teachers have included John Perry, Ivan Davis, and Artur Balsam. · Her students arc active musicians---pcrfunning in concerts, competitions, recordings and broadcasts in the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia. Many have been awarded top prizes in competitions including the Josef Hofinan Competition, the Bartok-Prokoficv-Kabalcvsky International Competition, and the Palm Beach Invitational Competition. Her students have been declared state winners (Florida) of the MfNA-Stcinway CollcgiatcArtist and MfNA-Yamaha High School competitions. Her pupils have participated on scholarship at festivals such as Aspen, T anglcwood, Kneisel Hall, Bowdoin, Orford, Music Academy of the West, Piano Fest of the Hamptons, Chautauqua, Brevard, and FontaineblcalL Rust gives master classes internationally, serves frequently as an adjudicator for piano competitions, and has written articles for Clavier Magazine. She has lived in South Florida since 1988 and currently serves as Artist Faculty-Piano and Professor of Music at the Conservatory of Music at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. She has also taught at Florida International University in Miami and the Harid Conservatory. PROGRAM Sonata ................................................. : .......... : ..... Otar Taktakishvili Allegro Cantabile (1924-1989) Moderato con moco Allegro scherzando Sonata, ''.Arpeggione" ........................................... Franz Schubert Allegromoderato (1797-1828) Adagio Allegretto INTERMISSION Sona tine ............................................................... Henri Dutilleux (1916- ) Sonata in D Major, op. 94a ................................. Sergei Prokofiev Moderato (1891-1953) Allegretto scherzando Andante Allegro con brio Lynn University Philharmonia Orchestra Arthur Weisberg,. conductor I PROGRAM (part of the 2002 North American Music Festival) IGO R STRAVINSKY Rite of Spring GEORGE CRUMB A Haunted Landscape (dedicated to Arthur Weisberg and the New York Philharmonic) GREGORY HUTTER Skyscrapers (world premiere) 7:30 p.m. Saturday; April 13, 2002 Olympic Heights Performing Ans Theater (20101 Lyons Rd, Boca Raton) TICKETS: $22 (561) 999-4377 tickets@lynn.edu The Conservatory of Music at TICKET O FFICE & ADMINISTRATION LYNN U NIVERSITY lick.ct Office Hours (during concert season) 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday-Friday Administration Hours 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday-Friday Mailing Address 3601 North Military Trail Boca Raton, FL 33431 Physical Location 2285 Potomac Road lick.ct Office Phone & Fax (561) 999-4377 (phone) (561) 995-0417 (fuc) Administration Phone & Fax (561) 999-4386 (phone) (561) 995-0417 (fuc) lick.ct Office Internet E-mail tickcu@lynn.edu Internet Web Site www.lynn.edu/music Administration Internet E-mail music@lynn.edu 

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