Sisley, Todd

White, Harry

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Syracuse University SURFACE at Syracuse University Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs Setnor School of Music 10-13-2016 Around the World in 80 Minutes: Harry White, Saxophone and Todd Sisley, Piano Harry White Todd Sisley Follow this and additional works at: https://surface.syr.edu/setnor_performances  Part of the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Setnor School of Music, Syracuse University. Around the World in 80 Minutes: Harry White, Saxophone and Todd Sisley, Piano. 10-13-2016 https://surface.syr.edu/setnor_performances/322 This Performance Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Setnor School of Music at SURFACE at Syracuse University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs by an authorized administrator of SURFACE at Syracuse University. For more information, please contact surface@syr.edu.                                        Please be sure to turn off all electronic devices, and please refrain from making extraneous noise, talking, taking flash photographs, or moving about the auditorium during the performance. It is important for performers and audience members to have the best possible concert-going experience in Setnor Auditorium. Thank you.      Around the World in 80 Minutes   Guest Artist HARRY WHITE - saxophone TODD SISLEY – piano  Setnor Auditorium October 13, 2016 8:00PM          FRANCE quatre vocalises du Répertoire Moderne de Vocalises-Etudes de A.L. Hettich Air (1929) DARIUS MILHAUD   (1892-1974)  alla gitana (1909) PAUL DUKAS   (1865-1935)   à la mémoire d’Evelyne Brélia (1929) FRANCIS POULENC   (1899-1963)  Pièce en forme de Habanera (1907) MAURICE RAVEL   (1875-1937)  HOLLAND La Malinconia (1948) HENK BADINGS   (1907-1987)    USA Second Prelude (1926) GEORGE GERSHWIN   (1898-1937) arr. Sigurd Rascher  from: Picnic on the Marne (1984) NED ROREM Seven Waltzes for alto saxophone and piano (b. 1923)  Driving from Paris  A Bend in the River  Bal Musette  Intermission        RUSSIA Der Traum, Op. 48, Nr. 5 SERGEI RACHMANINOW Vocalise, Op. 34, Nr. 14 (1873-1943)   NORWAY Three Songs from Op. 48 EDWARD GRIEG  Lauf der Welt  (1843-1907)  Zur Rosenzeit  Ein Traum  FRANCE Cinq danses exotiques (1961) JEAN FRANÇAIX  I Pambiche (1912-1997)  II Baiao  III Mambo  IV Samba lenta  V Merengue  SPAIN Pequeña Czarda (1949) Pedro Itturalde   (b. 1929)          Harry White and Todd Sisley gave their first duo recital nearly 30 years ago in Cambridge, New York. Since then they have performed together in the Northeast, in White’s home state of Mississippi and in southern Germany, where they also recorded the CD “spectrum saxofonis”.  HARRY WHITE grew up in Mississippi and received his first instruction there from Warren and Marti Lutz. He studied with Lawrence Gwozdz at the University of Southern Mississippi, with Paul Cohen at the Manhattan School of Music, and with the pioneer of classical saxophone, Sigurd Raschèr, in upstate New York. Harry White teaches saxophone at the conservatory in Zürich, Switzerland. As an orchestral saxophonist he has played in many famous orchestras, including the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden/Freiburg and the Berlin Philharmonic. As a member of the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet from 1990-2001 he collaborated with composers like Luciano Berio, Philip Glass, Sofia Gubaidulina and Charles Wuorinen.  Todd Sisley has performed at Lincoln Center and Town Hall, the Tanglewood Music Festival, the Brisbane Biennial of Music (Australia), as well as in London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Heidelberg. He has collaborated with soprano Lucy Shelton, countertenor David Daniels, the Chester String Quartet, New York Chamber Ensemble, and American Chamber Opera, as well as with New York City’s La Gran Scena Opera Co.  He accompanied actress Jean Stapleton in the New York City premiere and national tour of Lee Hoiby’s The Italian Lesson and Bon Appétit!, and led the premiere of the composer’s one-act opera This Is the Rill Speaking the following season. He earned a master’s degree in accompanying and chamber music from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Martin Katz, and has received two fellowships to study at the Tanglewood Music Center.        Harry White and Todd Sisley gave their first duo recital nearly 30 years ago in Cambridge, New York. Since then they have performed together in the Northeast, in White’s home state of Mississippi and in southern Germany, where they also recorded the CD “spectrum saxofonis”.  HARRY WHITE grew up in Mississippi and received his first instruction there from Warren and Marti Lutz. He studied with Lawrence Gwozdz at the University of Southern Mississippi, with Paul Cohen at the Manhattan School of Music, and with the pioneer of classical saxophone, Sigurd Raschèr, in upstate New York. Harry White teaches saxophone at the conservatory in Zürich, Switzerland. As an orchestral saxophonist he has played in many famous orchestras, including the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden/Freiburg and the Berlin Philharmonic. As a member of the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet from 1990-2001 he collaborated with composers like Luciano Berio, Philip Glass, Sofia Gubaidulina and Charles Wuorinen.  Todd Sisley has performed at Lincoln Center and Town Hall, the Tanglewood Music Festival, the Brisbane Biennial of Music (Australia), as well as in London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Heidelberg. He has collaborated with soprano Lucy Shelton, countertenor David Daniels, the Chester String Quartet, New York Chamber Ensemble, and American Chamber Opera, as well as with New York City’s La Gran Scena Opera Co.  He accompanied actress Jean Stapleton in the New York City premiere and national tour of Lee Hoiby’s The Italian Lesson and Bon Appétit!, and led the premiere of the composer’s one-act opera This Is the Rill Speaking the following season. He earned a master’s degree in accompanying and chamber music from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Martin Katz, and has received two fellowships to study at the Tanglewood Music Center.  

Around the World in 80 Minutes: Harry White, Saxophone and Todd Sisley, Piano

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