Performed by pianists Nicola Melville Rebecca Penneys John ...

May 20, 2012 – 2:00 p.m.
USF Concert Hall

Performed by pianists
Nicola Melville

Rebecca Penneys
John Milbauer
Omri Shimron

USF School of Music
Tampa, FL

Program

Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 .....................Ludwig van Beethoven
Arr. G. Rösler

Arabesque No. 2.................................................Claude Debussy
Arr. L. Roques

Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 .................................... Antonín Dvořák

3. Allegro scherzando
4. Tempo di menuetto
6. Poco allegro
7. Allegro assai

Fantasy on Themes from Bizet's Carmen............. Mack Wilberg

- Intermission -

Tea for Two (for four)........................................ Vincent Youmans
Arr. S. Rydberg

Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 21.Felix Mendelssohn
Arr. R. Keller

Valse Brillante................................................... Moritz Moszkowski
arr. C. Gurlitt

Country Gardens ..................................................Percy Grainger

The Stars and Stripes Forever .......................... John Philip Sousa
Arr. M. Wilberg

Biographies

Nicola Melville, a native of New Zealand, has lived in the
United States since 1990. Her live performances and
recordings have been broadcast on Canadian, U.S., New
Zealand, South African and Chinese radio. She has
appeared in solo, collaborative and concerto performances
in North and South America, Europe and New Zealand, and
has also has been involved in interdisciplinary projects that
have involved collaborations with dancers, filmmakers,
computer scientists and visual artists.

Nicola won both the National Concerto Competition and
the Auckland Star Concerto Competition while in New
Zealand. Collaborations have included performances with
members of the Kronos Quartet, Pacifica Quartet, and the
Boston, Detroit and Minnesota orchestras.

Nicola completed her bachelor’s degree at Victoria
University School of Music, Wellington, and then earned
masters and doctorate degrees from the Eastman School of
Music; her major teachers were Judith Clark and Rebecca
Penneys. While at Eastman, Nicola was awarded the Lizzie T.
Mason prize for Outstanding Graduate Pianist, and the
Performer’s Certificate.

She has won grants from such organizations as Meet the
Composer, Creative New Zealand, the Argosy Fund for
Contemporary Music, and the Jerome Composers
Commissioning Program for the commissioning, performing
and recording of new music.

Nicola has recorded for the Innova and Equilibrium labels,
most recently releasing a CD of thirteen new solo works
commissioned by and dedicated to her. She is a member of
the Veblen Piano Trio, the Twin Cities new music group
Renegade Ensemble, and is a founding member of a new
cross-cultural group, Intersection, which recently performed
in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Nicola is Associate
Professor of Music at Carleton College, Minnesota.

Pianist John Milbauer has performed across the Americas,
Europe, and Asia, and his concerts have been broadcast on
radio and television stations on four continents. He has
released solo and collaborative recordings on the Eroica,
Universal, and AUR labels, and is currently completing a solo
CD for Fleur de Son and Naxos Records featuring music by
Crumb, Debussy, Bartók, and Adams. He has also been a
guest at music festivals such as the Banff Centre, the Sierra
Summer Festival, Teatro del Lago (Chile), Rencontres
Musicales (Switzerland), and the Tucson Winter Chamber
Music Festival and has performed as soloist with orchestras in
New York, California, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Canada.

Having won prizes from the Institute for International
Education, the Hungarian Ministry of Culture, and The
Juilliard School, Milbauer was also awarded the biennial
Laird National Leader in Arts Award in 2001 and the
Wolodarsky prize from the Banff Centre in 2006. An
enthusiastic performer of contemporary music, he is a
laureate of the 2006 Orléans (France) Concours for piano
music of the 20th century, and has given recitals of "chance"
music from the 16th to 20th centuries.

He spent two years as an undergraduate at Harvard
College before earning degrees from the Eastman School of
Music, The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, and,
as recipient of a Fulbright grant, the Liszt Academy in
Budapest. His major teachers include Rebecca Penneys,
Jerome Lowenthal, and Ferenc Rados. Milbauer is Associate
Professor of Piano at the University of Arizona School of Music
and a Steinway Artist.

Rebecca Penneys, an exclusive Steinway Artist,
(rebeccapenneys.com) celebrated thirty years as Professor
of Piano at Eastman School of Music in 2010. She has been
Chair of the Chautauqua Piano Department since 1983 and
an Artist-in-Residence at St. Petersburg College since 2001. In
2010 she became founder and Artistic Chair of the Steinway
Society of Tampa Bay. She currently commutes between
New York and Florida.

Born in Los Angeles, Ms. Penneys made her debut with the
Los Angeles Philharmonic at the age of eleven. At
seventeen, she was awarded the unprecedented Special
Critics’ Prize at the 7th International Chopin Piano
Competition in Warsaw, an award created in her honor.
Additionally, she won the Most Outstanding Musician Prize at
the Fifth Vianna Da Motta International Piano Competition
(Portugal) and was top prizewinner in the Second Paloma
O’Shea International Piano Competition (Spain).

Her teachers include Aube Tzerko, Leonard Stein, Rosina
Lhevinne, Artur Rubinstein, Menahem Pressler, Gyorgy Sebok
and Janos Starker. She has twelve current solo CDs on Fleur
De Son & Centaur labels and is co-author of the
Fundamentals of Flow in Learning Music.

Omri Shimron was born in the US but grew up in Israel where
he received his early musical training. In Israel, he performed
at the Jerusalem Music Center, the Jerusalem Academy of
Music and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. In the United States,
he won prizes from the Josef Hoffman Piano Competition
and the Chautauqua Institution.

Collaborative and solo concerts have included recording
sessions for WBFO and WXXI radio, the Kennedy Center’s
Millennium Stage, and the Sundays on the Island series in
New York. Shimron has performed at the Felicja Blumental
International Music Festival (Tel Aviv), the American
Conservatory program in Fontainebleau (France) and has
presented recitals at Wolfson College (Oxford University), the
Bursa State Conservatory (Turkey), and the SoundsCAPE
festival in Pavia, Italy (2008).

During the past decade he has premiered and
commissioned works by several emerging composers. An
assistant professor of music at Elon University in North
Carolina, Shimron earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in
music from the University of Rochester (magna cum laude,
1997); a Master of Music in Piano (2000), a Master of Arts in
Music Theory Pedagogy (2004) and Doctor of Musical Arts

degree in piano (2004) from the Eastman School of Music
where his primary mentor was Rebecca Penneys.
www.omrishimron.com



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