Dear All, I would like to invite you to the following concert. It is free and open to the public. 1230 PM, Thursday, October 19, 2006 B20 of Lincoln Hall, Cornell University Members of Cornell Symphony Orchestra And Cornell Chamber Orchestra Andrew Eng, violin Anna Herforth, English Horn Sezi Seskir, fortepiano Chris Younghoon Kim, conductor Program Astor Piazzolla Winter and Spring from Seasons With Andrew Eng, violin Jean Sibelius Swan of Tuonela With Anna Herforth, English horn W.A. Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414 I. Allegro II. Andante III. Rondeau With Sezi Seskir, fortepiano Andrew Eng A founding member of the Kalistos Chamber Orchestra of Boston, and the Symphony in the Barn of Ontario, Mr. Eng also plays as the principal violinist for MASS Tango, the Chagall-Boston String Quartet and as a member of the Found Objects Jazz String Trio of Boston. He is a frequent Guest Artist on the Lyrica Boston Chamber Music Series since its' inception in 2003. Festival appearances include Spoleto, Orford, Domaine Forget, LyricaFest, Killington and the Quartet Program at Bucknell University. Eng recently collaborated as a soloist with Elmar Oliveira and the Lyrica Chamber Orchestra, in chamber music with Eugene Drucker, Terry King, Victor Rosenbaum, Joseph Robinson and jazz improvisation with George Garzone, Diane Monroe, and Peter Cassino. This season, as Guest Concertmaster of the Indian Hill Orchestra, Eng performed Rimsky- Korsakow's Capriccio Espanole and was subsequently invited to serve as a soloist for the New Bedford Symphony. This summer, Eng joins the faculty of LyricaFest, a summer music festival in New Jersey, which represents students from virtually every major music school in The United States. In 1998, Andrew received his A.R.C.T. Performer's Certificate from the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, Canada, and then in 2003 and 2005 respectively received his Undergraduate Diploma and Master of Music at the Longy School of Music as a student of Laura Bossert and Peter Cassino. Eng was honored with the Patricia Sherman Award, the highest honor given to a member of the graduating class. (Andrew Eng will also give talk/concert at Alice Cook House on thursday evening at 9 pm. There will be music, discussion of music with Andrew Eng over some cookies.) Anna Herforth is a doctoral student at Cornell in International Nutrition. She holds a M.S. in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition from Tufts University, and a B.S. in Plant Science, summa cum laude, from Cornell University. From 1998-2003, Anna played in the Cornell Symphony Orchestra under Ed Murray and John Hsu. While getting her master's degree, Anna was the English hornist for the New England Philharmonic, and the principal oboist and solo English hornist for the Tufts Symphony Orchestra, with which she played Copland's Quiet City. She studied for two years with former Boston Symphony Orchestra oboist Wayne Rapier, and was also influenced by lessons from current BSO oboist John Ferrillo. She currently lives in Cortland, NY. Sezi Seskir was born in Ankara, Turkey, where she received her first degree in Piano. She went on with her studies in Luebeck Musikhochschule, in Germany with Prof. Konstanze Eickhorst. In January 2005, she completed degrees both in artistic and pedagogical piano and wrote her finishing thesis on 'Theodor Kirchner's Schumann Reception'. Along with many solo recitals she gave in Europe and Turkey, she also played Robert Schumann's A minor piano concerto Op. 54 with the Istanbul State Symphonic Orchestra and Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G major with the Bursa State Symphonic Orchestra. Sezi Seskir currently studies with Malcolm Bilson. In February of this year three current students of Malcolm Bilson, Frederic Lacroix, Stefania Neonato and myself, played the Triple Concerto in F Major, K. 242 with Chris Kim and the Cornell Chamber Orchestra in the Annual Mozart's Birthday Concert. This event inspired us to devote the entire Fall semester to Mozart piano concertos. Today's concert is the second in this series. Our aim is to experience these works in a somewhat different way than is usually done with a modern piano and large orchestra. The biggest difference is of course the five-octave Viennese piano but it is not the only difference. For example, we play continuo during the orchestral ritornelli as was the custom at the time; this gives a quite different picture of the 'action' of these works. We have also worked together with Profs. Chris= Kim and Malcolm Bilson on articulation, bowing and other performance practice matters. It is our wish to share the knowledge we accumulate during our doctoral studies here with the students in the chamber orchestra, and learn together from mutual experience. The Concerto in A Major, K.414 was the first of Mozart's great series of Viennese piano concertos. It is also the first in a set of three that he performed at his Lenten concerts of 1783. In an oft-quoted letter to his father he describes the three as follows: "...these concertos are a happy medium between what is too easy and too difficult; they are very brilliant, pleasing to the ear and natural without being vapid". Although Mozart's piano concertos do not generally quote other people's music, in the second movement of K. 414 we find a direct citation from Johann Christian Bach's overture to the opera La Calamita dei Cuori. Bach had died on January 1, 1782, and Mozart had known him personally as a child and had certainly been influenced by the older man. This movement might just be a conscious or even unconscious tribute. - notes by SS Also this week; October 21, Saturday 8 pm in Bailey Hall Cornell Symphony performs Sibelius' Finlandia in the First Year Family Weekend concert. CSO will be joined by Wind Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble. Select members of CSO strings will join the WE and JE and President David Skorton in Jazz Standards. Chris Younghoon Kim Director of Orchestras at Cornell University www.arts.cornell.edu/orchestra