EASTMAN VIRTUOSI FACULTY ARTIST SERIES - Saturday, September 25, 2021 Kilbourn Hall
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FACULTY ARTIST SERIES
EASTMAN VIRTUOSI
Saturday, September 25, 2021
Kilbourn Hall
7:30 PM
The Faculty Artist Series is generously supported by Patricia Ward-Baker.PROGRAM
Sonata in A Major, D. 574 “Grand Duo” Franz Schubert
Allegro moderato (1797-1828)
Scherzo: Presto
Andantino
Allegro vivace
Yoojin Jang, violin
Chiao-Wen Cheng, piano
...and she said… (2021) Jon Lin Chua
I. ...on her voice (b. 1986)
II. ...on motherhood
III. ...on her art
Eastman Centennial Commission
Katherine Ciesinski, mezzo-soprano
Renée Jolles, violin
INTERMISSION
Divertimento in E-Flat Major W.A. Mozart
for String Trio, K. 563 (1756-1791)
Allegro
Adagio
Minuet: Allegretto
Andante
Minuet: Allegretto
Allegro
Renée Jolles, violin
Masumi Per Rostad, viola
Steven Doane, celloPROGRAM NOTES
Welcome to our opening concert of the Eastman Virtuosi season. We are so
happy to be able to share our concerts with you again. Please join us for our
upcoming concerts on January 29 and March 19, 2022, featuring two more
Eastman Centennial commissions and a wide variety of faculty artists.
Bonita Boyd and Renée Jolles, Artistic Co-Directors.
...and she said… (2021) Jon Lin Chua
...and she said… is a humble effort on my part to present quotes from women
of all times from all over. The third movement also includes musical quotes
from women composers of different eras. The musical language in this piece
is as diverse as the women and ideas featured in this piece, and yet the various
musical passages remain connected to each other in subtle ways. As a female
composer myself (though I would prefer to not merely be known as one), I
would like to help be a humble conduit for female voices from all over, to
showcase our commonality as well as our diversity, through the help of this
piece and the two amazing female musicians premiering this piece. My only
regret is that I was not able to include more quotes in my piece and feature
more voices - it is definitely not because those quotes are less worthy in any
way, but that I had to work within practical constraints. —Jon Lin Chua
Quotes used in ...and she said...
I: ...on her voice
“The tongue stuck in my jaw./[...]/Ich, ich, ich, ich.” ―Sylvia Plath
“Why didn't I report it? [...] shocked, numb, and powerless.” ― Dana Arcuri
"[...] Did you say no? [...] But why are they allowed to touch us until we physically
fight them off? Why is the door open until we have to slam it shut?"
―Chanel Miller
“Imagine the volume, were we to hear the sound of all those voices at once. We
have to listen for them. Otherwise we are united only by silence.” ―Una
“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
—Malala Yousafzai
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” —Coco Chanel
“At any given moment you have the power to say this is not how the story is
going to end.” —Christine Mason MillerPROGRAM NOTES
“And even when they refuse to listen, I’ll keep talking anyway, hoping on a slim
chance that the things inside my head are worth something to someone.”
—Nadège Richards
“I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice
can be heard.” —Malala Yousafzai
“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not
going to be silent.” —Madeleine Albright
“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the
bravest thing that we will ever do.” —Brené Brown
“Each time a woman stands up for herself without knowing it possibly, without
claiming it, she stands up for all women.” —Maya Angelou
II: ...on motherhood
“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No
woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or
will not be a mother.” —Margaret Sanger
“And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do
you want to have kids?” —Caitlin Moran
“(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.”
—Jodi Picoult
“Moment by moment, maddened by them and melted by them, maddened /
melted, maddened / melted, maddened / melted.” —Helen Phillips
“We did not yet entirely understand that Mother, as imagined and politicized by
the Societal System, was a delusion. The world loved the delusion more than it
loved the mother.” —Deborah Levy
“Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own
bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his
neck.” —Jodi Picoult
“I did not go easy to motherhood. I faced it as soldiers face their enemies, girded
and braced, sword up against the coming blows. Yet all my preparations were not
enough.” —Madeline Miller
“[...] known only as "Asha's mom" [...] no time for the PTA and bake sales. [...] no
time for herself. Her profession no longer defines her, but neither does being a
mother. Both are pieces of her, and yet they don't seem to add up to a whole.”
—Shilpi Somaya GowdaPROGRAM NOTES
“What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins
into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them
up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.”
—Margaret Atwood
“And she loved Agnes fiercely, though motherhood felt like a heavy coat she
was compelled to put on each day no matter the weather.” —Diane Cook
“The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet,
each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside
its chest.” —Debra Ginsberg
“Now I know I’ll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel
everything forever. And I’m finally afraid, condemned to fear everything
forever.” —Kristin Hersh
III: ...on her art
“Nobody says “Picasso, the male artist.” —Patti Smith
“I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.”
—Isabel Bishop
"You can’t sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to
write it and paint it and do it.” —Faith Ringgold
“I would rather take a photograph than be one.” —Lee Miller
“I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.” —Amy Sherald
“Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household
names because we don't have enough faith in our own pursuits to give
ourselves the time we desperately need to be transformed by a creative vision.
Maybe that glass ceiling isn't really made of glass at all, but of sticky little
fingers, dishes piled in the sink, and mortgages that demand two incomes.”
—Holly Robinson Peete
“I did not have any role model. I could not learn anything from the female
voice that male poets used, a voice which is more "feminine" than female. Nor
could I learn anything from ancient female poetry that only sang about love, the
feeling of farewell and longing for others. —Kim Hyesoon
“Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is.
[...] It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different [...] If there is a wart
or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it.” —Jenny SavillePROGRAM NOTES
Musical Quotations in III
Hildegard von Bingen: Ave Maria
Kaija Saariaho: Nocturne for Solo Violin
Unsuk Chin: Violin Concerto, I
Alma Mahler: Licht in der Nacht
Ruth Crawford Seeger: Sonata for Violin and Piano, I
Clara Schumann: Romance No. 2 for Violin, op. 22
Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, op. 11, I
Germaine Tailleferre: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, III
Ethel Smyth: Sonata for Violin and Piano, I
Lili Boulanger: Les sirènes
Amy Beach: Sonata for Violin and Piano, op. 34, I
MEET THE ARTISTS
Yoojin Jan,
Assistant Professor of Violin
violin
Chiao-Wen Cheng
Assistant Professor of Accompanying
piano
Katherine Ciesinksi
Martin E. and Corazon D. Sanders Professor of Voice
mezzo-soprano
Renée Jolles
Wegman Family Professor of Violin
violin
Masumi Per Rostad
Associate Professor of Viola
viola
Steven Doane
Professor of Violoncello
celloMEET THE ARTISTS Singapore-born composer Jon Lin Chua credits her versatility in traversing musical cultures and genres to her eclectic musical background. As composer, she has worked with groups such as the Toronto Chinese Orchestra as the current composer-in-residence, MusicaNova Orchestra (Phoenix AZ) as the orchestra’s composition fellow for the 2015-2016 season, the Little Giant Chinese Chamber Ensemble (Taiwan), the Ju Percussion Group (Taiwan), the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, 3PeopleMusic (Taiwan), EL Music Group (Seoul), the Southeastern Ensemble for Today’s and Tomorrow’s Sounds (Singapore), Ding Yi Music Company (Singapore), the Studio C Ensemble (international), The Philharmonic Winds (Singapore), Orchestra Collective (Singapore), 成都 天资国乐 (Chengdu, Sichuan), the Guitar Ensemble of the National University of Singapore, and has had works performed in festivals such as the 4th SoundBridge Contemporary Music Festival (KL, Malaysia, 2019), the 2019 China-ASEAN New Music Festival (Nanning, Guangxi, 2019), ACL-Korea "Seoul Asia Waves" International Conference and Festival (Seoul, 2019), the inaugural Dot The Line New Music Festival (Seoul, 2019), the 35th Asian Composers League Conference and Festival (Taipei, 2018), 18th Biennial Festival of New Music organized by the Florida State University College of Music (Tallahassee FL, 2017), the Women in Music Festival (Rochester NY, 2017 & 2014), and the National University of Singapore Arts Festival (Singapore, 2012). In 2018, she received the First Prize (large ensemble category) and the Young Singaporean Composer award at the 3rd Singapore International Composition Competition for Chinese Chamber Music, "Composium 2018" organized by the Ding Yi Music Company. Jon Lin studied composition and music theory at the Eastman School of Music, where she graduated with highest distinction as a recipient of numerous scholarships, including the prestigious Presser Scholar Award and the National Arts Council of Singapore Arts Scholarship. During her time in Eastman, she studied composition with David Liptak, Robert Morris, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, and Oliver Schneller, and studied piano performance with Tony Caramia. She is currently an adjunct lecturer at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, and the Treasurer of the Composers Society of Singapore.
UPCOMING EVENTS AT EASTMAN
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
FACULTY ARTIST SERIES
JCM Faculty
Kilbourn Hall, 7:30 PM
Free admission
Friday, October 1, 2021
Collaborative Celebration:
Eastman School of Music & Garth Fagan Dance
Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 7:30 PM
Free admission
Saturday, October 2, 2021
Eastman Wind Ensemble, Eastman Wind Orchestra,
and Eastman School Symphony Orchestra
Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 7:30 PM
Free admission
Sunday, October 3, 2021
Morning Chamber Music
Hatch Recital Hall, 11:00 AM
Free admission
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