Date: Sunday - Feb 24, 2008
Contact: hpac@andrews.edu
Sunday, February 24, 20084:00 p.m.
$10/$5 Students & Seniors/Free AU Students, Faculty and Staff with ID
Program:
Johan Halvorsen - Passacaglia: Duo for Violin & Cello after Handel's Suite No. 7 in G minor for Harpsichord
Luigi Boccherini - Sonata for Violin & Cello
Maurice Ravel - Sonate pour violon et violoncelle
Zoltán Kodály - Duo for Violino & Violoncello, Op. 7
Violinist Carla Trynchuk and Stephen Framil, cellist are performing works by works by Handel- Halvorsen, Boccherini, Ravel, Kodaly in a faculty/guest recital.
Canadian violinist Carla Trynchuk has performed as soloist with orchestras throughout North America, including the Calgary Philharmonic (Alberta, Canada), Civic Orchestra of Tucson (AZ), Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Portland, OR), Durham Chamber Orchestra (Ontario, Canada), Kamloops Symphony Orchestra (British Columbia, Canada), LaPorte Symphony Orchestra (IN), Manchester Symphony Orchestra (IN), New Westminster Symphony Orchestra (British Columbia, Canada), Oakville Symphony Orchestra (Ontario, Canada), Rockland Festival Orchestra (NY), St. Charles County Symphony (MO), San Marcos Symphony Orchestra (Chandler, AZ), Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Southwest Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, Town and Country Symphony (MO), and Thayer Symphony Orchestra (MA).
Internationally, Ms. Trynchuk has performed as soloist with orchestras throughout Europe, including the Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania), Banatul Philharmonic Orchestra (Timisora, Romania), Bostani Philharmonic (Romania), Oltenia Philharmonic (Craiova, Romania), Iasi Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania), and the National Philharmonic Orchestra (Moldova).
During the 2003-04 season, Ms. Trynchuk collaborated with Maestro Paul Freeman and Czech National Philharmonic Orchestra in the world premiere recording of Tibor Serly Concerto for Violin for distribution on the Albany label in Spring 2005. Other performances include her third appearance with the Scottsdale Symphony Orchestra (AZ) in March 2005.
Ms. Trynchuk has been a featured performer on both United States and Canadian radio and television, and Australian radio. As recitalist, she has performed throughout Europe, Asia, and North America, including New York City at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.
An advocate of music by contemporary composers, Ms. Trynchuk gave the premiere recording of Kittyhawk by U.S. composer Randall Davidson in April 2001, and performed Robert MacBride's Violin Concerto ("Variety Day") during her second appearance with the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra-Tucson in April 2003.
A graduate of The Juilliard School of Music in New York City, Ms. Trynchuk was granted the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees studying under the legendary pedagogue Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang.
Ms. Trynchuk is Professor of Music and Director of the String Program at Andrews University, Michigan, where she was the recipient of the 2000 Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity. She has previously served as Faculty-Artist at Hot Springs Music Festival (AK), and Rockland Summer Institute (NY). In addition, she has given master classes worldwide, and served as adjudicator for string and chamber music competitions and festivals throughout United States and Canada.
Distinguished as "the first American cellist to perform in Hanoi" (HANOI CONSERVATORY), "There are no words to describe the dazzling technique and bravura of American cellist Stephen Framil, as he played Dvorak's Cello Concerto. His tone, warm and glowing, is positively brilliant. Suffice is to say, he is the very best cellist I have ever heard perform - and I have heard many." (THE MANILA BULLETIN). Of Stephen Framil’s Carnegie Hall debut, Harris Goldsmith (THE NEW YORK CONCERT REVIEW) remarks: "The first purling made an auspicious impression. Framil was very much a Starker disciple, bowing an aristocratic line and projecting a crystalline spot-on, pure intonation. I especially liked the plasticity occasionally introduced to temper the prevailing virtuosic brilliance with necessary repose. This afternoon installment was one to brighten a reviewer's heart."
Critically acclaimed and in demand the world over, Stephen Framil has appeared as concert soloist in Carnegie Weill and Avery Fisher Halls (New York), with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra (Hungary), Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra (Italy Tour), Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra (Russia), Manila Philharmonic Orchestra (Philippines), National Philharmonic of Moldova, Oltenia State Filarmonica (Romania), Hong Kong City Hall, Zaporozhye Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine), Vratza Philharmonic Orchestra (Bulgaria), Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra, Bombay Chamber Orchestra (India), Camerata Philadelphia, Redlands Symphony Orchestra (California), Nashville Chamber Orchestra (Tennessee), Philadelphia Orchestra Society, Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series (“Live” Broadcast on WFMT - Chicago), Old First Concerts (San Francisco), Brunei Music Society, and the Hong Kong Chamber Music Society, among others.
As an educator, Dr. Stephen Framil (Indiana University, DM) has given masterclasses in cello and chamber music around the world: including the Shanghai Conservatory (China), Yong Siew Toh Conservatory (Singapore), University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), DePaul University (Chicago), Longy School of Music (Boston), Vanderbilt University/Blair School of Music (Nashville), University of Arizona, University of Reno, University of Delaware, Volgograd Conservatory (Russia), Hong Kong University, Moldova Academy of Music, Zaporoahye Conservatory (Ukraine), Silliman University (Philippines), and the Hanoi Conservatory (Vietnam), among others.
Recordings by Stephen Framil for RADIO 4 HONG KONG include the complete J.S. Bach Suites for Solo Cello, as well as the works for solo cello by Zoltán Kodály and Gaspar Cassadó. In 2004 Framil won first prize in the CONTEMPORARY RECORD SOCIETY Competition for Performing Artists. In April 2006 he recorded the two Haydn Cello Concertos with the Paul Freeman and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra (CENTAUR RECORDS).