BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Faculty & Guest Recital: Gwen Krosnick ('08)\, cello and Lee D ionne\, piano X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T024440Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_2515662 DTSTART:20170222T010000Z DTEND:20170222T030000Z DESCRIPTION:Watch the webcast! This event will be streamed live at the time of the event.\n\nA faculty recital by Gwen Krosnick ('08)\, cello and Lee Dionne\, piano.\n\nProgram:\n\nAdagio and Allegro\, Op. 70 Robert Schumann\n\n \n\nFigment No. 1 for cello alone (1994) Elliott Car ter\n\n \n\nSonata No. 2 in F Major\, Op. 99 Johannes Brahms\n\n Allegro vivace \n\n Adagio affettuoso\n\n A llegro passionato\n\n Allegro molto\n\n \n\n-Intermission-\n\n \n\ nPrelude and Scherzando for cello and piano* Ralph Shapey\n\n \n\n Sonata in C Major for cello and piano\, Op. 119 Sergei Prokofiev\n \n Andante grave \n\n Moderato\n\n Allegro\, ma non troppo\n\n \n\n* 2001\; written for Krosnick\n\n--\n\nDescribed by the Daily Forward as “an exuberantly gifted cellist\,” Gwen Krosnick has played across the world as a joyous communicator and advocate of music . In her life as a chamber musician\, educator\, and concert presenter\, K rosnick creates space for audiences to connect and react\; champions serio us contemporary music\; and – through her thoughtful\, adventurous progr amming – encourages a lively dialogue between great pieces of music\, ol d and new. Krosnick’s 2016-2017 season includes an exciting mix of recit als (with pianist Lee Dionne)\, chamber music collaborations (including co ncerts in Vermont and Maine featuring Kneisel Hall faculty and alumni)\, d ebuting a new concert series (The Boston Beethoven Cycle) at home in Bosto n\, and serving on the faculty at Oberlin Conservatory as Visiting Instruc tor of Cello.\n\nKrosnick was the founding cellist of Trio Cleonice and pe rformed with them across the United States\, Europe\, and Asia. A review i n the group’s final year said of Krosnick: “Her playing is marked by a passionate temperament and a strong\, rich sound\, as well as a formidabl e technique. She acts the music with her expressive face and body\; in fac t\, she becomes the music” (The Reading Eagle). In the trio’s eight se asons together\, they appeared at venues such as Jordan Hall in Boston\, t he Kennedy Center in Washington\, D.C.\, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterda m\, and garnered top prizes at the Schoenfeld and Arriaga Chamber Music Co mpetitions.\n\nAlongside these performances\, the group began a community chamber music series – Trio Cleonice & Friends\, in its home base of Bro okline\, Massachusetts – of which Krosnick was Artistic Director. A Bost on Globe review said that the series had the “informal charm of a house concert\, the vast programming range of festivals like Yellow Barn\, and p laying that was\, at its best\, bracingly expressive”\; Trill.me praised TC&F as “one of the most interesting and committed chamber series in Bo ston right now\, exploring the repertoire from top to bottom\, left to rig ht\, with an impressive roster of collaborators.” Along with curating th ese guest artists and programs\, Krosnick performed extensively on the con certs\, and received glowing praise in the Boston Globe for her artistry: “The concert’s lodestar was the cellist Gwen Krosnick…The younger Kr osnick\, who played gorgeously throughout\, had a preponderance of the [Sc hubert] Quintet’s big melodies and looked as if there was no place she w ould rather be.” \n\nKrosnick’s newest playing-curating project is The Boston Beethoven Cycle\, which features a chronological voyage through Be ethoven’s complete string quartets over the course of three seasons. Kro snick is a ferocious and exuberant advocate of new music\; and the series\ , to that end\, presents Beethoven’s revolutionary quartets alongside so lo contemporary masterworks by Ralph Shapey\, Elliott Carter\, Donald Mart ino\, John Harbison\, Roger Sessions\, Tibor Pustzai\, Andrew Norman\, Chr istopher Theofanidis\, Richard Wernick\, and Thea Musgrave.\n\nKrosnick ha s premiered works written for her by Richard Wernick (two Suites for Unacc ompanied Cello\, his Piano Trio No. 2\, and his two-cello work\, Sonata fo r Two) and Ralph Shapey (Prelude and Scherzando for Cello and Piano). Advo cacy for these pieces and for other new music – programming under-perfor med works\, giving pre-concert talks\, and commissioning new pieces involv ing the cello – is a constant for her\, and a long-term goal. Krosnick ’s mission to engage a wide audience in a passionate dialogue about musi c includes her frequent writing\, both formal and informal\, which appears online and in print publications. She is a regular contributor to Strings magazine and – in addition to introducing works from the stage\, which she loves – writes program notes for concert series and for her own reci tals. (A recent review described the way in which “her vivid\, rhapsodic program notes enhanced the performance.”)\n\nKrosnick studied at Oberli n College and Conservatory\, where she received a Bachelor of Music Degree as a cello student of Darrett Adkins and Dmitry Kouzov in addition to a B achelor of Arts degree in Russian Language and Literature. She most recent ly studied with Natasha Brofsky at the New England Conservatory\, where sh e received a Master’s degree and coached with Vivian Weilerstein. Krosni ck spent many summers at Kneisel Hall and Greenwood Music Camp\; she was a longtime participant at Yellow Barn\, where she collaborated with artists such as Anthony Marwood\, Violaine Melançon\, Maria Lambros\, Alan Kay\, and Donald Weilerstein. Krosnick’s central musical influence\, since ch ildhood\, was the Juilliard String Quartet: her father\, the cellist Joel Krosnick\, as well as the quartet members whose playing she heard live gro wing up – Robert Mann\, Joel Smirnoff\, Ronald Copes\, and Samuel Rhodes . Her other most impactful teachers included the great pianist Seymour Lip kin\, violinists Laurie Smukler\, Mark Sokol\, and Geoff Nuttall\, and mus ic theorist Brian Alegant. \n\nAway from the cello\, Krosnick’s focus mi mics her joyously-varied musical life: she is Mom to Anya\, a wonderful Au stralian Shepherd rescue puppy\; continues her Russian language studies\; practices yoga\, reiki\, and meditation\; and is a passionate and accompli shed home cook – specializing in classic\, mostly-vegetarian\, intensely -flavorful Italian food.\n\n(Photo credit: Kaitlyn Ferris)\n\n--\n\nPianis t Lee Dionne holds passion\, imagination and play at the core of his artis try. Currently based in NYC\, Lee enjoys an active career as both a solois t and chamber musician\, performing frequently as a core member of Cantata Profana and with Ensemble Connect (formerly Ensemble ACJW\, a joint progr am of Carnegie Hall\, the Juilliard School\, and the Weill Institute). Thr ough this last organization as well as his own freelance work\, Lee cultiv ates a particular interest in creating performances that help audiences fo rm personally relevant connections with music. His experience here has ran ged from presentations tying performance to analysis for audiences of musi cologists — to short introductions of specific pieces for elementary sch ool classrooms.\n\nLee has performed in venues throughout the US and aroun d the world\, including solo appearances in Weill Hall\, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam\, and the Philharmonic in Bratislava. As a chamber musician\ , he has appeared at the Staunton Music Festival\, Yellow Barn Music Festi val\, and Norfolk Summer Music. Lee’s performances have been broadcast l ive on NPR\, Britain’s Classic FM\, Holland’s Classic FM\, and Portuga l’s Antena 2\, and he has made commercial recordings for MSR Records and Naxos.\n\nLee is currently a doctoral candidate of the Yale School of Mus ic and a candidate for the soloist diploma from the Hochschule für Musik\ , Medien\, und Theater in Hannover\, Germany. He holds an MM and MMA in Pi ano Performance from the Yale School of Music and a BA in literature from Yale College. His major teachers and influences have been Boris Berman\, W ei-Yi Yang\, Matti Raekallio\, Patricia Zander\, Arthur Haas\, Michael Fri edmann\, Paul Berry\, and Wilma Machover. GEO:41.290924;-82.219676 LOCATION:David H. Stull Recital Hall SUMMARY:Faculty & Guest Recital: Gwen Krosnick ('08)\, cello and Lee Dionne \, piano URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/faculty_recital_gwen_krosn ick_08_cello_and_lee_dionne_piano CATEGORIES:Music END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR