Boston University musicians perform at Carnegie Hall
Per Boston University’s recent announcement, all College of Fine Arts events have been canceled and classes have moved to remote teaching and learning for the balance of the spring semester and final exams.
In an exciting new initiative of Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music, a group of BU student musicians have the opportunity to perform in one of Carnegie Hall’s famed recital halls.
This concert at New York City’s renowned Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall features a select group of seniors in a unique capstone experience for their final undergraduate semester, along with an exceptional cohort of graduate students. All performers participated in an extensive competition and selection process run by CFA School of Music to secure a spot.
Artistic Director of the initiative, Professor Michelle LaCourse, oversaw the process and creative guidelines to identify and select performers, along with chairs of the Performance & Applied Studies departments. The performers for the spring 2020 concert were selected after participating in a multi-stage competition in the fall of 2019, when each applied department within CFA School of Music (Voice, Piano, Strings, Woodwinds, Brass, and Percussion) held preliminary auditions open to seniors and graduate student performers. Finalists selected from each department competed before a panel of outside adjudicators, all renowned performing musicians. Finally, a slate of performers and a program was crafted under the curatorship of the director of the School of Music, Gregory Melchor-Barz.
These exceptional Boston University musicians will take to the stage that has hosted world-class, top tier soloists and performing groups from prestigious musical organizations who regularly perform in Carnegie’s various concert series. BU at Carnegie Hall shines a spotlight on BU’s College of Fine Arts and School of Music dynamic community of artists. Learn more at bu.edu/cfa/bu-at-carnegie-hall.
DATE AND TIME
Friday, March 20, 2020
7:30pm
LOCATION
Carnegie Hall
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Seventh Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets
STUDENT PERFORMERS
Caroline Bourg (BM’20), soprano
Pierre-Nicolas Colombat (DMA’21), piano
Owen Dodds (MM’20), piano
Michael Duffett (DMA’22), violin
Olivia Iverson (BM’20), flute
Celeste Johnson (DMA’20), piano
Eleni Kotzabassis (MM’20), soprano
Freya Liu (BM’20), violin
Daniel Neyman (DMA’21), piano
Jisun Oh (DMA’21), flute
Fabio Silva Peixoto (DMA’22), violin
Zhuqing Zhang (DMA’21), viola
Douglas Sumi, piano
Program
Late Summer (2001) – Tom Cipullo (b. 1956)
- Crickets
- As Summer Into Autumn Slips
- Touch Me
Caroline Bourg, soprano
Celeste Johnson, piano
Image, Op. 38 – Eugène Bozza (1905-1991)
Olivia Iverson, flute
Sonata in D Minor, Op. 27 No. 3 “Ballade” – Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931)
Freya Liu, violin
Sonata in A Major, Op. 100 – Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
I. Allegro amabile
Fabio Silva Peixoto, violin
Owen Dodds, piano
Miserere du Trovatore de Verdi, S. 433 – Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Daniel Neyman, piano
La Campanella – Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840)
arr. William Primrose (1904-1982)
Zhuqing Zhang, viola
Douglas Sumi, piano
Sechs Lieder, Op. 1 – Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
II. Wanderlied
VI.Gondellied
Eleni Kotzabassis, soprano
Pierre-Nicolas Colombat, piano
Tzigane – Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Michael Duffett, violin
Douglas Sumi, piano
Grand Polonaise in D Major, Op. 16 – Theobald Boehm (1794-1881)
Jisun Oh, flute
Douglas Sumi, piano
Directions and Parking
Carnegie Hall is located at 57th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan.
Zankel Hall entrance: Seventh Avenue between 56th and 57th streets.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Founded in 1872, Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music combines the intimacy and intensity of traditional conservatory-style training with a broad liberal arts education at the undergraduate level, and elective coursework at the graduate level. The school offers degrees in performance, conducting, composition and theory, musicology, music education, and historical performance, as well as artist and performance diplomas and a certificate program in its Opera Institute.