Sunday, February 23rd and Monday 24th
Recital: 7:30 pm, Sunday February 23rd, Recital Hall, MB I
Master Class: 10:00 am, Monday February 24th, Recital Hall, MB I
Master Class: 10:00 am, Monday February 24th, Recital Hall, MB I
Carol Rodland, enjoys a distinguished international career as a concert and recording artist and teacher. First prize winner of the Washington International Competition, and winner of the Artists International Auditions and the Universal Editions Prize at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, she made her solo debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra as a teenager. Critics describe her playing as “larger than life, sweetly in tune, infinitely variegated”, and “delicious” (Fanfare Magazine).Ms. Rodland’s performance calendar includes regular collaborations with her sister, organist Catherine Rodland as the Rodland Duo. She also has longstanding partnerships with pianists Marcantonio Barone and Tatevik Mokatsian, and with cellist Scott Kluksdahl. Recent engagements have included recitals throughout the United States and Europe as well as chamber music collaborations with the Boston Chamber Music Society in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts and the Central Chamber Series and the Ukrainian Institute of America Concert Series in New York City. Recent festival appearances have included the Halcyon Chamber Music Festival, the Craftsbury Chamber Players and the Portland Chamber Music Festival. She has also been a frequent guest with various string quartets, including the Henschel Quartett and the Borromeo Quartet.A passionate advocate for contemporary music, Ms. Rodland has commissioned, premiered, and recorded new works by Kenji Bunch, Dan Coleman, Adolphus Hailstork, David Liptak, Christopher Theofanidis, and Augusta Read Thomas. Her recordings on the Crystal and Neumarecord labels have been critically acclaimed.A dedicated and much sought-after teacher, Ms. Rodland is Professor of Viola and Chamber Music at the Juilliard School. She is also an artist-faculty member at the Perlman Music Program, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the Karen Tuttle Coordination Workshop. Previous positions have included professorships at the Eastman School of Music, where she was also Co-Chair of the String Department, at New England Conservatory, where she was recognized in 2005 with the “Louis and Adrienne Krasner Award for Excellence in Teaching”, at Berlin’s “Hanns Eisler” Hochschule, and at Arizona State University. Recent guest teaching residencies have included master classes in the United Kingdom at the Royal College of Music in London, in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Saarbrücken and atthe Universität der Kunste in Berlin, in Norway at the Valdres Sommersymfoni, in Tel Aviv Israel with the Perlman Music Program, and in the United States at San Francisco Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, Boston Conservatory, New England Conservatory ,IndianaUniversity, University of Michigan, Rice University’s Shepherd School, and the Walnut Hill School for the Arts. She has also served as a jury member, master class clinician, and featured recitalist at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and Workshop at the Isle of Man, United Kingdom and at the Primrose International Viola Competition and Festival in the United States.Ms. Rodland is the founder of “If Music Be the Food...”, a benefit concert series created in 2009 to increase awareness and support for the hungry in the local community through the sharing of great music. Teaching music students about the importance of utilizing their art for service in their communities is also part of the series’ mission. “If Music Be the Food...” is a fully volunteer endeavor; all of the musicians donate their services, the venues donate the performance spaces, and audience members bring food or cash donations for the local food bank as the price of admission. “If Music Be the Food...” has inspired other prominent musicians in the US to implement initiatives based on this concept in their own communities.Ms. Rodland holds Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees from the Juilliard School, where she studied on full scholarship with Karen Tuttle and was the winner of the Juilliard Concerto Competition and Juilliard’s Lillian Fuchs Prize. She also received an Aufbaustudium Diplom awarded with distinction from the Musikhochschule Freiburg, Germany, where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar and Beebe Fund Grantee with Kim Kashkashian. She had the unique privilegeof serving as teaching assistant to both of her mentors. For further information, please visit www.carolrodland.com and www.ifmusicbethefood.com.
American pianist Marcantonio Barone has given solo recitals at the Metropolitan Museum and Weill Recital Hall in New York, at the National Gallery in Washington, on the recital series of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, at the Ravinia Festival and San Francisco’s Midsummer Mozart Festival, at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Rachmaninoff Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Filarmoniya, and in various cities in Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Malta. From the 1970s, through the ’90s, he frequently performed as soloist with major orchestras on four continents, in collaboration with such conductors as Antonio de Almeida, Sergiu Comissiona, Leon Fleisher, Arthur Fiedler, Sir Simon Rattle, Barry Tuckwell, and Vladimir Ziva.
He has given the world premieres of works for piano by Ingrid Arauco, Richard Brodhead, David Finko, Ulysses Kay, Gerald Levinson, Philip Maneval, George Rochberg, Andrew Rudin, and Melinda Wagner. As a member of Orchestra 2001, he was the pianist for the first performances and recordings of the seven volumes of George Crumb’s monumental American Songbook. With the musicians of Orchestra 2001, he has performed in Russia, Denmark, Great Britain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and China, introducing recent American works to international audiences.
As a chamber musician, Mr. Barone performs as a member of the Lenape Chamber Ensemble, 1807 and Friends, the Casimir Trio, and the Craftsbury Chamber Players. He also appears frequently as a guest artist with the Wister Quartet.
He is head of the piano department and assistant director of the Bryn Mawr Conservatory of Music, where he has taught since 1980. He is also an Associate in Performance at Swarthmore College, where he teaches piano, keyboard musicianship, and chamber music.
Marcantonio Barone studied with Eleanor Sokoloff at the Curtis Institute of Music and with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where he was awarded the Artist Diploma in 1985. Among his other teachers were Harriet Elsom Rothstein, Taylor Redden, Susan Starr, and Leonard Shure.
Mr. Barone is a Steinway Artist. His recordings are available on the Albany, Bridge, Capstone, Centaur, and CRI labels. He and violinist Barbara Govatos received the 2012 Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award of the Classical Recording Foundation for their recording of Beethoven’s ten sonatas for violin and piano.
He has given the world premieres of works for piano by Ingrid Arauco, Richard Brodhead, David Finko, Ulysses Kay, Gerald Levinson, Philip Maneval, George Rochberg, Andrew Rudin, and Melinda Wagner. As a member of Orchestra 2001, he was the pianist for the first performances and recordings of the seven volumes of George Crumb’s monumental American Songbook. With the musicians of Orchestra 2001, he has performed in Russia, Denmark, Great Britain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and China, introducing recent American works to international audiences.
As a chamber musician, Mr. Barone performs as a member of the Lenape Chamber Ensemble, 1807 and Friends, the Casimir Trio, and the Craftsbury Chamber Players. He also appears frequently as a guest artist with the Wister Quartet.
He is head of the piano department and assistant director of the Bryn Mawr Conservatory of Music, where he has taught since 1980. He is also an Associate in Performance at Swarthmore College, where he teaches piano, keyboard musicianship, and chamber music.
Marcantonio Barone studied with Eleanor Sokoloff at the Curtis Institute of Music and with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where he was awarded the Artist Diploma in 1985. Among his other teachers were Harriet Elsom Rothstein, Taylor Redden, Susan Starr, and Leonard Shure.
Mr. Barone is a Steinway Artist. His recordings are available on the Albany, Bridge, Capstone, Centaur, and CRI labels. He and violinist Barbara Govatos received the 2012 Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award of the Classical Recording Foundation for their recording of Beethoven’s ten sonatas for violin and piano.
