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International
Chamber Series
Presented in
cooperation with the College of Music at the
University of North Texas
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Mountain
Songs |
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Ashley
Mendeke
Flute |
Matthias Lang
Guitar |
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at
7:30 p.m.
Trinity
Presbyterian Church,
5500 Morriss Road,
Flower Mound TX
Map
The concert is FREE.
A donation to the Symphony is appreciated
Carl
Philipp Emanuel
Bach: Hamburger Sonate
G-dur
Robert
Beaser:
Mountain Songs
Barbara Allen
The House
Carpenter
He's Gone Away
Hush You Bye
Cindy
The Cuckoo
Fair And Tender
Ladies
Astor Piazzolla:
Histoire du
Tango
I. Bordel
1900
II. Cafe 1930
III. Night Club
1960 |
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 Ashley Mendeke
University of
North Texas
Presser Scholar,
Ashley Mendeke,
is currently in
her final year
as a Flute
Performance and
Music Education
Major, where she
studies with
Mary Karen
Clardy.
Previously, she
has performed
piccolo as a
member of the
Concert
Orchestra and
Flute with the
Symphonic Band
and is currently
a member of the
UNT Symphony
Orchestra.
Recipient of the
Hispanic
Scholarship
Fund's National
Academic
Scholarship for
three
consecutive
years, Ashley
has also been
awarded music
and academic
scholarships at
UNT, winner of
the Sigma Alpha
Iota Triennial
Performance
Award (woodwind
division),
winner of the
2008-2009 Sigma
Alpha Iota
Denton Alumnae
Chapter's
Performance
Scholarship, and
winner of the
2010 TMTA Young
Artist
Competition.
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Matthias Lang
 Now 28, German
guitarist
Matthias Lang began
playing his
chosen
instrument at
the age of nine.
He got his
Bachelors
degree
and his Artist
Diploma at the Hochschule für
Musik
in Cologne
with
Professor Hubert Käppel.
He
continued his
studies at the
Conservatoire
Royal de Mons in
Belgium with
Professor Odair
Assad, where he
got his Masters
degree. Since
August 2009
Matthias is
currently
enrolled as a
doctorate
student at the
University of
North Texas,
where he also
teaches guitar
lessons as an
assistant
instructor.
He
was
been
awarded
a number of
prizes at
national and
international
guitar
competitions,
recently winning
the 3rd Prize at
the Texas Guitar
Competition in
Dallas in 2010.
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Robert
Beaser
 Robert
Beaser’s
“Mountain Songs”
was nominated
for a Grammy.
The eight
segments include
“Barbara Allen”,
“He’s Gone Way”,
and “Fair and
Tender Ladies”.
Other Beaser
compositions
have been
commissioned by
American and
European
orchestras
including the
New York
Philharmonic and
performers like
Sir James
Galway. His
“Concerto for
Piano and
Orchestra” was
commissioned by
Pamela Mia Paul,
a Lewisville
Lake Symphony
board member,
who premiered
the work with
the St Louis
Symphony under
Leonard Slatkin.
Robert Beaser is
head of the
composition
department at
Julliard. His
works draw from
diverse
influences that
range from jazz
and flamenco to
folk |
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 Astor
Piazzolla
Astor Piazzolla,
brilliant,
iconoclastic
tango musician
and composer,
has become a
national hero in
Argentina and a
cult figure for
classical and
jazz lovers
worldwide, but
only after a
lifetime of
controversy and
struggle. His
only crime was
to revitalize,
if not
revolutionize,
tango—to hear in
the music
possibilities
that others
couldn’t, or
wouldn’t,
imagine. He
dared to compose
tangos that were
not for dancing,
tangos of such
melodic and
rhythmic
complexity that
both worlds,
classical and
popular, would
ultimately claim
him as their
own. |
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