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At his Sept. 13 faculty recital, clarinetist Andrew Seigel will perform five works on three different clarinets.
- Easley Blackwood’s “Sonatina for Piccolo Clarinet and Piano” will be played on the small E-flat clarinet.
- Hungarian composer Kamillo Lendvay’s “Respectfully yours, Mr. Goodman!” (an hommage to the jazz great Benny Goodman) will be performed on the traditional B-flat clarinet.
- Paul Ben-Haim’s “Three Songs Without Words” will be played on bass clarinet.
The second half of the program features a relatively new work, Derek Bermel’s “SchiZm.”
The program concludes with Mozart’s popular Trio, K. 498, sometimes called the “Kegelstatt” trio.
Joining Andrew will be pianist I-Fei Chen-Markham and violist David Rose.
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Bios:
Dr. Andrew Seigel is the Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He recently joined the faculty of SUNY Fredonia following positions at Southeastern Louisiana University, Michigan State University, Albion College, and Spring Arbor University.
Seigel’s scholarly and musical pursuits has taken him around the world. He studied with Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr at Michigan State University as a Distinguished Fellow. Two years as a Fulbright Scholar in Budapest allowed him to attend Hungary’s Franz Liszt Academy of Music, where he worked with clarinetists Tibor Dittrich and Jozsef Balogh and composer Istvan Lang. Originally from California, Seigel received degrees from California State University - Fresno, where he studied with Miles Ishigaki. Additionally, he has had the privilege of working with Australian clarinetist Peter Jenkin, British scholar Colin Lawson and American virtuosi Charles Neidich and Ted Oien.
Dr. Seigel currently serves as the second clarinetist of the Western New York Chamber Orchestra, and also plays with the Erie Philharmonic. Prior to arriving in New York, he performed in orchestras throughout the country. Most recently, he held chairs in the Baton Rouge and Gulf Coast Symphonies. He played bass and Eb clarinet with the Grand Rapids Symphony, recording a number of compact discs and performing with them on their 2005 anniversary tour to New York City’s Carnegie Hall. He has also performed with the West Shore Symphony, Symphony Northshore, the Mobile Symphony, the Acadiana Symphony the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra, the Jackson Symphony Orchestra, the Fresno Philharmonic, the Orpheus Chamber Ensemble and the Tulare Symphony.
Dr. Seigel has performed recitals throughout the US and in Hungary, Germany, and Romania. He has appeared as a soloist with ensembles in New York, California, Michigan and Louisiana, and was a featured performer at the 1998 Fulbright Musical Gala in Berlin, Germany.
As a chamber musician, Dr. Seigel plays in the Fredonia Woodwind Quintet. He also performs as half of The Silverwind Duo with his wife, flutist Nicole McPherson. The Duo’s recent recording “American Kaliedoscope,” was just released on the Emeritus label. It features premiere recordings of works by Sy Brandon, Jane Brockman and Robert Wykes.
Dr. Seigel is an active performer, clinician and adjudicator. He has recently has given clinics NYSSMA Winter Conferences and the College Music Society’s Regional Conference. He performed and presented research at the International Clarinet Association’s 2008 ClarinetFest in Kansas City, and will be performing in Austin, TX at the 2010 ClarinetFest. During the summer, he is a faculty artist at the New England Music Camp in Maine.
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I-Fei Chen joined the faculty of SUNY - Fredonia as departmental accompanist in 2008.
A native of Taipei, Taiwan, Ms. Chen has pursued the unusual goal of achieving success on both piano and clarinet, along the way winning numerous awards and giving solo, chamber and orchestral performances throughout the United States and abroad. Her more than 20 years of experience as an accompanist began early in her studies, touring Asia with numerous vocalists, before coming to America where she has appeared with the United States Air Force Concert Band and with members of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. While living in the San Francisco Bay area she was the staff accompanist for the University of California - Berkeley Chorus and vocal studios and the Alvin Ailey summer dance group and Berkeley Opera. She appeared as a soloist in performances of Stravinsky's Les Noces at both UC - Berkeley and UC - Davis, and was accompanist in a series of recitals and master classes featuring William Bolcom and Joan Morris.
She earned a Bachelor's Degree in clarinet performance from the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Steven Barta. In 2000, she completed her Master's Degree in clarinet performance with John Weigand at West Virginia University where she won first prize in the Young Artist Concerto Competition. She appeared regularly with the West Virginia University Faculty Chamber Group and the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra. In 2002, she earned a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory. She appeared in concert in Oakland, CA with world renowned pianist Jeno Jando in 2006.
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David Rose was born in Regina, Saskatchewan and there began his early musical education and violin study. At the suggestion of his first teacher, Ernest Kassian, David switched to the viola at age 12 and immediately enjoyed the deep, warm sound of this new instrument. A few years later, he became a member of the Regina Symphony Orchestra. David's principal teachers have been Gerald Stanick at the University of British Columbia, and Atar Arad at Indiana University, both of whom guided him to a greater love for music and the viola. His interest in orchestral and chamber music led to association with the Vancouver Symphony, the CBC Vancouver Orchestra, and many chamber music series from coast to coast in Canada, including the Vetta Chamber Ensemble in Vancouver, the Ottawa Chamber music Festival and the summer festival of New Brunswick. Upon graduation, David was awarded the position of associate principal viola of the Vancouver Symphony. He served for eight seasons as principal viola of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and violist with the Canadian Chamber Ensemble, as well as teaching at the University of Waterloo. Also greatly interested in performance on period instruments, David studied baroque viola with John Sawyer and Stanley Ritchie. He was a member of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and performs and tours frequently with Toronto's Tafelmusik. Most recently, David served as the acting assistant principal viola of the San Francisco Symphony, enjoying involvement in a European tour and the grammy winning Mahler symphony recording cycle.
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