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The Idyllwild Arts Music Department presents a guest artist recital with musicians Caroline Chin and Laura Melton in the beautiful William M. Lowman Concert Hall on campus. The performance will feature performances of:Claude Debussy: Sonata in G Minor for violin and piano (1917)
Allegro vivo
Intermède. Fantasque et léger
Finale. Très animé
Lili Boulanger: Deux Morceaux (1917)
Nocturne
Cortège
Christopher Dietz: Morra (2023)
Heavy, solid
Suspended, fluid
Tarantella
Jennifer Higdon: String Poetic (2006)
Jagged Climb
Nocturne
Blue Hills of Mist
Maze Mechanical
Climb Jagged
Laura Melton, Professor of Piano at Bowling Green State University, has won competitions and awards including the Mendelssohn Competition in Berlin and a Fulbright Grant for study in Germany (Freiburg Musikhochschule). She has performed with major orchestras including the National Symphony Orchestra (Kennedy Center in Washington, DC), the San Francisco Chamber Players, and the Toledo Symphony, and has been featured on Südwestfunk Radio (Germany), Kol Israel, Radio Nacional de España and National Public Radio’s Performance Today in celebration of the birthday of composers, John Corigliano and Samuel Adler. Melton received rave reviews for her Naxos American Classics Series CD, Solo Piano Works of Sebastian Currier. Gramophone hailed her as “an artist who can tame formidable technical beasts and bring colorful delineation to a multiplicity of moods and textures. The New York Times praised her playing as “expressive and with dexterous flair.” Her principal teachers included Nelita True, John Perry and Robert Levin. A graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and student of Michael Coonrod, Melton taught at the Interlochen Arts Camp for 12 years and the Idyllwild Arts Academy from 1993-99. Her students have won numerous competitions and awards and have continued their studies in programs such as Juilliard, Peabody, Eastman, Oberlin, New England Conservatory, and Curtis.
Described by Time Out New York as “Incisive, industrious, and creatively restless…” Caroline Eva Chin gave her solo debut at age 12 and has concertized throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia where her performances have taken her to Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Kennedy Center, and the White House. An avid chamber musician, Chin has been featured as a guest artist at numerous music festivals including the Scotia Music Festival in Canada, 2 Rivers Festival in the UK, Consonances Festival in France, and the Schiermonnikoog Chamber Music Festival in Holland where she has collaborated with Charles Neidich, Nobuko Imai, Piers Lane, and Colin Carr. An advocate of new music, she has performed works of composers Jennifer Higdon, Aaron Jay Kernis, Jessie Montgomery, Richard Carrick, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Paul Moravec. Recordings include the world premiere of Elliott Carter’s Tre Duetti for Violin and Cello on Centaur Records as well as recordings on Avie Records, Somm Records, and New World Records. She has given performances and master classes at universities and colleges throughout the U.S. including Oberlin Conservatory, New York University, University of North Texas, University of Colorado-Boulder and Michigan State University. Ms. Chin is Associate Professor of Violin at Bowling Green State University’s College of Musical Arts and on the faculty of the Brevard Music Center Festival.
If you’re unable to attend in person, please join the livestream link below!
https://idyllwildarts.zoom.us/j/91013411198
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Idyllwild Arts, 52500 Temecula Rd #38,Idyllwild, California, United States