rofessional Concert Series
rofessional Concert Series
Program:
Suite No.1 in G Major for Solo Cello
J.S. Bach
Sonata for Cello and Piano
Francis Poulenc
F Major Sonata for Cello and Piano
Johannes Brahms
Washington Conservatory of Music presents
Sunday, November 22 at 3 pm
Westmoreland Congregational
United Church of Christ
One Westmoreland Circle, Bethesda, MD 20816
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Cello Master Class with Steven Doane:
Saturday, November 21, 2 pm at Glen Echo Park
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Steven Doane
Internationally known as soloist, chamber musician, and master teacher, cellist Steven Doane maintains an active schedule of performances throughout the US and overseas. He travels frequently to the United Kingdom for recitals, clinics, and master classes, and has performed concertos in recent seasons in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Dublin, Ireland.
Recital appearances as duo partner with pianist Barry Snyder have included concerts at New York's Alice Tully Hall, Boston's Sanders Theatre, two recitals at London's Wigmore Hall, and numerous other engagements in the US and UK. The second in a series of recordings for the Bridge label with Mr. Snyder (works by Benjamin Britten and Frank Bridge) won a 1996 NAIRD award in the US music press, and the Bridge Sonata was declared "the best performance on record" by BBC Music Magazine. An earlier disc on the Bridge label of the complete works for cello and piano by Fauré received a "petit Diapason d'Or" from the French recording press.
Mr. Doane is a member of the Los Angeles Piano Quartet and is currently Professor of Cello at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where he has taught for 25 years. Between 1995 and 1999, Mr. Doane was an associate in cello at the Royal College of Music in London, and, following a series of master classes at the Royal Academy in London, has been named visiting professor by that institution.
Michael Adcock
Hailed for his prodigious technique, and praised by the Washington Post for an
“unusually fresh and arresting approach to the piano,” pianist Michael Adcock
has cultivated a versatile career as soloist, chamber musician, and pre-concert
lecturer. Recipient of the 1998 Lili Boulanger Memorial Award, Mr. Adcock was
also a prizewinner in the 1996 Washington International Competition, as well as
the Kosciusko Foundation Chopin Competitions in Chicago and New York.
Performing throughout the United States, Mr. Adcock has also pursued his
career in France, Italy, and Australia. He gave his Carnegie Recital Hall debut in
December of 1998.
A native of Virginia, Michael Adcock attended secondary school at the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he received the Irwin Freundlich Memorial Piano Award. Mr. Adcock took his Bachelor’s degree from the Oberlin College-Conservatory, where he graduated Pi Kappa Lambda. At Oberlin, he was twice awarded the Kaufmann Prize in chamber music and received the Hurlbutt Award as most outstanding graduating senior in the conservatory. Mr. Adcock earned Master’s, Artist Diploma, and Doctoral degrees from the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, where he studied with Leon Fleisher and Ellen Mack. At Peabody, Mr. Adcock was a prizewinner in the Yale Gordon and Harrison Winter Concerto Competitions, in addition to being an adjunct member of the theory and chamber music faculties.
A former Artist-in-Residence at the Aspen Institute (MD), Michael Adcock now makes his home in Washington, DC, and is a faculty member of the Washington Conservatory of Music in Bethesda. Mr. Adcock has been associated with many local chamber series and summer festivals and was for 17 years a faculty member of the Musicorda Festival. Currently associate piano faculty at the Sarasota Music Festival, Mr. Adcock is also artistic director of the Chalice Concert Series in Columbia, MD. Notable musicians with whom Mr. Adcock has collaborated include Denyce Graves, Ani Kavafian, Gervase dePeyer, Phillip Muller, David Jolley, James Buswell, and the St. Petersburg String Quartet.
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