In Seaspray, Barefoot

Greg Bartholomew

Denise Stillwell, violin

Yumi Suehiro, piano

Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame with Bruce Curlette

0:51, Op. 51

Javier Pérez Garrido

A Little Serenade, Interrupted

David Bohn

Homage a Papasov

David Dexler

TANGLED

David Morneau

Two-Headed Oro

Nebojsa S Macura

Quintaesencia

Juan María Solare

Wedding Dance

Erik Branch

5+7

A. K. Jaquith

Jaywalking Jackalope

Christiaan Venter

The Fourth World

Sean O’Boyle

Quietly, at Dusk

Peri Mauer

Impromptu

Manuel Torres Arias

Epic

Kenyon WilsoN

Fughetta “One for three”

Vladimir Karpenko

Retrotoots…with a hint of Goodman

Kit Mills

Bruce Curlette, clarinet

Dream of Sailing for alto flute and guitar
i. Foggy Night
ii: In the Storm
iii: Into the Dawn

Masatora Goya

Melanie Chirignan, alto flute

Scott Hill, guitar

Xenium

Faye-Ellen Silverman

Yumi Suehiro, piano

Mary Barto, flute

Run Rabbit Run

Robert Voisey

Yumi Suehiro, piano

Roberta Michel, flute

Dr. Bruce Curlette is an active performer who has been featured on national venues such as the Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium and the national conference for the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors. Dr. Curlette has also taught the clarinet studio at The Ohio State University while its current professor, James Pyne, was on sabbatical. Prior to his tenure at Cedarville, Dr. Curlette was a member of the Grand Rapids Symphony and the Pittsburgh Ballet Orchestra. He received his M.M. degree in clarinet performance from Eastman School of Music in 1981 and his D.M.A. degree in clarinet performance from The Ohio State University in 1991. Dr. Curlette has studied with James M. Pyne, D. Stanley Hasty, Gervase de Peyer, and Carl H.C. Anderson and has been on the Cedarville music faculty since 2001.

Denise Stillwell, violin and viola, has performed throughout the United States, Asia, South America, and Europe as a soloist, chamber and orchestra musician. She has held positions in the Santa Fe and Palm Beach Opera Orchestras, as well as other orchestras and ensembles. She has appeared in MTV videos and on "Live With Regis and Kelly" and "The View", and has recorded and toured with such artists as Placido Domingo, Barbra Streisand, and Don Henley, among others. She holds degrees from The Juilliard School, has recorded for Sony, Epic Records, and Yellow Sound Label, and can be heard in numerous movie soundtracks and TV commercials. Ms. Stillwell performs regularly in Broadway shows and at Radio City Music Hall.

Born in Osaka, Japan, pianist Yumi Suehiro started piano at age 6, and started marimba a year later. Ms. Suehiro has won numerous national and international competitions, including the top prize at the KOBE International Competition in Japan as the youngest winner. In 2007 and 2008, she was invited to perform her debut at the Carnegie Weill recital hall as a winner of AMTL audition, and in following year, she was featured as a guest marimba player in Latin percussionist, Victor Rendon's recoding “Fiesta Percussiva”. Ms. Suehiro won the second prize at Dora Zaslavsky Koch piano concerto competition in Manhattan School of Music where she currently earned Master of Music under the tutelage of Mr. Zenon Fishbein and Dr. Peter Vinograde.

A former member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Mary Barto received Distinguished University Teaching Award from Mannes - New School for Music. Her major teachers include Julius Baker, John C. Krell and Herbert Levy. She has performed with the New York Philharmonic, New York City Opera, New York City Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre. She has toured Western Europe with harpsichordist Eve Kugler and across the United States as soloist for the legendary Skitch Henderson, founder of the New York Pops. She is a member of the New York Five, exclusively performing music composed by their pianist, George Quincy and recorded on Albany Records. She is the Director of the Mannes Extension and Preparatory Division’s Flute Ensembles & soloist with the Extension Division Orchestra. Scott Hill, a native of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, earned an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Lakehead University, and a Masters degree in guitar performance and a Graduate Professional Diploma in chamber performance from the Hartt School of Music. Melanie Chirignan, a native of Hauppauge, NY, earned her Bachelor’s in Music Performance and Music Education graduating cum laude from SUNY Fredonia, and her Master’s Degree in Flute Performance at the Hartt School. The members of this duo have together and individually premiered over 30 works with choir, orchestra, and various ensembles, and has concertized in major halls in North and South America.

Flutist Roberta Michel is an active performer of solo, chamber, and orchestral music. Michel recently won the Artists International Special Presentation Award and was presented in her debut recital at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall for which she was described in the New York Concert Review as a “solid craftsman” who “riveted with her performance, inspiring one to want a repeated hearing”. Michel has performed with groups throughout North America including the Portland StringQuartet, SEM Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, Argento Chamber Ensemble, Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, Cheyenne Symphony, and the Greeley Philharmonic in venues including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tulley Hall, Merkin Hall, and The Kennedy Center. She can be heard on New Dynamic Records and Innova Records.

NPR reviewer Tom Manoff called award-winning composer Greg Bartholomew “a fine composer not afraid of accessibility.” His music is frequently performed throughout the United States and in Europe, Canada and Australia. Five commercial recordings of his works are available, including a 2012 release from trumpeter James Ackley, as well as recordings by the Czech Philharmonic, the Kiev Philharmonic, Connecticut Choral Artists (Concora), the Ars Brunensis Chorus, the Langroise Trio and the 60x60 Project. Bartholomew has been named a Finalist for the 2012 American Prize in Choral Composition and is the 2012/2013 Composer in Residence for the Cascadian Chorale. His music is published by Art of Sound Music, Ars Nova Press, Orpheus Music, and Burke & Bagley. For more: www.gregbartholomew.com.

The Vision of Sound concert is a collaboration between composers, choreographers, dancers and musicians to produce new choreographic works with live music written by composers primarily within the last five years.

Remarkable Theater Brigade founded by Christian McLeer, Dan Jeselsohn and Monica Harte, creates and produces new operas and musicals and takes children's versions out to special-needs and at-risk children free of charge.

Remarkable Theater Brigade creates and produces new works including operas, orchestral pieces, ballets, musicals, and electro-acoustic works and co-produces the Composer's Voice Concert Series concerts. Remarkable Theater Brigade was founded in 2002 by Christian McLeer, Monica Harte, and Dan Jeselsohn.

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