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Artistic Direction: Giuseppe Nova, Jeffrey Silberschlag, Larry E. Vote
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Giuseppe Nova
The Washington Post defined flautist Giuseppe Nova’s performance in the American capital as “charming.” Other critics have commented on his “enlightened performance,” “extraordinary musical sense” (I Giornale), and“refined musicality” (The Sunday Times, Malta). His playing has been described as “musical art at its perfection” (Nice Matin), “a genius mode dialogue,” and “simply divine” (UK concert reviews).
Described as one of the outstanding Italian flautists of his generation, Mr. Nova made his debut in 1982 as a soloist with the RAI Symphony Orchestra after graduating from the Conservatory in Turin and Conservatoire Superieur de Lyon, studying with Maxence Larrieu. This marked the beginning of a brilliant career that has led him to hold concerts and master classes throughout Europe, the United States, Japan, and China. He has performed in the top concert halls and festivals such as Suntory Hall of Tokyo, Parco della Musica di Roma, Beijing Central Conservatore, Kyoto University, and Umbria Jazz.
As one of the most eagerly sought after teachers, Mr. Nova has taught at the national Conservatory, at the Accademia Superiore in Pescara, and at the Scuola di Alto Perferzionamento in Saluzzo. He was guest teacher at the Geneva Conservatory and at the Koblenz Musiktage, where he worked alongside Jean-Pierre Rampal. His recordings have been broadcast by Radio3, Rai1, RAI Sat, Washington Public Television, China Radio International, and RTSI.
He currently teaches at the Aosta Music Foundation and is Visiting Artist at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, USA. He has recorded extensively and in 2006 he started a new collaboration with the Camerate Tokyo label. The Japanese magazine The Flute devoted its “Special Interview” to him and the Italian magazine Falaut has also dedicated an issue, complete with an interview and CD, to Mr. Nova. In the recent book Il Flauto Traverso (Italia, EDT 2003), he was included among the Italian “soloists with an international career…outclassed at the end of the century.”
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Jeffrey Silberschlag
Jeffrey Silberschlag has distinguished himself in the world of music, performing as a conductor and trumpet soloist throughout Europe, the United States, Russia, China, Japan, and Israel. His performances have been described as “compelling” by Germany’s Kölnishce Rundschau; “extraordinary” by Italy’s L’Arena; and “outstanding” by Fanfare magazine.
Mr. Silberschlag is currently music director and conductor of the Chesapeake Orchestra and River Concert Series, which drew an audience of over 35,000 people last year to its summer season of seven classical music concerts. Mr. Silberschlag has recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Czech Radio Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, and the Maryland Bach Aria group.
Mr. Silberschlag recorded William Thomas McKinley’s “And the Presidents Said” with narrator Ben Bradlee and the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studio. In a recent “Fanfare” review of the recording, Mr. Silberschlag was lauded as “a virtuoso trumpeter par excellence (whose) conducting is equally praise worthy.”
Mr. Silberschlag has also appeared as the guest conductor of I Virtuosi della Scala, of Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino and with the Symphony Orchestra of Rumania on tour in Sicily. He led the “Orchestra di Tre Mondi” in concerts in Beijing, Shanghai, and Dalian, China and recorded with the London Philharmonic at St. Luke’s. In addition, Mr. Silberschlag conducted the Italian National Opera Orchestra in Italy and appeared in Tokyo and Kyoto. Mr. Silberschlag has performed a wide range of repertoire from the works of Bach through Mahler and Strauss. He is also been a champion of new music premiering works of such prize winning composers as Lou Karchin, David Froom, Scott Wheeler, Chou Wen-Chung, Jaan Raats, Chen Yi, William Thomas Mckinley, Philip Glass, Lorenzo Ferrero, Ludovico Einaudi, Vivian Adleberg Rudow, Kenji Bunch, Paul Chihara, Judith Shatin and he has revived important works by American composers Morton Gould, Charles Griffes, and George Whitefield Chadwick.
Jeffrey Silberschlag has been a prominent trumpet performer on the international music circuit since he was eighteen. He has recorded as trumpet soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Czech Radio Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, and the Maryland Bach Aria Group. His next recording is with the Toronto Chamber Orchestra for Naxos. Mr. Silberschlag has held principal trumpet positions with the Italian National Symphony RAI-Torino; Jerusalem Symphony; and the New York City Opera-National Company. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, Mr. Silberschlag studied with such trumpet icons as William Vacchiano, Gerard Schwarz, Pierre Thibaud, and Robert Nagel. Many composers have dedicated works to him, including William Thomas McKinley, Paul Chihara, Morton Gould, Lorenzo Ferrero, Robert Hall Lewis, Ludavico Einaudi, James Cohn, David MacBride, Leo Eylar, Roger Davidson, John Carbon, and his colleague at St. Mary’s College, David Froom. Mr. Silberschlag serves as artistic director and head of music performance at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and currently holds the Steven Muller Distinguished Professor of Arts Chair. He has been a faculty member since 1988 and served as chair of the Music Department from 1997.
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Larry Edward Vote
Larry Edward Vote is provost and professor of music at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. An accomplished vocal soloist and conductor, he has performed throughout the United States and Europe. As a member of The Tidewater Ensemble he has been heard in and conducted concerts in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Baltimore Museum of Art, and Jordan Hall in Boston, as well as on regional and national broadcasts of this group. A founding member of The Maryland Bach Aria Group, Mr. Vote may be heard in music of Bach, Handel and Telemann on two compact discs published by Crystal Records.
He has conducted or performed as baritone soloist in the premieres of works by Gian Carlo Menotti, William Thomas McKinley, and David Froom, among others. He recorded McKinley's Dallas, 1963 with the Slovak Radio Orchestra, which has been released on MMC Recordings. “Hearing the Call,” featuring new brass music conducted by Mr. Vote, was released on Sonora records in September of 1999. Mr. Vote serves as resident musical director to Interact, a Washington D.C.-based theater company. With Interact he has performed and directed productions for The National Gallery of Art, The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Landsburg Theater, Arena Stage, and in a tour of the United Kingdom.
The 1993 production of The Pirates of Penzance, for which he was music director and conductor, won the award for Best Musical in the 1994 Helen Hayes Awards. He was nominated for Outstanding Musical Director for the production of H.M.S. Pinafore in 1996 and again in 2000 for Pirates of Penzance. He is also holder of the Norton Dodge Award for Creative and Scholarly Achievement presented by St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Mr. Vote is resident guest conductor of The River Concert Series and Co-Artistic Director of The Alba/USA International Music Festival
In his performance with Voices of the Golden Age, the Washington Post noted that "His reverberant reading of Bouvard's “Le Temple de Bachus” filled this aria with so much nobility and fervor that some real life thunderbolts outside seemed anticlimactic."
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