Hour 9 – 6:00pm to 7:00pm
See featured performers below!
RACHEL BARTON PINE
A leading interpreter of the great classical masterworks, violinist Rachel Barton Pine thrills audiences with her dazzling technique, lustrous tone, and emotional honesty. With an infectious joy in music-making and a passion for connecting historical research to performance, Pine transforms audiences’ experiences of classical music.
Pine’s 2019-20 season includes a residency with the Singapore Symphony, as well as performances with the Royal Scottish National and Seattle Baroque Orchestras, and the Tel AvivSoloists. In recital she will appearatLincoln Center with Matthew Hagle, and Pine and harpsichordist Jory Vinikour will perform in concerts presented by the National Gallery in Washington D.C.andtheSan Francisco Early Music Society.
Her November, 2019 Avie recording of theDvořák and Khachaturian Violin Concertos with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and conductor Teddy Abrams highlights the influence of each composer’s local ethnic music.
Her discography of 39 acclaimed albums also includes Mozart: Complete Violin Concerto, Sinfonia Concertante with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, SirNevilleMarrinerconducting; Bel Canto Paganini, Elgar & Bruch Violin Concertos with the BBC Symphony, Andrew Litton conducting, and Blues Dialogues, an album of blues-influenced classical works for unaccompanied violin and violin and piano by 20th and 21st century composers of African descent.
Pine has appeared as soloist with many of the world’s most prestigious ensembles, including the Chicago and Vienna Symphonies, Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, and Camerata Salzburg.
Galvanized by the fact that young people learning classical music seldom have the opportunity to study and perform music written by Black composers, over the last 15 years, Pine and her RBP Foundation have collected more than 900 works by 350+ Black composers from the 18th-21st centuries, representing Africa, North and South America, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and Oceania. In 2018 the RBP Foundation released Music by Black Composers (MBC) Violin Volume I, the first in a series of pedagogical books of music exclusively by global Black classical composers, as well the MBC Coloring Book of Black Composers.
She performs on the “ex-Bazziniex-Soldat” Joseph Guarnerius del Gesu (Cremona 1742).
ZACHARY PREUCIL
Dr. Zachary Preucil enjoys a variety of activities as a cellist, educator, and writer. Currently based in Madison, WI, Dr. Preucil serves as principal cellist of the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra and maintains a private studio. He performs frequently with the Wisconsin Philharmonic and has recently appeared with the Midsummer’s Music Festival, Green Lake Music Festival, the MIC Faculty/Guest Artist Series, the Farley’s House of Pianos Salon Series, Caroga Lake Music Festival, and as a soloist with the Schaumburg Youth Symphony at Chicago’s Orchestra Hall. His solo and chamber music performances have been broadcast on Wisconsin Public Radio.
Previously, Dr. Preucil served on the faculties of the Music Institute of Chicago (Winnetka, IL), Music for Youth (Arlington Heights, IL) and the Kanack School of Musical Artistry (Rochester, NY). Additionally, he held teaching assistantships at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was invited as a guest clinician at the Community Cello Works program (Blacksburg, VA), Wheaton College Community School for the Arts (Wheaton, IL) and MIC Winter Workshops (Evanston, IL). Dr. Preucil has frequently presented on the Creative Ability Development (CAD) Method, including a presentation at the 2018 CAD International Conference on the potential of integrating improvisation into college-level classical performance curriculum. He has coached chamber music at the Schaumburg Youth Orchestra and Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra programs, and currently co-directs and coaches for the chamber music program at Farley’s House of Pianos in Madison.
A passionate writer about music and the arts, Dr. Preucil has contributed to Polyphonic.org, the Paul R. Judy Center, Musicovation.com, the Credo Music Festival, the Chicago Cello Society and the Huffington Post Arts blog. He also served for two years as co-editor of The Penguin, New England Conservatory’s student-run newspaper, and assisted in the editing processes for What Do We Make of Bach? (John Harbison) and Uri Vardi’s Cello Fundamentals (Uri Vardi). His doctoral research paper, New Perspectives on Cello Pedagogy (available on ProQuest), surveys four cello pedagogy courses and presents an undergraduate/graduate pedagogy course model.
Dr. Preucil holds a D.M.A. in Cello Performance and a minor in Arts Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was inducted into the school’s chapters of Phi Kappa Phi and the National Society for Leadership and Success. He received his M.M. in Cello Performance and an Arts Leadership Certificate from the Eastman School of Music as a Pi Kappa Lambda inductee, and his B.M. with honors from the New England Conservatory of Music. His primary teachers have included Uri Vardi, David Ying, Yeesun Kim, and Walter Preucil, and he has studied chamber music with members of the Borromeo, Pro Arte, and Ying Quartets. Additionally, Dr. Preucil has participated in masterclasses with Steven Doane, Ralph Kirshbaum, Gary Hoffman, Eric Kim, Nicholas Photinos, Tom Landschoot and Anne Martindale Williams. Further education has included summer studies at the Aspen Music Festival, Bowdoin Music Festival, the Castleman Quartet Programs, the National Summer Cello Institute and the Interlochen Arts Academy; and registered training in the Suzuki Cello Method with Dr. Tanya Carey, Jean Dexter and Rick Mooney. Dr. Preucil is a certified teacher trainer in the Creative Ability Development method, having worked extensively with its founder, Alice Kanack. A keen interest in the administrative side of the arts led Dr. Preucil to intern with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Midsummer’s Music Festival and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. He is a member of the Association of Arts Administration Educators, the Creative Ability Development Advisory Board, Madison Area Music Educators, the College Music Society and the American Federation of Musicians.
MAEVE O’HARA
Maeve O’Hara is an Irish-American violinist and registered Suzuki violin teacher based in Oak Park, IL. Described as a player whose “talent can be heard from the first note,” (Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg) her musical life has led her to the stages of Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and abroad to venues throughout London, Ireland, and China.
A dedicated and motivated educator, Maeve is a registered teacher with the Suzuki Association of the Americas (SAA), and is currently on the faculty of the Naperville Suzuki School / Western Springs School of Talent Education.
In 2018, along with her longtime friend and Suzuki colleague Victoria Szczepaniak, she founded Suzuki Early Childhood Chicago, an organization bringing the early childhood component of Suzuki to the Chicagoland area, currently in Western Springs and Hyde Park.
Maeve is committed to continuing training in the Suzuki Method, and has completed Books 1-10, repeating books several times, as well as stages one and two Suzuki Early Childhood Education (SECE) training. She has completed training in her current program with Edward Kreitman, Nancy Jackson, and Thomas Wermuth, SECE training for stages one and two with Sharon Jones, long-term Teacher Training from School for Strings with Allen Lieb, Katerina Gerson, and also spent a year of long-term training (books 1-4) with Sandy Reuning (former SAA president), and Carrie Reuning-Hummel in Ithaca, NY’s Ithaca Talent Education. Maeve’s former teaching engagements include the Suzuki programs within the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Queens College Lawrence Eisman Center for Preparatory Studies in Music, Greenwich House Music School. She brought her Suzuki teaching to public schools as a Teaching Artist for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in an intensive el sistema program based in Newark, NJ, and formerly taught over 300 students in Brooklyn Conservatory’s Music Partners program in schools P.S. 321, 230, and 107.
As a violinist, Maeve has played with the Binghamton Philharmonic, String Orchestra of Brooklyn (principal second), Fire Island Pines Art Project, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Manhattan Symphonie (tours to China 2012 & 2014), Tri-Cities Opera, Ohio Light Opera, and the Purchase Opera Company. Recently, she has enjoyed getting back to chamber music playing with her colleagues via the Living Room Players. She can be heard on recordings with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and Purchase Opera Company, both available through Albany Records. Outside the classical genre, she loves to play traditional Irish music when visiting family in Ireland, at a ceilidh or session. Maeve appeared on John Schaeffer’s Soundcheck in June 2013 with independent Irish singer/songwriter Julie Feeney, playing violin accompaniment to a few intimate tracks recorded live in the WNYC studios.
Maeve holds two degrees in violin performance, a Master of Music degree summa cum laude from the Purchase College Conservatory of Music (2012), and a Bachelor of Music from Ithaca College (2010). Her primary studies were with Calvin Wiersma (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Manhattan String Quartet), and Susan Waterbury (founding member, Cavani String Quartet). She had additional training with Carmit Zori and Linda Case. She was the winner of the Purchase College 2012 Concerto Competition (Tchaikovsky), served as concertmaster and principal second of the Purchase Symphony Orchestra, Ithaca College Symphony & Chamber Orchestras, and was a member of two period-informed performance groups, the Purchase Camerata and Ithaca Early Music ensemble. She spent a semester abroad in London, studying with Maureen Smith at the Royal College of Music and performing with the Imperial College Symphony Orchestra.
She has been fortunate to participate in master classes for Gil Shaham, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Rachel Barton Pine, Orion String Quartet, Tashi Ensemble, Ying Quartet, and Chiara Quartet. She was a recipient of the Emily Grant scholarship, Keilocker Scholarship, Emerson Scholarship, and won the Brookshire Award in 2012 for academic and performance based achievements.
Growing up in the rich musical community of Rochester, NY, Maeve studied with Alice Kay Kanack in her formative years, where she was exposed to improvisation from an early age. Ms. Kanack is the author of the ‘Creative Ability Development’ series, a complement to the Suzuki method that proves individual musicality and creativity can be developed alongside solid musicianship and technique, through improvisation. During Summer of 2014, Maeve completed teacher training in the CAD method and is thrilled to incorporate it into her studio.