Ensemble Concert
University Symphony
Dec 10, 2010 - 7:30 PM
Meany Theater
$10
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Jonathan Pasternack conducts the University Symphony in a performance of works by Stravinsky, Ravel, Massenet, and Tchaikovsky. Faculty artist Ronald Patterson, violin, is featured soloist.
PROGRAM DETAIL:
Igor Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
Maurice Ravel: Tzigane
With Ronald Patterson, violin
Jules Massenet: Meditation from Thaïs
With Ronald Patterson, violin
Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
ARTIST BIOS:
Ronald Patterson, violin
Ronald Patterson teaches violin, chamber music, orchestral repertoire, and pedagogy at the University of Washington School of Music.
A student of Jascha Heifetz, Eudice Shapiro and Manuel Compinsky, Patterson has performed extensively in the United States and Europe since the age of 11, performing 45 works (including six world premieres) in more than 150 solo performances with orchestra. He has been acclaimed for his "skill, authority and imagination" by the New York Times. From 1965 to 1999, Patterson was concertmaster of the Monte-Carlo, Houston, Denver, and Miami symphonies, St. Louis Little Symphony, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.
He was a founder and Associate Professor of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University (Houston, 1974-1979) and Assistant Professor at Washington University (St. Louis, 1967-1971), as well as on the faculty of Stetson University (Florida, 1975-1979), MacMurray College (Illinois, 1966) and the University of Miami (Florida, 1965).
Patterson has recorded for CRI, ERATO, ORION, VOX, Ante Aeternum, Virgin Classics, Serenus, Philips, and EMI. A five-time First Prize Winner of the Coleman Chamber Music Competition, he has performed chamber music with some of the greatest musicians of our day, including Heifetz, Piatigorsky, and Szeryng. In 1998 he was named Officier de l'Ordre du Merite Culturel, one of the Principality of Monaco's highest honors.
Many compositions have been recorded by and written for Patterson and his violist wife, Roxanna, as "Duo Patterson." Czech Mates is their latest CD, featuring works by 19th and 20th Century Czechoslavakian composers.
Patterson is first violin of the Rainier String Quartet and concertmaster of the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra, the resident quartet of the Santa Barbara Chamber Music Festival.
Jonathan Pasternack, conductor
Dr. Jonathan Pasternack is Director of Orchestral Activities at the University of Washington School of Music during the 2010-11 academic year. He has conducted orchestras, opera and ballet in the United States and Europe, with such ensembles as the London Symphony Orchestra, Residentie Orkest of the Hague, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, among many others. His debut recording, leading the London Symphony Orchestra in Béla Bartók’s Miraculous Mandarin suite and the Symphony No. 1 by Johannes Brahms, will be released in January 2011 on the Naxos label.
His opera conducting experience includes productions of Tosca, Don Carlos, Die Fledermaus, The Turn of the Screw, Les Dialogues des Carmèlites, Cendrillon, L’enfant et les sortileges and Il barbiere di Siviglia. He led the Paris premiere of Robert Clerc’s Á l’ombre du grand arbre and the world premiere of The Prestigious Music Award by Gloria Wilson Swisher at Shoreline Community College. He recently conducted performances of Wayne Horvitz’s chamber opera-oratorio, The Heartsong of Charging Elk, as part of an educational tour presented by Washington State University in Pullman and Vancouver.
Born and raised in New York City, Jonathan Pasternack studied violin, cello, trombone, piano and percussion. He won a trombone scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music at the age of sixteen and later transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pursue studies in astronomy, philosophy and political science. He earned master’s and doctorate degrees in music from the University of Washington, where he studied conducting with Peter Erös and trombone with Stuart Dempster. His other conducting teachers and mentors have included Neeme Järvi, Hans Vonk, Valery Gergiev, Jorma Panula, James DePreist, Murry Sidlin, and David Zinman. At the invitation of Mr. Zinman, Jonathan Pasternack attended the Aspen Music Festival and School as a featured Academy Conductor, where he was the recipient of fellowships in both conducting and trombone. In 2002, he was awarded Second Prize at the Sixth Cadaqués International Conducting Competition in Barcelona, Spain, where he was the only American invited to compete.
Dr. Pasternack has served as Assistant Conductor with the Oregon Symphony, Resident Conductor and Managing Director of the Icicle Creek Music Center in Leavenworth, and Visiting Director of Orchestral Activities at Pacific Lutheran University. He has served as guest faculty at the University of Washington, Central Washington University, East Oregon University, Pacific University, Conservatoire de Maurepas in France and Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Genève in Switzerland. < Back
PROGRAM DETAIL:
Igor Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
Maurice Ravel: Tzigane
With Ronald Patterson, violin
Jules Massenet: Meditation from Thaïs
With Ronald Patterson, violin
Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
ARTIST BIOS:
Ronald Patterson, violin
Ronald Patterson teaches violin, chamber music, orchestral repertoire, and pedagogy at the University of Washington School of Music.
A student of Jascha Heifetz, Eudice Shapiro and Manuel Compinsky, Patterson has performed extensively in the United States and Europe since the age of 11, performing 45 works (including six world premieres) in more than 150 solo performances with orchestra. He has been acclaimed for his "skill, authority and imagination" by the New York Times. From 1965 to 1999, Patterson was concertmaster of the Monte-Carlo, Houston, Denver, and Miami symphonies, St. Louis Little Symphony, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.
He was a founder and Associate Professor of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University (Houston, 1974-1979) and Assistant Professor at Washington University (St. Louis, 1967-1971), as well as on the faculty of Stetson University (Florida, 1975-1979), MacMurray College (Illinois, 1966) and the University of Miami (Florida, 1965).
Patterson has recorded for CRI, ERATO, ORION, VOX, Ante Aeternum, Virgin Classics, Serenus, Philips, and EMI. A five-time First Prize Winner of the Coleman Chamber Music Competition, he has performed chamber music with some of the greatest musicians of our day, including Heifetz, Piatigorsky, and Szeryng. In 1998 he was named Officier de l'Ordre du Merite Culturel, one of the Principality of Monaco's highest honors.
Many compositions have been recorded by and written for Patterson and his violist wife, Roxanna, as "Duo Patterson." Czech Mates is their latest CD, featuring works by 19th and 20th Century Czechoslavakian composers.
Patterson is first violin of the Rainier String Quartet and concertmaster of the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra, the resident quartet of the Santa Barbara Chamber Music Festival.
Jonathan Pasternack, conductor
Dr. Jonathan Pasternack is Director of Orchestral Activities at the University of Washington School of Music during the 2010-11 academic year. He has conducted orchestras, opera and ballet in the United States and Europe, with such ensembles as the London Symphony Orchestra, Residentie Orkest of the Hague, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, among many others. His debut recording, leading the London Symphony Orchestra in Béla Bartók’s Miraculous Mandarin suite and the Symphony No. 1 by Johannes Brahms, will be released in January 2011 on the Naxos label.
His opera conducting experience includes productions of Tosca, Don Carlos, Die Fledermaus, The Turn of the Screw, Les Dialogues des Carmèlites, Cendrillon, L’enfant et les sortileges and Il barbiere di Siviglia. He led the Paris premiere of Robert Clerc’s Á l’ombre du grand arbre and the world premiere of The Prestigious Music Award by Gloria Wilson Swisher at Shoreline Community College. He recently conducted performances of Wayne Horvitz’s chamber opera-oratorio, The Heartsong of Charging Elk, as part of an educational tour presented by Washington State University in Pullman and Vancouver.
Born and raised in New York City, Jonathan Pasternack studied violin, cello, trombone, piano and percussion. He won a trombone scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music at the age of sixteen and later transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pursue studies in astronomy, philosophy and political science. He earned master’s and doctorate degrees in music from the University of Washington, where he studied conducting with Peter Erös and trombone with Stuart Dempster. His other conducting teachers and mentors have included Neeme Järvi, Hans Vonk, Valery Gergiev, Jorma Panula, James DePreist, Murry Sidlin, and David Zinman. At the invitation of Mr. Zinman, Jonathan Pasternack attended the Aspen Music Festival and School as a featured Academy Conductor, where he was the recipient of fellowships in both conducting and trombone. In 2002, he was awarded Second Prize at the Sixth Cadaqués International Conducting Competition in Barcelona, Spain, where he was the only American invited to compete.
Dr. Pasternack has served as Assistant Conductor with the Oregon Symphony, Resident Conductor and Managing Director of the Icicle Creek Music Center in Leavenworth, and Visiting Director of Orchestral Activities at Pacific Lutheran University. He has served as guest faculty at the University of Washington, Central Washington University, East Oregon University, Pacific University, Conservatoire de Maurepas in France and Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Genève in Switzerland. < Back
