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Gate, Julie

Fopoussi, Charmaine

Western
Music
Don Wright Faculty of Music
STUDENT RECITAL
March 15, 2019 
6:00pm, MB 242 
Julie Gate, soprano 
Charmaine Fopoussi, piano
Ch’io mi scordi di te?.. Non temer, amato bene Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Extase Henri DuparcLe Manoir de Rosemonde (1848-1933)ÉlégieChanson Triste
- Intermission -
Goethe -  Lieder Hugo Wolf
Mignon I (1860-1903)
Mignon II 
Mignon III
Mignon: Kennst du das Land?
A Sarah Binks Songbook John Greer
Reflections while translating Heine (b. 1954)
Hi, Sooky, Ho, Sooky 
Elegy for a Calf 
Square Dance
This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Music
(Performance) degree.


English

Student Recital

Pope, Matthew

Western
Music
Don Wright Faculty of Music
STUDENT RECITAL
March 12, 2019 
12:30 p.m., von Kuster Hall 
Matthew Pope, piano
Lecture Recital
A Narrative Approach to the Barcarolles of Gabriel Faure
Barcarolle Op. 26, No. 1 in A minor 
Barcarolle Op. 42. No. 3 in G-flat Major 
Barcarolle Op. 66, No. 5 in F-sharp minor 
Barcarolle Op. 70, No. 6 in E-flat Major 
Barcarolle Op. 116, No. 13 in C Major
Gabriel Fauré 
(1845-1924)
A special thank you to Stéphan Sylvestre for his continued teaching, guidance, and support
during the course of this degree.
This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Musical
Arts in Performance degree.
Matthew Pope
Pianist Matthew Pope holds both Bachelor and Master’s degrees from 
the University of Western Ontario in Piano Performance, where he is 
currently working towards his Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Solo 
Piano Performance. During his academic career, Matthew has received 
numerous scholarships and awards including the UWO Gold Medal for 
Piano Performance in 2013, and an Ontario Graduate Scholarship in 
2014 and 2018. Matthew is currently studying with Stephan Sylvestre 
(UWO), and a former student of John Paul Bracey (UWO), Ron 
Greidanus (Georgetown, ON) and also studied with Jean-Paul Sevilla in 
France during the summer of 2012. Over the course of his studies, 
Matthew has come to love the music of late nineteenth- and early 
twentieth-century French composers, including Claude Debussy and 
Gabriel Faure.
Matthew has performed as a pianist, harpsichordist and organist with 
numerous groups including the Georgetown Bach Chorale, the Bach- 
Elgar Choir of Hamilton, the Masterworks of Oakville Choir, the 
Oakville Chamber Orchestra, and the Brampton Symphony Orchestra. In 
addition to his studies, Matthew is the Music Director for St. Luke’s 
Worshipping Community in London, ON, and maintains a private 
teaching studio.


Student Recital:  Lecture Recital A Narrative Approach to the Barcarolles of Gabriel Fauré

Hildebrand, Alyssa

Digout, Paul

 
March 30, 2019 
2 p.m., von Kuster Hall  
  Alyssa Hildebrand, voice  
  Paul Digout, piano 
 
Fiançailles pour rire         F. Poulenc 
        La Dame d’André        (1899-1963)  
        Dans l’herbe 
        Il vole 
        Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant 
        Violon 
        Fleurs                   
 
Siete canciones populares españolas      M. De Falla 
       El paño moruno        (1876-1946) 
        Seguidilla murciana 
        Asturiana 
        Jota 
        Nana 
        Canción 
        Polo 
        
              -Intermission- 
 
Kinderlieder          R. M. Schafer 
       Mailied          (1933-) 
       Der Pflaumenbaumn 
       Die Maske des Bösen 
       Hollywood 
       Wer ist zu hause? 
       Patriotisches Lied 
       Die Vögel im Winter 
       Die Pappel vom Karlsplatz 
       Wiegenlied 
 
Parodies          S. Barab 
       I’ll Never Go to Macy’s        (1921-2014) 
      Miss Lucy 
      I Was Standing on the Corner 
      Poor Old Lady 
      Charlie Chaplin 
 Spanish Dancer 
 
This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the  
Master of Music Performance (Literature & Performance) degree. 


Slous, Leyanna

March 30, 2019  
6 p.m., von Kuster Hall  
 Leyanna Slous, voice  
  Paul Digout, piano 
Hermit Songs                              S. Barber 
At Saint Patrick’s Purgatory                      (1910-1981) 
Church Bell at Night 
     St. Ita’s Vision 
      The Heavenly Banquet  
      The Crucifixion 
Sea-Snatch 
     Promiscuity 
      The Monk and His Cat 
      The Praises of God 
 The Desire for Hermitage 
Brentano Lieder                                       R. Strauss 
An die Nacht                          (1864-1949) 
Ich wollt ein Sträuslein binden 
     Säusle, liebe Myrthe 
      Amor 
        
                         -Intermission- 
Chansons Tristes                                     J. Smallman 
Chanson d’Automne                            (b. 1965) 
Demain 
     Avant Mes Jours 
The Faces of Love                                         J. Heggie 
I Shall Not Live in Vain                            (b. 1961) 
Eve Song                              
 Even 
     Good 
      Listen 
 Snake 
 Woe to Man 
This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the  
Master of Music Performance (Literature & Performance) degree. 


Komar, Jeffrey

 
 
 March 30, 2019 
12:00 p.m., Von Kuster Hall 
Jeffrey Komar, viola 
 
 
 
Sonata No. 1 for Solo Violin in G Minor, BWV 1001 
Adagio 
Fuga: allegro 
Siciliana 
Presto 
 
Johann Sebastian Bach 
(1685-1750) 
Suite for Solo Viola in D Major, Op. 131d no. 2 
Con Moto 
Andante 
Allegretto; quasi meno mosso 
Vivace 
Max Reger 
(1873-1916) 
 
-Intermission- 
 
Sonate für Bratsche allein, Op. 25 no. 1 
Breit Viertel 
Sehr frisch und straff (Viertel) 
Sehr langsam 
Rascendes Zeitmaß. Wild. Tonschönheit ist Nebensache. 
Langsam, mit viel Ausdruck  
Paul Hindemith 
(1895-1963) 
  
Chahagir for Viola Solo, Op. 56a Alan Hovhanness 
(1911-2000) 
  
Lamentations of Jeremiah for Viola Solo (1959, rev. 1991) Milton Barnes 
(1931-2001) 
 
This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Musical 
Arts (Performance) degree.  
 
Special thanks to Western University’s Don Wright Faculty of Music String Bank for the 
generous loan of the Nurnberger bow used in this performance. 
Jeffrey Komar, Violist 
 
With his background in the life sciences, Jeffrey Komar is not your typical 
classical performer. After completing a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and 
Molecular Biology, he switched gears to pursue a career as a violist, and so far 
it’s turned out rather nicely! Jeffrey holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in 
music. He has studied with Philippe Djokic at the Fountain School of Performing 
Arts, Dalhousie University, and with Sharon Wei at the Don Wright Faculty of 
Music. Currently, he is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) in Viola 
Performance. His research will explore the role of renowned viola virtuosos in the 
creation and dissemination of works for the viola in the Twentieth and Twenty-
first Centuries. 
 
Jeffrey has been a young artist in music festivals across Canada, including the 
Domaine Forget International Music Festival (St. Irenée, QC), the Tuckamore 
Festival (St. John’s, NL) and the Scotia Festival of Music (Halifax, NS). As a 
performer, he has shared the stage with such esteemed musicians as Scott St. 
John, Sharon Wei, Annette-Barbara Vogel, Mel Martin, Joe Lanza, Thomas 
Wiebe, and Rachel Mercer. Jeffrey is a founding member of London-based 
chamber music groups Quartet di Altezza and Trio Moyen. He is also a roster 
musician for Magisterra Soloists during the 2018/19 season. 
 
Jeffrey is a dedicated music educator, too. From 2011-2015, he worked as the 
Upper-Strings Faculty Member of the Halifax Music Co-op, where he provided 
one-on-one lessons to co-op members. In January 2016, Jeffrey joined the 
faculty of El Sistema Aeolian as a teacher/conductor. At El Sistema, he provides 
free instruction in violin, viola, and junior choir to underprivileged children from 
London and the surrounding areas. In addition, he is on the faculty of Forest City 
Talent Education, where he coaches chamber music and senior orchestra. In his 
spare time, he enjoys drinking coffee, cooking, and listening to podcasts. 
 
 


Picard, Marie

Johnson, Marie

Riseling, Bob

Starling, Jana

Jung, Denise

 
GUEST ARTIST RECITAL 
Thursday, November 21, 2019 
8 p.m., von Kuster Hall 
Marie Picard, bass clarinet 
Marie Johnson, clarinet and bass clarinet 
Bob Riseling, clarinet 
Jana Starling, clarinet 
Denise Jung, piano 
 
 
 
Sonata VI in G Major BWV 530   J.S. Bach 
Vivace (1685-1750) 
Lento  Arr. H. Klug 
Allegro  
 
Sonata Op. 38   A.Torok 
III Cool Steps (b. 1947) 
 
Terzett J.Smallman 
Larghetto (b. 1965) 
Moderato 
Adagio 
 
Intermission 
 
Deuxième Sonate   J. Bodin de Boismortier 
Andante (1689-1755) 
Presto   Arr. P. Rubio 
Adagio 
Gavotte 
 
Greetings from the Balkan B. Kovács 
 (b. 1947) 
  
Three Duos  M. Murcia Bedoya 
Latinos (b. 1976) 
Coffee Break 
 
 
Divertissement 1  G. Wuensch 
Le jeu diatonique (1925-2007) 
La Berceuse (pour mon chien) 
Deux sentiments 
a) Sentiment sarcastique  
b) Sentiment triste 
Le final (sans titre) 
 
 
Marie Picard’s visit (including tomorrow’s public masterclass in von Kuster Hall from 3 – 5p.m.) 
is generously supported by the Don Wright Faculty of Music Undergraduate Gift Fund. 
Born in Québec, Marie Picard was unanimously awarded the "Premier Prix de Clarinette" and the "Prix de 
musique de chambre" by the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec in 1977. The following year she studied with 
Mr. Bernard Portnoy at the University of Indiana in Bloomington. Her professional career started right after that 
as she taught at the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec in Gatineau for three years, and soon became a 
member of the Québec Symphony Orchestra, where she served as second and bass clarinet until 2012. During 
the year 2003, she toured the province with a group called “Les Chambristes de l’OSQ”, to celebrate the 
centennial of that orchestra. Meanwhile, she joined the faculty of the Conservatoire de Musique de Québec to 
teach clarinet and chamber music until recently. Each summer and for more than 30 years, her teaching activities 
extended to the International Music and Dance Academy of the Domaine Forget, where she frequently performed 
in chamber music or as a soloist, often times for the CBC. Furthermore, during the summers of 1998, 1999, 2001 
and 2003, she was a guest teacher at the International Clarinet Camp in Hungary, and also at the « Festival 
Musicalta » in Rouffach, Alsace, this time in 2001 and 2002. She performed at the International Clarinet 
Association ClarinetFest in Québec city in 1990, in Norman (Oklahoma) in 2000, in Madrid in 2015, in Oostende 
(Belgium) in 2018, where she played with the “Quatuor des Érables”, a group she founded together with three of 
her former students, and gave a clarinet and bass clarinet masterclass during ClarinetFest 2007 in Vancouver. 
Those appearances led to different invitations to give recitals and masterclasses at Western, Arizona State 
University, Hungary, Belgium, Israël and China. 
 
Hailing from Montreal, clarinetist Marie Johnson is the second clarinet chair with London Symphonia 
(formerly Orchestra London Canada). Much in demand as an orchestral clarinetist, Marie performs frequently 
with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and the Windsor Symphony. She was a regular substitute clarinetist 
with the Thunder Bay Symphony from 2002 to 2011 and played second and bass clarinet with Orchestre 
symphonique de Québec for their 2000-01 season. A versatile performer, Marie enjoys a wide variety of 
musical collaborations. She was a founding member and bass clarinetist with the clarinet quartet ƒƒourtissimo, 
active in the London area from 2003 to 2016. As a soloist, she performed the Canadian premiere of 
the Rautavaara Clarinet Concerto with Orchestra London, and the Krommer Concerto for two clarinets with 
the London Community Orchestra. At the Don Wright Faculty of Music she was a guest performer with both 
the Symphonic Band and the Wind Ensemble and she appears on several chamber music programs every 
year. 
 
Clarinetist Jana Starling is a nationally and internationally active performer and teacher. She has performed 
with the Arizona Opera Company, Paraguayan National Symphony, Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, ProMusica 
Chamber Orchestra and local orchestras in Ontario. She has been programmed numerous times at the 
International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest®, given recitals and masterclasses at the Belgian Clarinet 
Academy, multiple conservatories in China, the International Music Festival Loja-Ecuador, and has been a 
guest artist and adjudicator at various festivals in the United States and Canada. The Clarinet magazine (Mar 
2008) CD review hails Starling as “a wonderful player….musically sensitive…. , you will not be disappointed!”. 
In 2011, she joined the Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University as Assistant Professor. She 
previously held positions at Arizona State University (USA) and Mount Allison University (NB, Canada) and 
visiting professor at Brandon University, (MB, Canada). Starling received her BMus in music education from 
Brandon University (Manitoba, Canada, 1995) and her MMus and DMA in clarinet performance from Arizona 
State University (USA, 1997, 2005) in 1997. Her teachers have been Ron Goddard, Connie Gitlin and Robert 
Spring. 
 
Robert Riseling is Professor Emeritus at Western University’s Don Wright Faculty of Music.  Other university 
positions include schools in Texas, Michigan, Kentucky, Kansas, Illinois, Nova Scotia, France and China.  He 
has a BME, MM (Composition, University of Texas) and DMA (Performance, University of Michigan).  He has 
performed, taught, coached chamber music, and given master classes in Canada, USA, Mexico, England, 
France, Belgium, Slovenia, Italy, Norway, Iceland, and Israel. More than forty broadcasts on CBC Radio 
Canada have included many of the 70   works   written for him.  He has performed at eight International 
Clarinet Association festivals and taught/performed at numerous summer institutes and festivals in Canada, 
USA, Mexico, Europe, China.  His 30 year relationship with Hungary included numerous performances, Magyar 
Radio broadcasts, teaching at the International Clarinet Camp and the Franz Liszt Academy. For his many 
performances of Hungarian works, he received two awards from Hungary's ARTISJUS, including the medal 
PRO ARTIBUS.   
 
Denise Jung graduated from Western University where she studied with Tina Yanchus and John Hess. She 
enjoys work as an accompanist with the Amabile Choirs of London (Young Men's Ensemble & Primus).  In 
2018 she performed with Primus at Podium in St. John, Newfoundland, as well as at ClarinetFest with Bob 
Riseling in Oostende, Belgium. Denise also maintains a private teaching studio and is the music director at 
Calvary United Church.  She is currently teaches at Sir Arthur Currie Public School. 


Guest Artist Concert

Wiebe, Thomas

 
CHAMBER MUSIC SHOWCASE 
CONCERT I 
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 
12:30 p.m., von Kuster Hall 
Thomas Wiebe, co-ordinator	
 
 
 
PIANO DUO 
Ma mère l’Oye Maurice Ravel  
 III. Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes  (1875-1937) 
V. Le jardin féerique 
Hanna Kim 
Christiana Zhu 
 
 
Suite for violin, clarinet, and piano Op.157b Darius Milhaud  
 I. Overture  (1892-1974) 
 II. Divertissement  
 IV. Introduction et final 
Mian Wei, clarinet 
Patricio Flores Esquivel, violin 
Vladimir Djurovic, piano 
 
 
Piano Quintet in G minor Max Bruch  
I. Allegro Molto Moderato  (1838-1920) 
David Yu-heng Chen, violin 
Ziqi Chen, violin 
Paige Bursey, viola 
Heather White, cello 
Megaria Halim, piano 
 
 
GUITAR DUO 
La Cumparsita G. M. Rodriguez (1897-1948) &  
P. Contursi (1888-1932) 
(Arranged for two guitars by L. Ameida (1917-1995) 
 
Tarantelle   J.K. Mertz 
(1806-1856) 
Rosalyn Bourne 
Jaehyun Cha 
  
 
 
 
String Quartet No. 15 in D minor K 421.  W. A. Mozart  
 I. Allegro moderato  (1756-1791) 
Paul Baek, violin 
Lia Gronberg, violin 
Elizabeth Van’t Voort, viola 
Isaac Lee, cello 
 
 
String Quartet Op.10 (1893) Claude Debussy  
 I. Animé et très décidé  (1862-1918)  
Frangel Lopez Cesena, violin 
Melisa Mogrovejo, violin 
Christian Wrona, viola 
Ivan Fabara, cello 
 
 
JAZZ COMBO 
Ornithology Charlie Parker  
(1920-1955) 
Samantha Lanooy, trumpet 
Michael Ippolitio, bass 
Jonah Nemiroff, piano 
Rohan Sampy, drums 
 
 
 
Please also join us on Thursday for the second Fall Chamber Music Showcase concert 
featuring woodwinds, brass, percussion and piano groups. Visit 
music.uwo.ca/events/chamber-music-recital-series.html for full chamber music schedule. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Music changes lives. So do our donors. 
Charitable gifts from music lovers, like you, provide critical support for the Don Wright Faculty of Music’s 
performances and educational programming. To help us to continue to enrich our community through the 
power of music, donations can be made by phone at (519) 661-2111 x85695 online at music.uwo.ca, or  
by mail c/o Karmen Ferraro, Alumni and Development Officer, Talbot College,  
Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7. 


Chamber Music Showcase Concert

Don Wright Faculty of Music

 
SONGS OF MANY LANDS 
Celebrating International Week at Western 
Presented by Voice Fridays 
Friday, November 15, 2019 
1:30 pm, von Kuster Hall 
 
 
 
 Skin Darkened by the Sun  Mark Lavry   אני שחורה 
from Song of Songs, op. 137 (1903 – 1967) 
Michal Aloni, mezzo-soprano 
Simone Luti, piano 
 
 
啊！我的⻁⼦哥   Ah! My brother 'Huzi' Xiang Jin 
 (1935-2015) 
Ting Zhang, soprano 
Melanie Cancade, piano 
 
 
Τζιβαέρι   Tzivaeri   My Treasure Greek folk song  
Paulina Himaras, soprano 
 
 
Drömmen    The Dream Moses Pergament 
 (1893-1977) 
Max Arvidsson, bass 
Melanie Cancade, piano 
 
 
Cancion de cuna para dormir a un negrito   Xavier Montsalvatge 
Lullaby for a little black boy (1912-2002) 
Francesca Alexander, soprano 
Charmaine Fopoussi, piano 
 
 
故鄉    Home Lu Hua Bo 
 (1914-1994) 
Hilda Lam, soprano 
Paul Digout, piano 
 
 
Рiдна мати моя    Dear mother mine Platon Maiboroda 
 (1918-1989) 
Mark Pichkur, baritone 
Brian Cho, piano 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
幽兰操 Virtues of the Silent Orchid Chinese Folk Song  赵季平 
Yanxue Hu, soprano 
Melanie Cancade, piano 
 
 
Cobra-Grande  The Big Snake Waldemar Henrique 
 (1905-1995) 
Camila Montefusco, mezzo-soprano 
Yolanda Tapia, piano 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Music changes lives. So do our donors. 
Charitable gifts from music lovers, like you, provide critical support for the Don Wright Faculty of Music’s 
performances and educational programming. To help us to continue to enrich our community through 
the power of music, donations can be made by phone at (519) 661-2111 x85695 online at music.uwo.ca, 
or by mail c/o Karmen Ferraro, Alumni and Development Officer, Talbot College,  
Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7. 


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