#Member of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra

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Lars Danielsson, Paolo Fresu, Björn Bohlin & Orchestra

JazzBaltica 2018

Concert date: 23.06.2018 | JazzBaltica 

Lars Danielsson, b, vcl | Grégory Privat, p | John Parricelli, git | Magnus Öström, dr, perc | Paolo Fresu, tp | Nils Landgren, tb | Björn Bohlin, e-horn | Member of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra (strings and woodwinds) | special guest: Caecilie Norby, voc

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410: Charles Chandler on auditions, excerpts, and chamber music

It has been such a pleasure getting to know Charles Chandler since moving to San Francisco!  In addition to playing in the San Francisco Symphony, Charles teaches at the San Francisco Academy Orchestra and is an active soloist and chamber musician. 

He is actively involved with the Golden Gate Bass Camp and other Bay Area double bass events and is a champion of new and previously undiscovered works for the double bass.

More About Charles:

Bassist Charles Chandler has been a member of the San Francisco Symphony since 1992. Prior to his current position, he was Associate Principal Bass and Soloist with the Phoenix Symphony. He also served as Principal Bass of the Carmel Bach Festival Orchestra and the New York 20th Century Chamber Players.

His primary teachers were Shinji Eshima of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and David Walter at the Juilliard School. His numerous honors and awards include the San Francisco Symphony Pepsi Cola Young Musician Award, the Pittenger Scholarship, the Irving Klein Scholarship, and first prize in the A.S.T.A. National String Competition.

Upon receiving his Bachelor of Music degree from Juilliard in 1987, Charles Chandler was selected to perform as a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival under the direction of Leonard Bernstein. Playing with Marin Symphony, he has enjoyed performing with his wife Van, a violinist.

He also performs at the Music@Menlo Festival and Chamber Music Sundaes series and frequently records at Skywalker Ranch. Mr. Chandler resides in San Francisco with his wife and their daughter Julie. When not playing on his 1750 double bass made by the Venetian luthier, Domenico Busan, he enjoys organic gardening, bicycling, hiking and spending time with his family.

Music Featured on this Episode:

Rossini Duetto - 1st Movement (Charles Chandler and Amos Yang, recital live in Davies Hall, 2014)

Francesco Burlone Sonata No. 8 for Two Basses “The Ferrret” - Mov. 1 Allegro Appassionato - with Charles Chandler & Mark Wright, double bass

Francesco Burlone - Prelude to Act III from the opera “Phoebus and Daphne” arranged by the composer for cello and 2 double basses (Amos Yang, Mark Wright, and Charles Chandler, recital live in Davies Hall)

Francesco Burlone "Gambo d’ amore” from the opera “La Vigna Incantevole” for Bass and Piano (Sujeevah Hapugalle, piano)

Francesco Burlone “O! Mie Stelle” from the opera “Galileo” for bass and piano (Sujeevah Hapugalle, piano)

Pierre-Louis Hus Desforges Sonata for Cello and bass (with Amos Yang live in Davies Hall)

Links to Check Out:

Charles' website

Charles' San Francisco Symphony page

Charles' San Francisco Academy Orchestra page

Shinji Eshima Interview (Shinji taught Charles during high school)

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Guest pianist Cheng will perform at NSU Oct. 25

NATCHITOCHES - Pianist Angela Cheng will perform at Northwestern State University on Thursday, Oct. 25 at 5:30 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. The concert is part of the Louisiana Piano Series International. Tickets are $15. Students are admitted free. Dr. Francis Yang and Dr. Christine Burczyk Allen are the organizers of the Louisiana Piano Series International. 

 The concert is co-sponsored by the Louisiana Music Teachers Association, which is holding its 66th Annual State Convention and Music Teachers National Association state-level competitions at NSU on Oct. 25 - 27.

 Cheng, a professor of piano at Oberlin College and Conservatory, has appeared as a soloist with more than 100 orchestras, including the Israel Philharmonic, Boston Pops, Buffalo Philharmonic, and the symphonies of Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, St. Louis, Houston, San Diego, Indianapolis, Syracuse, Utah and Colorado.

 An avid recitalist, Cheng has performed solo and chamber recitals throughout North America, Asia and Europe, including New York City (Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and the 92nd Street Y), Wigmore Hall in London, Disney Hall in Los Angeles, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as well as venues in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Montreal, Toronto, Taiwan, Italy and Australia. In 2012, she made her Carnegie Hall debut as soloist with the Edmonton Symphony.

 In 2009, at the invitation of Pinchas Zukerman, Cheng toured Europe and China with the Zukerman Chamber Players. She joined them again in the spring of 2010 for a U.S. tour, which included concerts at Kennedy Center and the 92nd Street Y in New York. Subsequent seasons have seen multiple tours of Europe and South America, including performances in Paris, London, Prague, Moscow, Warsaw, Budapest, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, at the Musikverein in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and at the Salzburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Verbier and Ravinia festivals.

Cheng has been invited to give master classes throughout North America and in Asia, including the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, Taichung University in Taiwan, Indiana University, the University of Michigan and the University of Texas. She has served on the jury of numerous competitions.

 MTNA NSU Collegiate Chapter members will present poster sessions on their community activities, their graduate study research and some will also get the opportunity to play for Angela Cheng in a masterclass. Those performing will be Robyn Tan of Singapore, Cara Lamb of Shreveport, Shihuan Wang of Loudi, China, Ramon Barralaga of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Claudia Musgrove of Forest Hill, Valentina Perez Espinoza and Natalia Yonoff Zapata of Cartagena, Colombia and Matthew Aguilera of San Antonio, Texas.

Emily Owens, violinist, a student of Andrej Kurti, and Barralaga, pianist, a student of Yang, will compete in the state level of the Music Teachers National Association Competition.  

 Yang serves as president-elect of LMTA and Allen serves as chair of collegiate chapters. Chialing Hsieh serves as coordinator of the MTNA Young Artist/Chamber Music Competitions. The Cenla Music Teachers Association is the local chapter host.