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11.24.2024
8:30pm EST
KILBOURN HALL
Meet the Artists
Angela Rubin
Viola
Angela Rubin has performed in distinguished performance venues around the world including Carnegie Hall in New York City as principal violist of the New York String Orchestra Seminar in 2023 and at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Japan with the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra in 2023 and 2024. As a soloist, Angela was awarded first place in the Nazareth College Community Music Program Music Competition, the Arts Alive Scholarship, and was the sole recipient of the 2024 Browne Award.
Angela holds a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University where she also received a minor in Music Theory and a minor in Sound Design. She is currently a teaching assistant at the Eastman School of Music where she is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in Viola Performance under the tutelage of Masumi Per Rostad.​​
Cynthia Liu
Piano
Chun-Hsin (Cynthia) Liu, originally from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is currently pursuing her DMA degree in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music at the Eastman School of Music, where she holds a Graduate Assistantship in Studio Accompanying, Opera Pianist Assistantship in the Voice and Opera Department and studies with Dr. Andrew Harley. Chun-Hsin finished her bachelor degree with distinction in Piano Performance at National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where she studied with Dr. Chuan-I Huang. Recently, Chun-Hsin received her master’s degree in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music at the Eastman School of Music.
Érico Freire Bezerra
Piano
Brazilian pianist Érico Freire Bezerra is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music at the Eastman School of Music, under the guidance of Dr. Andrew Harley. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Rio Grande do Sul Federal University (UFRGS) in Brazil and his Master’s degree from Illinois State University. Since the beginning of his DMA, Érico participated in many music festivals, including the 2022 Toronto Summer Music Festival, and Music on Site.Inc (MOSI) 2022 where he served as Music Director in the opera Suor Angelica. In 2023, he attended the 2023 Aspen Music Festival and School as a fellow in the Vocal Collaboration program.
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Since 2015, he has served as a staff collaborative pianist at UFRGS in Porto Alegre/Brazil. Érico is a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship and currently holds Graduate Assistantships in Studio Accompanying and Orchestral Keyboard at Eastman.
Program
Amy Beach. Romance, Op. 23.
arranged by Angela Rubin ©2022
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Clara Schumann. Three Romances, Op. 22.
arranged by Angela Rubin ©2024
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I. Andante molto
II. Allegretto
III. Leidenschaftlich schnell
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Rita Strohl. "Titus et Bérénice."
arranged by Angela Rubin ©2024
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I. Allegro moderato
II. Vivace - Molto movimento
III. Lento, Tristamente
IV. Allegro molto movimento
Mission Statement
I have a passion for arranging and performing works by marginalized composers as music is a force for global change.
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Amy Beach, Clara Schumann, and Rita Strohl are a few individuals from the 19th and 20th centuries who composed meaningful instrumental music during a time when women were expected to serve exclusively in the domestic sphere.
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Throughout my doctoral degree, I arranged music from these remarkable composers to share with my community. Rochester, New York was an important geographical location for the Women’s suffrage movement as the Susan B. Anthony house resides a few blocks from the Eastman School of Music campus.
Program Notes
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Romance, Op. 23
Amy Beach entered American society during a period of political and social instability. She defied societal standards placed upon women through her compositional achievements. The premiere of her Gaelic Symphony with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896 is distinguishable as the first symphony published by an American female composer. In 1900, she premiered her own Piano Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. During a time when it was condemnatory for women to speak to a crowd of men, let alone have a resemblance of a career outside of the home, Amy Beach’s rise to prominence was extraordinarily revolutionary, inspiring, and novel.
Kilbourn Hall
Eastman School of Music
26 Gibbs St, Rochester, NY 14604
"Opened in 1922, Kilbourn Hall was built by George Eastman and dedicated to the memory of his mother, Maria Kilbourn Eastman. Three stories high and decorated in the Venetian Renaissance style seats 444 audience members."