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Chamber Music Series

fhe Sonoran Chamber Music Series
ASU School (If ".1us1c
Katzrn Concert Hall
Sunday, March :'.O, 201 ')
2:00 p n1.

Joana Genovei, Violin
Ariel Rudiakov, Viola
Tom Landscnoot, Cello
Liang·-yu Wang, Piano

About The Artists
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Violinist Joana Genova, Artist Associate at Williams College and
Resident Artist and Education Director of the Manchester Music
Festival has an active career as a chamber musician, orchestral
player, teacher and soloist. She began playing violin at the age of
six in her native Bulgaria, made her solo debut at the age of twelve
with the Plovdiv Chamber Orchestra and is a prizewinner of the
National Competition in Bulgaria. Ms. Genova received her
Bachelor of Music at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and her
Muster's degree in chamber music at the Rotterdam Conservatory
in The Netherlands. Her teachers included Peter Brunt, Ilya
Grubert and Prof. Samuel Thaviu. In Holland, Ms. Genova was
concertmaster of the Amsterdam Bach Consort and a member of
Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
Since 2000, Ms. Genova has lived in the US where she is the
principal second violin of the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra,
concertmaster of the Manchester Chamber Orchestra and a member
of the Brooklyn Philharmonic. She on the faculty of the Manchester
Music Festival and the Michael Rudiakov Music Academy in
Vermont and has taught at Smith College and the Bennington
Chamber Music Conference. Ms. Genova is active as a chamber
musician for the Manchester Music Festival and the Williams
Chamber Players and frequent guest at other festivals and concert
series. Her collaborations include performances with the Shanghai
String Quartet, Kalichstein-Laredo Robinson trio, Andres Cardenes,
Nathaniel Rosen, Renee Jolles, Michael Rudiakov, Yehuda Hanani,
Trio Solisti, Tabby Appel, Sophie Shao, Ruth Laredo, Davide
Cabassi, David Deveau, Adam Neiman and David Krakauer
among others. Ms. Genova has performed as soloist with the
Adelphi Chamber Orchestra, Metropolitan, Rockaway and
Danbury Symphonies, Berkshire Symphony and Manchester
Festival Orchestra .
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Born in Indianapolis, IN and raised in Riverdale, NYC, violist and
conductor Ariel Rudiakov comes from a musical family going back
three generabons. He received his early musical training from his
parmts, Michael and Judith before attending pre-college at
Manhattan School of Music.
Rudiakov has been Artistic Director of the award-winning
Manchester (VT) Music Festival MMF since November 2000 and is
Music Director and conductor of the Danbury (CT). Ari holds viola
performance degrees from SUNY Purchase (BM) and the
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (MM), and was a
scholarship student at Yale University's master's program where he
studied pnvately with Jessie Levine and chamber music with
members of the Tokyo String Quartet.
In both capacities, Rudiakov enjoys a wide-ranging and diverse
musical life, performing solo and chamber music to critical acclaim
throughout the USA a~d abroad with many fine musicians
including the Shanghai and Jupiter Quartets, current and former
members of the Tokyo, Juilliard and Guarneri quartets, pianists
Ruth Laredo, David Deveau, Lillian Kallir, Andre Michel Schub,
and Adam Neiman. He has participated in solo and chamber music
master classes with violinists Felix Galimir and Raphael Bronstein,
violist:; Michael Tree and Csaba Erdely among other noted
musinans.
At the podium he has collaborated with violinist Jaime Laredo,
cellists Sharon Robmson, Bernard Greenhouse, pianist Chnstopher
O'Reilly and others. He is a former member of the New York Piano
Quartet and Equinox String Quartet and was a founding member
and president of SO NYC (the String Orchestra of New York City).

Most recently, Ariel conducted recording sessions with Dance
Theater of Harlem for their World Premiere production of
Alexander Glazunov' s ballet Raymonda, performed at Lincoln
Center in April.
Among his recordings are the complete string quartets by Camille
Saint-Saens and the piano quintet by Vittorio Giannini (MSR
Classics), which Fanfare Magazine described as "utterly superb".
Composers Richard Lane, Philip Lasser and Coleridge Taylor
Perkinson have dedicated works to Rudiakov, who is active in
commissioning and recording new music.
Ariel resides in Manchester, VT and Yonkers, NY with his wife,
violinist Joana Genova and their two children; Michael Arthur and
Liliana Judith. He plays a viola made by Geoffrey Ovington in
2000.
Praised for his expressive and poetic music making, Belgian cellist
Thomas Landschoot enjoys an international career as a concert and
recording artist and pedagogue. He has toured North America,
Europe, South America and Asia and has appeared on national
radio and television worldwide.
His solo career started after taking a top prize at the International
Cello Competition 'Jeunesse Musicales' in 1995 in Bucharest,
Romania. He has performed with the National Orchestra of
Belgium, the Frankfurt Chamber Orchestra, Prima Ia Musica, the
Symphony of the Southwest, Shih Chien Symphony Orchestra,
Scottsdale Philharmonic, Kaohsiung City Symphony, Loja
Symphony Orchestra in Ecuador and the Orchestra of the United
States Army Band and has appeared at Barge Music, Park City,
Santa Barbara, Mammoth Lakes, Eureka, Utah, Red Rock,
Waterloo, Killington and Texas Music Festivals. His recordings are
available on Summit, Organic, Kokopelli, ArchiMusic and Centaur
Records.
Thomas Landschoot is a member of the Rossetti Quartet and has
performed with the Takacs and Arianna and members of the
Cleveland, Vermeer, Tokyo, and Orion Quartets. He has also
collaborated with Lynn Harrell, Peter Wiley, Gilbert Kalish, ChoLiang Lin, Martin Beaver and Martin Katz. He has commissioned
and premiered over 20 new works for cello, including a concerto by
Dirk Brosse. Upcoming engagements include 3 concerts with the
Symphony Orchestra of Flanders with a new concerto of Belgian
composer Frank Nuyts.
Thomas Landschoot has been involved in interdisciplinary public
service projects through his music, such as raising funds and
awareness for the need of building an orphanage and hospital in
Tamil Nadu, India. As part of this humanitarian project,
Landschoot was featured in a documentary film of a cellist
performing across India, integrating photography, culinary,
journalism and original music compositions.
He has served as a faculty member at the Music Academy of the
West in Santa Barbara, Castleman Quartet Program in New York,
Killington Music Festival, Meadowmount School of Music, Foulger
International Music Festival in NJ, High Peaks, Madeline Island
and Texas Music Festival. Landschoot has given master classes at
conservatories and universities throughout Asia, the U.S. and
Europe.
His students can be found among the ranks of national and
international competition winners, occupy principal positions in
major orchestras and teach at Universities around the U.S. and
abroad. Thomas Landschoot is currently a professor of Cello at

Arizona State University. Prior to joining the music faculty at
Arizona State University, Landschoot taught at the University of
Michigan. He is the recipient of ASU's prestigious Herberger
College of Fine Arts Distinguished Teaching Award. Landschoot
has served as on the faculty of the Shih Chien University in Taipei
since 2008.
Thomas Landschoot is the founder and the Artistic Director of the
Sonoran Chamber Music Festival
(www.sonoranchambermusic.com), as well as the President of the
Arizona Cello Society. He performs on a cello by Tomaso Balestrieri
(1778) and a Dominique Peccatte bow.
Taiwanese-born pianist Liang-yu Wang has made numerous
appearances as a soloist and collaborative pianist throughout the
United States, Canada, Italy, France, South Africa, and Taiwan.
Actively engaged in concert appearances at national and
international venues, Ms. Wang has performed in the Morgan
Library & Museum, the Richard B. Fisher Center, the Hudson
Opera House, the National Cultural Center in Taiwan, the
Welgemeend Hall in Cape Town, South Africa, and also in several
unconventional performance venues such as the Woodbourne
Correctional Facility, NY.
Ms. Wang has been featured as a guest artist at several reputable
chamber music organizations, including Sonoran Chamber Music
Series, Lev Aronson Legacy Festival, Red Rocks Music Festival, and
Downtown Chamber Series. Other festival appearances include the
Music Academy of the West, the Banff Arts Centre, the Schlern
International Music Festival, and the Academie Musicale
Internationale "Barbara Krakauer". An accomplished chamber
musician, Ms. Wang has collaborated with Maestro Leon Botstein,
cellists Raphael Wallfisch, Thomas Landschoot, violinists Federico
Agostini, Jorja Fllezanis, Joseph Swensen, Grigory Kalinovsky,
clarinetist Todd Palmer, Baritone Robert Barefield, double bassist
Catalin Rotaru, Jazz pianist Andy Milne, and the members of
Houston Symphony Orchestra, Cape Town Philharmonic
Orchestra, and Phoenix Symphony Orchestra. Along with her
active performing career, Ms. Wang has also been giving chamber
music master classes both in US and in Taiwan, including at
Arizona State University and National Sun Yat Sen University,
among others. As a cello-piano duo, Ms. Wang and Thomas
Landschoot released their debut CD "Balabille: Cello Sonatas by
Debussy, Poulenc & Chopin" on ArchiMusic in December 2011,
which was nominated by the Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan as
'The Best Classical Music Album of the year.'
From 2011 to 2013, Ms. Wang served as Visiting Assistant Professor
(Collaborative Piano/String) at the Indiana UniversityBloomington. Prior to her position at IU, Ms. Wang had been
awarded the Post- Graduate Collaborative Piano Fellowship from
the Bard Conservatory of Music, where she worked closely with the
world-renowned soprano Dawn Upshaw, the artistic director of the
Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard. Ms. Wang holds a Performer
Diploma in Piano Performance from Indiana UniversityBloomington, and received her M.M. and D.M.A. in Collaborative
Piano from Arizona State University. Ms. Wang has been on staff
with the Eastern Music Festival and the Banff Arts Centre in past
summers. She recently joined the faculty at Western Illinois
University School of Music in 2013.

Program
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Variations for Cello and Piano in E-flat Major
on "Bei Mannern, welche Liebe ftihlen"
from Mozart's Die Zauberflote
Wo0.46
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)

Theme: Andante
Variation I
Variation II
Variation III
Variation IV
Variation V: Si prenda ii tempo un poco piu vivace
Variation VI: Adagio
Variation VII: Allegro ma non troppo
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Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola
H. 313

Bohusiav Martin
(1890-1959)

Poco allegro - Poco vivo
Poco andante - Andante moderato
Allegro moderato - Allegro
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Intermission
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Piano Quartet in C minor
Richard Strauss
Op.13
{1864-1949)
Allegro
Scherzo: Presto - Molto meno mosso
Andante
Finale vivace
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Thank You for Your Support
B Major $5000 +
E Major $2500 +
A Major $1000 +
Michael Long
Octavio Pajaro and Dominique van de Stadt
D M;ijor $500 +
Jeff Dangremond and Kanda Singchai Dangremond
Anonymous
The Du Family
Larry and Martha Stevens
Thomas Diener
Tom Landschoot
G Major $250 +
Michio and Kasumi Kubota
Aiden Rebecca Spooner
Zeno Johnson and Mary Elion Collins
C Major $100 +
Lynne Larson and Charlie Bullen
John Spielberg and Sarah Seaver

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ASU Foundation
Sonoran Chamber Music Series (memo box)
Mail to: Lori Pollock, School of Music
P.O. Box 870405, Tempe, AZ 85287-0405
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