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CLAIRE PRADEL
Harpsichord

Linda Brunner, Flute
David DeBolt, Bassoon

GUEST ARTIST RECITAL SERIES
ASU ORGAN HALL
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2015 • 7:30 P.M.

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Claire PRADEL began her musical studies with Lucette Descaves at the age of 5. She
entered the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris in the Formation
Musicale class when she was eleven years old. Here she obtained her first medal in one
year and then entered the piano class of the prestigious teachers Yves Nat and Pierre
Sancan .. An encounter with the harpsichord changed her direction and she decided to
specialize in this instrument, obtaining her prize in the class of Marcelle de Lacour. Along
with friends from the C.N.S.M. she founded a chamber orchestra 'Les Musiciens de
France ' which has played throughout France both to the general public and in school
concerts. She has succeeded in combining teaching both the piano and the harpsichord
along with performing concerts in Europe and the United states as a soloist and in duo with
the organ or harpsichord, in trio with flute, oboe, violin, bassoon or viola di gamba and
mandolin.
Ms. Pradel· s work has includecfthe discovery of XVIII & XIX century music for the
unique combination of mandolin and harpsichord. Recent performances have included
music of Marin Marais and St Colombes for spinet and viola di gamba in Brittany. and a
critically acclaimed concert collaboration with oboist Vincent Friberg and bassoonist
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Phillippe Gaillard on the Isle of Wight.
Currently, Claire Pradel is Professor of harpsichord and piano at the Conservatoire
Jean- Philippe Rameau in Paris. She is performing several concerts in Arizona as an
affiliate artist with The Kent Camerata, an internationally touring vocal-instrumental
chamber music ensemble.
Linda Brunner is principal flutist with Maine's Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, and has
often appeared as soloist with the orchestra. She also has been a member of the Midcoast
Woodwind Quintet and has performed with the Portland Symphony Orchestra and the
Maine Friends of Music, a Baroque ensemble which collaborated with other French and
American artists in 2007 to perform a 4-concert tour in France as well as a 5-concert tour in
Ohio with the French/American Friends of Baroque Music. Yet another tour was performed
in France in 2013. She is an affiliate artist with The Kent Camerata chamber ensemble.
Linda has been a member of the Downeast Chamber players and the Bangor
Symphony, and has taught at the University of Maine in Orono. For twenty years she
directed the Hallowell Community Band performing weekly summer concerts in Boothbay
Harbor, Maine, and has directed several school and community ensembles. Brunner studied
flute with Robert Cavally, James Pappautsakis, and Frances Drinker. She earned degrees
from the New England Conservatory of Music and the College Conservatory of Music at
the University of Cincinnati.
David OeBolt is Professor Emeritus of Music at Kent State University where he performed
as the bassoonist of the Kent Woodwind Quintet/Quartet and the Kent Camerata. As a
major orchestra principal, he performed for 16 seasons with the Kansas City Philharmonic
under the batons of many internationally distinguished conductors. He also served as
principal bassoonist of the orchestras of Birmingham, Tulsa, and the Santa Fe Opera. He
has performed at the Aspen, Sewanee, and Santa Fe Chamber Music festivals, as well as
touring the Midwest with the Philharmonic Woodwind Quintet and the Kansas City
Baroque Players, which he founded. He is also a frequent featured performer at
conferences of the International Double Reed Society. His solo recitals have taken him to
many European countries and to recital/master class engagements at leading music schools
on three continents.
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Program
Pastorale d'Automnc

Philippe Ciaillard
b. 1959
Claire Pradel. Linda Brunner, Da\'id DeBolt
Francois Couperin
1668 -1731

Les Baricades mystericuses
L'unique
Soeur ivlonique
La Passaeaille
Claire Pradel

Bartolomeo de Selma y Salaverde

VIII Fantasia ex F

c. 1580 - c.1638
David DeBolt and Claire Pradel.
Prelude
Les Niais de Solognc et !es 2 double
La Poule
Les Sauvages
La Dauphine
Claire Pradel

.lean-Philippe Rameau
1683-1764

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George Frideric Handel
1685-1759

Sonata in A Major. Op. I. No. 4
Grave
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro appassionato
Linda Brunner and Claire Pradel
Chamber Trio for Flute, Bassoon, and Continuo
Affetuoso
Vivace
Adagio

17riedrich Wilhelm Zachow
1662 -I 712

Allegro

Linda Brunner. David DeBolt, Claire Pradel

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His recordings have brought praise from composers, bassoonists, and critics. The
CD, David DeBolt: Bassoon Music of Twentieth-Centwy America led The
Instrumentalist magazine to select DeBolt as the sole bassoonist on a list of exen:ipl
recording artists along with ltzhak Perlman, Yo Yo Ma, and Wynton Marsalis.
He has made numerous co19certo appearances with the Kansas City Philharmonic, the
Tulsa Philharmonic Strings, and the Chamber Society Orchestra of Philadelphia, with
which he recorded Vivaldi and Bond Concertos (CRS 8321 ). DeBolt has also taught at the
University of Kansas, Tulsa University, and Sewanee Summer Music Center. He studied
bassoon with Bernard Garfield (Principal , Philadelphia Orchestra), Harold Goltzer (New
York Philharmonic), and with George Wilson at the Ohio State University, where he earned
degrees .

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