PELMASTER
AND
WUNDERKIND
DANWEN JIANG, VIOLIN
SIEGBERT RAMPE,
HARPSICHORD/FORTEPIANO

FACULTY ARTIST CONCERT SERIES
ORGAN HALL
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2006 • 7:30 PM

MUSIC
--4-ferbergerCollege
of Fine Arts

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Program
Violinist Danwen Jiang has been called by The Boston Globe, "an intelligent, agile
and breathtaking violinist." Ms. Jiang, a native of China, was a prizewinner in China's
National Violin Competition at the age of thirteen. Shortly after her arrival in the United
States in 1987, she became the First Prize recipient of the St. Louis Symphony Young
Artist Scholarship Competition, the Mid-America Violin Competition and the St. Louis
International Artist Presentation Society Competition. She has performed as a soloist with
numerous symphony and chamber orchestras across North America, and appeared in
concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, La Salle
Gaveau in Paris and the Great Hall in China. Many of her performances also have been
heard through classical radio networks such as NPR, WQXR, KFOU, WILL, KING,
KBAQ, and CNR (China National Radio). She has recorded for the China Record
Corporation, the MMF and the Eroica labels. Her most recent compact disc releases include
her live performances of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, Antonio Vivaldi's "Four
Seasons" and Maurice Ravel's "Tzigane" with the Manchester Music Festival.
As a guest artist, Ms. Jiang has played with the Soloists of The Pacific Rim, the
Boston Players and the American Chamber Players. She has appeared at the Sanibel
Chamber Music Festival, Yale Chamber Music Series and Rutgers SummerFest in the
United States, the Festival du Quercy Blanc and Festival Dan le Gard in France, the
Gioventn Musicale D'Italia in Italy, and the Victoria International Music Festival in
Canada. She has performed chamber music with musicians such as members of the
Guarneri, Juilliard, Tokyo, Emerson, Lark and the Shanghai String Quartets, principal
players from the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and Menahem Breuer, concertmaster of the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra. Ms. Jiang is a founding member of the Trio du Soleil. As an
orchestral musician, she was the concertmaster of the Riverside Symphonia in New Jersey
from 1996 through 2002. Her extensive repertoire embraces all genres of classical music.
In addition to being an avid performer, Danwen Jiang is a devoted and accomplished
teacher. She is currently Assistant Professor of Violin at Arizona State University. Ms.
Jiang has also been a faculty member at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has given guest recitals and master classes at other
reputable music schools in the country such as the Universities of Maryland, Michigan,
Utah, Wisconsin (Milwaukee), and Florida State University. She was honored with the
Distinguished Teacher Award by the Herberger College of Fine Arts at Arizona State
University, and was featured as a soloist with the ASU Symphony Orchestra at the
American String Teachers Association National Convention in Reno in 2005. Some of her
former students have embarked on high-powered positions in the music field in recent
years, including concertmaster of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, associate concertmaster
of the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra and the Reno Chamber Orchestra, the First Violin
positions in the Julstrom and Vinca string Quartets, and Assistant Professor of Violin at
Western Illinois University.
Ms. Jiang's 2006-2007 engagements include concerto appearances, recitals and master
classes in Germany, Poland, Iceland, Hong Kong, China, as well as in the United States.
Danwen Jiang studied at Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, St. Louis
Conservatory of Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Rutgers University. Her former
violin teachers include Weijian Zhao, Taras Gabora, Arnold Steinhardt and Oscar
Shumsky. Additionally, she studied chamber music with Felix Galimir, Michael Tree,
Seymour Lipkin, and Zara Nelsova. Ms. Jiang plays on a 1727 Antonio Stradivarius violin
(the "Ex-Ries") on loan from an anonymous foundation.

Sonata in E Major, BWV 1016
for Violin and Harpsichord
I. Adagio
II. Allegro
III. Adagio ma non tanto
IV. Allegro

Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)

Sonata in D Major, KV 306 (3001) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
for Fortepiano and Violin
(1756-1791)
I. Allegro con spirito
II. Andantino cantabile
III. Allegretto
**There will be a 10-minute intermission**

Sonata in B Minor, BWV 1014
for Violin and Harpsichord
I. Adagio
II. Allegro
III. Andante
IV. Allegro
Sonata in A Major, KV 526
for Fortepiano and Violin
I. Molto allegro
II. Andante
III. Presto

Johann Sebastian Bach

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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In respect for the performers and those audience members around you, please turn
all beepers, cell phones and watches to their silent mode.
Thank you.

Siegbert Rampe is the new Assistant Professor of Early Music and Harpsichord at *2.44\
ASU. From 1997 to 2004 he was professor at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen and at the
Mozarteum University in Salzburg where he taught a young generation of harpsichordists
and fortepianists.
Born in 1964 in South Germany, he studied harpsichord, piano, fortepiano, organ, and
composition in Stuttgart, Amsterdam, and Salzburg with Kenneth Gilbert, Ton Koopman,
Ludger Lohmann, Helmut Lachenmannn and others. Since his concert debut at the
Frescobaldi Festival in Ferrara (1983) he has appeared on the harpsichord, fortepiano, and
organ in solo and chamber music recitals and as a conductor. His concert tours have taken
him to practically every country, music festival and broadcasting/TV company in Europe as
well as to Russia, the Far East, and the United States. In 1988, he founded Nova
Stravaganza, an ensemble specializing in performances on period instruments which in
2005 received Echo Classics Artist of the Year, the most outstanding record award of
Europe. From 1998 to 2002 he was also artistic director of the famous Bach Festival in
Cothen Castle. Being a Mozart specialist as well his current schedule includes recitals at
Mozart festivals in Salzburg and Vienna. In 2006 he will finish his second complete
recording of Mozart's piano music on period instruments, begun in 2004.
Rampe's repertoire on period keyboard instruments ranges from the Medieval to Cesar
Franck and Johannes Brahms. His list of recordings includes more than 65 CDs, all of
which were made exclusively for EMI and Virgin since 1987 and also for MDG since
2000. Many of them have received international awards. Among them are a large number
of ensemble, clavier and organ works by Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, as well as music
from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Peter Cosse referred to Rampe's recording debut in 1987, with Mozart's clavier
sonatas, as "sensational" and "the utmost in technique and artistry." To Heinz-Josef
Herbort, Rampe is "a performer who forces one to listen intently" (Die Zeit). His
interpretations are rooted in a thorough study of compositional technique, performance
practice, and the composers' surroundings. His constant quest for an understanding of both
composer and work has led to new insights and opened up new avenues of expression. The
certificate of the German Record Critics Award maintains that "Siegbert Rampe has
emerged as a musician of remarkably incisive and independently-minded powers of
expression. The result is music-making of a linearity, presence, and intensity that literally
beggars comparison."
Rampe has also conveyed his discoveries in several books (e.g. on Bach and Mozart),
more than 50 journal articles, and a new generation of complete editions of early music
(over 30 volumes). These editions meet the demands of performers and scholars alike and
have been accorded worldwide recognition. Most of his writings and editions have been
published by Barenreiter.

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