NATHAN WILLIAMS
CLARINET
AUDREY ANDRIST
PIANO

GUEST ARTIST CONCERT SERIES
KATZIN CONCERT HALL
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2008 • 7:30 PM

MUSIC
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Nathan Williams--hailed by critics as "outstanding for his musicality, breath
control, robust and brilliant tone, and flawless technique" (El Nuevo Dia
Domingo, San Juan), "a highly effective soloist" (The New York Times), and "a
stellar musician, capable of the most exquisite and expressive playing" (The
Winston-Salem Journal)--has appeared as concerto soloist and given recitals and
chamber music performances at Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, and Kaufmann
Hall at the 92"d St. Y, as well as throughout the United States, and in Austria,
Canada, China, Italy, Israel, Hungary, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, the Netherlands,
and the Czech Republic.
Mr. Williams has been heard in concert broadcasts on National Public Radio, the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Austrian Radio Network, NCRV (Dutch
Radio), and WNCN-New York. He has taken part in world-premiere recordings
and performances of both solo and chamber music for the New York Guild of
Composers, the Austrian Composers Foundation, the Focus! Festival at New
York's Lincoln Center, and San Francisco's Composers, Inc.
He has received critical acclaim for his compact disc recordings for Albany,
Composers Recordings, Inc., Naxos, New Dynamic Records, and Arizona
University Recordings. He is also a featured soloist on "Music from the I.C.A.",
distributed by the International Clarinet Association. In 1999, Strata--a trio he
founded with violinist James Stern and pianist Audrey Andrist--recorded works by
Aram Khachaturian, Max Bruch, Martin Rokeach, Igor Stravinsky, and Don
Freund for AUR. A duo CD with Andrist, Spontaneous Lines (Albany Records,
TROY 311), features works by American composers Leslie Bassett, Sebastian
Currier, Robert Maggio, Robert Muczynski, and Martin Rokeach.
Mr. Williams earned the Artist Diploma with highest honors from the Academy
of Music and Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria, as well as graduate degrees from the
Eastman and Juilliard schools, where he studied with Stanley Hasty. A former
clarinetist with the Continuum ensemble in New York, he was the principal
clarinetist of the Winston-Salem Symphony from 1996 to 2003, and from 1990 to
2001 he was on the faculty of the East Carolina University School of Music in
Greenville, N. C.
Since 2001 he has been the Instructor of Clarinet at the Interlochen Arts
Academy. He is on the Artist Roster of Lois Scott Management, Inc. in New
York and is an Artist/Clinician for Buffet Crampon. He also recently joined the
artist faculty of the Amalfi Coast Chamber Music Institute in Vietri-sulMare/Naples, Italy. Upcoming engagements during the 2007-2008 season include
performances in Colorado, Illinois, North Carolina, Iowa, Arizona, Texas, New
York, Florida, Nebraska, Italy and China.
Canadian pianist Audrey Andrist grew up on a farm in rural Saskatchewan.
While still in high school, she commuted three hours one-way for piano lessons
with William Moore, himself a former student of famed teachers Rosina Lhevinne
and Cecile Genhart. A graduate of Juilliard's doctoral program, where she studied
with Herbert Stessin, Ms. Andrist is the winner of numerous competitions,
including the San Antonio International, Mozart International, and Canada's
Cont'd on back

Program
Solo de Concours

Andre Messager

For Clarinet (1974)

Marius Constant

Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 120, No. 2
Allegro amabile
Allegro appassionato
Andante con moto: Allegro

Johannes Brahms

**There will be a 10-minute intermission**

'Bucolique

Eugene Bozza

Theme and Absurdities (1993)

Derek Bermel

Cookbook (2004)

Kenji Bunch

Smokehouse

Bubbles
Heirloom
La ultima noche en la casa del Flamenco

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Eckhardt-Gramatte Competition for new music. Hailed by critics as "A stunning
musician with incredible dexterity." (San Francisco Classical Voice), she has
appeared as soloist with the Juilliard Orchestra, the National Arts Center
Orchestra (Ottawa) and CBC Vancouver Symphony, with which she preNiered
piano concerto written for her by Andrew MacDonald. A truly adventurous
musician, Ms. Andrist has performed on piano, harpsichord, harmonium and
synthesizer in many of North America's most prestigious venues, including Alice
Tully Hall, Chicago's Ravinia Festival, and Place des Arts in Montreal. A member
of the Stern/Andrist Duo with her husband, violinist James Stern, and the critically
acclaimed trio, Strata, with Stern and clarinetist Nathan Williams, Ms. Andrist has
recorded for Albany, Summit, CRI, AUR and Capstone records, and NPR's
"Performance Today". For NPR she presented a live broadcast recital with
internationally acclaimed violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. Her recent CD with
Canadian violinist Jasper Wood garnered "Best Classical Disc of the Year" awards
from the East Coast Music Association and the Independent Record Producers in
Canada. Ms. Andrist and the ensembles with which she plays are deeply
committed to outreach, and perform wonderfully engaging, memorable concerts
for children of all ages throughout the country. Ms. Andrist currently resides in
the Washington, DC area with her husband and their son, Kenneth. In
Washington, she has appeared with the Kennedy Center Chamber Players, the
21st Century Consort, Smithsonian Chamber Players and the Left Bank Concert
Society.

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