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School of Music

GUEST ARTISTIFACULTY CONCERT SERIES

THE TRANSCON.. TINIENTAL DUO

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PIANO FOUR HANDS

KATZIN CONCERT HALL
Sunday, May 13 ,200t 2:30 P.m.

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ELAINE GnnBNnrnLD, PIANIST
Elaine Greenfield has performed throughout North America as soloist
and ensemble player. N.Y. Times critic Peter Davis praised her
Camegie Recital Hall debut: "...the playing ryas well conceived,
etched in a clearly drawn, rhythmically strong profile. Ms. Greenfield
possesses a formidable technique which she uses for intimate,
expressive purposes rather than flashy surface effect." In 2000 she
re6orded D-ebussy Preludes, Bks. I &2 on an historic 1907 Bluthner
of Lripzig, Debussy's piano of choice. Othq rycg_r${tg: include
"Piano 4 Flands," Dbbussy "Preludes, Bk. l" (1984), "VCME," a CD
with the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble of which she is a
founding member, and "Music of Her Owr," so.f J 3nd pipo music
by womln, the result of a vermont Arts Council.Fellowship Award.
Ms. Greenfield has been listed on the council's Touring Artists
Register since 1972 and in 1986 received the Centennial Award of
tfrtJrit for "Outstanding Contributions to Musical America" from
suNY Potsdam. she hblds degrees from the crane School of Music
and the Peabody Conservatory. Additional study was -in New York
with Adamant Music school founder, Edwine Behre. Ms. Greenfield
has been an artist faculty member of the Adamant Music School since
1973.

Petite Suite

Claude Debussy
1862-1918

En bateau
Cortege

Menuet
Ballet
Selections from

Jeux d'enfants (Children's Games)
La toupie (The Top)

Georges Bizet

1838-1875

Trompette et tambou (Bugler and Drummer)
Colin-maillard (Blind Man's Bluf|
Ir bal (The Ball)

Dolly Suite, Op. 56
Berceuse

Gabriel Faure

t845-1924

Mi-a-ou
Jardin de Dolly
Kitty-Valse
Tendresse
Pas Espagnol

**There wiII be a l}-minute intermission**
JAN MEYER THOMPSON' PIANIST
Jan Meyer Thompson, Professor- of Piano at Arizona State
Universiiy, has perf6rmed solo recitals and chamber music across the
United States, ianada Mexico, Europe, and Russia. As pianist with
The Kent Camerata, a five-member international vocal and
insffumental ensemble, Ms. Thompson recently toured the Republic
of heland and Northern helan4 to reviews which acclaimed her
"beautiful sound, easy versatility of style, and remarkable sensitivity
to phrasing and nuance." Ms. Thompson is recorded on compact
disi in ensEmble performances with singers Mary Sue Yyuf and Jane
Dressler (song upon song, TimGrabber Digital), with bassoonist
David DeBolt-(A ilusical Fainting Comes to Life, Qrys1al_Records,
2001), and wiih piano duo partner Flaine Greenfield (Piano 4Hanis). She holds the Doctor of Music {egree- in PerformanceChamber Music from Northwestern University, where her principal
teachers were Gui Mombaerts and Donald Isaak. Ms. Thompson has
been on the faculty of Arizona State Uniyersity since 1977 and a
member of the Adimant Music School (Adamant, Vermont) summer
artist faculty since 1990.

Ma mere I'oye (Mother Goose)
Pavane de la Belle aix bois dormant

(Sleeping Beauty)
Petit Poucet (Tom Thumb)
I aideronneffe, lmperafrice des Pagodes
(Empress of the Pagodas)
I,es entretiens de la Belle e le Bete
(Conversation of Beauty and the Beast)
Le jardin feerique (The Fairy Garden

Maurice Ravel
1875-1937

Selections from Souvenirs
Pas de deux
Hesitation-Tango
Galop

Samuel Barber
1910-1981

Russian Dance from Petrouchka

Igor Stavinsky

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Paul W. Estes

Assistant Performance Events Staff Manager

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Performance .Events Staff

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William Cushing, Erin Dow
Jihyun Lee, Elizabeth Maben
Katie Ann McCarty, Kelli McConnehey
: James Paiki.nson, Grant Striemer
Makoto Taniai, Jessica Wood

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