PROGRAM

Deux Melodies Hebraiques
Kaddish
Fragt die Welt

Maurice Ravel
(1875-1937)

Four Etudes-Tableaux
F minor, Op. 33 #1
C minor, Op. 39 #1
D minor, Op. 33 #5
D major, Op. 39 #9

Sergei Rachmaninov
(1873-1943)

Miroirs
Oiseaux tristes
Une Barque sur l'ocean

Histoires naturelles
Le paon
Le grillon
Le cygne
Le martin-pecheur
La pintade

Child, how lovely, Op. 8 #2
Everything Passes, Op 25 #15
They asked, Op. 21 #4
Over the fresh grave, Op. 21 #2
Lilacs, Op. 21 #5

Lilacs, as transcribed for piano by the composer
Daisies, as transcribed for piano by the composer

Daisies, Op. 38 #3
Floods of Spring, Op. 14, 11
**There will be a 10-minute intermission**
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In respect for the performers and those audience members around
you, please turn all beepers, cell phones, watches to their silent
mode. Thank you.

Robert Hamilton, Professor of Piano, has appeared with the orchestras of
New York, Chicago, Washington, Milwaukee, and Uruguay. A summa
cum laude graduate of the Indiana University School of Music, his major
teachers were Sidney Foster and Dora Zasla ysky. Mr. Hamilton's many
awards have included three performance grants from the Rockefeller Fund,
six U.S. State Department grants, and top prizes at the Montevideo, Ganz,
Casella, and Busoni International Competitions. He has performed
concerts on four continents, including twenty-one extensive tours of
Europe and seven tours of the Far East. Radio appearances include the
BBC (London), ABC radio network, Voice of America, Radio Warsaw,
DRS (Zurich), and National Public Radio. His commercial recordings have
been on the Advance, Orion, and Philips labels, and he has served on the
juries of national and international competitions. Professor Hamilton is
profiled in the recent book, The Most Wanted Piano Teachers in the USA,
as well as the International Who's Who in Music. His students have won
many national and international prizes, and hold positions in the
professional music field. He is also Artistic Director of the annual London
Piano Festival in England, and is an international Steinway Artist.

Judy May, mezzo-soprano, is a native of Illinois. A winner of the Mu Phi Epsilon
International Competition, she has performed recitals extensively both in the US
and abroad. She is quite active as a concert artist: in addition to her appearance at
Carnegie Hall with the Manhattan Philharmonic, she has been featured with the
Phoenix Symphony, Sapporo Symphony (Japan), Central Wisconsin Symphony,
the Aspen Chamber Symphony with Luciano Berio conducting, and performed at
the Grand Teton Music Festival. A versatile interpreter of modern music, she has
several world premieres to her credit, including Spiral II by Chincry Ung in Japan
and Dream Sequence by Arthur Weisberg. Before her appointment in 1986 to the
voice faculty at Arizona State University, Professor May was on the faculties of
Westminster Choir College, the University of Wisconsin/Stevens Point and the
University of Southern Mississippi. She serves on the faculty of the American
Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. Judy May holds degrees from the
University of Illinois and The Juilliard School.

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