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Thursday, March 2, 2000. 7:30

Rebocca Rischin, Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Ohio
Univcrsity since i995, holds the Bachelor of Arts, cum laude and
Master of Music degrees liom Yale University, the performance
DiplOme from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, and the
Doctor of Music degree from Florida State University. Her
awards, grants, and distinctions include: tirst place (second prize)
at the 1994Intcrnational Clarinet Competition in Cracow, Poland;
finalist for the hincipal Clarinet position of the BBC Symphony
in London; a Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship for performance
study in Paris; and a Florida State University Dissertation
Fellowship for her treatise on Oliver Messiaen's Quartet for the
End of Time.

PROGRAM

Introduction et Rondo,

Charles-Marie Widor
1844-t937

4p.72 (1898)

Two Piano Preludes (1926)

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George Gershwin
1898-1937

Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
(arr. for clarinet and piano by James Cohn)

A native of San Francisco, at the age of seventeen Rischin was
selected by the clarinetist Richard Stoltzman to be the featured
soloist at the 1985 San Francisco Mayor's Command
Performance. As winner of the 1987 Williun Waite Concerto
Compctition, she soloed with the Yzrle Symphony on their 1988
tour of Creat Britain. Other solo appearances include recitals A
the Fondation des Etats-Unis in Paris and at the second and fifth
International Clarinet Festivals in Cracow. She has performed as
a collaborative artist with the Lark Quartet and as an orchestral
musician with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and ttre
Promusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus and has participated
in numerous summer music festivals including Aspen, Sarasota,

Rendezvous (1947)

Kent/Blossom, and Waterloo.

Adagio ma non uoppo--Andante-Allegro

Also in demand as a teacher, lecturer, and writer, Dr. Rischin has
given master classes and/or clinics at the University of CincinnatiCollege Conservatory of Music, the University of NebraskaLincoln, and the annual conference of the Ohio Music Educators
Association. She has published numerous articles in The Clarinet
and was one of four featured speakers at ClarinetFest '96 in Paris,
whcrc shc lcc:turcd in Frcnch and English on hcr award-winning

Concertino in Eb, Opus 26

Alan Shulman
b. 19r5

(1811)

Carl Maria von Weber
1786-1826

Visions in the Dark (1988)

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Jonathan D. Flowers
b. 1969

Remembering Grdmila

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Dr. Rischin's biography was recently selected for inclusion in ttre
21st edition of Who's Who of American Women.. Her teachers
include David Shifrin, Artistic Director of the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center, Frank Kowalsky, Professor of Clarinet
at Florida State University, and Guy Deplus, Professor Emeritus
of the Paris Conservatory. She is a member of Pi Kappa t ambda
Phi Kappa Phi, the Music Teachers National Association, the
International Clarinet Association, the Ohio Music Educators
Association, and the American Fcderation of Musicians.

Ziguenerweisen ("Gypsy Airs")

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Pablo de Sarasate
1844- 1908

(arr. for clarinet and piano by J6zsef Balogh)

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