Upcoming Events of the SeventyFifth Season of The William

Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot

Belin Concerts

Eya

Florence: The Cultural Crucible

Presented in honor of Della Robbia:

Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence

April 15,12:00 and 2:00

West Building, West Garden Court

The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book

Merima Kljuco's multimedia work for

accordion, piano, and video

April 15, 3:00

East Building Auditorium

Musical Dialogues: An Exploration of Elope

April 16, 3:00

West Building, East Garden Court

Sound Impact

"Washingtonians on Wednesdays"

Music by Polina Nazaykinskaya,

Sergei Prokofiev, and Dmitri Shostakovich 

April 19,12:10

West Building, East Garden Court

East Coast Chamber Orchestra

Music by Caplet, Lutostawski, Suk,

and Theofanidis

April 23, 3:30

West Building, East Garden Court

West Garden Trio 

"Washingtonians on Wednesdays"

Music by Kenji Bunch, Charles Ives,

and Paul Schoenfield 

April 26,12:10

West Building, East Garden Court

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and all of its programs is free of charge,

except as noted.

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during the performance is not allowed.

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through the generosity of donors to the

National Gallery of Art through The Circle. 

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of their support. Please contact the

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The department of music produced these

program notes. Copyright © 2017 Board of

Trustees, National Gallery ofArt, Washington

Cover J. Cartwright after George Beck,

Georgetown and the Federal City of Washington

(detail), 1801, National Gallery of Art, Washington,

Gift of Otis T. Bradley

75TH SEASON

OF CONCERTS

APRIL 12, 2017 • NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
PROGRAM

12:10 • East Building Auditorium

"Washingtonians on Wednesdays"

Sponsored by the Billy Rose Foundation

John Kilkenny, percussion

Tobias Werner, cello

Paul Moravec (b. 1957)

Selections from Mark Twain Sez, solo cello

Jacob Druckman (1928-1996)

Reflections on the Nature of Water, marimba

Stephen Gorbos (b. 1978)

Transit, cello and percussion

Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960)

Mariel, cello and percussion

Andy Akiho (b. 1979)

27, cello and percussion

The Musicians

John Kilkenny enjoys a unique career in the music world as a performer, educator, and conductor.

Hailed as a "particularly fine timpanist" by the Washington Post, Kilkenny's active performance

schedule in the 2016-2017 season includes performances of Michael Daugherty's Raise the

Roof concerto for timpani and wind ensemble, as well as solo and duet recitals, master classes, 

orchestral performances, and guest conducting engagements. In 2014, Kilkenny participated

in the Washington, DC, premiere of John Luther Adams's large-scale work, Sila: Breath of the

World, with the United States Air Force Band. Throughout his career, Kilkenny has had the

privilege to perform with a range of ensembles, including the National Symphony Orchestra,

the Washington National Opera and Ballet, Wolf Trap Park for the Performing Arts, and others.

Recent commissions and premieres include works by Alejandro Vinao, duets for keyboard and 

percussion by Nathan Daughtrey and Brett Dietz, and ensemble works by Stephen Gorbos,

Victor Provost, and Nico Muhly. Kilkenny has shared the stage with many artists, including

Robert van Sice, John Tafoya, Jonathan Haas, and Eric Huebner.

A committed educator, Kilkenny is director of percussion studies and assistant director

of concert bands at George Mason University. Under his leadership, Mason Percussion has

become the leading university percussion program in the state of Virginia and a destination

school for serious study of classical percussion. In 2011, Kilkenny founded the Mason Percussion

Group, an elite, audition-based ensemble committed to commissioning and performing major

works for percussion chamber music.

Kilkenny studied conducting with Anthony Maiello and began early percussion training

with Jonathan Haas and William Richards. He went on to receive his bachelor's degree at

the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Greg Zuber and Daniel Druckman. He completed a

master's degree at Temple University, where he studied with legendary percussionist Alan Abel.

Tobias Werner was the cellist in residence and co-artistic director at Garth Newel

Music Center from 1999 to 2012. He is the music director at the Chamber Music Conference

of the East, artistic director of Pressenda Chamber Players, and teaching artist for Arts for

the Aging. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Villa Musica Mainz, the San Diego Chamber

Music Workshop, the Maui Classical Music Festival, the Phillips Collection, and Bargemusic.

Werner has appeared as soloist with orchestras in the United States, France, Germany, and

Romania, and his recent performances have included the concertos of Dvorak, Elgar, Haydn,

and Boccherini. He has recorded on the ECM, Dabringhaus and Grimm, Bayer Records, and 

Orfeo labels. Recent CD releases include Piano Quartets by Mozart, Brahms, Dvorak, and

Martinu with the Garth Newel Piano Quartet, the Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by J.S.

Bach, and the Sonatas for Piano and Cello by Beethoven with Victor Asuncion. Werner

studied at the Musikhochschule Freiburg in Germany and at Boston University. His teachers

have included Andres Di'az, Christoph Henkel, and Xavier Gagnepain. He plays on an 1844

J. F. Pressenda cello.