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The Sixty-fifth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery of Art

2,613th Concert

National Gallery Chamber Players

Sara Nichols, flute James Bryla, clarinet

Theodore Peters, French horn

and

Poulenc Trio

Vladimir Lande, oboe Bryan Young, bassoon

Irina Kaplan Lande, piano

with

Jonathan Palevslcy, narrator

April 8, 2007

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Admissionfree
Program

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Trio in A Minorfor Flute, Bassoon, and Piano (1716)

Largo

Allegro

Largo; cantabile

Allegro molto

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

Concert Fantasy on L’ltaliana in Algeri (1813)

Arranged for wind trio by Charles Triebert and Eugene Jancourt

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Quintetfor Piano and Wind Instruments, K. 452 (1784)

Largo

Allegro moderato

Larghetto

Allegretto

INTERMISSION

Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Peter and the Wolf(1936)

The Musicians

NATIONAL GALLERY CHAMBER PLAYERS

The concept ofresident chamber ensembles at the National Gallery was developed by George Manos, who headed the Gallery’s music program from 1985 to

2003. Under the umbrella ofthe National Gallery Chamber Players, a resident

string quartet and wind quintet have been regular features in Gallery concerts

since 1995. Flutist Sara Nichols, clarinetist James Bryla, and French-horn player

Theodore Peters are members ofthe latter ensemble, which will represent the

Gallery in July 2007 as resident wind quintet ofthe Amalfi Coast Music and

Arts Festival in Vietri sul Mare, Italy.

SARA NICHOLS

Sara Nichols is the principal flutist ofthe Baltimore Opera Orchestra and was

acting assistant principal flutist ofthe Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for

two years. She also appears with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. In addition

to frequent appearances with the National Gallery Orchestra, she performs

at WolfTrap. Nichols is a member of Quintigre, the award-winning resident

wind quintet ofTowson University in Towson, Maryland, and she playsflauto

traverso with the early-music ensemble Pro Musica Rara. She is a member of

the music faculty at Towson University and the Baltimore School for the Arts.

JAMES BRYLA

Clarinetist James Bryla studied under Sidney Forrest, who was the principal

clarinetist of “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band and the

National Symphony Orchestra. Bryla received bachelor and master ofmusic

degrees from The Catholic University ofAmerica, where he also served on

the faculty. He made his solo debut at the age oftwenty-one with the National Symphony Orchestra as the winner ofthe 1987 Young Soloists' Competition. He has won numerous other awards, including the Milton W. King

Memorial Certificate, the Presser Scholar Award, and the International

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Clarinetist Competition (in 1986 and 1987). Bryla was a featured soloist with

the National Gallery Orchestra in 2006 and is the principal clarinetist ofthe

Alexandria Symphony Orchestra and the Eastwind Consort.

THEODORE PETERS

A graduate ofThe Curbs Institute of Music, Theodore Peters studied horn

with Mason Jones and chamber music with John de Lancie. He continued

his studies as a member ofthe New World Symphony under the direction

of Michael Tilson Thomas. Peters has been principal horn ofthe Baltimore

Opera Company, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Columbus

Symphony Orchestra, and l’Orchestra Comunale di Firenze. He currently

performs with many ensembles in the Washington area, including the

National Gallery Orchestra, the National Theatre Orchestra, and the

Richmond Symphony Orchestra.

POULENC TRIO

Praised by the Washington Post for “music that dances with a lightness and

grace that are uncommon,” hailed in Double Reed magazine for a “voluptuous

sound,” and lauded in Fanfare magazine as “powerful,” the Poulenc Trio combines twenty-first-century vibrancy with the best of European instrumental

tradition. 'The ensemble was recently featured in the Ravello Festival in Italy,

where it presented first performances of compositions by Gaetano Panariello

and Igor Raykhelson. It has also appeared at The State Hermitage Museum in

Saint Petersburg, at the Ville Vesuviane Festival in Italy, and throughout the

United States. The trio, which consists ofoboist Vladimir Lande, bassoonist

Bryan Young, and pianist Irina Kaplan Lande, was recently appointed resident

chamber ensemble ofthe Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.

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VLADIMIR LANDE

A graduate ofthe Saint Petersburg State Conservatory of Music, with degrees

in oboe and piano, Vladimir Lande has focused his career on oboe performance

and conducting. As principal oboist ofthe Saint Petersburg Philharmonic

Orchestra for several seasons, Lande played under such illustrious conductors

as Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Valery Gergiev, and Yuri Temirkanov.

Lande is a member ofthe music faculty at American University in Washington,

DC, and the University of Maryland in Baltimore. He is the music director

and conductor ofthe cosmic Symphony Orchestra (formerly the Chamber

Orchestra of Southern Maryland in Concert) and the Johns Hopkins Chamber

Orchestra, assistant conductor ofthe Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, and

principal guest conductor ofthe Saint Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra.

BRYAN YOUNG

Bassoonist Bryan Young is a recent winner ofthe Fernand Gillet-Hugo Fox

Bassoon Competition. He made his solo debut at the age of eighteen with

the National Symphony Orchestra and has since appeared as soloist with

the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, in recital at the Kennedy Center, at

conferences ofthe International Double Reed Society, and in concert halls

around the world. “Young makes his music dance with lightness and grace, 

as well as with a sparkle uncommon for his instrument” (Washington Post).

Principal bassoonist ofthe Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and frequent

guest ofthe iris Orchestra in Germantown, Tennessee, Young is a member ofthe preparatory faculty at the Peabody Institute ofthe Johns Hopkins

University, where he was a student of Linda Harwell’s. He also studied with

Frank Morelli at Yale University. Young owns University Web Services, a

firm he founded in 1999 to provide software services to the medical industry. He serves on several artistic and charitable boards in Baltimore and has

been awarded the ubf Achiever ofthe Year Award.

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IRINA KAPLAN LANDE

Pianist Irina Kaplan Lande is a graduate ofthe Saint Petersburg State Conservatory and a winner ofthe Montpelier Classical Recital Competition and

the Baltimore Chamber Music Award. She has been a featured recitalist in

the Yale Gordon, Bachanalia, and New York Times Young Performers recital

series. Her numerous concerts in the Caribbean, England, Germany, Italy,

and Russia have earned her critical praise for the beauty and brilliance ofher

tone, her flexibility as a performer, and her penetrating interpretations. She 

is a member ofthe piano faculty at the Peabody Institute.

JONATHAN PALEVSKY

Jonathan Palevsky, the narrator for this performance of Prokofiev’s Peter and

the Wolf, is currently the program director ofwbjc-fm, Baltimore’s classical

music station. In addition to his administrative duties at the radio station, he

is heard on the air as the host of “Face the Music,” “The wbjc Opera Fest,”

“The wbjc Opera Preview,” “Past Masters,” “Word on Wine,” and numerous

community interviews. Since 1999 Palevsky has led wbjc listeners on annual

opera excursions to Italy and central and western Europe. He is a past president ofthe Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio.

A graduate ofCarleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, and the Peabody 

Institute, Palevsky is a lecturer for the Odyssey Program and the Evergreen

Society at the Johns Hopkins University, and the Auburn Society at Towson 

University. When he is not busy broadcasting, he plays jazz guitar, reads

haiku poetry, and goes skiing and figure skating.

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Next Week at the National Gallery ofArt

Carthage College Lincoln Chamber Singers

Peter Dennee, music director

Jane Livingston, harpsichordist and pianist

Stephen Smith, pianist

Music by Brahms, Jennings, Gwyneth Walker, and other composers

April 15, 2007

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court