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SFA's Chamber Music Festival Opens Saturday
Sylvia Bierschenk - July 3, 2007
NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Guest artists Kae Hosoda-Ayer, harpsichord, and Meredith Maddox, violin, will join Stephen F. Austin State University faculty musicians in presenting the first two concerts of the SFA School of Music's annual Chamber Music in the Pines Festival on Saturday, July 7, and Tuesday, July 10. Both concerts will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.
Saturday's event, the "Baroque Concert," will feature music written between 1600 and 1750. Performing with Hosoda-Ayer will be Christina Guenther, flute; John W. Goodall, oboe; Jennifer Dalmas, violin; and Evgeni Raychev, cello. The program will include sonatas by C.P.E. Bach and G.F. Handel and "Concert Royaux No. 4 in G major" by François Couperin.
The festival's second concert will feature music from the Classical period (1750-1820), including string quartets F.J. Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven, J.N. Hummel's flute sonata and a piano trio by W.A. Mozart. Performers will be Guenther, Dalmas, Maddox, Raychev, violist Gene H. Moon and pianist Ron Petti.
Hosoda-Ayer is a lecturer in collaborative piano at Baylor University where she also teaches repertoire classes and coaches chamber music. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from Toho Gakuen School of Music, Tokyo, Japan, a Master of Music degree and Graduate Diploma in piano performance from New England Conservatory, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance with an emphasis in chamber music and collaborative arts from the University of Texas at Austin.
Hosoda-Ayer has concertized throughout the United States, Canada, Japan and Korea as a soloist and collaborative artist. She forms the Duo Karudan with her husband, clarinetist Christopher Ayer, and actively performs recitals throughout the United States, Canada and Japan.
Maddox, an instructor of violin and viola at the University of Arkansas Little Rock, joined the violin section of the Arkansas Symphony in 2002 after receiving her master's degree in performance and completing her doctoral work at the Florida State University. A native of Nashville, Tenn., she received her bachelor's degree in violin performance from Belmont University and was an exchange student in Russia where she studied at the Russian Academy of Music.
Maddox has been a member of the Jacksonville, Naples and New World Symphony Orchestras and is currently a member of Quartet alla Turca, a chamber ensemble founded at the Florida State University. In 2003, she joined the Arkansas Symphony's premier string quartet, the Quapaw Quartet, as their new violinist. Outside of classical pursuits, Maddox is a member of Meshugga, Arkansas' only Klezmer band.
The Chamber Music in the Pines Festival, which is sponsored in part by Ed and Gwen Cole, will continue with the "Romantic Concert" at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 13, and the "20th Century Concert" at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 15.
Season tickets are $30 for adults, $22.50 for seniors and $15 for students. Single event tickets are $10 for adults, $7.50 for seniors and $5 for students.For tickets or more information, please call (936) 468-6407 or 888-240-ARTS.