Sponsored by Dave & GunDa Hiebert

Sunday, March 3, 2:00 p.m.

This event is sponsored, in part, by the Lied Performance Fund.

This performance is made possible through the generous support of the Eugene A. and C. Florence Stephenson Chamber Music Fund

and the J. Anthony Burzle Chamber Music Fund.

Mariko Furukawa, piano

Young Concert Artist

Lied Center Presents

Narek Arutyunian, clarinet

Narek aryutyuNiaN, clarinet

narek arutyunian, clarinetMariko Furukawa, piano

Sonata in D Major, Op. 94 .......................................... Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)ModeratoScherzo - PrestoAndanteAllegro Con Brio

Fantasia da Concerto on Themes from Verdi’s La Traviata, Op. 45 ....................... Donato Lovreglio (1841-1907)

For Clarinet .................................................................Marius Constant (1925-2004)

InTerMISSIOn(20 Minutes)

Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano ...................................... Joseph Horovitz (b. 1926)Allegro Calmato Lento Quasi AndanteCon Brio

Sonatina for Klezmer Clarinet and Piano ....................... Paul Schoenfield (b.1947)

Program is subject to change.

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narek arutyunian, clarinet

According to The Washington Post, Narek Arutyunian is a clarinetist who “reaches passionate depths with seemingly effortless technical prowess and beguiling sensitivity.” Recital appearances this season include the Morgan Library & Museum in New York and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Arutyunian also appeared as a soloist with the Longwood Symphony where he performed Copland’s Clarinet Concerto.

Last season, Arutyunian performed as a soloist with the Boston Pops and the Meridian Symphony and appeared in recitals and residencies at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Music for Youth and the Buffalo Chamber Music Society. As a Winner of the 2010 Young Concert Artists (YCA) international auditions, he was presented in recital debuts in the YCA Series at New York’s Merkin Hall in the YCA Rhoda Walker Teagle Concert and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Arutyunian has performed at the Louvre Auditorium in Paris and at the Palazzo del Principe in Genoa, Italy. He has appeared as a soloist with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Czech Republic, and in Russia with the Kaliningrad Philharmonic, the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra. Arutyunian’s clarinet is a personal gift from the conductor and violinist Vladimir Spivakov and he receives general support for his career

from the Guzik Foundation in California.

He has received many awards, including First Prize at the age of 16 in the International Young Musicians Competition in Prague and at the age of 15 in the Musical Youth of the Planet Competition in Moscow. Arutyunian was also awarded a prize by renowned violist and conductor Yuri Bashmet to perform concerts and record the Weber Concertino for Clarinet with the State Symphony Orchestra of New Russia.

Born in 1992 in Gyumri, Armenia, Arutyunian moved with his family to Moscow when he was three. He graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory where he worked with Evgeny Petrov. He currently lives in New York and works with Charles Neidich at The Juilliard School.

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Lied Center Presents

Modern jazz genius captures the essence of African music

regina Carter, jazz violinistReverse Thread

april 57:30 p.m.

“Carter set out to honor a traditional form of music by interpreting it through a contemporary lens, and her marriage of African and African-American music birthed a record that feels like something quite new. Perhaps that’s the best tribute of all.”

— Paste Magazine

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Brentano string QuartetFragments — Connecting Past and Present

regina Carter, jazz violinist

“Such was their ferocity on Saturday night that the instruments almost burst into flames….Make no mistake: the Brentanos are a magnificent string quartet….This was wonderful, selfless music making.”

— the tiMes (London)

april 127:30 p.m.

Narek aryutyuNiaN, clarinet

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