Past Performances

Berkeley, California
8 P.M. Thursday and Saturday
Zellerbach Hall

Berkeley Edge Fest

Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band
John Duykers, tenor

• Paul Dresher: The Tyrant

See the Edge Fest web site for more information

Mill Valley, California
7:30 P.M. Friday

Private House Concert

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Ian Dogole, percussion

Violinist/violist Karen Bentley Pollick and multipercussionist Ian Dogole possess a far-reaching musical vision, traversing the realms of Bach, Bartók and Brahms, segueing seamlessly into free improvisation, morphing into Finnish tango and then onto Corea, Gershwin and Monk by way of a Danish salsa. Never constrained by preexisting formulas, their musical adventures transport listeners to previously uncharted musical landscapes. It’s an aural/visual feast for the senses. Join us in the intimate setting of a Mill Valley living room with exquisite views for an evening of spirited and ever-shifting musical dialogues. Limited seating, so please call to make reservations.

Amelia Island
11 A.M.
Historic Nassau County Courthouse

Coffee Concert with Richard Stolzman

Richard Stolzman, clarinet
Vega String Quartet
William Ransom, piano

Program includes works by
Gershwin, Wolf, Puccini, Weber and Schulman
written or arranged for clarinet

See www.aicmf.com/festival.htm for more information

Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival

7 P.M. Friday, July 27
Highlands
  and
5 P.M. Saturday, July 28
Cashiers

William Preucil and Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Miles Hoffman and Paul Murphy, viola
Christopher Rex, cello
William Ransom, piano

• Saint Saéns: Sonata for Violin and Piano
• Dvorak: Viola Quintet in E-flat

5 P.M. Sunday, July 29
Highlands
  and
7 P.M. Monday, July 30
Cashiers

Charae Kreuger and Christopher Rex, cello
Karen Bentley Pollick, violin, viola, and hardangerfele
Philip Thomson, piano
Garfield Lemonius and Glenda Norcross, dancers

• Bach: Cello Suite
• Chopin: Grand Polonaise for Cello and Piano
• Liszt: Mephisto Waltz for Piano
• Piazzolla: Tangos for Piano Trio
• John Halle: Rozology for Violin and Piano
• Ole Saxe: Tango Orientale for Viola and Piano
• Odd Bakkerud: Fanitullen for Norwegian hardangerfele

See http://h-cmusicfestival.org for more information

Tuesday July 31, 2007
in Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama
7 P.M.
Birmingham International Center Atrium
1910 Third Avenue North

Just Plain Folks Southeastern Roadtrip Showcase

See www.jpfolks.com for more information

Friday August 24, 2007
in Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama
7 P.M.
Alys Stephens Center
1200 10th Ave. S.

Theresa H. and James Bruno Magic City Chamber Music Festival

Yakov Kasman, piano
Denise Gainey, clarinet
Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Michael Fernandez, viola
Charae Krueger, cello

• Manuel Ponce: String Trio
• Béla Bartók: Contrasts
• Robert Schumann: Quartet for Piano and Strings in E flat Major, Opus 47

See the Magic City Chamber Music Festival web site for more information

Works by Ivan Sokolov

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Dennis Parker, cello

"Sokolov, born and trained in Russia, played…with
enormous speed, brio and variety."
-- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

• Solnechnaya (Sunlight) Sonata for Violin and Piano (2005)
• Sonata for Viola and Piano (2006)
• Sonata for Cello and Piano (2002)
• Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano (2000)

The three sonatas are cyclical and share a similar theme.

Works by Ivan Sokolov

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Dennis Parker, cello

"Sokolov, born and trained in Russia, played…with
enormous speed, brio and variety."
-- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

• Solnechnaya (Sunlight) Sonata for Violin and Piano (2005)
• Sonata for Viola and Piano (2006)
• Sonata for Cello and Piano (2002)
• Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano (2000)

The three sonatas are cyclical and share a similar theme.

Convocation--Seeing Through Sound
  works by Ivan Sokolov

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Dennis Parker, cello

"Sokolov, born and trained in Russia, played…with
enormous speed, brio and variety."
-- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

For information, call 205-348-7111

Works by Ivan Sokolov

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Dennis Parker, cello

"Sokolov, born and trained in Russia, played…with
enormous speed, brio and variety."
-- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

• Solnechnaya (Sunlight) Sonata for Violin and Piano (2005)
• Sonata for Viola and Piano (2006)
• Sonata for Cello and Piano (2002)
• Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano (2000)

The three sonatas are cyclical and share a similar theme.

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Dennis Parker, cello

• Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello
• Vicar: Homage to Fiddlers
• Eggert: Dance Card for Violin and Cello
• Schulhoff: Duo for Violin and Cello
• Vicar: Lullabies for Violin and Piano
• Dorothy Hindman: Monumenti

Mason/Robertson Award Recognition

• Hradcanska for flute, violin, cello and piano
• Oh What a Beautiful Morning! for string quartet
• Three Legged Race for piano trio
• Incantesimi for violin and piano

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Adam Bowles, piano

• Charles Mason: Incantesimi
• Robert Boury: Two Blues
• John Halle: Rozology
• Ole Saxe: Tango Orientale for Viola and Piano
• Phillip Ratliff: Duo for Viola and Piano (World Premiere)

 

A concert of homegrown contemporary music featuring a world premiere for viola and piano by Miles College professor of composition Phillip Ratliff.

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Paul Bowman, guitar

• Monroe Golden: Ten Strings for violin and guitar
• Mary Elizabeth Neal: Duo for Violin and Guitar
• Matthew Scott Phillips: Fate for violin and guitar

FEAST
Karen Bentley Pollick, violin

FEAST has created a completely new sound in music. Combining rigorous classical training with the timeless melodies andy rhythms of the great Irish, Spanish, and American musical traditions, as well as Classical music, their concerts are greeted with wild enthusiasm and standing ovations. FEAST offers a program of delightful variety: brilliant and soulful group numbers are interspersed with soulful duos, solos and trios. The emotional palette ranges from tear-jerking versions of "Danny Boy" to humorous versions of classic songs, and all-out rockin' versions of hot fiddle tunes. The result is a stunning and unforgettable musical banquet.

970-963-3304

Besides having received The Rome Prize, The Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Koussevitzky Commission, among many others, Martin Bresnick is also recognized as an influential teacher of composition and teaches at the Yale School of Music.

Described by The New York Times as "lustrous at the keyboard, and at once engaging and challenging" and as a "phenomenal pianist" in The Village Voice, Australian Lisa Moore enjoys one of the most diverse musical careers experienced by pianists today.

Music of Scott Eggert

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Justin O'Dell, clarinet
Dennis Parker, cello

• Six Wooden Blocks for Violin, Clarinet, and Cello (world premiere)
• Uccello for Solo Cello
• Dance Card for Violin and Cello
• Go! for Violin, Clarinet, and Cello (world premiere)

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Justin O'Dell, clarinet
Dennis Parker, cello

• Six Wooden Blocks for Violin, Clarinet, and Cello (world premiere)
• Uccello for Solo Cello
• Dance Card for Violin and Cello
• Go! for Violin, Clarinet, and Cello (world premiere)

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Adam Bowles, piano
Avi Friedlander, cello
Paul Mosteller, baritone

Birmingham Southern College Concert Choir
  Lester Seigel, conductor

• Jan Vicar: The Sun is Going Down for female choir and violin
• Michael Angell: Songs on Wrongful Death

Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band

• Paul Dresher: The Tyrant

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Dennis Parker, cello

• J.S. Bach: Suita C-major for solo cello
• Viktor Kalabis: Duo for violin and cello
• Edwin Schulhoff: Duo for violin and cello
• J.S. Bach Sonata G-minor for solo violin
• Jan Vicar: Hommage to Fiddlers
• Scott Eggert: Dance Card for violin and cello

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Grant Dalton, percussion

• Christian Woehr:
Djembach: Suite for Solo Violin & Percussion (1997)
• Elliott Carter: March for Solo Timpani (1950)
  and Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi for Solo Violin (1984)
• David Jaffe: Impossible Animals (1989 version for Violin and Synthetic Voices)
• Ole Saxe: Salsa for Karen for Violin and Percussion (1998)
• Unto Mononen: Satumaa: Finnish Tango (Fairytale Land, 1955) 
• Odd Bakkerud: Fanitullen for Norwegian hardangerfele 
• Poem by Jorgen Moe
• Ervin T. Rouse: Orange Blossom Special (1936) 
• May 4 only - Dan Tepfer: Solo Blues for Violin and Piano

More info from The Birmingham News

Paul Dresher Ensemble

• Sam Adams: Mirror (World Premiere)

Signature Series: Paul Dresher Ensemble

• Paul Dresher: Choral Times Two and Din of Iniquity
• Paul Dresher: Double Ikat
• James Mobberley: FUSEBOX
• Ingram Marshall: In Deserto Black Rock

• Jorge Sosa: Capricho para Violin Solo  (2003)
• Dan Tepfer: Solo Blues for Violin and Piano  (2007)
• David Jaffe: Impossible Animals (1989 version for Violin and Synthetic Voices)

Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band

Featuring the premiere of commissioned works from the two amazingly-talented young composers, Gyan Riley and Sam Adams (both the sons of very well-known and influential composers), a new commission from multi-talented Bay Area composer/guitarist John Schott, and the Seventh Avenue String Quartet performing the concert music premiere of Dreshers quartet, Time Passes, a work first heard in Dreshers acclaimed score for the Berkeley Repertory Theaters production of Adele Shanks adaptation of Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse. Also on the program is the return of Ingram Marshalls atmospheric In Deserto (BlackRock), and Dreshers Double Ikat, a lyrical and luscious trio for violin, piano and percussion, a score with deep roots in the music of Indonesia and India

• Vivaldi:The Four Seasons, with Jonathan Salzedo, harpsichord
•  Rimsky-Korsakoff: Piano Concerto, with Seth Montfort, piano,
  Gabriel Sakakeeny, conductor

Tickets:
$10 Open rehearsal
$20 ($15 in advance) Formal performance

A free program for junior- and high-school students in the Pell City area.

• David Jaffe: Impossible Animals

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Dennis Parker, cello

• Viktor Kalabis: Duo for violin and cello
• Erwin Schulhoff: Duo for violin and cello
• Jan Vicar: Hommage to Fiddlers
• Scott Eggert: Dance Card for violin and cello

225-638-9792 or 225-638-3800

Father Christmas Favorite Chamber Music

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
David Hancock, cello
Williams Ransom, piano

Santa Claus will be on hand to introduce with interesting and witty remarks some of his favorite works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bernstein and others for violin, cello and piano. And good listeners will receive a treat from Father Christmas on the way out.

As a benefit for the Highlands Emergency Council, this will be a perfect way to celebrate the season with incredible performances of some of the world's greatest music while helping those in need.

See the web site for tickets and more information.

Chamber Music of Scott Eggert

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Osiris Molina, clarinet
Dennis Parker, cello

Violinist Karen Bentley Pollick and Louisiana State University cellist Dennis Parker will reprise Scott Eggert's trio Six Wooden Blocks with University of Alabama clarinetist Osiris Molina. Inspired by a poem of Sally McNall, Six Wooden Blocks was premiered at Lebanon Valley College and Pennsylvania State in February 2008. Artist Dan Massad's response to the poem will also be on exhibit. The string duo has performed Eggert's ragtime and tango infused Dance Card throughout the Czech Republic during their appearances at the 2007 and 2008 American Spring Festivals and will premiere a new duo entitled Songbook on this occasion.

• Six Wooden Blocks for Violin, Clarinet, and Cello
• Songbook for Violin and Cello (world premiere)
• Dance Card for Violin and Cello
• Go! for Violin, Clarinet, and Cello

The Birmingham Art Music Alliance presents Strings, Piano and Winds
in a program of works by area composers

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Julia Sakharova, violin
Michael Fernandez, viola
Kathryn Fouse, piano
Craig Hultgren, cello
Tariq Masri, bassoon
The Amion Quartet

• James A. Jensen: A new piano composition (to be announced)
• James A. Jensen: Bare ruin'd choirs for solo cello
• Emily Fencher: The Singer's Bane
• Andrew Rindfleisch: Quite Music for solo cello
• Paul Clem: Violin and Bassoon
• Matthew Scott Phillips: A duet for violin and viola (to be announced)
• Brian C. Moon: String Quartet No. 2

Tickets: Adults $6; Students & Seniors $3
Free admission for students of the Alabama School of Fine Arts
Call 205-602-3871 or visit artmusic.org for more information

World Premiere of Sam Adams's Aves Nostradamus

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Lisa Moore, piano

Australian pianist Lisa Moore returns to Birmingham-Southern College for a recital of avian inspired duos for violin and piano with violinist Karen Bentley Pollick. The duo will perform Bird as Prophet by Yale composer Martin Bresnick and offer the World Premiere of Aves Nostradamus by young California composer Sam Adams. Other repertoire will include Road Movies by Pulitzer Prize winner John Adams, Elapsed Time by Paul Dresher, and Sonata for Violin and Piano by Leoš Janáček.

• Martin Bresnick: Bird as Prophet
• John Adams: Road Movies
• Paul Dresher: Elapsed Time
• Sam Adams: Aves Nostradamus
• Leoš Janáček: Sonata for Violin and Piano

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin and viola
Meagan Langford, clarinet
Adam Bowles, piano

• Aram Khachaturian: Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano (1932)
• Robert Boury: Two Blues -- Mother of Pearl, A Tristan Two-Step
• Jan Vicar: Uspavanky (Lullabies)
• Brian Moon: La Chose Verte
• John Halle: Rozology
• Ole Saxe: Tango Orientale for Viola and Piano

Paul Dresher Choral Times Two

More information is available here.

Paul Dresher Ensemble, electric guitar, percussion, electronics and guests

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Lisa Moore, piano
Joel Davel, percussion
Paul Dresher, quadrachord

• Elapsed Time for violin and piano
• Double Ikat for violin, piano and percussion
• In the Nameless for quadrachord and percussion

More information is available here.

Prophet Birds: Avian Inspired Duets

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Lisa Moore, piano

Violinist Karen Bentley Pollick teams up with Australian pianist Lisa Moore for a recital of avian inspired duos for violin and piano. The duo will perform Bird as Prophet by Yale composer Martin Bresnick and offer the New York premiere of Aves Nostradamus by young California composer Sam Adams. Other repertoire will include Road Movies by Pulitzer Prize winner John Adams, Elapsed Time by Paul Dresher, and Sonata for Violin and Piano by Leoš Janáček.

• Martin Bresnick: Bird as Prophet
• John Adams: Road Movies
• Paul Dresher: Elapsed Time
• Sam Adams: Aves Nostradamus (New York premiere)
• Leoš Janáček: Sonata for Violin and Piano