The Schubert Club's Courtroom Concert Series
2007-2008 Season
Thursday, November 8, 12:05-1:00 PM
FREE Admission
Landmark Center, Cortile
651-292-3267
Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano; Phil Rukavina, theorbo
La gelosia - Luigi Rossi (1597 – 1653)
Bel tempo per me - Giacomo Carissimi (1605 – 1674)
Hor che l'oscuro manto – Luigi Rossi
Juan Li, piano
Sonata in G Major, Hob. XVI/39 - Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Allegro con brio
Adagio
Prestissimo
Liebesfreud – Kreisler/Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
ARTIST BIOS:
Pursuing her passion for the expressive and experimental, soprano Carrie Henneman Shaw divides her time between contemporary and 17th-century repertoire, collaborating with ensembles, such as the Rose Ensemble, Consortium Carissimi, Sapphire Chamber Consort, the Zuchowiczi Consort of Viols (Houston), Dal Niente New Music (Chicago), Sonic Inertia Performance Group (Chicago), and Deviated Septet. This season she will be heard by audiences in Houston, Chicago, Seattle, eastern Oregon, and the Twin Cities in programs ranging from the songs of Edie Hill to the consort songs of William Byrd, from Monteverdi's Vespers to a new work by Dimitri Shapovalov with texts by Anna Akhmatova, which she will premiere this spring in collaboration with Sapphire Chamber Consort. Carrie received a master's degree in voice performance from the University of Minnesota in 2005, and she currently studies with early-music diva Ellen Hargis.
Phillip Rukavina has performed widely as a lute and vihuela soloist, ensemble performer and as a continuo lutenist. He studied lute with Hopkinson Smith at the Academie Musical in Villecroze, France and in Basel, Switzerland. He was the Director of the Lute Society of America's summer program at the Amherst Early Music Festival in 2005, and regularly serves on the faculty of the Lute Society of America's Seminars at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He has released two solo recordings on the Alpha Omega label, including Fiori Italiani and Ala spagnola. Phillip has been a frequent guest instrumentalist with the Rose Ensemble and appears on their recent CD release, Celebremos el Niño. Phillip has performed with numerous instrumental ensembles, including the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the New World Symphony and appears on several recordings issued on the Lyrichord Discs Early Music label with the ensemble Minstrelsy! Phillip teaches lute privately at his home in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Cited as “Stunning and brilliant” by critics, pianist Juan Li enjoys a busy career in the United States and abroad. A native of China, Juan started her performing career at the age of seven when she won the Young Artist Competition in her home state, Hubei. In 1991 she won the third prize of Mozart Piano Competition in Shanghai. In 1998 she graduated from the prestigious Shanghai Conservatory of Music before coming to the United States on a full scholarship from the University of Notre Dame to pursue her master’s degree. Since then, Juan Li has won many awards, including the Schubert Club Competition in St. Paul, the Elinor Bell Competition in Minneapolis, the “Performer of the Year” award presented by the International Chamber Player in Newark and the University of Notre Dame’s Concerto Competition.
Juan Li’s extensive performing experiences have kept her musical passion growing all these years. As a soloist, she has soloed with Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in Shanghai , City Orchestra in St. Paul, Brentwood Symphony in St. Louis, Notre Dame Symphony in Indiana and Auburn Symphony in California. She has performed at many venues across the country such as Harris Hall at Aspen Festival, Landmark Center and Civic Center in St. Paul, Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall and Ted Mann Concert Hall in Minneapolis, Annenberg Auditorium at Snite Museum of Art in Indiana, Sapporo Art Hall and Shimizu Bunka Kajkan Hall in Japan. In 2005, an interview and performance on Free Radio Asia from Washington, D.C was broadcasted throughout the US and in China. Also a dedicated chamber musician, Juan Li has collaborated and performed with many of the most distinguished artists in the world, such as John Perry, Paul Sperry, Margo Garrett, Irma Vallecillo as well as principal players from the Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony and Juilliard Symphony. She was accepted with highly competitive fellowship in the collaborative artist program both at the Aspen Festival in Colorado and the Pacific Music Festival in Japan.
Juan Li holds a Doctoral Degree of Musical Arts from the University of Minnesota where she studied with Alexander Braginsky. Currently she is on the piano faulty at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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