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Frank Almond, Artistic Director

Monday, January 30, 2012– 7 p.m. Schwan Hall Wisconsin Lutheran College

LisztomaniaWilliam Wolfram, piano

Frank Almond, violin

Franz Liszt(1811-1886)

FuneraillesSt Francis Walks on the Waves, S. 175

Liszt/Richard WagnerLohengrin’s Admonition

William Wolfram, piano

Franz LisztGrand Duo Concertante “Le Marin”, S. 128

William WolframFrank Almond

Intermission

Liszt/Wagner“Liebestod” from Tristan and Islode

William Wolfram

Franz LisztRomance Oubliée, S. 132

Frank AlmondWilliam Wolfram

Karol Lipinski(1790-1861)

Caprice No. 3, Op. 29Frank Almond

Pablo de Sarasate(1844-1908)

Malaguena, Op. 21, No. 1

César Franck(1822-1890)

Sonata in A for violin and pianoAllegro ben moderatoAllegro

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FR ANK ALMOND

Violinist Frank Almond holds the Charles and Marie Caestecker Concertmaster Chair at the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He returned to the

MSO after holding positions as Concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic with Valery Gergiev, and Guest Concertmaster of the London Philharmonic with Kurt Masur. He has also appeared as a guest concertmaster for the Seattle Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, and the Grand Tetons Music Festival. He continues an active schedule of solo and chamber music performances in the US and abroad including appearances with the Ojai Festival, the American String Project in Seattle, Frankly Music, the Nara Academy in Nara, Japan, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Music in the Vineyards, and various solo appearances with orchestras. He has been a member of the chamber group An die Musik in New York City since 1997, and also directs the highly successful Frankly Music Chamber Series based in Milwaukee. At 17, he was one of the youngest prizewinners in the history of the Nicolo Paganini Competition in Genoa, Italy, and five years later was one of two American prizewinners at the Eighth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, which was documented in an award-winning PBS film. Since then he has kept up an eclectic mix of activities in addition to his Concertmaster duties, appearing both as a soloist and chamber musician.

In addition to his work with An die Musik, Mr. Almond’s talent as a chamber musician has generated collaborations over the years with many of today’s well-known institutions, including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln

Center, the Hal Leonard Corporation, the Ravinia Festival, La Jolla Summerfest, Music in the Vineyards, and numerous other summer festivals.

He has recorded for Summit, Albany, Boolean (his own label), Innova, Newport Classic, Wergo and New Albion and has appeared numerous times on NPR’s Performance Today. In both 2002 and 2004 An die Musik received Grammy nominations for its “Timeless Tales” series. The re-release of Mr. Almond’s recording of the complete Brahms Sonatas, performed in collaboration with pianist William Wolfram, brought extraordinary critical acclaim, and was listed in the American Record Guide top recordings of 2001.

Frank’s most recent CD with William Wolfram was released on the AVIE label to much acclaim, and was named a “Best of 2007” by the American Record Guide. His new CD of American violin and piano music was released in 2010 on Innova Recordings with pianist Brian Zeger, and has also received outstanding press response. A CD of selected works of Samuel Barber was recently released, in cooperation with the Hal Leonard Corporation. Another is planned this year featuring previously unpublished works of Aaron Copland.

Mr. Almond holds two degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Dorothy DeLay. Other important teachers included Michael Tseitlin, Felix Galimir, and Joseph Silverstein. In 2010 he joined the faculty at Northwestern University.

When he’s not traveling around playing the violin he lives in Milwaukee with his wife and two young daughters. He plays on a violin by Antonio Stradivari from 1715, the “ex-Lipinski”. In 2008 he started writing the popular online column called nondivisi.

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WILL IA M WOLFR A M

American pianist William Wolfram was a silver medalist at both the William Kapell and the Naumburg Interna-tional Piano Competitions, and a

bronze medalist at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow. A versatile recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician, he has won the respect of musicians and critics across the country and abroad. Wolfram has several recordings on the Naxos label, has played recitals in cities throughout the U.S., Asia and Europe, and has performed with dozens of the finest orchestras in the world.

William Wolfram continues his remark-able concert career in 2011-12, playing Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4 with the Naples (FL) Philharmonic and Columbus ProMusica Chamber Orchestra; Brahms’ Concerto No. l with Dayton and Orlando philharmonic or-chestras, also Huntsville Symphony Orchestra under Gregory Vajda; Britten’s Concerto in Bonn, Germany under Andrew Litton; Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 2 with Virginia Symphony Orchestra, under JoAnn Falletta; and Liszt’s Concerto No. 1 and Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 3 with the Waterbury Sympho-ny Orchestra. In 2010-11 he performed with the Seattle, Oregon and Wheeling sympho-nies, the Boise and Fort Wayne philharmon-ics, and the New Philharmonic (IL), in addition to several chamber music appearances. In summer 2010 he performed Mendelssohn under Christopher Seaman at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro (NC). Recent highlights include appearances with the North Carolina Symphony in Lowell Lieber-mann’s Piano Concerto No. 2; with the Buffalo Philharmonic, JoAnn Falletta conducting, in Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 2; and with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (Canada), under Edwin Outwater, in Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3. He also performed Chopin’s Concerto No. 2 with the City of Birmingham Symphony, conducted by Andrew Litton.

His concerto debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony under the baton of Leonard Slatkin was the first in a long succession of appearances and career relationships with numerous American conductors and orchestras. He has appeared with the

San Francisco, Saint Louis, Indianapolis, Seattle and New Jersey symphonies, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the National Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, and the Grand Teton and Obispo Mozart festival orchestras, among many others. He enjoys regular and ongoing close associations with the Dallas Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, and the Minnesota Orchestra. Conductors with whom he has worked include Jerzy Semkow, Joseph Silverstein, Mark Wigglesworth, Jeffrey Tate, Vladimir Spivakov, Gerard Schwarz, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Jeffrey Kahane, James Judd, Ro-berto Minczuk, Stefan Sanderling, JoAnn Falletta, James Paul, and Carlos Kalmar. Abroad, Wolfram has appeared with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Warsaw, Moscow, and Budapest philhar-monics, the Capetown and Johannesberg symphonies of South Africa, L’Orchestre de Bretagne, the orchestras of Thailand and Singapore, and the National Sym-phony of Peru.

An enthusiastic supporter of new music, he has collaborated with and performed music by composers such as Aaron Jay Kernis, Kenneth Frazelle, Marc Andre Dalbavie, Kenji Bunch, and Paul Chihara. His world premiere performance of the Chihara re-orchestra-tion of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Milwaukee Symphony under the baton of Andreas Delfs, was met with great critical attention and acclaim.

Wolfram has extensive experience in the recording studio. For the Albany label, he recorded the piano concertos of Edward Collins with Marin Alsop and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Wolfram has recorded, and continues to record, the solo piano music of Franz Liszt for Naxos records. These recordings include Liszt’s rarely heard Etudes en douze exercices, as well as opera transcriptions of both Donizetti and Bellini. Wolfram was the focus of a full chapter in Joseph Horowitz’s book, The Ivory Trade: Music and the Business of Music at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. On television, he was a featured pianist in the documentary of the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition.

A graduate of The Juilliard School, William Wolfram resides in New York City with his wife and two daughters.

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