Women’s Committee Board

About the Cleveland Institute of Music

Since its founding in 1920, CIM has offered a world class education to students from

age 3 to 93 and provided concerts for the community. Located in University Circle,

Cleveland's cultural hub, CIM is easily accessible to all music lovers. As a top-tier

conservatory, CIM's student body is international: 25% international students, 60%

from other U.S. states, and 15% from Ohio. Eighty percent of the Institute's alumni

perform with the world's most acclaimed musical organizations, in major national and

international orchestras and opera companies, as soloists and in chamber ensembles,

and hold prominent teaching positions world-wide. CIM maintains a close relation-

ship with The Cleveland Orchestra, with 38 members of The Orchestra serving on

its faculty; 38 alumni currently hold positions with The Orchestra.

The CIM Women’s Committee has a few openings for new board members.

As a board member, you will have a chance to meet new people, learn new

skills, work on a wide range of projects, have fun and best of all - support CIM

and talented students. If you are interested or would like to suggest a

candidate, please contact Deb Venzor at 216.991.8111 for more information.

Mixon Hall

Masters Series

Order the entire series now! Tickets are $50 for each recital.

Call 216.791.5000 or online at cim.edu.

Tues., Jan. 26 - 8:00 pm ALISA WEILERSTEIN, cello INON BARNATAN, piano

Wed., March 24 - 8:00 pm YEFIM BRONFMAN, piano

Fri., April 9 - 8:00 pm “An Evening of Jazz” ANDRÉ PREVIN, piano

DAVID FINCK, bass

Just Announced!

Cleveland Institute of Music Women’s Committee

Jan Curry, President

presents

Salon de Paris

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

11:30 a.m. Oakwood Country Club

Kathryn Brown, faculty commentator Mary Schiller, narrator

Jung Oh, soprano Alicja Basinska, piano Michelle Cann, piano Eri Nakamura, piano Genia Maslov, violin

Program

S’il est un charmant gazon FRANZ LISZT

Comment, disaient –ils

Oh! Quand je dors

Jung Oh, soprano

Alicja Basinska, piano

Selections from “Dolly Suite” GABRIEL FAURÉ

(1845-1924)

Michelle Cann, piano

Eri Nakamura, piano

Musings of Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)

Mary Schiller, narrator (Head of CIM Voice Dept.)

Clair de lune (Verlaine) GABRIEL FAURÉ

Jung Oh, soprano

Alicja Basinska, piano

Musings of Paul Verlaine – Reprised

Mary Schiller, narrator

Clair de lune from “Suite Bergamasque” CLAUDE DEBUSSY

L’isle joyeuse Michelle Cann, piano

Kaddish MAURICE RAVEL

(1875-1937) Genia Maslov , violin

Alicja Basinska, piano

Soiree dans Grenade from “Estampes” CLAUDE DEBUSSY

Alborado del gracioso from “Miroirs” MAURICE RAVEL

Eri Nakamura, piano

(1811-1886)

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The Friends of CIM present

An Evening with Mark O’Connor

Saturday,

April 17, 2010

Kulas Hall

Proceeds benefit

the CIM Young

Artists Program

Violinist and composer Mark O’Connor

showcases his unique and his unparalleled

talent as a fiddler.

His latest CD, Americana Symphony,

includes a piece conducted

by CIM President Joel Smirnoff.

Don’t miss this special night!

Benefit Tickets:

$125 or $60,

Concert-only

Tickets $30

Call 216.791.5000 ext. 411

or online at cim.edu.

Music School, Manhattan School of Music Prep and later at The

Juilliard School where she earned a Bachelor of Music degree under the

tutelage of Stephen Clapp and Joel Smirnoff. Ms. Maslov’s numerous

performances include solo appearances with the Philadelphia Classical

Symphony, Kennett Square Symphony and Lansdowne Symphony.

Having won the highly acclaimed Albert M. Greenfield Competition at

the age of twelve, she was a featured soloist with The Philadelphia

Orchestra twice in February of 2001. Ms. Maslov has performed in

master classes given by Jamie Laredo, David Kim, Aaron Rosand,

Soovin Kim, Andres Cardenas, Jerzy Kaplanek, Roger Chase and Taras

Gabora, among others. She has been the participant of summer

festivals such as Casalmaggiore International Music Festival and Banff

Strings and Winds Master Classes. Currently, Ms. Maslov is working

on her Master of Music degree at CIM as a scholarship student, where

she studies with Joel Smirnoff.

Text and Translations

S’il est un charmant gazon

S'il est un charmant gazon

Que le ciel arrose,

Où brille en toute saison

Quelque fleur éclose,

Où l'on cueille à pleine main

Lys, chèvre-feuille et jasmin,

J'en veux faire le chemin

Où ton pied se pose!

S'il est un rêve d'amour,

Parfumé de rose,

Où l'on trouve chaque jour

Quelque douce chose,

Un rêve que Dieu bénit,

Où l'âme à l'âme s'unit,

Oh! j'en veux faire le nid

Où ton coeur se pose!

If there's a lovely grass

watered by the sky

where in every season shines

some blossoming flower,

where one can freely gather

lilies, woodbines and jasmines,

I wish to make it the path

on which you place your feet.

If there is a dream of love

scented with roses,

where one finds each day

something gentle,

a dream blessed by God

where soul is joined to soul...

oh, I wish to make it the nest

in which you rest your heart.

“Comment” disaient-ils…

Comment, disaient-ils,

Avec nos nacelles,

Fuir les alguazils?

Ramez, disaient-elles.

Comment, disaient-ils,

Oublier querelles,

Misère et périls?

Dormez, disaient-elles.

Comment, disaient-ils,

Enchanter les belles

Sans philtres subtils?

Aimez, disaient-elles.

"How then," asked he

"with our boat

flee the Alguazils?"

"Row," she replied.

"How then," asked he,

"forget the quarrels,

strife, misery?"

"Sleep," she replied.

"How then," asked he,

"charm the beautiful ones

without disguised potions?"

"Love," she replied.

Oh! Quand je dors

Oh! quand je dors,

viens auprès de ma couche,

comme à Pétrarque apparaissait

Laura,

Et qu'en passant ton haleine me

touche...

Soudain ma bouche s'entrouvrira!

Sur mon front morne où peutêtre

s'achève

Un songe noir qui trop longtemps

dura,

Que ton regard comme un aster

se lève...

Soudain mon rêve rayonnera!

Puis sur ma lèvre où voltige une

flamme,

Éclair d'amour que Dieu même épura,

Pose un baiser, et d'ange deviens

femme...

Soudain mon âme s'éveillera!

Oh, when I sleep,

Come, approach my bed,

as Laura appeared to Petrach;

And as you pass, touch me with

your breath...

Suddenly my lips will part!

On my gloomy face, where

perhaps

a dark dream remained for too

long a time,

let your gaze lift it like a star...

at once my dream will be radiant!

Then on my lips, where brilliance

shines

a flash of love that God has kept

pure,

place a kiss, and transform from

angel into woman... Suddenly my

soul will awaken!

“Art poétique”, from Jadis et Naguère (1884)

De la musique avant toute chose,

Et pour cela préfère l’impair

Plus vague et plus soluble dans l’air

Sans rien en lui qui pèse ou qui pose.

Il faut aussi que tu n’ailles point

Choisir tes mots sans quelque méprise:

Rien de plus cher que la chanson grise

Ou l’indécis au Précis se joint.

Pas la Couleur, rien que la nuance!

Musings of Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)

and has since placed in various state, national and international competi-

tions including the Clara Wells National Piano Competition, Music

Teacher's National Association Competition, International Russian Piano

Music Competition, Gilmore Piano Foundation Competition and the

Blount Young Artists National Competition. She made her orchestral debut

with the Southern Adventist University Symphony Orchestra at age 14.

She has appeared nationally broadcast radio show, From the Top. For the

past three summers she has attended PianoFest in the Hamptons, a highly

selective program directed by Paul Schenly that attracts the nation's finest

pianists. An appearance at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

resulted from Ms. Cann's being one of only four students chosen to repre-

sent CIM in the Kennedy Center's Conservatory Project. She travelled to

Bermuda in 2007 as a guest artist to perform for the governor's annual

concert. Ms. Cann is the recipient of the Presser Undergraduate Scholar

Award for her 2008-09 academic year.

Alicja Basinska received a Doctorate of Musical Arts from CIM in May

2009. She is from Olesnica, Poland and came to North America to study

Piano Performance at McGill University in Montreal and then received

her Master of Music degree in Collaborative Piano from CIM. She is

currently employed as a staff accompanist, both at CIM and Oberlin

Conservatory of Music. She is also a pianist for The Cleveland Orchestra

Chorus and the West Virginia Symphony. Ms. Basinkska has been a

pianist for many competitions, including Primrose International Viola

Competition, ASTA and WAMSO competitions. She has also participated

in many music festivals- Aspen Music Festival, Kneisel Chamber Music

Festival and Kent-Blossom Music Festival. Some of her favorite perform-

ances include an appearance on Introductions on Chicago radio station

98.7 WFMT with violist Leah Ferguson and playing with Caroline Gould-

ing on the Martha Stewart Show in January of 2007.

Violinist Genia Maslov was born in Kharkov, Ukraine to parents who

are both musicians. When she was three years old, Ms. Maslov and her

family immigrated to Israel, where she began her study of the violin at

age six, giving her first public performance just a year later. When her

family arrived in the U.S., she continued her studies at the Settlement

Ms. Schiller has served on the faculties of the Oberlin College Conserva-

tory of Music, The University of Akron School of Music, the American

Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria; the Accademia

dell'Opera in Rimini, Italy and the University of Miami Frost School of

Music at Salzburg. She maintains a private voice studio in New York City.

Her students perform with the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of

Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, New York City

Opera and Opera Cleveland. Her students have also participated in Hous-

ton Opera Studio, Lyric Opera of Chicago Center for American Artists,

Santa Fe Opera, Music Academy of the West, Tanglewood and Aspen

Festivals. Ms. Schiller's students have won the Marilyn Horne Foundation

Award, George London Award, Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation

Award, National Opera Association Competition, and ARIA. She was

appointed to the CIM faculty in 2002

Pianist Eri Nakamura has performed as soloist and chamber musician in

the U.S., Italy and her native Japan. Ms. Nakamura was born in Hiroshima

and began piano studies at the age of four with principal teacher Mie Ishii.

A prizewinner of many competitions, she most recently was the winner of

the 2007 CIM Concerto Competition. Other prizes include first prize in

the 2005 Yale University School of Music Chamber Music Competi-

tion, first prize in the Miyazawa Piano Competition in Japan and many

more. In addition, Ms. Nakamura has been the recipient of several awards

and scholarships including the William B. Kurzban Scholarship and the

Rosa Lobe Memorial Scholarship at CIM, the Henry & Lucy G. Moses

Scholarship and Mary Clapp Howell Scholarship at Yale University, the

Liberace Foundation Scholarship, the SFCM Piano Award and the Fine

Arts Award in Piano. Ms. Nakamura is currently a student of Sergei

Babayan and Anita Pontremoli as an Artist Diploma candidate both in

solo and collaborative piano at CIM. She also holds an Artist Diploma and

a Master of Music from Yale University under the tutelage of Peter Frankl

and a Bachelor of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music

under Mack McCray.

Michelle Cann, hailed as a "colorist who can charm", is a piano student of

Paul Schenly and Daniel Shapiro. She began studying at the age of seven

Clair de lune (Paul Verlaine)

Votre ame est un paysage choisi

Que vont charmants masques et

bergamasques,

Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi

Tristes sous leurs deguisements

fantasques,

Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur,

L’amour vainqueur et la vie opportune,

Ils n’ont pas l’air de croire a leur bonheur,

Et leur chanson se mele au clair de lune,

Au calme clair de lune triste et beau,

Qui fait rever les oiseaux dans les arbres,

Et sangloter d’extase les jets d’eau,

Les grands jets d’eau sveltes parmi les

marbres.

Your soul is a chosen landscape

Where charming masqueraders and

dancers are promenading,

Playing the lute and dancing,

and almost

Sad beneath their fantastic disguises,

While singing in the minor key

Of triumphant love, and the pleasant

life.

They seem not to believe in their

happiness,

And their song blends with the

moonlight,

The quiet moonlight, sad and lovely,

Which sets the birds in the trees

adreaming,

And makes the fountains sob with

ecstasy,

The tall slim fountains among the

marble statues.

Let’s hear the music first and foremost,

And that means no more one-two-one-twos?

Something’s more vague instead, something lighter

Dissolving in air, weightless as air.

When you choose your words, no need to search

In strict dictionaries for pinpoint

Definitions. Better the subtle

And heady Songs of Imprecision.

Color’s forbidden, only Nuance!

Prends l’éloquence et tords-lui son cou!

Tu feras bien, en train d’éngergie,

Du render un peu la Rime assagie.

Si l’on n’y veille, elle ira jusqu’où?

Ô qui dira les torts de la Rime!

Quel enfant sourd ou quell nègre fou

Nous a forgé ce bijou d’un sou

Musings of Paul Verlaine - Reprise

Que ton vers soit la bonne aventure

Éparse au vent crispé du matin

Qui va fleurant la menthe et le thym

Et tourt le reste est littérature.

Grip eloquence by the throat and squeeze

It to death. And while you’re about it

You might corral that runaway, Rhyme,

Or you’ll get Rhyme Without End, Amen.

Who will denounce that criminal, Rhyme?

Tone-deaf children or crazed foreigners

No doubt fashioned its paste jewelry,

Tinplate on top, hollow underneath.

You must let your poems ride their luck

On the back of the sharp morning air

Touched with the fragrance of mint and thyme?

And everything else is LIT-RIT-CHER.

Wednesday, May 19 - 11:00 a.m.,

Shaker Country Club

ONLY AWARD WINNING MUSIC

Grammy, Tony and Academy Award winning music presented

by Marshall Griffith and CIM Alumni.

Musical Luncheon Series

As with all Musical Luncheons, stay for lunch,

or “take out” if you must return to work.

Tickets: Members $30, non-members $35. Reservations are required.

Call 216.791.5000, ext. 360.

Wednesday, February 24 - 11:30 a.m.

Mayfield Country Club

THE BEST OF THE BEST

First prize winners of THE major competitions,

the stars of tomorrow perform today.

A “MUST SEE” event, be sure to bring your guests!

About the Performers

Jung Eun Oh, voice, has appeared as a soloist at the Kennedy Center, with

Red {an orchestra} as Der Engl in Heinrich Schutz's A Christmas Story and

with the CIM Orchestra in performances of Mahler's Fourth Symphony and

Robert Beaser's The Heavenly Feast. Ms. Oh has performed as a guest artist in

recitals with members of The Cleveland Orchestra. She has performed as the

Sandman and the Dew Fairy in Humperdink's Hansel and Gretel with Duke

University Symphony, as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, as Mademoi-

selle Silverpeal in Der Schauspieldirector and in the title roles of Igor Stravin-

sky's Le Rossignol and Mozart's La finta giardiniera. She was praised by The

Plain Dealer for portraying Stravinsky's Nightingale with "silvery-timbre,

crystal-clear sense of pitch, and vocal agility." Ms. Oh holds a master's degree

from CIM, as well as an Artist Diploma in vocal performance. At CIM, she

has been the recipient of the Irvin Bushman Prize, the Boris Goldovsky Prize

in Opera, the Pauline Thesmacher Award, the 2006-2007 Scholarship of The

Music and Drama Club of Cleveland and the Helen Curtis Webster Award,

among others. In 2006, she won first place in the Leopoldskron vocal competi-

tion in Salzburg, Austria and subsequently performed in Schloss Leopoldsk-

ron and Schloss Mirabell. Before coming to Cleveland, she appeared in

Harvard University productions of The Magic Flute and Purcell's Dido and

Aeneas, while completing the Bachelor of Arts degree program in economics.

Formerly trained as a pianist, Ms. Oh premiered two original compositions

while at Harvard. In addition, she won numerous vocal competitions while in

the Boston area. Ms. Oh was appointed to the CIM faculty in 2008.

Mary Schiller, Chair of Voice Department, has appeared in more than 30

operas, in oratorio and in recital performances in the U.S., France and Ger-

many, singing leading roles such as Violetta, Fiordiligi and Susanna. She

received a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Carolina

at Greensboro and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees

from The Ohio State University. Ms. Schiller received several grants for

study in Germany, including the Fulbright, Martha Baird Rockefeller,

Richard Wagner Society and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst,

and received a fellowship to Tanglewood. She is a frequent adjudicator at

major voice competitions and regularly gives master classes; she was also a

master teacher at the Master Voice Teachers Conference at Westminster.