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Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras Newsletter
April 2008
In this issue
Encore Chamber Orchestra Concert
Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 7:30pm
Roosevelt University - Ganz Hall
Allen Tinkham, conductor
Garry Clarke, violin
David Schrader, harpsichord
The Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra's Encore Chamber Orchestra will be joined by Baroque Band's Garry Clarke for a very "Spring" concert on Saturday, April 12, 2008.
The concert features Igor Stravinsky's thunderous The Rite of Spring and Spring from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, which showcases the virtuosic playing of violinist and Baroque Band founder Garry Clarke. The orchestra will also be joined by renowned harpsichordist David Schrader.
This concert is Free and open to the public!
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Encore Chamber Orchestra Artists
GARRY CLARKE
British violinist and conductor Garry Clarke has recently come to notice as one of the finest of the new generation of interpreters of baroque music. Time-Out Chicago music critic calls him "an outstanding violinist, (Clarke) plays with real style and panache," while the Washington Post praises his playing as "a riveting, cut-to-the-bone performance, every note crackling with purpose and electricity." As director of Baroque Band, Chicago's period-instrument orchestra, Clarke has assembled a "stylish and exciting period-instrument group" (Chicago Tribune) which gave "a tremendous debut" in May 2007 with "an abundance of style, a crisp esprit de corps, and a palpable affection for its repertoire." (Chicago Tribune)
In the UK, as Artistic Director of The 18th Century Concert Orchestra (2001 - 2006), he was praised by the Oxford Times as "one of the finest exponents of baroque music in the country." Clarke has performed, recorded, and broadcast with The Academy of Ancient Music, The Sixteen, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Kings Consort, The Hanover Band, and the Scholars, working with musicians including Christopher Hogwood, John Elliot Gardener, Harry Christophers, Andrew Manze, Sir Charles Mackaras, Rene Jacobs, Anthony Halstead, and Robert King. Clarke was also a member of the European Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Ton Koopman, and has performed, recorded, and toured with William Christie and the French ensemble Les Arts Florissants.
Since moving to the United States in 2004, Mr. Clarke has concentrated on conducting, chamber music, and solo engagements, working in a duo with American harpsichordist Michelle Roy and serving as principal conductor of the Garth Newel Music Festival in Virginia in 2005 and 2006.
Other American ensembles with which Clarke has performed include the Washington Bach Consort, Opera Lafayette, The National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra, and The Orchestra of the 17th Century in Washington, D.C.; Ars Antigua and the Callipygian Players in Chicago, and New Trinty Baroque in Atlanta. He is also a member of the early music faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago.
Clarke graduated from the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied with Catherine Mackintosh, concertmaster and soloist of the Academy of Ancient Music and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and founding member of the Purcell Quartet. He also studied with Michela Comberti of the English Concert and the Salomon Quartet, and he has performed in masterclasses with Monica Hugett, Marie Leonhardt, Lucy Van Daal, and Sigiswald Kuijken.
DAVID SCHRADER
Equally at home in front of a harpsichord, organ, piano, or fortepiano, David Schrader is "truly an extraordinary musician ... (who) brings not only the unfailing right technical approach to each of these different instruments, but always an imaginative, fascinating musicality to all of them" (Norman Pelligrini, WFMT, Chicago). Mr. Schrader has been invited to perform as a featured artist at the American Guild of Organists' national convention on three occasions and has appeared as a soloist on organ and on harpsichord with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sir Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim, and Pierre Boulez. He has also appeared with the Grant Park Symphony under Carlos Kalmar, as a soloist at the Ravina Festival under the direction of Nicholas Mc Geghan, and with many other orchestras throughout the United States and Canada.
A resident of Chicago, Mr. Schrader leads an active musical life at home performing with Music of the Baroque, the Newberry Consort, and Bach Week in Evanston. Mr. Schrader has appeared with Chicago Chamber Musicians, Contemporary Chamber Players, Chicago Baroque Ensemble, and The City Musick and he is a frequent guest on WFMT radio (Chicago).
Mr. Schrader is on the faculty of Roosevelt University, Chicago College of Performing Arts - Music Conservatory where he has taught since 1986, and for 20 years, he has been the organist of the Church of the Ascension.
Mr. Schrader received a Doctor of Music degree in organ from Indiana University as well as the coveted Performer's Certificate. He received a Bachelor of Music in piano and a Bachelor of Music in organ from the University of Colorado. His principal teachers have been Storm Bull, Abbey Simon, Oswald Ragatz, Anthony Newman and Everett Jay Hilty.
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Upcoming Events
Encore Chamber Orchestra Roosevelt University, April 12
CYSO Chamber Music Roosevelt University, April 20
Concert Orchestra University of Chicago, May 4
Debut Orchestra & Preparatory Strings Northeastern Illinois University, May 6
Symphony Orchestra Orchestra Hall, May 11
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